Reuter telegraphs from Calcutta that Sir G. P. Colley has
been appointed Governor and High Commissioner of Natal,— and we presume of the Transvaal,—in succession to Sir Garnet Wolseley. He has also been appointed to command the troops in "the South-Eastern District,"—a mistake, we presume, for North-Eastern. Sir G. P. Colley is now acting as military private secretary to Lord Lytton, he has been employed at the Cape, and his appointment may, we imagine, be taken to signify that the Government has decided to retain the Transvaal. They could not do otherwise, and, on the whole, in view of the Boer treatment of the natives, of the division of opinion in the Transvaal, as shown in Mr. A. Trollope's letter, and of the necessity, if we are to retain South Africa, of establishing a uniform system of policy, we believe that they are right. It will be necessary to maintain a considerable force in the colony, but we do not believe that the Boers, if fairly treated and admitted into the Executive and Legislative Councils, as we see is intended, will prove irreconcilable. A good many Home-rulers--and the Boers are Home-rulers,- pay taxes and enlist in the Army, in the most respectable and loyal manner.
