A great many statements have been circulated this week about
coming trouble in the Transvaal, but too much importance should not be given to the reports of Boer disaffection. A section of the Dutchmen in the Transvaal are undoubtedly disaffected, but they will probably only try to keep up an impossible resistance to the law. They are too widely scattered and too badly armed for insurrection, though they may " trek " once more, and, try to fill up the wade lands of the Orange-River Free State. It is more probable that they will remain discontented, but quiet, decline to take part in public affairs, and compel Government to create a strong police, until the discovery of gold Or other temptation draws a great body of English settlers into the Transvaal. Meanwhile, a regiment must be left there, with some mountain artillery.
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