in South Africa I trust the present bitter feelings be assuaged, and that the English and the Dutch may live together on the same terms of amity which prevailed previous to the Transvaal war, but I cannot disguise that the present relations of the two leading races give rise to grave apprehensions.
As regards the Boers in the Transvaal itself, I should be very sorry if they were to be all taken as a set of uneducated, tyrannical, and bloodthirsty boors. There are men there honest, straightforward, and imbued with deep religious sentiments, who could be trusted to any extent. But there are others of an entirely different nature, and these more violent spirits dominate the rest. It is especially so on the borders, where the want of education, the long contact with the natives, and the habits fostered by a semi-nomadic life, have encouraged a marauding disposition and a disregard of the sufferings of coloured humanity which result in sad outrages. But the border Boers must not be taken as representing the whole race. It should be remembered that most of the Boers come of a good stock. It is not sufficiently recognized, even by themselves, that the majority of them are not Dutchmen, but descendants of the noble Frenchmen who left country and home in bygone days for conscience' sake. Good blood will always tell; and whenever the narrow-mindedness, which is the natural result of isolation and want of education, is removed by contact with civilization and all its elevating influences, the improvement is at once manifest. The educated Boer is a splendid stock on which to engraft new shoots; and when Cape Colony becomes more alive to the advantages of immigration, and its natural resources are properly developed under the auspices of a Govern