THl COMPANY 0F AFRICAN MI RCII N]:S, LIH[TED, O lq_ T,-- 400,O00, in 40,000 8hm s of i0 each, WITH POWER TO INCREASE.

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1 ]R~gstered for] [~emsm~alon Abroa d r "FOR GOD, AND GOOD TO AFRCA AND HER PEOPLE." 0 ao _ : ~, \?: "f any ~ Co[onls~ hands of supers tl~ Colona2 from njures, Mnster whacker n tm.~ may courdry."--eaar. be h~s dn.s~, lls OF Cxmxxavo.~, condltlon, SECRL~PARY or h~ co?our, OF STATE ~ ]~ a FOR rlgh~ to rcdr~,a~ THE ~OLONF_.~, Auovwr 2, 1866; "~-Y0,., V., :No. 74.] LONDON, FRDAY, AUGUST 23, 1867.,PUs~.SHZD so~,~,z " SubseMpton, 5s, per Ann:.= CONTENTS. PAO~ PAOE West Afrcan Hals Rver Gaboon Early Fruts of the Jury Abolton Ordnance parlamentary ntellgence Awful Barbarty~Murders by Floggng Educaton of Females n Afrca... "...21 Golcl Medal Struck n Honour of Mr. W. Rany, B.L Researches u Afrca Lbera Cape Coast Natve Female School... Caps Coast 19 Esglsh and Dutch Treaty D~ch ve Polcy a~ regaxds the F~tern Dstrcts Threatened French Occupaton of the Mellcoure Rver Acc~ Cold Coast Kng Aggery s Deposton ~lqx~ Church st Caps Coast Conventon between.her Majesty and the Kng of the Netherlands for Aft srs of the F_astern Dstrcts of the Gold Coast an nterchange of Terrtory on the Gold Coast Abeokuta New Work by Dr. Afrcantxs Herren, S.A.S Lagos... ~ 20 Parlamentary Papers--Kng Aggery THl COMPANY 0F AFRCAN M RC N]:S, LH[TED, O lq_ T,-- 400,O00, n 40,000 8hm s of 0 each, WTH POWER TO NCREASE. DRECTORS. WM. DENT, Es~.. Charman of the Thames and Mersey nsurance J" ASP[NALL TOBN, Es~. (Messrs. T~os. Toss and Sos) Company, London. Chsrmsu of the Lverpool and London nsurance Company ARCHBALD HAMLTON, Es~. ~essrs. Slscn.tts, l:tx~o.~-, ] Lverpool. and Co ), London. L. GRUNNG, EsQ. (Messrs. Fz~m Hvr~ and Co.), Lverpool A. CASTELLAN, Es~. (Z[essrs. FZED. ~roqrh and Co.), Lverpool.[ B, 1RUMNEY, Es~., Manchester. MANAQNO DRECTOR. J. ASPNALL TOBN, Es~., Walmer-bu[dugs, Water-street. Lverpool. BANKERS, THE ALLANCE BANK OF LONDON, LVERPOOL, AND MANCHESTER. U.atfftal of th ~ Oompany ha~ been fully ~ub~cr~ed. Up to the presentme comparatvely lttle has been done, to develop the resources of Western Afrloa. Tra~]e there s merely n ts nfancy; but the Drectors of ths Company beleve that t may soon be mademost valuable to Great Brtan. n 1827~ the value of Brtsh and Foregu Goods exported from the Unted Jxngoom to the We~% Coast of Afrca was ,759 n 1840,,) ), 410,798 n 1850,,,,, ), 890,216 n 1860,,,,,,, 1,148,434 The total actual value of mports from Afrca nto the Unted Kngdom for the sx years, 1886 to 1861 nclusve (beng the latest Offcal return), amounted to... 9,804,85~ n 1818, the mport of Palm Ol nto England from Afrca was.. 1,465 tons. n 1823,,,,,. 3,328,, n 1831,.,, 8,164,, n 1841,,,,, 19,853,, n 1860,,) ),. 40,216,, Ths ncrease one artcle, Palm-ol, though large, s trflng when compared wth the resources of Western Afrca, w~le many artcles equally or more mportant and abundant have been totally neglected, or have only very recently receved atton~on. The Drectors are convnced that, by a judcous encouragement of, and co.operaton wth, natve traders and persons resdent on the Coast, the mports of Palm-ol may be greatly ncreased, and also that other most valuable products, htherto dsregarded, may be made a source of wealth both to Afrcans and to ths Company. Cotton, Fbres, Palm-nut Kernels, Pea Nuts, 0 Seed, Coffee, Pepper, 0lager, Gran, nda :Rubber, Gums, Dyes, Beeswax, Ebony, Cop~er Ore, and other Mnerals, are all artcles that Afrca can supply n large quanttes. The Company s prepared to receve consgnments of produce for sale n England, and to p.urchase and shp goods n return, ant] generally to transact busness on comms.