Mr. Rhodes's powers in Rhodesia have been more com- pletely
taken away than we had imagined. He has hired a -steamer in Egypt to take him to Beira, the German steamer in which he bad taken his passage having grounded in the Suez Canal—unable, perhaps, to repeat Theodore Hook's joke, to carry a man of so much weight—and from Beira he will go on to Bulawayo, where, however, he will find himself almost a private individual. As managing director of the Chartered Company, Rhodesia is, in some sense, his freehold; but the control of the armed force and the police has been transferred to Crown officers ; and Earl Grey has been appointed Administrator of the Province. He will probably have some difficulty with his powerful subject ; bat he is believed to be an upright man, with some ability for governing, he has long been a director of the Chartered Company, and he is, of course, by hereditary position as well as training, a pledged Imperialist, who would give any one who declared Rhodesia independent a short trial and a high gallows. If he can remedy the settlers' grievances, which are considerable, he will soon find British loyalty rallying to the representative of the Crown, while the two millions of natives will acknowledge no other.
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