Lord Kimberley announced on Tuesday, in the House of Lords,
that Cetewayo is to be sent back to Zululand, under cer- tain conditions,—such as a reserve of territory for those chiefs who do not accept his rule, guarantees against the reconstruc- tion of the formidable military power of the past, and his acceptance of a British Resident. Lord Salisbury, of course, made a bitter speech on this fresh evidence of the determination of the present Government to reverse the policy of the last Government, to which Lord Kimberley replied that it was simply impossible in this matter to adhere to the policy of Sir Garnet Wolseley's settlement, as that settlement had wholly broken down ; and that whatever Government had been in power, some new departure would have been now absolutely necessary. To Lord Salisbury's taunt that none of the crimes of the Turkish Government would come near the crimes which had characterised Cetewayo's government in the past, Lord Kimberley replied by denying the fact. The horrible stories against him had been in part made up for a purpose, and though some of the cruelties imputed to him were not invented, these were cruelties such as any South-African chief would have committed, and such as even our own ancestors committed in the raids on witches, less than three hundred years ago. Cetewayo and his chiefs were informed on Wednesday of the decision of the Government, and on their return from their interview with Lord Kimberley to their house in Melbury Road, Kensington, celebrated the occa- sion with an African dance of joy.
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