Review of reviews and world's work . ocate of what may be de-1n London^ scribed as American Home Rule as the clue to the solution of British Imperialdifficulties has just made a flying visit to Cecil Rhodes spent Easter in London, and is THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 533 already well on his way back to Cape Town. was in cajiital spirits about telegraph has now been carried up to the Zam-besi. The coiuitrj was i)erfectly traminil and every-thing was going well. From an Imperial point of^•iew nothing conld have been more snccessfnl thantlie occupation of the con
Review of reviews and world's work . ocate of what may be de-1n London^ scribed as American Home Rule as the clue to the solution of British Imperialdifficulties has just made a flying visit to Cecil Rhodes spent Easter in London, and is THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 533 already well on his way back to Cape Town. was in cajiital spirits about telegraph has now been carried up to the Zam-besi. The coiuitrj was i)erfectly traminil and every-thing was going well. From an Imperial point of^•iew nothing conld have been more snccessfnl thantlie occupation of the conntry. and from a financialpoint of \-iew—well, shareholders could wait. has ideas of his ouni as to the opening up ofBechuanaland: he thinks he has solved the franchisedifficulty by a compromise: and altogether is veryhopef111 about his end of Africa. But that makes himall the more angry with those who talk glibly aboutEnglands evacuating the other end of the Continent,toward wliich he is pushing forward with all speed. COLONEL KITCHENER. down the lakes. If Gordon had but been relieved intime the telegraph line from Cairo to Cape Townmight have been completed in twelve months. Evennow it may be open before the end of the century. There is not the least likelihood of Egypt%uelvJn^ ^eing evacuated. The British say they vrill go when they have done their work,and when there is a reasonable certainty that theirgoing will not be the signal for undoing all the goodthat has been done since Tel-el-Kebir. How far theyare from any assurance on that point is proved bypointing to the difficulty with which Sir EveljTi Bar-ing had to deal last month. In the firman appointingthe new Khedive the Sultan had taken pains to varythe form so as to have been free to re-annex the pen-insula of Sinai to Turkey. This little game was ex-posed and frustrated by the vigilance of the EnglishResident. If England had not been on the spot thequestion of Sinai might easily have disturbed thepeace
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