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1 [Tramm~flo" Abroad, frcan gm. "FOR GOD, AND GOOD TO AFRICA AND HER PEOPLE." dsts Gold kat ~ueh I Cornexpect remt- PO, and are the TAYEOR, to ~treet, ON. below AM as. " Talk ~o re* anywaere of Power, and I ll ~e22 ~to~ o/ ProVx21on. M e~vtlon a Magstro2~, and t~ ~ea foileto~ of Properly. 5-~nn me any Got~ ~ment, and yot~ are to s~ ~ propose~d n/m ej~ of tlw~ gooerned. Power com6tuted otherw~e ~ o mon~l~ gmpos~ble n ererg ty, tera where ant/ruotlon o/the justlc, of God or the good of marddnd."--f~tu~ v BOBKI~. "If ang Col6n~s~ 8u~ers from nju, ace, trha~et*er may be h~ da.% ]f* tondtfon, or A~s colour, ~ ha* a r~h~ to redre~ at t~ l~and* qt t~* Odon~d Mn~k ~r n ~ courd~."~e-~. OF CAayAXVO-% SZCR~A~ O~ SrxTz l oa T~Z COLOSlES Avovsr 2, VOL. xi,--n ] LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 23, Sut~ pttott, ~, l~r CONTENTS. PA@g PAGg W,~,co~ M~ The Hew.Governor General of the We~t Co~t Settlements ~c~l Proceedngs at Cape Coast a~d Lago~..:...:..~...:.~.:: The Ce~en of the Dutch Gold Coas~ Settemen~a to ~res~nmm 96 ~3onflsg ralon n S err~ Leone Lber~ Rdculous or Lber~ Re..~ported... :... ;.-..; Serra Leone Affatrs... :... Extracts from the Insugur al Speech of Premdent Roverm Government Notce A Contr--st Letter on Admlnlstr~tor Glover Proceedngs s The I,beran Loan Parlamentary 100 x;... :"~"T: _... ======================== 9 2 Sunday Gn aud Rum ~nolm m z~agoa Thoughts I~. Regulatons ~ Lagos...:: Ce~on of ~lmlna~ &e... to. ~ :": " ~"... "~a -"~ 92 10"2 The ~a&,oa Prohbton of Export o.t Arms Ordm~c*..:... Other Iml)rsoumen~ tma.a.rb,~tr~.~ea~ ~r~_.~r~a.~tt~p~. 9,3 10"2 Acth~g-Admnstrator ~a~mon an~ the ~anu ~.,~m~ucr~,... Ho]>e o~c~ntnued General Peace m the Egba Countres Afrca shall Rse Letters to the Secretary of Sts~ on.c~pe~..092~ and Fant Affslrs Lvezpcol Markets... Ten D~.s n prson for Obsh uctng the ~:on o...,ok5the New Governor of Hong.Koug a~ s,~ c~p~ co~t A~..~orlt.~ ~..Fytm... Crcular Is.sued by the F~.nl Confeaemtlon Slavery n Cuband Porto Rco... ~ Death of the Rev. Joseph Kelly Wlcox The ~lew Governor.Gener~l... AFRICAN AGENCY For Transactng Busness England for Natve ~d other Traders on the West 0oasg of.afrca. I produce eon~gu~ to ll m~ bv,.. Bhl to tn. ~onaon... or htverpool ; unu pu~vu=~, ~, r o o.,~.,,-~m ~th~r of t above uorts, on a system by whch the greatest po~tblo of con~ nments or other onecuve rennttancea omy,... he. = g..... a as t~mo xs very tmuortant - - to smelt eapttatalsts, " return " gcoda advantage of the markets wll be secured to me ~atcx_w "XmA~z~, ttuu,, _ wll be ~ent off n all cases wthout any delay beyond such as may sometmes be caused by manufacturers- All letters and bllh of ladng, whether the ~hpments be to or from London or Lverpool, to be addresgo~ F. FITZGERALD, X~., 121, Fleet-street, I,ondon~ 1~.C. N.B.---Open Polees on Insurance for Produce flora the Coast by the Mal Steamers; but ntended Shpments should be advsed f possble. - lkd2.a.t-6o2e-z, a.8 7~.. BRITISH AND AFRI(IAN STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. The Steamers of ths Company wll henceforward be despatched from I, verpool on the 6th and 18th of each l~onth, except when these dates fall on a Monday, when the departure wll be deferred to the day followng, - The Stea msh~ P "VOLTA,... aptalu 30K~ Om~zrtas, s ntended to be despatched from OLASGOW. on FEB. 29, anal C~,~tr.~ a =,, for ~adelra. Grand Canary, Serra Leone, ~onro~a, Csp.e P almas, f om LIVERPOOL on me om m2l~,... "~...~,,(, l~nnuv. Fernando Pc, and 01d Catauar; tats ~t~mer Aocre SellahCoffee, ~L,as,,o,... : -: <,. " Half fleck, Cape Coast 0aere,, _. d lvennms, de the bars), the same to be trsnshpped, at re, s be up to Bonn, and forwarded by brsnc a m.e~ne.r, at ompp ~v"~^~ h 8da Cobum Dock~ up to 10 ~.m on the 5th MARCH. 28thYFEB., ara at the LoRdng_Berth m L.~RPOv~,-,~-y- at 230 P~ ontho da,,of salng. Passengers wll embark by 8team.. e~.aer t~m rn~_?~.~g~h~uvloa~da whch wll: leavo LIVERPOOL DIRECT on The fell o wng de p arture " xs mtenflea. to -" 0o ~c ne Monrova, Ca pe Palmas, Half Jack, Cape Coast ~satle, Accre, the 18th MARCH, at 7.80 A.x., for M~e:re, Tenerffe, Stsrra Leo, JeUah Coffee, l.~os, Benn, Bonny, Fern.antc Pc, Old. Cslaber, and takng cargo for.delvery by branch s t~mer!u~ds ths ba._rsy_f Opebo, New Calabar, and Lagos. Coeds wan 0o receved up to noon the day prewous, xassengers wm emvar~ a~ ~ a.~. va the day of salng... Goods for Serra Leone wll be landed there a~ Shp s expense, but Shpper s rsk. AU Goods whle on board the Company s hak~.t.~,!? be at..s~e, o, ns co ee s ~ rsk. - - ~m ~o~ M~ and So..,, 9,, B~anan.~t~t, Ot~go~,, ~nd ~ms of ~amg ot the Company s Fo~ can..be obtan~... ~-----~- the Post-offce D. ~m, 50B,.I~rd.stxeet, I,verpoo. lette~=u~..~zoo~.~ H~so,, and Co., 5, Crosby.~uare; m Glasgow to TArr~oa, For further nformaton eppty m ~onaon ~o m t~_ o. ~... Dzx~a. and Co., 2, Brunswck-street. Ia~o~, and CO., S4, O~wald-~t~. t; ana mpx~e,rt~-~ no w be ~ken by the Steamers of the 6th and 18th {~= Sh.P~.,.. rs ~ resl:ec are...,~v~ tfully BRASS, BENIN, ntormed and OI~OBO. tna~ TheOoodswLlbotraushpped ~o,~... for delvery mmae tno ~ars Ot l~ ~z~aj~ma~-~,, at Bonny, 8nrl forwarded by Branch Steamer., DRPARTUB.g~. ~V EST COAST MAII~. Afrcan SteamaMp Co. s Bafra, on Feb. 24. ~amr~z.s. Brtsh and Afrcan ~Company s Lbera, February 6. Brtsh and Afrcan Company s Bonny, ~ anuary 26. Afrcan Steamshp CO. s Benn, Feb. 13. Afrcan Steamshp Company s.calber, Feb.rus{y The Afrcan Steamthp Company s Colabsr wll take the malls Brtsh and Afrcan Bk~msmp uompany8 ~mp yot~a; lceb- on the 24th Feb. rusty 13.

2 9O THE AFRICAN TIMES. [FsB. 28, " THE NEW GOVER NOR GEh~ERAL OF THE WEST cause of mam s. ~fr. Pope Hennessy, t wll thus be seen, has COAST SETTLEMENTS. a noble msson before hm, and under hs ntellectual and bengnant rule Afrca may yet fulfl the splendd prophecy of Cannng It s sad that ~Ir. Pope Hennessey, who was lately apponted as to her certan, though comparatvely tardy, cvl[naton. Governor of the Bahamas, has been offered and has accepted the post of Governor and Commander.n-Chef of the West Afrcan Settlements, ncludng Serra Leone, Gamba, the Gold Coast, To t~ Edtor of t~ Mornng Acl~rtla.ff., and Lagos. Mr. Hennossey s ~uow at the Hague, where he has Sr,~:~fy attenton has been called to a very nolo para~apn, asssted n the negotatons connected wth the cesson to Greatunder the ttle of "Serra Leone," whch appeared n the columns Brtan of the Dutch Colones on the Gold Coast.--Lon~on Ag~c~, of the.m ornfw Adrerlh:r of Tuesday last. The wrter evdently _Fe~rf~ary 7. [A later communestou says that Mr. Pope known the subject wth whche s dealng, and the slght naeeursees nto whche ban fallen are the results of recent Hennessy goes out n the above capacty on?y for a,lwr~ trne. En. A.r.] changes u the consttuton of the colony, wbch possbly have e.~aped hs attenton. I am the coloured advocate to whom CONFLAGRATION IN SIERRA LEONE, ABOUT 400 alluson has been made, and who have gven twentyears Qf my YARDS PROM THE MERCHANTS POWDER Ife to the advancement and Eocal ameloraton of the people of MAGAZLN E. Western Afrca. The nquty of deprvng that people of the o ~:~z ~DrroR o~ zlre ~alc~- rnrzs. nestmable beneft of tral by jury, beth as a barrster-at.law and journ~lst n that country, I have over and over agan denounced; and when I caused S to be brought under the notce The cty was suddenly aroused by the tollng of bells of the places of worshp of dfferent denomnatons of the Protestants of the House of Commons by the ~embers for Dudley, Kng s and those of the Roman Catholc communty, at mdnght of the 19th nst. In not more than ten mnutes the streets of the County, and Klkenny, I challenged the Coloual-ofllce to prove a sngle act from the records of the Supreme Court aganst natve neghbourhood were crowded, and the people became aware of a great fre, that burnto the loss and run of the owners, and the jurors provng them to be unworthy of a prvlege whch they never-to-be-fogotten of the settlement. ]~rteen sbope and had enjoyed for a perod of eghtyears. Your correspondent over fve houses burnto the ground n the most mportant and was qute rght when he attrbd~:l ths emnently unconsttutonal Act % the jealousy created by my professonal success, and commercal porton of the clty! What a loss! So terrble t was thathe heat was felt at a consderable dstance; powder was burstng ancl blazng, and much cutlery, guns, hardware, &c., &c., was tonal rght upon the p~rt of the Afrcans. Your correspondent mpled that t was not e consequence of any abuse of consttu- destroyed. But we wsh the owners ~especa].ly the homeless)god s perfectly accurate as to the vast norea~ whchas taken place speed, and may they never despar. n the revenue of the colony durng recent years, but he s slghtly "Before concludng, Mr. Edtor, let me a~k, through your at fault relatve to the consttuton Of the Legslatve Councl. columns, has Serra Leone no fre-engnes? Ifnot, the Govern-Tbment oughto keep no less than half-a-dozen, and to provde no late Governor, Sr Arthur Kennedy, recently admlt~ed two natves to the Councl, but they were nomnated by hmself, and less than twelve strong men to each, payable out of her revenue. not elected by the I~ople; and, beng gnorant of the very elements of educaton, were not lkely to offer any very healthful If they had one here why dd t not perform the work for whch t was destned, on Sunday, the 14th nst., when also threeopposton to Gorernment me, sure% no matter how arbtrary they hou:-es were burnto ashes. mght be. The house and land-tax falls wth crushng and op- weght upon the people, as has been ably shown by the Agan, t wll be very well thathe ordnances of Serra Leonepressve relatve to forty-eght hours notce to be gven to the polce mags-powerfutrate before anybody should make or attempto make any fre end patrafe pen of the Roy. Benjamu TregasMs, the ndefatgable General Superntendent of the ~Vedeyan Msson at wthn hs or her prendses; and the clau~ to nspect each store, Serra Leone ; and although there has been an ncrease the shop, &e., from keepng Qver a barrel of powder be now executed educaton grant alluded to by your correspondent, I regret to say and put nto force. ~eauwhle, Mr. Edtor, I reman, L. tha the best resources of that country have been of late wasted n the dlest of pageants and hollowestof dsplays. SIERRA LEONE AFFAIRS. Wth regard to the establshment of savngs beaks and the We extracthe followng from the JT~rnn$ A&ert~er of reclamng of waste lands, I am happy to say. that after havng gven a few years of mentalabour n pressng those salutary Pebrnary 6 :-- measures upon the Executve, I a_m proud to learn that my Slnaa.~ Lzo.~ E.--Ths Crown colony, whchas just passedlabours under ths head at least are lkely.to be su~. nto the hands of Mr. Pope Hennessy (the celebrated leader, some I trusthat your eloquent correspondent s antcpatons as to few years ego, of the Ultramontane Roman Catholc party n 3fr. Pope Heuneasy s rule n Afrca may be fulflled; that he Parlament) s not devod of nterest. It s assocated wth the wll recegn~ the noble msdon alloted to hm, and although names of Cannng, Wlberforce, and Brougham; and Zachary "confdence s a plant of dew growth "~te use an llustraton of" Macaulay--father of brllant hstoran and mghty W hg~ the great Lord Chatham--"a my breast," from the counflese devote d hs best exertons for ts mprovement and socal edvancemenl It orgnally belonged to a company, and ts frstevery success n hs arduous hboura. deceptons practsed upon me by Serra Leone rulers, I wsh hm governor was General Perronet Thompson, the honest and unflnchng Reformer. At ths tme t was called "The Whte In ths communcaton I merely confne myself tp the state. Man s Grave," from the nsalubrty of the clmate; and ts meats emboded n the psr~rsph~ but may, ~th your ndulgence, wrte at greater length u~n the affars of Serra Leone at revenues, n consequence of the fatal clave-trade, dd not amounta future p~red.~i am, Sr, youm, &c., to more than 5,000/. per annum. The clmate now ranks equally well wth any of our West Indan settlements, and the revenue W~. Rsmz. 3, Plowden-buldlngs, Temple, Feb. I0. amounts to 100,000L per annum. For the last four years condderabie dscontent has exsted ~n the colony--a Whg Governmen~ havng deprved the colonsts of trm by jury n all cvl A CONTRAST. actons. Th step was not taken n eo.nsequence of any abuse of Mr. Salmon, Actf~ Admadrht~r of ~ Gald ~aa,t, a~l ~r the great consttutonal fght upon the part of Afrcan jurors; A. E. ~enned~, late G~ern~r-n-CM,f of t~ Dra~,dfr~an b~t t was alleged that the power welded by a coloured advocate of no ordnary pretensons created au undue sprt for lt- ~ettleme~f~. gaton amongst the natves. Mr. Pope Hennessy, brought up n a Sr,--Despotsm assume~ many stu~le~. Sometmes t appears consttutonal school, no doubt wllbrng hs senatoral experence n a menacng and volent form, sometmes t assumes d bland to bear upon the subject. The colony bo~sts of a Legslatve and complyng tone. The Gold Coast and Serra Leone afford Councl, twelve n number, prncpally composed of Government two po~-efful llustratons of the~ forms of d~spots~. When offcals, and the Governor preddea at ther as~mbhes, where they p~ss laws whch come under the desgnaton of "Ordnances." s splendd Confederaton was formed at the Gold Coast, upon the truest consttutonal bas~ upon grounds of self-gnvemment, No Afrcan ban a seat at ths councl-board; and although the and for the wsest and most jnstfame of ebee~--~o rb~t an natves possessvast wealth (the whole retal trade of the colonympendng dssster--a merch.sat a o~erk teleran-by Sr Arthur bengn ther hands), the commsson of the peace has not beenjaeaneay n consequence of /~s pos~n~ the ~me merts as gven to any of them. ZIr. Butt a "Home Rule" s at very tbose whch elevated the no~orous Algemo~n Molategu, untl the consderable dscount n ths colony, but fortunately the negro s acton of the Englsh Parlament checked hs re_tber promoton) of a more p~z, svo nature than s the fery Celt. The hou~ and denounced the Confederaton a# hgh treason, end-hurled nto laud-tax falls very heavly upon the natves, who complan thatp~son the prncpal orgnators of ths ~pleudld combnaton. the money lhus acqured s spent n dle pageant, whlsthe Your powerful pen came to therescue, an d I trusthat t long educaton grant does not amounto 100L per annum. Steps are may be welded n the cause of men who know and apprecate JoUSt rder now to check beng the taken reckless to establsh and extravagant savngs banks habts n of Freetown, the people, n what true freedom s. Mr. Adm~nhtrator ~slmon~or the frst tme learned that men mght be elevated, and awake the unversal as well as to reclam the waste hnd around, whch s the prolfc sympathy of the j~t by acts far dfferent from those by whch Fe~. 23, 1872.J THE AlrRICAN TIMR8. 91 he ros~ to power. The men who s~xd out n the open majesty robber," "that he would see you fall yet," sad "that you would of thdr ndependence h~l betrayed no prvate conversstou, nor go to the deepest pt of hell" clmbed to power at tbe sacrfce of those prneple~ whch gve It s panful to me to have to express to your "gxcelleney Such dgnty or character to man. Ther cells were more lumnouslanguage as the judge made use of; but, l~owover graphcally I than the mock throne of Mr. Salmon, who ~ent them to pr~n; mght wrte, I could not hope to descrbe Mr. FRzjames e very yet ths man has been elevated, and, lke Mr. } nsfce Huggns, demonstratve manner aganst you, and every one whom he suepealed of supportng you and your Government. h~ md~t lkely been ~pheld by Sr Arthur Kennedy. Now let us turn our eye~ to S~erra Leone, and observe Mr. ~tz~ames toid us that t was hs ntenton to road the d&potsm assumng her blandest and m~ eeductve form. letter all over tha colony, n order to sho what an unprncpled Towards the close of the d~strous rule of Sr Arthur man your Excellency was, thereby to crush you, and all who Kennedy s predecessor the worm so often trod upon began to supported you. turn at length, and the glorousprt now ehown -at the If I mght be permtted to offer someexcuse for the judge nths Gold Coast appeared thenln Serra Leone. Sovenhundred good unfortunate affar--for t s wth reluctance, beng but a stranger men and true put ther sgnatures to aeolemn pretest aganst the n the colony, that I have compelled myself to state ths conversatlon--th6 judge appeared to me a gentleman who was wholly vle and unjust.mode n whch kfreaus were there ruled Ạ gentleman whose nterest AfMca ndther lme nor dstance hue unable to control hs temper or hs aotons.