The special correspondent of the Daily News at head- quarters
forwards, on 6th June, a connected history of negotiations with Cetewayo. Certain of his Indunas, sick of the war, told him that he must make peace ; and the King, after a burst of fury, consented to send messengers into the British camp. Lord Chelmsford informed them that the King must send back the two seven-pounders captured at Isandlana, as an earnest of his sincerity, and send regular envoys, and he would then state such terms as he might receive from England, 'whence as yet he had received no orders. The messengers asked for some hint of the probable terms, but received no reply, except that the army must be broken up. They then asked for an armistice of three weeks, and permission during that time to reap their harvests, which was granted, and the adlltince is arrested until the end of June, by which time Sir Garnet Wolseley will be at hand. The statement, which is confirmed by a Cape Town telegram of the 14th June, is satis- factory, UN showing that the army is ready to make peace without unconditional submission ; but unsatisfactory, as proving that the Cabinet has either never decided on what terms the war should end, or has never abandoned Sir Bartle Frere's ultimatum. It has left peace, like war, to the chapter of accidents.
