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History cf the Month. 



Interpret*!-. Juige. Witness. Registrar. Crown Prosecutor. Counsel tor the Defence. 



A Typical Trial of Natives in Natal: 128 Prisoners in '-the Dock.' 



Prisoners. 



held at ona-, on the (Jiiect issue ot universal suf- 

 frage. If the majority decide in favour of universal 

 suffrage, the Government will carry a law establish- 

 ing that principle and again appeal to the country. 

 The prospects of two General Elections in quick suc- 

 cession appears to have abated the zeal of the irrecon- 

 cilalites for a combat. The Wekerle Cal>inet pledges 

 itself to carry through the new Parliament the 

 votes and military credits, and treaties of commerce 

 already s.inctioned by the Delegations. Its pro 

 gramme is variously described as " Universal Suf- 

 frage and the Dualism of 1867/' and " Independence 

 of 1848," which is rather confusing. The elections 

 which have alreadv taken place show that the new 

 Government will command an overwhelming majority 

 in the new Parliament. There will I e about 40 non- 

 Magyar de[iutirs returned, and about 100 Conserva- 

 tives and Clericals. All's well that ends well ; and 

 it is never well to halloo till you are out of the 

 wood. But for the moment the danger of a violent 

 rupture seems to have been happily averted. 



Itte Pursuit 



of 



Bambaata. 



The Natal Government has its 

 hands full. Instead of striking 

 terror into the natives by its 

 wholesale executions, it has precipi- 

 tated a native war. The chief, Bambaata, has fled 

 into Zululand, where he is not unnaturally regarded 

 with sympathy, tempered only by fear of the aveng- 

 ing wiiite man. ^500 has been offered for Bam- 

 baata's head — a premium upon assassination which 

 has shocked even Professor Holland, the least sen- 

 sitive of professors of international law, and Boers 

 and British are mustering in hot haste to (juell the 

 incipient revolt. The Imperial authorities were dis- 

 (lainfullv told to keep their hands off. The Colo- 

 nists are going to deal with their own natives without 

 (uir interference or our help. It is all very fine and 

 large, but wait a bit '. The Xatal Colonists may pull 

 it off this time. But there is at least an off-chance 

 that thev may not. What then ? That is a contin- 

 gency which can never be left out of mind, and as 

 a matter of fact it never is forgotten for a moment, 

 even by those who most haughtily repudiate all no- 

 tion of Imperial aid, and are going to do everything 

 all off their own bat. 



