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The Zulus knew they were giving away part of their country, and Mr. Grant told them as much, but whether he told them or knew himself what proportion of their country they were giving away is improbable. The Boers certainly at first, and probably to the last, represented the land cession as consisting of the old "Disputed Territory" on the Utrecht border. The amount stated in the grant of 1884 is 1,355,000 morgen, but nobody is certain how much a morgen is. It is between two acres and two acres and a tenth. In one case the grant is 2,710,000 acres; in the other 2,845,000 acres. Nobody knows what is the size of Zululand, and therefore what is the proportion borne by this grant to the whole. Sir H. Bulwer has recently estimated Zululand, outside the Reserve, at 4,400,000 acres (p. 42 of 4587); but this is only a guess made by an Engineer Officer, and the opinion previously prevailing was that it was at least a million acres larger. Add to this that the Zulus have little or no idea of врасе, distance, lapse of time, or number. For example, one of the chiefs who accompanied Cetywayo to this country, on being told that Westminster Abbey had been built 1,000 years, observed that that was probably before any one present was born. Even if the deed was interpreted to them, it is impossible to suppose that they had any idea of how much they were giving away, or that they were not leaving them- selves (as Sir Henry Bulwer now surmises) enough to live on comfortably. By a telegram dated the 26th of December we learn that the Boers have now taken five-sixths of Zululand beyond the Reserve, or about 3,666,665 acres instead of at most 2,845,000, which is a little less than four-sixths.

FUTURE POLICY.

The reasons in favour of intervention, together with the best course to be now adopted, are discussed in Sir Henry Bulwer's Memoranda (Nos. 310, 311 and 312, AFRICAN). It may suffice to say here, that if it is thought necessary to inter- fere, the right to do so is unquestionable. It was a term in the conditions imposed on every one of the thirteen chiefs appointed after the Zulu war that he was not to "sell, or in any way alienate or permit or countenance any sale

or alienation of any part of the land in" his territory; and the same stipula- tion was agreed to by Cetywayo as one of the terms of his restoration (p. 114 of C-3466), as well as one providing that the succession to the Zulu throne after his death should be subject to the approval of the British Government. British Government has neither assented nor objected to the succession of Dinuzulu; but even if his succession be acknowledged, it is obvious that his rights are subject to a treaty disability to alienate his land, which the British Government may or may not insist on, as it sees fit, against third parties having notice of the disability.

The

By a telegram of the 4th of January 1886, the New Republic has been warned that Her

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