COMPANY 0F AFRICAN t ERCHANTS, LIHITED. CAPITAI,-- A00,000, in 40,000 Shax~s of 10 each, WITH POWER TO INCREASE.

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1 Reg~tered for] [Tramm~don Abroaa. "FOR GOD, AND GOOD TO AFRICA AND HER PEOPLE." " Talk to me anywhere of Power, a~wz I ll lell you of Proteclon. Menton a 3fa94strate, and the dea follows of Property. me any Government, and ~ou are to see the proposed ntere, of those gorern~m. Power conaltuted otherwse a ~wnster Show that 18 mpossble n etwrg sgsten; where there s anl/ noton of the justce of God or the good of manknd."-&edmtrxv BVRKZ. "If any Colon~sb suffer~.from njuskce, whatever may be h~ clas.~, hs eondfflon, or h~s colo~r, he has a rght to redress ac the hands of the Cdon~ag Mnster n tms country."--eaar. OF CARSARV0.~3 Sv-cngrxRy ov SrxTZ for" T/~v. COLOXlZS, AoousT 2, VoI,. VIII., No. 85.] LONDON, THURSDAY, J[ILY 23, PUBLISIIEDHOBTHLY. 1 Subscrpt~6~, t~s. l~r Ann. CONTENTS. PAOZ ~&OE West Coast of Afrca Mals... Our Eghth Volume... 6 Fourah Bay College, Serra Leone... 2 Imprsonment of Mr. Fnlason... 7.I]l e~l Sentenece at Serra Leone... :... "... :... : Illegal Sentences ou the Gel4 Coast... 7 "~e Extraordnary Ca~ of W. C. Fnlaso~, Prsoner m Soltary Condemnaton of the Bannermaus, of Accra... 7 Confnement at Accra Oar Cotton Stll Shut Up n Krepee... :... 8 Afrcan Steamshp Company--lmportant Petton to the Domestc Slave Que~toa... 8 Leg~tlve Councl 6f Serra Leone... 4 Juetlee, or no Justce... :... 9 Sr Arthur Kennedy up the Melcoure... 4 Fantee Country and ts Kngs... Fear Hundred and Ffty.one Emgrants to In bors from Amerca...4 Lterary Notce... 9 Ddcat of the Elmnas--Pea~ Negotatons... :... 5 Applcaton to Remove a Judge... 9 Msapplcaton of Gold Coast Revenues... Rver Gaboon Countres and Peoples... I0 Aahantees Attackng the Wa~sawa Natal..~ Re Domestc Slavery at Aocra... 5 South.East Afrca Full of Coal... I0 Cape Coa.~ Female Natve School..., Proof of How Lttle Mere Commerce as Carred On n West Afrca 10 ]d scel]mae~... 6 does for Chrstan Cvlzaton COMPANY 0F AFRICAN t ERCHANTS, LIHITED. CAPITAI,-- A00,000, n 40,000 Shax~s of 10 each, WITH POWER TO INCREASE. DIRECTORS.. WM. DENT, Es~., Charman of the Thames and Mersey Insuranca J. ASP[NALL TOBIN, Esq. (.~fe~srs. TEes. ToszN aud 8o.~ ) Company, London. Charmau of the Lverpool and London Insurance Company ARCHIBALD HAMILTON. Esq..(Messrs. Srsc~xm, I~mr.zoN, Lverpool. and Co ), London. L. ORUNING. Es~. (Messrs. FRZD. H~e aud Co.), Lverpool.A. 0ASTELLAIN, Esq. [Messrs. Fnv.n. H~ aud Co.), Lverpool.R. RUMNEY, Esq., Mauchester. MANAQ1N(~ DIRECTOR. " J. ASPINALL TOBIN, Esq., ~V.almer-buldngs, ~rater-st~eet, Lverpool. BANKERS. ALLIANCE BANK OF LONDON, LIVERPOOL, AND MANCHESTER. Th~ CaTtal of th, s Coml~any has been fully ~ub~cr~ed. Up to the presen tme comparatvely lttle has been done to develop theresources of Western Afrca. Trade there s merely n ts nfancy; butthe Drectors of ths Company beleve that t may soon be made most valuable to Great Brtan. In 1827, the value of Brtsh and Foregn Goods exported from the Unted Kngdom to the West Coast of Afrca was.! 55, 769 In 1840,,,,, 410,798 In 1850,,,,~,, 890,216 In 1860,,,,,,, 1,145,434 total actual value of mp~, t~ from Afrca nto the Unted Kngdom for the sx years, 1866 to 1861 nclusve (beng the latest Offcal return), amounted. 9,804,366 In 1818, th0 mport of Palm Ol nto England from Afrca was. 1,4"66 tons. In 1823,,,,, 3,828,, In. 183I,,,,, 8,164,, Iu 1841,,,,, 19,853,, In 1860,,,. 40,216,, Ths ~crease n one artcle, Palm-ol, though large, s trflng when cotnpared wth the resourc~ of Western Afrca, whle many artcles equally or more mportant and abundant have been totally neglected, or bare only very repently receved attenton. Th ~ Drectors are convnced that, by a judcous encouragement of, and co-operaton wth, natve traders aud persons resdent on the Coast, the be mports greatly ncrea~d, and of also that Palm.ol other most valuable may products,... htherto dsregarded, may be made a ~ource of wealth both to Afrcans audte thzs Company. Cotton, :F~bres, Palm-nut Kernels, Pea 1~uts, Off Seed, Coffee, Pepper, Gt:ger, Gran, Inda Rubber, Gums, Dyes, Beeswax, Ebony, Copl~cr Ore, aud other Mnerals, are all artcles that Afrca cau supply n large quanttes. Compauy s prepared to receve consgnments of produce for sale u England, and to purchase and shp goods n refute, and generally to-tran sactljusness on commssou aganst credts or good securty. Company s large fleet of vessels wll offer great fecltsa to chppers, and secure rapd returfs. Goods cau be delvered at the varousmall towns on the Coast wth the greatest" regularty, and at moderate rates of freght. "ample resources of the Company guarantee to Afrcan shppers the hghest possble prce for ther consguo tuents, and that purchase wll be made for them on the most favourablo terms (the large amount of goods purchased.by ths Con~pany from the leadng manufacturers of all artzclcs suffable for the Afrcan Trade wll enable them to buy such goods on far more advantageous terms than could otherwse be looked for), whle the busness wll be conducted such equtable prncple~ as to foster aud encourage the development of Afrcan resources. Busness wll be transacted both u London and Lverpool. :For further partleulsr~, aud on busness generally, address J a~tzs hsp].wx~, To~$.% Esq., Managng Drector "of the Compauy of Afrcan Merchant% Lmted (at the Offces of the Company, Walmer-buldngs, Water-street, Lverpool.

2 2 WEST COAST OF AFRICA MAILS. passng of an ordnance on the 29th May, 1862, by whch the law and statutes n force n England on the 1st January, 1862, West Coast of Afrca steamer Calabar, wth the above were made applcable to Serra Leone, no local law has been mals, arrved at Lverpool, July 3. lier dates were: Benn, June 3 ; Fernando Po and Cameroon% May 30 ; 01d Calabar, 28 ; enacted authorsng any judge to sentence any prsoner, whether Monrova, June 12; ffellah Coffee, 6; Bonny, 2; Lagos, 5; he be under or above sxteen years of ages, to be thrce prvately whpped ; nor does t app~:r that there was any law n force a Acorn, 7 ; Cape Coast Castle, 8 ; Cape Palmas, 10 ; Serra Leone, Serra Leone pror to the year 1862 authorsng any judge to 15; Bathurst 18; Tencrffe, 24; and Madera, 25. Calabar brought 43 passengers, 278 ounces of golddust, and 1,130/. n sentence a prsoner to be thrce prvately whpped, whether he spece. 1,100 ounces of gold were lost by the capszng of a be under or above sxteen years of age; and that the sad Wm. canoe n the surf whle gong from the beach to the mal steamer. Rany verly beleves all the sentences set forth n the sa;a lsts Athenan, wth the b-monthly mals, arrved n due courseof sentences A~z V.Xlawrvr...: on the 15th nst. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF W. C. FINLASON, PRISONER IN SOLITARY CONFINEHENT AT ACCRA. FOURA~ BAY COLLEGE, SIERRA LEONE. o znz ~nnoa of znz ArmcA.w zmzs. COURT OF APPEAL FOR ~VEST AFRICA, MAY 19, Fourah College, Freetown, Serra Leone, June 7, (.From tho Afrcan Interpreter an~.ddrocat.) :Dear Mr. Edtor,--re has lately been a lttle dsturbance (Before ther Honours. George.French and Horat~lames between the natve clergy and the Europeans who are the agents "lquggns, Judges of the rad Court.) of the venerable Church Mssonary Socety here, whc has, unfortunately, led to a great dsplay at" bad biood by the latter aganst On the openng of the Court, Mr. Rany moved that the pet- rinias0n, APPLLL~NT, AGAINST QUEE h : the former, but we must make all reasonable excuse, as they are ton of appeal of Mr. W. C. Fnlason, whch we publshed n our hut neophtes n the feld, and could not take the same nterestlast, mght be admtted. for the co/any as dd the old mssonares, such as Boule and Chef Justce: Mr. Rany, I do net thnk that we have Yones, whom the colony has lost. We very much requre a any jursdcton n crmnal matters. bshop to lra wth us. Mr. Rany : I thnk that I shall be able to shaw that your One great pont whch we requre, and whch we wll pray of Honours have jursdcton, but I prefer dealng wth the merts you to brng, f po~sble, under the notce of the Parent Commttee of tlae Church Mssonary Socety n London, s to provde of the case n the frst nstance. Mr. Rany sad: Stay t please your Honou~. In askng our college wth a prncpal who s not haughty and rrtable, your Honours to admt a petton of appeal of Wllam Charles and whose elevaton would not affect hs head ; one who would Fnlason, a prsoner confned a felon s cell n the gaol at Cape make the nsttuton really popular amongsthe natves. Coast, accordng to a sentence pronounced aganst hm by the grammar-school has made a most rapd progressnce t has been Chef Magstrate of the Cvl and Crmnal Jursdcton Court at conducted by Mr. Quaker, a natve, as sole Prncpal. Mr. ~ape Coast, I feel the great responsblty devolvng upon me. Quaker was formerly a pupl, afterwards an usher, and on hs "Here Mr. Rany repled to several questons and statements Of return from England served for many years as tutor. He has hs Honour the Chef Justce that the date of the sentence was rased the standard of the school, and the progress of the pupls Aprl I4, That no notce of Mr. Fnlason s ntenton to has been prased by everyone here from the Governor downwards. Mr, M Caulay s also a natve, s keepng a flourshng appeal had been gven, as t was not necessary. notce would be the petton, and he had therefore served none He school at Loges. It would seem also that Fourah Bay College, had come there to ask the Court for an order so as to serve that wth a nalre 2rncjal, wll make equal program, and wthout doubt become more popular than t s at present. re s no order wth the petton, n order tha the proceedngs the Court want of able natve men. Mr. NceI, pastor of Regent, served below mght be transmtted to ths Court.] It appeared by the petton that a person by the name of Cadogan was lyng wth great credt, under Mr Jones, as tutor n the college ; he s ll at Cape Coast sometme u the month of March last. 2hs a most talented man and very popular, and understands properly man wshed to be removed to the house of the pettoner, as how to teach. Wth hm Fourah Bay College would resume ts prope r place n the msson feld and become--as the grammar he preferred the pettoner s way of lvng. pettoner use-enter to Cadogan s request, and he was removed to pettoner s house on or about the same tme n March. school s--very popular amongsthe natves..pray wll you 6form ~ s wfen s.bshop Beckle~ comng out?o~ pettoner attended on hs frend, the sck man, and the COlonal Yours truly, A Szz~m~ Lnos~s~. Surgeon, Dr. Jones, at tmes vsted hm there. Oa the 20th of March Cadogau became very ll, and the pettoner wr.ote to the ILLEGAL SENTENCES AT SIERRA LEONE. Colonal Surgeon for a bed for the sck man from the hosptal, aa We publshed n August, 1867, and n June, 1868, lsts of the 0nly bed pettoner had had been rendered useless by alleged llegal sentences, sad to have been passed by Mr. Cadogaa. Dr Jones left the pettoner s note unanswered, Horato James Huggns, n hs capacty as Actng Judge of the upon whch he addressed the Governor or Admnstrator ft Supreme D Court of Serra Leone. Those lsts were, howeve Cape Coast on the subject. Governor, Mr. Ussher.. mmedately ordered the bed to be saul, but somehow or other mperlect, n not settng forth the ayes of the respectve prsoners on whom such alleged llegal sentences had been so passed. W e the bed was not forthcomng. pettoner agan addressed are now enabled, by ad of a copy ~f affdavts on the subjectthe Governor, through the Colonal Secretary, and requested whch bare been sen to the Colonal.offce, to complete the lsts that the bed mght be sent ; but no answer was receved. However, the pettoner had an ntervew wth the Governor subse- by gvng the sad ages, extracted from the book of convcts ages kept at Frcetown Jal, Serra Leone, as follows :~ quently, at the Governor s request, who told that he (the Benjamn Johnson, dead. Oovernor) had heard that Cadogaa was lyng aganst hs Benjamn Armstrong, escsl~ed. wll at hs (pettoner s) house, te dened ths, and offered Age. ~rhen. producevdence to contradct the statement; but the Governor Thomas Pratt. 33 November, seemed perfectly satsfed wth the pettoner s explanaton and Henry Thomas. 22 November, he went home. In a short tme after that hs premss were nvaded by three gentlemen--namelys Mr. Cleaver, Justce of~ Charles Fvfe 41 September, Robert Goodng 38 September, the Peace, Mr. Smpson, the Colonal Secretary, and Dr. Jones, Mo~s Jones 23 January, the Colonal Surgeon. Wth regard to the conduct of the Thomas Freeman 29 January, Colonal Secretary and Dr. Jones on ths occason I shall say James Decker. 22 January, nothng. I thnk they behaved lke gentlemen, and I am Wllam Coker. 28 January, very happy to say that they performed a very dsagreeable Moses John 36 March, task n a manner hghly becomng ther respectable poston, John Allen 30 March, exceptng that they had no rght to nvade the house as Urah Coombala 19 March, stated, and t s a pty that Mr. Cleaver, who was known to entertan hostle feelngs aganst my clent, was sent al~g wth Tom Gnger. 20 Marcb, Thomas Johnson, or Hus ang 22 May, these offcals. However these three gentlemen rushed n Samuel Thomas.. s wthout 18 Jun% sendng ther cards, my clent says at a very late hour at nght Wllam Johnson, 50 June, ~they eay between eght and nne o clock~but be ths as t JamesIews.. 17 June, may, they had no busness there. y came there wthout any And there s an affdavt of Wm. Rany, E~ ṡ of the Inner warran that my clent had commtted any crme~he commtted Temvle, London. Barrster at Law, to the effecthat snce the no crme or msdemcauour--the Governor had no power to send " We are nformed tba~ BL-hop Beckles has ~cured anotherthem there, except he s covered by a very extraordnary ~R :~ atmen% and s abouto resgn hs b-,hopr of Serra leone, whereordnance of whch I know nothng. But f the Governor or has be~noable to verde because the clmate has to Dj~roasly affected Admnstrator s not covered by any act gvng hm that power, the health ot hs lamly.--en..d.t. then I say the~ gentleme~ had no buaue~a there. How- AFRICAN TIMES. [J~ z 23, Sunr 23, 1868.] AFRICAN TIMES. 