NEWS OF THE WEEK.
NO later news has arrived from South. Africa this week, but the fuller intelligence brought by the Pretoria' is far from satisfactory. The Boer movement, it is true, reduces itself to a formal protest against the loss of independence,—that is, to a general discontent, such as was felt at one time in Lower Canada, in the Mauritius, and in Cape Colony itself, a discon- tent to be overcome by lenient and sympathetic government, but the remaining difficulties do not disappear. The advance is still only in preparation, the difficulties of transport are nearly insuperable, teams being unprocurable by purchase, and sickness is seriously weakening the army. The account of her Majesty's 60th Regiment given in detail elsewhere is heart-breaking, and though due in part to local causes, is due also to a stupidity which may show itself in any part of the arrangements. The extreme youth of the soldiers appears to have disastrous effects both on the health and discipline of the troops, rand the correspondent of the Daily News, a well known and most trustworthy authority, speaks in desponding terms of the condition of the King's Dragoon Guards. No regiment, he says, ever more needed a first-rate commanding officer. The expense of the campaign is described by the Times in figures which seem incredible-2500,000 a week—and Sir Bartle Frere was still dreaming, by the latest despatches, of further con- quests still. He had not, it is true, received the orders cen- suring his zeal,—at least we suppose not,—but as he would also receive with those orders private letters saying that the orders were only for the silly public, they would not have a great effect upon his mind. There is no evidence that he would not, if Cetewayo submits, order an immediate campaign against the Swazis, as so far it is his recorded intention to do.
