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1 -~0~ [Transme son Ab, oa~ the mo~t "FOR GOD, AND GOOD TO AFRICA AND HER PEOPLE."... to 114s 6d. to 30a for Self. per~n. bottom, Her "It tho~. of be the are were to racthe Febrle on Ln of ~As Asnd~ of t~ Colbn~l Mn~st~r n tms courdry."--f~l OF CARHARVO~, SZCaZTARY Or SrAT~ ~O~ ZHZ COLONIE% 4vov~ % :. Vos. ~f.i.., 17o. 78.) :- LONDON, MONDAY, DECrEM_BER 23, 18~7. Pvs~.~s~sD,,o~z CONTENTS. West Af~can M,], ;... s~ Subscrpton% &c., receved for "Af~can PAGE Subse,v~p~c~, 6s. peram~ Tmes".... Afrcan Royal Mal Steamshp C~mpany....* Mscellanea... ~. IAbea:...:...: The New Governor.n.Chef European Poltcs... :... ;... "... ~7 La~.~ and Abeokuta.... L~ tmas and New Year... 0enamor Sr. A. E. Kennedy... ~ Og0~.(sept Back to Ashante~... :... ;... Justce wthout Jvrles... ~ ~df/1maksacres. n Axh~tee...:... ~:... Captan Nee% 4th Wmt Inda Regment Go,vetoer BlaoYall s (Worthy/} Substtute for Kng Agge~.... L..:.. 69 Rot~ and De, tracton of Mssonary Property n Abeokuta... 7"2 ~0.~ o~:y~o~ Repre~ntatve for Afrca Admnstraton 0f Justce at Can_ Coast How to Decrease ~ Mortalty n We~t Afrca Id~The" V~ Consul Kl~e4 b~ the/q adves-...;... ::.;; DIIclalCorr~pondence ~,~ Assault on.~[r. Harry Fnden Olg C~ahd..:.:.L... :... :..L..:.;... :....,.-... :;... : ~9 Abyssna...:...;... :... ~ ~a~d Ooast Female NaRve School:.:... ~ "... :.., l~0t~ to. Qork-~l~nde.hts :,.-.,.:.:,..,,.)...: ,..5: Death... " 75 :-~-:,..-- WEST AFRICAN MALLS. Oover~br-u-Chef, and for all the evls that have been daly " ~/ Afdean Ro~al Mal Scarcshp Mendfngo, Captan Robert resultng therefrom ; but I mantan that, of all men ever elected l~.-:ld)#ry,~arrlved n the Mersey about mdnght on ]Frday, td carry out a df~cult and unpopular task, he s the most unftted. ~dvembe r 29~ h/~vlng bben. ~ea:ued for several houm 0u~de the He has made hmself remarkable hero for the absolute want Of b~r fo Want 0f.water. The ~andugo left Fernando Pc on the any bugness qualfcatou. A bad admnslmtor, and wth no 30th:0htober, " She brought n full. cargo, 2,907 oz. gold-dust} powers oforganlzaton, he has got everythng nto a state of chaos l~,7.s41:jn spece; and twenty-four passengers.. and confu~~don from whc he s utterly ncapable of extrcatng -rl%e b-mouthly/~a~ arrveduly on the< 18th nst. ether, us or hmself.- Ancent Rome, whch had taken sx centures to erect, was destroyed u as many days; the work of AFRICAN ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIF.COMPANY. destructon s easy, that of reconstructea a satsfactory, bass. ~t~,~~f.ycary _g~erffm~tn "o tms compauy was. held,%t dffcult. Specous and plausble, he had the talcn ofbe~gablo to lead hs masters n Downfg-street nto the belef that he was th0:ofltcea, L~d6fhfll.street, London, nn the llth nstant, Mr. he rght man n the rght phce ; but, alas! from one end of the P. D. Had0w n the.char. Mr.Campbe.ll, the Secretary, reed the reporl~ and the 0harman n movng ~.-adeptly)u, con.gratulated thd ehareholdem on West Coast to the other the cry of bad mauagemenl man admnstraton, aud enormous taxaton eom~font~ually and contmuously, great dscontents and many ru~m2~./s, butofwhat the contnued ~c~ss of the company; whch ambled the Drectors to dechre a. dvldend as usual, of.8s. per share, andto aval? The evls under whch we groan mect-~th no sympathy from our rulers n Downng-street, aud we are ether snubbed or add a further 2s. per share as bonus. We added that a new and very s.u~e;f.or ate.unshp:had been ordered, whch would be pad t~ated wth curt contempt when we complan. for od~~f~ed~-~& fookcredt,.as.he~wasndeed most justly Of all the seltlemeuts on thswest Coast of Afrca them tenet one enttled to d% for the-ex-tfema zegularty wth Whch they had whch can havesuffemd more bythese changes than the Oamba. performed the mal ~rrc~.: ~.... Them wasa tme when we were left lterally wthout a:;y court of cvl or crmnal jursdlctob, and when we were wthout a The proceedngs ~rmnated wth the usual Votes of.thanks to legally-consttuted hdalnstrator ; for when Admral Patey lcf~ the Cha.rn~. p, IHreeters,.end 8~_ retary. for Enghnd n ~uno last, where he stll s, n the enjoyment, I beleve, of full pay and the 8ol #far nfeate, hs successor should - ~az m)rrob, of. znz ~ra~o_t~ smzs. have been the Collector of Customs; but he had also gone on lea e; -, : - ~ - " : Bathurst, Gambla, November 17, cons~luently the Admnstrator" and the Collector of Customs beng Sr,-~You must not magne I have b~en ~lent so long because both a~ent, and uo provson b.ng made n thenew charter or ~[ had notmug to Complan of. I keep qulet wthn my shelt lerefe putoutfor such a contngency, Colonel Antenwas smuggled because; Un Ser lho" proconsulale of Major Blackall, nothng s to ~_o hoped for except that 6hange Whch s pthly m l~dd;to Worle." ~l le" functonary has bben absent descrbed from hs as: nto the 6fl]ce of Collector somehow pro fern., and t]~ha sucked to the collecton of the dute~aud the et~cof Adm~strator, But what could Admral Patey or Colonel Anton know gbout the O6te~m0nt durng the lute rany seasou, and we thought he Custom.housework? What practcal knowledge could they have would have passed throughere, as he left Lverpool on the 24th had of the dudes of thh r~ponsblo o11co to enable them to ultmo for 8qrra Leone, but t appears he stopped short at dscharge them? Madera~ 81v ce "h~:.li~po!ntnent as Oovemor-n ~hef, 3L~sjor What can be more njurous to thh settlement than such an Bls~kall hhs:r~dfl ged Imply n flyng voyages to the 0araba and unnatural and llogcal mode of provdng for the management of other settlements on:-thb Coast, whero hs presence hs never ts affar~? Not that I have anythng-to ~ay aganst Colonel Ia educad any practesl.befeft; but qule the reverse; for,-even" uppodeg that ~ the ~ Anon; ou the contrary, I consder t fortunoto that such nn Goernor-ln-Chlef was the best dsposed man offcer was found to fll up the vacancy; but I may be allowed to n the world, t would b~ ~utterly mpossble for hm n these ask why Admral Pate}, was allowed to leave at all under such fly~g-vlsts to bec~neprsot!c~llygr personally:ocquaeted Wththe crcumstances, and, havng left to sut hs own convenence, why WSh., ~vant% requrement% and local polltdsofcach settlement. he s now allowed to return and resume a poston for whch he Nono~b gro~ mstake was ever made than the appontment of s utterly unft He was no moresck when he ler thanhecanbo a4mnhtr~totsfdr the-re,l:ectvo I governme)ats, of Gamble, 0old now; n fact, ths valant offcer staled, I am told, drectly ~.Co~t, ~ and Lagos; the who!e.thng s: a:~d burleque. W.e before he ler, that he was ~well as ever he was n hs lfe. dwell~m u l~ e MejeSby s sad ~ettlement~ bebdnow to realze the The publc belef hero s, that a wound whc he receved n the a_b~dty, thb folly, and the madn e~ era r~heme wm.h, edopt~l. head, b~t no n acton, wll prevent hm from ever egectu~ly for tlm mra of.economy, he t.b.xown the Afrcan ool~nles back a servng u the tropcs,.whaler h.a m.ay do d~whe.~. The ~att~-ot a cenh~, wthout even ett~nlng dhat -Ihltry object, offce of Admnhtrator should be ~lte~ by some one~ o I do not ~n ~m X ~hat~ Major Bla~mR.s res~mfble for thest}~el~e~o~ e~e~t~tlngthe gove fment of West Afr~-unc~er a keepng account~ a m n ~f bus ne~ habt% and not such,-:-[.-:.=":: "- ;. : PAOE!

