Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-27
EASIER TERMSNOW
May Be Given the Boers if They
 Ask For Peace
THAN AFTER THE CORONATION

Adjournment of Parliament Has Left
 Little For Londoners to Talk About
 -Chamberiain's Friends Say He is
 Not Anxious to Succeed Lord Sails
 bury-!Getting Ready For State
 Funeral-Conditions at Opening of
 Stock Exchange Showed That
 Rhodes's Death Had Been Discount
 ed.
 New York, Mar. 27.-Reports from Brussels and The Hague continue to reveal the anxiety of the Boer dele gates to have it understood that peace cannot be made without their knowl- edge and consent, says London dis patch to the Tribune. The dispatches are contradictory, but, bellicose as are the declarations attributed to Dr Ieyds, it may be Sayely assumed that MT Kruger has known about Schalk- Burgers intentions for several months and that he has sanctioned the direct appeal to Steyn and De Wet. The Dutch ministers at The Hague unnis takably are hopeful that peace will be made. They are reported to have warned MT Kruger and Dr LeydS that better terms could be made before than after the coronation, but there is 10 method of confirming this rumor.
 New York, Mar Entertainment has adjourned for ten days. and inc rumor mongers, chilled by the east wind. have little to chatter about, says the Tribune's London correspondent. Lord Roseberry, like the Duke of Devonshire has retired 10 the continent, and noth- ing more can be said about Liberal conditions of government while the state has sufficient vitality for the ef- fort of producing complex measures which can be debated for season and quietly dropped. Talk about cabinet reconstruction has died out. No cabi- net changes are probable this year. Joseph Chamberlain, colonial secretary, and A. J. Balfour, government leader in the house of commons, are intimate and loyal friends. and neither is dis posed to Supplant or stand in the way of the other. The understanding among NIT Chamberlain'S friends is that he is not anxious to succeed Lord Salisbury nor lead the commons, but expects to remain in the colonial office and work out the settlement of the South African question after the war. His friends assert that he has no am bition at present except to make tour of the British colonies when he can leave the colonial office for a period of eight or ten months and visit Can- ada. Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
 
 lions for the state funeral of Cecil Rhodes, which will take place here April 2. are already in progress. Flags are half masted everywhere.
 Those who attended at the sick bed say Mir Rhodes continually sorrowed over the fact that he left so much un- accomplished. "So little done. so much to do." was an expression which he nsed more than once.
 During Mir Rhodes's illness all kinds of novel means were utilized to count eract the trying heat. Boxes of ice were let into the roof of the seaside cottage at NTuizenburg, where he died yesterday. Punkas were continually kept in motion and extra windows were cut in the walls.
 London. Mar. 27-The Rhodesian section of the colonial exhibition. at the Royal Exchange, has been draped in black.
 Numerous expressions of regret and condolence have been cabled by mem bers of the stock exchange and others interested in South Africa.
 After a slight hesitation at the open ing of the stock exchange the tone of Kaffirs was distinctly firmer. showing that NIT Rhodes's death had been dis counted.