30 MARCH 1878, Page 3

The Zulu chief Cetywayo has hit upon a notable remedy

for the war-fever which appears to be common to Zulus and Lon- doners. On the advice of persons learned in natural magic, he ordered up all his regiments, and administered an emetic to the men, "to bring out the evil in their hearts which causes them to fight and kill each other." If such an emetic,—(say), any sort of moral antimony,—really existed, and could be administered to the Daily Telegraph and the Pall Mall Gazette, what valuable lives might even now be saved. But we fear the "perilous stuff" has been taken for too long a time into the system, so that the remedy of the Zulu magicians, even if it could be applied, would no longer be effectual.