The Empire grows, as it were, by its own volition.
Nobody that we know of wants Zululand, but we have had to annex that State. The heart of the Zulus went out of them with the fall of Ekowe, the Boers are perpetually stealing their land, and at last the remnants of the tribe have, through their chiefs, begged the British to save them from the Dutch. The Colonial Office very reluctantly, and after careful inquiry of the Zulu. chiefs, has consented to grant the prayer, and Sir Arthur Havelock, Governor of Natal, has been authorised to declare Zululand a Crown Colony. Mr. Labonchere, of come, saw in the announcement a great opportunity of impeding the Crimes Bill, and on Thursday moved the adjournment in order to discuss Zulu affairs. Sir H. Holland explained the facts, and the majority of the House was clearly with him; but the debate was proceeding, and might have gone on till Whitsuntide, but that Mr. W. H. Smith moved the Closure, which was carried by 278 to 156. Anybody who is anxious to do it can, of course, move in the regular way that the annexation be disallowed.
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