It is reported that the final treaty delimiting British and
Portuguese possessions he Africa has at last been signed. Lord Salisbury has been anxious to improve the situation for the Portuguese Monarchy, and at the same time to conciliate the Cape. According to the Times, he has effected this by ceding to Lisbon a triangle of fifty thousand square miles north of the Zambesi, including, as we read it, the Doab between the Zambesi and the Shir6 up to the junction of the latter with the Ruo. In return, the Portuguese cede Manicaland. If this is accurate, Zambesia is cut off from Nyassaland, which may one day be inconvenient ; but most present subjects of dispute are ended. The future can take care of itself, or rather, the South African Dominion will take care of it. We hope, however, that the Foreign Office has made the right to the navigation of the rivers sufficiently clear, for it is there that the danger of shots being fired arises.