2 66 2RE AFI IOA TIMES. [Dzo. 23, reposed under the regs of ~r. Lawyer Brown. There n, ho~.. money when he gets t, has no dea of whether the revenue s ever, one thng that strkes me as ndecorous, afdthat~:tmt properly collected or not. Independently of thn nterregnum, f I may so call t, when ths colony was left wthou% a legallyconsttuted Admnstrator, as a matter of courseb we had no Mr. Brown, Who s the quas-representatve of the Oamb~a merchants u the or.celled I~.gdatve Councl, should be all0w~ to practse n the courts. It s true llr. Brown has au dea that quorum to form a legslatve Councl ; but antecedent to all ths there was a perod when we had no court of cvl or crmnal he s a lawyer; he lkes law; and although not dgnfed wth any professonal qualfcatons, he s, lke-- jursdoton, or when, f we had a court, we had no one consttuted All tmatterenb more brhk tad pert to presde theren. For a consderable tme after the arrval of Than those that understand art, Mr. Chalmera (,and ths legal lumnary dd not come out untl A~ lttle sparkle* shne more brght month after he was due), there were n~ arrangements by whch he could presde n any court ; and to keep ~ Thln glowng e~als that glve them lght-- hm employed he and he goes nto cohrt sometmes as an affvocate, and sometm~ receved a commssou as Actng Chef ~Iustce and Justce of the as a defendant, but he enema to lke law as welt n one capacty Peace--that s to say, the Admnstrator, Admral Patey, gave as the other. Shortly before he went to England he was summoned before the polce-court by the Admnstrator, Admral hm a commsson to dscharge the dutes of an offce whch had ceased and determned by the retrement and resgnaton of ChefPatey, for u clear breach of a local ordnanoe; but by hs. adt0tness he managed to defeat, on techncal ponts, the Admral, anr 3ustce Mantell. Had Major Blaekall been a man of busness, he would naturally have arranged all these matters n due tme by after makng the head of the Executve appear very fdculot~s makng such legal provson by ordnance as was needful to enableand contemptble n the polce-court, snapped hs fngers at the ~l r. Chalmers to go on wth hs dutes mmedately en hs arrval; gallant Admnstrator. It s qute true that Mr. Brown, n no~ but 9, nothng was defoe, although abundance of!!mo.was.gv from the fact of Mr. Chalmera comng out a montn later than no adherng to the homely,, proverb that "the_ shoemaker shoul d n~t" go beyond hs last, or from other causes,-haa never been success. was expected. Well, then, what was done? As there was no ful usa :merchant; but what I ask s ths one smple queston:: quorum to form a Legslatve Councl, and as there wasapostve Is t rght, s t decoroua that Mr. Brown, the so.called repro" dead lock n the courts, and the gaol full of prsoners, Admralsentatve n the Legslatve Councl of hghly respectable and Patey apponted Mr. Chalmera Actng Chef Justce. Now, on the )nrncplo of "once a prest always a prest, ~ honourable mercantle houses hero---that Mr. Brown, a merchant, so far as I know, a J.P. for the town and settlement of Bathurst, should be allowed a d so far as any one here knows, Mr. Chalmers s Actng Chefto uraetse as an attorney n the courts of the very settlement. Justce stll; but, be that as t may, hem was another subterfuge. whe re hs offcal funetonsare dscharged? Such thngs are not However, the gaol was cleared by ths move, but whether legallyallowed n England or u other colonlea. Lot Mr..Brown practse or not romulus to be seen. It would seem but natural to every as an attorney u the name of all freedom, but then let hm smple-mnded man that, when the offce of Chef Justce was surrender those postons that gve hm more nfluence than hs done away wth, and a Scotch advocate sent Out to replace Sr compeers. Let hm and Mr. Reffe~ contend for mastery on ~: 3"ohn Mautel, that hs successor ought to haw come out wth clear stage, wher~ both, at all events, shall have to earn ther some defnte poston and astructona; but no such thng s lvelhood by the respectve talent and energy. Snce ths last apparently thought of, and so, to supply the defcency, the old epsode n the admnstraton of the law here, I have determned machnery was reconstructed to carry out the old laws, and to gve no credto auy one, lest I may be exposed to the msfortune of throwngood money after bad. I purpose contnung to everybody thoughthat thngs were to go on as before. There was stll no Councl to enact anythng to change t, but whlstwemport my Cola nuts as before, and sellng my grouud-uuts as I~ outsders were labourng under ths deluson, t appeara the have done, but ahml certanly gve no credto any one. Let me_ Governor-n.Chef pad a flyng vst to the Gamba, and thus a suggesto my countrymen engaged n trade to do lkewse, and legslatve councl s formed, the Governor-n-Chef, the Admns-letrator, and the gua~ Cheffustee, as Chef Magstrate, beng the followng fable :- me call ther sorou~ attenton to the moral contaned u the members. It seems, then, that an ordnance was drawn up and Tom and W fll, one sammer ~ day, prepared, and passed, "all of a heap," creatng a Court of Cvl Pcked up an oyster near the set, and Crmnal Jursdcton. Whether ths law or ordnance was Whl~ each reqalres the prze n rage, ever promulgated or not I do not know, yet I beleve I c,au safely There ~ by a la~} r sage. Both warmly plead the rght of law~b affrm t was not prnted up to a shor tme ago, even f t has And ask hs judgment of the eau~e. been snce, uud I can also honestly affrm I dd not know of ts Ha paned ; at lengtb, wth artful sneer, exstence. Ths state of thngs was rather amusngly llustrated Sa~ he, "My frencl~ the case s dear." here a few days ago. Mr. lleffes, u natve Afrcan, who had -The ~h he ate, gaveach a shell, been sent to England by hs countrymen to be nducted nto the Th ~a bade the wranglng foo~ fare~rell. mysteres of legalore, n order that he mght be able to protect I am, Sr, wth all deference, hs country meu from the vagares of Colonel damy dud hs A Nx~vz Ozszm~. 1?dun.Achatu, Dr, Sherwood, returned to the Gamba, after havng passed through u course of Study whch was THE NEW GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF. supposed to be suffcent to enable hm to practse n ~[0 ~HB Y~Dr 0R 0~ ~HE A~ RIOA~" T.IM~ES. our courts. Shortly after hs arrval a mercantle house employs hm to receve some outstandng debts. 3, Plowden-bulc~ngs, Temple, De~. 7, In one of these cases he gets a judgment sgned, and the debtor Sr,--After a tedous travel through the dsmal nght t s agrees to pay the amount recovered, and actually has pad the pleasanto vew the breakng day. My sad and oppressve task c0sts; hut, meanwhle, another lawyereturns from England to for the last two years has been to record nothng cheerful or Bathurst, u the shape of Mr. Thomas Brown; he atfaeks Reffes promsng relatve to the mportant settlement of Serra Leone. judgment, and so far as Ieau learn demolshes t. Mr. Brown I saw her day after day strfpt of every consttutonal fght shows clearly, to the satsfacton of Mr. Chalmers, at least, that whch she enjoyed n the earler and darker days of her he (Chslmers) had stultfed hmself by ssung a wrt out of ext.,tones. court whose exstence, by a law whch he asssted to enact, was I shall presently endeavour to account for ths sad state of destroyed, and that he had actually, allowed a judgmento be thngs ; but let me turn to the brghter porton of the pcture, obtaned a court whch had long smeo ceased to exst. On the and sncerely congratulate the too.long oppressed Afrcans on the above and other grounds Mr. Chalmers upset hs own judgments, return of,her long-tred and dstngush~ frend, hsexcelleney so poor Lawyer Itcffes wa~ kuocked about by Lawyer Blown, and Arthur F_Award Kennedy, C.B., to the Governorshp-n.Chef of poor Regon s left wallowng the Slough of Despond, and hs the West Co,st of Afrca. They wll gve hm a boundless clent hgh and dry u the lurch. It seems to me, however, that welcome, not as a stranger, as Hamlet says, bet.as one who, such a state ofthngs s f~r from satsfactory. In a colony lke durng a prevous governorshp, frbm 1852 to I856, consulted ths, where there s n~ professonally qualf~ Bar, the mode of the publc weal alone, and never deferred to any mserable clque procedure for the recovery of just debts and legal clamshouldof parastes, that gave ther allegance n turn to governor after be so smple that every man should be able to sue for u just debt, governor, whether he were a good or bad ruler. Bah above all, and be able to defend hmself cganst a clam, wthout fearnggovernor Kennedy:s name s held n aff~touate and pous the qups and cranks of the law. So far as I eau see, there s no remembrance upon the Coast as one ~ho, by a vgorous.huntng chance of these settlements ever beng able to support a staff of down of dementa slavery, dd ncalculable so, vce to the ca~e lawyers, and the results that, so long as such a complex and of humanty and cvlzaton... ntrcate maze of techncaltes surrounds the debtor, a man lke, But!t was fated that what the good Governor Kennedy.an, Mr. Brown, possessng a smatterng of the law, can really preventoarng too Drer a rule should be undone-, and tha the leht., sl~ea an honest credtor from recoverng hs just debts. For my part, by hs rule should bc succeeded by a rayless and hopeless mght of _I can ~afely ~y that I have sundry amounts due to ms n ths mhrule. I have arrved at the dark ade of tl~e p~otur~ and, as place, but n the pre~nt confused state of the law I feel that my am elucdatng a great ~ecal premem, I must deal wth t.. 7~. debtor could gve me so much trouble, and fence me off wth so As ex-governor B]ackall takes hs leave for ever,or mer~ ~nany techncalte.% that I should fear to sue hm, especally f he Leone, to make way for a wser, abler~ and more ~creet ruler, D~,o. 2 3, 18.b7.] TWE AFRIOAN TI~ES. 67 r what must be hs reflectons? May he not, n self-reproach, and from holdng propertes, and gvng equal rghla to people of all wth all that fathful power whch a smtten conscence nevernat~oe% whatever ther colour, rank, or poston, so that foregn fals to supply, say "I found ths colony enjoyng the bulwarkeapts]a may come nto Lbera, and that abe may be broughto" of Englsh lberty~tral by jury, and, aded by a coloured ex- the poston she ough to have been brought to years ago, ~Iudge, Mr. Carr (who for twenty-fve years never saw the enormty The two housed of legslature wll meet next month. of trm by jury n hs court untl he was retrng, and felt The Honourablo and Rev. James Payno has been elected Pres- no anxety, unless to secure hs penson), I took from her that dent of Lbera, and the Hen durable Joseph T. Gbson, V/co-Pres- The Honourab]e J. B. Denns has been elected senator for sacred rght. When the natve pecp~e were outraged by a classdent. of rampant and overpad offcals, I requred that they shouldcape Palmas Mayland County, vce the Honoursble Charlea gve securty for costs before outraged humanty could have an Henry Harman, who has been apponted Governor. The opportunty to redress tself before a court of justce. BeforeHonourablo James M. Thompson, the Honourable Danel F. Wlson, the Honourable Ausburn Tubman have beeu elected reprs- abolshng tral by jury, I submtted the verdcts of natve ctlzenato the aul~rvslon of the jaundced eyes of four salared~entatves for Cape Palmas Mayland Country. Government offems. I placed upon the bench of the Supreme (hr2y era PelfS{an to.dmencl th~ ~ondttd ~n of E(~tr(a. Court of Justce the notorous Algernon Z[ont~gue (an exdsmssed ~Iudge of Tasmana), whose character was as bad as hs the Republc of Lbera. To the Honourable Senate and the House of Representatves of Jaw, end whoso law was as bad as hs character ; and, fnally, Your humble pettoner~ most respectfully representhat I promoted Horato James Huggns (an ex-colonalattorney, whereas the eoloured man s now acknowledged by all cvlzed wthout practce, and whose blunders have awoke the attentonpeople and natons to be susceptble of as hgh degree of culture and mprovement as other 1~ople. of I arlament, and consderably affected the funds of the colonal ohest) to a judgeshp! l!" And. whereas he s now also admtted to ctzenshp n all Yet ex-goveruor Blackall s not wthout comfort ; nor has hs