Telegrams have been arriving through the week which point to
a certain uneasiness in South Africa. The idea appears to be that the Zulus in Zululand, who still obey Cetewayo's son Dinizulu, and the Ba,sutos, and the Kaffir miners, and, indeed, all the native tribes, are plotting some- thing, nobody seems to know what. They are, it is asserted, instigated by negroes from America, who are founding an "Ethiopian Church," and preaching "Africa for the Africans." In a community where the blacks outnumber the whites by ten to one there will be occasional panics, and occasional plots too; but there is no evidence that the tribes of South Africa, who are divided by traditions of long standing, are giving up their feuds ; while the story of the Ethiopian Church looks rather dreamy. Why should Zulus, for instance, be moved by Christian preaching ? It is possible that some idea of their essential unity -as against the white race has spread among the blacks, as it once spread among North American Indians, and possible, also, that some jealousy has been excited by the talk of a great Chinese immigration ; but these are only possibilities. It will be well, however, to keep up the strength of the white constabulary, if only to soothe away an uneasiness which makes both blacks and whites suspicious and distrustful of each other.
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