New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-04
REJOICING IN ENGLAND.

THE NEWS or THH BRITISH VICTORY AT ULUNDI
RECEIVED WITH GREAT SATISFACTION IN PAR
LAMENT AND BY THE LONDON PREss-sIR
BARIIE FRERE FIRST INFORMED OF THE BATTLE
BY MIR. FoBBEs-rHE VICTORY PROBABLY NOT
DECISIVE.
fFRoN THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE. !
LONDON, July 24.-There Is a fly in the ointment
of satisfaction with which Tory faces were smeared
and shining yesterday. The first news of the vic
tory at Ulundi came from Liberal. Sir Bartle
Freres dispatch was the earliest that to hand,
and Sir Bartle with candor that does him honor,
plalnly s. ted that it was Mr.. Archibald Forbes
who had cought the account which the High Com
missioisJE. dispatched to his Government. AS The
Daily Neles, with justifable pride, remarksi Not
for the first time, the courage and energy Of
our correspondent in Zululand, Mr. Archi-
bald Forbes, have relieved the anxiety
of governments and nations" Mr.. Forbess
latest exploit Is an honor. not only to tho great
Liberal journal with which he is connected, but to
Journalism in general would say, with the per-
mission of The Nation, to journalism profession.
When Mr.. Forbes brought tidlngs of the decisive
repulse of the Turkish attack on Shpka Pass and.
outstripping SIX aidesde-camp of the Gar told his
story of Russian victory to the Russian Emperor,
he surpassed all previous performances. | doubt
whether he has not now surpassed himself He
As soon as it was ended-as soon as he
saw the Zulu attack broken and their
forces breaking in pieces over the country, he
set out to carry the news. The nearest telegraph
station was eighty miles away, and could only be
reached by a lonely ride through country swarm
ing with hostile sayages, where every ravlne-and
the ravines arc countless-might hide an ambush.
With his dispatch in his head and his life in his
hand he rode those eighty miles. He arrived at
Landmarks Drift, and thence teegraphed the sole
narrative of the battle first to Sir Garnet
Wolseley, then TO Sir Bartlo Frere. The
full spleudor of this achievement hardly comes
out as it deserves in the published ac-
counts Forbes covered his eighty miles over
difficult country in fifteen hours. 1t was on the 9TH
Of July at night that his dispatches reached the two
High Commissioners. Three days later, on the Sth
they were still the only source of information at
Cape Town. Writing home OIL that day Sir Bartle
Frere SAYS: 81 have received from Sir Garnet
Wolseley as yet only copy of ForbeSs telegram
which had reached me previously The leisurey
communications from Lord Chelmsford and from
the correspondents of other journals appear to have
reached Cape Town just in time to be forwarded by
the steamer General ClilorPs telegram 1t is true,
is dated July 6, and embodles Lord ChelmsfoFds
official report, but there is nothing to show that
Sir Bartle Frere know of it on the morning Of July
= or that 1t did in fact reach Cape Town
till sometime during that day. If that steamer
had sailed a few hours earlier, Mr. Forbess telegram,
% which Sir Bartle Frerc had then been throe days
in possession would apparently have been the only
Telegram, the only means by which the battle OF
ITundi would have been known IN this country. 1t
WAS in fact the account which was read out Dy oir
Michael Hicks Beach to the House OF Commons yes
terday afternoon. some hours before anything else
came to hand by the same steamer, which touched
at St Vincent whence the kilograms came on me
Times and Standard of this morning punhsh their
own accounts. Tie Daily Telegraph has moth
ing but the official dispatches relating to the BATTLE
II would be too much to expect of journalistic
bnmsn nature that Mr. Forbess rivals should re-
ioice IN his UNPARALLELED triumph But the editor
vbo parbles Sir Bartle Freres dispatch in order to
su,nress his acknowledgment to Mr.. Forbes must
surely ON due reflection be ashamed of his Jealousy
Lord Chelmsford and SirGarnet Woseey agreein
traatng this victory as decisive. Sir Garnet teie-
graphs the War Office TO stop supplies and to
know in what order regiments should be
sent home Mr. Forbes, on the other hand,
savs, "The success of the day Is unquestion-
able Its bearing on the conclusion OF peace
Is not clear In the double eahon oil seeing the
Zulus beaten and beating all his nyals' forDesS
head continues level He has seen more OF war
.b,, anv of the commanders, and he plainly
doubts whether in a purely military sense tno
overthrow Of the Zuus Is complete. In LONDON
peoplo arc too much intoxicated with this large
dose of glory to question IT. Nobody seems 10 re-
member the GinghOyo business, When Loru
Chelmsford proclaimed proudly that he had beaten
off an attack by 10000 Zulus. number which sub
sequent and more accurate accounts reduced TO
600 or less-less in fact than the force of English
which repelled the attack. 1t is an ungraeious
office to DO croaking whom everybody Is CRYING no
sanna Still, 1t does strike one as odd that ono OF