The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-27

LONDON. *! CAUSERIE.
Facts About the Disputed
Territory in VEN
ezuela.
STRANDED WHATE MINISTRY
Ii Hung Chang Blscrsditsd in Eng
land-Wsmen Invade the
Commons.
r., Cobre horfha Enited Press.

BIZ Cabs scthe United Press.
LoNDeNs June a. 1see,-As might he
supposed tho arrest OF Grown Surveyor
HArr5sdn by v~eneznelsns on what IL
claimed 70 b British territory, caused
many energetic newspaper protssts ano
aornands .tfat immedfate action be taken
to compel his release. A British official
of Guiana, who is home on leave of alb
eence, has supplied the government with
Information regarding the locality where
the arrest was made and has thrown
place where the trouble occurred is
Acarabisci Creek, between the Baraca
and Cuyuni Rivers. Until seven years
ago he country thereabcuts was COW
cred with primeval forest. 1t was then
placed in charge of Mr.. Thurn, a govern
1nsntu agent, and a complete chain OF
stations was formed throughout the
region.o the area of which is 10, 400 square
miles. Farming grants were opened out,
and are now we'll scattered along the
banks OF the Parana River, which is not
ito be COMPOUNDED with the Barima River.
the1former for all IT'S course being to
the south of the Barima. The territory
isfeto the eastward of the provisional
line within which, according to Lord
Salisbury, no question of title can be
admitted. Gold was discovered in the
region, and the metal has already been
taken to Georgetown in surprising quan-
titles. MI. Thurn still administers the
territory. with the assistance of a staff
which Includes a magistrate, physicians,
collector of taxes, police and mine Off
GERS Three public hospitals have been
erected at Morajhana, Arakuka and
Raramanni.
"A weekly steamer runs to Georgetown,
and steam launches ply on both the
Parana and Barima Rivers. v enezuela
has done nothing to develop the country,
which appears to a certain class Of
Englishmen to give Great Britain a
clear title to the region. 1t is true,
however, that the Venezuelans did not
seek to interfere with the colony untfl it
was learned that gold a been discovered
trading developed and that the settlers
were prosperous.
h official declares tina the delay in the
settlement of the boundary dispute is prov
ing ruinous. Surveyor Harrison, he
adds. is alcoo1 headed officer. Before he
was appointed to Guiana he was in the ser
vice of the Canadian government,,ssand
took part in the suppression OF the Riel
rebellion.
Although the withdrawal of the Eduea-
tional bill has lightened the task of the
government, the stranded whale" as
Mr.. John Morley characterized the Union
ist majority, goes ioundering from shall
low to shallow. Never in the history of
Parliament has g government with such a
backing been in so hopeless a muddle. Mr..
Balfour's scheme of arrangement of the
government programme which government
organs announced had been fully sane
toned by their supporters, has disappeared
denounced by Unionists themselves as i'm
possible, and laughed at by the Liberals
as hopelessly impracticable. 1t was not
the Education bill which alone embar-
raised the government. The governments
legislative ueine generally has become
so Waterlogged as to make the
Ministers despair of getting any
measure of first Importance through
Parliament before the dare-August IL
which Mr.. Bafour, in sanguine mood,
fixed for the adjournment of Parliament.
Opposition obstruction cannot be blamed
as the sole cause of the extraordinary
mess made of the governments splendid
opportunities. The blame is laid by
Conservatives themselves on Mr.. Bal
fcur's defects of leadership. They &C
cuse him of having had either no heart
for the work of forcing the Education
bill through, or privately rail at him
for want of grit in countering the oppo-
sition, and want of tact in guiding the
government forces. Conservative chagrin
over the failures of the session is so
keen that lobby talk turns upon the
~adN;sabilfty of superseding Mr.. Balfour
IN the leadership of the House. They
eraNenfor the strong hand and daring
guidance of Mr.. Chamberlain. but fear to
risk committing themselves to the leader
ship of a man who has not yet shaken off
Radical ideas and who might constrain
the Conservative party into lines of
policy diyerging from all Conservative
tradition. Mr.. Balfour himself privately
expresses himself disheartened over the
situation, but says he will persist in
carrying out his programme for the ses-
sion against internal m~alcontents and
external foes. h Liberal papers talk
OF the probability of a split in the gov
ernmentsranks, ever of an early dissolu-
ton But" says a government organ,
in admitting the governments bunglIng
"a man does not divorce his wife because
she has made q mess of his dinner. He
hopesuforpbetter luck next time,
LigHung Chang will not receive In Lon.
donuthep ceremonial state reception with
whiebqhe has been greeted in Berlin. rbe
English Foreign Office has no confidence
In the prospective value of his mission,
It is said, indeed, that he is not authoriz.
ed by the Emperor or the Tsung-li-Yamen
to make any definite proposals whatever,
His credentials to the respective chiefs
Of state with whom he confcrs recite his
numerous Chinese titles, but do not ac.
credit him as an envoy authorized to ne
sotiate anything. Whatever max be the
Berlin belief in the Importance Of ID
Hung. Cha9Es visit, It e By no means
shared IN Lofden. Pakin Diplomatic ad-
Woes Represent him as undertaking the
VIZ.