but too plainly proved that these Articles
were by no means superfluous.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 16: "Austral Africa, Ruling it or Losing it," p. 157.]

[Footnote 17: When the Transvaal was annexed, in 1877, the public debt
of that country amounted to L301,727. "Under British rule this debt was
liquidated to the extent of L150,000, but the total was brought up by a
Parliamentary grant, a loan from the Standard Bank, and sundries to
L390,404, which represented the public debt of the Transvaal on the 31st
December, 1880. This was further increased by monies advanced by the
Standard Bank and English Exchequer during the war, and till the 8th
August, 1881, (during which time the country yielded no revenue,) to
L457,393. To this must be added an estimated sum of L200,000 for
compensation charges, pension allowances, &c., and a further sum of
L383,000, the cost of the successful expedition against Secocoemi, that
of the unsuccessful one being left out of account, bringing up the total
public debt to over a million, of which about L800,000 was owing to this
country. This sum the Commissioners (Sir Evelyn Wood dissenting) reduced
by a stroke of the pen to L265,000, thus entirely remitting an
approximate sum of L500,000 or L600,000. To the sum of L265,000 still
owing must be added say another L150,000 for sums lately advanced to pay
the compensation claims, bringing up the actual amount owing to England
to about a quarter of a million."--Report of Assistant Secretary to the
British Agent for Native Affairs. (Blue Book 3917, 46.)]

[Footnote 18: "Austral Africa." Mackenzie.]

VI.

THE CAREER AND RECALL OF SIR BARTLE FRERE. UNFORTUNATE EFFECT IN
SOUTH AFRICA OF PARTY SPIRIT IN POLITICS AT HOME. DEATH OF SIR
BARTLE FRERE. THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND LAW.
HOPE FOR SOUTH AFRICA IF THESE ARE MAINTAINED AND OBSERVED. WORDS
OF MR. GLADSTONE ON THE COLONIZING SPIRIT OF ENGLISHMEN.

The case of Sir Bartle Frere illustrates forcibly the inexpediency of
allowing our party differences at home to sow the seeds of discord in a
distant Colony, and the apparent injustices to which such action may
give rise.

While in England Sir Bartle Frere was being censured and vilified, in
South Africa an overwhelming majority of the colonists, of whatever race
or origin, were declaring, in unmistakable terms, that he had gained
their warmest approbation and admiration. Town after town and village