Unless we are mistaken, a letter in our correspondence columns
signed "C. B." incidentally explains the greatest of all the mysteries in regard to Mr. Rhodes,—the mystery of why the Liberals on the South African Committee allowed Mr. Rhodes to get off so very easily. "0. B.," who, we do not doubt has authority for his facts, in effect states (1) that Mr. Rhodes gave 25,000 to the funds of the Liberal party—the reference to Mr. Schnadhorst and the context generally ihow that this was just before the General Election of 1892—on condition that the Liberals would pledge themselves not to leave Egypt ; (2) that Mr. Rhodes, on getting uneasy in regard to his con- ditions being fulfilled, began to talk about his money being sent to a charity instead ; and (3) that he was then told by Mr. Schnadhorst that he was 'directed from a lofty quarter to answer Mr. Rhodes that the Liberals will stick to Egypt and that 25,000: In other words, our correspondent declares that the Liberal party, like the Parnellites, took money, not in the ordinary way from a member of their own party and political creed, but from an outsider, and at the same time
abandoned a particular item of their the policy of evacuation in Egypt. Mr. Rhodes bought up the evacuation policy for 2,5,000.
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