cvlzed countres on the same condton that the whte man s, rule been entrely unfrutful n good. Throughs evl rnle and n order to sustan our membershp n the great famly of the attenton of the "Engl~ Parlament now more assduously of natonalty wth respect and dgnty we should allow others drected to Serra Leone than ever t has been snce ts establshment. Your very able and fearless pen has awoke to the con- And whereas our forefathers n formng our consttuton made the same advantege u our country as they gve us u thers. vcton that all we acheved through our squadron s but a t to suthe condton of thngs at tha tme, but now needs a lttle mockery f governors shall establsh a worse form of slavery upon amendment so that t may better answer he purpose of present the Coast, n the wthdrawal of every cvl rght ; and, to crownand future generatons. all, and n order to make some emends for all the eufferngs the Therefore your humble pettoners most respectfully pray your natve people have htherto uudergono, the most popularulerhonourable body to consder and submto the ctzens of Ll)e~a Serra Leone ever had s now restored to the welcomng arms of the amendment of our consttuton~that s to say, that the two a loyal people. lastwords u the thrd lne and the whole of the fourth lue of Before the newly-ap~nted Governor-n-Chef the noblestask tha 13th secton of the ffth artcle of the Consttufou of the Republof Lbera be so altered and ameuded es to read : "Not- that can be allotted to mauls submtted--namely, to rase the fallen, to restore popular rghts, to rule, as he has htherto, for wthstandng any person wthout regard to eolour may be ed- to ctzenshp n ths republc," for whch your pettoners the publo good ; to do good for truth s sake, and for ts brghtmtred, reward. Then, n the fatness of tme, when helcaves that Coastwll ever pray. he may exclam, as Augustus dd of old, "I found Rome brck Cape Palmas Mayland County, and left her marble."~i am, Sr, your obedent servant, November 9, W. R~. LIBERIA. THE CHAROE OF MURDER AGAINST THE L TE Cape Palmas, November 10. COLONEL CON-RAN. Bshop Payne and lady and M~s Savey arrved at Cape TO 9t B:B I~II~R 0~ ~ &F M.ICA2T ~[~tit_.~. Pelmas, by the h-monthly steamer Ethope, on the 30th October Cape Coast, October 16, from Amerca, vfd England. The Bshop and hs lady are lookng remarkably well. It s thrtyear snce he frst landed as n your journal r~peetng the murder of one Quahmna Sr,-~-I notce that there has been some correspondence a mssonary u Cape Palmas. We are glad to learn that the Crent~l, a natve of Cape Coast. The facts of the case are Bshop and hs lady do not regrether vsts to London, for the smply tha.~: On the evenng of tha 4th September, 1864, a very many knd frends they have met there amongsthe Englshvery slght quarrel took place n ths town betweeu two sol,era naton. M:rsl Hoffman, the wfe of the late lamented Roy. O. C. of the 4th West Inda Regment and some natves. One of the solders was severely beaten, and very deservedly.so. The Hoffman, s now n England; from whoh she wll proceed to troops had been for a long tme n the habt cf systematcally lltreatng the people, beatng them, plunderng ther goods n the Amerca on account of her health beng mpared. She s medcally advsed not to return to Afrca. Mss Jula Grsgg has succeeded Mrs. Hoffmsn n charge of the Orphan Asylum. ton, when t was kuovra that a quarrel had taken place, and market-place, and other rregulartes. On the evenng ques- The Hell Cavalla trbes, the Rock Town and ~sh Town that a solder had been beaten, a number of other solders rushed trbes are preparng to war agansthe Cape Palmas, the Rverto the spot where the dsturbance had commenced and joned. Cavalla, and the Graway trbes. Ths war s occasoned on ac-count of the mysterous death of General Brown, of the Half been ascertaned whch sde threw the ~ frst stone. No great scufflensued, and stoned begau to 5 about. It has never Cavalla trbes, who dsappeared snce the begnnng of ths year; mschef was done. But shortly after the throwng of stones, t s beleved he was murdered by the Rver Cavalla trbes, who the greater part of the gurrsen came out, under command of are enemes to the Half Cavalla. It a rumoured the war wll Major Ivey, and began to kll and wound every end they could begn n December, after they have gathered u ther new rce. fud. Some solders broke open the lttle hut of a respectable The Goloondo, on her last voyage out, brought seventy-sxoung man named John Sanaz, ~ hm n bed, dragged emgrants for Cape Palmas, amongst whom wasmr. _Kuox sfamly, m out through the wndow, pulled hm along the grofud for ten n number, the largest famly that came out and the most res]~ectable. Mr. Knox brought ;~vt hm hd wfe and daughter, ther guns and stabs of bayonets. One man was quetly eatng hs thrty-sx yards, then klled hm wth blows of the butt-ends of hls mother and step-father, besdes nephew s and n/ecea, but t s supper wheu some solders eared up and stabbed hm to death, lamentable to know that ths nterestng and promsng famlyandthrew hsbody nto the sen. Ibeleve sx people were. kl/ d, have nearly all pa.~.~l away to ther eternal home n less than and I thnk ~ty-eght wounded. I was the foreman of the jury three months, leavng behnd them the daughter end some of the on the nquest held on the body of John Ssnaz. Mr. M. Dearly, chldren to stem the troubles of ths world n a strange land. Mr. naymaster of the 4th West Inda Regment, was coroner, and he Knox came out to Afrca qute prepared for agrcultural pursuts, xnade strong efforts to nduce us not to bnng m a verdtct of brngng wth hm cotton and other seeds, and had beguu clearngmurder. 0no of the murderers was dentfed very remarkably, land to commence plantng, when he took ll. Hs wfe ded and we brought n a verdct of murder aganst hm, dud others eleven days before hm. unknown. He was tred, found gulty on the clearest evdence, A newapaper s started at Mourova cmled the Afrfean I?~. and ~antenced to death. Colonel Conran commuted the sentence lmbl, another at Grand Baz<.a ealhd the.peopl~ of,~aua. to mprsonment for lfe, and he was released last ~u!y "and sent Three pettons are beng got up n Cal~o l~almas by the to Serra Leone. Qaahmna Crentsl was a gold-taker;.n the ctzens to presento the Hou~ of 8enateand Representatves. servce of the late Mr. H. Burned. He was returnng to nts own The frst a to pray for ncreased dutes on ardent sprts, whchhouse from hs master s at seven P.x. on the fatal day, and may bethe means abolshng the sellng of ardent sprts n the beng met by a small party of solders, was attacked and counh-y. The second, to p~ay that a large receptacle for the wounded, and Colonel Coozan just then comng up, commanded emgrants, wth good accommodatons, may be bult. The thrd, hm to be ted wth hs own undercloth,.and, wounded an~ for a ~epeai of that law n the comftufon preventng whte men bleedb~ as he was, to be thus drs~ to pnson~ atong

3 !,! l: I, ]?HE AFHIOAN TIMES. [Dz-...23: beng adjudged by the Court there a fraudulent bankrupt. After the ground, ob~rve, lke the carcasera l/east. Such was hs remanng " some tme at Bonn deposton the day before he ded; a deposton taken by Wllam Y, he-fouad... hs way to Cape Cleaver,. Esq., 3.P, n my presence. I Doted as attorney on Coast, where he managed to earn a l~recarlous hyng by employ. meat n a merchant s store, from whch, however, hs dsgrace(ul behalf of the dyng man s famly on the occason, and t was I conduct and ncapacty Eoon compelled hs dsmssal. Then for who went to call Mr. Cleaver to go and take the deposton. two years t was a matter of surprse how he exsted, partcularly as he had no educaton, or any natural talent beyond an Crentsl dstnctly aud n terms stated that Colonel Conran caused hm to be klled.. Mr. Cleaver questoned end crossquestoned, examned and crop.examned Crentsl on ths sub- ex~t&ol-uzuu[$ ----~-"... V2Ll-mLtuv-, -~o -^~ u o-enno ~" 0 ~n 0 " bdttles " At last, to the astonshment of the publc, he was permtted by the authortes jeer, tll the man sctuallygot.avgry. He was perfectly sensble. here (through a remarkable concdence) to appear u Her Mr. Cleaver, apparently anxlous to be certan that the man w as not wanderng hs mnd. tested hs powers, and asked hm to Majesty s Courts of law as a pleader--yes,, a ~./ea&r, an.ads.ocate to expound Englsh law, n a language he does no~ unoerstana name and recognze several persons n the room, whch he dd as readly as Mr. Cleaver hm~lf could have done. I have snce and cannot wrte or speak correctly! thenpublcly accused Colonel Conrsn n the Court of havng Of course, f such a person was favoured wth the prvlege of beng a specal pleader n au enlghtened commnnty would "klled ths man. He dd kll hm. I appled to Chef 3ustee not be very long before he found hs level, and would, of neck. Barry for warrants to apprehend Colonel Conran and others, hs sty, have to adopt some callng more suted to hs capabltes. of~cors, on a charge of murder; but Mr. Barry repled that he had no authorty. Mr. Cleaver s no doubt cognzant of the fact But n Afrca t s not so. If the Governmeut choose to re. that Crentsl s deposton was destroyed. But I am under the eognze a monkey as a pleader there are-to be found a great necessty of expressng my exceedng astonshment at Mr. many poor llterate bush people who would gladly aval themselves of that monkey s servces, and would as rea~lly wegh oat Cleaver s letter n your journal, denyng that the late Qoahmna Crentsl deposed on hs deathbed that Colonel Conran ordered ther gold-dust to hm as they would to a qualfed barrster from Lncoln s-nn or the Temple. Such beng the case, I do not thnk hm to be klled. I a./serthat Quahmna Cren~l dd say re, the Government are justfed n lettcg loose upon ah.gnorant and that Mr. Cleaver has made a mstake.--yours, &c., CHAnLXS ]3A~.xgt~xtAN. and gullble communty men whose educaton and _talent are only n keepng wth the anmal above referred to; and, n prooh I crave your knd ndulgence whle I relate a ~ond-fd$ case. GOOD BELATIONS WITH ASHANTEE: HOW TO A crmnal was sentenced, some eghteen months ago, to two ltestobe AND MAINTA1N THEM. years hard labour. Some tme n July last, a pleader of Mr. Tn_z followng suggestons ths mportant Subject have been Parker s Court at Cape Coast obtaned a pa~s to Vst the con- who was then undergong h~ sentence n chans. The madeby of~e long resdent on the Gold Coast. Peace relatonsvct, wth Ashantee and a constantly opeu trade are of vtal momentples der or advocate, havng obtaned access to the pr~uer s cell_, as regards revenue and the general well-beng of the Protecorate, produced a promssory note on demand, already made out, and and we readly nse=the followng, as we should nay other suggestons emanatng from smlar sources. We oh.all exam.ue the taned by nformng the convct that he possesses grcaz n- requrng only the convct s s]gnature, wheh the pleader ob- -practcablty of ths and oth~x Suggestonson another occason :~ fluence wth the Governor, and f he would only sgn the document he would be sure to obtan" hs mmedate release. The "It s-only by constant and frequent communcaton wth Ashantce aud other barbarous.trbes that we can hope to brngpleader havng put the convct s promssory note on demand n about that state of thngs that wll redound to 1he honour of hs pocket, bds adeu to the.expeetaut crmnal From July to England, and I have often wondered why the chef of the execu-octobetve here has not attempted E ome-effectve means for ths October, the Admnstrator, as usual, nspected the gaol books, nothng was seen of the pleader ~ by the convct. In end. I would sugges the followng: Let a well-pad consular agent be statoned at Kumas, ~ and, on the representatons of the Inspector of Prson% the poor wth Prnce Anseh~ as nterpreter ; let ther salary be n keepng wth. England s d~gnty, clemency of hs Excellency, and was set at lberty. Hs frd; convct had the remander of hs sentence remtted by the and I ra=glue schools and other mssonary work would then thoughts, of course, were of home ; thther he hastened hs steps, commence n earnest n Ashantee. But t would be necessarybut fancy hs horror and dsappontment when, before he had got that the Kng should also be nduced to send us a consul or ~gent, half-way, he was Overtaken by a polceman, and, by vrtue of a who ought to be well treated, and made acquanted wth the refnements of Europoau lfe. He should not be an ordnary chefpleader, was agan taken and lodged n the prson untl he could wrt n ~aedtatom fugue, at ttae nstance of ths dstngushed or captan, but one of Ashautse s nobles, because there are many satsfy an alleged clam of 8L, brought by the pleader for obtanng hs relea~. The newly-made prsoner pettoned hs Excel- there. Wth ths guarautee here, our Admnstrator could wth every, safety vst A~hantee, nnddsplay, n a dgnfed and grace-lencful manner, the refned customs of Europe. The Afrcans are ease. It then turned out that the "prsoner owed hs release the Admnstrator, and lad before hm the hardshp of hs very re[ratne, and, depend upon t, good--real good--would be the to hs Excellenoy s own ob~rvatons, aded by the Inspector of result, such good as would outwegh 5,000L per annum, f expended n the manner t ought to be. Let a tral be made for dstngu~slled pleader was dong nothng more nor less than a Prsons report, as to hs good conduct, and, therefore, that ths tlve ~eara, and mark the result.