3 ever, Mr. Smpson stated that he wshed to see Cadogan, who sently, and show your Honours that you have competent jursdcton n ths matter. Hs Excellency Mr. Ussher s evdence was a Government prnter. Bat, accordng to the evdence s the most extraordnary I h~ve read n a court of justce. Mr. annexed to the report, Cadogan had ceased to be a Government <rfllcer at that tme. Colonal Surgeon spoke to Cadogan Parker sad the Governor had come there, and he had the rght, and asked hm whether he was there aganst hs wlls and he whch he reserved to hmself, to refuse answerng any queston,ad"no." We also asked the sck man whether he wshed to nut to hm. (Mr. Rany here read from Mr. Ussher s remarks.) be removed, and he repled "No." Colonal Surgeon then am told that Mr. Ussher s a very young man, aud perhaps that ~ad nothng, but Mr. Cleaver--a gentlemau who was not responsble for anythng he was dong, and who, t was a pty. most extraordnary evdence that I have ever read of, and how a accounts for ths. n the evdence of the prosecutor s the great pty, had been sent there, for he had brought all that gentleman n Mr. Parker s poston, assumng these thngs to fapon the Government of Cape Coast--n an mpertnent be true--and they do look to be true--could have acted n the manner came forward and asked Cadogan f he would not manner he dd act, I am at a loss to conceve. We have had lke to be removed to a place where he would be better ths gentleman gvng judgment n a case whch he never heard treated. Upon ths my clent felt very ndgnant, and desredat all. Cleaver to leave hs house, sayng to hm that hs conducto Chef Justce : re s some convenence n ths way of dsposng of thngs, :Mr. Rany. lhe sck man was enough to kll hm~tho poor man was dyng at the tme an4 ded shortly after. My clent asked (Mr. Rany then read the evdence of Mr. Cleaver, the prosecutor, gven n our last ssue.) 3Ir. Cleaver f he had authorty for beng there, and he sad that the Governor ahna~ sent hm there and that was hs Chef Justce : All ths s very nterestng, Mr. Rany, s t authorty. My clent dened hs rght to be there, sayng not? that he was the kng and prnce of that hou~, and that Mr. Mr. Rany : I don t know, your Houour, but my clent feels a Cleaver, havng no busness there, f he dd not go ha would be deep nterest t, whether t mght be nterestng here or not. thrown out of the wndow. I am happy that my clent dd not Now your Honours ask me to show whether you have j,~rs- to entertan bs applcaton. I subm that you have carry hs threat nto effect, and these three gentlemen, afterdcton showng ther authorty, left. I have nothng to say aganst Dr. beyond all manner of doubt. order n Councl establshes a. Jones and Mr. Smpson. It does not appear that my clent ohjeered to ether of them, but certanly when Mr. Cleaver came shallbe a Court of Appeal from the Court at.cape Coast. It Court of Appeal for West Afrca, and t states that ths Court and nsulted my clent by askng the sck man whether he was made under and by vrtue of an Act of Parlament. ~r. would not lke to go to another place where he would be betterrany here read the f~t clause of the Order, and sad : Your ~eated, I thnk, really~ Honourare sttng here as a Court of Appeal from the judgmeut Chef Justce made a remark whch was not heard. of that Court. You are not lmted fo cvl or crmnal proceed- and the queston s whether ths s a judgment or not, and Mr. Rany: I thnk t would be a mercy to the Admns-ngstrator, Mr. D ssher, f I succeed n ths applcaton ; for f my what s the Court that tred the case. Suppose au appeal s clent de n hs cell, I say, as a lawyer, tha ths exalted nd-gvevdual wll be brought here or before some other court of would understand t~ and f there was any doubt on the subject, from the Supreme Court n ts cvl jursdcton, then we crmnal justce for murder, he wll be tred, he wll be condemned and, I don t say executed, but probably. But there wll agansthe prsoner ; but your Honours would allow ths matter I say ths s just the ease where the doubt should not operate be sentence of death passed upon hm I have no doubt. My to come before you n order that these thngs mght be dscussed. clent was arrested the next day for resstng Mr. Cleaver n the Chef Justce : "Who wll gve seourty for costs? executon of hs duty when he was n my clent s house on a Mr. Rany : You don t want any, and no securty for costs s warrant sgned by W. A. Parker, Chef Magstrate, and broughtrequred ; but f your Honours were to pressme upou that pont before the polce-court~ hs judge beng the Prvate Secretary or I would gve securty ou my own responsblty. queston,chef Clerk of hs Excellency the Admnstrator. charges, s ths a judgment of Mr. Parker? was partly nqured nto, and he was remanded untl the followng day, bal beng refused. Governor was on the bench all Mr. Rany : Well, Sr, s a sentence a judgment? Reference Chef Justce : It s a sentence. the tme; and I thnk, consderng Mr. Ellott was the Ad, was here made to what seemed to be the double jursdcton mnstrator s Clerk, t was a very mproper proceedng on the gven under the Order, aud t was urged that n cvl cases, part of hs Excellency. B owever, ths Chef Chrk thought where pecuu~ry matters are nvolved, partes al~pealng were better after, fortunately, and agreed to take bal, my clent n requred to gve securty, but that no order was gven wth and two suretes n 100L each. My cheat was preparedreference to ermnal eases, all beng left to the Court. To say to gve bal. Deputy-Assstant Commssary-General Johnson that you have no jursdcton to hear appeals from that Court, came forward as one of the suretes for my clent, but Mr. and to say that yea can make rulesfor ther gudance u crmnal Ellott refused hm, on what ground I cannot say, because I matters, would ben I thnk, really carryng the argumento must say a gentleman holdng the poston of Her Majesty ssomethng very extraordnary ndeed. Of course t was qute Deputy-Ar~atant Commssary-General was sufscent bal from competento your Honours to have made rules touchng the l~s poston~ha pay and socal poston as well. Two other manner u whch these appeals are to be conducted, and t s not gentlemen came and they were also refused, upon what ground my fault that you have not done so, nor s t the fault of hs I cannot say. At last a person aganst whom I suppose no objecton could be taken came forward. whch he had no control But we fnd a Court of Appeal esta- Wonour the Chef Justce, but the effect of crcumstances over Chef Justce: Is there any affdavt, Mr Rany, u support of blshed here and we come to ths Court, and f there are no rules your present applcaton? you must act n the best way you can, wthout njury or n- to anyone; and I do hope that your ~[ouours wll frame Mr. Rany : It s not necessary; I wll show your Itonourjustce that t s not necessary, and that even on ths occason t wouldthese rules as quckly as possble, for Mr. Parker seems to requre be dspensed wth. Ths gentleman was taken for 2O0L and my some" lghts for hs "gudance. I have seen offcal documents clent for 20{)1. next day the nqury wasresumed, and the comng from hm whch dearly show how much he needs your Governor s Clerk commtted my clent for tral, bal beng taken. Honours gudance. Mr. Rany here went on to argue at consderable length on the queston of the crmnal jursdlcton of He was subsequently brough to tral before Judge Parker. Your Honour has a report of the tral annexed there. It s not the Court, ably combatng the argument of hs Houour the Chef offcal, but I have not the least doubt of ts correctness. That Justce, and contendng that the Order n Councl dd not say the facts occurred, seeng the llegalty of the proceedng, I am that the Court had no jursdcton n crmnal matters, but only not prepared, as a lawyer, to undertake to say, I am speakngthat somethng more was to be don# u cvl than n crmnal here under the responsblty of my clent. I have been n communcaton wth hm on other matters and found he has been matters were nvolved. But why should a crmnal come and matters; and very properly too, snce n cvl suts pecunary scrupulously correct, and I have no reason to doubt what s now gve securty for or 300/. before he could appeal aganst crated Ḣe was tred before Mr. Parker, the prosecutor beng Her Majesty herself? He trusted that for the purpose of oustng ther jursdcton, ther Honours would not nfer what dd ZIr. Cleaver. Governor on the tral came to gve hs evdence, and he was receved as a nobleman would be. He only nbt really exst. gave hs evdence on hs honour, Mr. Parker would not allow Assstant-Judge, Mr. Hughes, here drew Mr. Rany s hm to take hs oath. I beleve a noblemen n England takes attenton to a clause n the Ordnance establshng the Cvl and hs oath unless n crmnal cases. Governors accordng to Crmnal Courts, from whch t appeared that an appea lay to Mr. Parker, was superor to the Prme Mnster of Eegland, the Executve, and sad that t would ba better to appeal to the for when he s a commoner I beleve he would be bound to gve Governor-n.Chef, who had t n hs power to gve mmedate hs oath n a crmnal court.. Judge Parker assumed the offcerelef a crmnal cases. of prosecutor, Your Honoura have a report of the tral there-- Mr. Rany repled that he hacl already prepared a petton to but I wsh to draw your Honours attenton to the evdence of S~r A. Kennedy prayng for a remsson cf the sentence, but the Mr. Usshcr. To the queston of jurl,- detou I shall speak pre- case of Lenten v. the Queen, c]eariy establshed a precedent for

3 f t! AFRICAN TIMES.,] r3u Y 23, ths applcaton as well. Lords of the Councl gave Mr. mnds that extenmve nfluence whch durng hs -former gpv.em~ Lcven leave to appeal, and pendng the appeal he pettoned the ment, n 1852,made the menton of hs names spell to put d0~ Crown and obtaned hs dscharge. ]earned Counsel any dsturbance n the Serra Leone Rvers. In th~ coarse ~f, then thanked hs Honour for havng drawn hs attenton to the Ordnance, as t showed a further llegalty n comparatvely, a few hours he has made a peace, whch we ho~ wll be lasth~g, between the bellgerents, who have been fghtng the sentence that Judge Parker had passed upon the for the last four years. prsoner, Mr. Parker havng carred nto effect a sentence for A prvate letter from one who has tradng nterest n tke more than a year before he had an opportunty of layng hs report of the tral before the Admnstrator, keepng wth the "You wll be glad to hear that the war u thrmorah Country Serra Leone Rvers thus graphcally descrbes the whole affar.- law. learned gentleman, after ably revewng the facts of s at an end ; Governor Kennedy has managed to effect a settle, the case, declared that Mr. Ussher had not only rendered hmselfmane, both partes havng, et hs request, sent delegates to Fre~. lable to an acton for hs llegal acts, but that he would be tred, town. y met at Government House, and after a lo~& f Mr. Fnlason ded n prson, for murder, as Governor Wall palaver shook hands lout ensemm~. y were well treated, by was, who llegally caused Sergeant Amstrong to be mprsoned at Goree, where he ded, and the Governor, beng took them all over Government House, and chewed themev~o Governer Kennedy, who gave them a largo dnner party, tn4 responsble for hs death, was tred for the murder and executed. thng. In the evenng he took them to the battery, to wtne~ learned Counsel commented severely upon the mpropretythe revew of the troops and to hear the playng of the hand. of Mr. Ussher s conduct n gettng hs Chef Clerk, Mr. Elott, natve delegates were so much pleased that they thnk oxen. to nvestgate the charge aganst Mr. Fnlason at the polce-thncourt, and sad that by demandng exce~ve bal Mr. Ellott had themwere nvted to go up to the barracks, and as soo.n a_s they good of Governor Kennedy. next day the whol~ of lad hmself open to an acton. Wth regard to Judge Parker, got there, whch was at half.pest twelve o clock, a ealut of the learned Counsel sad that f the report of the tral annexedtwelve guns was fred n honour of the peace, notce of whch to the petton was true, Mr. Parker was unft to hold hs was gven the prevous day; n fact everythng went on well. " poston any longer, nasmuch hs conduct durng the tral Governor, accompaned by W. Graut, Esq., subsequsntly was llegal and hghly ndecent from the commencement to the conveyed the whole of the chefs n the coloual steamer to the concluson--he had also lad hmself open to an acton. dfferent rvers, and made hmself perfectly satsfed that the Durng Mr. Rany s argumen the Chef Justce made some chefs wll keep to the artcles of peace. Thus a good result, strong observatons relatve to the proceedngs of the Court whch has been desred for the last four years, hasbeen promptly below, but hs Hononr guarded hmself by remarkng that he brought about by the wse poloy of the present Governorcould not assume tha the report of the case was correct. General. Why could not Major Blackall have done ths, nstead At the concluson of Mr. Rany s arguments ther Honours of consprng away the chershed guarantees of the lbertes of gave judgmenthat they had no jursdcton to hear appeals n the people of West Afrca? Does not what Sr A. Kennedy has crmnal eases whch have not been provded for by Her thus ejected fully justfy au our complants and your denunostons of Governor Blackall, whom the Brtsh Government Majesty s Order n Councl. r B onoura though that Hs Excellency the Governor-n-Chef was the proper party to perssted n honourng for runng us?~yours, appeal to. SuxAclara. AFRICAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY--IMPORTANT FOUR HUNDRED AN-D FI~TYoONE EMIGRANTS ~O PETITION TO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF LIBERIA FROM AMERICA. SIERRA LEONE. Amercan Colonzaton Socety s shp Golconda le~ Savannah for Lbera May 14, wth 451 emgrants. majorty were To hs.excellency Sr.Jrl~,ur.FMward E ennedy, O.B., Governorn-Chef of the J-Feat Mfrcan Settlements, and th6 Honourable from the State of Georga~vz., 12 from Savannah, 5 from Members of the Legslatve Councl of Serra Leone. Augusta, 25 from Sparta, 37 from Maron, Twggs County, and petton of Wllam Rany, of Freetown, Barrster-at-Law, 204 from Columbus, Georga; 12 from Moble and 39 from Humbly Showeth,~That your pettouer, u the course of an Eufaula, Alabama; 4"2 from Columbus, Msssspp; 65 from extensve practce at the bar of ths country, has come across a Rdge, South Carolna; 9 from Nashvlle, ennea~e; and 1 great consttutonal grevance, whc he most respectfully submts to your Excellency and Honourable Couucl for amendment~monrova, 68; Cape Palmas, 90 ; and Grand Bases County, from Washngton, D.C. y chose as ther places of settlement and redrea~ It would.appear that a corporaton enttled " Afcen Sxty-eght can read, and 40 can read and wrte. 65 are farmers, Steamshp Company," extensvely tradng between England and 11 carpenters, 7 blacksmths, 4 shoemakers, 4 barbers, 2 housepanters, 2 confectoners, 1 plasterer, 1 brcklayer, 1 butcher, 1 the West Coast of Afrca, have, at stated perods, consderable property n ths settlement, and also a permanent agent--onegardener, 1 coppersmth, and 1 engneer. 62 are connected wth James Pnnoek, E~.~representng ther nterest here. the Baptst denomnaton, and 44 wth the Methodst. 5 am Although ths Company enjoy full legal power to sustan and lcensed mnsters of the Gospel~l of the number, Mr. Cook~ enforce, n our Courts of Law andequty, any clams they mght beng accompaned by 2 of the deacons and some 30 members of possess, yet t would appear, accordng to the annexed report of hs former congregaton Columbus, Georga. a case before the Supreme Court, that they hold themselves to be Most of the farmers and mechancs are well suppled wth free of all responsb.lty, and treat as a nullty any process takenagrcultural mplements and tools. Turnng lathes and the out agansthem n the Supreme Court of ths settlement. requste machnery for grst and saw mlls, for whoh ample Your Excellency and Honourablo Councl wll not fal to perceve what evls and socal wrongs must necessarly proceed from welt-to-do ~f them. Sewng machnes were not forgotten by the water power abounds n Lbera, were taken by some of the such an anomalous and unsatsfactory state of thngs ; whereforewomen. Free transportaton n the shp was gven ; such Your pettoner most humbly prays that your Excellency and artcles tendng to promote the success of the emgrants and the Wonourable Councl wll be pleased to have an Ordnance passedrepublo to whch they go. enablng every person who holds a bond.fde clam agansthe Elsha Tyson Woods, Esq., thrd son of General Woods, has Afrcan Steamshp Company to be n a poston to enforce hs been apponted to the Offces of Postmaster and Collector of rghts n our eourts.