~i am, &c., ever abated took up the cau.se of Serra Leone; he nvoked your (Sgned) Cms. 8. Sna~o.x, powerful pen, and through your persstent exertons the enemes of Afrca upon several ooeaslona were brought under the noffee of the House of Commons. Sr Arthur Keuney was then n THE LIBERIAN LOAN. power, a~d how dd be meet the healthful opposton? Not A m~tlng of I, berlan Bondholders was convened by the arer the fashon of the ex-merchant s clerk now at tke head of Councl of ~ Foregn Bondholders, to be held yesterday, and the the Government of the Gold Coast. We dd not ~end the patrotsaw~ ~r says : "The whole amount of ths loan was 100,000/., to prssy, but he cent for them to Government House, and nv~l some of them to dne n company wth hs hgh offcsh; apponted, the charman of the Councl ap..p~xed to ~k.e the e~ar: b~t the.amount ssued s a matter of controversy. At the tme he" ~romot&1 two lberated Afrean~ conspcuous for ther gno-burance alanej and denounced as unfto ser~eon the jury, namely, the usual proceedngs. The meetng con~sted of.abou! tw.en~y ths was ressted, as was the readng of me auvernsemen~ an.a ]ffessrs. Boyle and Lumpken, to the I~ddatve Councl. k persons~ by whom a scene of tumult was for some tme,~ep~ up. young man, who struggled from serdtude upwards;was placedon a lst beng taken of persons present, and t beng read, t ap~ n ol]~ e aa Actng Audtor-General, merely as a decoy duck for poured that t heluded an offcal Lbera holdng 50,000L or others to follow n hs footsteps ; and promses were made to all the bonde~ :Mr. Dgbygeym~ur, M.P., Q.C., h.oldug 10,000/., a..ud others of the most lavsh knd, that f they wouldeserthersome others, who clamed to hold abou three-quarters ox the patfotlo leader, an4 tease to be subscrbers to your powerful total emount. As no dscusson took place, though there was jonrnm, reman slent and subservent, and eat of humble pe, much nose, explanatons transpred as to the state of affars n ther servtude should be rewarded wth ~ate n ~the Councl, Lbera, or the transactons wth regard to the loan and the p.~eeedngs Chaneery. The presence of the Consul of L~berza honour, and promoton. The bat took, and the turbulent fsh were quetly landed at Government House. The man who was was objected to, and the persons present wshed to remove hm, ralsed from servtude, and such lke hm, were nvted by Sr but were not allowed. At length a resoluton Was proposed bo~ Arthur Kennedy to meet Chef 3nstce French and the ofl~corsmr. Seymour, whch expressed confdence n the Government of the garrs~m to dnner. Thus, Sr, you have laboured n Lbera, and n Mr. Davd W. Chnuery, Consul-General of that van ; labour the no more, n so far as Serra Zeon~ ~ ~cern~. conntry. The curous procoedngstermnatod by the pa.rt~n_s~f The kndred sprthat has etruggled wth you n the attempted Mr. Chunery, who attended, gvng three chee[s for h~m. T e glorous work of regeneraton wll retre wth you from the publn wll be curous to have the opportunty of obtanng some support of a hopeless cause. 8~erra I,cone has sought destructon parfoulara as to these transactous."~glo3~, Jan. 26. by her own hands. Leave her alone n her self.sought degradafon--a sad, sad contrast to her sster on the Gold Coast.~I am SMALL-POX AT 0APE PALMAS. Sr, your obedent servant, O.v~ WHO OI~C~ HOPED WZrx. 1"on Sr~RRA LsoNg. Lbera, December 20, Tbe mal steamer brough the followng sad news from P.8.~I beg leave to append "a letter wrtten by Mr. Salmon Cape Pa]mas--vz., that the "small-pox" s fearful!y rung n n 1862, when he was a clerk n Mr. Qu~n a establshment to the that county, and that numbers are dyng from the d~-aase. The Governor of Serra Leone, and whch I thnk well dese~vas a only doctor n that county s a Dr. Fletcher. Taough the place amongst the corr~pundence of celebrated state nformer~. "small-pox" s so fearful among the people, yet there, s no It appeared among ~o papera lad before the House of Commonsvaccnaton. The people are dreadfully afrad of the dsease; n 1862, and led to th~ dsmls~ of the Honourablo Alexander some of the young men went on board the mal.steamer and Ftz~amea from hs o~ e of Queen s Advocate. begged the doctor of the steamer to vaccnate them. The majorty of the people do not kno what vaccnaton s, and the effect t produces, consequently they have no fath n t, and wll ~b ~ ~W.~//.~ ~l~d Se~$~ J. I/{ll, O.B,, not go to thdr doctor to be vaccnated. The doctor of th steamer was nformed of ths. Dr. l~lctcher ~ya t!s.not Serra I~ne, February 19, 186~. ^~ - "-mall ~,~x" but t s both "small-pew and blscg 8r,--I feel t my duty, at the request of my brother, to gvemettles ;" some of the people have the "em allji~x,.and.others the "black measles." The PeopIe told ther aeowr to ms xace the fo~lo~ng account of a_conver~ton of ~L~r.,Ftzj ames, ~e more prvy ~ to " as t my by ny brother, havng although repeated the not conversaton pre~ent, nan to bn2, veen word mane that he wan a lar, that t was not "black measles," but "smallpox." They wll not lsten to hs advce, not to drnk cold for ~ord ~a Igve t bdow, on the evenng of the ~ay.t nearswater, but they wouldrnk, sayng that ho knew nothng about t, and whose duty t has been, as a Government ofl~cer, to nformthe dsease. The people at last so tred ther doctor s patence, yd~ Excellency of the source of the nformaton. and vexed hm so ecru, that he advsed them to dr ak as much The eonverastlon to~k p 1 a ce at Dr. Deane e farm, Fourah Bay,. rum as tbeylked; so that drunkenness prevals to a fearful extent n the county, the people belevng t wll prevent them n th~ mo~th of D~cembcr, 186L The pattes present besdeshavng the dsease. The dead have no one to bury them, and myself were Dr: and Mrs. D~ane, M. Alphonso Segnae, and Mr, none wll follo w ther loved an~s to the grave. It s also end the Magnus Smth. When Mr. Pt, ames came nto the room t was gettng dark, and he r~fedatel~ began speakng very con-fecondemnatory laugnag~ on the subject,of the Board of R R ~[ Gll. a merchant n that county, bult a sma -pc" InquL~ between ~ and Mr. 14at~,ont 0n a!ght who had t am recovered try to gve t.to t.ho~ who hsyo not had z t, sayng," that all should have t as they. l~a.,, une11 Atrx. beng brought n. he preduqed, an Glacal ctocument, a h ou~,-and t~rected the Government to send to t all who havo letter from the C~loMal Secretary, founded on the report the dsease; but very few wear, and there was no power to compel the res to go. Ths Mr. It. S. 3PGll, who s ~ d to have of the ~bqve-mentoned Board of Inqury, whch was read been, and s slll the man suppezt of that county, ann one or~wo aloud: After the readng of the letter, Mr. Ftzjames, for the others, have made provsons such as the county could afford for space of about ffteen mnutes, apparently on account of the letter that had just been read, spoke aganst your Excellency and those who went to the "emallpox" house. Many of them yohr Government n the most unmeasured language; so strong, mght have recovered, but ded from mere starvaton...:t~e ndeed, that t could not be more so, both n words and gesture. mortalty s fearful; the number of d.caths u not, a~_ er%~ It s ~hd that tms s the frstme mo " sma~-pox ~ ~ :~ The followng among ethers were the exact words of the judge : He called your Excellency "a b]aekguard,",, one of the greatest I the around I,ber~ans them among at Cape the n~tvea; Palmas, but though t nevereached they have had the t always m the rn~ns, "a great sconndret," "a man of no prndple," "a!

3 LF~e. 23, THE AFRICAN TIME8. LETTER OMITTED IN OUR LAaT.--fae4"p. 85.) county tll zme ths Then s t" no medcne.. whatever... n ~ that... :1] r.dfrcan ~ m~ O~ce, 121, Pleat-street, E.C. county to admnster" m ~ne mcz, not even common ca.tu~.~, I J anuary 4, could be got. [ My Lord,~I had the honour to address your lordshp, und~ -=~-"~... sat4 te bethe data of the 2ndnst., relatve to the arrest andmprscnmen* a~ A small merchant steamerrem,.ago S, ~cn wn Is... All [ Cape Coast of Mr W E. Davds)n, Mr. J. H. Bnw, and Mr $. h~. ~rew wen The : t;onsttuton ox tee ~ant t)omeaentou ; of ~we re~omuona au.e. captan of the Ja-]a tred to get a e...l~. "" for uontooenton ; of letters to the Actng-Admnlstrator C.~.pe her to 8crn Leone ; the orered eap~ lldersi n...urn" wages, 1$. v Coast and to the Admnatretor-a.Chlef, and a letter descrbng the trp, and ther passages pad back ff they wshes to,re[ " the scene at Government House whch ureceded the arrest and but up to the tme the mal steamer passed the Ja-ja nan not mnrlsoument of the above.mentoned ~e~sone. succeeded n gettng any crew She got what she wantea later [have now the honour to nform ~our y lordshp that by the and went on her way. mal.steamer Mandn~o, the letters by whch wen delvered. n London on the 3rd nst., I have race reel further adwcea from Cape Coast up to the 10th December~ SMALLPOX IN THE SEA-COAST TOWNS NEAR CAPE COAST. By these advces I learn that on the day after the ernst of the above-mentoned persons--vz., the 1st December last--- zo Taz r~tro~z o~ ray. ~ra~cl~ z~ms. warrants wen ssued at Cape Coast for the.arras! of the undermentoned, also on a charge of conspracy a~n_ ns~er ~aj~t.y s ~umfom, January I, Dear Sr,--I left Cape-coast under orders a fortnght men agooovernment---vz.: Mr. Samuel Ferguson, M.r.J. ~t..msamoo, because of the ravages of smal:~ox n these par ts,.that I n~ght, do Mr. George Bsukson, jun., Mr. S. D. Hayford, and Mr. $. M. a/l n my power to arrest and mfljgate ~t oy vsocmauon an<; meamatabadoo. It dcea not appear that then was any awom nforms, treatment, thane now farly commenced my seres of vaeclnafnns, and have succeeded ~ far n breakng through the p n~.udces n total gnorance of any grounds for the charge mus onugn~ ton aganst these persons; and they were arrea~d and mp rson,e~. of the people, that I hope to be able to vaccnate two-thrds ot agans them. Mr. Way <~rd, a m,~ons~ agent dong du~at the populaton. I have already done the head-chef, captan, andellnful, was arrested there on Sunday, Decemoer ~;~r. prncpal nhabtants of the place. The people had made a sortinmdo% a manhunt of Anamaboe, was also arrested on ~uunay, of enc~npment or hosptal on the beach, on the hlgh r cad to December 3, when leavng chapel ; as was Mr, Bsnksen, jun. Accraj Wnnebeh, and were actually exposng themse!vsa to theafter three or four days mprsonment these fve persona were people who peened by, se as to spread the dsease much as nleased, on gvng bal n the sum of 3,0001. sterlng each not te possble. We selected a hlly place, a mle from the zown to leave,cape Coast. They a~d therefore stll prsoners bal. leeward, end bul then an encampmeut, hut~ &e., end orderedbefore beng thus released on bal they had to submto a secret them to remove to them, but they refused. On the 23rd Decem-examnatonber.we burnt down the beachuts, and the patents were takensome evdence to ncrmnate themselves. In ths mcek-exam for the purpose of extortng, f possble, from them to the hll encampment. On the mornng of the 25th we werenaton, as I am further nformed, no oath was admnstered to nformed that most of the patents had returned to the town, andthem; nether were ther statameuts read over to them for verf- nor were they asked to attach ther sgnature~ to such ~ve (Major Brownell and myself) were engaged the whole of thecaton; day n vstng every suspected hut n the town and removngstatements; nor were they commtted for tral; nor was t the patents. From some of the m~rable huts we succeeded n apparent that any judcal pr.oceedng was nvolved ther gettng out persona n the very worst stages of small-pox~scme examnaton. I have further the honour to nform your lordshxp putrd from head to f~t. The stench was fearful, butt had to that the other ~hree prsoners, Memrs. Davdson, Brew! and be done, and we dd t. I met wth men, women, and especally Amssah, were also smlarly released on bal. chldren, who were unprotected, Hyng wth and even crawlng All the ten gentlemen above mentoned, beng at large on bal abouthe f~ck. These are now sufferng, and we have fresh casesnot to leave Cape Coast, I have no longer to ask your lordshp every day. The Government s dong ts best, and I am dong my for the release from an unjust mprsonment; but I have the utmosto mtgate the evl. On the 8th I thnk I leave thshonuur to ask tha they may be freed at once by your l.ordshp s for Appam. I have already commenced Vaccnatng there. I orders from that bal, whch places them under a vexatous and have worked hard ever snce my arrval, and have greatlyllegal restrant, causng them daly loss. amelorated the condton of the Sufferng sck. A good many In further urgng the ttle and clam of all these gentlemen, have returned to the to.wn cured. Ths mornng and noon I havewho have been thus arrested and mprsoned, to heavy compensa. vaccnated ~60 persons. It wll take me a long tme: to fnshfnn for such arrest and mprsenmeut, I feel t to be my duty to the other towvs, but I hope to do great good n them.--yeurs, express my full convcton that your lordshp would never have truly, A.H. sanctoned the leavng the lves and propertes of largo bodes of attached people ahd the honour and credt of Her Majestfa CESSION OF ELHINA W.TC, TO GREAT BRITAIN. Government n the hands of such a person as the Actng-Admnstrator Salmon at Cape Coast, who has abused hs power by the l~orrm~a~, ~an. 3l.~Mr. Mll Graves has left our town and comndsslon of anch outrag~ had you been made aware of hs our country to-day, and returned to Afrca. Mll Gnvea was antecec~ents, and.the means by whc he obtaned executve for two or three wecka the llon of all the Conservatve clrelea at favour, whch wen not of a nature to mark hm out for ~o ml~rtant a trnst, n whche has now had the power to nflct a deep the Hague, and even at Amsterdam and Utrecht. He was the Ambassador of hs Majesty Whst-d ye,call- em, Kng of l~imoaand lastng dscredt on Her Majesty Government throughout the and the Elmnese, end left hs natve country wth the soleprotected Terrtores---as.called--by acts of arbtrary volence and purpose of entcng our Government and our Kng not to ~ell hs dearly-beloved "Coast to Queen Vetors. As there was no abuse of authorty whch wll not be easly effaced from the memory of the kngs, chefs, and pecplof Fant, who have queston of sellng, but only of ~dlny, one-half of hs pansgven so many proofs of devoted attachment tothebrtsh Cnwn. were as needless as the other half has been frutless, for the treates between Holland and England were approved by our ~I have the honour to reman, my Lord, yours most respectfully, F. ~rzems~,d, Lords wthout much oppofton, and r~eved the.royal sancton (I 1 years) Edtor of the Afr~n Hm~, aud Agent for the Pant Confederaton. undspuled possesson of the "blsokdsmond of Sumatra, whchother IM.PRIS0~S AND ARBITRARY 8EAROH are sure to be of the greatest mportance for our East Indan FOR PAPERS AT CAPE COA~. trade. (No. 1.) One of the rce..~ons that Mll Graves met wth ~hat we may vulgarly call such a cold shoulder at our Court, s to be found n ze. za-z znhoa o~ ~ ~m~clx ~z~c~. the fact that hs royal master frst appled to the Emperor of Cape Coast, January ~, Germany, and besought hm not to allow that the above-tmentoned treates should be ratfed! Whether thought that mn Sr,--I of our have.very frend Mr. bad J. news A. n Pynn. gve you--vz., The crcumstances of the ncanera. are as Wllam IIL was a vassal of Kaser Wlhelm, or that, as he follows: Oa the 30th ult. Colonel Poster, the Assstant Mag. frends pretended, he only wanted the German Emperor to speakstrate~ attended by polcemen, entered Mr. J. A Pyan a house, n hs behalf to our Kng, I don t know ; but the only royalwth a warrant sgned by the Chef 1[agetrsto, to search for audence wth whch Mr. Graves was favoured only lasted fvepapers connected wth the ~fanke~m Confederaton. ]fla. Py~m mnnfes, and a reported to have been all but satsfactory n everyproduced ~uch paper~ as he had n h~ posseqd om The Asshtant respect. Magstrate, aftereadng them, was eat~ed that Mr. Pynn had Fr~. 