--ycurs!ruly, lttlextorton, or, n olher words, endeavourng to obtan, by "CAPS CoAst." false pretenees, a sum of 8/. from an unfortunate convct. Hs Excellency was naturally greatly ncensed at the conduct zo she znxrox oz zns ),galcaw Zl~. of the.pleader, and, I beleve, has ordered hm to be nterdcted from ever pleadng, or rather from ever attemptng to plead, n Cape Coast, West Afrca, November 7, Her Majesty s Courts agan ; and I am sure you wll ag~e wth Sr,--The "ffcnourable :Francs Chapman Grant has been me that f a man gulty of such vllany under the garb of law apponted by hs Excellency the Admnstrator to be.actngs ever agan permtted to ds~ace Her Majesty s Courts, that Chef Magstrate and Assessor durng the ab~nee of Mr. W. so.called Court of Justce wll be a Court of Infamy. Parker, who left Cape Coast only a few months after hs arrval, It s purely out of respect to lq er Mojestfs Courts that I have on sck leave. Ths commends tself to all as a most judcousentered nto these partcular*, n the hope that Mr. U~her s and proper appontmedt, Mr. Grant. havng.. ften been,.called, usually watchful eye wll glance at the~e lnes, and that he wll upon to perform the dutes of Chef 3usttco zn Her Ysjeaty s apply a remedy to such a cryng evl.--i am, dear Mr. Edtor, late Supreme Court, durng the dbsence of the Chef Justces of yours respectfully, " 1~ B---"- that Court, and on all those occasons dschargng hs duty n a most praseworthy and ndependent manner, gvng unmstakable REI~UGEES SENT BACK TO ASKANTEE. proofs that he s not oue of those who degrade ther hgh poston by lstenng "to vle news gossps, and arrvng at all ther xo zn~ ~nr~or o~ zas ~alc~ xram.,t~ons accordngly" Mr. Grant s abuse those dscredtable Cape Coast, November 9. prsctces, and hence t zs that he has boca so often chore Sr,--Aa supplement towhat I wrote you last mal, I have perform the dffcult task of dspensng justce n the Hgh Courtsnow to report that, through the ndrumentalty of Mr. Thos. ou the Gold Coast. Mr. Ussher has been fortunate n obtannghughes, of ths town, a lot of Ashantce refugees have been gven Mr. Grant s valuable servces, and whle congratulatng hm up (though very reluctantly) by the bush chefs, and that the upon t, we cannot help expressng our sympathy wth hm n Admnstrator, Mr. Ussher, has returned them to Kumas, n the great dsgrace that s beng brought or the Courts of justcecharge of Prnce Ansah, who has gong on another vst to h~ here by the admsson of llterate and mproper persons as pleaders n Her Majesty s Courts of justce.! t royal relatve there. It s hoped and beleved that ths very jot s notorousand prudent measure of Mr. U$cher e wll tend greatly to ally that one of these an-called pleaders was only a year or two ago tho~ old grevances whch have been the source of those unfrendly relatons between Cape Coast and Kumas, that have oblged toffee from Serra leone to the Rvers n consequence of been productve of so much harm to the protectorate and to the W. O, [ ; The An captal educated of ~hjntee Ash=ntee.--EI). prnce of A.T. trade of ths place wth A~hantoo.~Yours truly, the blood.--ei). A.T. Dso. 23, 867.] THE AFRICAN TIMES. 69 DACRIFIC!AL MASSACRES IN ASffANTEE. t last, somethng lke a decsve battle was fought between hm ]~n our last we stated from our correspondents at Cape Coastand Jerry, n whch the latter lost several war canoes, and a that at leaet 1,000 persons had been put to death at K/nnasl, on great many of hs people. It s to be hoped, u the nterast of o~ca son of the death, a few months ago, 27th Aprl, of the old trade, that peace wllnow be restored n the Benn for a ~eason. kng, ~.Dt/a~. By a letter n the lyedtyan Muonary It can only be for a season, untl Chrstanty obtans a frm footng n the country ; and we are sorry to say that very lttle, f, M_~aff~,.from the Ray. W. West, at Cape Coast, t s stated that ~[r. ~Vatts, the Wesleyan agent at Knnas, gves the number of the vctms as npwards of 3,000. "They were all ndeed, anythng, has yet been done n ths drecton. Ash ~ anses, or ther Slaves, for though there were several Fantees TROUBLES IN THE NIGER--THE BISHOP DETAINED up the re, detaned ever snce the commencement of the late A#hanteo war, not one of these was murdered." The "~udozn," AND HELD TO RANSOM AT IDDA~THE YIOE-CON- 8UL KILLED BY THE NATIVES. durng whch the horrble tragedes of the kllng of those 8,000 vctms were enacted, extended over the perod of three The very naccurate accounts gven n the daly press after months; there was a daly sacrfce of human bengs. Ia t not the arrval of the Mandng of "the(roubies u the Nger worth a #tea# ~ffort on the part of a Chrstan naton so to perfect and extend ts cvlzng agences n the Gold Coas terr- have beeu employed for castng rdcule upon the Bshop and upon the exertons of those who are strdng for the evangelzaton of Afrca. Tho Bshop was represented as "skedaddlng" to flea" as that ABhantee m~y ~ slx~dly brought ade Under ther f~t~ene6? n a very undgnfed wa); and as f regardle.m of nothng but hs own escape from the unpleasantnesses to whch he had been subject. The real facts of the case, whch are as follows, do not G0 ERNOR BLACKALL S (~FORTHY/) SUBSTITUTE I~0R KING AGGERY. warrant any such nference:- Bshop Crowther, who has establshed several mnon-statons zo ~HZ znrron o~ za.~ ~mc~s ~~rra. n the Nger snce he was consecrated bshop of those countres, Cape Coast, October 7, lately vsted~for the thrd or fourth tme, we beheve--idds, a 8.[r,~Allow me, through the medum of your valuable town some short dstance from Lukoja (at the confluence of the columns, to relate a crcumstance worthy of attenton, as t Nger and Tsadda), n the hope of foundng another staton s.a worthy fulflment of what the people of Cape Coast were there. The natve~, however, made a prsoner of hm, and sent to expect n the nomnaton of Quashe Allah as headman a m~sege to the Brtsh Consul at Lukoja, demandng the value o~er the natve Chrstan body of ths town. Ths personage of 1,000 slaves--/, a., 1,000/.--for hs retease. The West At(ah was nstalled offce by the em~f lyut Coast atd~or/yafrcan Company steamer Thomas Baz]ey havng just returned oral.y jest fve months ago, through the deceptve recommenda-therton of:a few breken.do~vn chefs possessng nether common-delcate busues~, dspatched Mr. Fell (who had been actng as fromeggs, the Consul, nstead of gong hmself on ths salsa nor nfluence. Quashe Attah, who seemed to fauoy hs Vce-consul there before hs arrval) u the Thomas Bazley, alarmed poston would be suffednt warranto justfy hm n on the 27th ~eptember, together wth several traders who n any case, went on from bad to worse, untl at last he has offered ther servces, to demaud the Bshop. Oa landng at eventually commtted a most barefaced hghway robbery upon 0ko 0ken, they proceeded to the Bshop s hut, aud after an four natve traders of the town of Denkrah, on the 8th,Sept., ntervew wth the Bshop, "all excep the Bshop aud hs two at.nne p.~x. Ths act of depredaton was mmedately broughtsons, who remaned wth ther father, proceeded to the dwel ng under the notce of the Brtsh authorty of ths place, and a of the Abokk of Idda. Ther demand that the Bshop should si~edy and satsfactory redress was nstantaneously gven to the be gven up to them havng been refused by the Abokko, they poor traders; I euclose copy of the judgment for publeaton.~ returned to the Bshop s hut. AlL the Bshop ncluded, then I ~remsn, Sr, your obedent servant, A~ns~Prze. made for the shp s boat, whch had been left n a creek. They FODOHR.N T o had scarcely reached the boat when the natves began to fre at Supreme Court, Cape Coast, October 6, them wth posoned arrows, Gnu of whch-perced ~Ir. leell s Eegna u. Chef Quasho Attah.--~lea, lgot Gulty. rght sde, and caused hs death a few hours after. The boat had Bronght up under a warrant from ths court, 0n a charge of great df~culty n gettng through the creek, tha water n whch s panyarnng and robbng oertan persons and natves of very shallow, but she was at 1sat gotnto tha stream, the passengers, &c., n the beat usng ther weapons to defend themselves n Denkrah. ffudgment : Prsoner ordered to pay eghteen days expensesthe retreat, wmeh tltty wou?d no~ ~ar~,urcee&d n effectn$ had to the men detaned to compensate them for loss of tme. not the captan of the Thomas BazIey, Mr. Thomas Lews, :Further, the prsoner bound over to keep the peace for one opened fre on the natves from a two.pounder earronade and ~rear to all Her Brtanno MsjesLy s leges, and to all the some rfles. By ths tmely nterference alone were they saved ~a~habtsnts of the Protected Terrtory, fndng two suretes for from destructon. ~0L each, and ho hmself bound over for the ~mo amount. Oko Oken (Idda) s dstant about forty mles below the confluence (Lukoja). Eghteen : days expenses, at 4s. 6d. per day, 41. ls.; deere% 2s. 6d.; total, 41. 3s. 6d, (Sgned)3. R. T~zoxAs, Actng Chef Magstrate. OLD CALABAR. ~re regreto state that the barbarous massacres n tha 17ver, : HOPE OF PEACE. aganst whch the mssonares aud traders had so energetcally ze THE "RDr~O R OF ~HE &lrbica~ " ~ IMF.~. protested and struggle~, ~ recbrded n our last, dd not. ffellah Coffee (Awoonlah), Oct. 6, 186"/. termnate wth the revue of the ntended vctms, so praseworthly forwarded to Fernando Po by the Afrcan mal steam- Br,~Th0ugh I dd not Wrte to you before, we have seen hero by your paper how much you felt nterested about the nastyshp. The murders were recommenced by Kng Archbong n wars that have been gong on between ths country and ts alles0otober, twenty-four vctms, many of whom were very young, and Adds and ts alles ; and I should not wrte now only I ho.p~ havng been butchered. What makes the case more dstressng thngs are gong to be settled. Mr. Frceman, fro.m.a.cora, z{ s the fact that many of the poor wretches who pershed.wera hero. He has been sent by hs Excellency the AummstTator oz bsselv betray or nto Archbong s hands by surrouudng chefs to Cape Coast. 11"o came round from Acorn by way of Krobo, and _~..5",~.^. ~ad fled and who had promsed to proteothem. then down the rver Volta to Adds, and from the mouth of the F; p% t2o mssnn;res and trade have agau fver to ths place, and n nce hard journay t must have been as n rescung four doomed creatures from the very jaws of death. thngs now are ; I only hope t may please. God.that he shalla man, a woman, and two chldren were forcbly taken from a brng about a peace. Everythng s gettng rcaay mr a grea~ natve house, where the adults were found heavly roned, and meetng wth hm and the chefs of ths country, whch s to be asrely got on board the shps n th.~ rver. Kng ta:hb~:~ ~:n: held at the kng s town on Satm day. I am glad to say that, so a letter demau~ng the return of the ntenaea v c ; far, thngs look well for peace~ though t was hard to manage; meetng el the Europeans t was of course reselved not to gve and so no mor~ tll next mall.-=your% Awoo~IAm up the poor creatures, but that they be sent out of the country to preserve ther lves." A letter was drawn up at the meetng BENIN RIVER.~ and sent to Axchbong, assurng hm that f he dd not gve up ~ or come tme past there have been troubles and potty warf~ethe bloody and barbarous customs whch he was pursung, the between the adherents of the prncpal natve authorty, Jerry, Europeans would be compelled to take the strongest measuree n and Allures, one of the head chefs of the Benn country, ther power to compel hm to do co. Great prase s duo to the arsng out of the refusal of Im-y to a~ow ARums to trade European traders for ther vgorous and courageous couduct n drectly wth the agents of the European house* carryng on t~e capture of the vctms, and abe for protectng and provdng commercal operatons n ths r~er. Alhma hasbeen rather for thesa houseless wanderers tll they were got ant of the renowned as a warror, ~vng been personally v ~toro.us n some country. Captan Lowry, of the Royal Mal Steamshp Man- kndly conveyed them free cf charge to I~ernando Po, for heavy encounters wth other enemes ; and, on me 30m Octoberdngo, whch a wry proper letter of thanks was tent to hm, sgned by Ctlm Cca*t PeeI~e---E~. A. T. augers1! t l

