The Premier of Cape Colony has telegraphed that the colony
has no intention of applying for Imperial troops, its own " spirits and resources" being " apparently " equal to the work of suppressing the rebellion. He sends, however, un- favourable intelligence. The Government is drawing out the farmers, until it believes that it will shortly have 12,000 men in the field ; but its forces only " repulse " attack, without gaining victories, and all the native tribes except the Fingoes are astir. In the most recent engagement, the Basuto cavalry, 5,000 in number, charged to within twenty-five yards of the Europeans under Colonel Carrington, who num- bered 1,400, and though repulsed, showed no signs of giving in On the contrary, they took up a position on some rocky ledges, whence they kept up a musketry fire, and the colonists were evidently unable to dislodge them. The Colonial Treasury is full, the Customs having yielded an unexpected surplus ; but the expense of the campaign must be very great, and there are signs that Parliament will meet in an acrimonious temper. The colonists of Natal are sending all the assistance in their power to the elder colony.
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