New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-09
NO CABINET DESIGNATIONS
sALIsBURY's GOVERNMENT. HOWEVER
IS SERIOUSLY WEAKENED.


MAY RETURN TO ENGLAND RUINED
MAN-NEws NOTES FROM THE
CONTINENT.
London, Aug s-The fact that Lord Salisbury
took no part In the debate on the Irish Land Dill
In the House Of Lords has caused a great deal OF
comment in various quarters. The Prime minister
did not seem to be at all affected by the hosuhy
displayed by his whilom followers, but, on the con-
trary, assumed air OF unusal gayety. JOKING on
the subject with the Lord High Chancellor the
designations OF several members Of the Ministry,
which It was predicted would be rendered because
Of the action OF the House OF Lords are quite I'M
likely to be offered but the position Of the Govern
ment has been seriously weakened. While the
culated to explode the Tory contention that the
Upper House Is governed largely by patriotic mo
support of the deliberate judgment of the people.
the NE Liberal view of the IN n1tav sns
has received enormous impetus The fate OF the
hopeful that the House Of Commons viii restore
the excluded clauses of the BILL and that the Peers
will eventually be Induced to accept compromise,
and that thus the bill will be saved.
The Hon. Cecil Rhodes. whose connection with
the British South Africa Company and his alleged
completely In the Transvaal raid Of DR.. Jameson
are 100 well known to need mention mere, VIII I'M
doubleday shortly be brought TO book for the part
he took in bringing about an invasion OF the ter
ritory OF friendly State. A comparatively short
time ago Mr.. Rhodes was made q member OF Her
Majestys Privy Council. but his will be
stricken from the list OF councillors and he will
be summoned to give evidence before the Para-
mentary Select Committee Of Inquiry into the
Chartered Company's doings But there Is 10 be no
repetition Of the Jameson trial in his case 1t is
known mat Mr.. Chamberlain, the Colonial Secre
cussed the question Of indictment with Arthur j.
ample reasons for indictng Rhodes as for the
conviction Of jameson but a trial and its premi-
In the proceedings of the Committee of Inquiry so
Rhodes has meantime escaped the ordeal he chal-
lenged. when ne reappears In England 1t will be
with ruined prestige and as comparatively poor
man; cables from Rhodesia convey little, almost
fallen upon the colony. Private letters received
companies at Johannesburg and Bdluwayo disclose
facts which the Chartered Company's officials will
soon be unable TO conceal.
There Is no longer a colony nor coonjsts Though
the Matabeles have been driven into the forest and
hill Businesses. Il will take months to subdne them
effectively While insecurity continues business prof.
ects are impossible. London firm have ordered their
agents to return as soon possible. Prospecting
syndicates and promoters having land lots and min
Ing concessions on offer In London, Glasgow and
other centres have ceased to operate The colonists
are streaming out OF Rhodesa toward the Transvaal
anyWnere southwark where they a chance to live
provisions for the troops. Men are not enrolled
in the hghting forces and all women and children
are bcins assisted 20 enfsfr te az necessity from
country where milk costs ~ shings per bottle and
TIN OF about five shiliings All necessaries that
can De prought by transport are required by the
hghting men. Within the next two months Rhodesla
will be deserted by all but the fighters, and this Is
Committee
that they will he suspended when the rainy season
in II the Natabel.s rad been absolutely crushed
ben scsd The s on, b peace would nave
them something Ike the prestige of victory among
the native races. and widespread rslngs feared
in the north Of the Cape Colony and in Natal.
The programme Of the coming Trades Union Con-
gress, now being drafted by the Parliamentary Com
of the congress- will he found to contrast I'm
everything that constitutes common sense and practi,
cality with the erratc agenda Of the Socialist and
pseudo Trades Union Congress recently held In Lon
don
The great strike Of the dock laborers mention Of
which was made in this cable correspondence last
week. Is or was fixed by J. Haveock Wilson and
TON" Mann to begin on August l6 II Wilson's
boosted plans carried out ii will be a worldwide
strike, no Thames struggle" Sailors nremen dock
laborers and all allied workers are summoned out
until another shilling two week and essened
hours accorded them by the employers. Wilson
complains that delegates at the American ports arc
getting the men there 10 organize on behalf OF uni
versa strike and against nOn-unionlsts Wilson
and Glasgow companies, whose business would be
paralyzed by strike which is to call out l,oo,GN
men, according 10 the agitatOrs, do not to be
scared. The chairman of the. East and West India
Dock Company which certainly would feel the pinch
Of such strike. has just told the shareholders that
there rs no discomfort on the part Of the lahcrers
and since 1889 the system then fixed after the big
strike Is working Well
The anti-Masonic Congress- which is to meet at
Trent. In the Tyrol. September %, will he at
tended by Catholic cergymen or by nominees Of
clerical ruled bodies In Rome Paris. London and
Vienna. American and English Free Masons have
but small concern In a congress which utterly mis-
conceives their character and their aims. But
congress OF Free Masons. which has just been held
at The Hague. will give color and excuse for the
attacks on Masonry which certain to emanate
from the Trent meeting The Hague conference
France. all Dutch. Belgian and italian lodges anil
atcd TO the Grand Orient II has long been known
that duly constituted lodges In America. Great
Britain and throughout the world refuse to recog-
nze the Grand Orient since the ritual OF that
body became irreligious The Hague Congress con-
hrmed the worst features Of the Grand Orient and
utterly at variance with Freemasonry accepted
outside the Grand Orient. Upon the dongs Of this
but the great Masonic bodies throughout the world
will disregard both The Hague and Trent.
Before the departure Of NJ. Faure TO Brittany on
Monday last approaches were made on his behalf
to the English directors OF the Suez Canal to get
their assent TO the appointment Of NJ. jules Cam
bon as president Of the Suez Canal Council NJ
Cambon Is dplomatist with strong Anglophobe
bias The British directors and the French direc-
or the Prince Gutenberg as president NJ. de
Lesseps was the favorite of the directorate. but
he Is still involved In claims connected with the
sentence OF OK Minister Baihaut and IT was feared
that the Government might annoy him. So Prince