The Government, as we supposed, has not decided to give
up Uganda. A great deputation from the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society waited, on Thursday, on Lord Rosebery, and laid the whole case before him from their point of view. The Foreign Secretary's reply was substantially that to administer Uganda, and make the necessary approaches, was a big job ; that he was not a dictator, but only a Member of a Government ; but that, personally, he was in favour of doing the work, not only because Uganda dominates the Nile basir, but because it was essential to keep up what Mr. Bosworth Smith had called the "continuity of the moral policy" of Britain. Lord Rosebery spoke with unexpected warmth of the necessity of suppressing the slave trade ; and expressed a belief that, having put our hands to the plough, "we shall not be able to look back." Uganda, we imagine, is pretty safe if only the Scotch Members will make their constituents' opinion visible to the Cabinet.
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