The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-05-06 00:00:00

THE ZULU WAR.

DIIS Dune M Captain Campbell and Mx. Lloyd. A
sleighs Zulu behind • rock was taking shots at Colonel
Wood and hia escort, who, when ordered to ride up and
dislodge him, refused. Upon this Captain Campbell rode
towards the man and WM shot throu,th the head. Wood
t_ti2inalloped up, when the Zulu fired, and the ball
under Wood's atm, tearing his cost and killing
passed
who was immediately Ischiud him. Sad a. the Isis
of two promising officers is, it is fortunate indeed that •
chance shot bad not deprived us of the Inuit active, if not
the only active divisional commander in the whale force
now in the field. and it is difficult at the present time to
estimate the low which would have occurred had that
stray Zalu been only • little better marksman.
Tag Zutit Lomat —At the most mob-rate computation,
sines' the beginning of the war they must have lost
between three and four thousand men, or double our own
loss ; aad three or four thousand deluded from • total
male population of sixty thousand must leave • terrible
gap' whae MO may be .ure that it was not the weaklings
or the cowards who fell dead • fee, yards from our shelter
trenches, or who were bayonetted at Rarks's Drift and
Iseadula. It cannot be others its than that the spirit
even of • foe so courageous and so peraistent must be in
no mutatl degree broken, and the probability is that the
campaign will enter n a new phase. Either the Over-
turn for peace, which have be.-12 hit orto regarded as
attompte to gain time and information, will became real,
sad a submission more or leas unqualified will be mad*
by Getaway° ; or the Zulu army will confine itself to
partisan warfare and to attacks be overwhelming bodies
upon weak and isolated parties. A:mind such • mode of
warfare the only defence IA ineseunt mounted
but theme will have to be well supportsi, while reaular
military operations in force against on enemy who, in
masses of twenty thousand, can march tbr. a miles to our
mak and entirely dispense with any impedimenta, will be
difficult if not impartible. Ills to be fthred that it must
be added to this difficulty a just and eer,ral want of
confidence in the General in command'
By the mail steamer German, which has arrived here,
no detalis are yet at hand concerning the ilitheter at
Zlohane Mountain. It is generally witin si-d that the
affair WU the resift of over-daring cauied by previous
bold and successful raids. Weathorlay wan let
aMal cutting down Zulus, while with his let band be held
his son, • lad of fourteen. The dean of P.et Uys is
regarded as • national calamity. He ha I rep area invala-
•ble service to Colonels Wool, and his adt.ca was justly
considered of the highest importance.
The Zeeland and Spain arrived at Ibirhan on the II It.
and the Dragoons safely disembarked. C ileuels Wool
and Pearson are appointed Brieadier Generale, and have
been insetted to commands. The advaure will take place
In three columns to Tune's.
Natal of the 14th mitten • letter 0 tt ing that taro
wlpes are at the King's Kraal. Ali the prisoners
deserlbe the defeat as a great one, but eara that the
young men will meet and fight again. One of the Zalu
speaks English perfectly, and coy. that he
ilisatractlany new three white prisoners, who ha fancied were
officer's in the King's kraal.
A repulse of our troops in Basutoland ie reported, and
with, it Is feared, • Ines of 24 on our at-I The Cop.
Mounted Rifies and Yeomanry are said to have behaved
vldly. The bodies of the British troops alsurhterel
r.addols stall remain unburied. Active preparations
ar• being made for the advance.
On April 8 the Colonial forces made an unsucceasful
attempt to carry by storm the stronchold af Moirosi, the
Demuth chief who recently took up a boatiln attitude to-
wards the Bntish. Reed, of the Yeomanry, and Brane,
or thecae* Mounted Ride*, and them,, of the late chiiif
kgesgeb, were killed, and Captain Surcoon suadtwentyde
men wounded in the assault.
Bit Bartierreee is repotted to have met with an cacellent
reception at restart& on April 10, haricot hid a satis-
factory interview with the Boers.

OOME PALLCZ 0011IPANY.
To the Editor of the Soho (abbreviated}

the matter of the National Coffee Palace Com-
pany (Limited). now before the public, touting for a
capital of ciasopo. before the public subwribe for a share
(otitis company, let them carefully peruse the prospectus,
mad they win discover on the face of it enough to induce
them to hesitate.
Liu.d Derby writes, under date April CI h :—" I have
not, given my consent to the use of my name ill connection
with the National Coffee Palace Coaapthy. Application
was made to me with that view. I any, • r d expressing
approval of the object, but pointing out that capitalists
could not be expected to invest without knowing in whose
hands their money was to be placed: to the best of any
recollection. no founders or director,' names were
...wined, only that of the person calling himself the
'' Hon. Secretary.'
81r Charles Dilke writes, under date April S:9:11:
" A few days ago I received • letter aid: iiis ens to be
mum& at, I think, the opening of a new c palace at
Hammersmith, or at a meeting to be held d i trial district
with a view of ,getting up a coffee pal tee micro; at the
astne Lime One of the company's prospectuses was enclosed.
I replied, expthining that i was already engaged on
the day named, and therefore could not attend
I was surprised to Ms My name on the prelim:Um ; at
the PIM time I could not risibly, amid the
Oi corresponeenes I r..ctive an! answer, be
sure aa to villa !alters may have ',eased bre ween the
promoters of the Comtany and sops-If, perhaps so long
age sea yam or two back, sot asked ma my Wier if they
woad be good enough to let me know what authority
they poseemed for placing my nuns n tby i.nymecloa.
This happened some days DO. but I have net received any
me& scothiod," for the Duke of Westruituter,
under date Inth of April :—"To the questions naked I.
your latter of yesterday, in the matter of tho
Coffee Palace Company, with a capital of L'ithnusik.am
directed by the Dake of Wwitminster to an.wer "
I am, HY, yours obediently, I. M. GADD.
Palmerston-buildingn Old brood•atrect, London,
April ilk