The colonists in South Africa protest loudly against Sir Garnet
Wolseley's settlement of Zululand, being especially moved by the regulations against English immigration, the pro- hibition of Missionaries, and the rumoured. selection of John Dunn as Resident in South Zululand. We do not believe the latter idea has been entertained. The man has become a Zulu, and though no worse than the many Englishmen who have entered Turkish service and become virtually Turks, he is unfit to represent the British Crown. Moreover, he is a chief, by the election of the people as well as by appointment, and the use of a Resident is to report upon and control the chiefs. Dunn will probably yield to pressure as to the Missionaries, and it will not be difficult,. with Lord Cairns in the Cabinet, to disallow the clause in the proclamation re- stricting their entry into Zululand. As to the settlement of Englishmen, that must for a time be prevented, as it is in the Indian "reservations" in the United States. The colonists do not want more land, and if they entered the Zulu territory would, in three years, demand white magistrates, white laws, and an army to defend them. The experiment of a protected native community should have fair-play.
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