~and your pettoner wll ever pray. Customs, Cope Palmas, vce James M. Thomson. Esq., res/gned. June, Wx. R~x. Brg Sloam, Captan Salmon, belongng to Messrs. Cole and Co.. of Brstol, was wrecked at Snoe abou the eud of May. SIR ARTHUR KENNEDY UP MELLICOURIE. Baraue..L Gulford., belonon~, ~ O to Messrs. Hatton and Cookson, 3[0 ~:DIIOR OF TOE AYRICAI~" TIMES. of Lverpool, wal wrecked at Grand Bassa about the begnnng London, July, of June. S]r,~I send you, as promsed, notce of a most mportant Cutter Wlly Ann was wrecked at Nffoo : belonged to Messrs. event wl:eh has taken place n the Serra leone Rvers, Yates and Son, of Monrova. especally n the Morah Country. Snce 1865 you have never Schooner Isabella was wrecked off Berrby: belonged to 3..W. ceased to wage war wth the rulng power at S erre Leone for Cooper, Esq., of Cape Palmas. the apathy shown by t as regards the dsturbances whch were Lberan Government have now a war vessel called the gong on at the very door of the colony, and whch culmnatedlbera. n the sezure of the Mel][coure Rver by the French Government, aganst all trea.es and aya )as~ the express de~re of the DzAvrr of Ax AFalC~m Tr~vsrLsa.-- death s announced owners efthe land. By a chango n the rulng power at Serraof the Frer ch Afrcan traveller, Leutenant Le Sant, u explor- the country about the Whte Nle. He had already overcome :Leone a dfferent polcy, aud one consonant wth the requre-nmeats of the country, has been naugurated ; and by the adoptonmany dffcultes and reached Abou-Kouka, wth~ some sxty era wse and statesmanlke atttude toward the nave kngs and leagues north of Gondokoro, when he fell a votm, at the ago of chefs, 8Jr Arthur Kennedy has been enabled to resume a ther thrty.fve, to the nsalubrty of the clmate. Jv.Y 23, 1868.] ]:HE API IOAN TIMES. 5 DXEK&T OP" THg XLMINAS.--PEACE NEGOOI~-6~-S. challenge anyone to come forward and deny ths.--i enclose my ~a~. z~rto,~ or ~az Ar~IC~r xr~r~. card ; n the mean tlme call me Cortez. Effootoo, Cape Coast (Favtee Camp), June 5, Sr,~I have no doubt you wll be glad to hear that we have ASHANTEES ATTACKING WASSAWS. broken up our camp from before Elmna, and removed ten mles furlber off, and we are now havng a peaceful parley wth the F_,Imnas, who have made up ther mnds to contend no farther "~0 l ne ZDITOR OF A~RICAN TIMF~. Cape Coast. June 16, Sr,~Intellgence has ths moment come down from Western wth us; n fact t was foolshness on ther part to attack us, Wassaw, a dstance of 160 or 180 mles from ths, that the as we had no feelngs of hostlty agansthem when our army Ashantees have gone up suddenly n that drecton upon the frst started. people, aud plundered somnthng over 300 women and chldren, ~ he queston of the nterchange of Terrtory does not concorn them n any way f they had been prudent and kept them- Snce then battles have been fought. Ashantees, beng mere besdeseveral persons klled--they say more than a hundred. selves from meddlng t; but no, as s ther general e~onductnumerous, oblged the Wak~aws to retreat n the drecton of towards us, they must show ther ll-feelng towards us wheneverdenkerah. Ashantee messengers, three n number, besdes they had the opportunty; so they dd n ths case, by ntrgung, ther retnues, also twenty n number, who were detaned n kllng nnocent traders who were honestly seekng ther lvel-assnhood, and although we were fully aware of these crcumstances, had been some dffcultes before they could be prevaled upon to have been sent down to-day to the Admustrator. re what we amed at was that of brngng them to fdfl ther own come down, they beng under the apprehenson that. they would proposed allance wth us, and untl-they came wth force and be taken down to the Fantee camp, where they would be n tttabked some of our people we had no thought of sheddngdanger of ther heads beng cut off. y feel themselves more blood. Ths can be testfed by the Government Commssoner, at home here.--yours very truly, Oxs o~ rue Fa.~ r~r2. :who has had the opportunty of knowng our feelngs, and t can be seen also n that, Mthough we had upwards of 30,000 armed TO EDITOR OF X~mCA: q ~IXtE.S. men around Elmna, we made no attack upon t; all our battles Aeera, June 21, wth them have been defensve. It s wse of them to desre a Sr,--May I ask the favour of your nsertng your valuable peaceful arrangement wth us now, although late better than paper the enclosed copy of a letter from Mr. Parker, Chef Magstrate, Cape Coast Castle, to the kng and chefs of Chrstans- never, for we have another way of punshng them, whch would sorely affecthem and compel them to yeld to us. borg, also thereply to the same. last battle, on Tuesday, the 26th, was only engaged n by Ths refers to a matter, among many others of a smlar about one-thrd of our army, as there was no arrangement made nature, whch has been nstgated by Judge Parker. Mrs. for attackng them, and there was no room for all our army to Smth, the most respectable woman n Acera, s now on tral for act. I wll tell you how ths battle came on. Another Dutch domestc slavery, although she s not a Brtsh subject, and does vessel, drect from the Netherlands,.came nto Elmna Roads. not even know the Englsh anguage. Ths gave the Elmnas a foolsh confdence, and so theycame out Our extraordnary authortes, nstead of turnng ther attenton to the nterests efthe country by tryng to put.a stop to suddenly and made an attack on one dvson of our camp; and we thrashed them eoundly. Fantees not only drove them supersttons exstng, and the makng customs tbr the dead, back wth loss, but pursued them nto ther town, and the town whch cause more than half of the domestc slavery on the Coast, ran a great rsk bf beng taken by storm. re were a good are not only encouragng the people n ther eld customs, but many men klled and wounded on both sdes, and one body of makng a precedent for ther successors, whom we look forward the Fantees dd really get nto the outskrts of the town, although they were under the perpetual fre of a.dutch redoubt, to wth great anxety.. When we were payng two per cent. dutes we had our streets whch was drected agansthem to asss the Elmnas. I am tolerably dean; now that we pay, n some cases, thrty-three per sure you wll be glad to hear that the Fentees behaved so bravely. fact of the matter s we could have taken Elmn any tme cent. our prsoners, nstead of clearng the streets, are, I beleve, clearng away a pece of ground, whch I understand s called we lked, f we had been evl-mnded to them, as they were to us. Parker s Pont, and where t s rumoured Mr. Parker, the Chef We could have taken t n a nght attack, but then there would Magstrate and Judcal Assessor, ntends buldng a manson. have been all sorts of horrors. Would t be legal that ha should employ the hard-labour prsoners n buldng that mansoa?~i am, Sr, your obedent We want now proper uuderslaudng wth our Government out here, so that both the European agents and the natves may know servant, FAIR PLAT. how far one may go n performance of publc dutes. It would be hard to make you understand how much all the Pantee kngs and chefs dstrusthe Cape Coast authortes (Brtsh). y RE DOMESTI0 SLAVERY AT ACORA. are alwaysayng that t~y cannotrust the local Oorernm~tt. T~e followng were posted up n Mecr at fhs end of M ag, prelmhmry y beleve that the Queen s Government at home means well to them, but that t s qute the other way wth the men that to legal procetdt nys now go~q on at Cape Coast. ~OI ICR they send out to govern the Coast. Is hereby gven that any Brtsh subject who drectly or ndrectly s mplcated n slavery or pawnng s gulty of felony. I cannot help brngng nto your notce the great dsturbance the nterchange has brought on the country, and beggng that In any such ease, Judcal Assessor, the Cvl Commandant, or you wll do well n the course of your heavenly dutes for the any Justce of the Peace must, uuder all crcumstances, emancpate any slaves or pawns belongng to the offender ; and take poor Afrcans to work on the mnds of our knd frends n England to retrace, and commence on a dfferent course for ejectngprompt steps to have hm broughto justce, uuder statutes 5 ther good ntentons toward us.~yours affectonately, George IV., c aud 6 and 7 Vc., c 98. Fx,xrzz. (Sgned) By order, "El)wARD B. ANDIIXWS, Colonal Secretary. MISAPPLICATION OF GOLD COAST REVENUES. Cape ~ Coast Castle, October 30, zo ZHZ z~izoa o~ znz ArmC~.s- ~m~s. Republshed by ms ths twenty-sxth day of "May, one thousand eght hundred and sxty-eght. Acorn, June 20, Sr,~X~hen Governor Blackall was at Accra, n January last, (Sgued) W.A. PAnxEa. the merchants called upon hs Excellenoy n a body to pay ther Chef 3la~streto and Assessor. re, pacts. In speakng on the subject of dutes the Governor-n-Court-house, Acorn, May 26, Chef observed as follows: "I gve you my assurance, gentlemen, that every penny receved n Acora shall be expended n Accra, COPY. and not one penny shall be taken out of Accra for the beneft of To th~ K~y and Cl, efs of Chrdar, s~rg. any other place." se words were used by hls Excellency n ])ear Kng and Chefs,--Keep your mnds easy about the reply to a queston put by myself and repeated by all the othersslave cases. I have no ntenton to nterfere wth the famly present. Ths was on the 4th January. On the 17th March and domest/ nsttutons of the chefs and people of the Gold Mr. Ussher walks off to Cape Coast wth 600/. sterlng hard Coast Protectorate. proclamaton only apples to Brtsh cash from the Aecra chest. Not a segle farthng has been subjects wthn the forts and settlements, who are not under any spent n Acorn snce the new rate of dutes commenced, except n natve chef, but whose only chef s the Queen. Mr. Palmer s t n~reased sa~ares to offcals, and n payng ~[r. U~zher and Mr. a Queen s subject, not under any natve chef. I wll not dsturb Parker, the one three guneas and the other two guneas each day you or your people about slaves except n cases of cruelty.-- they were at Aecra, extra pay. By ths lttle arrangement Mr. ~Yours truly, (Sgued) Parker drew 92L whlst at Acorn, and Mr. Ussbe receved some W. A. PAI~KER, Chef Magstrate aud Assessor. 60/. for shootng partrdges, whlsthe landcg place and the publc buldngs, roads, and ever thng else n the charge of the Court House, Cape Coast, Juue 16, Government, s n the most awful state of run and dlapdaton. I Sc, n MS., but ths date s an error, oughto be Et~. A. T.

4 I 6 TEE ~ ~FRICAN TIMES. [JULY 23, To the Chef Magstrate arel.dssezsor.! such as may reflect hon0ur on ths great professedly Chrs: Chrstansborg, Aecrs, June 20, tlan countr), and brn o those advantages, to the portons of Sr,--We, the undersgned Kng and Chefs of the town of Afrca n whch t s exercsed that ough to flow from t, Chrstansborg, acknowledge the recept ef yours of the 16th but also that the publc mnd n those settlements should nst., and have observed the contents ef the same. re s one be made co.operatve n the work of Chrstsn cvlzaton. ~yonavu tu.u~ ~- -j " pont n your letter whch we humbly beg to brng before your e un every educated Afrcan, f possble, ttonour s notce---that s, wth regard to Mr. Palmer. If you to become an actve labourer for the advancement of hs wll allow us to rectfy that pont, Mr. Palmer s not a Brtsh well as for hs own ndvdual beneft. "We subject, but a subject under the Kng of Aquapm, wthn ths country, have to strv as everywhere for great moral and ndustrlai Protectorate. We consder that the educated and uneducated natves here are, as one body, subject to therespectve chefs, results. We look upon West Afrc as composed, of coua- Also we beg to be further nformed who are Brtsh subjects and tres of mmense productve resources, that only wat the who are not, as t leads to so much confuslon.--we have the ndustral facltes of cvlzaton for ther whch development s n ts turn ndspensable development, to the pmhonour to be your obedent servants, Na~x-v, Kng of Chrstansborg, hs X mark. gross of real Chrstan cvlzaton ; and we have to labour Tm~zrr Wv~vxgv, Chef, hs X mark. to brng about a state of thngs by whch those facltes of Bxnv Asowxt4 Chef, hs X mark: cvlzaton may be ntroduced. We suffer, and are strred Anox~, Chef, hs X mark. to anger, when we look and reflect on the stagnaton that Tz rr~ Nor, L, hs X mark. regns at Bathurst, even wth respecto. mere ndustr!al development n those vast Gamba countmes, for the Clans- CAPE COAST FE~IALE NATIVE SCHOOL. tlan cvlzaton of whch not a sngleffort s made by the Mrs. Joseph Moseley gratefully acknowledges the followng :-- European Government that holds n ts hands the key of Amount already publshed them, aud seems to thnk that t c)erforms all ts dutes n W. A. Mackunon, Esq., M.P. 1 O 0 Rght Hem Edward Cardwell, M.]~ levyng excessve taxes for the suppor~ of an offcal staff: and on the European persecuton of educated natves. We Collecton at Chrst Church, Hampsteaa, after a sermon by the ~ght ]Rev. Bshop Smth, D.D. are strred to anger when we behold offcals who have (late of Hong-Kong) proved themselves to be enemes to, and consprators -- Stuart, Esq aganst, the Afrcan nhabtants, allowed to fasten themselves lke leeches upon the fnancal heart of Serra Leonej drawng out the lfe blood whch ough to be made to gve ~hlles. strength and beauty to her--to make her healthy as an PUBLISHED MONTHLY. PRICE 5d., STAMPED. abode, to establsh n her the applances wthout whch she You are earvestly requested to allow your name to be added to the can never become the great seapor that nature seems lst ot yearly subscrbers. Prce 5s. per annum for each copy, payableto have otherwse ftted her to be--and to gve to all her n advance, chldren that educaton whch can alone enable them to become valuable ctzens. But we are, above all, overwhelmed wth shame and ndgnaton when we look upon ~J~ ~f~ ~~ ~ ~ ~~l~ the Gold Coast Terrtores. re rule has become lcentous tyranny; justce has been made not only a scandal, TIIURSD.d Y, JULY 23, but a revoltng scourge ; schools have been turned nto -- offcal brothels; ncreased revenues are squandered on MISCELLANEA. subservent and depraved tools ; whle the whole country, At the recommendaton of the Lords of the Prvy Councl, the from east to west, s n a state of commoton and dsorder, Crown has passed an Order n Councl removng Chef Justce runous to commerce, makng bankrupts of the whole B~umout from the Bench of Brtsh Guaua. tradng communty, and producng a combnaton of re For the nformaton of our frends n Lagos, who have (so sults whch reflect ndelble dsgrace upon the Brtsh Gonumerously) asked us whether the four months mprsonment of Mr. Lubley, of Lverpool, for the forcble volaton L~gos of vernment, and could only have arsen from a seres of a grt seven years of age, s the proper punshment under our offcal appontments whch lay open the system of Brtsh laws, we gve thn followng from the asszes now beng held n colonal government as admnstered at head-quarters to Ireland : "A rnfl]sn named Mannng was ndcted for the vola-charges whleh, f mnsteral responsblty under a conton of a grl only deren years of age. He was condemned to sttutonal government was not a deluson and a snare, flreen years penal servtude." We do not thnk, however, thatwould lead to much dsgrace and shame n Downng-street. t wll do well to say too much abouths, for fear all of the We have not even n ths copous vew of our felt respon- Mannng and Lubley trbe among us should transfer the scenesbltss---of the desolatng evlswe have to grapple wth, of ther operatons to Lsgos. and, by God s hell), fnally overcome--of the constructve tortures of "An Acorn Prsoner" n our next. elemen ts we have to combne aud mpel--we have not, we repeat, even n ths copous vew, stated one quarter of OUR :EIGHTH VOLU~IE. what weghs upon and nctes our mnd, and keeps n con- WIT~ ths number we begn the Eghth Year of the stant actvty our ndgnaton, ~ and our energes.; stll less Afrcan Tmes. commencement of a new volume of have we gven an mdteatmn of those extra edltormi labours our journal s for us always a perod of self-examnaton wthout whch the edtoral ones would more often reman and of much serous thought. frst queston wth us neffectve for good. progress of Lbera s near to on these ocoasons ls, notwhetherthegreatworkforafrca our heart--the relaton of Lagos wth Abeoku~--the whch we feel has been commtted to us by God has pro- spr~d of cvlsng nfluences through materal as well as spored n our hands, but whether we have done all n our sprtual channels through the heart of Yoruband across power to make t prosper--whether we have endeavoured the Nger--tbe navgaton of the Rver Volta--the openng properly and zealously to employ the "talent" whch has up of Ashantee--the brngng Dahomey wthn the sphere been entrusted to us. ~Vo thnk that we have; our heart of European cvlsng nfluences--the combnng_ clvlse.