If the praise came all from the friends of the Boers it would not be very valuable; but the most ardent of the supporters of the war—the very jingoes of the jingoes—are equally satisfied. While the Boers have been treated with great generosity in the grant of liberty and help in rebuilding and restocking their farms, no one can say that British interests have in the remotest degree been sacrificed. We have secured thing that we were fighting for; and from the manner in which the Boers themselves have received the settlement we have far stronger hopes than could have been deemed possible at, this stage of an early restoration of cordial relations between the two races in South Africa.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.