4 :l { I l :{ TIRE. AFRICAN TIMES. IDle. 28, the followng mssonares and traders: W. Anderson, D. E. The year now endng has not been such an one as we Lews, D. Knlocb, IL 3[. 3[ Cormek, H. R. Adam, Y. C. Whte, could have desred..it has been one of contnued trouble :Robert 3[urray, J. A. Wlson, J. Neeb, jun., E. Hrd, R. tird, and uneasness England and n Europe generally, the Aaron Ells, D. J. B. Jan~ng, W. Hanng, A. $1nns, John dsastrous results of the complcatons and fnancal storms Kowson, M.D of 1866 havng by no means passed away, and new CAPE COAST FE~fALE NATIVE SOHOOD. elements of dscord and war croppng up ~ontlnually. Mrs. Joseph Moseley gratefully acknowledges the followng :- The hearts of men are ndeed" falng them for fear, and for Amount already publshed lookng after those thngs whch are comng upen the Samuel Morley, Esq T. G. Brscoe, Esq., M.P earth." And there has been nothng n Afrca to call for Mss Benwell s Collecton rejocng, but, on the contrary, much to call for gref ancl Mrs. Rchardson (Newcastle) dscouragement; dd we not feel always that God s coun~l Mss :Flora Med, must stand, and that the day of Afrcan redempton from NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. the cruel slavery of heathensm and error cannot be very O~tng to extreme pre~s of matter, sereral laters and pa2era are aganfar dstant. The acton of the Brtsh authortlea on the unarohlably podponed. West Coast generally has not been such ~ could tend to natve progress; and heathen volence has ~of late been conspcuous, even where there mght have been supposed PUBLISHED MONTHLY. PRICE 5d., STAMPED. to exst the strongest reasons for heathensm remanng You ar eartm.~tlv requested to allow your name to bo added to thequescent, though obstnate agansthat cvlzaton lstofyeartysub-~cr bers. Prce 5s. per annum for each copy, payable n adrauee. whch the future of all the Afrcan countres depends. When castng our regards over the whole earth, and fndng trouble, dsquetude, war aud bloodshed or the fear of these, msery, and volence almost everywhere, wth no MONDAY, DEGEM.BER 23, land, not even our own favoured one, of whch we can say there at least all s stable, all frm and assured, we feel how SUBSCRIPTIONS, ETC., RECEIVED FOR " AFRICAN well t s that there should be regular perods for especally TIMES." recallng to the thoughts of all men n countres where the P, ev. J. Robbn, 10s.; Mr. Ells Edwards, be.; Mr. H. B. Gospel of L/fe s known, that there s a glorous P~mcs OF ~lohnson, 7s. ld.; Thomas B. Wrght, 5s.: 3~r. ~. B. Cnrrol, Pz.,,cs who s also the U~IVm~SALOxv, and who for the 6s.; Mr. Isaac C.Coll, Is. 2s.; Mr. W. O. Bruce, fe. carryng out eventually of Hs great purposes overrules and MISCELLANEA. wll overrule all the actons of snful men, and make them Osnom ;g, December 20.~After the meetng of the Prvy co-operatve to HIS prase. Amd all the dsputes of Councl, Arthur Edward Kennedy, Esq., C.B., Governor of the natons, all the turmols and fears of war, the daly holocausts to Satan, the wld and darng a0tvty of evl, and West Afrtcan Settlements, was " ntroduced to Her Majesty " s p re- sence by Lord Claud Hamlton, and receved the honour of" knghthood. the comparatvely tmd, feeble, and lukewarm efforts for D~. SnzRwooD.--Ths gentleman s no longer connected n good, t s our happness, aud that of all true Chrstan% hs professonal poston wth the Coast of Afrca. The Colonaloffce has dspensed wth hs servces. To whatever porton of to feel that "t~e Lord God Omnpotent regnel " To the coast we look, the enemes of the black race are beng weeded work, then, fellow-labourers, whether Brtsh or Afrcan; out. the more Satan strs up strfe n and ~ among so-called Governor Blackall arrved at Serra Leone by the Athenan, Chrstanatons and peoples, the more he lashes thean8 lauded wthout the ordnary guard of honour. [heathen to fury aganst the advancng t~th, the more It s stated that 6,000 pouuds of cotton were pcked n a sngle day lately, by eghteen negroes, on a plantaton n Georga. trouble and darkness gather around us--so much the more I~rPonrs a., v Execute Facet a~ zo Balnsu a~n NaTlv~ do we need to show earnestness and vgour for God and Wr.s~ Avam:t ~aox J~v 1 To Oeronza 1, Im-goodports: From natve port% 1,033,0001.; Brtsh p~ssessons, nstead of that ndfferentsm and apathy whc have 279,0001.; gold, 13b,000l. Exports: To Brtsh and natve but too much prevaled among us. Let the comng 1868 ports, Brtsh manufacture% 1,100,000L be a year of energy wth us ; let selfshness be checked ; let ndolence be cast asde; let us show that we are n :EUROPEAN POLITICS. earnest for what we profess to d e,~re, and by the blessn" g Smo~ our last these have entered on a new phase. The Emperorof God upon our humble, and wllng, and lovng servce, of the French b ~s, by hs Mnsters the Legslatve Chambers, stated most dstnctly that Italy wu not be allowed to takewe may have, when agan celebratng the advent of the possesson of Rome, and that the temporal power of the PopeIncarnate Lord, to rejoce over vctores ganed and shall be contnued tho~ provnces whch stll reman underconquests acheved for Hm, and that ncrease of human hs rule. The Italan Chambers reassert that Rome must and happness obtaned whch ever attends Hs trumphs. shall be the captal of Italy, but Italy wll bde her tme. The Russan and Prussan press are strong n denouncng the poston Agan we wsh a happy Chrstmas and New Year to all. taken up by the Emperor of the French n the affars of the Contnent, and hs allance wth Austra; and all the prncpal :European States are perfectng ther armaments. GOVERNOR SIP. ARTHUR E. KENNEDY, C.B. W~ hope the Colonal.offce have conferred a good LAGOS AND ABEOKUTA. Chrstmas and New Year s gf~ on West Afrca by the Ax extreme press of matter compels us to defer our artcle on appontment of Sr Arthur E. Kennedy, C.B., to be the late heathen uprsng n Abeokut% and the relatons of thatgovernor.n.chef there. Never was a removal more place wth Her Majesty s colony of Lagos. necessary than that of Major Blackett. He had become an mpossblty. But the removal of a bad Governordn- CtIRISTA[AS AND NEW YEAR. Chef dd not necessarly mply the appontment of a good FOR the serenff~ tme we have the pleasure of offerng the one; aud wo must confess to havng fel~ great fears and af" complments of the season to our subscrbers, and assurngpreheuslous that some unhappy nfluence mght preval, them of our ~arne~t good wshes for ther prosperty and and West Afrca be doomed to struggle on for another happness. On such occasons t s oar duty to stmulateterm under some favoured ncapable, or some new enemy them to exerton on behalf of that Affx, of Chrstanof her people. We were therefore greatly releved when cvlzaton n whch many of them are "the frst-fruts. we heard of Mr. Kennedy havng accep6ed the past, r Dxo ] THE AFRICAN TIM.E8~ 71 because hs antecedents are such as gve us reasonablepeach-tree planted among the ce and snow at the North ground of hope that under hs rule much that s evl and Pole. It must, necessarly, have to contend n the colones unjust, and that mpedes good, wll dsappear. Our and settlements on the West Coast aganst beth the domoralzng nfluences of tradton, and those n vgorous, readers know very well that we are not systematc worshppers of the rsng sun ; we are not about to praseopen actvty. It ought, then, to be no matter for wonder Sr A. Kennedy by antcpaton; t may be that we shallthat the admnstraton of justce on the West Coast now dffer n opnon wth hm, or that the polcy he may be occupes much of our space and attenton. The vtal n- of all classes there, excepthe offcal one, are charged to carry out may not be such as we thnk wouldterests be best for Afrca ; all that we can now say s that we mxed up wth ths queston. Snce the abolton of tral thnk we are justfed n hopng for good to Afrca throughby jury n cvl causes, the fortunes, and lberty, and t may hm. A conclatory bat frm and decded polley s now be lves of sutors are at the mercy of judges who are sur. mperatvely called for both on the Gold Coast and at rounded by nfluences, and placed there under crcum. Lutes; the development of great resources, and the contnued advance of Chrstan cvlzaton, depend on ths : free, honest, uprght, unbassed judgment. Men are sent stances, whch contnually war agansthe exercse of a th0 Gamba requres a thorough revval ; a reform n the out there from Great Brtan wth salares of some 600L expendture of the revenues of Serra Leone, the santarya-year, one-half or two.tmrds of whch they feel t rght mprovement of ~ h~etown, the admsson of the educatedto spend n lfe nsurance for the beneft of ther famles natves to a real share n the admnstraton of thelr affars, or credtors n the eventofther premature decease. They and the promoton of educaton and of useful publc Works, maybe sad, therefore, to be sent out wth real ~lares of 200L are requred, both as a matter0f justce and of good polcy. or 300/. a-year to places where lvng s dear for perseus of ~V o have heard that there, s an energy of character n European habts--to places where offcals are all expected (~overnor Kennedy to carry out such changes, should he to hold together, whetherght, or wrong--to places where thnk them rght, and fnd them practcable, notwth-thstandng any amount of offcal opposton he may en- very convenent for offcals small ncomes, and where to most promnent resdents exercse a large hosptalty counter from the old lovers and upholders of abuses on the serve one s frends and to "come down upon one s Coast. We do not thnk he would have allotted an add. enemes" s consdered to be s matter of course. Is t any tonal 300L a-year to the Rev. ~fr. Hartshorn, the Colo-wondernal, Army, Navy, and Gaol Chaplan (we forgo the Gaolshould keenly scrutnze every crcumstance that t may be then, that n such places a losng party n a sut n our last number), that he mght supervse the expendlture of 290L a-year on educaton. Unless we are cson? And where ths s contnually gong on, can there be supposed could possbly have had au nfluence u the de- mttch mstaken, he would not consder ths to be just any real respect felt for the so.called admnstraton of jus- F We have been compelled to brng agan before our toward the colony; or, f a new: offce wth 300L a-yeartce ~!ary were ndspenmble, he would not thnk t rght to reader~ the case of Good v. l~nlason, whchas been partally ]ple ths up on a prevous 01. or 800L a-year, whle thereexposedn our twolast numbers. Wesad n ourlastthat are unsalared gentlemen n the colony qute as well able, the evdence was u our hands, but n consequence of the f not bette,; to perform ts dutes than Mr. Hartshma~, dffcultes placed n the way of obtanng an offcal copy and wth more lesure than he can have f he fathfullyfrom the Court, the judgment as recorded dd not reach us performs those of hs several chaplanshps. We hope tll the present month. Our space would not allow of our 1868, the~refore, wll see some more flth swept out of the publshng all the evdence ; but ths s qute uumpertant, old Augean stable--and "No jobs," an~l "Equal justcebecause the charge of publcaton of the alleged lbel beng to Natves and Europeans," nscrbed on the off. ea b.an.n~r admtted, and justfcaton pleaded, the whole case turned of West Afrca. upon me -- pont : ox -~-~,o+ho,.,... +~,.