~on aganst credts or good ~eeurlty. The Company s largo fleet of vessels wll offer great facltes to shppers, and secure rapd returns. Goods can be delvered at the varousmall towns on the Coast wth the greateregularty, and at moderato rates of freght. The ample resources of the Company guarantee to Aflcan shppers the hghest possble prce for ther consgn. menls, and that purchases wll be made for them on the most favourable terms (the largo smount of goods purchased by ths Company from the leadng mauufactm ers of all artclesutable for the Afrcan Trade wll enable them to buy such goods on far more advant*geous terms than could otherwse looked for}, whle the busness wll bo conducted such equtable prncples as to foster and encourage the development of Afrcan resources. Busness wll be transacted both n London and Lverpool. :For further parfeula~ and ou busness generally, a~dress $ ~s A*~st~ To~r~, ]~q.,]ffanagng Drector of the Company of Afrcan lferchants, Lmted (at the O~ce~ of the Company, Walm--~r.buldng~, Water-street, Lverpool l! :a

2 t, ; t~ 18 THE AFRCAN TMES. [A.vGvsz 23, WEST AFRCAN MALS. GOLD MEDAL STRUCK N HONOUR OF MR. W. RANY, B.L. The Royal Afrcan Mal Steamshp Company s shp arrved at Lverpool on the 2nd August, from the W~st Coast of Afrca, The Emperor of the French has by a decree ordered a gold brngng mals and passengers usual. The regularty wth medal to be struck n honour of Mr. W. Rany, barrster-at-law, n recognton of servlcea rendered by that gentleman to :French whch the vessels of ths company now perform ther voyages entlles all concerned to very great prase. subjects abroad. The French Mnster of Commerce had nomnated Mr. Rany for the decoraton of the Legon of Honour, but We are glad to learn that the b-monthly steamer whch reached Lverpool on the 17th July was so full of cargo that she a dffculty arose n the matter, as Mr. Rany s a Brtsh subject, only remaned three hours at Acera. and the Foregn Secretary has stated that t s unlawful for the 2 he h-monthly steamer, the Macgregor Lard, arrved at Queen subjects to accept a foregn decoraton, unless t be con. Lverpool on the 13th August. tarred for mltary servces.- LBERA. EARLY FRUTS OF THE JURY ABOLTON Selm Age (Egyptan), who was n the Nger dstrcts, Rabba, ORDNANCE. Eggs, &c., wth Captan Clover (now Admnstrator Lages) a few ASSAUL S ON NATVES AT SERRA. :LEONE. years ago, has been durng the past two years n Lbera, and The bl-monthly mal ns brought evdenceof the knd of fruthas lately made an attempto penet rate the nteror from Lbera, we may expec the new Ordnance to bear. A so-called German and thus to reach the Nger at the upper part of ts course. Count had come to Serra Leone. Hs Afrcan groom fell under From natve nformaton, he expected to fnd the rver at about hs dspleasure at the door of Mr. Rosenbush, the banker, n nne days dstance from Cape Palm~, but was soon stopl~l n "Water-street, and was forthwth beaten over face, head, and hs course by the jealousy of the natves, who do not lke back, untl hs face was eat open, and the no~}e Count s fury had strangers to wander about n ther country, lt the Nger be so subsded. Beng remonstrated wth, he offered the poor fellow~ near t-o Cape palmas as s here supposed, t s greatly to b0 de, a chllng / Mr. Rosenbush beng spoken wth on the subject, plored that some effort s no~ made by the Lber~n Government sad "the groom was mpertnent, so he was flogged ; the Count to settle ths nterestng pont. We thnk the Royal C[eographcal dd not earache had plenty of money, and f the man went to Socety of England would not objec to make a small grant for law, he could pay." Of course Wth no tral by jury the poor ths purpose, f they were assured the Lberan Government were Afrcan s hnown to have no means of redress, and may be n earnest n the matter.--ed. A. ~.] Ded, on Sunday, May 19, at Cape Palmas, Captan James ntended Rder, of nflammaton of the lungs. The deceased was an the whtes." Ths s just the sort of ntenton that hell s sad. Englshman who has been dong busness on the Coas~ for some to be paved wth, as Afrcan grooms do net yet horsewhp ther months. masters n Serra Leone. CAPE COAST. AWFUL BARBARTY.--~URDERS BY ~LOG(}NG. ~0 ~ EDTOR OF-~nE AFBeAN T:HES. July 6, Melcoure Rver, near Serra Leone, Morah Country, June 17, Dear Sr,--For heaven s sake, f you really wsh well to Afrca, and have her progress and advancement at heart, never say agan The other day went to "Tnmbayah," the "Frenchman s of any new offcal comng out "that you hear good reports of hm factory," and walkng down the yard,.