The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-20
TROUBLE BREWING IN TURKEY.
ULTHMATUM OF THE POWERS
READY FOR THE SULTAN.

Senate Committees Action Nearly
Causes "a Panic ON the Londan
stock Exchange.
Copyright, 1896. by the Sun Printing and
Publishing Association.
London, Dec. 19.-It is understood that
Mr.. Nelidoff. Russian ambassador to Pur-
key, had an audience with the sultan to-
day, and that the ultimatum of the great
powers is either in his majesty's hands
now or will be by Monday. but up to the
moment of cabling nothing beyond this .s
known with certainty
Owing to telegraphic delays, the sultan
will be given fair time to consider tho
ultimatum and take counsel, and coer-
Give action by the powers may be further
delayed, but that such action Is imminent
is proved again to-day, If proof were need
ed, by the significant movements of the
allied fleets and the military activity at
Odessa and Sebastapol, which all the
stringent precautions of the Russian au-
thorities have been unable to entirely con-
ceal' and by admissions in official quar-
ters where the truth is known.
The Daily News to-day confirms from
more than one source the accuracy of the
version of the situation cabled last week.
Had not NJ. Nelidoff been unavoidably de-
tanned in st. Petersburg a crisis would have
been reached by to-day.
If it had not been for the fact that the
action Of the American Senate's foreign
committee anent Cuba was made known
here Saturday, which is always an offday
for business men, the London Stock Ex-
change would have had a first-class panic
to-day AS 1t was things were pretty
lively during the few hours the exchange
was open, and after official hours there
were excited dealings in the street, de-
spite the gloomy weather and severe frost,
which kept the older operators indoors. A
tunny feature of the matter Is that every
body was taken completely by surprise.
One would have been excused for suppos-
ing that there were no cables between the
United States and England and that CO.
pious reports of what was going on in
Washington had not been ca
bled during the whole week.
The average stock exchange ops
orator apparently had not the slight
est knowledge of all this, with the re-
suit that he spent a good deal of this af-
ternoon in cursing American politicians
for upsetting his little plans. After busl-
ness hours in the stock exchange people
took courage to discuss the situation, and
there seemed something like unanimity of
opinion that everybody had made fools of
themselves by allowing a bogey to scare
them half out of their wits. 1t is pretty
certain, therefore, that when action Is
really taken in Washington London oper-
ators will again be taken by surprise, and
that there will be panic from which men
able to keep their heads cool will be GER
tain to profit. The opinions of London
evening papers do not count for much
but 1t is not without interest TO note
that their comments to-day are by no
means particularly friendly to the United
States, and in this respect they echo the
views of four Londoners out of five. Their
dominating idea is that the United States
will force virtuous, peace loving and hui
name Spain into declaring war, and that
the Americans will suffer severely before
they will be able to organize their forces
and take the offensive, prospect which
Is by no means displeasing here if one NAV
judge from the opinions expressed to the
Sun reporter at the Spanish embassy here
this afternoon.
Responsible Spaniards do not expect any
| serious trouble with the United States
They pin their faith upon Mr.. Grover
Cleveland. They are confident that he will
shield them from unpleasantness over Gu
ba as long as he Is at the white house. and
they promise TO have the rebels wiped out
of existence long before Mckinley Is inau-
gurated. This belief is so strongly held at
the London embassy that the Senate COM
mittees action caused them no excitement,
| and as IL 10 emphasize their Indifference
al the officials Of the embassy came on
duty late to-day and went away early. As
their normal hours of business are from
2 to 4 In the afternoon, the exhaust
ing character of to-days work may be
estimated without mental fatigue. The
secretary of the embassy found time from
his labors to praise an article in to-day's
st. James Gazette, and as the view of the
writer is that Spain will sit quiet and do
nothing to provoke the United States, It
may be fairly Inferred that this Is the
prevailing opinion in official Spanish quar-
ters. The embassy had, however, re-
ceived no news of any kind, either from
Madrid or Washington, and did not ap-
pear to expect any.
The latest service rendered to his coun-
try by that eccentric politician, Henry
I.abouchere, editor of Truth, has been the
exposure of scoundrel known for years
past as the king of Begging Letter
Writer'S" This fellow, Rev George
Brooks, was formerly a Methodist par
son, who, becoming discontented with his
small stipend and limited sphere Of en-
Joyment, took to the more lucrative pro-
fession of begging. Mr.. Labouchere got
upon his track early in his career, and
week after week, for years denounced
him as an impostor in the columns OF
Truth, with a pungency and persistency
which were an abiding Joy to the readers
Of that smart paper. He spoiled
many deal OF Brooke
but, for all that, there are
too many fools in England to permit a
man Of Brooks peculiar talents to starVe.
1t was his custom to study the weak
nesses of public men and ascertain the
political and religious views Of private
citizens of wealth, and to write his beg
ging letters accordingly. BY these means
he succeeded In extracting large sums OF
money from cabinet ministers, dukes
archbishops. directors Of the Bank of
England, generals admiras and at least
one American millionaire, William Wal
dorf Astor. But undoubtedly his greatest
achievement was the obtaining OF a grant
OF 600 from the royal bounty This fund
Is voted every year by parliament TO en-
able the queen to help necessitous literay
men and women, and Brooks qualified for
inclusion In that category by writing a
trumpery pamphlet Of some kind. People
who are conyersant with Brooks career
could scarcely credit the official announce
ment, and IL has never yet been satisfac-
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