~ has beeu n thework ; we have not taken any step wthout results wth ncreasng commerce n the so-called 0 due reflecton, and when we have taken t we have strven Rvers, a result not htherto attaned there--and many, to make t effectual. What appears n the Afrcan Tmes many other problems of Chrstanty, humanty, progress, cannot gve any adequate dea of the contnual labour, and and justce are ever before our eyes. We are the confstran of thought, and amount of tme (to say nothng of dental recpents of all the cases of tyranny and oppress.on other amounts), whch ths work for Afrca nvolves, and l and wrong along the entre Coast; the njured pour ther wthout whch t could not be carred on wth any hope of t complants upon our edtoral table ; and n constant vew makng t effectual for those results whch t s most ra- lot njustce and evl whch are past remedy, we are conportent for Afrca should be obtaned. re are not only I stantly rasng anew the cry, "How long, 0 Lord, ho~r evls to combat and remove, but good to be naugurated I long?" But even wth what we have here stated, may and nurtured. We have not only to labour that~rtsh we not ask wth confdence, "Is Our task, then, an easy rule n our settlements on the West Coast should become one r" And are we not justfed--nay, more, s t not our J u~y 23, 1868.] AFRICAN TIMES. 7 Lneratve duty to call upon all the educated Afrcans and suppose that they magned--vz., that t s to show that thor frends along the Coast to strengthe, our hands by th~ magstrate or ~udge-has no need whatever to look at some one or all of the means that may be supposed to be the lst of penaltes whche s authorsed to nflct, but at present under ther consderaton? And f t s our duty may mprson, flog, and torture as t seemeth good n hs to call upon them, how much more s t ther duty to respend to our call, whch we repeat n a few words, own eyes. We boldly assert, wthout fear of contradcton, that, whenever a magstrate or judg exceeds by one ota Strengthen our hands; the labour s ours, the fruts of.t n a sentence what the law allows,-he does then hmself wll be yours and for your chldren. become a crmnal, and merts a very severe punshment "We have not been able to carry nto effect our some f he thus offends n or through gnorance, he s totally tme snc expr~sod desre to enlarge_our ~ournal a~ ths unft for the poston n whch he has been placed, and perod; we hope, however, that our Eghth Volume wrt ough to be mmedately dsmssed; whle f he thus offend through malce, short of hangng there s no punshment prove to be, God helpn~ us, not nferor to ts predecessors authorsed by the Brtsh code that would exceed what s an zeal for Afrca, and m success for her,~ple, and ther due to hs enormous offence. If we were wrtng for any nterests, poltcal, socal, ndustral, and Chrstan. other Brtsh terrtores than those on the West Coast of IMPRISONMENT OF MR. FINLASON. Afrca, we shouldeem t altogether unnecessary to allude to the scales whch allegorcal Justce holds n her hands, Trm atroctes practsed agansths unfortunate gentle-becausman were not at an end when the last mal left Accra. He trate or judge could suppose hmself authorsed to pronounce t would never enter nto our mnds that any mags- was stll n the den to whch he had been consgned. An judgment or sentence wthout hearng or weghng evdence; but the West Coast clmate seems to breed such mon- ndependent and trusty correspondent wrtes: "Unless Fnlason s promptly lberated I beleve that f he.does lve. to strous fances n the heads of dseased and enervated autho- that t may not be amss to set even ths fact before come out of prson t wll be as a raamac. 1ms mornngrtes, the Commandant was asked, as a great favour, to auow the ther eyes. :From the momen that success crowned the prson door to be open some tme durng the day, as the gross and nfamous ntrgue whch robbed the resdents and [neat s now excessve ; but ths was dened ~ ra! It wouldnatves on the West Coast of the rght of tral by jury n be an act of eha/ ty for hm to be hanged." Roy. cvl causes, the Admnstraton of Justce there has never ZIr. Wharton, Wesleyan mnster at Acora, had drawn up ceased to engross our attenton, especally as t was m- a petton for hs lberaton, whch was sgned by all the slnuated from Serra Leone that t mght be advsable to people, :European and natve, the Basle msson agentsrob them of tral by jury n crmnal cases also. It commercal and clercal alone excepted. It should be seemed to us, who knew what was passng on the ~Vest borne n mnd that the Commandant, who thus refused the Coast, so strange that when consderng the queston "Can request for that mtgaton, s also t?,e only medcalthe people be safely trusted, wth jures n cvl causes," attendant of the pn sons, that the prsoners are entrelythe Colonal Secretary of State and hs to be presumed m- subordnates dd not also place before themselves at hs mercy and at that of the gaoler. Mr. Fnlasohpartal ought not to owe hs lberty to any such petton (thoughfor consderaton Can magtstrates and judges on the ths was not the reason why the German mssonares refused to sgn t) ; he ought to have been, and we trustn cvl causes wthout a jury?" We feel 9ute sure that West Coast be safely entrusted wth the power of decdng wll have been, lberated by order of a superor authorty f they had known as much of the West Coast as we de, to that of the Admnstrator of the Gold Coast; because, that last queston, f farly consdered, would have led to whether Fnlason s murdered, or fnally lberated nsane, ther leavng thngs as they were--leavng to. the people or obtans hs lberaton whle lfe and reason yet reman, ther jures, and exercsng especal care that ther ma~s- and judgeshould be what they ought to be. But, there wll be heavy scores to settle wth all who have beentrates partes to the treatment he has receved for havng ths was not done; they were robbed of ther jures n "threatened to throw out of the wndow of hs (Fnlason s) cvl causes--and whle our ndgnaton was stll hot, that house a magstrate when n the dscharge of hs publcndefatgable enemy of oppresson and wrong, Mr. Rany, duty," that magstrate beng Mr. Cleaver, agent to ~r. furnshed us wth a llst of alleged llegal sentences pro- bytheactng Judge of the Supreme Court, Horato Swanzy, of London, and son of Mr. Cleaver, of the L~reennounced Dragon, Whtechapel, who was n l nlason s house wthout any warrant, and not actng upon any sworn nforma- James Huggns, n Whch the element of wh~.png fgured ton, or other authorty than a verbal one from the Admnstrator, whch we are certan could not enttle hm, the Secretary of State was called to t. Tme went on, very remarkably We publshed that lst n August last (1867), and n the House of Commons the attenton under the :Englsh law, to ntrude nto and nsult the master of the~aouse. We beg to refer our readers to the Mr. Horato James Huggns was apponted Pusne Judge of the Supreme Court, and we could then only thnk that statement made by that frend of the oppressed, ~fr. Rany, there had been some mstake, and that the sad. sentences before the Court of Appeal at Serra Leone n ths ease so sad to have been pronounced by hm were legal. We (p. 2). It wll repay perusal. We have only now were compelled to take ths vew ; w~ could not n our own express anew our honest ndgnaton the atr oc.tl.esmnds admt for a moment the posshlty of the noble heaped n ths nstance upon a ~rtsh subject n a gm~tsasecretary of State for the Colones havng made such an settlement by.brtsh authortes, and to renew our pledgeappontment wthout havng frst made full nqury, and that we wll do all n our power to brng the gulty partesestablshed beyon doubt ether that such sentences had to justce and punshment. never been passed at all by Mr. Huggns, or that they were /egal But searcelys Mr. Hugglnsseatedon the llencb, nn ler ILLEGAL SENTENCES ON WEST COAST. hs new appontment, than we have to publsh a second lst A P~mE, mpartal, and unmpassoned admnstraton of of alleged lle~l sentences by hm (rde Afrcan Tmes, justce, cvl and crmnal, les at the very foundaton of June, 1868) But even then we had a doubt--t dd not the lbertes of a people. In cvlsed communtes a judge seem possble, but stll t mght be--that all the prsoners s the representatve of the monarch or the naton ; thesethus under who91sng sentences mght be under the age of have beforehand fxed and assgned the amount of punshment that shall fall upon convcted crmnals, and the men t~t =~hch they were to be nflcted should have sxteen, although even then there should have been but... ~,;.,n;,,,,, and the number of strokes and the nstru- powers conferred the judge extend no further than to the nflcton of the whole or a porton of the assgned been specfed n the sentence." We repeat t. dd not seem punshments or penaltes. And these powers should be possble that they could be all under sxteen, but nether exercsed wthout dstncton of persons. We beg at the dd t seem possble that any Brtsh Judge could have outseto assure the judges and magstrates n the Brtsh ordered such wholesale and unlmted whppngs wth possbly anacal cat, snce the nstrument was not specfed. In Colones and Settlements on the West Coast of Afrca that t s n allegory of ths expected mpartalty that Justceanother column (p. 2), however, wll be found..the several s symbolsed wth the bandage over her eyes ; and not, as ages of the several prsoners n the sad two lls~s we nave recent proceednga on the West Coast would lead us to publshed, I and t wll be seen that they are not only al

5 I.! 8, AFRTCAN TIMES. [J~LY 28, 186~k! "l above sxteen, but that one s even ffty years of age. ] t~ 16,s, any copy of tt~fr ndc~nu~t on the c]tarpe, and Z~l~ affdavt from whch these ages are taken, and whch we [ that tll yuferday th~ nero" sren t~ard of tl~ yau ; tl~y & ~I kno~ who s th~ pro~uutor, and wrfo nrcrf examned or eanratl~l are told has been sent n to hs Grace the Secretary of State for the Colones, seems to us to be unmpeachable, for tral l~ow, on Mr. any Edtor, such charge. s ths Englsh law? because t s,qute and justfes our treatng of those whppng sentences as dfferent from anythng we have known before here, though establshed fuels. And monstrou sentences they are. We there have been queer thngs enough n my tme u ths vacatedfor settlement of Great Brtan. But I want to know whether say nothng of the two men one dead and one escaped, but wthouthese,, there are SIXTEEn ndvduals, from the ages we can lve here or not? Whether any man made a I.P. has a of seventeen to ffty nclusve, each to be thrce prra(elyrght, f the Admnstrator chooses to send hm, to come nt,,our ~chpped, and one of them, John.dllen, aged thh ly, to be house and nsult us, and that we must bte our tongue, and be slent, and subm to all, and look upon hm (even f he ~ISE r.,trs WraPPeD, the prsoner havng pleaded come from among the pewter-pots at the Green Dragon Publc. " gulty" to three charges for whch he was ndcted : house n Whtechspel, n your London) as surrounded wth.the n,e wmppngs, under whch (so far, at least, as an)" restrcton s mposed by the Judge n the sentence as regards ths. I want to know whether we can. be apprehended mad sacred halo of a magstrate. And I want to know more than ether number of blows or nstrument), f he has ncurredput n prson, say on the 10th of the month, and, wthout havng any specal dspleasure of the gaoler, or f the gaoler be been brought before a magstrate, and commtted on any eharg% very brutal, all the flesh ma~ bc cut off.from hs bones, or may, say on the 15tf, be served wth notce that we are" to be he may be done to dealh. Are we not rght n sayng that tred on the 17th on a very serous charge, and be even on the these sentences are most monstrous? We know nothng 16th wthout any copy of the ndctment on whch we am to be personally of Mr. Huggns, even as we know nothng,fled on the 17th? Why how could we defend ourselves n suoh personally of Mr. Parker,.who has sentenced Mr. Fnlasona poston? I want to know these thngs, ~r. Edtor? If at Cape Coast to one year and one day s mprsonment, for we are to be lable to ths sort of thng, the whole coast and all ts trade may go to the devl for me, /~r. Edtor, for I won t havng " threatened to throw a magstrate out of the wndew when n the executon of hs duty," a sentence whch stop. re s no money reason (and ndeed trade s pretty nearly runed) that would keep me here f that s to be the s beng carred out wth an extreme severty, and whch system. Why, suppose any man here, who happens to be n we also beleve to be llegal, and shall beleve to be llegalfavour wth the authortes, takes a grudge aganst me, I mght untl we are ponted to the statute whch author;sosuch be shoved nto a den at Aeera and treated worse than a wld a sentence for the offence Mr. Fulason was charged wth l beast, lke poor Fnlason. :No, Mr. Edtor, f you cannot pro~ havng commtted. If ths latter sentence be legal we can to me that I am safe from ths sort of thng I mtt~t dear oul A soon be corrected regardng t, by 3Ir. Parker gvng us: frend sent me out by last mal one of your new songs, and I the necessary~: nformaton as to the statute under whch he shall say wth ths $taut~d song, "l~ot for Joseph, oh no l" and passed t--a sentence for whch members of the Englsh [ clear out. I shall look for somethng from you n the July Bar n London assure us that they cannot fnd any t paper, Mr. Edtor, so no more at present from