Since then, no more has been heard of it, and its place has been taken by "The Committee for the Independence of the Boers," with M.Pauliat, a Nationalist Senator, at its head.

Its object was, in the first place, to organise a reception for the Boer delegates on their return from America.
It was confidently expected by the promoters of the enterprise that it would afford a good opportunity for a demonstration in opposition to the Government on the fourteenth of July.

The delegates were received at the Hotel-de-Ville by the Nationalist Municipal Council, whose President, M.
Grebauval, addressed them in virulent speeches, while the great square in front remained empty.

The Irish Banquet which took place this year on the twelfth of July under the Presidency of Mr.Archdeacon, and which had been much talked of in 1899 at the time of the Auteuil manifestation, when President Loubet was hit with a stick by Baron Christiani, passed off amidst complete indifference.

No disturbance of any kind occurred on the fourteenth of July.
The Congress of the Interparliamentary Union in favour of Peace and Arbitration was to be held on the 31st of July.