In 1845 the first Lieutenant-Governor, under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Cape Colony, had been appointed in the person of Mr. Martin West. He was succeeded, in 1850, by Mr. Benjamin Pine, and, in 1856, by Mr. John Scott, who brought with him a Royal charter constituting the Colony, separating it from the Cape, and giving it an appointive Council. In 1866 an Assembly was created, with the same limitations as to responsible government which characterized all the Colonial Assemblies of that time. Mr. John Maclean, C.B., was appointed Lieutenant-Governor, and Mr. R. W. Keate became the first Governor of Natal in 1867. His successors were as follows, and their names mark several important incidents in South African history: 1872, Sir Anthony Musgrave, K.C.M.G. 1873, Sir Benjamin Pine, K.C.M.G. 1875, Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley, B.C. 1875, Sir Henry E. Bulwer, K.C.M.G. 1880, General Sir Garnet Wolseley, G.C.B. 1880, Major-General Sir G. Pomeroy Colley. 1881, Brig.-General Sir H. Evelyn Wood. 1881, Lieut.-Colonel C. B. H. Mitchell, C.M.G. 1882, Sir Henry E. Bulwer, K.C.M.G. 1885, Sir Charles B. H. Mitchell, K.C.M.G. 1886, Sir Arthur E. Havelock, K.C.M.G. 1889, Sir Charles Mitchell, K.C.M.G. 1893, Sir W. F. Hely-Hutchinson, G.C.M.G. [Sidenote: An Uprising Threatened] Under the régime of Sir Benjamin Pine occurred one of those native wars which illustrate at once the precarious tenure of peace with savage tribes and the danger of a Governor falling between the two stools of a weak white population demanding protection against the serried masses of native races and a Colonial Office controlled, to some extent, by missionary and religious influences with sympathies wider than their statecraft or knowledge. Langalibalele, Chief of the Hlubis in Natal--a tribe which was great and powerful in the days preceding Tshaka--had gradually strengthened his people in numbers and in training until he thought himself able to defy the Natal Government, and to send his young men into neighboring communities to purchase guns and ammunition in defiance of the regulations of the Colony. Messages were in vain sent from Pietermaritzburg demanding an account of the matter and his presence at the capital. Finally, a small party of volunteers was sent to compel his obedience, and met with the usual preliminary repulse. Then upon a thread seemed to hang the peace of South Africa. Langalibalele was known to be held in high respect by Kaffir tribes from the Caledon to the Fish River, and it was afterwards proved that he really had tried to effect a general rising. Prompt measures were taken, however, by all the Governments--even those of the Republics offering aid--and the Chief was surrounded by a large force of Natal and Cape Mounted Police, captured, tried by a special Court and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Meantime the influence of Bishop Colenso and the Aborigines Protection Society had made the