Has Dishonored the British Arms.
By Editor
[We hesitated to insert the following, lest it should be considered an American judgment colored by prejudice; but on reading remarks by the Bishop of Manchester, our fears were dispelled.] THE English have outdone the Zulus in barbarism. A native contingent speared and mutilated the wounded Zulus. The English officers gave the word, "No quarter." The Zulu troops disbanded, the several chiefs submitted, and Cetywayo became a fugitive; yet the British went on burning the kraals. He made a special request that two kraals near Ulindi might be spared, because they contained some elements of sanctity to the Zulu mind, but this was refused. After Isandula he sought peace, but was met by the demand for unconditional surrender. To force the Zulus to capture him, their kraals were burnt if they were suspected of having given him shelter. The war was unjust, and has dishonored the British arms. For the first time in any modern war the people called savages have shown higher courage than the troops of the civilized. English troops, armed with all the improved guns of modern time, have been afraid to meet an equal number of Africans, with the most primitive weapons, in the open field. And while the savage surpassed the civilized in martial courage, the civilized have shown themselves more savage than the savages.—Cincinnati Gazette.