23, 1872.J THE A._--vRIOAN TIM.Ea. 93. no papers connected wth Mankeasm, and went away. A few AOTING-ADMINISTRATOR SALMON AND THE FA..NTI hours after ths the Assstaut Magstrate wrote to Mr. Fynn by a CONI~DERATION. polceman to send the papera he had already read to hm. Ths Cape Coast, January 3, Mr. Fynn refused to do, on the ground that he could not see why Sr,~ 7~e~stcsn~endeJfrward~for.t~opnf~nofcour~d he should send away hs prvate papers. The polceman returned n.england, and lh# &fenc~ tc~ ~c~e dtfn u or t~ tral ~a~s all ~ern #e~d, ~re, and repotted ]~.. Fynn_ a refusal, upon whch, the Asss.t~mt Mag- together w,t~ our prraf# paper$. We are atrste went agmn to Mr. Yynn a house and demanded tee papers țherefore unable to nstruct you as how to proceed ; we leave all and went so far as to ransack Mr. Pynn s on safe, beddlng~ &o. n your hand-,. The documents euelosed I have been under the After gatherng all such papers as he could get hold of, they were necessty of copyng by stealth, and out of my own house. packed n a small box for the purpose of ther beng taken away. Please nform us by the next opporlunry whether you have as yet retaned any counsel for us. At ths stage of affars Mr. Pynn s ~n uterfered, and would not We beg of you to publsh the enclosures, Non. 1 to 9. There, allow hs father s paper~ to be earned away unless he eccom- are others whch tme does not permt me to copy and forward by paned them. A strugglensued, durng whch a Mr. Thomas Forson. (a frend of Mr. Eynn) came u and offered to go along ths conveyance, sa we are beng closely watched. wth the papers. Ths request was refused by the Assstant All our prvate papers Were sezed and have been m~pected. Magstrate; and whlsthe polcemen were tryng to force the In fact hs Excellency has exhbted some of my prvate letters, box of papers away, Messrs. For~on, Fynn, and Son tred to pre- havng no reference to, or connecton wth, the alleged conspracy. vent t. The A~stent Maghtrate then left the hour, went to Tme presses and I must close.~beleve me, Sr, yours faththe staton, end mmedately returned wth extra polcemen.and hlly, :n~a~alsn~~rt~tt~h r e~inn :2 o~e~r ~rt; ~tr~,ob ~gs~:n~ F. Ftzgersld, E.~q., Agent for the 3. IL Fant ~azw~ Confederaton, Under-Secretary. Magstrate gvng the polcemen orders to handcuff Mr. Fynn ; London. but Mr. Fynn shewed no reshtanee, and walked quetly to the (~o. 1.) atatlon.house, hs son beng beaten by the pehcemen wth ther Governmdnt House, CapeCoast, Dec. 23, staves on the way. After they were taken to the staton Mr. My Good Erends,--I send Mr. Robertsen to you to ask you to Porsen and three other frends appled to the As~tant Magstrate delver to hm certan documents whch Messrs. Davdson, to bal Mr. Fynn. The Ar~stant Magstrs~ ordered the Pollce- Amsssh, and Brew state to me am n your possesfon. The men to "turn them out." Ths knd o~ oraery-room proceeeng documents requred by me from you am :~ eaused Mr. Poreon to laugh, and for merely laughng Mr.. Porson 1. The scheme lad heron tho Assembly for tho rehhg of a was also nesxcerated, and the threo an now rn Gothto Housa Roven~e. 2. The Y.~w relatng to tho collecton of a Poll Tax an~ Im- (~ol awatng ther ~sl. I and a Mr. 3"ohn Ssrbah. appled to bal them, but dd[ynot succeed. On the same day (30th port andexportdnty. December) Messrs. ~. H. Brew, W. E. Davlds)n, and George 3. The Orgnal Draft of the Consttuton of the Fant Con- Blsnkaon, $un. s, prem~swen entered, and ther papers ransacked federsey, together wth any other documents you may possess and carrled away, by one H. F. Blssett, commssarat ofll.cer, havng refennco to the sad Confederacy who s not a justce of the peace. You wll do well to exannno By complyng wth ths request of mne you wll prove your carefully all letters you receve from here, as. from. tho..state of goodwll, and show tha~you desre no aeta of yours or. of o~ers thngs at press at I ahall not be at all aurpmea ~t!etters are connected wth ho sad Oonfederaoy to be kept secret lrem rne tampered wth, and put nto fresh envelope~ after takng oop~es Government, who, besdes, s enttled to be nformed of all matters affectng the nterest and well.beng of the country.--i have the of them. m. has, hy n. mpe!led.to honour to remau, your f end, the management of hs extensve buslne~ nto my nanas. (Sgned) C. 8. S~L~o.% Actng Admnstrator. con shn do my t at. Tbe pott w,m 9- To the Zngs, at Mankesem Certfed true copy, torten wth busness at Salt Pond, as the pcopm srom Atan~esam ~. H. Bazw, Under-Secretary. wll be afrad to come down wth palm-ol, &c., especally as Mr. (No. 2 ) Salmon threatens to stop all the paths between_the nteger and the sea.coast.~yours fathfully, t;~vz ~AV~. Iratruclons for Mr. ~P.o~erh~a. To proceed to Mankesem mmedately. To delver and nterpret letter to the Kngs. (No. ~.) To obtan the documents. :o znaz znhoa c~ zn~z ~.va:c~ z~uzs. To ascertan f any one has been to Mankessm for any docu- Cape Coast, ~ anuary 8, menta; f so, who was the party and who sent hm, and when; what dcoument% f any, were delvered to hm? and Sr,~On the 80th December, 1871, search warrants were To ascertan the vews of the Kuga upon the subject of the ~sued vganat Messrs. Davdson, Gee. Blenkscn, :Inn., and 3". H, Confederaoy, the taxes to be leved, the polce force they ntended Brew at Cape Coast, to search for documents!n ther p~s~o, n, to nne, and whether they wshed the consent of the Governcontanng them the evdence of a "conspxracy to suovert me ment as a prelmnary., or whether they proposed to act wthout Government of the Brtsh Protectorate on the feld Coast." the consent of the Government. Colonel Poster headed a detachment of poleo who searched (No. 3.) the premses of Messrs. Davdson end Blankson for these "trea. sonable documents." They searched, end searched n van. Mr. 2~rra~" Blssett~the d--i alone knows wle cr what he s--entered and andi wll gve the Kngs 10/. f they delver the papers re<lolre<l, a further gratuty f I afterwards fnd they gve all, keepng searched Mr. Brew s premses. The next day sx or ~ven ether worr~nte were sent down to Anem abu and Salt Pond, to search none back. (Sgned) C.S. fl~..~ox. the houses of the Ron. Gee. Blanksen, 8. C. Brew, Esq., J.P., and Masers, Ferguson, Insadoo, Amssah, end Abadoo, and of Cape Coast, Dec. 23, 1871 I certfy the above to be true copes. Chefs Quabna, Quagrenu, ~ oseph Graham, and others. Mr. ~os. J.H. Basw, Under-Secretary. A. Fynn, of Cape Coast, had hs house searched thrce several (No. 4.) " tmes on the same day, end eventually he was taken to prson, together wt hs son, for beng Concerned, es the authortes Government House, Cape Coast, ~ran. 1, a11ege, u ths great conspraey. Mr. Thomas Forson was.~iso Sr,~In reply to your letter of to.dsy forwardng me the koy mprsoned, for havng laughed when Colonel Foster was speakng of the cashbox sezed wth your papers, I am drected by hs to the gentlemen (of whom he, Forsen, was one) who went Excellency to rtqucst that you wt attend at Government House bal out Mr. Fsnn and hs son. The whole cf the country s mmedately to be present whlst t s beng opeued. You can obtan a copy of the search n ~,n uproar~ and unless the Goveremcnt rtmove ths ncopnblo warrant by applyng to fellow at the head of affars, no one can tell what may take the Clerk of Courts.~[ am, Sr, your obedent ~ervant, place. He ~ays ho s governor cf these settlements, and must (S/good) H.F. BM ~ssm z, Prvate Secretary. govern. He s only ft to govern ~ery small fry. I.H. Brew, Esq., Cape Coast. (No. ~.) I was unable to wrte more by ths opportunty. By the next Re21y In a~re. expect a ]o~g artcle on the effarsof the C~nfcderaton, for I shall Cape Coast, Jau. 1, attemnt to prove tha the Brtsh authortes here are vary wrong n the. steps they are takng. The ceuntry s now thoroughly Sr,--I em n recept of your letter of ths date, and n reply roused, and they are forcng thngs nto a poston n whch th(.r 1hereto I bane to state, that althouoh wllng at all tmes to ob y anthor y wll have to be clearly defned, I beleve the Conthe commands of hs Excellency, under the pecular crcumfed~ratlon wll have to be recogn~l before you can ezpect a stances of the preseut afffar I beg most respectfully to declb attendng et Government House for the purpose mentoned u o berer ~tste of lhngs.~iu haste, ~curs truly, I% WV-B~O. your sad letter.,

4 prvate&c., were sez. nd removed h you on I C l ed --.,, Saturday last, and I have resn to beleve tha they bane been [ J. l. l~p.z w, unaer.r~ecremry. nspected. Snce that nspecton took place wthout my pre.sence, [ (No. 80 I cannot permt myself to be present at any proceedngs hatng [ Government House, Cape Coast, Dee. 19, connecton therewth. I leave the responsblty to the actors n ].-kly good Fdend,--$eeng your name attached to the Consttu. ths matter. ] fon of the Confederaton I shall requre your presence here to It s hsrdly neecs,.~ry for me to nform you tha the key Yes I..e~l. ~n thee clreumstan, ce~, Ido not lnt, nd to,nte r your forward~ you n confo~ty wth your order to me on Saturday [~r~.xou may ret~-n ~,2~r one or tw oaye.--xo~ msuo, last afore~d--i have the honour to he, Sr, your obedent C.S. Ssx~o~r, " servant, -, v vo H ~asw "! $~. Oraham, Chef, Salt Pond. H. F. Blssett, E~., &e., Cape Co~t. [ Certfed true co~y. I certfy the above to be true copes. [ S.H..~ w, Under.Secretary. 3. H. Bzzw, Under-Secretary. (No. 9.) (No. 6.) Government House~ Cape Coast, Dec. 21, May t please your Excellency, Sr,--Wo the undersgnedsr,--in answer to your letter just receved, I have to state kngs and chefs of the whole Protectorate of the Englsh settlement on the Gold Coast have duly receved your End ned esteemed allow any connecton between you and the Kngs of Abbrah or that I demand your mmedate presence at Cape Coast. I cannot letters by Mr. Robertson. Mankes.sm to nterfere wth my requests. I shall be glad to see Snce the formaton of the establshment of the Fant Con-thfederaey upwards of three years, n or about a month we des-vst me. You have no reason to fear comng when called, kngs mentoned above~ whom you state are preparng to patched our me.~engers, Messrs. Davdson end others, wth somethough there mght be danger n your refasm.~i have the documents to your Excellency. Your Excellency havng receved, you sent back end handed them over to our messengers. (Sgned) C. S, ST.~ox, Actng-Admnstrator. honour to be, Sr, your obedent servant, "We undersgned kngs and chefsent mmedately to Cape Coast 3ames Graham, Chef,salt Pond. to receve them from the hands of our messengers, and the sad Certfed true copy. documents are u our possesson. We respectfully and earnestly L H. Bm w, Under-8oeretary. ask your Excelleney s permsson to releve our messengers from the sad oblgaton end bond of the sad securty, and to releve of Ie~ to ~s.ear! of Kta~eg forwardln$ ~I~ a~s. persons r who became securty for our messengers, and allow ou messengers to proceed to Menkesslm, to search all the sa documents your Excellency requre from us. We are very anxous ~an. 80, I872. Afca, ~ mes OMco, 121, Fleet,s~reet, E.0., to receve our mes.~engers, am we have several letters, documents, My Lord,--I have the honour to enclose for your lordshlp e and memorandums n our repostory whlchrequlm our messengers nformaton prnted ~opes of d0euments and letters receved by presence to make dlgent search. me from Cape CO~t, by the steamshp Bonny, on the 27th nsl We had n consderaton to nform your Excellency wth good I wll not at ~pre~entrouble your lordshp wth ~ any ntenton of askng our mcssenge/ s presence at Z[ankesslm.--We observatons Brtsh nfluence on ther and contents; rule the but, West aa Coast a strenuou~ of Afrca, upholder as beng of have the honour to be, Sr, your fathful frends, (S~,,a~ $.~u; the only one possble under whch the spread of cvlsetlon an~ w;,,. N.~do "~ ~a,,,, ~.,,~,t.. "~-~.,~ a,~t ~^ ~ Chnshamty, " " " and a large development of materal " reseuree~, could N~,~ h~...~ 0~;~ Y.~... ~o,.,.t~. ever be.effected, I cannot refran from enterng my protest, m ~=~"~- A-% ~ ~-~ng ~. xanaor "~-~: ox aomorran, ~ ~ ~.~" ms "~ marz J:~ ; ~mg. behalf sued hy of xne " these uape great ~ t~as~ objects,... agansthe vexatous course pur- X cknney, of Eceomp, hs mark ; "~ng X.... authon tes, as one.. calculated not only... d" " h... [ to nflct great ~njury and loss an nnocent mdxwdnals, but also to Arooynan or ~. jmlaoc% smask; ~aog.a.~.tan.....,: 17. -~ -~ -. bnng Her Majesty s Government Into hatred and contempt among O[,a.nRmaoor, hs mark ;.sang.a. ~ssauuoo, ~... mark. Kn,*XAhbaca ofesscoomsh hs me a people httherto devotedly attached to the Brtsh Crewn.--I Kn~, ~uark~e ~, X ~ Fram... of Denklra, hs m~ o~t. ;.[ ha e. the honour to reman, my Lord, your lor~n P s obedent OuowXYanfulofkyan, hsmark; KngChb.I servant, ~ ~ ~.... boo X Pekoe of Assm 1,;.,-,o,t-. On,m;, YI.~. ~nzo~,.~./tlrtean :z~m~z. z,,~;, ~ ~o.;~,;,.~,,t To t he Rt. Hen. the Earl of Kmberley, K O., "~" ~" ~ ~ ~ "~ "7"" I Colonal.offce (No. 7.) [,...,_..... zo... Aetlng-Admlns~tor. of rr~ ~rt~ellbm~n~. LETI EI~ t~ t~tate ON CAPE The formaton and establshment of the Fant Confederaton COAgT AND FA.NTI AFFA.LRS. orgnated from msunderstandng relatve to the exchang~ (No. 1.) between the Brt~h and Dutch Settlements on the Gold C~.~t Afrlc~. ~ ~. O~ee, 121, :Fleet Sueet, X.O. that some of the Fant Alles are handed over to the Duto[ February P~ Government wthout our consent; we, the natve kngs and cmefs, My Lord,--I beg to apologas for the present ntrudon your and all populatons of the Fant end ther alles under the protecton of the Brtsh Government, resolved, and do resolve, and una-of the West Afdcan people, cannot refran from expressng, both lordshp, but as havng been labourng for manyears n the cause nlmoufly agreed to form the Fant Confederaton, to act poltcally upon offensve and defendve operatons aganst ear enemes Settlements on the Gold Coast, the ver~ great ~atsfset0n I have for myself and for the Kngsand Chefs andpeoples of the Brtsh n tme of emergency. Ths systemof the Fant Confederaton recelved n learn~g that a treaty has now been fnally completed was approved and sanctoned hy hs ~xcelleney the ]ate Admnstrator Smp~n durng hs admnstraton 1869, when he seaboard of the Gold Coast, htherto held or clamed by hs Majesty for the cesson to Her ~ejesty of Eln~nand other ponts on the pad a vsto the Fant Confederaton Mankesam ; and hsthe Kng of the Hetherlands, our grattude toyour lordshp Excellency the Admnstrator Ussher approved and sanctone~ for havng obtaned tma great advantage for them. the same. I trust your lordshp wll further permt me to expre~ the hope 2. As the naton of Fants are not poltcally unted nt onetha the transmss!on of ths mportant ntellgence to Cape Coast body, we the natve kngs and chefs assembled for the expresswll be accompaned by such nstructons from your lordthn as purl~se to be unted nt one body, under the name of the Fantwll serve to remove the perturbaton and an.xetv caused hv~t,~ Confederaton, for the mutual support, good wll, and nterest of proceedngs of the Brtsh Executve authortes a t Cape Coa tt,--~ the naton of Fants and her alles; not agansthe Brtshtha there may be no alloy n the publc rejocngs wth whch Government, but for and under the Brtsh Government, as our the sad utel~gence wll naturally be receved by a people so protectors from the tme mmemoral. strongly attached to OreatBrtan.--I have the hcnour to reman, 3. The forma!on and establshment of Fant Confederaton of my Lord, your lordshp a obedent cerwnt, the natves and Chefs ere pate and nnocent, wth good ntenton as a naton to act upon defensve and offensve aganst our common F. Fnzo~aazv, Edtor of the Afrca, ~e~. To the Rght Hen. the Earl of Kmberley, Esq., enemy, the Ashants ; and also to act n concert wth the Brtsh Oovernment;.te apply to that Government n all cases of df~cul. tes and emergences, and for everythng necassarv for the need (~o. 2.) wll and nterest of the Fault naton and her all es n general, Afrcan Tmes Offce, 121, Fleet Street, E.C., and the communty of Fant and her alles. February 8, My Lord,--I had the honour, the 2nd nstan~ of offer~g my 4. These are the general vews of the end Fant Confedera. thanks and congratulatons to your lordshp on the completon of t[on Isx~c IRor~rsox, Government Messenger. the treaty between Her ~aje~ty and the Kng of the Netherlands, Manke~m, December 29, for the ce~on cf Elmna, &% by the latter to Her Majesty. I dd not thnk t rght on that oecadon (o allude to the fact Fm~. 23, 1~72.] THE AFRICAN TIMES 95 that any consent of the Dutch Government to treat for the sa~dhead; Fyun, who was n bed-wths wfe, had hs bedroom eesdon was obtaned wholly and solely by the detehnned and nvaded, was pulled out of bed, and conveyed, wth hs son and persstent acton of the Fend Confederaton and ts forces aganst one Thomas Forsan, to gaol, by Colonel Poster s orders, ~ ~)~l~ the Dutch Elmna-Ashant Allance, and ther expressed resoluton warram, and they were kept locked up as close prsoners for ten to renew ther attack upon Elmna f the Dutch dd not retreday~, ColonelFoster refusng bal for any a,noun/. At last Mr. Chalmere condescends to hear the case, and, to the astonshment of from that and other ponts occuped by them on the seaboard of Fant. every one, selects the,rudcf~l Assessor s Court for the tral. Poor In now brngng ths mportant and undenable fact under yourfynn, son,and Forson were brought up. They protested aganst the lordshp a consderaton, I beg permlsdon to express the hopenovel way ti~ey were abouto be tred. Hr. Chalmera overruled that t wll have had ts due weght wtb your lordshp n any ther objectons, and nssted on the tda! gong on. After t~vo nstructons you may have sen to the Brtsh authortes on the days hearng, Mr. Chalmcrs, however, told Fynu, through hs West Coast relatve to the late lamentable proceedngs at Ca~eattorney, that f he lked he mght have the jury he demandej. Coast, whch I had the honour to brng under your lordshp s Of coumo Fyun and hs fellow.prsoners jumped at ths chance notce a my letters of the 2nd and 4th 3enuary last.