Tnmra~n. authorty whatever., In vew of these serous and dreadful facts as regards the admnstraton of justce on the "West / / OUR COTTON STILL SHUT UP IN KREPEE. Coast of Afrca n Brtsh Colones and Settlements, we zo ZHZ zn~oa oz zaz ~Faze~x TreEs. thnk t rght to state the course whch we feel t to be our Jamestown, Acorn, June 7, duty to pursue. present Parlament s, u~happly, so Sr,~Can you not help us? For God s sake rng our trouble~ near ts dssoluton as to render t dffcult to obtan for so and most just grevances nto the ears of the Brtsh Government. monientous a subjec the deep attenton whch t deserves, Mere we are stll, starvng had bankrupt, because the GoldCoast We hope and h:ust~ that a superor offcal authorty wll authortes don t know how, or do not choose, to nsst on that nterfere to ;prevent the cont, uanee of lleg~alty n all and paltry lttle trbe of Rver robbers on the Volta, the Aqnamoos, every the cases to whch we have called attenton. But lettng our carrers and cotton come down out of Krepee. You, we do not look upon that as suffcent, and are already :Hr. Edtor, ought, ndeed, to fght for us u ths cruet wrong; takng the prelmnary measures for brngng the whole you urged enough upon us a few years ago to stmulate the matter of the admnstraton of justce on the W est Coast cotton growng n KrepeeDand we have done so, and have sent up plenty of cotton gns~and the people have eatered heartly of Afrca, wth ts gross partaltes, ts excesses, and ts nto the cultvaton of cotton, and there s lots of t up them, enormtes, before the new Parlament, the Wrts for electng members for whch t s now fxed shall be ssued n for now two or three years, sh,t[ up from us, beeau~ the Government do not choose to allow us to put down the ~November. It s manfestly tme that Parlament should Aquamoos, nor to nsst on ther leavng off to plunder and occupy tself wth matters whch are brngng a deep dsgrace upon the Brtsh name on the West Coast of Afrca. our cotton. only people for whom ths state of thngs murder and kdnap our people f they attemp to brng down... answers s the Basle and Bremen commercal mssonares, who CONDEMNATION OF BA~NINERMANS, OF ACCRA. have mercantle agents at Quttah and $ellee Coffee, C~pe Coast, June 16, kwoonah places on the ~a-coast on the other sde of the Volta. Dear Sr,---Your actve frend and correspondent, Edmund Aquamoos are the alles of the wconahs, and so the I~annerman, of Accra, and hs brother James, who were $roughbm.~son mercantle agents there get down ther cotton to shp to down here frets.aecra for tral, Heaven and the authortes alonehamburgh and Bremen, whle we are not allowed to get GUm to l now why, have been fonnd gulty of "personaton, llegal resfrahd, and extorton," charges we never heard of before n our tsh Government, and they can get ther cotton from Krepee ; we shp to Lverpool At Awoonah they pay no dutes to the Br- courts, sad have been sentenced, James Bannerman to twelve are overwhelmed wth dutes, lcenses, and what not, and l~ut months and Edmund Bannerman to sx months mprsonmentunder the restrcton of all eorts of laws, and can t get down an ~th hard labour. It seemed to me that the evdence was ounce of cotton to take advantage of the no~z good prces at Lverpool, and so we are runed--runtd. For God s sake get help of entrely n favour of the prsoners, but 1 must suppose I was mstaken, because the judge, n summng up, sad to the jury, some sort for us.--your fend% "h ow, gentlemen, you have no choce; you mug fnd them THg RUINED AGORA TRADZI~. gulty, for I tell you planly that these two papers now.lad before you arc llegal, and all who are connected wth / t are gulty of personaton, llegal rtdrabd, and czto; tfon." / DOMESTIC SLAVE QUESTION.,/ ~O EDITOR OF ThE AFRICAN TIMES. se were the very words used by Mr. Parker." Mr. Barrels defended James Bannerman. Mr. Edmund Bannerman Chrstansborg, Acorn, June 7, defended hm.~clf. obedent jury brought n a verdct of Sr,~Proceedngs have been taken aganst partes here on the "Gulty," and the sc.ntenees I have told you of were pas~d. charge of "keepng and sellng domestc slaves," and some, I beleve, have been taken down to Cape Coas to be tred for ths But now (f~r I cannot send you more about ths tll next month) offence. there ~s somethng that none of us can understand at all, t h ow our relaton wth the,brltsh Government s that of beng so very dfferent to anythng we have seen here before. se gentlemen were tred and sentenced on the 10th nstant~ Prober[orate, not a colony. ~yng s that "wthout law there sno am." wll" of a supertor" ts not,mperahvel " " and now, ytderdag, the 15th, they both got notce b~ therprt scn that to-morrow, th~ 17th, they are to be tred agan on a charge bndng untl t s suscently declared; t ou--,hto be so declared before any penalty can attach to dsobedence. If the of odnz and abettng the slave trade. ~ T~y hare notgot yet, nhabtants of the Protectorate are to be brought under Brtsh See Slave Ir~da,Notec~ and Cortespondenceat Accra, p. 5.--ED. A. 7". law n ths matter of domestc s/ayes, ought not the frs thng to AFRICAN TIMES. 9 have been to promulgate the law, and state that t would henceforth be enforced~ and that all offendng aganst t wouldbe.d. Commendah s a porton of the Fantee Terrtory. Com- Q. What s Commendah, and who are the Commendahs? pnnshtd? But surely ts not rght when ths has not been mendahs are noted for bravery, and have contnually joned us u dons to come down upon certan people for felony when all the all our wars wth the Ashantees. country, s equally gttlty, f them can be gult under such crcnnlst~nees. ~/. Commendah decdedly betbngs to the lnkkoosookoom Q. To whch of these dstrcts does Commendah belong? But. there s another thng. We am now told that the laws dstrct. for emancpaton of dcmestle slaves are n force. But f we had Q. How came t, then, that Commendah was stuated so far people n authorty who knew anythng at all abou the country, as about ffteen mles west of Elmna, and was qute separate they would frst have made some provson for flares thus to be from the Fantce Terrtory? ~ancpated. Nothng of ths h~ been done; and the consequence has been that some of them, havng nowhere to goto, rove that town, went and settled there for the purpose of carryng on.d. By tradton we are tdd that Aga Take, the founder of about n the nght and commt hghway robberes on the poor the slave-trade. Commendah was, we presume, a name gven to bushwamen who may be comng to Aeem wth palm-ol and that town by the European slave-dealers n those days. Its, other produce for sale. Some have been put n the chan gang, proper natve name bengaga Taks (corruptly Akke l uke.) and one man has been hanged for kllng a woman n the most questoner sad, " I am now qute satsfed, and wll jo~r brutal manner n the bush. If the Brtsh Government were ths Elm;ha expedton, and avenge upjn the Elm;nan tbr jonng gvng us proper proteetou n return for the heavy dutes they u the destructon of Commendah Town, and kllng a grea~ t~ke from us we should be only too happy submssvely to obey many of the Fantees, who had been sojournng or settlng u the them n everythng. But then we are, the whole country s n Abantah Country, for the purpose of dong busness or for obtanng the means of lvelhood. a great me~, and no proper step s taken for ts amendment ; yet the Government s puttng forth new laws, whch I am sure Now, Sr, to hde nothng from you, I must say that wll brng another trouble. Poor Ynla-~on, t s sad just now a great many of our people were, n the frst nstance, nmvlln$ s to ba released, n consequence of the knd nterventon of your to jon ths expedton, because they fanced the Brtsh autho. able co-operator, n the cause of.the Afrcan people, your,frendrte~ dd not (nor do they now) Sancton t ; but for these and. Mr. Rany, the advocate of Serra Leona. If he had been forcedothe reasons they feel themselves qute justfed n jonng t.~ to reman longer n hs horrd prson he must have succumbedyou~, A Gv.~zx Xh~-. under hs troubles ; hs treatment has been ndeed severe.~ ~.B.--It snecessary to remark that Gomooah, the largest and You~ fncemly, most extensve of the whole, s subdvded nto four dstrcts~ Aces/ vz., Ass;n, the seat of Kng Ortabll; Ajumaeoon, seat of Kng JUSTICE OR NO JUSTICE! Otkll ; Wnnebah, seat of Kng Henry Acquah ; and Argoonah, To z~z snxroa o~ ~m~ a~aic~r z~. scat of Kng Yew DodGe. Jamestown, Acorn, June 6, Sr,--I am a natve of ths place. I left here some years ago LITERARY NOTICE. and only very recently returned, and, seeng the state of thngs n general, I wsh to ask a queston or two relatng to ths place. We*~ Afrcan Countres ant 2~oples, ~ c.,.~ e., and a V,,dcato,~ "l; wsh to know what the Government here call the Brtsh Prorectorate, and s t only for ther own convenence, or for the of the Mfrtan Race. One Vol., 8no, p 287, wth Map of West Ar;ca. By James Afreanus B. Herren, M.D., S.A.S., F.R.A.S., "de;,&e. Johnson, 121, Fleet-street, London. beneft of the coulatry? If, for nstance, I am n my plantaton and am summoned n the Court here, of course the polce can be W~g hal hs work wth pleasure. We have long wanted books sent to go the dstance of twelve or ffteen mles and brng me on Afrca wrtten by Afrcans, and t s a most evdent sgn of n~ but f I happen to have a case n the bush, and apply to the progress that there should now be at least one educated West Court for assstance, my only consolaton s to be told," Oh! Afrcau enterng the lterary lsts for hs country, hs race, and sorry, but t s out of the jursdcton ; we can do nothng for those honoura whch attend successful authorshp. We cannot you." ~ ow, pray, Mr. Edtor, what are we to understand by ths mouth attempt a revew of the book ; we have receved t so ths? Justce or no justce! Some short tme ago everybodylate that we have scarcely had tme to glance at t, but we hare was n hgh glee a~ the thought of hs IIonour the Chef seen enough already to convnce us that ths work of Dr. Horton s :Magstrate comng to vst the place, but the consequence was deserves the especal patronage of all educated Afrcans, and that when he came people got nto prson, wthout any examna-oughton. It must be supposed he thought he was rght n what he where there s any pretence of a collecton of books on Afrca. moreover to be on the ehelves of every Englsh lbrary was dong, but t s a sort of way We don t lke, and looks lke Wth these few words we must dsmss t for the present. that old Scottsh law I have heard of, of hangng a man frst and tryng hm arerwards. I don t know how t s, bat somehow APPLICATION TO RE-~[OVE A JUDGE. everythng turns out bad for ths poor. unfortunate place and JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF PRIVY COUNCIL, J-eLY 6. people. y tax us plenty; and st stll and let us be runed(present: Duke of Buckngham, Sr W. Er/e. Lord Justce by just a handful of Aquameos up the Volta Rver. We Wood, Lord Justce Selwyn, Sr Robert Phllmore, ~r J. musn t help ourselv~, and they won t help us. I dare say we Colvll, and Sr E. V. Wllams.) oughto be very gratef, q to be taxed, and fned, and ehovcd nto COURt OF PeLter C. CHIEF JUSTICE BEAUMONT. jal for tmythng or nothng, but we don t lke t yet.~[ am, Ths ease was specally apponted for hearng to-day, ou whch respectfully your% Ax AFntc~x. occason the Duke of Buckngham, as Colonal Secretary, attended. re had been proceedngs at Brtsh Guana, and TILE FANTEE COUNTRY AND ITS KINGS. another appeal was apponted to be heard, obtaned by Mr. ~O :EDITOR OF. A]?aICAN TIMES. M Dermott, who was the propretor and edtor of the Colonst Gomooah Dstrct, Fantee, Gold Coast, May 22, newspaper, and had been commtted for sx months for contempt - Sr,--I send you ths, hopng tmay, u some measure, assstfor certan artcles publshed u that paper. A memoral had you n your knowledgeof the Fantce Country, and be of use n been presented by the nhabtants of the colony to the Court of these crtcal moments. Polcy, and they had presented to ths Government a memor d A few days ago some well.lnformed natves were dscussngfor the removal of Chef Justce Beaumont, and t had been referred to the Judcal Commttee to nvestgate the several charges matters havng reference to the "exchange of terrtory palaver," or, as they have t, the "Dutch and Englsh flag exchantngs," and I heard these questons and answers :-- Attorney-General. the Solctor-General, Mr. Ed. F of msconduct. Q. What are the boundares of the Fantee Terrtory? Moore, and Mr. Ftzroy Kelly were for the Crown n support of.d. From the Sweet Rver, west of Cape Coast, down to the the applcaton for the removal of the Chef Justce; Sr Roundell Palmer and Mr. Craeknell were for Chef Justce Beaumont. Rver SekkoJm, west of Aecra. Q. Of how many dstrcts does the Fantee Terrtory consst? Attorney-General opened the case, premsng that the A~ Properly speakn g of eght separate dstrcts, thus nsmed--government, who had appled for an adjournment on a former Iggwah, or Cape Coast, Auamabee, Abrah, Iukkoosookoom, occason, were not prepared to prove certan dates end documents Ayan; Afooab, Ekkoonfe, and Oomooah. n the proceedngs, lee stated the case at consderable length, Q. Please name the Fantee kngs and the respectve dstrcts. and dlated on the several charges of alleged msconduct, referrng.d. Essah, or John Aggery, Kng of Cape Coast; Ammonoo to the conduct of the Chef Justce to Mr. M Dermott, of the --t,, *, Ansab, or Quow Somman, Kng of Anamaboe, Anfoo 0too, Colonal newspaper, whose appeal would follow the present one. Kng of Abrah; Essee Andorh, Kng of Iakkoosookoom; Attorney-General had not concluded hs address when Acquanoo, Xng of Ayan ; Mooquah, Kng of Afooah ; Acknee, ther lordshps adjourned. Kng of EkkconfeI Ortabll, Kng of Gomcoah. Argoonah, SttNG OF JULY lo. whc has Yew DodGe for ts kng, s, by rghts of war, annexed brguments of tho counsel on both sdes have occuped the to the Gomoosh dstrct. paramount kng s Eddoo, who commttee for four prevous sttngs, and to-day r~sdes at Mankeszm~ the,captal town of Fantee. Attorney-General repled, aud contended that the nterest~

