Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-22
THE FEELING IN ENGLAND.

THE FEELING IN ENGLAND.
Lord Salisbury Will Probably Con-
tinue in Omce-International Com
pIications Imminent.
LONDON, January 21.-To thorough
ly and co~nservatively appreciate the po-
litical conditions as they exist in Eng
land to-day, to understand the refiec-
lions that military successes or rever5es
in South Africa create in the mind of
the British, and to guage the task con-
ironing the government at the forth
coming session of Parliament it is first
necessary to realize the ~Stupendous
change that in the last few weeks has
taken place in the national character.
To put it briefly since the British army
in the field has found the Boer army
ton has become one huge stock ex-
change, not in the material sense, but
in sentiment. The nation, as a whole,
governs its opinions by the happenings
of the hour, vacillating according to
the news ticker in its traditions of cen
turtles, as easily as the most nervous
market that ever operated in times of
uncertainty. Nothing so adequately
lends itself to a ready and forceful
smile of the prevailing temper of the
British nation as the popular concep-
ton of the stock market. AS on the
floor there is a certain small percent
age with such huge interests at stake
that they are never budged by rumor
that make or break the smaller fry, but
these compose the very inmost ring
and their exclusiveness may be judged
from the fact that one never knows
when opening from day to day, such
solid and conservative journals as the
Times, the Morning Post or the Stan
dard, whether they will uphold or Bit
terly abuse the government. In like
manner does the majority of the pub
lie opinion sway as famed by news
1lOAl tHO llOhI 1Auo ~ ID nOIA hI5A
impossible to determine the real feeling
towards the administration and the war
and it is still harder to forecast the re-
suit of the debates in Parliament.
Yet, in spite of this tremendous va
cillation, the information which repre-
sentatives of the Associated Press have
gathered from all sorts of sources,
tends towards the impression that Lord
Salisbury will continue not only in
power, but in the matter of votes, with
but a slightly diminished control, which
is tantamount to saying that the war
against the Beers will be pursued to
the bitter end, regardless of foreign in
erference and whimperings at home.
The selection by the war Office Of
Major General Sir Frederick Caring
tor for service at the front calls out
the comment that the government has
recognized this officers claim at a very
late day, considering the fact that his
name is most favorably known in South
Africa, where he spent almost his whole
military career as a leader of expedi-
tons. While Sir Frederick Caring
toms billet is at present a mystery to
the English press, the correspondent of
the Associated Press is able to say that
it was not after all at the iniative of
the war Office that he was called and
further that he will be entrusted with
what will be practically an independ-
ent command Of large proportions and
will attempt to achieve by means of
n of the most heterogeneous forces
ever gathered on the face of the earth
the gallant objective hitherto held by
the commanders in the field to be an
impossibility. Unless Ladysmith is
quickly relieved, the international sit
uation promises TO be Of more interest
than the actual operations. The seiz-
ure Of another German vessel follow
ing SO closely Count Won Buelow's bus
iness-like speech in the Reichstag yes
terday viii probably produce at least
a keen international press war and ru-
nors damaging to stock values if moth
ing more, though the discrepancy be-
tween Count Won Buelow's speech in
Germany and the representations of
the German Ambassador in London, the
latter being extremely oonciliatory,
form a r~eassuring circumstance.
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