We have dealt elsewhere with the appointment of General Buller
to the command of the First Army Corps, and the public-spirited protests of the St. James's Gazette and the Oellook in regard to it, but we may note here that the Outlook reasserts in the most open and specific way—the story has been often alluded to before—the allegation that General Buller sent " a heliograph message after Colenso, categorically ordering Sir George White and the beleaguered garrison of Lady- smith to destroy their cipher, destroy their stores, and make for twelve thousand armed Britons, the flower of the British Army, the best terms possible with the beleaguering enemy." "Mr. Brothick and the authorities," adds the Out- look, "know all about this heliograph." We have no right, of course; to say whether this heliograph was or was not sent, but it seems to us that it is one of those cases in which the time bas come for a plain statement of the exact facts.
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