and the strains of god save the queen the union jack was run up a lofty and the was formally announced to be british soil the flag was hoisted by colonel b and the present writer speaking for myself i may say that the british rule it was one of the moments of my i have foreseen that i should to see that same flag then hoisted with so much joyous ceremony within a few years and hauled down and buried i think it would have been the most miserable the was as well received in england as it was in the lord wrote to sir t to convey the queen s entire approval of your conduct since you received her majesty s commission with a renewal of my own thanks on behalf of the government for the admirable prudence and discretion with which you have discharged a great and unwonted responsibility it was also accepted by parliament with very few voices since it was not till afterwards when the subject became useful as an howl that the liberal party headed by our powerful popular minister discovered the deep that had been in south africa so satisfied were the with the change that messrs and who formed the to proceed to england and present president formal protest against the found great difficulty in raising one half of the necessary expenses � something under one thousand pounds � towards the cost of the undertaking the thirst for independence cannot have been very great when all the wealthy in the put together would not a thousand pounds retaining it indeed at this time the members of the themselves seem to have looked upon their the flag wm during the of the � t buried by a urge of end j l the undertaking as being both doubtful and since they informed sir t that they were going to europe to discharge an obligation which had been imposed upon them and if the mission failed they would have done their duty mr said that if they did fail he would be found to be as faithful a subject under the new form of government as he had been under the old and dr admitted with equal frankness that the change was inevitable and expressed his belief that the of it would be whilst the was thus well received in the country immediately interested a lively agitation was commenced in the western province of the cape colony a thousand miles away with a view of the home government to sir t s act the reason of this movement was that the cape dutch party caring little or nothing for the real interests of the did care a great deal about their scheme to turn all the white of south africa into a great dutch to which they thought the would be a as i have said elsewhere it must be borne in mind that the strings of the anti agitation have all along been pulled in the western province whilst the have played the parts of the instruments used by the leaders of the movement in the cape were for the most part the discontented and element a newspaper of an extremely nature called the and another in known as the lately by the notorious which has an almost equally reputation ths british rule on the of messrs and in they were received with great civility by lord who was however careful to explain to them that the was in this decision they cheerfully assuring his of their determination to do all they could to induce the to accept the new state of things and expressing desire to be allowed to serve under the new government whilst these gentlemen were thus satisfactorily arranging matters with lord sir t was making a tour round the country which resembled a progress more than anything else he was everywhere greeted with enthusiasm by all classes of the community english and natives and numerous addresses were presented to him in the warmest language not only by englishmen but also by it is very difficult to reconcile the enthusiasm of a great number of the inhabitants of the for english rule and the quiet acquiescence of the remainder at this time with the decidedly attitude assumed later on it appears to me however that there are several reasons that go far towards for it the when we it was in the position of a man with a knife at his throat who is suddenly rescued by some one stronger than he on certain conditions which at the time he gladly but afterwards when the danger is passed wishes to in the same way the inhabitants of the south were in the time of need ver thankful for our aid but after a while when the recollection of their difficulties had grown faint when their debts the had been paid and their enemies defeated they began to think that they would like to get rid of us again and start fresh on their own account with a clean sheet what agitation more than anything else however was the perfect with which it was allowed to be carried on had only a little firmness and decision been shown in the first instance there would have been no further trouble we might have been obliged to half a dozen farms and perhaps as many free for a few months and there it would have ended neither or natives understand our way of playing at government they put it down to fear what they want and what they expect is to be with a just but a firm hand thus when the found that they could with they naturally enough continued to anybody who knows them will understand that it was very pleasant to them to find themselves in possession of that delightful thing a grievance and instead of stopping quietly at home on their farms to feel obliged to proceed full of 