THE CAPE. LATER NEWS FROM NATAL.

Evening Post, Issue 253, 29 November 1865, Page 2

THE CAPE. LATER NEWS FROM NATAL.

The New Zealand Herald gives from the Port Elizabeth Telegraph, of the 29th of August, the following news from Natal, ten I da; s later than yet received in Auckland :—: — The recent Basulo inroad into Natal, it seems, will not be lightly passed over. The matter has been under discussion in the Legislative Council, and the Mercury says " biting and bitter words were freely bandied from side to side. Invective, strongly tinctured with personality, was lavishly dealt out The evening began ominously with a pungent debate on Basuto affairs. Honorable members spoke out in unmeasured terms regarding the duiy of our government, and the evils of the High Commissionership at this juncture. We are glad that the expo- J nents ot the popular voicu luive made themselves heard, so powerfully mid so fearlessly, in connection wiih our frontier relations. One and all boldly declared that the colony was prepared and desired to avenge its own wrongs, and to punish the Basuio intruders, if need be, without further Imperial aid, if the government would but act. The High Commissioner came in for the severest censure, and the absurdity, -the anomaly, and the danger of having all our frontier relations governed and guided by an ignorant and a distant functionary, who has no interest, official ior otherwise, in our welfare, and whose only anxiety is to stand well in Downing-street, were very fully and forcibly set forth. Could Moshesh have listened to this debate, and been able to observe those physical expressions, which are more significant than words, he would have imbibed a vivid conviction that the colonists of Natal at any rate, are not to be trifled with, and that he need not reckon on being able to outrage their territory with trie slightest impunity. And could Mr. Cardwell have als > listened to our legislators, he would have taken away a somewhat humiliating belief that in one small colony at least the Imperial connection is valued far more as a moral and political than an advantageous and substantial bond. We do trust that the professions made will be followed up by a terse and vigorous representation to the Home Government of the evils entailed upon the colony by the High Commissionership, and of the risk entailed upon the mother country of great possible expenditure by the incompetence and inefflcacy of its supreme representation at Cape Town." The arrival of Bishop Colenso, shortly ex pected, is looked forward to with interest. Appearances indicate a division in the church Very considerable diversity of opinion prevails even within the church, as to the course to be pursued, and the demonstrations are likely to be significant.