~lantff ~ fre, wf~ w.a~ alve when he remarred. The o~iy attempted pr6*. # o~ JUSTICE "WITHOUT JURIES. he," death was a letter purportng to come from one Caro- Morrs, of Boston, Unted States of Amerca, but TH~ admnstraton of justce wthout jures, n all placeslne except where t s ntended as an nstrument of tyranny, bearng only the post-mark of Serra Leone, n whch t ]presupposes a degree of perfectblty n human bengs, was stated that the wfe ded n her house. Now ths when ntrusted wth power, to whch they~ rarely attan. letter, though receved n evdence, was not mpounded by ~Where t s ntended as an nstrument of tyranny, there, the Court, so that we cannot examne t. But ths s of no vf course, the thng s smplenough ; but where there s consequence. " Sr Wllam Hackett, the then judge, examned t, and (we are guaranteed tha; every word sent to no such ntenton, we are at a loss to conceve how any reksonable person can for a moment suppose that one man, us on ths subject s exactly correct) sad t brought no called a judge, or assessor, what you please, wll be convcton to hs mnd ; t was worth nothng at all (see more eystematcauy honest, uprght, and unprejudced, page ). It Ks qute clear from ths that f Sr Wllam than twelve men ~ jurors--the judge beng a permanenthackett had then charged the. jury, he would have lald o~, the jurors a Varyng many. On the very face of t, down that there was no case, and that they must fnd for such a supposton:s absurd ; even n countres wth openthe defendant. The defendant seems not to have asked courts, watchful reporters, publshed evdence, and a boldfor that decson, because he expected a wtness to arrve and honest daly press, the experment must be an unsafeon the Coast who could prove the plantff s frst wfe to be one; but a those where such checks and safeguardsstll olve. But the onus of ths proof dd not rest on hm, ether do not exst at all, or exst n a very mperfectbecause that of the proof of death rested on the plantff. ~tate, t can only be looked upon as unmtgatedly bad. The cause stood adjourned sne de. Sr Wllam Hackett And of all countres n whch to ntroduce t--not, be t s shortly after removed and promoted. Soon, Governor observed, as a frst effortoward the regular admnstraton Blaekall s censpra~y aganst the rghts and lbertes of the of justce, but as an mttuton founded on the runs of a peoplo s crowned wth success, and jures n cvl causes wantonly.destroyed jury system--those of Western Afrcaare abolshed. The offce of Judge of the Supreme Court, are about the last n whch any good could be hoped fromheld by Hackett~ s also abolshed. A new order of thngs s t. Why, the nfluences are so adverse there, that one establshed. Instead of a Judge wth a 1,O00/. a-year, mght as well expecto get delcous frut" from a tenderthere s to be a "Judcsl Assessor and Chef Magstrate,"

5 72 TlE AFRIOAN TI M:ES, [Dze: 2~, 9867: tle member of the Legslatve Councl, and was also.,be, wth 600/. a-year. 3[r. ~V. A. Parker, of the Scotch Bar, fore ~Ir. Chalmers arrved, Actng Chef Justce. ]tlr. s appoh~ted, and goes out to Cape Coast. He becomes the tenant of the plantff Good; he s n habts of frequent frendly ntercourse wth hm, beng at the same Brown s furous aganst ths natve attorneyfor freeng hs debtor, and takes up the case of the person aganst tme at var/anco wth the defendant. The cause was frst whom the natve attorney had obtaned judgment as above heard before Judge Hackett n August, Mr. mentoned. Contrary to express regulatons S, Serra Parker arrved on the Coast n January, There s Leone, and to former usage n the Gamba, ]Kr. Chalme.rs no revval of the cause ; no summons by the Court to the allows ths European merchant, member of the Leghlatre Councl, and ex-supreme Judge, &o., to appear n hs partes to proceed n t. July, 1867, arrves. /fr. Parker s health s so serously affected, that t s evdent he must leavecourt for that person--to add to hs other ttles that of a the Coast for a whl~ to re-establsh t. He s to go by the pettfoggng attorney. In ths caljaoty he moves to. ~t mal steamer about the 8th or 10th of August. On the asde ~ the judgment ; the natve attorney appears to defend let August, n the mornng, he sends round a summons t.. ~elf.an-hour before the case s to be heard, ~r. Chal, mere and Mr. Brown have a meetng at another Europ~. a to attend hs Court at twelve that day for hearng judgments a pendng causes. We omt all the detals, and merch~nt s house--the employer of the ldvdual agan.s(; merely slate that he dd, then and there, takng, t Js whom judgment had been sgned. Mr. Chalmers comes alleged, the defendant altogether by surprse, delver the nto Court and pronounces for :Mr. Brown. We do not judgment complaned of, by whch he gave the plantff say, we do not car% whether Sr. C%almers was tghtor the full amonnt of damages lald u the sut 200/, and 10/. wrong n thts settng asde the judgment before obtaned costs, upon whch judgment the defendant was soon after n hs Court ; but we do say that he ought never to have, thrown nto prson, where he vow remans, unable to allowed a person n ZIr. Brown s poston to appear am:ipractse as an attorney, that he ought to have avold:e! a appeal to the Supreme Court at Serra Leone because qute desttute "of means, as Judge Parker well prevous ntervewth ~Ir. Brown, and tha~ justlc~, evensupposng t to be pure and perfeet jt~qc% does not: knew, to gve the necessary seearty, he havng shortly before receved hs certfcate of nsolvency from BIx. occupy a poston to nsure respect when thus admnste.re.d., Parker s Court. Here are the man facts: In our last, There must be a change of aystelh ; but, meanwhle, how page 54, we gave the defendaut s petton to the Governor-n-Chef; and now, page 73, we gve Sx Wllam Hackett slason s rghtfully n prson? and how s he to be re- t to be decded whether the defendant n Good v. Fn,. observatons, &c., and Mr. Parker s judgment, as extractedleved, f, as we beleve, the judgment aganst hm was from the books of the Cour~ by the proper offcer. We are wrongfully gven? not satsfed wth that judgment any more then the ncarceratedefendant s ; we are not satsfed ether wth t or WE hear wth de~-p regret that the Gold Coast has lost the. CAPTAIN NESS, 4r~ WEST INDIA~ REGIMENT. " wth the ercttmstauces under whch t was delvered. It servces af Leutenant Nose, ofthe let West Inda Regment, gves us the mpresson of a judgment by surprse ; and a who has returned to England n the b-naonthly steamer whch ]arrved on the 18th nst., havng eueeeeded by purchase to a judgment by surprse s au nquty. We mantan that captancy the 4th West Inda :Regment. We gave an account no jury would have gven a verdlct of gulty, much less n our last of Captan Ness s judcous and effectve a;r.mh~7 200/. damages. Why had not the plantff n all that long monte n an expedton to Nngo and Pram Pram, snce wnen e delay of whch Judge Parker complans u hs judgment--has settled a very serous dspute at Akmpeng between the Kng why had not the plantff n all that long tme obtaned a and one of hs prncpal chefs, by whch emnent servces he h~ re.establshed the authorty of the Brtsh Govemmentn those_ certfcate of hs frst wfe s death from Boston, f she ded parts of the country.? n the house and at the tme stated n the unmpounded letter he brought at frst as evdence before Sr ~V. Hackerr., and whch Judge ttaekett condemned? He could IN ABEOKUTA. RIOTS AND DESTRUOTION OF MISSIONARY PI~0PERTX" have got t very well n sk~ months, much more n twelve zo ~az zmroa o~ zn~z ~e~ zmr~. I, agos, October 21, months, and was not, accordng to our vew, enttled to Sr,--I am deeply greved to communcate, as you Wll be damages untl le had obtaned t. We mantan, further, sorry to hear, that on Sunday, the 13th nst., there were serloua that Judge Parker had no rght to treat as evdence rots n Aheckuta, when the resdences of the European mssonares were nttscked and plundered by th.e mob. I cannbt that letter upon whch he grounds hs decson. It has now enter nto full detals, whch wll be sent to you by new never been mpounded, s stll n possesson of the mal, as well as general nformaton of the exctng causes whch plantff, f t any longer exsts, and was not legally beforeled to ths sad catastrophe. I shall only brefly say hem that the Court when the judgment was pronounced. But these rotous acts are attrbutedto a suspcon n the mnds of ths gnorant people of hostle proceedngs on the part of the Admnstrator of Logo% whch they say the mssomrles n Abee- whether we are rght or wrong n ths, we are.ertauly justfed n askng, Is the admustmton of justce n the kuta hare eanctoned, although they must be detrmental to the West Coast Settlements placed on a satsfactory footng by progress of ther great work mad the nterests of the country at the now exstng regulatons? "We mantan that t s not ; large, as otherwse they would have represented the njust~ of such proceedngs to ther Queen, who s so much dsposed to and that to affrm the contrary s au nsult to common peace; and ~dd, that ~hle they have enemes wthout ther sense. We have another case before us that confrms our wall.,, they wll not keep one wthn. vew, although the jury queston s net mxed up wth t. You w ll, however, be glad to hear that the Basorun and Mr. Chalmers, also of the Scotch Bar, Judcal Assessor prncpal chefs are dong ther utmosto fnd end restore the property that has been robbed from the mssloeare*, and that and Chef Magstrate at the Gamble, allowed, some short there s every prospecthe roters wll be ~everdy punshed-- tme a~, judgment to be sgned on a bll of exchange at the most gulty may even be put to death. the nstance of a natve actng there as an attorney and It s very unfortunate the merchants and traders Ofe L~ pleader, who also obtaned a decson of the same judge that these thngs should have happened, when they by whch nn alleg~l debtor, detaned n prson on the sut lookng forward to the comng seuon for a quet and pn, us trade.--yoars truly, of Thomas Brown and Co., was set free. Mr. Brown was then absent u Englaud. He returns to the colony. The Esper, ~rew guu.vcssel, Captan M. S. L. Pele, arrved He s a merchant who, although not holdng by any n the Medway on the 17th, from the West Co~t of Afrca, to/~ means the frst poston n the colony, was recommendedpu~ out of ~mmf~ton. She was commssoned for the We~t Coast by Colonel D A.,~y to be, and thereforq s, the only mercan- November, 1864, Dye. 23, 1867.] REPRESENTATIY~ FOR AFBICA.! death must prove t. In pont of fact that letter s not worth 2:0 TH B KDrr0R 0~ ~ &FRIet~" 2~1:1 ~. anythng. Defendant has stated that a Captan Webber had told Londo~, November, hm she was alve. It s just possble that defendant wll be Sr,~To nduce a more substaut~l nteres~ the governme.t able to prove t. I mght refer to the letter havng only the Serra Leone pest-mark, whlst t hals from Boston, Unted of Western Afrca by the Colonal-offce; to brng more effectually and unhestatngly ther wants and requrements, as well partes, tha ths ease had better be postponed for the arrval af State of Amerca. I thnk, therefore, the nterests of both as ther grevauces, before the notce of the proper authortes ; Captan WaLLer. to effect a thorough and proper government of the poor nhabcauls of that uefoztunate Coast, and to establsh a feelng of Defendant then stated that he expected Captan Webber would be there n twombnths. It was then postponed for two months. nterest for them and relatng to ther affars n the mnd of Subsequently, defendant appled to-have the case postponed some of the hgher classes of our populaton, requtes a respon-untsble person to be nomnated and pad for by the nhabtants of the arrcal of Captan Webber, whch was allowed by Judge IIaekett on Monday, the 20th August, the Coast as ther offcal agent n ths country. I am sure t Thus ended the case Good e. Fnlason untl the let August, would be a great help to good Governors, us well as to the go. 1867, when (r/do Afrcan ~ rne~, September 1867, p. 30,) hs yarned, by strengthenng the hands of the former for carrynghonour W. A. Parker, the present chef magstrate, gave judgment, wthout any re-hearng or further evdence u Court, out measures whch the mmedate and permanent nterests of the latterequre. Canada, New Zealand, and Au~trala, whlst slrugglag for agansthe defendant, for the full- amount of damages clamed-- vz., 200L, wth 10L costs, as follows :-- exstence, had the representatve n ths country, who by conscant work ejected a great change n ther admnstraton, and {~z/.ract frora ~o~ "~ o/the Cot~rt ~y TAo~.Hutton, Clerk of th~ dd more than any other effort could have done, by frst creatng Court./ an nterest the colones and ultmately leadng to the development of theresources. It s by the establshment of an offcalcourt of Cvl and Crmnal Justce, Cape Coast, July 27, :UDO]~ENT IN" THE CAUS!