--i have the of havng a far tral, and a~ented. The Judcal Assc~or s honour I o reman, my Lord, your lordshp!a obedent Servant, Court was thereupon adjourned. On Mouday last, the 15th nst., F Frrzozm~z~, FARor of the Afrcan ~ met. a jury was empannel/ed to try the cause, and durng the whole "To the Rght lon. the Earl of Kmberley, K.G., week nothng else has been before the publc. On Saturday last &c., Colonal-offce. (20th January)the case for the defenco was closed, and whea ~fr. Bre was abouto address the jury for the defence, Colonel MR. FYNN, MR. FYNN, TUN., AND llt. FORSON, TEN Foster (who conducted the prosecutlcn, although there s a regular DAYS IN PRISON "FOR OBSTRUCTING THE Crown Prosecutor et Cape Coast) got up aud requested that he POLICE, ETC.," B]~0RE BEING BROUGHT UP AT mght open up the case agan, to contradct a fact sworn to n THE POLICE-COURT. the defence--vz., t~at ~ fad k[el~ed one of p~r Fynn s ~t7dren. TO THE EDITOR OY T~E A.I~CA~ ~IM~S. ayed sr years. The chld had aiready been produced, and had Cape Coast, Jan 9, gone round to the j ory for nspecton. Colonel Foster had prevously every nece~ary opportunty for procurng the eeldeuce he now pretended to seek ; but Mr. Chalmers ordered Sr,--Mes~rs. Forson, ~ynn, and Son were brought up to-day n the ~udlcal Assessors Court, composed of natve chefs, charged wth f obstructng Colonel Foster and polce n the executon o f en adjournment. Colonel Foster had then a prvate ntervew wth Mr. ChMmers, t~ fm~ge, and the case was then adjourned p. y, Y y to Monday, the 22nd. Ths and the mprsonment of Davdson, ndctments ; that under these crcumstances they were not prepared to put n any plea; and further, that they objected to be Brew, and Amssah, and the arbtrary searchng of so many homes, has made Salmon, Chalmer~, and Foster, really odous to tred n the Judcal Assessors. court ; thather case beng of a the people Colonel Foster and hs men are loudly accused of ~pposed,~offenee aganst the Government, they prefer beng tred n the Court of Cvl and Crmnal ~ ustco~ compasea of "twelve havng commtted wlful perjury. Warrants. too, t s affrmed, have been manufactured for the occason, when n the frst nstance no warrants ever exsted. Of course only gve you educated persons." I[s Honour adjoured the hearng of the case to Frday the 12th nst. ; n the mean tme acceptng bal~ n ths th ss the publc vo~e, and as evdence of the feelng enterraned as regards Actng-Admnstrator Salmon, Chef Magstrate persons of Mx. Samuel Davs and the Ray. S. Lang, to produce Chalmers, and Colonel Foster-Foster, Polce Magstrate, CMef them at the apponted day. These-thngs are producng a very~bad effect here.--yours of Polce Foce, &o. truly, V. By next steamer you wl learn what has been the result of the tral. I only hopo the jury wll do ther duty, and be nether cheated nor ntmdated. Ta U~u. THE BRITISW CAPE COAST AUTHORITIES v. FY~N. ~0 THE ~,DITOR OF THE AI~ICAI~ TI3 F~.. Cape Coast, Jan. 21, 1872: CIRCULAR ISSUED BY THE FANTI CO~NFEDERATION. To tl~ ~duca~d GeMhmen of FaM. Sr,--The regn Of terror has commenced agan on the Gold Coast, but n a dfferent manner to that n the days of the Mankessm, January, notorous Parker. Numerous were the blots that he cast on the The uuderdgned kngs and chefs of Fant nvoke the fervent page of Gold Coast hstory. It wll, I am sure, not gve you plea-sympathaura to record that Chef Magstrate Chalmers ~ treadng hs country, and who dedre to promote ts real and materal progress of all those of ther fellow.countrymcn who love ther evl footsteps.. You are no doubt aware of the Mankassm affar..and welfare. I wll now nform you what has taken place snes 80th December Tho present s a crtcal perod n the poltcal hstory of ths "up to present date :ountry, and what we bheve s requred of all Fants a hearty It appears that some three or four weeks after the presentaton md unanmous combnaton; a settng asde of all petty to ~. Balmon, the Actng Admnstrator here, of the resolutons ealouses whch may exst amongst the varous trbes who compose the Fant naton, and the establshment of a confederaton and consttuton of the Fanf Confederaton framed at Mankssslm (whc he refused to receve), Mr. Chalmers advsed that strong enough to resst our ancent foes, the Ashants, or any warrants should be ssued to search the homes of all suspected other Afrcan trbe or naton that may attempt to nvade our sol partes, so that the Very documents that were tendered and unjustfably at any and all tmes hereafter; and whch wll also refused by Salmon, should be found, that they mght serve as a e~tablsh an equtable, far, just, and,ncorruptble admnstraton base for n prosecuton aganst the partes for an attempt to sub-overt Brtsh-rule, &o. It appears that a Mr. J. A. Fynn sthe person wthn the lmts of the confederaton, to all and each justce~ preserve order, secure the property and the lbertes of house was suspected; -and Mr. ChMmers, aded by Colonelof tho~ who call themselves Pante. Foster-~oster, got the search.warrants made out for Fynn-- Yet t should be thoroughly end planly understoed tha tho warrapts wthout daf~ or teal, and altogether n the handwrtng purpo~ of the confederaton {whch, as you are aware, has been of Mr. Chalmers. Colonel Foster, Polce Magstrate, proceeded recognsed practcally by several admnstrators for upwards of n person wth ths warrant, at noon on 30th December last, to three years) s not to oppose or n any way to obst.rnct the Mr. Fynn s house, end made a complete search for the documents legtmate nfluence of the Brtsh Government, but, on the other #pedflcally ~mej n f~s warrant. After several hours searchhand, to encourage and support the exercse of that nfluence Colonel Foster told Mr. Fynn that he was perfectly satsfed return for the protecton whch t has afforded us u past years, that ho was not n pa.~sesson of the papers ho wanted, and left At ths moment, greatly to our r.egret, for we love the Br~tsh h/s house n a most frendly way. Colonel Foster proceeded0overnment, ckeumstauces have arsen whc have compelled us thence to Actng-Admnstrator,Salmon, and communcated the to take up a defensve and panful stuaton n tespeetot the result of hs search at Fynn s. Mr. Salmou told hm that he arbtrary conduct cf tho present Admnstrator, Mr. Salmon, and (Foster) was not to be the judge abouthe papers, and orderedhm only. hm to go agan, and fetcll all _Pynn a fa~era (ths nol beng Our ambassadors have been ~ezed, mprsoned, a~d arc now stated n the warrant), whch was agau put n mo~on by detaned at Cape Coast, n volaton cf all those laws whch we Corporal Pratt, whom Colonel Foster sent, ~vth a memorandum beleve to exht among and whch regulate the nternatonal only, to Fynn, demandng all hs papers. Fynn naturallyrelatons of all cvlsed natons, and whch we know preval even laughed at Pratt, end told hm there must be some mstake, as amongst ns who have not had the prvlege to enjoy the bleatngs Colonel Foster had personally expressed hmself perfectly satred, of that cvlsatou whch t has plea.cd the All-mercful to end tha therefore (Fyun) eonld not allow any further cearcb, bestow upon that naton whose past benefcent protecton we or the takng away of hs prra~ papers by Corporal Pratt and gratefully acknowledge. hs three polcemeu~ although he offered no resstance. Pratt (Sgned) Qc~z F~CO, Asroo Oroo, &c.,&e., Kngs and Chefs cffant. tar Fynn s house about ~ven P.m About ten or eleven o clock I.H. Bazw. at nght n rushed a lot of polce, wth Colonel Foster at ther Certfed true copy of orgnal, t

5 : b- 1 - U6 THE AFRICAN TIMES. [-FEB. 23, frt l gmts. our space wll not allow us to comment on them thla month as they deserve, n vew of the persstence of the PUBLISHED MONTHLY. PRICE 5d,, STAMPED. Executve n both settlements n a course whch n the You are esrnes@ requested to allow your name to be added to tho true nterests of Afrcand of Great Brtan we feel that ]stolycarly subscrber~. Prce 5s. per annum for each copy, payable we caunot too stronglycondemn. The judcal element ~n advauce. on the Co~t s unfortuuately so much n subjecton to the Executve, that we never hope much from t n the popular g{ t fx ta, 4rate. nterest when the Executve s determned on a course of oppresson and njustce. FRID.4 Y, F.E~RUARY 23, THE CESSION OF THE DUTCH GOLD COAST THE NEW GOVERNOR.GENERAL; THE ELMINA SETTLEMENTS TO GREAT BRITAIN. CESSION, AND DISCUSSION IN PARLIAMENT. Ws thank God that one of our great desres for the Gold A.~THOUGH not gazetted, there s now no doubt that Mr. Coast s now realsed~that ts coast-llne wll have no Pope Henuessy ha~ been appentecl.(]overnor-gen.eral on European flag floatng over t henceforth as an emblem the West Coast, and has accepted the appontment. The of power, save only that of Great Brtan ; that from ths tme forward there wll not be any trbutares and nlles announcement has been snce modfed b~ a statement that he accepts t only "for a few months. Some say that of Ashant on the seashore of the Fant countres. We Mr. Pope Hennessy s a man 0f too much talent for the have, both on our own behalf and on that of the Faut West Coast. We cannot admt ths, for we look upon the Confederaton, unreservedly expressed our thanks to Her West Coast as far more mportant, and demandng the 7ffajesty s Government for havng broughthe negotatons exercse of at least as much talent as Labuan. Other say entered nto wth ths objecto the desred concluson; but he has hgher alms; we can scarcely conceve of any we have not hestated at the same tme to remnd Earl hgher than that of the buldng up of three or four largekmberley that ths result would never have been obtaned but for the decded and patrotc acton of the kngs and mportant free communtes. However, be t as t may, we hope and beleve that Mr. Hennossey wll and chefs, who, n vew of the great natonal danger whch put hs heart n the work he has to do, whatever t threatened them through the Dutch Elmna-Asbant alllance and the Dutch and Brtsh treaty for exchange of may be, whle he s engag~l n t ; and that he wll hold hmselfree from those offcal compromses whch obscuredsettlements, formed the Faut Confederaton, blockaded the judgment of hs predecessor, and thus dsgraced hs and attacked Elmua, and rendered the poston of the admnstraton and hmself n the eyes of the Iong-trled Dutch there untenable, ssva at an expense whch the frends of Afrca. It was.not an unsutable ntroducton Dutch Government would never consent to ncur. Ths to,west Afrcan affars that Mr. Hennessy should have trumph--and t s a glorous one---s really that of the been frst employed at the Hague n obtanng the Fantl Confederaton; a trumph that would have been fnal acceptance by. the Dutch Government of the treatessooner obtaned but for the stupd proclamaton of Admnlstrator Ussher, clamng of the Paut Confederaton relatve to the cessmn of Elmna, &c. Havng lately returned from a government u the Eastern Seas, he no doubtthe wthdrawal of ts blockadng forces from before El- It s our duty the more to nsst on ths, because understood fully what advantages the Dutch would obtanmnn. by the treaty" relatve to Sumatra; and although Mr. Sr Arthur Kennedy s new fugleman, who wrtes for hm Knatchbull-Hugessen stated that there was no connectonunder the sgnature of "Englshman," and who s go!ng between that treaty and the one for the cesson of the wth hm to Hong.Kong--" Englshman/ whoso canomsa. Dutch settlements on the Gold Coast, t has been perfectlyton of Mr. Uasher as a martyr we some tme snce dealt understood that the Sumatra one was not to be completedwth--has of course come out agan n the/ mes n eulogy by Great Brtan wthou the Elmna one--thathey must of hs new patrons, and gnores altogether that noble stand or fall together. There has been an attempt, both n effort of the Fantl Confederaton and ts people, wreathng Parlament aud n the press, to censure the Brtsh Govern-alment n the Rlmna Treaty for acceptng the cesson of Ussher. It s thus he wrtes under the egregous m~- the laurels round the brows of Sr Arthur and ~.r..,j ~, Elmnaganst the expr " eased wshes of the Kng of Elmlnanomer of "Our New Colony. Black as the mournng and some of hs people. We have not thought t worth border of the Dagblad mght have been on Frday last, whle to reply to such arguments, because the censurersand earnestly as the mpetratlons of Davd Mll Graves, evdently knew nothng of what they were wrtng or Envoy of the Kng of ELmlna to the Kng and Queen of speakng about. They dd not know that the general Holland, mght have been uttered, no one who takes the Fant determnaton, whch the Brtsh Government could remotest nterest the permanent well-beng of that secton of West Afrca whence Davd Mlls Graves brngs hs not change, was that Elmna should not be n any way n subjecton to or allance wth Ashant ; that n consequence credentals can fal to be grateful to those men who, by of tbs determnaton the Dutch could not reman on the the use of Patence and perseverance, have at last secut~l coast, and that f they left Emna wthouthe Englshthe transfer of the Dutch castle of Elmna to the Government of the Gold Coast." Ie~t there should be any doubt flag beng rased n place of the Dutch, Emn aud ts people ran the rsk of beng utterly destroyed; consequently that Elmna s the great ganer by the cessoncare to ntroduce them n detal. Mr. Ussher s thus as to who these able men really are, "Englshman" takes to Great Brtan, snce the latter could not have permtted brought by name upon the scene : "Mr. Ussher, the pro. the substtuton of any other European power. We are sent Admnstrator of the Gold Coast, wll no longer have sure, moreover, that the cesson wll prove greatly bone. hs hands ted for want of means. He s too sensble a fclal n every way to the Elmna people, who wll now ruler not to perceve the wl~lom of establshng amcable take ther proper poston as unfettered members of the relatons wth tha Kng. and of constructng a good road great Fant famly, and no longer vassals of Ashant. We to the Prah. By a lttle persuason he could nduce the are bound to suppose that Mr. Hennessy wll" go out to Kng to cut anotheroad from the other bank of the Prah accep the cesson at Elmna, as he was engaged n forwardng t at the Hague; and we hope there wll not be an object endng as much n hs advantage asa our own. to Cooma.~sle, for the Kng has sagamty" enough to pursue,, anythng to mar the unversal joy whch ought to prevalwe may deal wth ths precous Paragraph before we drop everywhere--from Assnce to the Volta--on such an occason. author, we presume,of ths letterof"englshman,"althou~h our pen; hut now, "enter Sr Arthur Kennedy," the real he uses n t an abler pen than hs own (see Gambla Correspondence), and behold!~" Mr. Pope Henuessy enters on OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS AT CAPE COAST AND LAG 0S. the dutes of a Government dgnfed and enlarged n ts Tn~RE are many nterestng letters, &c, n ths presentusefulness hy the wse and persstent conduct of Sr Arthur number of the Afrcan Tm~ ren,rate offcal and judcalkennedy. The Gold Coast was, perhaps, the most troublesome pece of Sr Arthur s Afrcan work; and the proceedngs at Cape Coast and Lutes. We regret that result! F~. 23, I872.] THE AFRICAN TIAII~8. 97 of hs Patent and prudent labour merts that stll, small of the reforms and measures we have advocated] through voce of applause whch appears to be the solo ab~dlng storms of abuse and msrepresentaton--aganst a constant reward of those brave and hardy poneers who have rased tde of offcml venom. Oue by one we behold these reforms and mea.sur~ adonted and nut sued The only thn~, ]~ngland so hlgh n the scale of humanltv, and wrtten n llustrous characters on the pages of hsto y the name of m "" r.~..o that we co plan of wlth reference to these qulet vactones A~ ENorasm~aN.