6 I.! t 10 AFRICAN TIMES. [$tly 23, OFFICERS OF WEST INDIA REGIMENTS. of publc justce requred the removal of Chef Justce Beaumont Under ths headng a. letter has appeared n the Daly from the colonal bench. Td...~ ~vned. " Chas S Ru~ell, 2nd West Inda Regment, Duke of Buckngham, at the concluson of the fve days commandng troops Gold Coast and Loges. He complans that argument, sad, "r lordshps wll subm ther opnon to before a Parlamentary Commttee, on the 14th May, 1867, n Her Majesty." answer to a queston, 2,865 n Blue-beck, "We have heard, case broughthe sttngs of the 3udclal Commttee to a about somethng more than physcal neffcency; t has been close, and the appeal of Mr. M Dermott, of the Co~M,t newspaper, to reverse the judgment of sx months for contempt, stands stated that t [clmate] affects ther mnds, and that they become demoralsed. Mr. Deputy-Commssary-General de Fonblanque over untl the next sttlngs--probably n December. sad : ~Whether t s owng to clmate or what, I cannot say, RIVER GABOON COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES. but t s an unfortunate fact that the offcers the West Inda regments generally drnk harder than any other class of offcers. We have just receved the report of a meetng of the French I remember meetng one offcer who told me that he was the Geographcal Socety, at whch the French Vce-Admral Fleurot survvor of a batch of eleven who went out to the West Coast de Langle, who lately commanded the French ~uadrou on the of Afrca, and, wth the excepton of two, who were transpotted, West Afrcan Coast, was present. M. de Langla stated that the others had all ded of delrum tremens. " there are n the neghbourhood of the Gaboon natves "who, accordng to tradton among them, came from countres to Captan Russell complans of ths statement, and says: "re are now servng on ths coast offcers whoso expehenca the eastward (nteror), and were eleven moons n makng ther journey. ~ people bear the general desgnaton of Fans, and of West Inda regments extends over perle.%, varyng from sxteen to ten years, and they cannot remember anther th8 felons are dvded nto two branches, the Bakch, whch seerd to be the or the drunkards. If Mr. do Fonblanque have any sense of western branch, and the Bakals, the southern eve. re s a great resemblance between the Fen and the Zulu languages. justce he ought ether to gve up the name of hs nformant, When questoned about the upper course of the Rver Og6one, admt that he spoke wthout consderaton before the Select the natves of the Oaboon affrm that t proceeds from a great Commttee, end wthout havng suffcent grounds for brngng lake called Tern n the country of N doua, ~,here the nhabtants forward that whch he stated... I refran from gong at are anthropopha~, and speak the Fan or Pahoua language. M. ]engtl~ nto the queston whether these offcers "drnk harder".de Laugle gave some account of the great ncrease of West thau those n other corps--i can say from my experence that Afrcan commerce, especally n vory. He stated that from they do not; but t ought to be remembered that the Coast of "Senegal to Angola some 200,000 tons of produce are now kf ca s not a pleasant staton, and perhapsome excuses could annually exported ; and he concluded by some remarks u2on t~e be found for men servng almost wthout the )ale of cvlsaton." recen~ extendon of t~ French cmony of t~e Gabo~n, whch now, M. de Fonblanque a statement s certanly a very sweepng he sad, ncludes the Rver Fernand Vaz, and embraus all ttm~ one, and one whch, f not satsfactorly refuted, must nflct an porton of the We, t Coa,t between Cape 8l. do~n and Cape,St. ndelble stgma upon the West Inda regments. We shall be Catherh~e. ~ glad to see t so refuted ; but t s beyond all queston that the deaths and uvaldngs of offcers servng u Her Majesty s West NATAL. Inda regments on the West Coast of Afrc are numercally COAL.~A superor anthracte coal has been dscovered forty out of all proporton to the deaths and nvaldng among an ~mles from Durban, croppng out along the beach. equal number of European mercantle agents end traders carryng GoLn.~A dscovery of gold s sad to have been made at on ther avocatons on the West Coast, and who are more exposed Buffalo Bush. on the north-west fronter. to the nsalubrous nfluences of the clmate than the offcers n SvoAn.--- estmates htherto put forward of ths sea~n squeston. re must be a cause somewhere; f t be not excessve drnkng or excessve ndulgence other vces, what s crop of sugar wll, accordng to present appoarauce% be far exceeded. t? Let t be known, so that t" may, f po~ble, be put an end CorrEE.~ yeld of the coffee crop, so far, generally exceeds expectatons, and the weght of berres s most satsfactory. ward, t s our duty to strve for some practcal good results, and to. Snce the subject has been thus promnently brought for- DxA,~o.xns.~Three small damonds have been found wthn we shall be glad of any evdence from the West Coast relatng a short dstance of Rustenburg, and have been forwarded to thareto.--ev. A. 21. the Colonal Secretary of Capetown. One s worth MA1zs.~ crop ths season s almost unprecedented. PROOF OF HOW LITTLE MERE COMMERCE AS prce has falleu to Is. 8d. per bushel. CARRIED ON IN WEST AFRICA DOES FOR CHRIS- THZ GoIm-DlOOlXO Ex.PZDlZ~O~-.~ gold dggers from TIAN CIVILIZATION. Potchefstroom had arrved n the gold country, where they had O ]~DITOR OF A]?RICA2q ~IS F~. receved permsson to dg from the chef Matchn, who has sent Duke Town, Old Calabar, Aprl 27, to the Hgh Commssoner beggng to be accepted as a Brtsh Sr,--Onthe Ist of Aprl the case between Captan -- and subject, as have also several other chefs n the nteror. So hs cook came before the Kng s Court. cook was called much for the prestge of the Crown n Afrca. Mr. Harthy, upon to produce hs evdences, and called three or four persons, leader of the gold.seekng party, had gone to nsgoeate and who, beng nterrogated by the Kng, sad t was true that.confer wth Meselekatse, the Napoleon of the North, who has s a robber of bullocks, as the wrter of thshad hmself also many sent back Commandant Vljoen, envoy from the Transvaal Republc, dsapponted. Of ths goldfeld, Mr. Mauch says: "I had some tme ago, who stated that used to send the Kroo tmes heard from one of coopers, au Aecra man, whom he frmly beleve the whole of the country, from the borders of boys n the nght nto the own to catch bullocks and kll them, the Transvaal to the Zambez, to be ~ne ra,t 9oldfdd, extend-anng a great dstance towards the west, and far surps~ng any the remander to hs agents n the rver. Captan havng serve out the meat to all the hands, and make presents of prevously-dscovered ones n sze and rchness."~a~rfdgedfrom found ovt the mess he was n, was oblged to carry some pro- Natal M ercury. ~nts to the Kng that he mght pacfy the matter for hm, because he heard that the natves were consultng to fne hm ffty SOUTH-EAST AFRICA FULL OF COAL. puncheons, or 12,000 gala of palm.ol; and I beleve the Kng follo~vng s from a Transva A letter n the Natal wshes to do all he can for hm, because he has not lost any of hs Mercurg :-- own bullocks, whle those who have lost thers are tryng for the "I see you are makng a great fuss about coal n Natal. but ffty puncheons fne. I can assure you, Mr. Edtor, that there s you need not fear about 8outh Afrca runnng short, for there s plenty ; from the B~ffalo N.E. to 1½ very lttle dea n England of what some of these supercargoes north of Delagoa Bay, s do here. Some pretend to call themselvcs Chrstans, by constant attendanca the church, and sttng at the holy table of one contnuaton eta coalfeld; agan, n a south-east drecton from the Bggarsberg to St. Lucy s Bay, where coal crops out our Lord s Supper, and as soon as they are out of the church wthn seven mles of water carrage to tbe mouth of the they are the worst of drunkards, lars, whoremongers, gamblers, Umvaloze. In ths dstrct every one of the farms nspected last &c., and the rngleader s the agent of a Glasgow house, who has year, from Blood Rver to the Pongolo(sxty-seven n number, and entced a lawful marred woman, by name of Mrs. George Waddl.e~ 6,000 acres each) has each ts coal mne. On the transport road and keeps her as hs own. I always fnd her, nght and day, m to New Scotland waggon-drvers burn coal, whch s obtanable hs hulk. husband tred n van to get back hs wfe, and wthout any expense for mnng. Boers n the negh as he could not get reven~e or justce, he was oblged to leave bourhoe<l supply M Corkndale s! establshment wth coal at Is. 6d. ths place for Fernando ~o, eghteen months ago, nnd has never per mud. town of Utrecht s bult on a coalfeld, and n the returned snce. Not only so, but ths same agent keeps many vcnty, on Paterson s farm, there s abundance of btumnous women besde, both n ths town and u Creek Town, and he s coal, whch burns lke a pne torch. Wth coal, ron, copperan elder n the Church. May I not say more an elder of Satan s and lead, South Afrca wll be able to supply the world." angels, thau of the Church of God? He and such men used to We thnk M. de Langle has unntentonally overttated the amouut.~ tell the natves to attend the church and be Chrstans. What Re. A. T. answer do they gve to them? "Why," they say, "do you call ~I,V 23, 1868.] AFRICAN TIKES. AFRICAN AG Et,;: yourself CArstans? You drnk and tell les more than I do, and every tme you come to my house you want me to gve you a woman." Ia not ths enough to harden the people s hearts, who For Transactng Busness Zng~,2.n never see ther lghtshne before men n good works, to glorfy ther Father who s n heaven? I can a~ure you agan that the and other Trers on the West C~..~ y mssonares hero are labourng van. I thnk t s over consequence of wshes twenty years snce the Word of God was brought here, and I expres.~ed from all.-~ Coast, MR. FlrzGznLD has made arrsngerproduce consgned to hm by shps to Londo- or ] have not seen ten pous natve Chrstans and well educated n the whole dstrct of Cnlabar. Oar mssonary, ~[r. Wllampurchasng, and shppng goods ordered a, Tanst "- Anderson, sad to one of the Calabar chefs, "You have done many consgnments or other effectve remttances 0~::; sns aganst your God, and f you de~ and God has to sentencethe above ports, on a system by whch the you to hell, what would you do?" He repled, "When I de, and advantage of the markets wll be secured to t~ ~xt tells me to go to hell, I shall tell God that I wll pay you who wll not be charged one penny beyond. fve puncheons (.of.ol) for hm to keep me a good phcg." Another chef sad to a supercargo, who asked hm why he dd pad, except only the com m~on open.ly deb~le,~ not go to church and hear God s Word, "m All letters and blls of ladng, whether the sk.~ b!g mssonares from London or Lverpool, to be addressed n Glasgow,eat Mr. Anderson here to talk God s Word ; they pay Mr. Anderson, and suppo~ theywould pay me I wllgo and F. FITZGERALD, E~., hear." Is t worth whle for the mssonares to waste money on 120, Stockwell-pa~ these hard-hearted people? I don thnk that a good thng wll A ever come out of bad. If t were for me to decde I would leave them to themselves, and say they have Moses and the prophets, New Works by DR. A.FRICAI~S HORTON ~ let them hear them, because many here now can read and understand the Bble, whch the mssonares have transla~edntother Surgeon, ER.G.8, &c. ~. Now ready, prce 2s., own language. y would then, p.erhaps, feel the g..ood of the Church, whch mght return when they call aga~. mr ~ GUINEA WORLI ; or, DRACU"~ I bogle make a few more remarks. Some of tl~eso supercargos ITS SYMPTO~tS, PATHOLOGICAL ANATG.-~ ~ have hred poor Acorn coopers, cooks, &c.,.~th a promse to pay AND RADICAL CURE hm at the rate of 8L or , aud when the man has served London: C~vgca~ and Soxs, New Bur~;~,. for such a length of tme, and hs servces are no more requred, they, nstead of pa~-ng the poor man hs rght, they wll afterwards pa~- hm at the rate of 21., and shove hm on the be~.# ; Prce 7s. 6d~ n cloth board% and f he has receved any few artcles durng hs servce theywest AFRICAN COUNTR ~] wll charge hm four tmes more than the value, whle the~e Accrue surpass the whte coopers n workng. NotwthstandngPEOPLES, BRITISH AND, the~e thngs, f they would trea them as men I would not care, Wth the Requrements necessary for Estab: - but some are treated lke pgs, and they they do anythng they Government recommended by the Commttee choose wth them. Commons ; and a Vndcaton of the A frcan In concluson I wll say that t s not alone who steals London: W. J. Jomxsox, 121, Fleet--, bullock% but another frend of hs, whom I know, has klled two and sold one cow to the mal steamer for 91., whch he was OTTON, WOOL, and ether ~Iateral, about to kll when the steward told hm that she was wth a C PACKED by WALKER S PATE I calf; and she dd brng forth a calf, three days after whch both PRESS, n HALF the USUAL TIME. " were sold together.~i am, dear Sr, Splttng the Cane, Palm 1~ut Assorters, Nu~ A Yzu~ow P~vl~U x~zo Tarsus. every knd of Machne for Afrca or Inda. 43, IIANSELL-STREET, WH DE ATHS. CoLt~s.--At Fernando Pc on the 30th May, 1868, D. W. ~[7"EST COAST of AFRICA, MADEIP.,.k. Collns, E~q., aged 24 years. deceased was one of the most -- Afrcan Steamshp Company s fan : promsng young men n the colony. STEAMERS leave LIVERPOOL on the I~ Sr~v~ss.--At Rosln House, Great Malvern, of paralyss, n EVERY MONTH (except that when the lau the 82nd year of hs age, Wllam Stevens, E~., M.D~ and Monday the Day of Salng wll be the 25th). D.C.L., formerly of the Island of St. Crox, West Inda% and of packets of the 24th convey Her Maj. :~ the Cty of Worcester, the emnent dscoverer of the salne treat-proceement for the cure of yellow and other tropcal fevers, cholers, LEONE, MONROVIA, CAPE PALLAS, t to MADEIRA, TENERIFFE, BATI~:: &e., by the preparaton so extensvely known as Lamplough scastle, ACCRA, JELLAIL COFFEE. I ~ Pyreto Salne. BONNY, FERNAND0 FO, OLD CALABAL~ ROONS. Awl~u~ Dm racc~io~ o~ AFalC~S I~ Cw].--It s supposed Teph ackets of the 10th are open to call, b~ approxmately that Cuba has mported from four to fve men{, at any port on the West Coast of A~L-~ mllons of Afrcans as slaves, and that there are not now they wll only call at ~adera, Tenerffe, Stcr 700,000 n that sland. Palmas, Acorn, Lago% Bonny, Fernaudo Pc, a,. : A DREAUlrUT~ DXED.--CAvALL-k Dxs~mcT, LI~EaI~.--A dark fast and powerful Steamshp CALAB.* report came to us ths afternoon. It was that one of our former and 250.horse power, A. 5. M. CROFT, Com.,< school grts (but sometme marred to a heathen man) had been LIVERPOOL on FRIDAY, JULY 24, at I _v.~.- klled, and her lver b~aten up and used as an anofntng c~arm Passengers embork by steam tender, lea by the party who lately attacked Cavalla! " dark places Landng Stage at A.~t. punctually. of the earth are full of the habtatons of cruelty."--sprtgoods and heavy baggage must be alon~d - of M~,do,,, U.8. loadng berth, Coburg Dock, not later than G r:.~ I~ CRZASZ 01 A~ICAWS n~ ~r~z~ U~Izm) S~Aa ~:.----:By examn_- 1~Lrz.--Goods for Serra Leone wll be hut c.. ns the regsters of the ports of entry for slaves, ~t ~s eshmated that about 800,000 slaves were mportedurng the tme the Ptaanv s ken from expeuse, alongsde but Shpper s arrval, rsk; or they at all wll otb ~ Unted states were a colony, and after they became a naton, up transferred to floatng del~ts, or landed aml--,~ to 1807, when mportaton was prohbted aud ceased; but, notwthstandng the enormous mortalty of the last few years, they NOrl~.~ Company steamers have now Shpper s rsk aud expense. now number 4,000,000. Tenerffo outwards. Goods 4 for Cameroons wll be convey~ In the Press, publshng by Subscrpton, n Two Vols., 8no, glt, 21s. (Subscrpton Lst open tll the 4th August), Greenpateb, Company s expense, but Shpp~,": All letters ~ud newspapers must go through ~h COURSE OF DIVINE LOVE. All goods by ral should be ordered to South-e "Creaton s Chrst develooed. :Every object spcaksof Chrst, ~o~tc~--tho ATRFA~IAN wll be despa,"~l and reflects hs beauty, "hs excellence and love. A chord ofiaugust for Madera, Teaerffe, Serra Leouc, Cap love runs through all the sounds of creatbn, but the ear of love Lsgos, Bonny, Fernando Pc, and Cameroons.- alone can dsfngnaht."~dr. 6".rame #, ~dpoc~lypt 81~t ~." For further nformaton apply, u London, al By F. Frzo~n, Esq., Author of " Kngdom of Heavev~" Offce% No. 14, Leadenhall-street; and,.! FLETCttER gad PARR, Agents, No. 28, C~LI - fro., and Edtor of the ~frl"ean ~ ~.

