is generally snpposed to be, has tafcrei some pains to ensure that the last rest ing place of the dead should bs preserved from disturbance. One of the Act* of the past session of the Caps Pa-rKamsnt pro vided, in its principal clause, for "the ex propriation of hind for the purpose of burial .grounds for certain of her Majesty*. Imperial and colonial forces, and certain of the forces belonging to the lute Orange Free Stat* and South African Republic, who have died -either from wounds or other wise during the recent campaign in South Africa.*' The Governor of the colony is empowered to set aside, -enclosing, and maintaining as a burial ground, any land in •which those who have &illen in war, either from the effects of wounds or otherwise, have been buried, due compensation being paid to the owners of the land. whiJe in cases where there is no means of piiblic acre.s, a right-of-way from the nearest and most convenient public road is to be ac quired and established. This Government also undertake the care and maintenance of the burial grounds, wliich tire io ba en closed with sufficient walls or fences, and to be kept in an orderly condition. The duty outlined in this Act is a nuticnal one. and if the Cape Government cany out the con ditions of the measure they will deserve the thanks of till parts of the Empire which contributed son. for ths great struggle. Par and wide throughout South Africa, on rocky hill, on ba-jTen V-ldt, lie the rude cairns wliich mark -where the vast army ni:i.rch;d and fought. Under these rough monuments lie the men who have helped to make his tory—victims of bullet and -hell, and the more deadly fever. Whitocltapel Tommy and Highland Mac, the rank and fashion of the West End. tbe frontiersman of Canada, and the bushman of Au*.train. Close by them often lie the graves of those who fought aga'nst us. and it is well that th.se should receive the .time kindly care that is to be bestowed upon those of our own men. All the bitterness of conflict cease., a. was so often seen during the war, at the grave side, where Death proves the great leveller, not ottly of his victims but of the living. 