St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-03
The arrangement Between
the Rulers of Britain and
Germany Is Perilous.
John Bull Seems to Court the
Good Offices of the
Gar.
Frenchmen Organize an Ex-
petition to Penetrate the
Dark Continent.
Special Cable to the Globe.


cial quarters with reference to the eX-
listing relations between England and
Germany, which Prince Bismarck's
speech in the reichstag will do nothing
to remove. Despite the assertion of
the German chancellor tn at Germany is
in thorough accord with England re-
specting Africa and Samoa, everything
points to the fact that the English and
German colonial policies are In conflict.
This is state of things which, there is
good authority for saying, was antici-
pated at the colonial Office be-
fore parliament was prorogued.
and is now regarded in minis
terial circles with growing anxiety.
Prince Blsmarck'S denunciation OF Mr..
Lewis's enterprise in Damaraland as
''brigand invasion" is by no means dis
posed of by his expressions of confidence
as to the friendly action of the British
government. 1t is very far indeed from
certain that Lord Salisbury is prepared
to adopt Prince Bismarck's views,
either with regard to Mr.. Lewis's claims
or the proper attitute of England in the
matter. Nor is the English premier
willing to abridge any of the rights
company, in case the German chancel-
lor's commissioners shall report that
such change is desirable to German
interests in Africa. The Niger
alone of all African rivers that do not
lead into the desert is naVigable to its
mouth without obstacles. The whole OF
the exploration and commercial devel-
opment of the Nigar has been at the eX-
pense of Great Britain, and at the time
of the conference of Berlin there were
none but English traders interested in
the commerce of that region. The
Royal Niger company, which has since
received special charter rights, is in the
hands of some of the ablest men in the
the English commercial world. and
charges made against its officials by
would-be rivals, like Herr Woermann,
must be taken with
A LARGE PINCH OF SALT.
There is reason to doubt whether the
English prime minister ever took as en-
thusiastic view of the German alli-
ance as some of it's advocates in the
London press. But if he did, much has
has happened since the death of the
Emperor Frederick to modify his SYM
pathieS. The fact is notorious that
court influences still play an important
part in English political life; that Lord
Salisbury is almost as susceptible to
these influences as was the late Lord
BeaconSfeld, and that the arrangement
between the English and German
courts is grave, and eveniperilous. In
influential quarters, where, until few
months since, Prince Bismarck was
regarded as an idol. it is now as rare to
hear Germany well spoken of as to
hear Russia flattered. Now, strange
though it may seem in view OF recent
events, to talk of such combination,
it is, nevertheless. a fact that the
thoughts of belated ally-hunters here
are turning speculatively towards Rus-
STA. Lord Randolph Churchill is
strongly in favor of an Anglo-Russian
a ,liance. Lord Harrington would favor
it. and Lord Rosebery, notwithStand-
ing his passion for federation as a bull
work against Russia in the South.
wuuld welcome it. Lord Dnfferin be-
lieyeS it to be natural compile
ment of the treaty of Penjdeh, and
above all it is certain that there
is now a strong pro- Russian party in
the English court, and relations are
more friendly with Russians than with
Germans. The Russians make them
selves really agreeable to English
travellers. and visitors to St. Petersburg
bring away from the Neva recollections
of hospitality which are not carried
away from Berlin. English court re-
latiOns with Russia are now stronger
than they are with Germany, yet Eng
land has been
ON THE BRINK OF WAR
with Russia within the last five years.
There are materials for an awkward
Quarrel between England and Germany
i'm regard to the KamahererO conces-
sion. while the German East African
policy is assuming an aspect detri-
mental to English interests in Zanzibar.
The politics of the Dutch succession
center in the question, How long will
Holland keep outside the German con-
federation? AS the kings end ap-
proaches, the best information shows
among Dutch statesmen small minor
ity of whom it can only be said that
they are somewhat less antagOnistic to
this partial surrender of sovereignty
than the majority. A good deal may de-
pend upon the personal disposition OF
the queen regent, who will probably ex-
erciSe supreme influence In selecting
in few years the husband OF the young
princess whom it is hourly expected
will be proclaimed sovereign of the
Netherlands. 1t is said that the queen
mother has German procliyities, and is
not likely to train her daughter to dis
like the great power which in race and
language is rather more nearly allied to
Holland than are the English. There
are Dutchmen who think an English
husband for the princess may preserve
the perfect autonomy of Holland, but
the queStion-and it is very great one
will be decided rather by the COM
mercial interests of Amsterdam and of
Rotterdam as ports of Holland or of
Germany The German appetite is, of
course, whetted by the fact that the in
corporation of Holland would bring to
Germany
GREAT COLONIAL POSSESSIONS,
and it is quite open to argument that
the colonial balance sheet of Holland is
not as good as it might be if the control
ing government represented all the
emigrating hundreds of thousands of
the Gerr an people. Capt. Trivier, a
French naval officer, is organizing an
expedition to cross Africa for the pur-
pose of settling some of the unsettled
problems connected with Lake Tan
ganyika. His Investigations will have
special reference to the Lukuga river,
which, so far as known, is the only out
let of the lake, and which presented
itself in such varied aspects to Came
ron, Stanley and thompson. capt.
Hore, who has spent many years on
Lake Tanganyika, says that the lake
has been steadily falling during the
whole time, and that the Lukuga still
continues to flow out of it. This is no
doubt due to the fact that the bed of the
river became silted up with mud and
vegetation to very great depth. The
water will continue to flow out until the
hard rock is reached. when the Lukuga
will become dry channel. Capt. Hore
evidently does not believe in the oscilla-
ton theory of the lake, but seems to
think it is really drying up. Capt.
Trivier will proceed to Stanley Falls
and Nyangwe, and explore as far as he