from the strong country they at present occupy, and the
settle-
and thus revolutionize the interior. The settlement of the fron- tier district of the Kat River with Blacks exclusively, has been found by experience to perpetuate the jealousies and enmities of distinct races. To act upon the same policy on a more extended recognized the independence of the Emigrant Boers. They are in fact independent, and that being the case it was the wisest course to admit that they are so. But, looking to the future, it is obvious that if the Caffres against whom we are now fighting are driven into the interior, the tribes at present there will be dis- turbed in their possessions by these compulsory immigrants; the troubles thus occasioned will oblige the Boers to interfere in self- defence ; a different policy may be adopted by the English authori- ties, and herein may lie the germ of new complications. The new Governor at the Cape of Good Hope has departed en- tirely from the military tactics of his predecessor. He has re- moved his head-quarters from the interior of British Caffraria to within the Colonial frontier, and is as yet acting strictly on the defensive. This seems to 'forebode an indefinite prolongation of the war. The Governor is said to be making great efforts to corn- plete his Burgher levies, and to aim at the expulsion of the Caffres
ment of the district with friendly native tribes. Even should the Governor succeed in driving the Caffres from their present seats, he will thereby only force them to fall back upon other tribes, would seem calculated only to aggravate and extend the scale, mischievous consequences. The future of South Africa is still dark and louring. It is also stated that the new Government has
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