The four leaders are kept apart.  After much ceremony my husband was allowed to see his sister at the door of the inner court where they are housed.  Jameson and his men are in a tiny cottage by themselves, and no communication whatever is allowed between the prisoners.  Arrangements have been made with the authorities to allow food to be served to the Reformers from the Pretoria Club at the prisoners’ expense.  The head jailer, Du Plessis, is a cousin of Kruger’s.  A ponderous man with a wild beard, a blood-shot eye, and a heavy voice.  He is said to have gone to the President several days after the arrest and said, ’Those men are not like us, they are gentlemen, and cannot stand such hardships.’ $250,000,000 are estimated as being represented by the men within the four walls of the Pretoria jail.

President Kruger suggests the adjournment of the Volksraad.  Every one feels this to be a wise move while party spirit runs so high.  The Hollanders in the Transvaal are much more rabid against the Reformers than the Boers.

Mr. Chamberlain has cabled to the High Commissioner respecting the leaders in the recent rising.  He points out that their imprisonment may disorganise the mining industry, and inquires as to what will be the likely penalties.

America has asked Great Britain to protect Americans arrested in Johannesburg.  I hear that a Burgher, who saw some of the great iron pipes of the Waterworks Company being put in the ground, reached Pretoria in a state of intense excitement, exclaiming that he had seen ‘miles of big guns at Johannesburg.’

Mr. Andrew Trimble, chief detective and head of the Uitlander police, quitted Johannesburg the night of the arrest with much precipitation; unfortunately, before indeed he had filed away his most important private papers.  Following his hasty flight his office was carefully guarded by Zarps; no one was allowed to enter—­’Oh yes, the Kaffir boy might go in to clean up.’  A good friend of Mr. Trimble’s, with stern aspect, instructed the boy to make a ‘good job’ of the room and burn all the papers strewn over the floor and desks.  This was faithfully done by the unconscious negro, to the entire satisfaction of all save the Zarps in charge.

It is said Dr. Jameson entered the Transvaal with his despatch-box filled with important papers in cypher, and the cypher code with it.  I cannot believe this of any man in his sound senses.

The High Commissioner left Pretoria by special train yesterday.  This was the man who offered his service as Mediator and was accepted by both Uitlander and Boer.  To placate the Boer he refrained from visiting Dr. Jameson and his men imprisoned at Pretoria, nor did he permit Sir Jacobus de Wet to visit them.  He never acquainted himself with the terms of Dr. Jameson’s surrender.  He commanded Johannesburg to disarm to appease the Boer, and this being successfully accomplished through the self-control of the Reform Committee, he departed with his gout and other belongings, leaving the unarmed betrayed Reformers to shift for themselves.  Was this being a Mediator?