The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

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Cliika, 411(1 then cif Diorikn,
:lo sooner liad.our ride been eat a16:..-:,:, —I. •,e
,C1:1-Fres beEtin to flock back tout-1.0:o the iy_acc -,.(1
protection which the f_itrotz :land of
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t!E: i e p-9141,y1 t:oci. glad to exc Itatrge• t lie .ty ran i, i,....:, .. 4
crept leicus rule -ortheil.' riati:c4icfile'r'' for 0.. i: , , .r
kq• do rilizt-i-on-ef-t he---?.-ht tal Co N-,.= r!Tri; Z., : . 1• is
migration into our tat titoi.v siiit ;:olez-;-en,ifiD4 .\ ' I
may itung Tile its extent
ether,l f,_-11 y ou that;,. Lel t.ts
20 years ago the Oath-e:; or. .N.ltal aJig•:4 ilfryc Litc it
counted by bundt'eds, ,(J dearly - iit:tti-1 Ito .(n-igind io-
habitants been extirpated by i%-;ar and mass-ler.,,
their present num bers.are estimatttlitt froth .136!::,0
to 150,000.

Now, it rarely happens that a Zaln refueee conies
across absolutely empty-handed:l'f,-; briege eat ti„.
or his wiees and daughters, and among Culfres one
woman is equal to at least ten covvs. Not nnfre-
quentiy, women come over alone, to escape from the,
cruelties and torturc s which are sometimes practised
to force them into distasteful marriages. Naturally.
Ketchwayo, the probable future bead, of the Zu'a
nation, views all this with no very ipleasant feeling.
Every bit of properlyethat comes-over to Natal is'
So much lost to him, because as supreme chief, ,he is
absolute over the life, person, and property of evcry
individual.
Ketchwayo, therefore, may have meditated an ine
vasion of British territory, not so much to attack, t,
British settlers as to wreak his vengeance on the a
refugee Caffres who are living on the borders of the !,
Tugela. Ketchwayo, by all accounts, is a blood.-
thirsty miscreant, but there is no need to paint the
Devil blacker than he ise_ And I think mueletelour
4 given to the supposition of his attack being di-
rected against Caffres rather than white men by the
fact that along the Tugela than- are hardly any of
the latter, the district being on of the leeationfeeet
apart for exclusive Caffre occupation. This at least
is certain—that during all -the excitement on our
side of the Tugela none of the English missionaries,
traders, or sportsmen in the Zulu country suffered
the slightest molestation.
Mr. I3lencowe, a 'Wesleyan missionary, who wag
actually residing at Ketchwayo's kraal during the
time our men were marching to the front, reports
that not the slightest stir was observable among the
Ketchwayo's followers, and that he had about him
only his ordinary retainers. Of course, it is quite
possible, and perhaps probable, that this might be
merely the 2' use of a wily savage anxious to throw
dust in the eyes of a gentlemen whose profession
must naturally incline him to impute good rather
than bad motives to his fellow-men. But I have
also he en informed, by a gentleman who had crossed
the Zulu border on a hunting expedition of few
days before the Governor's proclamation was issued
that all the young men were in the kraals as he
and his friends went up the country, and that tho
Zulus only began to musters for war on the same
day that my informant received news from his
friends of the threatened outbreak, and their re-
quest that he would return at once.
The last mail brought up to Natal the Cape
papers, with the publication of Sir George Grey's
despatches enunciating his policy for the future
Government of Southern Africa. Can these Zulu
savages have possibly heard some vague rumours
of Sir George's annexation views, and have made
preparations for an armed resistance ?
My lettcr is already too long, or I should have
liked to give you my humble opinion about annexa-
tion. It may be presumptuous on my part to differ
from so able and experienced a man as Sir George
Grey, but I can only hope that the Colonial-office
will refuse its sanction to his Excellency's suw;es-
tions, as far, at least, as the Zulu nation is con.

corned. Next month, perhaps, I will tell you the

reason why, if you care to have it.

THE COXING NEWSPAPER MILLE-
NIUX.

(From the London Correspondent of the Liropool Albion.)
Prophets in general, and printing prophets in
particular, who discourse on the coming of the
Millenium, have hitherto prudently eseh:;wed
naming the precise day for the arrival of the illus-
trious and felicitous stranger. But there is no
longer any doubt about it. The unanimous con-
currence of multitudinous oracles of four farthing
omniscience, crying laterally aloud from dead-wall
and aloft from house-top, proclaims the Ist of Octo-
ber to be the happy day, whence is to date the
inauguration of the universal domination of devil.
Blue! No, black ; inky imps henceforth to count
as archangels of light, each the image and likeness
of Milner Gibson, with duty-free foolscap wings,
venial as the top-gallant-royals of the Minister's
yacht, wherein he has just returned from gull-
hunting at the Hebrides, to experience how much
more pleasant it is to be haunted by gulls along
the Strand.

