New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-03
NEWS OF TWO CAPITALS.
THE END OF THE WAR AND The DISSO-
LUTON OF PARLIAMENT
GUEssEs AT REORGANIZED CABINET
THE THEATRES AND THE
SOCIAL SEASON.
SOCIAL SEASON.
Copyright, 1890 BY The Ner-YorS Tr5une.I
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Copyright, 1890 BY The NeV-TorS Tri5uuel
lBT rHE TaIHUNEI
London. June John Bull is coming down
TO a cold water diet after his long dabauch OF
champagne excitement The war IS at an end
and he has returned 70 the normal conditions OF
shopkeeping ard horseracing. and wonders Why
he has been deeply interested IN military
transport. frontal attacks and turning move
ments. So jaded has he become that conquests
Of territory. the evacUa ion OF hostile capitals
and the sCuttling fight Of B0e- commanders
are accepted with perfect calm ordinary In
cidents in the business career or the Empire
There has been hag-waving over the fall OF
johannesburg. and there is not likely 20 be any
popular demonstration over the occupation OF
Pretoria when II is officially announced, after
the puzzItng contradictions and uncertainties
Of the last forty-eight hours Music hall neIo-
dies fall fiat, and the crowds are weary OF sing
ing even so good tune God Save the
Queen" The whirsuntide holidays viii prob
ably be the dullest and quietest known for many
years.
There has been a rafting business the
Stock Exchange where prices have been going
up with a bound The Kaf1r circus is also pIa-
carded a sideshOw. with unusual attractions
The mining companies are already ordering
their business managers 70 johannesburg and
cabling their engineers and surveyors 70 look
over the ground The politicians are even
STOCK
ist Ministers are scattered among country
houses and holding secret consultations No
member Of the Cabinet has public engage
ment during The next ten days, but all the
Ministers are brooding over the question OF an
early dissolution OF Parliament and the recon
struction OF the Government Roberts and
Kruger between them will arrange the date or
the general elections. for there will be no appeal
TO the country until the TransvaaI has been
TF~F
duced TO guerilla warfare. If they are not sup
pressed altogether
The elections NAV be ordered late IN July, but
dissolution will probably be deferred until Octo-
Der. The Ministers viii have a definite pro-
granne OF great strength on which 10 go 10 the
country Annexation Will be their method OF
settlement in South Africa. with reconciliation
Of the rival races as the chief end OF the I'M
pertaI policy They will also have great prob
lem 10 work out N the reorganization Of the
British army and the creation OF permanent
auxiliary forces in the colonies The war eN-
penditures have been on so vast scale tnar
even the wealth Of the Rand cannot be dependsd
NOON for the redemption Of the indemnify
claims and the reorganization OF the fsca' sys-
/ TEN Of the United kingdom may become neS7s-
sary The Unionist Government IS hardly
equipped for all these great undertakings
The political carpenters are now occupied with
I
/ designs from Tory antique % Birmingham
utility ware Mr. Balfour is alternately Prime
Minister and Foreign Secretary, and Mr. Cham
berlain shifted at random from the Colonial Or-
fee 70 the War Office. The air is thick with
rurnors about elections and Cabinet changes.
but Lord SALISBURY can alone speak with au-
thority. and he is silent
The Liberal commanders meanwhile are wait
ing for campaign orders from their leaders
Lord Roseberv was heraIded by overZealous
friends as an Ir.ueriaGst general whose stand
ard would b. unfurIed n the West OF England.
but his manifesto has turned out 70 BE- news
paper advertisement. with a series OF Interest,"
ing conundrums. which he asks without at
tempting To answer them II Lord ROsebery
knew his own mind he would probably be re-
called 70 the leadership OF his party. but he is
/ content TO stand az the parting OF the ways and
stare at the guideposJs without moving forward
Sir William HarC0urr has just returned from
the Continent and has gone to MalwOod for the
HOLIDAYS. Sir Henry CampbelI-Baunernna2 VIII
speak next week in Glasgow. Mr. Bryce az
Aberdeen and Mr.. John Morley at Oxford Mr.
I Norley's speech viii be the most important OF
the three. for he is expected resume his
normal relations with the Liberal party, and
/ 70 carry Sir William HarcOurt with him Mr.
/ Herbert Gladstone IS the busiest n the
/ Liberal party. and the most useful al present
/ He is visiting the provinces. arranging many
| details OF party organization, providing candi-
dates and trying 10 set the Liberal house IN
order for the general elections What is needed
| more than anything else for election purposes
/ is reunion OF the leaders under single bead.
so that an alternative Cabinet can be offered 10
the electorate. and a substitute for Lord Sails
bury be definitely announced Il this reunion
/ could be effected the Liberals might not be able
10 carry the country, but they would greatly In
crease their voting strength in the House or
Commons
Public attention has been so concentrated
upon South Africa that foreign affairs are
watched HstIessIy and without intelligence. The
London journals do not appear 70 know what is
/ going on in China and the omnibus drivers are
gravelv discussing whether Boxers" ars
secret detectives or Beers in disguise There are
/ grave suspicious among well informed men that
/ the Empress Regent is not sincere in her edict
against secret societies but is herself insJgat-
/ ing the movement against foreigners and open
ing the way for Russian aggression Dtsin-
terested as the American policy may be. nobody
in diplomatic circles here inaginss that all the
Powers Russia least OF all thinking merely
OF protecting their own subjects in Peking and
Northern China, and have other aim While
all the Powers are fishing in troubled waters.
Russia has the advantage OF having the longest
rod and the best fly
/ The American Governments controversy with
the Sultan attracts little attention here. but
there Will be a great access OF public interest II
two cruisers arrive the Lsvant TO enforce the
payment OF the indemnity. The claims VIII
probably be settled amicably II the ships are
sent with definite orders. The German Emperor