A little sensation has been created i po cles by some correspond which has appeared in the " Spectator during the past three Tu the first instance a writ " signed himself "C. B." casually mentioned in the course of a letter that before the election of 1892 Mr. Rhodes contributed £5,000 to the val Party funds on condition that the ral leaders, if they were in a position nent, should not adopt a policy of "scuttle" out of Egypt. Subsequently some speeches of Liberal leaders raised a doubt in his mind whether this condition would be observed, and he seems, according to "C. B.," to have demanded fresh assurance or the return of his five thousand. He obtained the assurances, and let the money remain, From this story the "Spectator" drew the as: sumption tha if rds as th leniency of Sir Henry Campbell-Banney man and. Sir William Harcourt toward Mr. Rhodes at the time of the Jameson Raid Commission was due to a fear or a threat that Rhodes would divulge the way he had bought up the Liberal Party. Thereupon Sir Henry, in his own name and that of Sir William, denounced the story as "a liv from beginning to end." The "Spectator" thereupon admitted that these two leaders could have known nothing of the transaction, and that therefore was unjustifiable, but maintained that " C. B.'s" story was' nevertheless true. Then and announced that, would send to uth Afrieafor the whole correspondence; and 'C. B.," who proves to be Mr. Charles Boyd, a son of "A. K.
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