The captures and surrenders of Boers go on, but ,
the _ enemy are also still very active, and we hear on Friday of the taking of -a British post-and twenty-five 'men of Steinacker'S Horse. General French is now at work in the Colony, audit seems, probable_ that in a short time he will have accounted fOr most of the small bodies of Boers that have been playing hide-and7seek with us therefor the past six months., perhaps the Most'serious part of the situation is that we haye now only Shout sin weeks more before the grass begins to grow,again On the, veld. The spring is always a more favourable time to the Boers than to us. However, in spite of thikwe, refuse tistake'a despOnding.view of the state of affairs in outh Africa when judged as a whole. .We are no doubt troubled With what the Irishman, just after a bullet had gone' through his Eat, described 'as "only a blackguard in the; ehrubliery;" but at the same time there is a steady advance in te renew-iel'of civil life in the Orange ColOny and the „Transvaal; .and..we de not doubt that when LordMilner, who leaves England to-day, 'reaches Pretoria, he will be able to report a real improvement- for the better. The great thing is to go on steadily , and _ mind " the blackguard in the shrubbery " as little as possible.
