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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 458, 13 September 1879, Page 2

Tub, cablo brings important news from Ca bill, news that will probably be hoard with great dismay by Lord Beaconsfiekl, and the Conservative party generally. Finding that five years of Foreign policy, without any Home policy, except that of letting alone, was beginning to bring the electors to their senses, so that nearly all the occasional elections were in favor of the Liberal Party ; and finding also that the glory of beating a few savages every month or so, did not satisfy the hungry taxpayer in a time of depression, the Government were anxious to have peace, with honour, if possible, hut any way to have it. They concluded peace with a self-constitnted Ameer in Afghanistan, with a man witli whom they had never had any quarrel; but they neither defeated nor made peace with the Afghan people. From them they simply took certain possessions, on them they simply imposed certain humiliating conditions, and proclaimed peace with honour. Meanwhile, having done, with incompetent men, all the fighting they can afford in Zululand, they send a first-class warrior to conclude peace. When this is almost done, it is discovered that Yakoob Khan is not Afghanistan, and that an unoffending and nnconqnerod people cannot be plundered and humiliated at will, even hy Lord Beaconsfield. The people of Oahul are in arms, and the British flag has probably been insulted, and the British Resident murdered. Wo venture to predict that the new Government that will take offee after the next General Election, will inherit from Lord Beaconsfiold’s spirited Foreign Policy, dilapidated finances, a vast floating debt, a war with Afghanistan, a war with Burmah, a war with the Zulus, a war with the Boers, a famine in India, and endless complications with Bulgaria, Ronmania, Egypt, Turkey, and Russia.