News from Durban, dated July 24th, states that Cetewayo had
been defeated and, with a number of his chiefs and wives, killed, by his northern neighbour, Usibebu. It seems hard on Cetewayo that, when he was restored, great pains were taken to limit his army, while no provision was made, or, indeed, could be made, to limit the military power of the savage tribes press- ing down upon him from the centre of the African continent. What Palestine had constantly to dread in the old days, these partially•civilised regions of Africa have constantly to dread now,—the rush of the multiplying populations of the north, migrating towards the more enviable countries of the south. "Evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction," was the constant cry of the Hebrew prophets. From the same cause, and partly for the same reasons, it might be the constant cry of South-African statesmen.
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