"you have no danger to apprehend from the Cape colony forces: if they come at all, they will come as friends."

"I am always glad to see white people," observed Dingarn, "but I have given up all idea of fighting. I wish to enjoy myself with my nation, who have been fighting all their lives, under Charka to cultivate the blessings of peace, and do every thing to promote the prosperity of my long harassed country. This is now my sole object; and nothing else occupies my mind, than how I shall govern in peace."

Mr. Isaacs now set out on his journey to Port Natal. When he had crossed Alligator river he met with two boys, with an implement of war, not unlike a lance. When asked the news, they declined telling, and made an effort to pass on. But, upon Mr. Isaacs insisting that they should impart what information they possessed, after a little hesitation they said, "they had left Cane place the day before, with the Zoolu force, which had taken sixteen head of cattle from Thomas Holstead. They knew not where John Cane and Mr. Fynn were gone, but that Holstead and the Hottentots were in Ogle's kraal. Proceeding on his way, a native man came running up to him, to say that the Zoolu chief wanted to speak to him. Mr. Isaacs repaired to the nearest kraal, and in a few minutes the chief arrived. He saluted the " Maloonga," and said, "I see you; give me the news from the king." Mr. Isaacs said that he had no news, but could perceive that the king's instruction had applied only to John Cane. Messengers had been sent to Mr. Fynn, to apprise him of the king's design, before any movement took place. The messengers, however, had not proceeded to Mr. Fynn's, as directed; consequently, hearing of the Zoolu march towards Cane, and that individual having sought refuge with him, Mr. Fynn thought it advisable to leave Natal. The whole of the people immediately fled to the bush for safety. Upon Mr. Isaac's asking the Zoolu chief what he meant by surrounding the premises by dawn of day, he said, "that he would have killed every soul in it."

Mr. Isaacs was now most anxious to reach Natal, to see what was to be done in this dilemma, arising from the treachery of the villain Jacob, the profound ignorance of the natives, and the impetuosity of the Zoolu commander.

When they arrived at Cane's kraal a dreadful scene of devastation became visible. The cat had been speared and skinned, the ducks were scattered, lifeless, about the place; not a living creature could be found-destruction marked the course of the insatiable warriors. From this point, however, they could perceive the brig Michael at anchor off the port, they quickened their pace to come up with it.

Dingarn's conduct in this affair, proved to the settlers that he was a complete dissembler, and that it would not longer be safe to abide with him. Upon Mr. Isaacs' arrival, Mr. Fynn and John Cane left the bush, and came to meet him, and the whole affair assumed a very sinister look; and it became very doubtful as to whether

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Dingarn did not intend the destruction of all the Europeans. To avoid this, Mr. Isaacs' took a passage in the brig, and determined to return to England. Mr. Fynn, and John Cane and their people fled to the bush, thinking that it was best to weather out the

storm.

This resolution was found to be the most prudent. Dingarn soon after found out the treachery of Jacob, had him killed, and invited Mr. Fynn, and the rest, to return to Natal; they did so, and the colony soon recovered its prosperity. Mr. Isaacs' flight was, therefore, premature.

SECTION III.

In 1834, Captain Gardener went out on a kind of philanthropic mission to the Zoolus. Upon his arrival at Port Natal, the settlers seemed to have been at their acmé of prosperity, for we find them drawing plans for building a town, which they proposed to call "D'Urban," after the governor of the Cape of Good Hope. They also petitioned the government that their territory should be elevated into a British colony, entitled " Victoria," but this was not attended

to.

They do not, however, appear to have been on the best terms with Dingarn, king of the Zoolus, from their giving refuge to persons who fled from his wrath. This angered his sable majesty exceedingly; but the matter was settled by the parties entering into a treaty, whereby the settlers agreed to give up to the king all offenders who fled to them, after the date of the treaty, while he agreed not to molest any who might have taken refuge with the Europeans before it. This treaty appears to have been kept better by the Zoolus than the settlers.

Some time after this, a number of emigrant farmers, or Boers, from the Cape of Good Hope, directed their course to Natal, and Capt. Gardener was invested by the government with a commission, as special magistrate, under the act for taking cognizance of the conduct of the British in South Africa, beyond the limits of the British colonies. This commission did not arm him with any real power, but his acquaintance with the manners and customs of the Zoolus rendered his presence here, invested with nominal rank, very desirable.

It would appear, however, that Dingarn did not much relish the incursion of these new emigrants into his dominions, and, accordingly, despairing of overcoming them by force, took the opportunity of a large party of them, with their "commandant," Retref, repairing to the kraal of a Zoolu chief, for the purpose of concluding definitive arrangements, as to where they were to establish themselves, treacherously to cut them off. This act, of course, brought about a general rupture between the whites and blacks-open war being declared. In this contest, it seems that the Zoolus, at first, were the victors, having poured down upon the port and forced the settlers to fly for protection to the bush.

From these reverses, the settlers gradually recovered, and, from a letter lately received in England, dated December 22nd, 1838, from A. W. T. Pretorius, the "chief commandant" of the settlers, it

appears that, in a great pitched battle, they had defeated the Zoolus. This fight is most likely to terminate hostilities, as Major Charters has arrived with troops from the Cape, in order to make peace. It is also said that the settlers will still remain at Natal, whether that place is recognised as a British colony by our governS. C.

ment or not.

