We hear with great satisfaction that there is some hope
of a serious change in the Bechuanaland policy of the Government, and that Sir Charles Warren will probably be supported after all. The Conservatives could do nothing more likely to win credit for their Colonial policy than supporting Sir Charles Warren ; and, at all events, they must not desert him on the strength of advice from so very partial a source as that of the Governor of the Cape Colony. Sir Charles Warren was chosen because he was thought to be precisely the man for the emergency, and in every respect he has justified that choice. To paralyse him because the Governor of a colony dominated by a completely different set of interests disapproves his action, is to set up the judgment of a man who was not selected for the emergency, and who is specially disqualified for estimating it impartially, over the judgment of a man by whose decision the Government itself had proposed to abide.
