The San Francisco call., 1897-02-14
Cecil Rhodes Has a Trump Card
to Play at the Transvaal
Investigation.
Novel Breach of Promise CaSe-Activ.
ity in College Sports-Amateurism
and Professionalism.

the Government. If the present bill sinks
under the discord among the Unionists
and the tactics of the Liberal opposition,
Mr.. Balfour's days as leader of the House
are numbered. Numerous communica-
tions have since reached the Government
whips that the measure must be altered
when its details come TO be discussed. If
these demands from within their own
PARTY are assented to and the bill en-
larged, the principle of primal educational
reform, upon which Mr.. Balfour proceeds,
must be given up. Mr.. Balfour then prob
ably will resign, and with him those of
his colleagues in the Cabinet who have
identified themselves with this policy.
The conservative whips advise Mr.. Bal
four to call upen his present majority and
force the bill through so as to get the
grant to voluntary schools made available
for the current fiscal year. Otherwise
they predict the resignation of the Minis
try, with an early dissolution of Parlia-
ment
Meetings of the leaders of the opposi-
ton. at which Lord Kim berley and other
peers were present, have been held at Sir
William Harcourts residence. Sir Will
liam Harcourt's leadership of the party is
now an acknowledged fact.
The withdrawal from political life of
Sir George Otto TreveIyan is regretted on
all sides. His conservative opponents
have copiously abused him for rafting"
unionism, but outside of politics he has
the good will of all men. He retires now
TO his home in Northum berland and will
devote what strength he has TO literature.
An application from the Chinese Gov
eminent to the Admiralty TO commend a
British naval adviser has resulted in the
appointment of Captain Gundes, head
OF the marine service on the Niger coast.
He leaves England at the end of ebruary
to take up the position of chief of the
Tiensin Naval Academy and advis s,r to the
Chinese Government.
Justice Collins, the fellow arbitrator
with Lord Herschel on behalf of Great
Britain on the Venezuelan boundary tri-
bunal, has decided not to return to the
law courts after the Easter recess until
the work of the arbitration tribunal is
ended. He will be marked out for pro-
motion afterward.
a very remarkable case that may soon
come before the law courts is interesting a
certain section of London society. 1t is
an action for breach of promise and per-
sonal injuries brought by a gentleman
against a lady. The plaintiff though of
very moderate means, is connected with
some of the very best families of old stand
ing and the defendant is lady belonging
TO the wealthy Jewish community. The
circumstances of the case are unique. Ac-
cording to the plaintiffs claim he was ac-
cepted by the defendant as her intended
husband, but it was insisted upon by her
family that he should adopt the Jewish
faith. He even underwent the physical
operation necessary to conversion. After
ward 1t would seem that the engagement
hT0kan off ao0OrdjnO rO his or
ment, through any fault of his. An &C.
ton is being started for this alleged breach
OF promise of marriage and for damages
for the personal injuries he underwent in
submitting to the operation referred to.
Sir Edmund Munson, the new British
Embassador to Paris, will shortly be made
peer. Several important vacancies are
pending in the Colonial Office. Gout has
supervened in Sir Robert Mead's frac-
tured legs and he will shortly retire from
the permanent Under Secretaryship. Mr..
Fairfield, the head of the important South
African Department, has long been absent
in ill-health in the south of France, and
his post will have be filled up.
The Prince of Wales, who, as Duke of
Cornwall, Is grand landlord of Kensington
Oval, the great South London cricket
ground, has inserted singular PROPOSE.
ton in renewing the lease. He stipulates
that soldiers, sailors, policemen and post
men in uniform are at all times to be ad-
mitted to the grounds free.
The list of United States bishops ex-
pected to attend the Ecumenical Confer
ence at Lambeth Palace in July next in
cludes the Bishops0of Albany, California,
Central Pennsylvania, Delaware, Easton,
Fond du Lac, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Ken
lucky, Lexington, Los Angeles, Maine,
Marquette. Maryland, Massachusetts,,
Michigan, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Missls-
sippi, Nebraska, New EY ork, North Caro-
lima, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Pittsburg,
Southern Ohio, Springfield Vermont, New
Mexico and Arizona, South Dakota, South
ern Florida, the Platte and West Texas.
From Canada will come the Archbishop
OF Ontario and the Bishops of Fredericton,
Huron, Montreal, Niagara, Nova Scotia.
Quebec, Toronto, the Archbishop of Ru-
pertsIand and the Bishops of Q'Appelle
and Saskatchewan.
Mr. Rhodes is credited with having a
trump card in the game of disclosures
before the select committee on the Trans
vaal raid. He is said to be in possession
of letters that passed long prior TO the
Jameson expedition between Preside MT
Kruger and Emperor William, and be-
tween Dr.. Leyds and the German Foreign
Minister.
These documents were distracted from
DIR. Leyds while at Pretoria, before his
visit TO Berlin, and were got hold of by
Mr.. Rhodes and are to be produced as
JUSTIFICATION OF the RAID, which was N cant
TO counteract, successful or unsuccessful.
as an armed operation. the German plots.
Mr.. Rhodes desires that his examina-
ton shall be concluded as speedily as pos
sible, as he thinks his early return to
South Africa is necessitated by the posi-
tion of affairs there. The Boer faction.
led by DR.. Leyds, is becoming strong
enough to menace the more moderate
Kruger party. If DR.. Leyds gets the upper
hand the abrogation of the London con-
yention and the entire independence of
the republic would be declared at once
The Anglophobist Beers would warmly
welcome war with England.
Lord Rosmead (late Sir Hercules Rob-
inson), Governor of Cape Colony, and
Sir Graham Bower, Imperial Secretary at
the Cape, will arrive in London toward
the end of April to give evidence before
the raid committee. Lord Rosmead will
not return to the Cape, his resignation,
which has been in the hands of Mr. Cham
berlain for three months, having been &C.
cepted. His successor will not be ap-
pointed until after his arrival here.
The attention of the football world Is
still absorbed in the quarrel between the
International Rugby Board and Wales.
Even after the patching up that has been
attempted every body admits that the in
ternatlonal board (mostly English R,1ohv