~Pebruary 7." Would not Goldsmth s we obtan s, that when they are obtaned the Afrcans as Mr. Burehell have here cred "Fudge!" Who that reads a rule (there are of coursexeeptous) look upon the long the above can doubt for a sngle moment the wsdom resstng offcals as those to whom they are ndebted for aud proprety of Sr Arthur Kennedytakng"Englshman " them, gnorng us and our long aud arduous uphll efforts wth hm to Hong-Kong? Not one word of the Pant on ther behalf;, j ust as. "En~lshman"o.Imsses by the Co~ederaEon, and ts persstent and noble effort for the welfare and safety of the whole Protectorate; ts "patence great Fant, effor to whtch tha Dutch teas,on of Elmlna, &c., has been really owng, aud places the wreath of and perseverance," wthout whch not even the Dutch vctory solely on offcal brows. It ought not to be so, desre for certan concessons the sde of Sumatra wouldmore especally as each such vctory leads to an ncrease ever have nduced the cesson of Elmlna. It s thus that nstead of a dmnuton of our labour n ther behalf. To the hstory of the Gold Coast would bo~vrltten offcally and procure the buldng up of free communtes s not a offcously f ths wretched Af can Tmes were but out of temporary ahd easy, but,a contnuous and most arduous the way. But we donor tttus furnsh materals for hstory. work. As we have been compelled, n Fant vndcaton Whle we mantan, and shall ever mantan, that the and oar own, to notce "Englshman " (alas, Sr A. presence, the" sea protecton, the gudance of BrtshKennedy by deputy), we deeply regret that our press of authorty and counsel s now and wll for a long tme be matterenderst mpo~ble to nserthe entre letter. It ndspensable on the Gold Coast, f we are to ndulge the s a strange jumble. It gnores the Anglo-Dutch treaty ~hope of ever seeng the Fant people and ther rch and of 1868 for terrtoral exchange, and treats of the fscai -fertle countres cv]sed, prosperous, rleh, and happy; condton of the protectorate as though no agrcemenb wh]~ we state the fact that not all the self devoton and respectng equal dutes had then been arrved at; ths, erohnn of the Fant kngs, chefs, and people could have of course, because that Anglo-Dutch treaty and the trans- was n Blackalrs tme, not n Sr Arthur s. Thus t affected the tranqul and frendly removal, or any removalfer of the Dutch from Elm~n and the other forts occuped by shows that the wrte read our last number (see page 86), them, had there not been s Brtsh Government wth whom or be would not have fallen nto the egregous blunder of to negotate, a.nd to whom to make the ceylon ; we at wrtng about "what would become of the partal clvhsa- we have set up through the:drudgery of two cen- the same tme, and wth equal farness, record the nds-toputable fact that after thedutch and Brtsh exchange of tures." Notwthstandng the crass stupdty whch prevals among" West Coast offcals, we had not supposed settiements the Dutch would never have hadany constran. lug motve to cede, but, on the contrary, very weghtythat any one other than Mr. Salmon would have recalled constranng motves to reman, had not Commendah to mnd that we have been two or more centures on that refused the Dutch flag, and the Fant Confederaton been formed, and brought and mantaned ts forces n the feld, ~I~t~al Ym:t. he~ehew:u:amve :l y~,hm: r ~ adg ~e~n ~t Yw :nodrr unaded (ndeed, mpeded) by the Brtsh authortes ; noblythree centures there, and were not now gong to be kcked perseverng to the end for the delverauco of Fant from the out ;" whle "Englshman" has the hardhood to wrte constant menace of Dutch Elmna complcty n Ashant about "the cvlsatlon we have set up through the nvasons. All honour, then, to that Fant Confederaton, drudgery of two centurles..! Pretty cvlsaton, ndeed, whose offcers t has pleased Mr. Actng-Admnstrator we were settng up durng sometblng lke a century and a Salmon to throw nto prson, to persecute, and to revle ; half of the tme, w~h our slave.trade factores and shps ; stranng egansthem the executv e and judcal powersdong all we could to set man aganst man, that he mght wlth whlch he and others at Cope Coast have been capture the other for sale, thus leadng to that devastaton unwsely entrusted. Ths vctory of the Confederat%n, and depopulaton of the country whch has snce made t so whch we always foresaw, even at a tme when t was the fatal to European lfe! Then there a another paragraph, fashon to heap rdcule upon that patrotc organsa6on, whch s qute n the offcal ven, evdencng a dazzlng and the fore~ng whch nduced us always to counsel t to vson of :large resources for ot~olals to revel n, havng persevere n ts nobl enterprlse--ths vctory we hope and reference to the "prncple whch justly mantans that all beleve s but the prelude to a contnuous and long seresour dependences ought to be self-relyng aud self-support- Ths, ndeed, shows the need of fresh efforts, of of succeases. We do not mean warlke successes ; wehopeng." and beleve they wll not need many of those, because we addtonal watchfulness on our part. There s not now, feel the convcton that, severed from F, lmna sympathy~ there wll never agan be, any need. of assstance from the whch t soon wll be---and f/ om :Elmnallance--whch t Brtsh Treasury; and, therefore, very few persons away now and for ever henceforth h--ashantl wll soon from the settlement wll be nterested watchng the expendture. But we Shallwatch t. The enlarged revenue evnce an entre change of polcy as regards the Fantl countres. Our heart s ndeed full of hope. must not be wasted, by unworthy of~clals on themselves Even Sr Arthur Kennedy, wrtng wth the.pen and ther sycophants and creatures. That revenua con- as we Ponted out last month, the fnancal lfe- of " Englshman," no longer rdcules the formatonsttutes, of a road to the Prah--no longer states that t s mprac-blootcable to form or to mantan one n that tropcal countrythe advantage of the country and ts people, tba Brtsh of the country ; and unless t be properly appled for ~no longer asserts that t would be useless and unproductve of results when made. Oh no! let our readers plunderer among them. We shall watch that t be not so Government wll soon appear only as a great robber and glance agan at the extracts we have gveu ;. and what do dsgraced, as well as that the Fauts be not so njured. they ~ce there. "Mr. Ussher s too sensble a ruler not to The year 1872 wll be memorable n the annals of the perceve the wsdom of constructng a good road to the Faut countres. In t the supposed clam of Ashant on Prah." Is not ths encouragng? Does not ths look Elmlna s for ever extngushed ; from t, wth a revenue lke the begnnng of a new era? What--to make that that wll, no doubt, amounto 50,0001. or 60,0001. a-year mad whch we have been nsstng on for, haft a score of --perhaps, ere long, 100, aud a natve organsatlon years as ndspensable to I~ant securt), development, bndng together the whole country n one (wth a consttuton that ponts to the unversal establshment of prosperty and nfluence---that road whleh, n anal or to our nslstance, those "able men," who are now to be educatonal and ndustral schools, the unversal ustruc. placed on the pnnacle of fame, denounced as useless, rapractcable and unmalntanable[ What---to make that and mantenance of man and dstrct roads, wth the uth. ton of the chldren, male and female, and the formaton road wll be the evdence of wsdom n a sensble ruler? sutton of the vast mneral resources of the couutry), there It s well; we are content. One by one we force convcton of the good, the utlty, the necessty, the wsdom, movementoward cvlsaton and wealth. May God must surely be dated a real and rapdly pro~cssve onwara grant I

6 1! "f % % -I f!? / 98 THE AYRICAN TIMES. [F~B. 23, 1872 that our antcpatons be_ not blasted or delayed n ther I grounds for elcludng Europeans or other strangers from reallsaton by any mstaken vew of Her Majesty s Go- ]possesson of the sol. But, thanks to the ndefatgable vernment as regards the Fund Confederaton, and the late I efforts of the now venerable as respected 3Ir. Gerard acton of the executve and judeal authortes at Cape [ Ralston, so many years unpad Oonsul-General, and who Coast wth respecto t and to ts members. There s a ]never aspred to be au "excellency," Lbera has been acglogous prospect n v~ew for Fantl; we should be sorry/knowledged by every European Power; the slave-trade ndeed to see t even for one moment darkened. / from Afrca s for ever at an end ; aud even slavery tself - s rapdly dsappearng everywhere, except n the natve heathen countres of Afrca. There could no longer be LIBERIA RIDICULOUS, OR LIBERIA any danger to Lberans n permttng~europeans to purchase as much land as they may choose. They would.not RESPECTED. T~ preposterous humbug of so-called Lberan banquet% buy more than they could utllse by ther captal ; they &o., has, wc hope, at last culmnated. Whle the Afrcancould only utllse what they mght purchase by employng Tmes was prntng last month there was beng held what Lberans, hy whch n a short tsme many of these mght was grandloquently styled the "LI~EmA.x A~,~U.tL ~ALL," be enrched, and many more be made comfortable, havng seemngly, so far as we can make out, for the especalther wants vroperly suppled by means of wages for ther glorfcaton of 3Ir. Davd Chnnery, the charate~ of hs labour. Sugar, cotton, coffee, mght beproduced n large Excellency Davd Chnnery, Charg~ d Affalres of the c~uanttes for the European market, whle t s notorous Republc of Lbera, and the Honourable Mrs. Chlnnery! that enterprsng men, owners of sol, havng captal to Mrs. Chlnnery, of course, s not to blame for havng work wth, and wth lfe and property duly protected, the ttle of "honoumble" mproperly tacked to her mght soon double or treble the producton of that great name ; and we merely notce t as an addtonal proof of Afrcan staple, palm.ol. Europeans would never so throng the very questonabie use made n ths country at the the country as to be dangerous to the Lberlans; and we present tme of ttlesupposed to be derved lrom Lbera! see no other mode by whch Lbera can progress than by We take t for granted, though we are not at all satsfed or/ welcomng them. "Wth regard to the money lately rased ths subject, that the appontment of ]k~r. Chunery as by the loann England, we now say d~stjnetly and unhesta- we lmve before ndlcated--that our opnon Charg~ d Affalres by the now deposed and mprsonedtngly~as Presdent Roye carred wth t the desgnaton of "excellency," rrespectve of whether 3fr. Chnnery should be She cannot~ wth any regard for her own character, de- there sbut one honoumble course for Lbera to pursue. or should not be receved and acknowledged as Charg6 nounce and mprson the men wh~ have rased the money d Affares by the Brtsh Government, to whch t has been for her and at the same tlme herself approprate the naturally supposed he was accredted; but whch we beleveplunder. She ought to restore to the bondholders all that we are correct n statng has never receved or aeknow-remanledged hm n that capacty. Even ths, however, would not condton of ther gvng up hese bonds to be cancelled n of the money they have pad on ther bends, on gve the ttle of "honourable" to the wfe ef Mr. Chnnery. exchange for that money, and for new bends at par wth We repeathat we hope ~the new Presdent of Lbera wll 5 per cent. nterest, for the balance whc her poverty wll exhbt the gee4 sen~ of puttng an end to what only not allow her at pr~,ento restore. Then, conductng herself modestly, wthout ereatlng "excellences" and "lady seems to make Lbera rdculous. A state wth a gross revenue of about 10,000/. a-year, wthout (as]fr. Roye honourables/ wthout puffng Englsh breakfasts, bantluets, and so-called annual Lberan balls, she wll soon over and over agan offcally asserted n answer to just clams) a sngle cent* n ts treasury, and unable te pay become respected, and enlst the sympathes of the wlse the ealares of ts home offcers, can only be made absurdand the good of all countres. She has the choce of good by reterated puffs of Lberan breakfasts, Lberan banquets, and evl now before her. We have as above brefly ndcated what she wll become f she choosethe good; but f Lberan annual balls, &e. There may be new moc~es of makng prvate fortunes, but there s no new mode of the temptaton be too great for her--f she cannot resst buldng up states. Ths can only be accomplshed by appropratng to herself what remans of the loan money, the patent ndustry of ther people and the development she plunges nto an abyss where nothng can save her of natural, agreu]tural, and mlneral respurces. A loan, from contempt and shame. the annual nterest on whch s almost equal to the gross revenue, Wll not do t; but only serve to plunge the country deeper nto debt and.. dlshohour. Lbera ou. ght EXTRACTS lrro~i THE INAUGURAL SPEECH OF not to have thought of rnsng money by loan untl she PEESIDENT ROBERTS, OF LIBERIA, DELIVEP~ED $ AN. 1, possessed a surplus revenue at least equal to the charge THE x,~n~ LOAN. that would fall upon her treasury for the annual nterest thereon--a real, not a suppesttous or purely magnary "To ncur one debt, at grass dsadvantage too, smply to dscharge another, s contrary to every prncple of poltcal or any surplus. Such an operaton, f wsely conducted, s a mere other knd of economy." captalsaton of the annual surplus ; and~ f rased wthout "When loans are voluntarly nourred, upon the prncpie that too great sacrfces, and honestly and economcally appled a publo debt s a publa blessng, or to ~rre the purposes of n forwardng reproductve works, may often be very usefulaggrsndsng a few at the expense Of the naton n general, or of n creatng addtonal publc resources whle ncreasng the strengthenng the hands of Government, or, more properly, those well-beng of the people. Lbera, wthout captalsts of of a party graspng at power and nfluence and wealth, nothng her own, poor~we may almost say wth truth, pennless--can be more dssgerou to the lberty of the ctzen, nor morn repels, nstead of nvtng, captal from other countresunjust to posterty, as well as njurous to every essental n retest (except n the nstance of the late most unjustfable loan). of the country." She clams to pewees a very large terrtory--6fl0 mles of " The Legslature authorse<l the Presdent--under certan sea-beard, unbounded as regards the nteror, and s stll reatrlctons--to negotate a loan, whch was affected n London greedly seekng to have her ttle acknowledged to other some tme n August last. Upon the manner n whch ths trust has been dscharged I need offer no anmadverson. Ths, bowever, I may ~ay, that n all ts relatve bearngs end resulta the terrtores, such as the Galln~s, &c. Her mmgrant populaton from the States s only about 15,000 to 17,000, ec<lual dselo.~s no cause for congratulaton n Lbera at least, ) at.none can..bu ~ or own land, houses, &c., hut an upon what one flppantly ~rma a glorous success. It has rot Afncan~a Llbenan. Thus she has made her bed, and an only ncreased the fnancal burden of the country, but has pro. uncomfortable one t s ; many of her populaton--we wrteduc~d other evls whch every good ctzen can butdeplore. The of that mmgrant populaton--starvng n a land of mmenseacceptance of ths loan by the Legdatura has been the subject of natural resources, and very advantageously stuate both as serous and carefulconsderat0n. It haa bee negotated contrary regards "Europe and Amerca. Whle the slave-trade was to the terms of the law, a~ understood by the framers ; and n the stll n vgeur, and before Lbera had been acknowledged method of ts negotaton the Presdent assumed to hmseff powers not only not anthorsed by law, but contrary to an express as an Afrcan State by European Powers and by the Unted declaraton of the Consttuton; and the whole transacton has States, we can understand that there mght be reasonablebeen conducted n a manner ~o unusual and nformal that, by " About one halfpenny Englsh. shameful Peculatons and msapplcatons, the loan, eo far as nt, 28,!8?s.] THE AFRIOAN TIMES. 99 pre,ent know=, s not lkel~ to realze more than 60 or 65 per dosument sgned by the Agenta of Preneh Mercantle Houses, and cent. of the amount for whch, as alleged, the Government standsothers resdent st Porto None. pledged." I cannot allow the st~temente n your lef~er and n the document whch accompanes t to be made publc wthout protestng GOVERNMENT NOTICE. aganst the nsecuraey of those statements. (Toward ar~4 d~r, b~d a~ I ~os.) I am aware of the meetng whch took place at the palace of Porte Nero, Jan. 8, the Kng on the 8th nst The result of that meetng deceves no one but the Kng and hs mmedate slaves. 