The Bishop of Natal also, in a letter to a friend in England (lately published in a leading London newspaper) used the following words : — " The for bearance of the Zulu King under the pro vocation he is continually receiving, is really admirable." I feel confident that the Zulus have made no hostile movement to provoke this invasion of their territory; and if we are to believe an English tele gram which went the round of the colonial papers about three weeks back and has not yet been expressly contradicted, to the effect that the boundary dispute alluded to had "been settled in favor of the Zulus," it is impossible to suppose that it was in any way the cause of the present deplorable war. You allude to Zulu raids ron our territory, and to the possibility of one of these having been the immediate pt cause of the unfortunate collision with "our troops, but you seem to overlook the fact that the Zulus were only defending their soil against a hostile invasion. Our forces invaded Zululand on the 12th Jan uary. The disaster which happened several days after is reported to have oc curred at Rorke's Drift, which is a ford over the Buffalo River (the mutual boun dary) leading from Natal into Zulu terri tory. The force destroyed was probably the rear guard, convoying the waggons with the surplus stores of the army which had preceded it. The only "raid" I ever heard of by Zulus into British territory was one which oc curred during my residence in the coun try, and seems to have formed the subject of one of the conditions insisted on by Sir B. Frere in his recent ultimatum. Two Zulu women (not Natal women, as reported in the newspapers) eloped with two men into Natal, and were followed by an armed party, who brought them back to Zululand and there put them to death, in accordance with Zulu law or customs in such cases. Satisfaction was demanded for this violation of frontier, and the King apologised, but declined to deliver up the trespassers. Ido not imagine, however, that so slight a matter would have affected the question of peace or war, especially as no insult to British authority was intended. 