7 !,? 10 AFRICAN TIMES. [ltt,y 23, OFFICERS OF WEST INDIA REGIMENTS. of publc justce requred tlae remova-~of--chef Justce Beaumont Under ths headng a. letter has appeared u the Daly mal bench T, eleyrap~t, sl"gned, "Chas S Ru~ell,... 2nd,,West Inda ~ m en t_ argument, sad, "r commandng troops Gold Coast and Lagos. He complans that lordshps v submt ther opmloa to before a Parlamentary Commttee, on the 14th May, 1867, n Her Majesty." answer to a queston, 9,865 n Blue-book, "We have heard, ea.e broughthe stfn~ of the Judcal Commttee to a about somethng more than physcal neffcency; t has been close, and the appeal of Mr. M Dermott, of the Co/~.n~t newspaper, to reverse the judgment of sx months for contempt, stands stated that t [clmate] affects ther mnds, and that they become demoralsed. Mr. Deputy-Commssary-General de Fonblanque. over untl the next sttlngs--probably n December. sad: Whether t s owng to clmate or what, I cannot say, :RIVER GAB00N COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES. but t s an unfortunate fact that the offcers ef the West Inda regments generally drnk harder than any other class of offcer~. We have just receved the report of a meetng of the FrenchI remember meetng one offcer who told ms that he was the ~ecgraphcal Socety, at whch the French Vce-Admral Fleurot survvor of a batch of eleven who went out to the West Coast de Langle, who lately commanded the French squadron on the of Afrca, and, wth the excepton of two, who were transported, West Afrcau Coast, was present. M. de Laugle stated that the others had all ded of delrum tremens. " there are n the neghbourhood of the Gaboon 80,000 natves -who, accordng to tradton among them, came from countres to Captan Russell complans of ths statement, and says: "re are now servng on ths coast offcers whose experence the eastward (nteror), and were eleven moons n makng ther journey. se people bear the general dedgnaton of Fans, and of West Inda regments extends over perods varyng from sxteen to ten years, and they cannot remember ether the felons are dvded nto two branches, the Bakch, whch seem" to be the~ or the drunkards. If Mr. de Fonblauque have any sense of western branch, and the Bakalal, the southern one. re s a great resemblance between the Fan and the Zulu languages. justce he ought ether to gve up the name of hs nformant, admt that he spoke wthout consderaton before the Select When questoned about the upper course of the Rver Og6one, Commttee, and wthout havng suffcent grounds for brugng the natves of the Gaboon affrm that t proceeds from a great lake called Tern n the country of N doua, where the nhabtants forward that whch he stated... I refran from gong at are anthropophat,, and speak the Fan or Pahoua language. M. length nto the queston whether these offcers "drnk harder, de Lavgle gave some account of the great ncrease of West than those n other corps~i can say from my experence that Afrcau commerce, especally n vory. He stated that from they do not; but t ought to be remembered that the Coast of ~enegal to Angola some 200,000 tons of produce are now Ares s not a pleasant staton, and perhapsome excuses could, annually exported ; and he concluded by some remarks tq~on the be found for men servng almost wthouthe I)ale of cvlsahon. recent extemfon of the French colony of the Oa~oon, whch now, M. de Fonblanque s statement s certanly a very sweepng he sad, ncludes the Rver Fernand Yaz, and embrace, all that one, and one whch, f not satsfactorly refuted, must nflct an 2orton of the West Coast between Caye St. John and Cape St* ndelble stgma upon the West Inda regments. We shall be Catherne. ~ glad to see t so refuted ; but t s beyond all queston that the deaths and nvaldngs of offcers servng n Her Majesty s West NATAL. Inda regments on the West Coast of Afrca are numercally CoAL~A superor anthracte coal has been dscovered forty out of all proporton to the deaths and nvaldng among an mles from Durban, croppng out along the beach. equal numl)er of European mercantle agents and traders carryng GoLv.--A dscovery of gold s sad to hava been made at on ther avocatons on the West Coas~ and who are more exposed Buffalo :Bush, on the north-west fronter. to the nsalubrous nfluences of the clmate than the offcers n SvoAa.~ estmates htherto put forward of ths season squeston. re must be a cause s0mewhere; f t be not excessve drnkng or excessve ndulgence other vces, what s crop of sugar wll, accordng to present appearances, be far ex- -needed, t? Let t be known, so that f may, f possble, be put an end Cor~zz.~ yeld of the coffee crop, so far, generally exceeds expectatons, aud the weght of berres s most satsfactory. ward, t s our duty to strve for some practcal good results, and to, Snce the subject has been thus promnently brought for- DA~o~us.~Three small damonds have been found wthn we shall be glad of any evdence from the West Coast relatng a short dstance of Rustenburg, and have been forwarded to thoreto.--ed, A. 2. the Colonal Secretary of Capetown. One s worth 400/. MA1zs.-- crop ths scala s almost u~precedcnted. PROOF OF BOW LITTLE MERE COMMERCE AS prce has falleu to ls. 8d. per bushel. CARRIED ON IN WEST AFRICA DOES FOR CHRIS, OOLD DIGOINO EXPEDITIO~.-- gold dlggera from TIAN CIVILIZATION. Potchefstroom had arrved n the gold country, where they had zo ZH~ zvrron o~ ~a~ x~me~.~ ~r~. receved permsson to dg from the chef Matchn, who has sent Duke Town, Old Calabar, Aprl 27, to the Hgh Commssoner beggng to be accepted as a Brtsh Sr,~On the 1st of Aprl the case between Captan ~ and subject, as have also several other chefs n the nteror. So hs cook came before the Kng s Court. cook wan called much for the prestge of the Crown n Afrca. ~fr. Hartley, upon to produce hs evdences, and called three or four persons, leader of the gold-seekng party, had gone to negocate and who, beng nterrogated by the Kng, sad t was true that.confer wth Moselekstse, the xnapoleon of the North, who has s a robber of bullocks, as the wrter of ths had hmselfals0 many cent back Commandant Vljoen, envoy from the Transvaal Republc, dsapponted. Of ths goldfeld, Mr. Maueh says: "I had some tme ago, who stated that ~ used to send the Kroo tmes heard from one of coopers, au Accra man, whom he frmly beleve the whole of the country, from the borders of boys n the nght nto the town to catch bullocks and kll them, the Transvaal to tbe Zambez, to be one tar goldfeld, extend-anng a great dstance towards the west, and far surps~ng any the remander to hs agents n the rver. Captan ~ havng serve out the meat to all the hands, and make presents of prevously.dlscovered ones n sze and rcbness."~abrhtyedfrom fouud out the mess he was n, was oblged to carry some presents to the Kng that he mght pacfy the matter for hm, be- Na!al J[ereury. cause he heard that the natves were consultng to fne hm ffty SOUTH-EAST AFRICA FULL OF COAL. puncheons, or 12,000 gala of palm,ol; and I beleve the Kng followng s from a Transvaaletter u the 27atal wshes to do all he can for hm, because he has not lost any of hs Mercury: own bullocks, whle those who have lost thers are tryng for the "I see you are makng a great fuss about coal n Natal, but ffty puncheons fne I can assure you, Mr. Edtor, that there s you need not fear about South Afrca runnng short, for there s plenty ; from the Buffalo N.E. to I] very lttle dea n England" of what some of these supercargoes north of Delagoa Bay. s do here. Some pretend to call themselves Chrstans, by constant attendance the church, and sttng at the holy table of one contnuaton of a coalfeld ; agan, n a scuth-east drecton from the Bggarsberg to St. Lucy s Bay, where coal crops out our Lord s Supper, and as soon as they are out of the church wthn seven mles of water carrage to the mouth of the they are the worst of drunkards, lars, whoremongers, gamblers, Umvaloze. In ths dstrct every one of the farms nspected last &c., and therngleader s the agent of a Glasgow house, who has year, from Blood Rver to the Pongolo(sxty-seven n number, and entced a lawful marred woman, by name of Mrs. George Waddle, 6,000 acres each) has each ts coal mne. On the transport road and keeps her as hs own. I always fnd her, nght and day, m to New Scotland waggon drvers burn coal, whch s obtanablehs hulk. husband tred n van to get back hs wfe, and wthout any expense for mnng. Boers n the neghbourhocd supply M Corkndale s establshment wth coal at Is. 6d. ths place for Fernando ~o, eghteen months ago, and has never as he could not get reven_~or justce, he was oblged to leave per mud. town of Utrecht s bult on a coalfcld, and n the returned snce. Not only so, but ths same ageut keeps many vcnty, on Paterson s farm, there s abundance of btumnous women besde, both u ths town and n Creek Town, and he s coal, whch burns lke a pne torch. Wth coal, ron, copperan elder n the Obureh. May I not say more an elder of Satan s and lead, South Afrca wll be able to supply the world." angels, than of the Church of God? He and such men used to # We thnk M. de Lsngle has unntentoallly overttated the amouut.-- tell the natves to attend the church and be Chrstans. What ED. A. T. answer do they gve to them? "Why," they say, "de yoac all ~z 28, 1868.] AFRICAN TIMES. 11 I AFRICAN AGENCY vourself Chrstans ~ You drnk and tell les more than I do, and ~v~rv tme you come to my hduse y~u want me to gve you a ~,,~m-~n " Is not ths enough to harden the people s hearts, who ~or Transactng Busness England for Natve never see ther lghtshne before men n good works, to glen y ~erfather who s n heaven? I can assure you agan that the and other ~raders on the West Coas~ of Afrca. mssonares here are labourng van. I thnk t s over ] ~ con~quence of wshes expressed~ from all parts of the We~t twenty years snce the Word of God was brought here, and I.l_ Coast, Ms. FrzGsm~Ln has made arrangements for sellng have not seen ten pous natve Chrstans and well educated n produce con~gned to hm by shps to London or Lverpool ; and the whole dstrct of Calabar. Our mssonary, Mr. Wllampurchasng, and shppng goods ordered agansthe proceeds of Andersou, sad to one of the Calabar chefs, "You have done many consguments or other effectve remttances only, from ether of sns aganst your God, and f you de~ and God has to sentence you to hell, what would you do?" He repled, "When..~ the above ports, on a system by whch the greatest Ix~.ble de, and advantage of the markets wll be secured to the A~alcxx ~tnzn, Cod tells mo to go to hell, I shall tell God that I wll pay you who wll not be charged one penny beyond what s actually fve puncheons (of ol.) for hm to keep me a good place." Another chef sad to a supercargo, who a~ked hm why he d d All ldtters and hlls of ladng, whether the shpments be to or pad, except only the calm msson open.ly debted n abceuut. not go o church and hear God s Word, "m bg mssonares from London or Lverpool, to be addressed n Glasgow sent Mr. Anderson here to talk God s Word ; they pay Mr. Anderson, and suppo~ theywould pay me I wllgo and F. FITZGERALD, Esa., hear." Is t worth whle for themssouares towaste money on 120, Stockwell.park-road, tbese hard-hearted people? I don thnk that a good thng wll Londou, S.W. ever come out of bad. If t were for me to decde I would leave them to themselves, and say they have Moses and the prophets, New Worksby I~R. AFRIOANUS HORTON, Staff Assstmat let them hear them, because many here now can read and understand the Bble, whch the mssonares have translated nto ther Surgeon, F.R.G.8, &o. Now ready, prce 2s., own language. y would then, p.erhsps; feel the good of the Church, whch mght return when they cat~ agan for t. GUINEA WORM ; or, DRACUNCULUS : I beg to make a few more remarks. Some of ttese supercargos ITS SYMPTOMS, PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY, RESULTS, have hred poor Accr)s coopers, cooks, &c.,.wth a promse to pay AND ]LA.I)ICAL CURE. hm at the rate of 3/, or , and when the man has served London: CavacaI~n and Soxs, New Burlngt0n-street. for such a length of tme, and hs servces are no more requred, they, nstead of payng the poor man hs rght, they wll afterwards pay hm at the rate of 2/., and shove hm on the beach ; Prce 7s. 6d, n cloth boards, and f he has receved any few artcles durng ns servtco they WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND wll charge hm four tmes more than the value, whle the~e PEOPLES, BRITISH AND NATIVE; Aecra surpass the whte coopers n workng. Notwthstandng the~o thngs, f they would trea them as men I would not care, Wth.the Requrements necessary for Establshng that Selfo but some arc treated lke pgs, and they they do anythng they Government recommended by the Commttee of the House of choose wth them. Commons ; and a Vndcatou of the Afrcan Race. In eoucluson I wll say that t s not alone who steals London: W. 3". Jo~s~, 121, Fleet-street. buu0cks, but another frend of hs, whom I know, has klled two and sold erc now to the marl steamer for 9/., whch he was OTTON, WOOL, and other Materal, PRESSED and about to kll when the steward told hm that she was wth a C PACKED by WALKER S PATENT ROTATINO calf; and she dd brng forth a calf, three days after whch bothpress, n BAI, F the USUAL TIME. ~ugar Mlls for were sold together.~l am, dear Sr, Splttng the Caue, Palm Nut Assorters, Nut Crackers, and A FELI~W PRYING 12cro Tal~SS. every knd of Machne for Afrca or Inda. 43, MANSELL-STREET, WHITECItAPEL, LONDON. DEATHS Coza2~s.--At Fernando Pc on the 30th May, 1868, D. W. EST COAST of AFRICA, MADEIRA, TENERIFFE. Collns, Esq., aged 24 years. deceased was one of the most W ~ Afrcan Steamshp Company s fast and commmous promsng young men n the colony. STEAMERS leave LIVERPOOL on "the 10th and 24th ot Sr~vx~s --At Rosln House, Great Malvem, of paralyss, n EVERY M0~TtI (except that when the latter date fall* on the 82nd year of hs age, Wllam Stevens, Esq., M.D. and Monday the Day of Salng wll be the 25th). D.C.L;, formerly of the Island of St. Crox, West Indes, and of packets Of the 24th convey Her Majesty s marls, aud the Cty of Worcester, the emnent dscoverer of the salne treat. proceed to MADEIRA, TENERIFFE, BATIIURST, SIERRA monte or the cure of yellow and other tropcal fevers, cholera, LEONE, MONROVIA, CAPE PALLAS, CAPE COAST &c., by the preparaton so extensvely known as Lamplough scastle, ACCRA, JELLAK COFFEE. LAGOS, BENIN Pyrete Salne., s BONNY, FERNANDO PO, OLD CALABAR, and CAHE- ROONS. Aw etm D~"ra~c~IOX of A~mc~ s zz Cvnx.--It s supposed packets of the 10th are open to call, by specal arrangement, at any port on the West Coast of Afrca, but as a rule approxmately that Cuba has mported from four to fve mllons of Afrcans as slave~, and that there are not now they wll only call at ~adera, Tenerffe, Serra Leone, Cape 700,000 u that sland. Palmas, Accra~ Lagos, Bonny, Fernaudo Pc, aud Cameroous. A D2EAD~ DX~.--CAvAI,I~ Dmmer, L=za~.--A dark fast and powerful Steamshp CALAB&R, 1,203 tons, report came to us ths afternoon. It was that one of our formerand 250-horse power, A. $. M. CROFT, Commander, wll leave school grls (but sometme marred to a heathcn man) had been LIVERPOOl, on FRIDAY, JULY 24, at 1 r.~. klled, aud her lver b~aten up and used as an anmnffng ~arm Passengers embark by steam tender, leavng the Prnce s by 4he party, who lately attacked Cavalla! " dark place.slandng Stage at ~.~. punctually. of the earth am full of the habtatons of eruelty."~s2mtgoods and heavy baggage must be alongdde the shp, at the of.~tu~on$, U.8. loadng berth, Cobarg Dock, not later than 6 ~.m on the 22nd. I~C~ASZ oz Axmtc~ws n~ ram U~zn Srmw.--By examnng the regsters of the ports of entry for slaves, t s estmated pany s expense, but Shpper s rsk; at all other ports they must be Norz.--Gceds for Serra Leoue wt1 be lafded there at Com- that about 800,000 slaves were mportedurng the tme the taken from alongsde arrval, or they Wll be carred on and Unted States were a colony, and after they became a naton, up transferred to floatng dep6ts, or landed and stored entrely at to 1807, when mportaton was prohbted and ceased ; but, notwthstandng the enormous mortalty of the last few years, they No~c,z.~ Company steamers have now free pratque at Shpper s rsk and expense. now number 4,000,000. Teuerffe outwards. Goods for Cameroons wll be couveyed by lghter from In the Press, publshng by Subscrpton, n Two Vols., 8no, glt, " " k Grcenpetcb, at Company s expense, but Sh~pper s ns. 21s. (Subscrpton Lst open tll the 4th August), All letters aud newspapers must go through the pest-offce. COURSE OF DIVINE LOVE. All goods by ral should be ordered to South.end statons. "Creaton s Chrst developed. Every object speaksofchrs~ Noztcz.~ AT]tENIAN wll be despatched_on the. 10th and reflects hs beau~y, hs ex-ceilence and love A chord oi August for Madera, Tenerffe, Serra Leoue, Cape Yatma.% ~ccra, love runs through all the sounds of creaton, but the ear of love Lagos, Bonny, Fernando Pc, and Cameroons. aloneoan dsfnguaht."~dr. Uumm~ s,,apocalyptc Sl, teh~." ]: or further nformaton apply, n London, at the Compauy a Offces, No. 14, Loadeuhall-street; and, u Lverpool, to By F. F~rzoz~ALV, Esq., Author of " Kngdom of Heaven," FLETCl~E trod PA_~R~ Ag~n~ No. 23, Castle-street. f/o, aud Edtor of the A.fr~ 2) ~e~.

