Cetewayo, the former Bing of Zululand, died on the 8th
inst., so suddenly that his death is attributed in Natal to poison, and a medical inquiry is to be held. It is much more probable that be died of disease of the heart, accelerated by the excitements of his later years, the war, his capture, his visit to Eogland, his "restoration," and his failure to regain his place among his subjects. According, too, to the statement of Mr. Whiteley, who had some kind of charge of him in London, pub- lished in the Pell Mall Gazette, he delighted in drinking hard, at all events since his deposition. Cetewayo's restoration proved a failure; but it was a reasonable experiment, and might have succeeded, but for the deadly hostility with which he was regarded in Natal by most Europeans, including, we fear, a great many officials. A barbarian—and Cetewayo was that—who resists white men is apt to be regarded with the implacable hostility with which a slave-owner looks upon a slave who has mutinied. He can be kindly to all the world, except the rebel.
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