n, or in
progress, in the direction of properties, both Social and
Spiritual.

"4. Several very remarkable Revivals have taken place.

"5. The Commissioner appears to be much improved.

"6. The more I see of ---- the more I like him, and my impression
is confirmed that he is a long way the best man in the country for
dealing with the natives.

"7. The Commissioner thinks that what there is to be known as to
cattle, land, products, etc., is known to ----. I love him very
much.

"8. The same applies very largely to ----. What he does know he may
know better than ----, though I am not sure whether his knowledge
is so extensive.

"9. I have seen little of ----; but he is said to be very
successful in his present appointment. Two gentlemen who have been
inspecting his place say they could not have believed that such
wonderful results could have been achieved in so unlikely a place.

"10. This man, ----, has sat on the platform, and prayed when he
has been called upon to pray; but he has done nothing more. I shall
instruct K., I think, to ask him a few questions, one of which will
be whether he is willing to take a position in another part of the
world."

Of course, I am only snatching such sentences as convey the main ideas,
without their fuller development, which would risk indicating the
persons referred to.

Will it be believed that, whilst this octogenarian was toiling in the
heat to prepare if he could a brighter future for some of the poor, a
syndicate of slanderers in London, some well educated, some of the
Trafalgar Square bawler type, were seeking to bless "the British
public" by enlightening them as to his selfish and foolish designs upon
them? According to their theories his every new scheme was only brought
forth to turn aside attention from his entire failure, and ensure a
continuous flow of money into his coffers!

Perhaps, the best feature of all about his "dreams" was that they never
became less cheery for all that, and their continuously increasing
infection of the world, despite every attack.

The General writes, after his great Meeting with some of our native
comrades as reported in connexion with his final Congress:--

"I have been much occupied, as I have already told you I expected
to be, with the _Native Question_; and I am satisfied that one of
the greatest thing