New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-12
BRITISH PROBLEMS.
PROBABLE PROGRAMME OF THE NEW
GOVERNMENT.
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VIII be held at Windsor to-day. The Ministerial
programme for the session of Parliament will
be worked out in a series of Cabinet meetings
before Christmas. The Ministry is committed
to a single policy-the reorganization of the
military system. and this may much or
little. Probably there will be a long period OF
expert investigation after Lord Roberts's re-
turn. and immediate legislation. A large
number of technical questions relating to guns
cavalry equipment. transport and other details
will be raised, and the system of training SOL
diers will be altered. These matters do not
quire legislation, but purely administrative
One change has already been made, almost
without observation The British soldiers in
South Africa knew nothing about ntrenching
At Colenso and Magersfonten they did not use
the spade. and when they tried to dig the
summit Of Spon kop they made very bad
trenches. An army officer tells me that in re-
cent manpuvres in various parts OF the United
Kingdom the soldiers have heen drilled In the
Of the spade. and taught the art OF trench
ing. This illustrates the methods Ey which
the lessons of the campaign will he taken to
heart in the future training of the British army
Legislation VIII probably be restricted to money
grants for the Improvement Of the artillery
equipment of the army fortifcations, coalng
stations and exposed ports and for the strength
ening of the fleet.
one other point Will not be lost Slgnt OF: this
is the coordination of the or the colo
MES and the mother State in a comprehensive
scheme of imperial defence. Arrangements Will
probably be made, with the aid of Mr Cham
berlain for an imperial council Of some kind
in which Canada. Australia and other self gov
erning colonies will be represented. for the pur-
pose of common consultation respecting COM
plete and effective system OF defence
The scheme OF British army reform fore
shadowed by to-day's Mail" will be studied
with universal interest The army Is apparently
to be modelled after something very like the sys-
TENS in vogue on the Continent. The British
private will become a trained soldier. and In
stead of an insufficient six weeks training in
year he will in future have to undergo ten
months. This is reform with q vengeance, and
is likely to be well received. In the past British
army manRuvres have been one of the weakest
features in the military system. and have often
been ridculed by French and German experts.
Now, however, 1t is said there will be extensive
powers for the holding Of mannuvres on a large
scale. and considerable of land are to he
acquired for the purpose OF the scheme. If 1t
should be a genuine one. it will mark new
era in Englands military history.
The strong stock markets of New-York and
Chicago have exerted a reflex influence upon all
markets here. There has been a recovery in
English rails corporation issues, colonial loans
and Indian stocks. so that English investors
who have sold Americans" at high prices will
have to pay more for all issues in renvesting
their money. unless they turn to the mining
market, which remains fiat. The boom in
americans is naturally welcomed by specu-
lators sine 1t gives strong 1llp to other mar
kets. But they are wondering how long it will
last.
Vprly inlay ~ yraha aTCiIa
TEN of underground railways in London is the
first deliberate effort grappe with the hous-
ing problem Of the English metropolis, and If
he can succeed in his dream he will revolution
ize the life of London and earn the undying
gratitude of British workmen His idea is to
have complete network Of lines, radiating
north. south, east and west, to considerable dis
tances from the heart of the metropolis and
then to have wOrkmen's cottages built in healthy
districts served by railways This is a tremen-
dous scheme. but Mr.. Yerkes is also said TO be
interested in project for cutting a ship canal
from Southampton to London a distance of just
eighty miles.
The English press IS beginning to qualify Its
qualification the general results Of the
American election with expressions Of regret
that Mr.. Cleveand's low tariff cause has not
been revived, and that nothing has been done
for the suppression Of trusts One journal de-
scr1bes the trusts as the natural offspring OF
American Protection, and formidable develop
ment Of commercial brgandage No one would
suspect from these comments that trusts and
combinations are as common in Free Trade
England as they are in America Manufacturers
in nearly every great industry here have been
employed during recent years In selling their
properties and business to new combinations
controlled by themselves and in chea pening
their products by various economies in buying
supplies, selling goods and getting rid of cut
throat competition.
While the same trust movement prevails in
England, and the consolidation of business in
terests in great corporations is now the estab-
lished rule, it is by no means certain that the
number of manufacturing firms has largely in
creased during the last decade, as has been the
case in America. Census figures about English
trusts are lacking, and the subject is never dis
cussed by the press except where there is an
opportunity FOR a sharp thrust at American Pro-
lection. /. n. F.
EARL CADOGAN TO CONTINUE IN OFFICE
London, Nov. 11-Earl Cadogan has consented
to continue in office as Lord Lieutenant OF Ire
land.
John Grant Lawson. who represented the
Thirsk and Nation Division OF York in the late
Parliament. where he was deputy chairman of
Ways and Means, and who has been one of the
Parliamentary Charity Commissioners since
1895. has been appointed Secretary OF the Local
Government Board, in succession to Henry
Chaplin.
Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson. Permanent
Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
has been promoted to the rank of Knight Grand
Cross of the Order Of the Bath.
The Earl of Clarendon. the Earl of Selborne
Joseph Powell Williams and Gerald Balfour
have been appointed Privy Councillors. Mr.
Balfour was already Irish Privy Councillor