8h,--At the request of the memhants and other, of the town And I fake ths opportunty to declare tha the Kng of Porto of Porto None, I have the honour to forward to your Xxcdleney None s not protected by the French Government, and I now nform you tha the Englsh colonal steamer Eye wll rot bs re- copy of a peftonwhch they have addressed to me, dated the 7th n~tant, expreadng ther complants and protestatons aganst the moved from Porto 1Yovan waters n fourteen days ; on the con- that v~l (or vessels) wll reman off Porto None for the stay of an Englsh war-steamer n the roads of ths town, and alsotrary, demandng my nterventon wth your Exceltenoy and my 0overu. protecton of lfe and commerce untl the Government of Porto men to the end of obtanng the removal of ths amp of war. Be~des the dsastrous effect whch the presence of the shp of lq ovo s placed on a more satsfactory footng than that upon whch t s at present establshed.~l have the honour to be, Sr, war produces.upon the commerce of ths place, t throws ds. yeur obedent servant, quetude and trouble among the surroundng populaton~, who have not forgotten that on another ooea,on En~llsh shps of war Jon ~. Or, ovz~, Admnstrator. came off Porto 2qevo and ll-treated both the town and the n. M. J obelot~ Actng-Consular Agent, habtants. Dreadng that the lke aeta may be renewed, they Dahomey and Porto None. dare not come to make ther trade, and cannot n consequencehs Xxecllency the Admnstrator has deemed S advsable to ~,rry on ther accustomed Iransscdons. The reasonableness of cause the above correspondence to be publshed for general nformaton, n- order to allay any uneasness that may have arsen the complants of the merchants and other mportant habtants of the town of Porto.lq ovo s so patent that t permta ma to enterran the hope that yo~ Excellency wll be pleased to take mme-iyovo, consequent upon the report of a meetng (el the sgnatores n the mnds of Brtsh subjects and others resdent et Porto date measures to order the wthdrawal of ths shp of war, and to the above document) at the Kng s Palace at Porto None, on cause a carnaton of th state of thngs, aganst whch, n the the 8th nst.~by command, pro Actng.Colonal Secretary, name of my Government, and n the ntere~ of all the Persons C~s. FoRzsrmz, Treasurer. that have tdgned the petton, I prote~t as beng llegal.--dega Secrstary s 0f~, Loges, Sanuary 16, to acoep~r, tha asvarance of my respectful esteem, (Sgned) Jo~o% ~0 THE EDITOR OF ~HE A2RICAN TlllES. Actng.consular Agent at Dahomey and Porto Nero. Loges, January 8, To Ms Excellency the Governor of the Englsh.co]any of Lagos Sr,--It s hlgh tme that we should talk to the Lagos government~ through the medum of your valuable and esteemed journal. and ts Dependences, &o. We asked latel~, s Captan Glover gettng mad n hs governmenu? Why, ~t begns to become a perfect nusance--the Porto Nave, Jan. 7, 187~. nakng too much of "mght s rght." J ust fancy the Adnlnstrstor takng t nto hs head to put a blockade aganst all Tha undenlgned merel~nts ~d other Frenchmen and strangers e~tablshed at Porto B ovo have the honour to brng the followng ammuntons, matehets, and even/mr a beng sold from Loges to facts under your notce :~ the surroundng countres, because t s md--and no otherea~u The prepuce of tun Englsh steamer before Porto None, from s l~nown of--the people at Bonny and Calabar have been fghtng abou two months ~nce~ has thrown the whole country nto a one wth another. What has that to do wth ua? There s no State of perturbaton, completely paralywl all descrptons of~om, war n I~ca, nor n the nteror countres, nor n the mmedate mortal.affars, and dsturbed very serously the nterest~ and tran- countres around us that supply us wth the produce that we ~Inlty of the unde~dgned,. ~.... requre. "We are made to pay rent and duty on our ammu n t on,.][on ere aware~ Pt, t/lae 1111~01 (or lee enu or l~ou), an _., ~,. ~t ^_^ _,.,.~^_l~.sura of oṅ ^ --^- woes ~nglsh war.steamer came to Porto Hove, and not hanng suc- +~,,noght~n f wm ~ h~ Afr~ea~, wh{e.h nduced thf ~ca ~f~rv of ceeded n mlx~ng on the Kng =acceptable condton% the town ~.7". z-;..."7"=".-... ~." _ :v - to the 2kd~n-Y-"or h"ere... ~,tare grsn~ au ncrease ox ~m-~ lstra~ wasgnven over to f.rs and blood. ~Fnemhabxtantaofthseeuntry... --I "a " ff t- t_ t~ #. at* ~o~ tt make mm InlnK tna~ le ls a g~e..~ uo ḣ eke,... at~ mus~ no W or - ann Its comers oars ocen annum to torge~ sn~ unju~unaete con. o1.,f,.,,.,.=~ ~.v. ~v~rv r~,#~ Rt mn~. ~v.~c-~ )"~e ehoo~-ps fo 8n~nd the duet, whchas been severely blamed. They beleve themselves T...~t]~,,t ~..~ao.~t;...ạ...,~,~m^.. ~. do~t. contnually menaced by the same horrors through the return of a _.1 t... -"^ -^~-^"~-- mē ^- u- b "~ hook and crook war.steamer of thls naton, and consequently dare not, durng all~.~.., ~.,. r...,--,~... no= n.,rsen because the=* do the lme of her presence, carry on thar accustomed tra~o. In,.^,...~ ~;o,,~ ~,, *~o,,~ustables,qaced at tome creek be=end presence of these facts all the commercal houses fnd themselves I ha---n "- ~ , our ~Orl.5~lC~10 n,.no IA e.~u~ me JC,~u~s pp~ ~u u~ -resent very cnucany posmaneo, aug me unoenngn~a eoom not remamt,i...ḟan^- ^ur d- d ~ - s lowered ~ Aoan the traders have fo r tmylonger... pen0d w : th at prote~tng O... energetcally sgmnst,**,c*~,.~ so ~. a~oa ~,~j ; +~ v 5" "J r~,... _~n ~,~, ~-~.~ t~v ha,,~n~,t to TMsell dsastrous a po~ton, and wthout prayng yau to be pleased to _~?,.~_~,,. ~.^--~::",~..~ ~, ~ts~nt" wt--~ho~...~rmr~,o~n The mm Tour mnuence wre me ~rencn ann ~mgnsn taovernment~ to,~-,., ~ ~,~. ~.o~,,~,,~a t,, ou,,, f~undav and on Mondar the obtan the fnal departure of ths steamer.~we have the honour, ~ao~ ~ I, ~,o~... t f- f~.~retar~ a Offce for Iv, to be, wth the h~ghest consderaton, your very humble lceucea and could not obtan them, b cau,~ J wa~ a /wl/day. devoted servants, On Tuesday mornng they took ther money to the crce, and, to Barry, Agent Regs Ane; P. E. 0ourdoux, Superor ther consternaton and gref, they found that they hod been C~thole Msdon; Callamand, French Merchant ;Dunm, summoned before the Actng-Magstrste, who fned them (after Agent C. l~abro and Co. ;J. A. Colonna de Lace, French on~ult(ng tl~.ezecuhro 501. each! The Executve, of course, Merchant; ~ scntho Rodrgues, Portugue~ Merchant ; wahts money to pay hs pots, and buy useless presents for hs E. $; Merelles, 3o~o Peulo Montelro, Tre J oaqun da nteror frend% who am not contrbutng a mte to our revenue. Slva, ~f. l~elx d Almeds, Judore Carte da Slva, LousIs t not hgh tme that the quarter.deck authorty who s :Felx Mona% 2flannel da Vera Cruz, lose Marcos, ~. Admnstrator (although he assumes the ttle of Governor, forgettng that he s only an Admnstrator) should be checked n J oaqnn de S. Anna, Pranesoo do Paula, Oonzales M. Lopez, Laurano A. de Rego~j ~ulho 01vmns B~rbozs, hs way? Lord Stanley sad that we must take what we can get, Dme Re, lorenzo Antono I/no, Petter, Agent I. L. as frst.class men would not come out. We submto t ; but to Daumas Lartlgue I~nler and Co. ; Lahnjo, J. Vctor- allow an Admnstrator to be spolng our prospects n trade wont Angelo, Portuguese Merchant; Carlos P~gos, Brant. do. After poor Afrcans are coaxed to eend favourable pettons ]Jan Merchant; Angelo Custode da Chagas; Ignscofor hm, then he turns aganst them and says, "I ~x." Why a Paralzo, ~o~e Parazo, Merchant; Permno J acol dos England people tell Mr. Olsdstono, the Premer, what they dslke. Dare you say t here? If you do you are come down upon 8antes, Jose Mauoel Montero, Domngo ~ese de Bourn, ~eardo da O. Alva,, Petro Antono Lne, Merchant; quck and eharp.--your obedent servant, Josqun Scse de 8. Anna, Adrenne D. da Olora, Francsco Jose 0onzales, J osb de Re, ~[areouno lose Martns, O~sx~wR. end J.Brsnco. I~ss OZ A SnI~.--Fol;a ~[E.~ Daow.~sn.--The barque /ames To the Vce.consul of Prance at Porto None. Duckett, of Lverpool, from Lagos, coast of Afrca, for Queenstown, wth a carg of palm-ol and kernels, was drven nto Government House, Logo% 3anuary 13, 187 2, Ballymacotter Bay, near Ballycotton, ~here ahe wen to peces. 8r,--I have the honour to acknowledge the recept of your Captan lqaylor and three of the crew were drowned, but the letter, dated Porto Nero, Sanuary 8, 18~2, enclosng copy of a remander, ~even n number, were ~aved. 1 r

7 - t :f [ I J l,%.; t r ) {.!!. r!.]~" [ /?t 10o THE AFRICAN TIMES. [I~, 23, LETTER ON ADMINISTRATOR OLOVER S PROCEED- PARLIAMENTARY. INGS AS REGARDS PORTO NOVO, ETC. HOUSE OF CO~ONS, Fz~xv~ 13, ~O THE E0ITOa OF THE A~RICAN TIME.~. *WEST COAST OF AFRICA DurcK SETTLEMENt"ft. Lages, January 17, Mr. S. Arrows rose to call attenton to the a~uhtou by the Sr,--We beg leave to nform the Colond-ofRoe authortes, Brtsh Ooverumeat of terrtory on the West Coast of Afrca from the kngdom ot Holland, and moved that~ n the opnon of ths through the r~edum of youm slecmed journal, of what we regard as beng the recent llegal dongs of Captan Olover, our House, no further steps oughto be taken towards the concluson Admlnlstrator. Some tme n September 1871, ths ~ehuched-orezzsr took t nto h[a head to do wonders, and among otherthe extenson of the Brtsh colonal terrtory on the West Coast a treaty wth the Government of Holland, havng for ts object thngs to aggrandso the.~ Settlements by requrng the countryof Afrca, untl ths House shstl have had on opportunty of ex- ts opnon on the peley of such a treaty. He sad that of Porto Nero to be annexed to Loges. In order to reallse thspressng object, hs Attoruey-General prepared a petton to sut the a lttle morn than a week ago a letter appearea n me mormng purpose n vew, accusng the Kng of Porto None, &c., and papers from a correspondent at the Cape, descrbng the effect prayng that hs Excellency would take (of course by force, that had been produced on the mnds of the colonsts by the announcement of the treaty, and the payment of the 24,000/. whch wllng or not wllng,) the country, beeau~ the Kng s unable to manage hs ecuntry, and because the Wrg hm~lf s unmanageable. Ths petton was sent round to the natves of Lagos, wthnetherlands to the Government of ths country. It was stated was to follow the trauder of the terrtory from the Kng of the prvate commands, threatenng% and promses, that they must tha the populaton to be transferred by thls treaty would amount dgu the petton. They obey, aganst ther ~ohsclence; and a 120,000. It also appeared that a great number of the colonsts whole lot of (hs)marks were put n to names of all sorts wer extremely dssatsfed wth the arrangement, and had sent characters. # Badsgry end the dstrcts of Porto None, &o., were an envoy to Holland to protest ~genst the transfer. He objected next operated on by threats and promses, and all sorts of namesto the treaty on two grounds. He objected to such an exerebse were put down--vz., of the Bush people, and ex-chds lvngof the prerogatve, wthout ts beng fret submtted to Parlament; and he further objected to t as one that would be lkely n the farms and vllages. Poor people! they are told one thng, and behold another s meant by the document. ARer the to prove njurous to the nterests of ths country. Treates were pettons thus ejgaed were sent on to the Admnstrator, be negotated wthout any reference to ths House. The Hou~ was commenced expedtons up and down Bsdagry, gettng all sortsafterwards told that f they dsapproved the treaty they could of false news aganst the Kng of Porto talon0. Tha complants objecto t. Dd ths afford any apprecable guarantee tha ths thus md to have been made to the Admnstrator he caused to be House would be able to prevent such an exercse of the prerogatve as mght be njurous to the nterests of ths country? He prnted and posted up n Lagos, as also notce that he wll take charge of Porto ~ovo waters. Hs Excellency then sent up the mantaned that t afforded no guara~tea whatever. The House teamer Eye wth Mr. Magstrate Goldsworthy on board, who, had no means of arrestng the acton of the Government n these actng as commodore and Senor offcer, took charge, and hostedmatters. After the treaty was conehded, all that could be done hs pendant on beard. The steamer left Lsgos on the 7th was to Pass a vote of censure on the Government, for f the December fl/ed wth houssas, or raw ~ahommedan leves. SnceHouse dsapproved of the treaty, thfs a mounted to a censure on then she has remaned off Porto None, crusng abouthere, and the Government, and the result would be ether a change of strkng terror nto the poor natves who have not forgotten the mnsters or a genera[ electon. Ths was a state of thngs whch destructon and bloodshed caused by Consul Forte and Commodore ought not to be allowed to contnue. It must strkevery one E, dmonstone. The petton to annex Porto None s not, Mr. Edtor, that there were two powers n ths country whch could only be a voluntary act, hut a drect Executve command, u order t~ rendered compatble wth one another by the establlshmant of a get fame. Our Admnstrator s gettng too bg n Lages ; n factcustomary consttutoual law. The prerogatve of the Crown he wanted all countres to come down and worshp hm anff kssextended to the makng of treates and mpedug on ths country hs foot. The people are not such fools now as they were afore-oblgatoutme; owng to hs polcy of unnecessary nterventon he causedpre~gatv.e, would render the power of the House Commons and burdens, whch, f thera was no check on that our neghbourhecd to dstrust, all Peaceful traders and mssonares. He gnores the nteresh of the merchant, through whosotreates affectng terrtory, although they dd not d~! n ex- m,mpesmg taxaton on the country perfectly llusory. In operatons the revenue of the settlement a obtaned. It s rre~ terms wth questons of revenue, stll they plsc~l ths House el~ays easy for hm to say, "Who are they? they are nobody/ under the necessty of provdng money for the completon of the But, thank Heaven, the.dfrc~n ~ m~ s n ~ce, and we treates, and therefore saw no reason why treates or guarantees shall thus be able to expose all perncous dongs. Does England should not be lald before Parlament, as well as the Commercal annex Greece because the (}reek brgands man, sacred the EnglshTreaty of He understood that the sum of 24,000L was to travellers last year? Dosa any country or naton attempto be pad by ths country as a part of the consderaton for whch annex England or Pars, &c., because burglary s commtted n the Government of Holland ceded ther terrtory to ths country. the house of one of ts subjects n London, &cj We say, for Perhapsome member of the Government would nform the Home dmme, Capt. Olover! "Why should there be ths constant bully-wherng the poor Afrcans, and strkng terror nto them? Is ths thethat no prncple was better recagnsed than ths---that the extent ths money was to come from. He had always magned polcy of England? If any kng does wrong he ought to be of our Posses~onh especally those n unhealthy and tropcal told of t, and a~ked to repar the damage, and by farepresentaton he wll do t; otherwse publc opnon would soon be of ths country to dmnsh rather than extend the area of such countres, was a source of weakne~, and that t was the nterest broughto bear upon hm. We enclose copy of the :French Pos.~eesons. The West Coast of Afrca was unhealthy, and there Consul s letter, and the merchants Petton to hs :Excellency, was an mmense country lyng dt the back of that colony whch and hs reply to them. afforded all knds of facltes for a muddlng government to nvolvo us n lttle wars. In 1865 a Commttee, ncludng four We pray therefore that you wll publsh ths communeatlon wth our protest aganst annexatons, and the polcy of nter-memberventon n natve affals, whch eauses dstrust, jealousy, unject; they took a great deal of evdence, and they recommended of the present Government, nqured nto ths very subcasnes% and dspresdon of trade.--your obedent servant, that all further extensons of terrtory, a.,sumpton of government, or new treates affordng protecton to natve trbes, would T1zz Oo~nr~,~ FT~x~. P.S.--Tho steamer "Eye," as., off Porto None, fres her bg ~ nexpedent, and that our object should be, except gun wth blank cartrdge nght after nght~ to the terror of the the colony of Serra Leone, to encourage n the natves wth regard tho~ people. qualtes whch would ft them for self.government. The present Government were pursung a drectlycpposte polcy. For thesc H()LLAND. reasons he trusted tha the House would accepthe resoluton of TnzHAow, January 31, Evenng.--The O.~ al Ga~ttsofth! whche had gvenotce, and whche now begged to move for evenng pmmulgatea the laws sanctonng the treates wth England wth regard to Sumatra and the Coast of Gunea. Mr. B. O~so~s, n secondng the moton, sad he would not ther consderaton. go nto the general queston as to the Polcy of these treates. FBOM THE "LONDON But there were some questons appertanng to ths whch he GAZETTE" OF TUESDAY, PEB. 20. Dow~, n~o-sr~zrr, Feb. ~0.