The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-08-12 00:00:00

THZ ZULU WAS.

(GENERAL SIR G. J. wouinzy TO THE
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WA.R).
cem, Lomat UItILLTOOIII Dam, July IL
Yesterday I hold estideentory Interview with the pd..
PaiplaMi for se Chlef.
a settlement of country. They expreased the Coast Dl*lct, Informing th gelwralli
faction, but all consider quiet is imPowebla while Ceteseraayo
Ii at large. They are perplemd by the hasty retiring from
Ulundi, and Sir Henry Buiwer reports the same effect
produced upon Natal izatases ; consequently, consider it
neatseary to return to Ulundi and occupy with troop.,
our-elf proceeding there I have sent raemengers to all
chiefs to meet me there about loth neat month to nettle
country. Force under Baker Russell operatea in direction
of Black Umvolosi River, from iota nkawi, lending hand
to °ham, who operates further north, waisted by some
burghers, and, under Colonel Villiers, Swazis will crom
Pongdo River further north, accompanied by Macleod,
Political Agent. I consider we have more troops than
necielmry now ; am therefore arranging to break up First
Division and Conk, Brigade esewung home Generals
°restock and Marshall an staff. Send home 113th, and
144th, and 17th Lamers (dismounted), Ellersby's battery
to St. Helena. Tree:date's, rapetown, disbanding numer-
ate. Oolonial corps. Natal Brigade embarks to-day.
Lord Chelmdord, haring_ resigned, returns bonne with
personal daft Genera Wood and Colonel Buller go horse
for red; much needed by both. All superfluous staff and
special service officers will return home. Prostecta of
'moody. peace and satisfactory settlement of country is, in
my opinion, good.
(I nom

THE HON. H. CLIFFORD.)
July a
Since battle of Ulundi, little news exec*
_retrograde
movement of and Division and Firing Column- and
maitre to occupy Ulundi until peace is finally settled.
Fort Evelyn occupied; seven weeks' supplies -14 wants-
nes, six weeks, by two companies filth, with two
Ilpounders, 100 mounted men. and Division, reached
Upoko Valley on 15th July, has three weeks' provision
with It 83 more waggons recovered by Black from
Isandhlwea. Sir Garnet and Lord Chelmsford met at
St. Paul's lath. Rowlands, /Nth and nth, with oonvoy,
reached Umealaii, north of Mows, slime day ; will unload
waggons there. Convoy from Landman's -Drift to Fort
Marshall, 50 miles. Roes and three sisters, Stafford Howe,
arrived Pietermaritzburg 161.1, en route Ladysmith, to
tend Ulundi wounded on arrival. Sir Garnet returned
Unalatoon, 1715. Country around find Division quiet.
Secukuni attacked two waggons belonging to trader' on
road Pilgrim's Rest. 100 miles telegraph wire sent to Fort
Durnford to open up Ulundi. Mrs. Deeble, six sisters
Notion, arrived Durban. Rowlands ordered to Fort Dan-
ford ; takes over command from I:restock. Cavalry
Brigade broken up. Zulu Carrier Corps to work between
Fort and St Paul's Mounted Volunteers in
Natal to return home. South American mules landed,
in:t used for pack envies Marines to return to England
ln.d
at once in Jame., Carey, 1101 b, on board tar
decided to noociqlundi tin fully established,
while preening on all Ulundi Column,
under Clarke, , to consist of 67th, nth,
Barrow's Mounted Infantry, two troops Lonsdale's
Horse, two iron. Native Hone Barton'. Native
Battalion will start as soon se possible by St Paul's,
picking up 80th and Getting' there and two guns at
ICaraingwas. Plot go to Port Durnford, Convoy 100
wagons to be pushed from Newdigate's division to meet
Clarke at Empton Jameal by 12th August When Clarke
starts, lint division will be broken up, and Rowlands in
command of troops on coast line under Clifford Them to
be gradually withdrawn, concentrating at Pinetoirn or
sent home, ultimately leaving one regiment here. Coast
line of forts to be given up, except Tugela forth Small
moveable column to be formed, one regiment, one
squadron, one battery, 2911 mounted infantry, Cabmen and
native troops to base of Conference Hill, and operate
towards upper waters of White and Black Umvoloosi,
then second division to be broken up and troops put on
line of poets under brigadier, under Clifford. Oham and
burgher force to operate from Luneberg and Transvaal,
than from Derby towards Ngome forest, Sir Garnet
expects to be at Ulundi 15th August to meet chiefs,
embark forthwith let Battalion 24th, "the
Z's,'olled to
linth. perhaps Rath, Ist Battalion 13th, 17th
Lancers, without horses, two batteries Artillery, and
some Mai& horses. &Wink remounta to be leaded at
Cepetown and sold. Mule transport very effective;
working in Nections and stages. Lord Chelmsford and
personal staff arrived at Pietermaritzburg 1.15 ; leave for
England next week. Chiefs along border still suSmitt-
big. Landing at Port Durnford continues satisfactory in
line weather. Sick convoy arrived at Landeman's Drift.
Inn Regiment, 4 sick, 7 wounded. Officers: Jenkins,
17th Lancers, bad, not dangerously; Pardee, Ist battalion
1315 Regiment, died, hemorrhage, after amputation of
thigh. Sir Garnet expected at Pietermsaiurg this
evening. Officers going home shortly :—Lord Chelmsford,
Marshall, Wood, General I:restock, Colonel Crealock,
Down, Downey, Colonel Buller, Captain Bober,
Molina= , Frets, Greaten, Beresford, Reilly, also
severs' nodal correspondents.

