Show VJiLL UTILIZE H OBSH I Conservative Ministry Mope to Ride to Office I I PREPARING FOR ELECTION I An Authoritative Pronouncement on the Subject of the Dissolution of V Parliament Expected at an Early I V Date United States Consul Hay Has Succeeded in Pleasing Both Boer and Briton and Has Outlived All Gossip Mrs Mayo ricks Case I Again Before tho Public < < V LV J V V Iondon Sept Copyright JPOO by I the Associated Press Pending the discovery of the diplomatists as io l how I Ito I-to best wash their hands of the Chinese I embarrassment public interest Is momentarily mo-mentarily diverted to the nations private I pri-vate affairs and the wearisome war in i South Africa the outbreak < the bubonic I bonic plague in Glasgow the > wide I i spread disturbances and disaffection in railway circles and the dissolution of I Parliament are all receiving much at tentlpn V V I I Jls considered evident from the speech of the Right Hon William St John Brodcrlck Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs made on Wednesday that the Government considers con-siders i the end of th war close enough to the horizon to justify looking beyond it and preparing for a general election I Therefore an authoritative pronouncement j pronounce-ment on the subject of the dissolution of Parliament Is expected at an early I dale HIDING OX BOBSS BCK I Whether Mr TJrodirlcks anticipation I that LOrd Kobertss present movement J will have l decisive bearing upon the I length of the war justified or not remains re-mains for the present a matter of conjecture con-jecture but there Is no mistaking the Intention of tho Government to utilize any appreciable military success and ride inV oillce again on the back of Bobs who Is expected If all goes I well will be ablo to return in October and take up the duties of commander inchiof election and Incidentally to aid In the TO rTCSTOriE CONFIDENCE J Lord Robertas emphatic commenta lon of Gen Butlers strategy at Macha dodorp looks suspiciously like a desire to restore public confidence preparatory to the deolutlon of the future conduct I of the campaign upon the shoulders upon which it originally rested In connection with the ultimate settlement set-tlement of Transvaal maters recent arrivals from South Africa think It possible pos-sible that the services of United States Consul Adelbert Hay might be advantageously advan-tageously utilized V HAY PLEASES TIIE BOERS Young Hay has managed to please both the Boers and the English said Louis de Vllllers a kinsman of the Cape Colony Chief Justice who has lately arrived to a representative of the Associated Press When Hay arrived ar-rived at Pretoria public opinion had been made difficult for him by stories I of his English sympathies The Boer feeling was so intense that statements that he was np better than an English spy wore readily believed hut hlTbc haved with such quiet and good sense I that he speedily got the respect of the Boer officIal elates while he did not part with his original opinion that the Britons Brit-ons In the main were right In the war OUTLIVED ALL GOSSIP An American lady of the keenest Boer sympathies added to Mr Hays first perplexities by making a regular campaign cam-paign to win him to the Boer side Failing in this she gossiped freely of his alleged proBiltish purposes but he outlived all this was helpful to UIQ British prisoners and lately under British supremacy has interposed more than once in the interest of the Boers MRS MAYBRICKS CASE A tangible result of the recent visit to Mrs Florence Maybrlek at Ayles bury prison of Dr Clark Bell of New 1 York the prisoners counsel and a representative rep-resentative of the Associated Press was the discovery oCa hitherto unknown 1 letter from the late Baron Russell of Klllowen Lord Chief Justice of Eng land to Mrs Maybrlek reaflirminpf his belief in his clients Innocence and vigorously vig-orously declaring his conviction that she had been unfairly condemned This letter has since been made the basis for a new memorial I praylngvfor Mrs May bricks release and so strong V IH Mr Bolls belief In the force of this document docu-ment that a copy of lhag been sent personally to Sir Matthew White Rlfl Icy J the Secretary of1 Stat for tho Home department at his summer home in Northumberland accompanied by the request that he give It his earliest consideration I con-sideration Dr Bell started for the continent today more than satisfied with the effects of lils visit to England He has not only succeeded In seeing V his client for the first time since lier Incarceration In-carceration but has since sccurcd for Irs Ttfaybrick an interview with her V mother Baroness de Roqucs LENIENCY TOWARD PRISONER I The discovery of the RusseJI letter io regarded as important not because many people doubted his sincerity but r I because I i is couched in such terms as I to preclude any nuestlpn of his belief i V that she was unfairly tried Mrs May bricks friends say DriClark Bell feels I the mysterious Influence of opposition somewhere which hinders a successful result The late Mr Bayard evidently I felt this when he declared the case had 1 reached the end of diplomacy and subsequent i sub-sequent Emhassa < ors also met iL But J I j many recent evidences pf leniency toward the prisoner Incline her l friends to believe that her incarceration will I not be prolonged V AMERICANS HOMEWARD I BOUND I The outflow U of hotneboiind Amen cans this week is llmlffid by the capacity cn Imlihlb thccr1a I I city of the St LouisVaud fElvurlh The former LOUi5 tc Ie tng list of I passengers Including Mi and MS Edwin Ed-win Gould Mr and Mrs NAayne MaC I Veagh Justice Gray Dr Schrady TrI Tr-I and Mls W S Elklnsjifof Philadelphia and Sousas band which has just com pletcd l continental tout Sousa has been In London this week but resisted the temptation to play In England as 1 he expects to return jhCrc next season when he will probably appear at the Glasgow international exposition LIKE AMERICAN MUSIC The band said i j Sousa seemed quite as popular at Frankfort Cologne and Berlin as at Paris American musIc mu-sic Js always most wejc ome Though my interpretations of Wagner were enthusiastically en-thusiastically received In Germany a brass band that can accompany a violin V solo Is an unknown thing In Europe whoru attempts to use military bands I to pluy concert music are rot always V V pleasing Such an Instrument I a them the-m uphole Is unknown In Germany and the vast number of reeds which secure leecs cure the violin eJidcls of the bald are an Innovation which surprised many Nearly every continental city has presented Sousa with a civic flag and Frankfort sent a delegation to London Thursday to personally present him with u magnificent banner from that municipality I AUTUMN THEATRICAL SEASON The autumn theatrical season has already al-ready opened under more hopeful auspices V au-spices The rival Nell Gwynncs are at tractlng big houses and the critics an already wondering how soon Nell will appear In the vaudevilles and music halls hallsThe Casino GUTcontinues to go merrily enough at the Slmftcsbury In spite of Mabel Gllnjans hasty withdrawal with-drawal from hem part which is cleverly filled by Marie George But having I disposed of the orchestral leader and staV during the brier perlod or Mr Latherers Lath-erers absence the future actions of V Mr Lowenfeld are waited with some Interest by the members of the company com-pany The rehearsals of J V M Barrios new I play The Wedding Guest which Arthur Ar-thur Bourchler will soon produce at the Garrlck arc already under way As this Is the first serious drama Mr Borne has attemptedthe production Is awaited with much interest decided against Etrmr May having 11 going t Berlin leaves today for Paris where she is engaged to appear at the Folles Bergere next week V Martin Harvey who is searching for a Juliet says he has decided on Mrs BrownPotter for his reopening in the V autumn |