Show r 1 ENGLAND OUT OF JOINT Christmas Week One of Evil Memory for Britons WEATHER VERY GLOOMY Coasts Were Strewn With Wrecks Commerce Was In End Shape Tho Public Bitterly Discussing tho Criticism of the British Army Demand De-mand for Colvilles Resignation Will Result in a Sensational tCourt Jilartial Liberal Press Comment Bitterly on Acceptance of Maoris I I London Dec 2 Miserable rain fog r and dirt mad t Christmas week oC evil I memory for England Depressing gloom thorough harmony wHit the weather settled over tho country The coasts were strewn with wrecks commerce I was out of Joint and the public was bitterly i bit-terly digesting the criticism of the British o Brit-ish army The demand for rtfajGen Sir Henry J3 Colvilles resignation thrown as a I kop only served to whet the ravenous appetites of those who are howling for the responsibility of the reverses In South Africa being brought home to individuals I dividuals More heads are demanded Wheie so inajiy miist bo blamable It Is I felt tha theselettlun of Gen Colvllle I j I JH I voefully Inadequate If J not unfair I i Indeed It in I already Mild that had not I the Veotnunry force at Llndley which I folvlllc failed to relieve Included some I of the nobility and other InUiential I perMons Colvllle would never have been I recalled COURTMARTIAL WIIL RESULT The bitterness felt by these Yeomanry at being compelled to surrender because be-cause as they allege Colvllle refused I to render the aid within his power j I has never died out and It will probably prob-ably result In one of the most interesting I inter-esting courtmartials In the annals of the British army upon the result of I which will depend the fate of several I other high ofllcers who have roved unequal to the occasion I GOES FOR WAR OFFICE I I The Liberal papers comment severely on the acceptance by the War ofllce of f J a contingent of Maoris from New Zealand I Zea-land The Slur says The effect of I I this stupid blunder on the Dutch will I be terrible After declining to employ I Indian troops we are taking n paltry hundred Maoris This will not only I infuriate the Dutch hut it will insult I the Indian troops who uIII regard It as a doclarallon of their inferiority to I an Inferior colored lace Go on Government Gov-ernment muddlers I DAWN OF COMMON SENSE However there arc signs of the dawn I of that common sense the lack of which the English critics so deplore in I the military system for the cavalry now going out to South Africa Is discarding dis-carding the lance and carbine and substituting I sub-stituting for these weapon rifles and I sabers After over a years lighting j the authorities have wolc up lo the I I utter uselessness of lances and car I bines considering that thousands of British soldier have never seen a Bocr during the many engagements NAVY INCREASING STRENGTH While Great Britain la tied hand and foot to South Africa the navy which IR not escaping tin wave of criticism Is increasing its strength and morale For I months both men and ships have been kept in an unusual late of readiness and there are now building In her yards no fewer than eleven battleships nineteen nine-teen cruisers and fourteen smaller vessels ves-sels totaling nearly 400000 tons These exclude vessels which have been tried but are unfinished SOCIAL BARRIERS REMOVED The gradual removal of the social barriers which formerly restricted English Eng-lish political and educational life was never better Instanced than by the appointment ap-pointment this week of Mr Joseph I Owen to a fellowship at Oxford Six years ago Mr Owen was a mlllhand at Oldham helping to support his poor parents He attended at night the university uni-versity extension lectures and so much ability did he show that the lecturers got up a fund and sent him to the great I university where with his wife he settled down in a humble cottage He knew no Greek and little Latin His llrst success came when he won the Brackenburg hIstory pcholaiship to the surprise of many learned aristocratic competitors CLIMAX IN OWENS CAREER Four years of determined uphill work passed and the final examination dreg near On a position in those depended Mr Owens whole future A few weeks before the ordeal his young wife died suddenly Mr Owens friends thought it Impossible for him to accomplish ac-complish anything but the mlllhands grit stood the strain and Mr Owen gained the coveted first class with the degree His appointment as extension lecturer quickly followed and Mr Owen lectured l where six years previous previ-ous he had learned The climax In his career camp this week when Pembroke J college elected Mr Owen out of all the Oxonians to the lucrative and honored post of fellowship MINIATURE OF WASHINGTON There arc few original pictures of Gen Washington In England hence the discovery of another miniature interesting Inter-esting It Is by Samuel Folwell and is dated 1791 Another by the same artist Is now In the possession of the Historical His-torical society of Philadelphia dated 1796 The new find Is supposed to bean be-an excellent likeness It represents I Washington wearing a pigtail Glasgow whIch the Christmas and New Year season has made notorious for the drunkenness exhibited In Its I streets has acquired possession of an old mansion house situated In a decried de-cried part of Ayreshlre at a cost off of-f 7CCO where habitual drunkards will be sent for terms varying from three months to two years The authorities hope to effect cures by making the Inmates In-mates do farm work |