The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-01 00:00:00

DR. COLENSO'S rr.orrcEs.

Colonel Alexander has a word to say on behalf of the
Zulus- the race bleb had the honour of pindocing that
keen-witted individual who brought about sueli a revolu-
tion in Bishop C.denso's theology. The Zulus of Natal,
says the Colonel, are a standing disproof of the theory that
coloured races are dying out before the advancing civilisation
of the white man. " The Zulus have increased immensely,
not by immigration merely from neighbouring regions, but in
the natural order of things, when the ground is cultivated
in peace, when war is unknown, and ardent spirits do not
demoralise the people and induce vice in many. shapes."
When Natal was first made a colony they numbered but
10,000 men ; now they are hundreds of thousands. They
devote themselves to agriculture, and have forgotten all
about war. Hundreds of acres are now waving with native
cultivation. In fact, they do so much work for them-
selves that coolies have been brought into the colony to
labour for the whites. They drink nothing stronger than
beer made from maize and milk. Colonel Alexander
believes that the Maories also are an example of a
native race flourishing in the midst of civilisation.
Setting aside the party now engaged in rebellion,
the Colonel can point to large tracts of land under
Maori cultivation, Maori schooners waiting to receive the
produce, and flour mills owned by Maori proprietors, who
had hired Europeans to put them np. We must not
accept too has'aily the theory that all races except the
white are doomed to vanish from the face of the earth.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Mrs. Bloomer's husband
is the Republican candidate for Mayor of Council Bluffs.
It appears be is always known as belonging to his wife.—
Colonel Douglas, one of the President's private secretaries,
has taken the place of General Dent at the White House
in charge of the reception-room.—Assistant Secretary of
State J. Bancroft Davis is suffering from a severe attack
of orysipelas.—Mr. A. M. Clapp has entered upon his
duties as Public Printer at Washington.— Horatio Seymour
has recovered from the injuries sustained from the recent
railway accident near Chicago.—Horace Greeley says that
the darkest day in any man's earthly career is that wherein
lie fancies that there is some easier way of gaining a dollar
than by squarely earning it.— William Lloyd Garrison
announces himself in favour of "free trade."—Miss Do-

rothy Dix is going to California to look after the insane.—
General Wheeler announces that he intends hereafter to
devote his energy to agriculture.—Major Chas. 0. Rogers,
proprietor of the Boston Journal, has just died. He had
recently returned from California, whither he went in un-
availing search for renewed health.—Rev. Dr. B. F. Tefft,
of Bangor, Maine, has been elected a member of
the Royal Society of Arts of London, England.—
Miss Kellogg, the prima donna, was born in Sumter,
S.C., of New England parents, in 1842, but she looks
much younger.—Robert Bonner and Henry Ward Beecher,
driving behind "Dexter," wore prominent in Brooklyn on
Tuesday, April 13. The Spirit says the horse should be put
first—The suicide of Captain William Wilcox, of North
Stonington,Connecticut,the well-known commander on the
Norwich line of steamers, was inspired by the recent self-
murder of his friend, Col. Lester, of Norwich.— Among
the Cincinnati (Ohio) iecome returns for isris are
those of the N. Longworth estate, $98,107; M. Hal-
stead, proprietor of the Commercial, 835,693 ; C. W. -
St.trbuck, proprietor of the Times, $21,585; Representa-
tive P. W. Strader, $10,165; and Rev. A. D. Mayo, $2,685.
Messrs. Thurlow Weed and John E. Devlin arrived from
Charleston, April 15, in the steamer Charleston.—Mr. A.
C. Wilson, European Agent of the New York Associated
Press, is recovering from the severe illness which has
incapacitated him for duty during some weeks.—
A banquet to Gen. Schofield was to take place at the South-
ern Hotel, St.. Louis, on Saturday, April 17. It was ex-
pected that Generals Sheridan, Custar, and other distin-
guished military men would he present.--General S t'ste ,
C. 8., of the British Army in Canada, accompanied by
NCaptaino r Fryer
s been sent to Nashville from
The Hon. W. B. Stokes la • lars
r-yAeprr ;117:1, Mr. Bare,
Isator;piAnigdaets-tdhee-Ecavienriettal-rlroi uesde. —in
Washingt n, to speak in opposition to ex-Pres:dant
Andrew Johnson.—Mr. 11. S. Evans, editor and proprietor,
for 31 years, of The Pilloge Record, arrived iu the City of
Brooklyn.
Mr. M. Gibbs, whose acceptance of the Consulate-
Generalship at Paris hai been announced in some of the
AMerican newspapers, has wittdratt n his cond:tional ac-
'teptance the position, and remains as the European
agent of the Treasury Department., a position ho has filled
for newly ten years. The importance of the interests in
his charge rendered his retirement impossible.
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