The Southland Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. TJucco Non Uro. TUESDAYS JUNE 3.

Southland Times, Issue 3417, 3 June 1879, Page 2

The Southland Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. TJucco Non Uro. TUESDAYS JUNE 3.

That affairs in Zululand have created extraordinary excitement in England is evident from the tough debates in Parliament upon the motion of censure brought dPwn' by Sir Charles -DMke, and although the Government carried the day by a substantial majority, yet the feeling of the House was too marked to be slighted, especially as it was reflected by the Press of all shades of opinion. The action of Sir Bartle Fre're in precipitating the war was called into serious question. It would have been otherwise but for the Isandula disaster, for there is nothing so successful as success, which like charity, chokes a 'multitude Of short-' comings. But. serious -reverses having" ensupd, reverses that plunged a multi- . tucle of families- , into ; mourning, somebody had to be brought to book, and the nations displeasure iell'upon. the >.shoulders of' the late High Commissioner. At first upheld In his' "action by the Government,,, the ..latter! has been ,com^ pelle'd; ■•'; to«idefer -to public, ppinipn,, and ; hence supreme control of- affairs in /Natal and the" .Trans vaaV has been transferred, from Sir Bartle Frefe' to .' the ' victor" of ' Coorriassie, Sir Garnet /Wolseley. .Late : calograms have advised us of the change, but we are yet in ignorance of what imme]cUately ie^d up to/ it, 'but/it/may be j very ssPfely conjectured tnat : the yoi ! cc/. ; pfj; the -nation,' *heard -through.; the --Press,.obliged the Ministry^Ho /"supersede; Sir Barjt^e/,'iah/d' >th/eichioiceofJ^is : successor was de^; ■tennihed by^"tae; same/ pot^nt^vill) f6rjS ( ij ' Garnet Wolseley -is- eminently popular with ;/ ; -his : "Countrymen; ./-The^highly successful manner in which he conducted; -/ii ; .thg, ;.r^han^p; ; :i-camr^ign proved he- possessed / special ; dapacity r - 'f6i' tl ealiii «•" . Tvith^Tsava^esi and naturally ifchereM'e the eyes of the : nation wpre/tuxhed to in, jthe^Zulu: ( : emergency. :/He/is--now on his way to i Natal^hd:'theliest : ifssults may^be^an-/ /ticipated from his /prMehce /there. /The campaj^,iwill.'cert^njy; r go:/inv/favpr/: of the British,/and is not iikely/to/ be pi^-/ tracted/ / It .-•" is true there-'iare// Reports ab^nit -- iaying f . detprainepl/j oh war a V6uiranct y anct ! that the Zulus haye^ as; we .are telegraphically advised, resorted to eipedje^^oi^ming'/tlie/ country^ >to ', check the ' British advance; sl}oWs thafcthey^ born^resistahcea/ But /another /decisive victory b^bur sidp'willal^^ .branch,.^^ massacre iiias/ to find the/:Zulus,>ib^ ; gobn l aftei; wards asinay T be cbhsisteiit^Mtli^ .^i^jhpiipr,^eace-vnl^ we idp iipt lihagiiie rfc/is aX all likely :tna^; Cetewayb Afill^object. .-.■ At^thQßame'time'

"%e<can Leartily iympatnise with NataVf coloiiists. Lik^ those'-of New Zealand^ tliejrShave a-native difficulty on hand,| tha^romises to be a stumbling block* fotiyears to come in the colony's progress!; present campaign will not settle it, -and the only true remedy will be the growth of self-reliance and capacity for ,Belf-4efence,:On-^herptt.pt.^.fetUe^colonrs.ts,.^ arid" also tne" cultivation ofTnendly reTations with the Boers of Transvaal./}^hej|have succeeded in holding their »owi*< against„the Kaffirs, and: if. Natal were by a small {ofe^ yW^^^f:o^ whole /bfj tha'KSffir/tnties 61ight"t6":bekeptlri f thorough subjection. This, we are cbnvihced, is the only solution of the Zulu problem, unless the offensive tactics T adopted :by Sir Garnet Wolseley prove "#erymuch more decisive than is to be legitimately anticipated if experience is •''any"■guide to .go by. t y reverses sustalmed by Lord ''Gnelmsford's "division 'iwere severe, but not: fruitless, for they taught the British a valuable lessonnot to underrate the foe. The effects of trjis are visible in the extreme caution that has f .goyerned Ttbe^ritish jcpmniander |since t^e^^e^let '^f£'^bwe.;^a]t|otfgh'largely reinforced he yet declines to "advance until his forces are r still further supplemented, arid hence we take it that j-there will be a simultaneous advance of all ■.- the divisions ■ into the enemy's country, whilst retreat.is to be kept open and communication with British terriftory maintained by entrenched positions the line of route. It would not be surprising' if Lord Chelnisford were influenced by undue /caution^ ibr the check he received was bitter indeed, but inspired-' by/: Sir(• Gai^efr tW6ls'eley'!■ aiidf 'fortified by his counsel) the. unfortunate Commander will, soon recover his old. -form, and, let ris'h f6pe,'' pfestig^ also. It is 1 now admitted nearly on all hands that rLord Chelmsford is not to be held entirely responsible for the Isandula slaughter. Indeed, by some he is altogether exonerated^ and by none more decidedly than the: Army and Nayy_,Gazette, that should be an authority, and which takes this view in a masterly article that was published in its issue of March Bth, and concludes thus : —-5' There is no need now to dwell on the details of a story known all over the world, but it is very necessary tb saylt^l) |I1 Yt^ef.'fpts, M^^fi 3# before the public, and, so far as they are known to us, there is not, we think, a particle of foundation for laying 1 at the door of Lord Ohelmsfovd any share in" the great disaster, which will long be. remembered in the annals of our army."