MR. GLADSTONEA Question having been put to me more than once, very naturally, on the subject of the Convention with respect to the Transvaal, I may mention that the Government have today received a brief intimation that that Convention has been signed; that the transfer of the functions of Government will take place upon the 8th; and that the Commission is breaking up. The Chief Justice and the President of the Orange Free State had actually departed; Sir Evelyn Wood has gone back to Natal; and on the 6th Sir Hercules Robinson was to return to the Cape.