Taking time by the forelock, many of these news-
papers individually advertise the gratuitous donaticu
of gifts, such as maps, pictures, and what not, each
warranted worth a shilling at the least, in order to
induce the purchasers to expend a penny on that
which is pronounced to be already so irresistibly
magnetic that the proprietor is in a paroxysm of
hypochondria in consequence of inability to supply a
fractional portion of the overwhelming demand ;
and it is implied that his friends have to hold him
back by main force lest he precipitate himself under
an avalanche of his own " impression," and be con-
verted into a Jac simile of a pancake, though even
then lie would be a rotund and globose body com-
pared to the flats he purveys for. But there is one
present these enterprising and self-sacrificing per-
sonages should forthwith set up a joint-stock bank
for providing their customers—namely, a few hun-
dred puncheons of Old Parr's grinding-young
pills. A man had need to look forward to the
longevity of Methusalem if he hope to make the
acquaintance of even the names of half the wonder-
ful pennyworths of wit and wisdom now being
thrust upon him. Meadows, acres, pampas of paper
and type for a penny are obtruded at every corner of
every street, from Hampstead to Houndsciitch,
where letters are indeed going to the dogs, and the
learned pig who could read would be no phenome-
non among the hog hating though swinish multi-
tude. The old saying that he who runs may read,
is no longer a current truth. He who would now
read what is set before him must prepare for a
nine-hour movement, or rather a nine hour sit-still •
happy if he can find a place to spread on his broad
sheet, which is large enough to serve as a table cloth
for a monster picnic given by three-and-twenty
paters to four-and-twenty maters familias, and the
little asses respectively, generally disrespectful. Con-
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tuhs
efsoer
tirtosabsence
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ocrogmain) es tiist
party spirit,
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of
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the animus i
advocacy
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The ye solitary
l'ict aakruyisiel ad; , principle,p a a toi tl
lling, grubbing, all-devouring
onee
rest ,
so
or r idni dd v igdruoavle.
appetite of this highly-intellectual age, that of ob-
taining an enormous amount of something for next
to nothing. It matters not that the matter is iosr rub-
bish—that in)
bish —that it would be dear at a penny a ton,
solid or fluid—that it is the colourless rinsings of
washed-out trash—only let it seem or sound cheap,
as compared to something else even one degree less
worthless, and to! forthwith our discriminating
community rush upon the bait, with a Eureka yell,
as if they had carried off the advertised half-dozen
eifel:eonrd's forty-shilling shirts for thirty-nine and
e
Pence halfpenny,pack g-t bread and an extra
wrist-button included. Nor is it only in rags for
the ragged that this sort of thing has taken place.
It is the same with magazines. Nearly evtry
month brings forth a new one, each worse than the
other; yet every other month gives birth to the
announcement of a meditated novel abortion, mon-
strosity of size being'the distinctive feature relied
on for eclipsing its last competitor in the elephan-
tiastis line. This is complimentary to the educa-
tional progress so loudly cackled about, and speaks
volumes, or rather quires or reams, as to what we
are coining to, when even the semblance of words
in the gross is accepted with avidity as the mentri
lt.
capacity for and the exerc,se e
of
pabulum of a people who once prided itself
on
ti
independent
thought.

Loss OF ANOTHER HULL STEAMER.—In teiligefleo
has been received by C. M. Norwool and Co , shipowners,
of Hull, informing them of the loss of their splendid new
\rvt side
ae,
by the bows of the H. L. Irvidt, a steamer of 2
Baltic steamer, the Neva. The Neva, a vessel of 558 tons
register, built in water-tight coMpartments, with four bulk-
heads, left Hull on Wednesday morning last for St. Peters-
burg town, with a valuable gent ral cargo, and proceeded all
half-past
Nlvoao'clock
struck
amidshipsS at urday
on morning,
the p
lieii
-
owffelil‘T untiliddig
e7B tons, be-
longing to the Danish Steam Company, which •
from Konigsberg to Hull with a earn of was bound
was a very fine vessel, was only built thisgrain. The Neva
last was only her fifth voyage. Sh spring, anti her
she was struck, and the crew w e went down soon after
were fortunately
the H. L. lividt, in which they got on Loard
will return to Hull, that
vessel having sustained orilY very slight injuries, The
Neva was insured.

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