§ THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELDIt may be convenient, and perhaps interesting, to your Lordships to know that Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant General Sir Garnet Wolseley to be Governor of Natal and the Transvaal, and to be High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief in those Colonies, and in the lands adjacent to the North and East of those Colonies in South Africa. I believe that at this time Sir Bartle Frere has returned to Cape Town; and Sir Bartle Frere will exercise the power which he possesses in the Cape Colony, and in all the adjacent dependencies and regions attached. I ought, perhaps, to remind your Lord- 1205 ships—what it is necessary to remember in considering these matters—that the distance between the seat of Sir Bartle Frere's authority and the seat of war is upwards of 1,000 miles. Papers explanatory of these arrangements will be immediately placed on your Lordships' Table.
THE EARL OF KIMBERLEYI should like to know from the noble Earl, whether Sir Garnet Wolseley will have supreme command of the Military Forces?
§ THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELDThe rank which Sir Garnet Wolseley holds would give him immediately that supreme command; but I do not contemplate, in the statement I have made, that the country will be deprived of the services of Lord Chelmsford.