~ eood V. I~ NLASON. agency or commssoner n ths country that the much-abused In the acton nsttuted before the sad Court n the name and Western Afrca can have that voce whch would gve effec te at the nstance of John Waller Good, trader, of Cape Coast, plantff, aganst Wllam Charles Fnlason, als of Cape Coast, defen- anythng wrtten or dscussed, wth the object of securng the futurewelfare of ts populatons. dant, concludng for damages for defamaton, 200/. At a meetng held at --, West Coast, not very.long ego, I Hs Honour the Chef Magstrate and Assessor, havng casefully r~ad over and consdered the evdence whch was led before was told that the nomnaton of such an egeucy was very serously dscussed, and t was calculated that the sum of 150l. would be hs Honour the late Chef.Justce Hackett upon the 15th and subscrbed annually, as thequota of that place, towards defrayng17th days of August, 1866, and whch last day the case was the expence. If Serra Leone and other parts of the Coast wouldcalled and reserved for judgment, fnds that, upon the 20th day undertake to guarantee a euffccnt sum--say n all from 500/. to of Augus thereafter, on the moton of the defeudant and by 600L a-year--such an agency could at once be attempted, and specal leave of the Court, the ease was adjourned for the evdence the emoar/t of good that would arse from t can only be judgedof one Captan ~osah Webher, whch the defendant undertook by what was effeated n other colones. produce wthn two months after date, falng whch judgment I have only to suggesthe above for the consderaton of thosewould be pronounced, fnds that, nstead of two months, a on that unfortunate Coast, n whch I have always taken the perod of eleven months had been allowed to elapse wthout any lvelest nterest.--yours, &c., A Co~-sras~ B~Dsa. apparent attempto produce the evdence whch the defendant pretended to have u hs power, therefore crcumduees the terms ADMINISTRATION OF YUSTICE AT CAPE COAST. for producng ths and all other evdence n the cause, and holds the same as clo~ed accordngly: and on the merts fnds that the Goonv. F~s~sox. evdence led n ths cause dtsdosea m ate partculars one of the Ths cause was entered n the Supreme Court, Sr W. Haekett, most malcous eases of defamaton that could be possbly conceved. Ynds that the letter whch the plantff receved from Chef/ustce, on the 15th August, The cause s thus set forth "For havng falsely, wflfully, and malcously uttered the~ Amerca was, n so far as there was any means of ascertanng t, words n publc of, and concernng plantff--vz., that plattff n good and vald pece of evdence of tle death of the frst Mrs..has commtted bgamy, and that you are gong to prosecute and Good, that t was duly and carefully weghed and consdered by put hm n the chan gang for bgamy, whereby plantff s rope-mr.f: C. Grant, the senor magstrate of Cape Coast, aud also by.taton aud character have been grevously defamed.damages, the llev. Wllam West, Wesleyan general superntendent, and ~001. sterlng." Pka.--General ssue and justfcaton--specal. that the second marrage of the plantff proceeded from the acknowledged valdty of ts contents by all part.ce. Fnds that The utterance of the words was establshed by the plantff and t s suffcently nstructed that, when the defendant was a the not dsputed by the defendant. The plantff was known to be employment and confdence of the plantff, and had actually a marred man, but n Februoxy, 1865, he receved a letter, purporthg to come from Boston, Unted States, and to be sgued by taken professonal fees from hm to promote a sut of dvorce one Carolne Morrs, statng.that plantff s wfe was dead; agansthe frst Mrs. Good, who was then supposed to be alve,, he, the defendant, had for reasons of prvate malce turned roues whereupon was marred agan at Cape Coast to another person. The defendant knew of ths letter; and, f ts contents upon hs employer, end done what he could to rase aud crculate a charge of bgamy, &c., agans the plantff, hs former were true, the plantff could not have commtted the mputedemployer, thereby occasanag great dstress and annoyance to the offence; whereas, f they were not true, and f the frst Mrs. plantff end hs famly. Good ~ero not dead, he had commtted t. The plantff, on Ca the whole matter decerns agansthe sad W. C. Ynlas0n, the heavngof the cause on 15th August, 1866, as above mentoned, produced ths letter, on whch alone he reled for together wth 10/., as taxed expenses of process aud as dues of defendant, for the payment of the sum of 200/., as concluded for, establshng the death of the frst Mrs. 0cod. The case beng extract and audtor s fee, and orders judgment to proceed and go closed on both sdes; the followng (by the document n our forth, therefore, accordngly. hands, sad to be coped from the record of the Court) then took (Sgned) place. W. A. PazKzn, Chef Magstrate and Assessor. J udge Hacketthen called ~$r. Good (the plantff) up, and (Extracted from books of Court by Thomas Hutton; Clerk of asked hm the followng queston :~.. Courts.) Judge : Mr. Good, I perceve hy ths letter of Carolne Morns, Arote.--Upou ths judgmenthe defendant, W. C. Falsson, from 81, Jones-street, Boston, that she desred you to wrte her was shortly after arrested, and lodged n prson at Cape Coast, n agan on the subject of your wfe s death, and about your whch he yet remans. The followng correspondence wll daughter that was wth her. Dd you wrte her agan? explan why the above has only lately reached us.--ed. A.T. J. W. Good : I dd, but never heard from her. Cape Coast, West Afrca,,Sept. 10, Judge: That s most strange! I am sorry to say, Mr. Good, GOOD ~. ) 72~ Lr~2. that I have no fath n your letter. It s not worth anythng. It ~ll be very easy for you to prove that your wfe really ded at 8r,--Wll you be good enough to nform mc whether you 31, Jones.streeh Boston, because you have receved a letter have coped the proceedngs the above cause, as ordered by already, and you know where to apply for better proof than has the Court and hs Excellency the Admnstrator, aa I am prepared to pay the usual fee for the extracts, and al~ for the judg- been l~roduced yet. The hw presumes a person to be alve untl he has been proved to be dead. If ths letter had been proved to ment n same cause. be genune, then the pont would be at once settled. Does that I shall also be oblged f you wll nfor me f you have htterbrng to my mnd that the plalntff e frst wfe s dead? I appled to hs Honour the Actng Chef Mogstrate to compel the must confess t does not. If t had been a genune one surelyplantff above cause to fle wth you, ns Cork and regstrar, the, he must have heard agan. I must say that suffdent evdence letter from Carolne Morrs that he produced n Court on the does not satsfy me that ~e s dead. The party who alleges the Lsth August, 1866, to prove hs flnt wfe s death. I

6 74 TE AFRICAB" TIMES. [_DEc. 23, 1S67. queston of the judcal establshments on -the We8 As these matters me of vtal mportnr.ce t0 me, I trus that t t Coast of wll not be necessary for me to apply e.gan to yon--i am, Sr, Afrca a under condderaton.--i am, Sr, your obedeot servant, your obedent servant, W~. C~As. Fx~zaso,~, Defendant. (Sgned) T. ~orr. To Thomas ttutton, Esq., Clerk and P. Ftzgerald, Esq. Regstrar, Cape Coast. London, February 9, Cape Coast, September 17, My Lord,--I have the honour to acknowledge recept of your My dear Sr,--I have, as you requested me to do, desred the. lordshp s communcaton of the 6th nst., through Mr. Ellott, Clerk of Court to gve me copes of the papers n tha case Good n whch you nfor me that you have receved no report of the r. Enlsaon, and he tells me that he s nstructed by Dr. Thomasordnance to whch I referred n my letter 6f the 2fSh January, not to gve up any papers or copes n connexoh wth that cause. as havng been passed by Colonel D Aroy wth express relaton Also the letter of Carolne Morrs has never been fled n Court, to the case of Mr. F_,llott. nor has the orgnal, whch s at ths moment n the hands of Mr. In reply, I have further the henour to nclose a proof slp of Oood.--I am, yours truly, (Sgned) A.B. Htrrro.x. two letters from Mr. Fnden receved by last mal, n whch such W. C. Fnlason, Esq., Cape Coast. detals are gven respectng the passng of the sad ordnance as A.nD ENDA. I thnk warranthe belef that such an ordnance was so passe~l as theren stated, and wth the objectheren set forth, although It s furlher slated to us by the defendant (but of ths we have no other proof), now n prson, that about sx months ago, the he Admnstrator tha Gamba, Colonel D Arey, has omtted to nform your lordshp of the change thus made n the" Mr. Goed, the plantff, wthout any notce to the defendant accordng to law, obtaned a Mr. Ftch, an Amercan, who was permtted by Mr. Parker to gve evdence n Court, unl~nown to the admustraten of justce at the Gamba.--I have the honour to reman, &c. F. FnZOE~T~D. defendaut, that he had heard n Amerca that Mrs. Good had To the 1Rght Hen. the Earl of Carnarvon, Secretary ofstate for the Colones. bolted wth another man; but about Mrs. Good s death Mr. Ftch was slent. It s further stated that, on he:;ng of ths London, August 5, strange and novel proceedng of Mr. Parker, the defendant remonstrated wth hm, whel he assuredefendant that Mr. Ftch shonour of recevng a communcaton from the 8eeretary of State Sr,--More than slx months have elapsed snce I bad the evdence dd not n the least affect hs case. It s also furtherfor War, nformng me that the ~Feld-Marshal Commandng- had been requested to call upon the medcal offcers stated that about a month after the above occurrence defendantn.chef was nformed that a cook on board one of the Amercan vesselsalluded to, to furnsh a full report and explanaton of ther on the Coast had stated that he had seen Mrs. Good No. 1 n eondnct the occason. Amerca lately ; upon whch the defendant mmedately obtaned The outrage cdmmtted by Ds. Oaken and alllot havng been from Mr. Parker s Court a wtnessummons, pad the usual fee up to ths tme unatened for, except by the very nadequate flue for servce, and sent n search of the cook, or the supercargo, hs of 20s. on Mr. Ellottby a frendly actng magstrate at Bathurst, master; that the plantff, hearng of ths, went to the defendant wthout hearng the ease, I have the honour agan to call and begged he would drop the matter ; and that Mr. Parker also attenton to the subject, and to beg that you wll acquant me requested of the defendant to drop the affar, whch he at last wth the decson of the l~ght Honourable the Feld-lnrshal consented to do, and that the matter was then forgotten by hm Commandng-n-Chef, of Her Majesty s Secretary of State untl, on the mornng of the 1st August last, Mr. Parker summoned the Conrt for that same day to hear judgments delvered, my agent, Mr. :Harry Fndeu, so dsgraceful on the part of for War, relatve to that wanton and unprovoked assault upon end pronounced the ebove judgment.~en..d.t. offcers n :Her Majesty s Servce, as I must stll consder t te have been.--i have the honour, &e.j F. Frrzo~. To the Rght Hen. Sr J. Pakngto~, HOW TO DECREASE MORTALITY IN WEST AFRICA. Secretary of State for War. What the Frenc have done durng the last years n Algera War-offce, August 15, s, ndeed, most remarkable, and the lesson to be learnt from t Sr,~In reply to your letter of the 5th nst., I am drected s, that the work of reducng a death.rate from eghty n the by Secretary Sr 3". Pakngton acqumnt you that the explanaton whch has been afforded by the medcal offcers of ther 1,000 to fourteen n the 1,000, though not a slght on% s not an mpo~blty. If we begn by lookng at the chef towns of conduct on the occason to whch you refer s held to be suffcent by the mltary anthort~, and he declnes any further Algera we see how the task was undertaken. Bona was so uuhealthy n 1834 that whole regments were swept away or n. nterference the matter.