TERMS OF PEACE AT CAPETOWN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2233, 25 April 1881, Page 3

TERMS OF PEACE AT CAPETOWN.

[PUBSa ASSOCIATION TBLKQBAM.] BLUOF, April 25, The following official terms of the peace •re taken from the “ Capo Times" of the 28th March, dated Fort Amiel, 26th March, as transmitted by telegram from Sir Evelyn Wood to the Governor at Capetown:—Terms —Her Majesty the Qaeea of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, has been graciously pleased to accord entire self-government, as regards interior affairs, to the Boers recently In arms, who dispersed to their homos on the 25th of March, suzerain rights accruing to Great Britain. In respect to frontier affairs, Great Britain to have control oyer foreign relations, together with the right of moving troops through the country in time of war; the transfer of Government to be carried out within a period of six months. With a view to separating the Transvaal from the great Native districts lying east, and for the determination of the easterly boundaries in future, the question of territory will form part of the work of a Royal Commission, which will assemble at onoo. The Commission will also take into consideration measures for the protection of Natives interested. Until the report of the Royal Commission is approved of by the Home Government, the Transvaal will remain under British rule, a British Resident, with such functions as may hereafter be approved of, to he located in the future capital of Government. Her Majesty's Government guarantee the Boer leaders, individually and collectively, and those acting under their orders, immunity from tho civil process of acts (sic) done in reference to the war, until self-government ■hall have been recorded. The question of compensation on either side for acts not justified by the necessities of war to be remitted to the Royal Commission, whioh will adjudicate a* to what act* come within the meaning of justification. There shall be no molestation for political opinion on either side. The Boer loaders to co-operate with her Majesty’e Government in bringing to justice those who committed or wore directly responsible for acts contrary to the rules of civilised warlore.