--The Queen has been pleased to ho;~ed tha the Government would be able to contradct. It was sad thathe people of the colony were favourable to the transfer. appont Sr A. E. Kennedy, K.C.M.O., C.B. (now Governor and If he was rghtly nformed, so lttle were the people of ]~lmna Commander-n.Chef of the West Afrca Settlements), to be favourable to ths transfer tha they were actually preparng to Governor end Commander-n.Chef of the Colony of Hong Kong, resst t. If he were further rghtly nformed the Dutch Govern. and t~ dependences. :Her Majesty has she been pleased to ment had made applcaton to Her Majesty s Government for t~ o appont ~. Lumpkn, sen., and S. Boyle, E,.qs., to be Membersor three shps of war, wth a force on board, to hand over the of the Legslatve Councl of the Settlement of Serra Leone, on colony of Elmna to us. He hoped that there would be an the Western Ccest of Afrca. explct answer gven to ths pont, not only for the sake of ths The better lar~ and merch~nt~ would not country, but for the sake of a gentleman who had occuped a ds. F~B. 28, 1872.] THE AFRICAN TIMES. I01 tngushed petton n that House, and who had been transferred farthng of the outlay would be pad by the (}old Coast colony to the Government of ths colony from the Bahamas. (Hear, t~af. To show how the prosperty of the eelony had ncreased, hear.) If anythng could be done for the beneft of the colony t the followng l~urea would be suffcent: In 1864 the revenue would be done by Mr. Pope Hennesay. beleved that the of the colony was 4,000L, and the expendture 9,000/. In 1868, people ef the colony, so far from beng favourablo to the proposed transfer, were rather fsvourahle to "home ncludng a Parlamentary grant of 2,392/., the revenue was rule." (Hear, hear.) 15,404l., and the expendture 11,651/. In 1869 the revenue ]fr. R. N. Fowx.zx exp~ an opnon that the treaty whchwas 24,000/., and the expendture 18,000/. In 1870 the had been so much condemned would be p reductve of great good. revenue was 30,851/., and the expendture 35,000/., ncludng. England entered on the coast of West Afrca to put an end to the 11,000/. of sl~cal payments for payng off debt; and the slave-trade, and for the advantage of the Afrcan race. Dt~cultes estmated revenue for the current year, wthout any Par. had been met wth owng to the prevalence of rval jursdctons; lsmentery grant was 27,0001., whle the e~tlmsted expendture and t would be much better for the nterests and ncrease of was 16,345/., and the balanoe n the chest on the 31st March Afrcan cvflsafon tha them should be only onexuropcan powerlast was 12,422L (Cheers.) It was a mstake to suppose that communcatng wth the natve trbes. The hen. Member for the 24,000/. was to be pad u any way for the purchase of terrtory-t was to be pad smply for the fxtures and stores n the Krkaldyhad sad much on the subject of prcragatve. That was a wde queston, and one nto whc he (Kr. ~Fowler) d~ not Dutch forts. We dd not ntend to do anythng by force ; f we ntend to follow hm. It ~ one that would be much betterwe~ to have the forts Peacably we would have them, but f not debate1 on the gene~l moton on the subject whch was to be we would not- have them at ull; and he beleved tha that determlnston not to do anythng by force was one whch the House brought forward hy the ham Member for Warrngton. Hs hen. frend comp]anbd of the 24,0001. to be pad by us for the Would suppozl. "(Cheer,.) As to the gvng up of certan por- of terrtory on the Afrcan coast, there was a strong feelng acquston of the terrtory ; but condderng the sacrfces whchtons England had m~o for the evlsaton of the Afrcan race, f the agansthat. It was consdered better that we should hold result of ths negoclaton should place England n a betterthese terrtores for the purpose for whch we had htherto held poston to promote that c~xsaton, he thought she would not themmn order that wo mght gradually educate the natves to begrudge the small man of 24,000/. He was glad that the ft them~lves for ther own government. Where the natves Government had entered nto the treaty ; and he trusted tha the were not ft for self-government, and where trade was developng, result would be benefcal to the cvlsaton of Afrca. t would be a great error to gve up our terrtory. Great Brtan Mr. K~A~ca~r~-Hvo~az.x sad them were two questons nvolved n the moton, The frst was as to the I~loy of the Coast of Afrca. She had spent a large sum of money upon had not ganed largelyfrom her acqustons the West partcular treaty now called n queston; the second, as to the them and had done much towards puttng down human sacrfces general habt of the Government n makng these treates. It and extendng cvtseton and Chrstanty. Her hand ought not would be very nconvenent and very njurous to the far dscu~on of the whole queston f they were to decde upon the people of ~England would wsh t to be stayed. (Cheers.) to be stayed n that good work, and he dd not beleve tha the general ~sue on a mere sde wnd, as t were, that nght. When Mr. Rrn.u~s euggestcd that, after the statement they had the treaty had been ratfed t would be be 1Hd upon the table of just receved from the Under:Secretary for the Colones, the hen. the House. As to the polcy of that partcular treaty, he had, n Member for Krkaldy should wthdraw hs moton. B e should the nterests of the Wouso tself, to make a complant aganst the regard any such arrangement as that made n ths ease wth hen. gentleman who had broughthe subject forward. He had great jealousy, but at the same tme he belaved that when the warned that hen. geufleman tha the papers on the subject wouldpapers were before the House good reason would be found n be delvered to hen. members shortly, and he suggested that t them for the nterference of her Majesty s Government. would be better to postpone a dscusson unfthe paper, were 8Jr ~. Eu~mms ro~z wshed to know what were the treaty produced; but the ham gentleman had chosen to take a dfferent fghts whch we were to surrender n Bumatra n exchange for ceur~, and n.conscquenea he had fallen nt one or two errorsthe advantages whch wo were to gau ou the coast of Afrca, whche mght have escaped from f he had only been a lttlesome years ago we had a settlement called Bencoolen, on the more patent. The hen. gentleman had spoken eta dangerous and west coast of Sumatra, and afterwards that was gven up to the mschevous nterference wth the affara of the natves, but thatdutch, but stll we retaned certan rghts wth regard to the was not a rght or ~ust appl~ton of phrases to oar connecton trade of Sumatra; and he wshed to know what rghts n Sumatra wth the natve trtbes on the West Coast of Afrca. There was we were now to relnqush. He also wshed to suggest, f we no acquston of terrtory nvolved the present treaty all n were gong to follow up ~o praefco of extrpatng the Afrcan the sense understood by the hen. gentleman. The Poe~ssons of elav~trade, whether t would not do as well for us tonerease our Great Brtan on tho West Coast of Afrca conssted of certanpossessons on the East as well as on the West Ceast of Afrca, forts and settlements, and a voluntary protectorate exercsed overand thustrke at the very root of that degradng tra~e. a consderable number of natve trbes. Certan natve trbes fr. K~ Arcl~v~..Hvozss~q sad tha the treates wth reference to the West Coast of Afrcand wth reference to Snmstra agreed to gve up human sacrfc~ and other nfamous sod degradng habts, and to allow cases of murder and other crmnal were qute separate and dstnct, and there was no such bargan. cases to be trm by Brtsh ofl]cah, on the understandng that!ng ~n the matter as the hem and gallant baronet seemed to the Brtsh Governmen% n return, should endeavour to arrann~,magme. As to Sumatra, the Dutch had at one tme engaged matters between them and ther neghbeur% preventng war* an wth us:noto acqure any more terrtory n Sumatra ; but as a promotng the nterests of peaoe. Somuchad been done n that matter of fac they dd acrulre more terrtory there, end we had drecton that he had t on the best nuthofty that any wth abandoned our rghto protest. But we had ths advantage, that drawal of the protecton of Oreat Brtan fromher settlements on n all terrtory whch the Dutchad acqured, or mght acqure, the West Co~t would be attended wth moat dsastrous results. them the Eugl~ traders were to be placed on the same footng The arrangements between the Dutch and cureless had been these, as the Dutch. In 1867a wse determnaton was come to to make an exchange between the Dutch and Engll~hsetflements, so tha the setflemcnt~ of ]F]mavA.~z 15. Mr. Awmw then wthdrew hs moton. the two Varous could be morn consoldated, the Dutch noqurlng all ~c~vnmo.~ o? A n~c~ a~c.~ co~omr. ther settlements on the west and the Englhh on the east. But Mr. 3f.aox~o asked the Under Secretary of 8tats for F.ordgn whle the natves transferred to the Brtsh flag came readly ntoaffars whether t was stll ntended, as etsted by hm last the arrangement, thoea who were transferred to the Dutch ~ag ~on, to de~y the o~,~ ~vol~ed n the ~ton ff ~e dd not, and large trbes of natves who had before been content Dutch colony on the Gunea.Coast out of the funaa o: me to t~fl]o under the ~glsh Rag refund to eubml to DutchBrtsh settlements n Afrca, o~ whether t would not be nece~ authorty, whence arose consderable msunderstandng. The tn, to alteraton now proposed, however, was lkdy to have the most rd have E.~m~ recourse sad them to the would Imperal bo no Treasur~. coeason to have recourm benefcal re~ult~ but them was no ntenton of forcng our prorectorate on any trbe whatever. (Cheers.) The Dutch were n the conventon for the purchase would not be exoeeded. to the Imperal Treasury, t was beleved tha the sum fxed abouto leave the coast, and they would cede to us certan forts FR~Y, l~aua~ for, n the nterests of cvllsaton, and of humanty, and of Mr. M Arthur gave notce to move for--- Chrstanty, they would rather leave the forts to a great d~ I. A detaled return of the revenue and expendture of European Power than leave them to be fought for by the varouseach of the Brtsh settlements on the West Coast of trbes. At the same tme t was our hope that these trbes, Afrca for each and all the fve years endng December 3I, htherto occuped n fghtng among themselve.% would all come 1871, showng all the tems as submtted to or passed by under our flag, whch would gve a better prospect of peace than the Audtor-General, and the amount of cash and ~urtea havng a dvded enthorty, leavng the unfortunate people to fght t out amongsthem. The hen. gentleman had asked what n tho publo chest of each settlement on the 31st Do. were we to gan by ths ~ton, for whch he seemed to comber, thnk we should have to p~y 24,000L But the fact was that we 2. The producton of a[l_eorre_~_pondenco between the should not be called upon to pay dxpenco of that ~um, for every Rght Hen. the Bocretary ot ~tato for the, Colone~ and the I t II

8 102 THE AFRICAN TIM2~. [FEB. 23, 18~2.. Admnstrator-n-CMef of the West Afrcan settlementsmothers and ss~ % eh! and brothers sheddng tsars whe.u, they and the Admnstrators Cape Coast relatve to the Fauf saw a con or relatve undergong what I have above mentoned. Cohfederafon, ncludng the nstruc6ona sent out by the We all know the Englsh law when properly admnstered sjud as far as humanature and the progress of ctvlsafon can devse, Rght Hen. the Secretary of State for the Colones relatveand therefore punshes an offender accordng to the offence and to the arrest of certan members of the sad Confederaton the nature thereof.--your% &:., at Cape Coas~ for alleged conspracy or treason. Loox.o~. P.S.--It s understood that No. 1 wll be granted ; No. 2 wll be by consent deferred for a tme. LBI~ER- FROH ABEOKUTA RELATIVE TO TW~ LAGOS PROHIBITION OF EXPORT OF AR~ OR- SUNDAY GIN AND RUff SHOPS IN LAGOS. DLNANCE. o ~a~ zdnoa oy ass xymcx~" ~Mz~. TO ~H~E IrnITo~, OP THE Al~ll.lCJ,~ ~I]KF~. Lagos, December ~9, beakuta~ Dec, ~2, 1871, Sr,--s beng one of your subscrbers to the.dfr ~J~ 2~ r~j at Dear Sr,--You have no doubt hoard before ths ~fa p o- dated September 11, 1871, by the ~s.gos Gerald- Lagos, on the West Coast of Afrca, I humbly pray you wouldclamaton, permt me a lttle space n your most valuable paper, to pont outmert, prohbtng all muntons of war beng exporte~ fro m..]~..os somethng worthy of notce at Lagos, and whch I do belsve ~ cavar, ca~, a scheme whc has made the Egb~. v@ry ottar entrely aganst an Eeglsh ordnance v force n Her Majesty s agansthe Lsgos Government, from ths f~t that 0gr.rd settlements. The sale of sprltuons lktuors m here practsed to a enemee~ the Dahomaus and lhs~na may now c~mo ab,~ mo~t fearful extent on the Lords s- day wthout the least dread; Abeekuta wth sut~cent arm h ~old and g~ven to them o~ every and what makes t a greater crme, ~ I" may truly call t, and sde, ~hle we are wthout them. Thn wouh got prevent meeds me to request you to have the goodness to notce t, dsturbaneas created on these days by a certan clas~ of ba~barsus, rltce not last have long, happly alnea lstened r~ ~o~ to for good ol edvc0 c~, farm~ to ke~ fm21~wc~ ope~ th~ Abeokuta 9 r~stlng them to the utmost extre~.ty. 2%e a~.th who come down to Lagos as mechancs and Isbeurer% and whom roads for produce gong down to L~,o% but am af~dd ", ths no one can persuade by any means to go to ehareh on Sundays, whch they make ther club-dancng days. I am anxous to know am/ertn a e~m~m }.mf~, s not allowed to p~,~a out Ot Loges f0~ whether there s no ordnances provded n every Brtsh colonyabeokuta.~yours truly, Axe., for the prohbton of such unlawful deeds. I know that at Serra Leooe the ordnares there forbds retalers to cell a sngle gaso of any sprt after nne o clock on any nght, much less on Sabbathdays. For a volaton of such ordnance such retaler would PROSPERITY IN THE EGBA COUNTRIES. HOPE OF CONTINUED GENERAL PEACE AND GRR&T have to pay ffty, pounds, and st the sama tme lose hs lcence for TO ah lq I~DIrOR- OF THle A--W~eA~ TIME the tme remammg. ~r. Edtor, 1 wonder why ths settlement of Lagos could not be traned lke manner wth other Brtsh Xan. 1, colones and settlements? t vet the same Queen rules over Sre--It s a ~ery long tme snce yea and the publc have au and her representatves, espece]ly a governor-general, Sr/. E. heard of us, n the affars of ths lately establshed self-government n Abeokuta. There has been heavy opppston aganst Kennedy, apponted over all.the West Coast? Take notce also, ZIr. Edtor, tha the hall where the untutored barbarans alwaysthe Dh eetors of the Board of ~anagament, because of the expert have ther dance on Sundays, after they have well beastfed dutes, whch were prevented beng leved through a wholesple them~ives, s the next door to a new-bult Wesleyan Chapel, n ~nandefng of cowres, rum, gn, and other sundres of dark-nght Tnubu-square. The house belonged to a lately deceased personabomnatons. We hope all ths a now at an end, and that not named Bamboo. Many a tme whlsthe preacher s delverng only ~.our cvlsed Government of Lsgos wll" soon apprp.ve nnd hs sermon to the congregaton, he s compelled to stop throughreoogmse our humble begnnng, but through your warm efforts the uproar of ths club. [ wll not forgeto menton, also, the and % love for Afrca you may also gan frends for us n Envo: names of those whoso rum and gn shop-d.oors are open on Sundays for the recepton of the buyer~. Ther names are as follows : ths sde Afrca that materal suppo~ whch wll enable the who would not count t a loss to render unto ther brethren ca Mrs., Mrs. ~, Mr., Mr. --, and Mr. --. These Egbas to become not only a great, but s good Cl/rstan naton. are the prncpal sellers on Sundays. Mrs. -- s an Englsh-Abeokutawoman, the rest are uncvlsed persons. "Rghteou~ess exaltethamong the whole West Coast countres, s yet qute unknown although one of the Isl geat and most ndastrou# a naton ; but sn s a reproach O t any people. I, We hope our to Europe as regards ts capabltes for rasng produce for ex- We hope, however, that by a goo l admnstraton, under Loges Legslature may be nduced by your notce to adoptport. measures for the prohbton of such[detestable practces u our new organsaton, pea~ and a lastng frendshp wuers long future; for f the parents of any chld are careless to tran hm lead to a good burn,s between the peoples of ths country and -up neafly years, they wll not be able to do t whe.u that chldlsgos. Them s at present a general peace all over Abookuta, comes to age. SPECrAZOR. whch gves the hope of a wde feld of Chrstan sucees%.and future prosperty for the Egba naton ; and by a greater confdence THOUGHTS ON PRISON REGULATIONS IN LAGOS. n the Lsgos Government, we may be sure tosecur9 not only o za~ x~zoa o~ ~az nrare~ rn~s. general peseamong the surroundng trbes, but a /~der spherb Sr --I am not sure, but I thnl~ there s a lttle somethng of trade and commerce throughout the nteror, wmeh must the regulatons a~ regards persons sentenced to m~fsonment prove at no dhtant perod no end of bleadn~ between s~upl4 here whch requrea a lttle consderaton and lookng mto. Abeo~ta, wre Lagos, and b~sy Eu~p. Tavern. l%r nstance, I ~hnk, a~ far as I understand t, thathem ought to be some dfference made between those mprsoned for felony zo ~ ~rroa or za~ ~ur~c.