We are at last fairly out of the Transvaal. The
last soldier has crossed Laing's Nek, and the great meeting of Boers, at which it was feared that the Convention might be repudiated, has passed off in silence. A new question, however, is arising in Z ululand. The thirteen chiefs in that territory are constantly quarrelling, and it is believed in Natal that the British Govern- ment, to put a stop to bloodshed, intends to restore Cetewayo, after he has visited England, and satisfied himself as to British power. The inhabitants of Natal are, therefore, passing strong resolutions against the restoration, and John Dunn, the English Zulu chief who claims the highest place in Zululand, says he shall not permit Cetewayo to land. Of the political advantage of such a restoration we feel doubt- ful, though Cetewayo's governing power was considerable, but of its practicability we have no doubt whatever. Any tyrant must be better than thirteen bad chiefs headed by an English- man who has deliberately adopted savage life, and, so far as we understand Zulu ideas, Cetewayo's birth-claim would be irresistible. He is the heir of the men who made the nation.
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