Africans desire to see any other Power installed in the place of England. Cultured Dutch and English Africans alike are fed on English literature, and England is their intellectual home. Even with our simplest Dutch-descent Africans, the memories of the old bitter days had almost failed, when the ghastly events which are too well known to need referring to, awoke the old ache at the heart a few years ago. But even they would see quietly no other Power standing in the place of England. 'It is a strange thing,' said a well-known Dutch South African to us twenty-one years ago, that when I went to Europe to study, I went to Holland, and loved the land and the people, but I felt a stranger; it was the same in Germany, the same in France. But when I landed in England, I said, "Tam at home!"'" We trust that these men will continue to recognise that in fighting for our supremacy, we are fighting the battle of Cape Colony and Natal with that of the British Empire as a whole.
The correspondents in South Africa of the leading London journals are sibly not entirely unprejudiced, ut there is still no question of the value of the news they send. The Times of the 6th ult. published a letter from Newcastle, Natal, in which a member of the Transvaal Raad is reported to have said in the course of discussion on the previous day of the advance of British troops towards the frontier, "The Boers only require half-a-day's notice to fight." The correspondent continues "Many conclude, that the defiant tone of the speeches is not unconnected with the fact that Mauser
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