The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-22
CECIL RHODES IN ENGLAND.
ALL CLASSES SEEK THE GREAT AT
RICAN FINANCIER.

Gre at Britain Now an Equal Ruler |
With the I<hedive in the soudan.
Small Interest in London in the
Samoan SituatiOn-EngIish Gov
ernOr Suggested for the Philip
pines-TrOubIes of Former Au-
gusta Lady in Paris.
Copyright, 1899, by the Associated Press.(
London, Jan. 21.-Great Britain seems
TO shake 10 its foundation whenever Mr..
Cecil Rhodes steps foot on the island. He
is the biggest man in the kingdom to-
day. Peers, cabinet ministers, promoters
with Munchausen schemes, Duchesses
craving for tips on ''Kaf1irs" (or South
African securities), workmen who cher
ish dreams of emigration and bishops So
iicitous for African souls haunt his hotel
and beg for even the briefest interviews.
The popular mind credits him with be
ing the potentate of the African continent.
The cabinet met yesterday. especially to
discuss Mr.. Rhodes scheme for govern
ment guarantees of the Cape to Cairo
railroad and telegraph. Mr.. Rhodes aft
erward conferred with Mr. Joseph Cham
DGI1dIilg the secretary Oh Stdle lOI the COL
onies, and Sir Michael Beach, the
| chancellor of the exchequer Mr.. Rhodes
| says 100000 will cover the entire cost
of the work, and there is little doubt that
he will carry his point with the govern
ment and raise all the money he needs
in the controversy.
EngInnd's Power in SOudan.
BY slow steps, so as not to arouse the
| violent antagonism of the Powers but In
pursuance of a definite plan, Great Britain
| is tightening her grip on North Africa.
| The Egyptian convention, 90 far as the
| Soudan is concerned, accomplishes all that
| those who prodded the Marquis of Sails
| bury to declare a protectorate, could have
desired. Great Britain no longer governs
| through the Khedive. She becomes a CO.
| equal ruler and ignores the mixed tribun-
ais. This means that the governor general
| is responsible only to Downing street and
| Parliament
Samoa commands but small interest in
Great Britain, and the belief seems to pre-
vail that the dispatches magnify the inn
portance of the consuls' battles, and that
Germany win manage to gracefully disa-
VOW the acts of her agents
The British government, however, well
| comes the Samoan incident as another link
of the Anglo-American understanding,
which they are so DESTROYS of fostering.
An English Governor.
British investors in the Philippines are
curiously ignorant of American politics,
| and are seriously discussing the POSSIBLE
| ity of President Mckinley appointing an
! Englshman to govern the Islands. They
argue that it is impossible to find in
America an experienced administrator ac-
| quainted with the character of the Fill
! pinos, and suggest the name of ex-Gov.
/ Of Dy.ti rb1, &c Iixr
! ing in England, as being eminently quail
fed and willing to take the post.
Some fnanciers are beginning to take a
| gloomy view of the future of the Philip
! pines.
Mr.. Ernest Ruffort, the head of Lom-
| bard street house, who bought large tracts
of land about Manila, said to represent
alive of the Associated Press:
A Difficult JOB.
1.-THE land is useless under the present
conditions. We could not plant the crops
with the possibility of the natives de-
| stroying them over night. The United
States will be unable to rule more than
the fringe of the islands without an army
| of a hundred thousand men. They might
buy the native leaders, but they would not
stay bought, and the United States must
rebuy them periodically. The end of the
matter will be that the United States will
sell the Philippines.
A majority of the London spectators
handling American stocks have been bad
ly bitten through pnning their faith TO
the prevailing idea that a reaction and
a dropping in prices must come soon.
A Georgia WOman's Trouble.
The Auglesy family appeared to be I'M
fortunate in it's matrimonial arrangements,
the widow of the fourth Marquis Of An
glesy, formerly Mary Livingston, daugh-
ter of Mr.. ]. p. King of Sand Hills, Ga,
is living in Paris, having separated from
her husband some time before his death.
Now the present marquis, after less than
a years trial of welded life, has separated
from his wife, who is a daughter of Sir
George Chotwynd The marchiouess, it
appears, has rather extravagant
tastes. According to the ar
rangement of the separations
she receives 1850 to pay her debts, and
600 yearly which will be increased Fl 600
yearly, if the parties remain separated I'M
til it reaches an allowance of 10000 year
ly.