WILL THE ZULU WAR CEASE?
The most significant fact of the week has been
Isuegritioriabteen ollyht,hefusiLr74,er of.Dabulan,anti who,
into
Fort dbel,os.
ford on Friday, the 11th July, and was thence sent to
Sir Garnet Wohieley at Port Durnford. Much has
been heard during the past two months of this
renowned warrior, and time after time reports have
arrived to the effect that he was about to come in.
Yet, according to all accounts, he commanded with
Hirayo at Ulundi, and under the withering fire of the
Martini-Henry directed the operations of his men,
with a gallantry which extracted the admiration of our
own commanders and critics. His now voluntarily
giving himself up cannot be regarded ail other than an
event of importance, although much of that importance
is lost when the meagre retinue by whom he was
I attended is borne in mind. The charm of Dabula-
mantis name ought to have brought thousands of fight-
ing men in his train, and we wait with anxiety to see
whether the soldiers who till recently followed him as
their leader are to come in when assured of the
same good treatment as he will receive at our hands,
or whether they will elect to follow through weal
and woe the fortunes of their King. It would there-
fore be premature to argue that the war is virtually
over until the attitude of the Zulus in the upland
districts is known, and the Indiums of these regions I
have shown their hands. It is just as likely as not
that the failure of the King's efforts, which are
universally admitted now to have been sincere, to
obtain a preliminary hearing, combined with the burn-
ing of the kraals, and over-hasty retreat after laying
their capital in ashes, may exasperate the Zulus, and
drive them to fight it out to the end. Trustworthy
advice up to within a few days of the last fight went
to show that the Zulus dill stuck to their King, and
that their fidelity to him, so long as they were con-
vinced that he had done no wrong, and was the injured
party, remained unshaken. Though a price be put on
Cetewayo's head, it can scarcely be expected that
efforts In that direction will be crowned with any
better somata than that which attended the unceasing
attempts to cmiture Krell, who, protected IT his
(waive, starving Galekas, defied all his pursuers, and
is still reported to be living in the f:.resits of his native
land. If Cetewayo has made up his mind to a pro-
longed and desperate resistance, the first elel, Inwards
this will be the subnussion of a great portion of the
tribe, who will henceforward act as commissariat,
banks of deposit, and places of rest for the more
adventurous spirits of the tribe who follow the war
path. This is an old dodge, Ad old as the find Kaffir
war.

THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.
Bt IN 17,011•1111. Thursday night.
A public meeting in connection with the Farmers'
Alliance was held this evening at the Birmingham
Exchange. The Mayor (Alderman Collings) presided, and
there was a large attendance, including many fanners.
In a letter excusing his non-attendance, Mr. John Bright,
IC P., stated that he was unable to take up any new work.
The right hon. gentleman thought new In= thOald
undertake it, and wished the alliance meows in the greet
work before it Mr. Mita', Ml'. In a letter said the
fanners had the power in their own hand,. Al the next
election they should pniose men pledged to carry out
their views. They could do so if they were determined,
and they would then take that position in the country to
which they were entitled So long as they were content
with grumbling they would make (Haar_
hear.) The Chairman explained that the had
been called under the auspices of the Farmers'
an emaciation that was founded In April with the
object of securing various Worms In the laad laws.
The alliance beheaded to hold meetings in all the principal
market towns of England to ask for support,
not only from the farmers, but from every one
Interested in agricultural reform. He was glad the
alliance had chosen • large town like Birmingham to
hold its first provincial meeting at, and he could assure the
members of dgrest welcome For generations past there
had been • traditional feeling of opposition, and he might
almost say antagonism, between the farmers and the
towns. • strong Prejudice still existed, and suck • state of
thi.ngs, he contended, was Injurious all round to all parties.
Farmers had not been 110 politically independent as they
ought to have been, having regard to their own interests ;
but, on the contrary, had been almost entirely under the
belloence of the landowners, whose action was seen in the
laws they had been able to make and inaintel, The
interests of the farmers were the interests of the pleb
in the towns, and from the present representative magi
1= he augured • better state of things for the farmers.
(Mears )—Mr. JUDO, Howard, chairman of the alliance,
said the main object it had in view was to improve tha
production of the ail, and the study of the meant 'I
ecoomplishing that end. They did not say, as had_ b,Asi
etsted,Nhat taxmen could under more favourable conditions
double the produce of the land of this country, but imp Wy
said that with snore favourable lain and wider leglalaia.,
they could Maws the prodooe of the land to one third' more than It was at present IvAotiloause.) —B
Alexander M'Neil Curd,of i Genoch, whire. aho
addressed the meeting, and on the a of Mr. a.
Berkman, seconded by Mr. E. Striven.
Leamington, • resolution was reoummending
farmers and others interested In adopted
to Join the
alliance and endeavour to increase inflememie.

THK " Celestial" prdsa bee, by past Ad.,_ send Bin of
head; Ladies, gentlemen, and c&ldrm. Dial It Co.,
Importers, Brighton.
Bumps or is Aviviosa.—At the Rouse of Correction
Coldbath.ftelds, on Thursday aftwooon. Dr. Hardwicks,
coroner for Central 'Biddle...v, held an Inquest on the
body of Henry William Pao., who committal suicide by
bilaself with his braces in his cell at that prison
tiani&day last. The demand ems undergoing
of Wiliam mouths' bard labourffiessed upon Om for the
mousinulthier of • man named Cele, who had seduced kb
dinkier. The jury returned • verdict that the dammed
committed suicide whilst of unsound mind.
FOOD ADOLTILATION.—Dr. Trips, pulite analyst
of the Hackney district, reports, "that alt the sample.
he examined, except one, were sold as mixtures of
mom, arrowroot, and sugar, _ the exception being
Cadbury's Cocoa EalliOqi5 which was gamin.. The
quantity
iod stack It NW other samples varied between
and psi cant, so that allowing for sugar, WHO
was not in scone of them more than leant. of

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bum : rts Piaci t oxrrarerio•.—Wa very such
doubt whether iron will permanently take the place,
In great constructions of the future which it is aesurned
that it will by many people. Sven practically. it mast
not be forgotten that it an artilksil =tonal. net •
natural one, not long tried (comparatively sproking,)
subject to maay kinds of decay often very treacherous
In their cgatation, and ameedingly affseted by weather
and Wmperature With all those practical drawbacks.
is it certain that it will so long hold out against the
disenchanting effect of the almost unrivalled ugliness
of meet of its exastractioeubl forms 7 On this latter point
the,, can be no two opinions as to the deleterious effect
with which it has operated upon modern architecture.
Let any one atand on Southwark Bridge and look one
way at the noble chalk simplicity o, Le lonßrit
wills its granite arches 100, ea if,
stability of the foundationa,—they might e—graeram.st
for ever; sad that the other way to the fillackfriare
structure with its sham Iron arches earl Gothic pillars
rerisibtesi§labiron liacwrTiant"taZiwatablicucip to modem eoustraotiovaoll.. if any adv=ge
oseneeny ed awe it MA.I can
fairly the alethetie hideousness for which
the stem sad the etwallewitt•—