~ ~. end other gross crme% and those that are sento pr~ u n default Abeokuta, ~ary, 1~7~. of payng a certan amount of fne. But t does not appear to be ~o n Loges. Whether sento [Lrson for felony, &o., or n defau] xnow. Sr,~,O~, we have dt~cult~_ now, however, here hav surmounted lasted ~o.mo the yk~rs, ~rcatest as of yoa them~ *el of payng a certan amount ef fne for assault or otherwse break-bng the peace, all ere treated the same, wth the ex~pfon of the Government, whoso her~ wll be enttled to thethrone after havng Prnce Oyekon the supreme kng Over the affars of we/u-ng a chan round the ankle or wast. hm. There was for some tme danger Of a cvl war, and we. The same pro~hons, both n amount and qualty; the same.gve glory to.god for hs great goodness by ~hch thn~ ha~o" garb--v~, cap, jumper, and trouser% emblazoned wth the g~ot ~een armagea o~u settled as. at pz~n~. " " broad arrow behnd and n frgnt; and, above all, to ~ork out n Enclosed you have copy of notce ssued ths day by ths the pu.hlc streets together, dong all sorts of work, carry sand, Oovemment. One h~ been sent, also, to the Governor of~.. mud, brcks, flth, &o., wth a drver wth a whp at ther&o. The kngs Wll feel oblged f you wll publsh t, and ths backs. letter.~youz obedent servant, T~ K~o s S~n~T. Surely the Brtsh never ntended that because a respectable,, honest young fellow, who mght perchance get nto a bt of a row AFRICA SHALL RISE. whlst on a spree, as many do even n other countres, and through In tlm ~venth year of the establshment of the Egba Unted hs not havng the needful just at the tme to pay the fne that Board of Madagemenh &c. mght be mpossd for hs dlnquency, should not only be put a In order to brng about general peace n ths country, and t9 prson, but also made to ass~ate wth alot of ncorrgble theveseffe.ct that system of cvlsed government for the ~ and pron. and vagabonds ; eat, sleep wth them, Hsten to ther vcous con. party of the Egba Eston, t s necessary that every man, woman versaton, and work as taey have to do n the publc streets wth and chld, n and out of Abeokuts, should put away all prejudce cud ll-feelng towards one another, whchave been m that dsgraceful badge? I wrte ths more as a queston than anythng els% ha~bg oftenlong exstng n the bosom of thn communty, snce the regn of heard the remark pas~ed upon the subject, for I have se~n Kng Ademole" on the 9th day of December, 1869, n conn,. ~l / % THE AFRICAN TIMES. 103 quence of whch them has not left standng cue sngle authorty THE NEW GOVERNOR OF HONG-KONG. emanatng from a unversal suffrage, the Member~ of the Board of ~[0 THE EDITOR OF THE AYR~CAN ~MES, M~oagement, wth the con~ontof the Asalu, Head Chef of Abeokuts, now propose the followng measures for the organsatoa of treat upon Afrcan affars, but I feel so ~snsble a relef n canna- Sr,--I hardly thoughthat I would ever resume my pen to ~hs government, to be adopted by all true:born Egba, who havequence of the removal of Sr Arthur Kennedy, aganst whoso at hearthe true nterest and love of ther home and country, so dsastrous polcyou andi have struggled for ~omo years, that I tha the msundgrstsudnga between 0as Baloguua and Ogbenes, on am ncln~ to make a suggestoa for the beneft and preservaton aocount of Prne Oyekon and Ademola, be setted under the follow-of the peaceable and ndustrous populaton of Hong-Kong. I ~g arm~geme.~ts :.-- do not see why natonshould not be warned as to mpendng 1. That Prnce Oyekon, hs hers, from generaton to genera-dangerttou, be enttled to the ttle of Ob~ Onl~ Lord of the ~Ianns, Me~r~. Qun and Brown upon the queston of the cesson of the I thnk that the "able stater~ent of facts" of u and over the Unted Kngdom of the Egbe A wth power to Gambla to Franea ough to be transmtted, to the prncpal order, sgn, seal, and confrm all and every publc documentmerchants at Wong-Kong, because n ~ very short compass t whch may be approved of by the Amono Oba-Kng s Secretarypowerfully develops the character of Sr Arthur Kennedy ; and, for and on bohsll of t.he Egba ~aton. Abe to defend and keep although we can never expectha the records of our lengthened every foot of the Egbs Unted land, wherever t may be sad to strfes wth hm wll be read by a people so dstant from the rghtfully exst (nhabted or unnhabted), through the ad scene, th short eptome, developng as t does hs subservency and support of the dfferent trbeshp% consstng of the jontand total want of poltcal sagacty as to the wants and requrements of a people whoso destnes were twce commtted to hs powers of the Egb~. Alek% Egba Olown, Egba 0~le, Egba Agura, and o~cers eomposmg the Abeokuta Government. hands, mght be read wth nterest and most bene~eal resolts. 2. That Ademola be alowed to reman as the Kng of the The people of Hang-Kong should al~o learn that ~Ir. Pope town crake, wth power lmted to Ms own.townshp, as the Henncssoy, formerly M.P., s abou to proceed to Serra Leone, other thr~ c~wne4 kngs--va., Olown, Oslle, and Agurs of upon a bref and specal msdon for the purpose, as t s rumqared, Abeokuta. of evolvng order out of the terrble chaos whch Sr Arthur 3~ That all matt~ of dhpute and debts arsng between thekennedy has left behnd hm.~i am, Sr, your obedent servant, mbjects of the same tr~.ahlp are to be decded by the authortes Yova Fo~za Sr~ LEONS COXRE~PO.VDENT. of the same trbeshp, but n the event of such d~onot beng satsfed wth, such subjects or foregners have a judcal rghto appeal to tha prnce Board of Assembly, through the Amono Oba SLAVERY IN CUBA AND PORTO RICO. (kng s ~eeretary), for the hearng of the rad matters of dspute A great Ant.Slavery Conference has been heid a St. Paul a and debts; andthe reels!onof th~ 0ba Chle and judges thereofcrcus. Tha spacous buldng was crowded to suffocaton, notwthstandng ts beng a workng day, and the weather dong ts shall be fnal: 4. That the 0ha Onle (lord of the manna), 0be Alade worst. Don Gabrel Rodrguez presded, and made a cottrageou.~ (crowned kng), and Oba Aleketo (governor), together wth speecb, n whche eloquently set forth the rapd progress of Baloguns (war chefs) and Oluwes (chefs of the elders) n the publc opnon Span aganst slavery, declarng t mpossble that dff~ren~ townshps of Abeokut~ and ts torftoree, be enttled to them should be freedom n Span and slavery n Cub and Porto Rco, concludng wth the words, "Let all be/rec, or all slaves," receve a monthly salaxy from the duty funds of the Egba Unted Boa~. of Management. upon whc he was frantcally applauded by the audence, whch Passed n the Board of Management ths 24th day of November, 1871, and conrrmed under the seal of hs Supreme gave at the sama tme three cheers for the abolton of slavery, and three more for lberty. The Porto-Rcan Deputy, senor Acosta, gave a synopss of the Majesty Oyekon on the 1st day of January, n the year of our Lo~l one thousand eaglet hundred and seventy-two. hstory of slavery n Porto Rco, announcng the fac that many Gven at the Government House, Rpck-hl, Abcokuta, n the owners m that sland had already spontaneously freed ther tnt year of the regn of hs Supreme 5fajesty Oyekon, Oba Onle slaves, provng thereby that f emancpaton had not been already (lord of the manna) n and over the unted kngdom of the Egba accomplshed n that sland t was the fault of the Spansh Go. vernment, n opposton to publc opnon Span and the desre Naton, &c.,&o.&o. of the owners n the West Indes. The Porte-Rean Deputy-was By command of the Asalu, applauded wth great enthusasm at the concluson of hs address. Ore. W. J o~sex, Amono Obs. Saner Gner confned hmself to anmadvertng and exposng the God save the Oba Onle and the X kln~! conduct ef ths Government wth respect to Porto Rce and Cuba. These mp0rtant conferences wll be contnued sem-monthly LIV~RPOOL ~IARKET S. Untl the next openng of the Corte% and the addresses am JAxv~z ~6 o F~avAnz 3. beng prnted for crculaton and sale at an nfntesmal prce. Csmwood.--Small sales at s. to 20L 10s. per ton. It s expected that Emlo Castdar wll speak at the next con. Pan-kernels.--26 to~ at 13/5s. to 13/. 10~. per ton. ference. ]~enn:seed )sgst 52s. for nferor qualty, and 59s. 6d. The fear of beng consden.~d fhlb~tero, as synonymous wth to 61s. per quarter for good. sympathy for the cause of abolton, s rapdty dsappearng, ~ai~ 1. It~y request, wthout materal change n prce, thanks to the confere/~cca already held, ths beng ther prncpal and 700 tonsold ; Bonny at 36/. 5s. to 36/. 10s. ; Benn, 37/. ; object. Eghty newspapers have affeady joned and sgned the Ant-Slavery league..~ ~d ~ O~ba.r 37/. 10s.; New Calabar 39/. ; and Ir~!~/st a~l. ~o a~. per ton. -C-,9 ~on was ~ g~0fl demand n the early part of ths week, and TILE SLAVE-TRADE. ~g..~ the last ~ days the busness has been unusually large The.~ve-trade, and pra~ecs scarcely to be dstnguhhe4 from ~fl~ trade, as wg l exporters and "speculators. Yesterday, save-tredlng~ stll pursued n more than one quarter of the W~fl(~uch exel~nh prces ~ coaf derably, and quotaton, s wend, contl/~uo to attract tho attenton of my {~vernment. In ~.~lly ~9w ~ dvance Of ~d. to ~. per lb. the South ~ea Idand~ the name of the Brtsh. :~mt~o Is even ~]e.s of~he W~168,560 bales. now dshonoured by the connecton of some of m], s~bj~cts wth ]~l,.ddl n~ Up~t~4~ sellng at ~ew York to cost ll~d. per these nd~. ou# practces; and n one of them ~hb ~au Mer of an n ]~erl~ by steamer. exe,~lflary prehte has cast fresh lght upon somof ther baleful ~Pb~ Dt~nl ~o~ort of the Amercan Agr.c~IturM B~eau, consequences. A Bll wll be presented to you for the purposo of ~~ o~:~j~ " " crop of the past year, gven a "total oggr -facltatng the frar of offence~ ths class n Austral~a ; and endear rugs wll be made to ncrease, u other forms, the ~eansof counteracfon.--eztrad from 27rer Ifaj,~/ s Epe~c~ a~ lhs open(us 1~sav~La~ 10 ~o Fzs. 17. of Parlfae~eM, F ~ruar~ 6. B~n-a~ed~4 bags, at 60s. per qr. " Palm~kerns h," 180 tons, at 31. to 13/. ~s. A VERY LARGE CO~fLET NOW APPROA0111~0 THE Gunea-gran% 44 packages, at 48s. to 54s. pcr cwt. EARTH. Pa]m.ol.~A far busnees dong at late rates; 600 tons Bold on Mr. Planamour, profe~or astronomy at Geneva, wrtes the#pot ~ ~d to arrve; rregular at 34/. to 36/. 10s.; Bonnyat 36/. that he has d.~overed the largest comethat has ever yet bean 5s., Lsg0s at 37/. to 37/. 5s.; Benn at 371.; Old Celabar at 37/. known of. lq e states that t s comng onward wth mmeu~ 5s.; New Calabar at 3914 Brass at 39/. 10s.; and Congo at d01. velocty n a straght lne far ths earth, whch t wll arrve at per ton. abou the 12th August next. It s to affecthe atmosphere of Conox.--The market has been dull throughout ths week, and the earth very much as t "approaches, causng a very unu.,ual quotatons generally are reduced Is. 8d. to Is. 4~. per lb. Salesdegree of heat. We shal no doubt soon have farther ntergence of ths brght straoger~ whch s abouto vst our of the wogk, 58,090 bales, gf~.~ of Wedt Afdca~% 8d. to 9d. per lb. heavens.--]?~.,~.t.

9 t, 104 THE AFRICAN ~IrIM"ES. [F~B. 98, 872. C DEATH OF THE REV. JOSEPH KELLY WILCOX. OTTON, "WOOL, and ether Materal, PRESSED and PACKED by "WALKER S patent ROTATING The Roy. L E. Wlcox, Rector of St. Andrew s Church, Banns PRESS, n HALF the USUAL TIKE. Sugar Mlls for Count~, ~bers, dm st Lverpool n the latter part of 1871, on Splttng the Cane, Palm Nut Asset[era, l~ut Crackers, and hs way from Amerca. The deceased left he parsh n the Amercen barque Thomas Pope, for Amerca, by the advce of every knd of Machne for Afrca or Inda. 12, JAMES-STREeT, CITY-ROAD, LONDON. hs doctor, for a change of ar, beng at the tme ll On hs arrval n Amerca he became convalescent, and en hs return, v~ Afrcan ~eld Ornaments, lraoekes, Errlngs, Rngs, ~htlns: to. England, he was attacked agan, and ded at Lverpool. The deceased was a Serra Lconeau, but came to l,bera n 1853 to a brother of Ha. He was educated et Cavalh by the Rght Roy. "~t] R. W. R. TAYLOR begs to nform hs numerous oustom_e~ I~[ and the publc generally that from and after the data Bshop rayne, of the Amercan ]~pscepal Church, for the mnstry, a~d ~vas als ordaned by hm. He vsted hs dear homo n 1866, hereof he wll be prepared to execute all orders for Gold Trnkets, &o., forwarded to hm, provded always that such after ~n ab~nce of 13 years, to see hs aged father, who was then It0 years old, and who ded two years ago. The deceased durng orders are accompaned wth remttances. A moderatoommsson of ten per cent. wll be charged, and. n<?nemust expect hs short stay at Serra Leone preached n several of the church,. ther orders to be executed unless accompamed ~uth a remttance. Hs death s severely felt by hs congregaton ~nd parshoners, and he s lamented by hs wd~bw and relatves/and frends, both Fort.street, opposte the Castle, Cape Coast, u Serra Leone and throughout Lbera. Hs age was 33 years. December 22, In one vet., 8so, cloth glt, 10s.; plan, 7s., BRITISH AND AFRICAN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. By F. FHzOEPJJ.~, F~q., Edtor of the "Afdceu Tme~," &c. S W. J. Johnson, 121, Fleet.street, London. HIPPERS are respectfully nformed that ths Company despatch TWO STEAMERS MONTHLY to the WEST now In Two Vols., prce 2Is., COAST of AFRICA. THE COURSE OF DIVINE LOVE. By F. Fr~n, E~., Author of "Yhe Kngdom of Heaven," The fne new Screw Steamers &c., and Edtor ef the.4/heart ~ mes..~_~ BONNY...,.. :. LIBERIA London : W. 3. 3ohnson, 121, Fleet.street. ~[~x ~-"...~. ROQ~ELLE VOLTA CONGO.... LOANDA F PUBLIC NOTICE. OR the convence of par~ous wshng to make small remttances between the ~Oold Coast and Serra Leone, the MAn~IRA)-- -~z., SIERRA LEONE, MONROVIA, CAPE Wll SAIL TWICE MONTHLY between LIVERPOOL and "the followng Ports on the West Coast of Afrca (callng at undersgned wll be prepared to ISSUE DRAFTS at fve days PALMAS, CAPE COAST CASTLE, ACCRA, IELLAK sght from One Found to Ffty Foundsterlng every month at COFFEE, LAGOS, BENIN, BONNY, ]~ERNANDO PO, and a premum of 5 per cent. OLD CALABAR. The days of Salng from Lverpool are the Foregn cons at par. 6th and 18th of each month. WM. R. TAYLOR, For further nformaton apply n London to Mes~re, 3f.Atco~, Merchant and Government Contractor. Hv~)so.~ ~ and CO, 5, Crosby.r~uare; n Glasgow. to TATTOO, Fort-street, Cape Coast, LAvoa~u~v, and Co, 24, Oswald-street; and n Lverpool to September 2, ELDER, DE~IPST~R, & CO., 2, Brunswck-street. SYDENHAM HOUSE, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON. SAMUEL BROTHERS, MERCHANT TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS. On the System of Chargng the Lowest Prce possble for Ready Money. LONDON CLOTHINO.mPeffectlo, n Style and Ft s Suppled by the ad of the now Self.measure Boles, as glren below Durng twenty-fre years ther Clothng has been celebrated for sound eoouomy, peffeot fttng, and the most genflemanlko style. THE WORLD-rA]KED SYDENKA~ SUITS AT 59a Are manufactured n sutable styles for all ocea,~ons, and n the varous substances of SYDENHAM Cloth for all Clmates. Moaslso Ann BUSlSESS SUITS..."... 42s. 0d. to 8-1S. 0d. T~ovszss... 14~ 0&,, 26e. 0d. DRESS AND PROMENADE S~l"s... 59s, Od.,,llds. 0d. T~ousz~... 17s, Od.,, S~. 0d. " STATE, LAW, AND CLERICAL ROBE8 SUPPLIED AT VERY ADVANTAGEOUS PRICES. THE NEW BOOK ON GENTLEMEN S ATTIRE Contans Forty.three Engravngs to represent the Fashonable Styles. Prce Is.,doducted from a purchase (post-free). Any garment can be ~uppled by tendng the followng measures: Gve, r~ r~cm~,,hole heght of person. Fen Co~ : Round the breast, round the wast, from centre of beck to the wrst; for length of elcevo, arm bent, Fez WAts roox~ : Round breast and wasl FoR Tsoeszast Levgth outsde seam from top to bottom, length am from fork to bett~m, refund the wast, round the teat. PAr~Ea.NS AND LIST or PRICES POST FREE.. nsde TROUSERS, SAMUEL BROTHERS GUARANTEE TO SUPPLY, IN EVERY CLASS, PERMANENT COLOURS, GENTLEMANLY STYLE SOUND WORKMANSHIP. AND PERFECT FIT. k ~ Messrs. Samuel Brothers fnd t nece-=sary to state thathe P~tage of Letters must be Prel~sd, or thsy wll not be recslved. SAMUEL BROTHERS 50 LUDGATE HILL~ LONDON ENGLAND. VOL. : letter Desth... For adrant~ wll be ~e All N.B.--0!! BRIT The ~Sth and ~e The fro m Cape Coast Bonn the 18th A Jellah l%w the day of = Goods For " LxvomaN for delvex at Bonny, Afrcan Brt. and Afrcan Brtsh