The rumours from Zululand are hardly intelligible. It is -.stated,
more especially in the Daily News, that though Cetewayo is about to be restored, he will receive only a third of his kingdom, that he is to obey in all things a British Resident, and that a large slice of his dominion, nearly half, is-to be placed under a British Protectorate, and governed by John Dunn, and one or two chiefs friendly to him. This is not the arrangement -to which the British people assented. Their idea was that Cetewayo, having learned by experience that he could not resist the British, was to be restored and left alone, a moderate territory being reserved for such chiefs as Cetewayo might be inclined to put -to death. They were, however, to -defend themselves, and British territory was to terminate at the 'Tugela. Any departure from that arrangement must be im- politic, as the restoration of Cetewayo was intended to limit, not to extend British responsibilities. Nothing ever goes right in South Africa, where the whole of the British genius for blundering seems to be concentrated ; but we see some reason to hope that the plans of Sir Henry Bulwer have been mis- understood. Certainly, Lord Derby will not take any more African territory than he can help.
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