• It is understood that 5,000 more troops will at
once be sent to the Cape, and this increase of the force employed, coupled with the difficulty of obtaining transport and the sickness among the horses, may delay the final campaign for another year. It is believed that the Zulus will burn the grass, and then it will be nearly impossible to move, as the army cannot carry its own forage. Should this turn out to be the case, the expense of this petty war, which nu one wanted and which can end in nothing, will be as great as that of a year of Crimean warfare. Under these circumstances it is not pleasant to hear that Sir Bartle Frere is as obstinate as ever, that he has signified to Cetewayo the intention of the Government to insist on its original terms, and on "one thing more," not described; and that Cetewayo, having become desperate, is threatening to carry out the war to the end. It is still less pleasant to hear that the colonists, who will pocket the greater portion of our millions and all the profits of security, are enraptured with Sir Bartle Frere's great policy, and loud in condemnation of Sir Michael Hicks Beach's de- spatch. They are having their wars done for them in the most delightful way, and when they volunteer, receive pay at the rate of 30s. a week. "Peace, with honour, and large profits," that is to be their destiny,—and South Africa feels as if Providence had for once been very kind.