~i am, S valded. Its death-rate s now stated to be the same as that of r, your obedent servaut~ (Sgned) " C. Tmavor. the more healthy towns of France. It s stuated on a hll rsng F. Ftzgerald. drectly from the sea, and a plan extends from t towards the August 16, south at a very slght rse above the sea level, and wth lttle of Sr,--I have the honour to acknowledge recept of the letter a natural outlet for dranage. Ths plan receved the ranfall on you have drected to be sent to me, dated 15th nst., n reply to ts surface, together wth all the water flowng dawn from the mne of the 5th nst., and to express my deep regret at ts contents. surroundng mountans, wth whch ts deep, rch, vegetable sol was completely saturated. It was resolved to dran ths plan, I am thereby nformed that "the explanaton whch has been and the result was an mmedate reducton n the sck and death-afforderate. Boufarc, agan, was stu red on a marsh, the sol of whch by the medcal offcers ther conduct the occason to whch you refer a held to be suffcent by the mltary autho- and that you therefore declne any further nterference was black, cozy, rotten, and saturated wth water. A generalrtes," stem of dranage has turned ths march nto a dry, rch, and ~y n the matter. ealthy sol, and malara a unknown n the town. The dranage I am sure you wll permt me to observe that there s some of the lake Halloula has redeemed 34,000 acres of land, whch one n addton to the mltary authortes who s enttled to an s pecularly favourable to the growth of the very fnest cotton. opnon as to the suffcency of the explanaton gven by these The effect on the health of the neghbourhood has been such that medcal offcers. The Afrcan who was sz~aulted a a very respectable trader n Bathurst; he was sought out at hs "own house the ntermttent fevers, whch were formerly of the worst type, have vanshed, and the swarms of mosqutoes whch once made f)r nsult, and as.multed by those medcal offcers, whohad no lfe almost ntolerable have gone wth the foyers. Thus, the prevous knowledge of hm~ and no personal grevance aganst result of deep dranage and fertlty has been permanently favourable to health, and the land whc has been made to support lfe hm, smply and solely because he was my agent n Bathurst for recevng subscrptons due for the Afrcan Tme~ newspaper,, of has shown tself grateful to ts cultvators. whch I am propretor and edtor ; and I am at a loss to concexve what explanaton of ther conduct they can have gven that OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE R~" ASSAULT ON MR. could be held suffcent by the mltary authortes. HARRY F1NDEN. Aa I am deeply nterested ths matter, I beg most respectfully to suggesthat I, as well as Mr. Fnden who was assaulted, (Conduded,) Downng-street, February 6, am enttled, f not to redrek% at least to the satsfacton of Sr,--I am drected by the :Earl of Carnarvon to acknowledge knowng that the mltary authortes do not countenance and the recept of your letter of the 25th ultmo, end to nform you justfy such conduct the part of the offcers n Her Majesty s that hs lordshp has receved no report of the ordnance whch Army; because, f t s consdered to be establshed that offcers you refer to a~ havng been pes.<d by Colonel D Arcy wth express relaton to the case of Dr. Ellott. after so dong, assault and wound the Afrcan agents of the on leave may, f they can succeed n reachng a mal steamer Hs lordshp regrets that owng to the retrement of both the Afrcan Tm~ wth mpunty, and wthouthe assaulted_ I~r~, 0bef Justce a~d the Queen s Advocate, the judcal staff of tha havng any hope of redress ether n the colones or n v:nglanu, settlement has been temporarly weakened. But I am desred the lves of tho~o agents may be constantly exposed to danger:. to nform rou that Mr. Cha]mers went out by the mal packet of 1 beg leave further most respectfully to observe tha the reples the 24tb, to act as mo#strate the Gamba, and that the wholei receved from the late 8coretary at War, General Peel~ and also :o o. 186YL] THE AFRICAN TIME8. 75 ( Lat~ nte?lly~nc~. )... Sx~z, Dze. 7. "Creaton s Chrst developed. Every object speaks of Chrst, The advanced brgade has arrved and eueamped. The weather and reflects hs beauty, hs excellence and love. A chord of s fne. The troops are well. The march nto Abyssna wll be love ruus through all the sounds of creaton, but the car of love easy. The people are frendly. Acecrdng to accounts from the blan can dstngush t."~dr. Camra, ~,~ ".dpocalg~tc ~ "~tr~." nteror, Kng ~hecdore has destroyed :Debra Tabor by fre. He By F. Fzrzo~x-~n, Esq., Author of "The Kngdom of Heaven," s encamped n the neghbourhood, and ntends marchng to Megrals. The nsurgents wll resst hs advance. The natves kll Subscrbers names, wth the amount of Subscrptons, wll be &c., aud Edtor of the Afrcan Tme,. hs stregghre. receved by the Agents of the Afrcan Ttan on the West Coast, and by Wllam Edwards, Esq., Manager of the Afrcan ~ rat,, Z ARRIAGE. 4, Coleman.street-buldngs, Moorgate-street,.London. ~tobbm-- ~IgOZR.~On the 31st October, at ~. George s Cathedral, Serra Leone, by the Rev. R. W. Hartshorn, M.A., Colonal Chaplan, asssted by the Roy ,ohnson, Henry Robbn, Esq., of Abeokuts, to Eunce Henrett% thrd daughter of X[r. George Metzger, of Freetown, Serra Leone.--No cards. from the then Secretary of State for the 0dddles, who thanked IMPORTANT NEW WORK ON WEST AFRICA. me for havng brougla the allege donduct of those medcal 3 ust publshed by Mesw~. Churchll und Co., London, offcers under hs notce, were such as nduced me to beleve thatphyscal: and ~e~cal Clmate and Meteorology of ~Udnct unbecomng offcers and gentlemen would be at least the West Coast of Afrca, eo dscou ntenpnced by the mltary authortes as to gve securty WITH HINTS TO EUROPEANS FOR THE PRE.SERYATION OF n future to.my agents on the West Coast, and that I therefore HEALTH IN THE TROPICS. abstaned from brngng the matter under the notce of Parlament, whch I should 9therwse have done durng the present Surgeon of H. M. s Forces n West Afrca. Prce 10s. By 3 A~HES AFRICANUS B. HORTON, M.D., StaffAsshtant- Ee~on. " There ~ ~nough vahble orgnal matter to render ths. the only work I beg leave therefore most respectfully to solct that I may be on the clmtte. &c., of Western Afrca, of great value to all nterested put n posse~rn bf ebpes of thos explafalons gven by the sad the preservaton of European llfe n that maiartou$" regon."~medlcal "~rr es.,, medcal offcers, Drs. 0akes end Elott, whch you nfor me "Dr. Horton s book partally tapptles a long felt and ackt~owledged want. were held to be suffcent by the mltary authortes, and whch, --Afrcan Tmes. beng suffcent, may be supposed to have exempted them even" Orders, wth remttances, wll be receved by the Edtor of from censurv or reprmand.--i have the honour to reman, Sr, the Afrcan ~ mea, 4, Coleman-street-buldng% Mcorgate-street, your obedent servanh F. FrrzoxR~. Lofdon, E.C. To the Rght Hen. Sr 3-. Pakngton, Secretary Post Offce orders to Fo~nand Ftzgerald, F~q. at War, PaRR.mall. Wll be publshed, by Subscrpton, so soon as 150 copes are subscrbed for, n Two Vols., 8no, glt, 218., ABYSSINIA. ft~otton, WOOL, and other Materal, PRESSED and DEAT:H. PACKED by WALKER S PATENT ROTATING Cxz~mlX~.--At C~pe Coast, on the llth of October,!867, PRESS, n HALF the USUAL TIME. ~ugar Mlls for Susan Ann, wfe of Mr. 3,ames Catlne, of Cape Coast. Mrs. Splttng the Cane, Palm Nut Assorters, Nut Crackers, and Catlne was a natve of Cape Patnas, Lbera, and was marred every knd of Machne for Afrca or Inda. to Mr. Catlne n She was a sncere Chrstan, and ded 17, COWPER STREET, CITY ROAD, LONDON. strong n fath of a resurrecton unto eternalfe, and deeply lamented by her famly and frends. EST COAST of AFRICA, MADEIRA, TENERIFFE. W --The Afrcan Steamshp Company s fast and commodous Plover, 3, double seraw, Commander 5. Poland, left PlymouthSTEAMERS (carryng Her 2d:ajesty% Mals), leave LIVERPOOL on Wednesday, November 27, for the West Coast of Afrca. on the 10th and 24th of EVERY MONT~ (except tha~ when Megmrs, 6, Captan 3,ames Smpseu, arrved at Spthead on the latter date falls on a Monday the Day of Salng wll be the Thursday, November 28, from South Amerca, and the West 25th). Coast of Afrca, wth supernumerares and stores. Tha packets of the 24th proceed to MADEIRA, R~rm~o~s ms Co~o~Iz.S: C~srR~ RXI~ S~rszzxt.~Mr. Fell, TENERIFFE, BATHURST, SIERRA LEONE, MONROVIA, of the Maul Cents Ralway,. wrtng to the Colonal Eogneer of Natal, says: " CAPE PAL~AS, CAPE COAST CASTLE, ACORA, JELLAK Wth engnes of about sxteen tons weght, COFFEE, LAGOS, BENIN, BONNY,.FERNAND0 PO, OLD rals of 601bs_to the yard mght also be used; and f you adopt CALABAR, dud CAMEROONS. gradents of one n eghteen, and eurvds of fve chans radus, you The packets of the 10th are open to call, by specal arraugnment, at any port on the West Coast of Afrca, but as a rule would succeed n constructng cheap and payng lnes, even over a deleu!t country." they wll only call at ~fadera, Serra leone, Cape Patnas, Acorn, Lagos, Bonny, ]~ernando Pc, and Cameroons. Tenedffo W. MALLALIEU & CO., wll bo called at on the home route only. H ~IERCI~ANTS, COMMISSION AOENT8, &c., The fne new Steamshp MANDINGO, R. E. LOWRY, Commander, wll leave LIVERPOOL on TUESDAY, the 24th DE- AYING consderable experence u the Afrcan Trade, confdenty offer ther servces to natve traders and others, CEMBER, at a.~. Passengers embark by steam tender, leavng the Prn ce a as Agents for the consgnments of produce and the executon of orders. Landng 8tape at 9.0 A.xt. punctually. Goods nud heavy baggage must be alongsde the shp at the All commssons ehtrnsted to ther care wll meet wth prompt loadng b,rth, Coburg Dock, not later than 6 ~.x. on the 21st, a attenton, and orders wll be executed at the lowest prces. Shppng Note requred wth each cartload, aud contents of Terms may be learnt on applcaton to packages descrbed theren. W. MALLALIEU & CO., Norm--Goods for 8terra Leone wll be landed there at Comvauv a expense, but shpper s rsk {" at all other ports they must be 07, HATTON GARDEN, LONDON, E.~. T PROVISIONS. t ske n from alongsde arrval, or they wll be carred on and HE undernoted Ooods, now on hand for mmedate shpment, transferred to floatng deprts, or landed and stored entrely at beng only of the well-known brand of FORBES, Aberdeen and London: Sardnes, Preserved Salmon, dtto Lobsters, shpper s rsk and expense. Goods for Camero~ns must (for the prcseut) be taken from dtto Oysters, dtto Herrngs, dtto Mackerel, dtto Haddocks, alongsde at Greenpatqh, consgnee s rsk and expense, but the dtto Turbot, Dred Codfsh, dtto Lngfsh, Hgh-dred Herrngs, Company wll shortly provde a small salng vessel to convey Salted Salmon, dtto Herrngs, dtto Mackerel, Preser~e<IFsh cargo between the steamers at Grecnpatch and the anchorage ~oupa, Herrngs Kla Sardnes, Preserved Soups, dtto Meats, dtto at Cameroons, at shpper s rsk.. Poultry, dtto Game, dtto Vegetables, dtto Mlk, Potted Meats, Nor:c~.~Parecls addressed to dfferent consgnees, and ma~o Anchovy Paste, ~ams, n Tns or Jars, Fruts, Bottled and Dred, up n one Ikackege, wll be charged freght on caeh parcel as f Pckles (Pure), Sauces, Mustard, Oatmeal, Barley, Corn Flour, shpped separately. All freght must be prepad. The above may be had n at~y packsge or sze ; also Hams, Bacon, Not~cz.~The ETHIOPE wll be despatched cn the 10th ~3heese, and Butter. Jauuarv, for MaderJ~ Serra Leone, C~pe Palmas, Accra, Lager, Prced Ls~ and all other nformaton may be obtaned of Mr. Bonny;Fernando Po, sad Comeroons. M. L. LEVIN, 1, Bors Marks, London, Sole Agent for West For fu~lher nformaton.~pply n Lverpool to the Agents, FLETCHER and PARR, 23, Castl~-stxcot; andes the Camp " ny:a a of Afrca, and all orders forwarded hm wll receve mmedlat attenton per return Mal. Ol~ces, 14, Ixadeah~ll-streeb Londoo. THE COURSE 01 DIVINE LOVE. JOHN BROWN, Junor, COMMISSION MERCHANT, HATTON GARDEN, ~OLBORN, LONDON~ E.0.

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