Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-24
bKIHCH fUI1HCS
Changes Thats,HlaEe Taken Place in
Lord Saiisbufy's Cabinet.
GERMANY'S INTERESTS IN AFRICA
81,
Futile Efforts Of the Hispano-
American Congress.
Futile Efforts of the Hispan
WHAT 1T SEEKS TO DO
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

LONDON, November IA, 1900.
But for three portfolios Lord Salisbury
has made up his political family for his
present term Of office.
The changes in the ministry leave in the
cabinet only four statesmen who have sat
in the council with Lord Salisbury through
out his three administrations These are
the two lord chancellors Uord Halsbury
and Lord Ashbourne) Sir Michael Hicks
Beach and Lord George Hamilton. Only
the chancellors have held the same offices
during the whole period. Sir Michael has
been chief secretary for Ireland and presi-
dent of the board of trade. as well as chan
cellor of the exchequer, and. Lord George
Hamilton was first lord of the admiralty in
the 1850 and 1856 ministries. Lord Sails
bury himself was first lord of the treasury
for short time in 1856 and 1887 while the
late Earl of Iddes!eigh held the seals of the
foreign office.
To go a step further back, only Lord
Salisbury and Sir Michael HickS-B Beach were
members of Lord Beaconsfield's cabinet,
and Sir Michael did not join the circle until
the resignation of Lord Carnarvon in 1878
His record. therefore, goes back twenty
two years but that of Lord Salisbury is
much older. he was a cabinet minister
under Lord Derby in 1866 The doyen of
living conservative statesmen is, however,
the Duke of Rutland, who was member of
Lord Derby's first ministry in 1852, and sat
in every conservative cabinet from that
time until 1855.
Ministerial Veterans.
Lord Salisbury did not Join the Disraeli
ministry of 1865, and the only surviving
members of that cabinet are the Earl of
Cranbrook, the Duke of Richmond and the
Duke Of Rutland. These three were also in
the 1874 ministry, the other survivors of
that cabinet being Viscount Cross, the Earl
of Derby and the Earl OF Harrowby in ad-
ulton to Lord Salisbury and Sir Michael
Hicks Beach.
structed cabinet served under Lord Bea-
consheid in subordinate offices: Earl Ca
dogan, under secretary for the colonies and
Tor war; LOrd George Hamilton, under sec
rotary tor India and VICE president of the
committee Of council on education; Lord
Halsbury then Sir Hardinge Glffard) soiic-
ltor general, and Lord Asnuourne (then Mr..
EDWARD Gibson, attorney general for Ire
land. 1t is a remarkable feature of English
political lie that the same men return
again and again to office, and few new men
come To the surface, as is the case in the
United States. "E
Conditions in Ireland.
Ireland has been comparatively quiet for
SO lons-the only disturbance being rows
among the Irish themselves-that people
here have begun to consider Irish troubles
as over and irish grievances as things OF
the past. Persons however, who imagine
that Mr.. Wyndham will have agreeable
time at the Irish office are not unlikely TO
be disappointed.
Since parliament was dissolved a good
many things have happened IN the sister
Isle. If splits in the nationalist party are
still perceptibe they are much more less
pronounced than formerly, because William
u Brien has secured following which Red
mondltes ami Dillonites alike Will support on
all leac-ng Questions. Concerning he pol
ICY OF these new adiies l assured that 1t
will be distinctly aggressive, We shall
have a resuscltatiea of boycotting, a fresh
demand for land refui ms, a succession OF
meetings atlwhich the tyranny of ministers
will be denounced, and "a dispersal of illegal
assemblies that may give rise to the old
protests against coercion!
This has to be the winter program. and
when parliament meets a renewal of the
agitations will follow at Westminster. II
there is any check to the game it will be
due to the new members.
May Make Things Awkward.
Mr. O'Brien left the constituencies to
choose their own candidates, and the result
has been contingent without oratOr.cal ca
pacity or private means. One of Mr.. Par
nelfs old .heutenants, a prominent organ
izer Of the Land League says they are "a
poor lot" of whom score will retire within
six months. While they hang together,
however, they may give the chief secre-
tary plenty of work, and not improbably
eminent.
Indeed, the fun has already begun by the
proclamation of the nationalist meeting last
Sunday at Biiiinacirrigs Under the new re-
g:me. This is going back to the old days
of coercion ana blOodshed. -
l learn that the visit of the Prince and
Princess or Wales to Ireland, which has
bees arranged for April, was instituted as
sop to the disturbed isle The queen was
SO pleased with the results Of her visit last
year that it has been PRACTICAL decided
that some member of the royal family shall
go each year to Ireland. This Is undoubt-
eddy excellent p an. hut put in force too
late to really win the Irish.
Germany and South Africa.
an interesting sequel 10 the Anglo-Ger-
man agreement will. understand. be found
very shortly in regard to the future of the
German territory in Southwest Africa. To
the cry that British shall rule from the
Zambesi to the Cape it has sometimes been
objected that there is a considerable area
q territory he dominion of the