The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-03
A MOVE TO CORRUPT A COURT.
FINANCIERS SEEK THE REMOVAL.
OF AN UPRIGHT JUDGE.

His severe Methods In Laying Bare
swindles Perpetrated ny Persons
In High Places at the Back of the
Movement for His RemovaI-sev-
erai Cases Pending which IL Is
Expected VIII Develop Startling
Scandals II He Is Left on the Bench
to Try Them.
London. Feb. Am attempt has been
made during the past week by eminent
I politicians and fnanclers to procure the
removal of Justice Sir Roland Vaughan
I Williams from the queens bench division
I Of the high court Of justice to another
court, and the movement has excited
4 the greatest Indignation. Judge Will
+ iams' court deals with the winding up
/ Of companies and adjudges whether their
4 directors have been culpable in any way.
I or whether there have been any fraudu-
lent transactions In connection with the
administration Of the affairs Of such or
I ganizatIons. 1t was Judge williams CEN
suring Of Anthony Nundena in his ca
4 pacity as a director of the New Zealand
1 Loan Company that forced that gentle
/ man to resign his position in the cabinet
as president Of the board of trade. Judge
i Williams is popular because he is severe
/ in his methods. He hunts out swindles
and denounces those who cause them, no
matter how eminent the culprts may be.
In view of several impending eases, pre-
sumably involving persons in high
places, it is attempted to secure
/ the transfer Of Judge Williams from the
/ court Of Queens bench. The storm of in-
/ dignaton which the attempt has aroused
! has compelled the lord chancellor TO couple
/ his proposed removal of the judge with
4 promise to reinstate him after awhile.
4 This has only added fuel to the fire. The
affair opens UP "a grave scandal. IL APP
1 pears that Baron Herschel the lord
! chancellor, wrote to Justice Williams
short time ago, asking him to withdraw
4 some Of the most severe of the comments
which the judge made upon the conduct
4 of Mr.. Mundella in connection with the
/ New Zealand Company. This the judge
refused to do, and Lord Herschell repeat
/ ed his request, whereupon Judge Williams
1 threatened to publish Baron Herschell's S
/ letters if the matter were pushed any fur
i ther 1t IS a matter of notorety that
prominent board of trade officials are
seeking to oust Judge Williams, with a
i view of hushing cases in which inhuen-
tial persons are implicated.
Meanwhile persons OF this character
have heaved sighs of relief upon learn
ing that the English detective VINO went
/ TO Argentine to secure the eXtraditlon Of
Jabez Spencer Balfour. the absconding
promoter of the Lberator Building So
ciety has left Buenos Ayres In despair OF
getting Jabez into his clutches. The trial
of Balfour would have involved some well
known London men, who hail with joy
the failure of the authorities to bring the
absconder to justice.
Cecil Rhodes, the Premier of Cape Col
ony, was sworn in as a member of the
Queens privy council at Osborne to-day.
Mr. Rhodes afterward took luncheon with
the queen, and a short time later went on
board the steamer Athenlan on his re-
turn to the Cape Colony
In the meantime. the Delagoa Bay ques-
ton becomes acute. Germany recently no.
titled England that the kaiser's govern
ment would not allow her to occupy the
bay and it's surrounding territory. Port
ugal has already refused to sell the bay -
Mr.. Rhodes, or to the Cape Colony or to
the British government, but Is willing to
/ sell 1t to a company formed Of Dutch
and German capitalists. 1t is rumored that
the Rothschilds and Mr.. Rhodes are pro-
jecting a tremendous South African
scheme which win require a capital Of
many millions of pounds. The scheme Is
said to include the combination of all the
gold mines in Witwatersrandt under the
control of one company.
The weather during the week has been
phenominally severe throughout England.
only one mail has been able to leave
| Caithness for ten days, and many rural
postmen have been showed up and chilled
into insensibility. The cold In London
| has been the most severe that has been
! experienced for many years, and the
hungry unemployed workers have suf-
| fered greatly.
Dispatches from Rome state upon vati-
can authority that the pope is now max
] ing arrangements to assign special facul-
ties to the apostolic delegation at Wash
ington, making a sort of ecclesiastical
tribunal to adjudicate the differences of
Catholics and deal with the priests ond
bishops as regards ecclesiastical discip-
line.
Princess Victoria and Princess Mand
! Of Wales are to return to society," from
which they have been absent for more
than a year. They viii be present at the
reception to be given by the Countess
Spencer at the admiralty on Feb. A. The
time of the Princess of Wales return home
is still indefinite. She has not been in
/ England since she left a week or so be-
| fore the death of Car Alexander.
1t is said Gar Nicholas and the czarina
will visit England In June. They viii re-
side in Buckingham Palace during their
stay. as the guests of the queen, and
/ will be present at a series Of magnificent
state functions, which will be given in
their honor.
CoLoMBIA's REVOLUTION
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