8 S A M U E L B R.@.T H " Re ON SYSTEm[ OF CHARGING LOWEST PRICE ~)SSIBLE FOR READY MONEY.. : " WORLD-FAMED gentlemanlke style...."..... /.~.~.., " " ~l~p;-~t~a k SYDENHAM SUITS AT g~s., ;,,,,, Are manuf~ m autable styles for all occasdns, and n the varousubstanc~ of cloth for M.dNJmate,. M()RNINO ~ & BUSINESS SUITS 428. to8ts. I DRESS & PROMENADE SUITS.."~at~l TROUSERS... ; :."...." to268. TROUSERS... It~"~-g " NEW BOOK ON GENTLEMEN S ATTIRE " "~ ~ Contans Forty-three Engravngs to repre.~ent the Fashonable Styles, a Lst o[ Prces, and novel rule~ for Self. measure. Prce 6el, deducted from a purchase. ~O~[ ~r g~r~ent ~n be eupp~ by sendng the fo~d~g m~es :?~o, ~,, ~.~.,yh?~o h.~gh~ot p~o,. For a CoaV--Round the breast, 6und the wast, from centre of back to tne wch~ ;.tor tengm o! ~loev.o/ arm ~d breast and wast. Fdr,.~rd~(,er~--Length ot~tado seam from fop "to ~,1~ "If I PYRETIC EFFERVESCING SALINE. Important to ~.ngush Mnsters, Brtsh Consuls, and ~.uropeaus seekng to remdo n safety n Tropcal and Foregn Clnmte$. Her!~a~esty s Representatve, ths Governor of Serra Leone, n a Iotter of request for an addtonal supply of the PTretlo Sallne, states: "It... ]~alf a teaspoonful, taken n a tumbler of Water, contrbutes more to the refreshment of "the body than any known beverage, mwgoratng and vtalsng the blood, t allevates thrst n a most agreeable manner,, and furnshes: the system wth those salne prncples that are essental to health.. SICKNESS, HEADACHE, and NAUSEA are n most cases mmedately releved by takng a tesspodnf~ n a tumbl~r of cold water; ths ean be repeated once or twce n two hours, f needful. SEA VOYAGES.--It s a very valuable accompanment, and should on no account Im omtted ; t nstantly a llay~.the scknm. For BILIOUS CONSTITUTIONS, gvng ~se to vtated Secmtdns,,.Indges~on,.an~, Eruptons on the:skn~a~fal snould be taken d~ly, W,~t~wp~o~ a~ ~t~ l~.of water, anc~ th~~t~[ty:,on~g~t~g ~"~ed.-" " " :. In cases of DIARRH(EA, ~ut" as mush Magnezas wll le on a shllng nto half a tumbler of water, let ths fall to the bottom of the glass, and then str nto t a teaspoonful of the Salne, and drnk durng effervescence..~ In ~UNGLE, YELLOW,. SCARLET, TYPHUS, and OA~TRIC FEVERS, and.eruptive DISEASES, t should be g~.e~ n teas12ognful doses eycry fun/ hours n ~ a glass. l/ alf full of water, or wth an ncreased quantty of water f the patent suffers from thrst.. "... W. Szmrxxs/~Esq;~ ll.d. and D.C.L., n a work upon fevers, states that snce ts ntroduoton the fatal West Inda [Fevers are d~hved of ther terrors. In the Island of Trndad alone, out of upwards of One Thousand treatecl oa ths plan, there were.o~y eleven deaths. " It s partcularly recommended to all who have at any perod of lfe taken CalomeI, or ~ffercnrlal preparatons, s order to -~helremoval, l%r such t s necessary to take the Effervescng Pyreto Salne for several months n small repeated dose~. N.B.~Keep the bottle well corked, use a dry spoon~ and t wll retan ts valuable propertes unmp.ared by tme or clmate. --., l~u.~e.[.u!p e~ fr.~.el~m~.= n the Glbbon# treatment of the of london dsease Hosptal, has long n ~een hs confrmed letter, states by medcal : "It experence. s the best Its l~reparaton hperorty of conssts the knd I ts have beng ever redered met wth th 6~ugh]# anlaydrbus, &c.,&e. ~ I speak from adequate knowledge of the preparaton, havng been n the habtof usng t n prvate practce for ma6v-,vears,~a nd,... havng taken a large quantty wrh,, _ me when I went as,,vhvscau to the Smyrna HosptM..In h6t eldaa ~es the, ~rsparatmn la of especml valne.~august 7, Dr. Splrksa Government Medcal Inspector of Emgrants from the vort of London, wrtes"from mv oersonal and ~ ~ orofe~onsl use. and ku.o~.].edge of:th.p value of Mr.~pPLOUGH S PYREZlO SALINE, for many years past, l~have #egp~hksure.n bearlag-my~cordzl,zesumony to ts emcacy m the treatment o~ many of the Ordnary and chronc forms of Oastro Complants "and other forn~ ~of Febrle Dyspepsa ~August ".", :;, ~ :, -~rom O. D.Sawyers, Esq., M.D., 22, Guldford-slreet, Russell-square : "I do hereby certfy wth, pleasure that h have ~ted~ on s~vera ocean"... ~mns, the emcacy of Mr-LAHPLOCOH s P Bzrm SAI.[SE, n Gastrc and Enterto Irrtaton, ancl also n l.~w Fevers,~a " ~decl wre ~erangement of the Dgestve Organs".,..... t~on From.~nomas Carl flasks on, Esq., F.R.C.S., aud Surgeon to the Great Northern Hosptal, Lonclon : "l~hava no hesta~o~n]n recommendng the com. poun.a o[.~r J.~-%{IPLO. UOH S SALINE PYREIIO. It s an admrable Febrfuge, and wll be found an elgble Medcne where suc.n^rem~y m. ms=testes. J.a m~ t h0 habt of pr~crbng t largelyl ts composton beng known to ms ; and I h avevhr~ r~ a~oh to ~ eat lanes w.nn ~[. t ts ~umwty prepare, and can be used at a moment s notce wthoutrouble, and ~ there~o~e p~r~cul~l~ aaapea zor IlSO In DUDJC ~r~[co a* " " ~ s.)~ ~.r,:.~_eca~l~g tes~m0.ny totn.o.me.~ncmat:quautxes orflrr. ~.l~o~:oa s Pracr~oSA%~E.,I, have: used t extensvely n th~ treatmdnt ol n l~. om ~,Davld ~. 2,.rg..a:y, Esq.:.M.D;, M..~*.Q.S_, a~ I,.A :C:,:&e.+ ~fedcsl, Offcer of th~ OlefVe~d]l: P~sh:."[hava, mxch ~)let~uro -~rrncea ara ~eorale auecnonsgenerany, ann nave tou fff t an admlable Refd~r g.~+ ~r~-^:..., _.~=..,_..~ ~._ =: ~_.-_-~_,,._ m~t~r~-_~.-~;ento,n:~,{: p~tj, cu~[,y~n,,,no, era: euo ~ever, as,t possesses chemxcal propomes capoblo of furmshmg the blo~d.wth SMJs recur Messrs, err and Bones.of Madras, n a letter dated September ~ slat= -q... X~o;,,, n x~... ~,,w art,,,.. r~ ~ ~d ~..r a f..u_r_ther supply of all. that we. could gve h!m, and s~oke of ts remar kablo",~ -~: case ~"~ "9g of Jungle a mrmer Fever supply had been to be treated sen~ ovenano, wth the oesmes partal what contents had already of one been bottle forwarded wth perfect by the success Cape ; the medcal attendant, of consderable repute, lkes the medcne mucb, and wants more " - n another case of severe Vomtng, the patent was releved after the thrdose, and fell nto a refreshng sleep. e~e~s~~ ~h ~o~ Ju~gl~"F ~r~u~e ntha ~ ~s t~ : l~r, Gnthr% Army Medcal Drector, became a warm advocate for ts use n va~ ms dsea..~es, and had the Pyretc Salne drect from he propretor for personal and famly use..... H. LAhqPLO U OH. 113, HOLBORN, j~,-o. SPECIAL AGENTS FOR LAHPLOUGH S PYRETIO SALINE:-- A{essrs. 0RR & Co., ~Iadras; Messrs. THAOKER, SPINK & C~, Calcutta; Messrs. TREA01~BR &"Oo., B0mba~,. CANTOR and CO., SIERRA LEONE,... t... Prntedtnd Pu~hsd by W~ux Jo~zx Joa.~-~.x,!21, I leet-street, n t~e Ctyof Lcnd~n~ for F~r~ x.~)f~zz~za~.b, F~._.~rty ~t; 1~., " ~ : Ref~ Shameful Specal A Artsan ~ and.the l beng marked Wh~ An n the An Crmnal se confrmat whom t Gven 1868, the Yo M~ Show~ 1868, n ~etth mme

9 1 ~ " 2.. AFRICAN TIMES, [JULY 23, SYDENHAM HOUSE, 50, LUD. J E R!".Lq,;:.,LONDON. SA]KUEL B R 0:T H EI ;Sl MERCHANT TAILORS A ND O U TFITT.-ER ON SYSTEM OF CHARGLNG LOWEST PRICE ~OSSIBLE FOR RE&DY ~I0,NEY ṭ~ : ~ Durng twenty-two years ther Clothng has been celebrated for so ned economy, perfect ftt ~, a~a "th~ moat geutlemanlke style WORLD.FAMED SYDENHAM SUITS AT 59s.., { ~. ~, ~V~: ~ " Are manufactub~l, n%utable s~yles for all oecaslons, and n the varous substances of cloth for all al/mates. &BUSINESS SUITS 42s. to 84s, I DRESS & PROMENADE SUITS.. "~ ~s. to l14s O.I{,SERS. "."TtIB l~l~.w ~ BOOK14S" to 26s. t TROUSBRSoN GENTLEMEN S... AT,IRE 17a 6d. t0 30s:.. ~.RQRNING Contans Forty-three Eno~ avn~ to represent the Fashonable Styles, a Lst of Prces, and novel rulea for Self, measure. PHco 6d., deducted from a purchase. Any garment can be suppled by sendng the followng measures : Gve, l, ~m~e,~, whole heght of person For a Coat--Round the breast, round the wast, from centre of back to the wrst ; for length of ~leeve, al-m For IY~vvat----1Round breast and wast. FJr-Trotuers--Length outsde seam from top to bo.tt0~" gth,mmde.seam... "~ from~ork... to bottom, round the. ~... ~atst, roun~ " the seat. " " ;,., -~,,"~"~"1 " Re,, Ta~k, It" 4 f t t l: PYRETIC SALINE. Important to Englsh Mnsters, Brtsh Consuls, and Europeans seekng to resde n safety n Tropcal and Foregn ClmaX. Her :Majesty s Representatve, the Governor of Serra Leone, n a letter of request for an addtonal supply of the Pyretlo Salne, states: "It s of GREAT VALUE, and. I shall rejoce to hear t fs n the hands of all Europeans vstng the Tropcz." Halfa teaspoonful, taken n a ~umbler of water, contrbutes more to the refreshment of the body than any known beverage, nvgoratng and vtalsng the blood, t allevates thrst n a most agreeable manner,: and furnshes the system wth tho~o salne prncples that are essental to health SICKNESS, HEADACHE, and NAUSEA are n most eases mmedately releved by takng a teaspoonful n a tumbl0r of cold water; ths can be repeated once or twce n two hours, f needful. SEA VOYA ~ES.~It s a very valuable accompanment, and should on no accoun~ be omtted ; t nstantly allays the sckne~. For BILIOUS COHSTITUTIONS, gvng r~so to vtated Secretons, Indgeston, and Eruptons on the Skn--a" t~poonfal should be taken daly, wth, tl~ttm~rv.~ a:~mb]er of water, and the ~m~ cu~h~tty o~ goo~g to bed. In cases of DIARRH(EA, put as much Magnesas wll le on a shlln~ nto half a tumbler of water, let ths fall to the o ~ bottom of the glad, and then str rote xt a teaspoonful of the Salne, and drnk durng effervescence. In JUNGLE, YELLOW, SCARLET, TYPHUS, and GASTRIC FEVERS, and.eruptive DISEASES, t should be gven n teaspoonful doses every, four hours, n a glass half full of water, or wth an ncreased quantty of water f the patent suffers flora thrst. W. S~m~z.~ s, Esq.j M.D. and D.C.L., n a work upon fevers, states that snce ts ntroducton the fatal West Inda Fevers are deprved of ther terrors. In the Island of Trndad alone, out of upwards of One Thousand" treated on ths plan, there were only =eleven deaths * It s partcularly recommended to all who have at any perod of lfe taken Calome, or X~ereural preparatons, u order to the removal. For such t s neees~ary to take the Effervescng Pyrete Salne for several mouths n small repeated doses. N.B.~Keep the bottle well corked, use a dry spoon, and t wll retan ts valuable propertes unmpared by tme or clmate. _ D.r. Se,~tmus Gbbon~ of the London Hosptal, n hs letter, states : "It s the best preparaton of the knd I have ever met wth Its u.sem]pess n the trea.tment of dsease bus long been confrmed by medcal experence. Its superorty conssts u ts beng rendered tharoughly auhydrbus, &c.,&o.*~ I speak from adequate knowledge of the preparatou, havng been fn the habt of usng t u prvate practce for many years; and havng taken a large quantty wth me when I went as physcan to the Smyrna Hosptal. In hot clmates, the -preparaton s of especal value.--august 7, " Dr. Sprk~ Government Medcal Inspector of Emgrants from the port of London, wrtes: "Frommy personal and profegsona,i u~ and knowledge of ths value of Mr. l.~.xtplouoh s PYRETIO SALINE, for many years past, I hays gre.4t"pleasure n bearng my cordal,testmony to ts effcacy n tba treatment of many of the ordnary and chronc forms of Gastrc Complants "and other form~ ~of Febrle Dyspepsa.~August 5, 1557." ".. _ From O. Saw~zer~ D... Esq, M D, 2 2, Gmldford " street, Russell -~q uara : I do hereb y e c "y rtd th, w p]easure that I have tested~on severn occasons, the effcacy of Mr. L-~.~tPLocon s P~nz~m Sxr.rxz, n Gastrc and Enterto Irrtaton, and also n Low Fevers, attended wth Derangement of the Dgestve Organs." = From..man Oarr ffackton# Esq., F.R.C.S., and Surgeon to the Great Northern Hosptal, London: "I. have no bestaton n recommenomg the compound of Mr Lx.~tPLOC~ s S.~tls~. P* s~rtc. It s au admrable Febrfuge, and wll be found an elgble Medcn0 where such remedy s ndcated. I am n the habt of prescrbng t largely, ts composton beng known to me and I have ever reasoh to be satsfed wth t. It s beautfully prepared, and can be used at a moment s -notce wthout trouble, and s-therefore p~rt~eularly adapted.for v use n publc servce, ~-- From Davd.Zfforga-,, Esq., M.D., ~.~.b.s., and L A.C, &e., Medcal Q~eer of the Clerkea~rell Parsb.0 [ have.much plda suro m. oean.,g~tes~mo.ny. to the me.dena].~lu sltes of Mr. L~MPLOVdn S Prazzm,Sx trse.,i. bays used t extensvely n the treatmo~t ot ~mrr~oea sea 2eerto afle ctons generally, sud have found t au admrable Refrge raut Medcne well calculated for dseases ncdental to warm clmates, more pa-tau!arly n Cholcra" and Fever, as t possesses chemcal propertes capable offurnshng the blood wth Salde mattor.--pentouvlle, August 8, 1867.".^,,^l~lessrB, err and,scene.of Madras, n,a letter dated September 23, 1866, state Surgeon-Major C. Murray Duff, M.D., &e., had ~eu,or a mrtner supply ot a~ tna~ we coum gve hm, and spoke of ts remarkable effects n the Jungle Fever n qute enthusastc terms, orectng a further supply to be sent overland, besdes what had already been forwarded by the Cspe. A case of Jungle Fever had been treated wth the partal contents of one bottle wth perfect success; the medcal attendant, of consderable repute, lkes the medcne much, and wants more. " In auother case of severe Vomtng, the patent was releved afterthe thrdose, and fell nto a refreshng s~eep. Mr, Guthrlej Army Medcal Drector, became a warm advocate, for ts use n varous dseases, and had the Pyretc Salne drect from ~he propretor for per~ona[ and famly usa. H. LA~ EPLO UGH. I18, HOLBORN, E.C. SPECIAL AGENTS FOR LAMPLOUGH S PYRETI0 SALINE :-- 2ffessrs, 0RR & go., Madras; Messrs. THACKER, SPINK & Co., Calcutta; Messrs. TREACttER & Co,, B0mba~. CANTOR and CO., SIERRA LEONE. I ~nte~l and Pa ~M~.scl by WtLt,,x Joux Jou:,-=-oN, l~1, Fleet-street, n the C:ty of l.xndon, for FL*,~.~.~.~a F,rZ~KRXtD~ K:-].-..Jrtr ">..3, lf,6s. t ~ Reforms Lbera A Moham Shameful Specal A e PHnt -London Afrcan and the beng the marked~ pleas( settlem vz- :- An Au n the An ordnanc Crmnal se confrmat whom Gven 1868, of ben the mal :To h, hu Showe 1868, n settlemet ~ame