Then Mr. Dawnay moved to reduce the charge for South-
African purposes by the salary of the Resident with Cetewayo, and made a very strong attack on Cetewayo and the policy of the Government in restoring him,—a speech, in fact, of sympa- thy with John Dunn. Mr. Evelyn Ashley, in reply, threw a good deal of blame on Cetewayo for attacking Usibepu, but de- fended the policy of the Government in restoring him as the only policy which gave the hope of any sort of Government in Zulu- land. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach also attacked the Government for restoring Cetewayo, and especially for restoring him in the way they did ; to whom Mr. Gladstone replied that it was one thing to carry destruction into a country, as the policy of the Tory Administration had done, and quite another to try to piece together " the broken fragments which were the monu- ment of the statesmanship of the right honourable gentleman." In fact, the discussion came to very little beyond this,—that the Tory Government and Sir Bartle Frere did the mischief which the present Government has been as yet wholly unsuccessful in repairing ; and that is the simple truth. Mr. Dawnay's amendment was negatived without a division.
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