We greatly regret to learn that the Government have recalled
Sir Charles Warren from Bechuanaland, and have appointed a pnisne judge at the Cape, by name Mr. Shippard, to succeed. him. This means, we fear, a triumph for the policy of annexing Bechu- analand to the Cape, and most probably a triumph of the policy of sympathy with Boer aggression. We suppose that Lord Derby had very nearly made up his mind in this sense when he left Office, and it seems that Colonel Stanley has followed in his brother's track. We shall be much surprised if the result is not, first, a great stimulus to the very movement which Sir Charles Warren went out to suppress, and eventually another raid and the need for another expedition. That the Conservatives should have missed so good a chance of redeeming their promise to govern firmly where their predecessors had vacillated, is curious evidence that there is a force in our departmental traditions which overrides all Cabinets except under the most exceptional circumstances of popular excitement.