THE SECOND PART OF GÖTHE'S FAUST.

TRANSLATED INTO RHYTHMICAL PROSE BY LEOPOLD J. BERNAYS.

(Continued from page 549.)

ACT III.

Before the palace of Menelaus at Sparta.

Enter Helen and chorus of captive Trojan women,

of the chorus.
Helen.

I the much blamed-and much admired Helena

Panthalis leader

Come from the shore where first the land of Greece we reached,

Still reeling with the billowy motion of the wave

Which bore us hither from fair Phrygia's fertile plain,

Through Neptune's favouring hand and Eurus' mighty power,
To our paternal bays upon its lofty-rearing back.
King Menelaus there below rejoiceth now
With all his bravest warriors at his blest return.
Welcome, O welcome to me, lofty palace, thou
That Tyndarus my father on the steep descent
Of Pallas' hill on his return erected here!
'Twas nobler than all Sparta's lofty palaces
When I with Clytemnestra played here sisterly,
With Castor too and Pollux grew in childish sport.
Ye wings of these embrazened doors, all hail to ye!
Once through your hospitable friendly opening
It chanced that Menelaus, chosen out of all,
Met me in glittering glory in a bridegroom's sort.
Open to me again, that I the king's command
May faithfully fulfil as it the wife becomes.
Admit me now! and everything behind me stay
That up till now stormed round me big with mystery.
For since securely I this holy spot forsook

And sought Cythera's temple for a holy rite,

And there the robber seized on me,-the Phrygian man,
Much has occurred which men around with willing tongue

Both far and wide relate, but he not willing hears
Of whom the tale into a fable hath been spun.

Chorus. Thou glorious lady, disdain not

The worth of this highest possession !

For the greatest joy to thee only is given,

The praise of such beauty as conquers all else.
The name of the hero before him sounds,
And proudly he strides,

Yet at once, his mind the stubbornest bends
To beauty, the tamer of everything.

Helen.

Enough! The ship hath borne me hither with my spouse,
And now he sends me from him to his city forth;

What his intent may be I cannot yet divine.

Come I as spouse? Or come I as a queen indeed?
Come I as victim for the prince's bitter

pangs,

And for the long endured misfortunes of the Greeks?
Vanquished I am, but whether captive know I not!
For to me promised the immortals fame and fate,
Ambiguous, beauty's ever doubtful followers,
Which even now, upon this threshold of my home,
Threatening and dark are standing present by my side.
Already did my husband rarely look on me

In the hollow ship, nor spoke he ought encouraging,
But opposite he sate as if on harm intent.

But now when to Eurotas' deep-bayed shore we came,
Borne on the waves when scarce the foremost ship's sharp beak
The land had greeted, as if moved by God, he spake :
Here will my warriors all in order disembark :

I will review them ranged upon the ocean shore,
But farther thou proceed,-along the holy bank
Covered with fruits where swift Eurotas winds along,
And o'er the moist and beauteous meadow guide thy steeds,
Until at last at that fair plain thou hast arrived,
Where Lacedemon, once a wide and fertile field,
Begirt by rugged mountains rises up on high.
The palace with its lofty towers enter then,
And gather there the maidens whom I left behind,
And call to thee the wise and aged stewardess.
Then let them show to thee the store of treasure rich
Which once thy father left behind, which I myself
In war and peace increasing e'er have heaped up.
In order wilt thou find them standing all: for this
This is a prince's privilege that he shall find,
When he returneth, all things right within his house,
And all things in their place, as he hath left them there.
For nothing at his will to change the slave hath power.

Chorus. Refresh now at the glorious pile,

Which ever increaseth, eyes and soul;
For beautiful chains and adorning crowns
Are pluming themselves and resting proud;

But do thou step in and challenge them all,
They'll prepare them swift.

I joy to see beauty in battle contend

'Gainst gold, 'gainst jewels and precious stones.
lord:

Helen. Then thus commandment further gave to me my
When thou hast seen at last in order all things round,
Then take as many tripods as thou needful thinkst,
And many kinds of vessels which the priest requires
At hand, when he the hallowed sacrifice performs.
The cauldrons, and the bowls too and the plates be there;
And be the purest water from the holy spring
In lofty pitchers; and the dry wood also there,
Which soon will catch in flame have thou in readiness;
And lastly let there be a knife well sharpened there;
And all things which remain to thy good care I leave.
So spake he, pressing me to part from him: but nought
Which lives and breathes did he, the orderer, tell to me,
Which he, in honour of the Olympian gods, would slay.
'Tis strange indeed: and yet.will I no farther care,
But to the Gods' arrangement every thing will leave,
Who that, which seemeth to them good, accomplish e'er ;
Men may suppose it either good or think it ill
Whate'er they think it, still it must endurèd be.
Often the priest has raised on high the heavy axe,
To the neck of the earth-bowed animal devoting it;
And yet could not perfect it through the hindrance of
Approaching foes or intervention of the gods.

Chorus. What will occur thou canst not know!

Helen. Be 't as it will! whatever destined, it behoves
Me to the palace to ascend without delay.

The long unseen, and much desired and almost lost,
Stands once again before my eyes, I know not how.
My feet so lightly bear me not along the steps,
The lofty steps, as when a child I leapt them o'er.

Chorus. Throw, O my sisters, ye

Mournful and prisoners,