New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-21
THE ZULUS UNGONQUERED.
NO PEACE WHILE THE KING is TLARGE

all the principal chiefs of the coast district consider
quiet impossible while Cetywayo is at large. Sir
Garnet attaches much weight to their opinion
that ne considers 1t necessary to return to UluDd
occupy that place with troops. and proceed
there himself. And simultaneously with this
he Is straining every nerve and employing
all means to lay hands on the redoubtable Zulu
King. 1t really looks as If Forbes had formed
sounder judgment on the victory of Ulund than
the great Sir Garnet himself. Yet how can any
man OF a well-regulated mind be willing to suppose
that mere newspaper correspondent was right
where Her Majesty's High Commissioner and Com
mandern-Chief was wrong The perplexity IS
hardly less when you reflect that the High Com
missioner confesses, though in grudging way, his
| own mistake
But testimony accumulates from all quarters, in
Guiding the most unexpected. l have fallen into
the habit of quoting Forbes partly because Forbes
has habit Of proving himself right even when he
contradIcts great military authorities. He is good
to quote also, because he straight to the mark
he has gift of distinguishing between the essen
tial and the accidental, of selling the kernel and
throwing the shell away To-day he says,
Obviously. Cetyway is still King of the Zuus and has
large following OF fighting men with him. The details
oi the regiments present IN the last engagement prove
THIS III he holds out, the trouble and expenditure VIII
continue II useless to think OF putting up puppets
for an Indefinite period aud the British bayonet means
British taxation wasted futlty. Cetywayo alone
sway Zuusnd aud no peace Is worth having unless he
| be dead or cOnsenting.
The gist of the situation is in that last sentence
| Sir Garnet himself has found it out. If he took a
fortnight longer about than Forbes did, that may
be account of the home instructions which
obscured his vision Left to himself, Sir Garnet is
| a Quck-sighted man.
With Sir Garnet and Forbes in substantial agree
| A.
call other witnesses. But the evidence of some of
| tine others is none the less interesting and
curious. and it goes further than Sir Garnet,
having always in view the home author
tiles, thinks it desirable to go. For Sir Garnet,
albeit convinced and confossing that the headlong
retreat from Uluudi was an error, and that Getty
wayo has yet TO be reckOned with, is still per-
shaded that he has too many troops and too
many generals. He is breaking up divisions and
hriRades, sending home CrealOck (whO is fallurel
| Marshall their stats, battaons of infantry and
cavalry. batteries aud naval brigade, and disband-
| ing colonial corps 1t is hardly too much to affirm
that this action, however necessary for political
| purposes in England, has produced panic in South
Africa. Says The Standard correspondent at Maritz-
burgi Public opinion runs very high against the
| course which Sir Garnet WOlseley is taking.p The
correspondent of the same paper at Durham declares
that in the opinion Of the Coloniss, Sir Garnet is
"endangering the whole result Of 1.-THE war by hrs
hasty acton.D The same writer points out that
" Cetywayo might have been captured or forced to
| cross the Northern frontier had we not marched
one way quite as fast as he marched the other after
Ulundi." lie adds: As ii Is. it IS probable that he
will give immense trouble before he is captured
or forced to treat" This writer has no confidence
IN the scheme of capturing Cetywayo by help of
the faithless Oham and the Swazies. Should
Cetywayo. as is extremely likely, defeat Cham and
tine Swazies, it would outbalance the results of
Ulundi, and we should have all our work, except
along The coast to do over again." Nor Is he con-
go ed By tho calling of a council of war at which
Chelmsford, Wood, and Butler were to be present.
He alleges that absolute divergence of opinion ex-
ISIS among the military leaders, and that "the
council viii be little more than matter of form,
rs il has been evident from the moment he landed
that Sir Garnet Wolseley was resolved to carry out
his own plans without any reference whatever to
the opinions Of Others"
Here, perhaps, is the explanation of what seems
the most puzzliug feature of the dispatches the re-
turn of General Sir Evelyn Wood and Colonel Bull
Ter. These two officers have been the soul of the
whole campaign. While Lord Chelmsford was
getting himself surprised at Isandula, General
Wood was gAting brilliantly for his own hand with
detached
him. Colonel Butler is the officer who after much
other energetic and useful work. chose the ground
ON which the battle of Ulundi was fought.
They are the two men in whom everybody-colo-
nists soldiers. generals newspaper correspondents
and the British public at home-had confidence. Sir
Garnet tells us. in his peremptory way: General
Wood and Colonel Butler go home for rest, much
needed by BOTH Not word of recognition or
compliment for either. Says the leading Tory
Journal N its editorial comments:
We canno, accept ns a sufficient excuse the reason
given for their retirement General Wood ana colonel
Butler not so homesicx or urea OF duy tnst my
slightest possibility OF theft services BENG requlteu
What is more likely the OF General Wood, Is mat
"a Sir Garnet Woseoy is sending back the greater por-
ton Of forces and breaking the remainder up INTO
assist I'm carving out plan OF operations OF when he
cannot altogether approve
All this testimony and all these observations
MONT plainly TO one conclusion. That Sir Garnet is
acting under orders which force him 70 press for
noarp at any price. 1t must be admitted, however,
,f both the journals from which L nave Deeh
oaating are open to the suspicion OF independence
tho Tory almost as much as the Liberal. So let us
fall back on a third, which hitherto mas SHOWN
praiseworthy editorial readiness to swear that
block "a white or white black, according
m the varying requirements of the masters
whom il has lately found 1t profitable to
serve-The Daily telegraph Our friend Dr.
w H. Russell is i'm the service Of this journal-a sad
ching to hammer TO a mar of DR.. Russelfs we'll
sorned distinction. at the close of an honorable
career. DIR. RUSSELL too, has seen much of war; and
this is his estimate Of the situation Il cannot say
that the war is over 1t now looks as II military
occupation would be compulsory"
You remember that thei Colonial Secretary sir
Michael Hicks-Beach not long since assured con-
edino House Of Commons that nothing like annex
alton of any part of zuuland was intended by the
Government. 1t will remain for that worthy man
n explain presently the exact difference between