[ saw a fnoyoung slk and hope good thngs from hm." Even ths, lttle as t s, turns cotton tree about nne feet hgh, whch notced was wthout ther heads and deprves them of ther senses for a tme, becau~ the usual sharp thorns on ts trunk. mentoned ths fact to a they are usually men who have never been heard of before n so labourer who was standng near. "Ha,]ffassa," sad he, "ths publc a way, and they at once fancy they must be clever and na Masse Mr. floggng tree; too much people done flog at mportant personages, and that the eyes of the world are fxed ths tree ; day belly rub agansthe tree when Masse flog den, on them wth admraton. Wthout mentonng other nstances, so they done all the chuck chuck (prckles) long ago, ther belly am certan y.ou thus dd harm to our poor Chef ~fagstrate, done rub all off; plenty left"n man s skn nstead of the tree. ~[r. W. A. Parker. Thank God there s nothng akn.to brbery ]:)at tree done see too much man torture. Last year Masse flog or corrupton gong on n the courts, or connected wth them, two young carpenter boys there tlt they des. One de same snce Judge Parker s arrval, nor are there any nstances of place where Ma~a haug hm up so he foot no touch de ground ; glarng tyranny and ostentatous robbery and oppresson as before, Masse make us throw away the body n the water; the other and Mr. Parker, too, s a most warm-hearted, knd, generous, courteous gentleman; but, n spte of all that, he s makng but a one de n the nght, and we bury he body n do bush : the same day he flog two of Mr. Joe labourers tll he pull all the beef off ther body ; he flog them head, he flog them belly, he flog them very sorry fgure n the judcal department, and hs court s anythng but a publc blessng, can assure you. t s greatly back, he flog them all over; he no left place where he no pull beef, to be regretted ; ha s wthout doubt an honest man and means bg pece too." "What!" sad, "dd notjr.joecomplaa of well, but he s so amusngly rrtable, ~o self-opnonated, so ths murderous not}" "Me no hear that, Zassa. thnk he frad varable, and so ncredblygullblc, that we scarce know what to Zas~, ~r. 2 "But," ~d, "what dd the kng say about these two young carpenters who are so barbarously murdered n the make of hm. JTe has ~edared n o1~rn c~ur~ tha~ ~ do~j not ntend t~a~ hh dee~on ~all b~ governed by law, bu~ that open day? " Hey, Masse, what kng can say when French man-of-war lve close the factory alongsde the wharf.~" he eh all derde aveerdng go common revue, and the broad prncpks ofjush ee, whch means of course that ha s gong to do "What! do you mean to say there was a French man.of.war so close to the spo that everyone n her could set and hear all ths, what he lkes, and he does do what ha lkes, pretty nearly. and dd not the e~ommander handcuff your masse and send hm He has adopted an unfortunate practce, whch am sum to be tred for murder, as well os all who helped hm to commt you wll rcprobate~that s, of encouragng people who have cases t?" "le, mama, you no ~abby French. When commander n hs court to car upon hm at hs house at all hours, and explan ther affars. have no doubt ha dd ths from very good see he boy done de, he laugh; he say masse fool man, he trouble hm hand, sad tre hmself n the hot sun for nothng. He.motves, desrng to be accessble to all classes. But the result ask hm why he no bceu take pstol and shoot them one tme." ~s m many ways very unfortunate. Unscrupulous person stck then uqured of my black dead f, when ths horrble deed, closely to hm, and t s greatly to be lamented that much of hs at whch human nature shudders, was commtted, there was not conduct n court s regulated by reports carred to hm prvately one person present, only one, who could preven ths doubleout of court. Then he s so fdgetty, so unstable, so changeable, murder; but hs answer was ths, "One man, a Serra Leone that he-can never be depended upon. He wll sometmes dllydally for days and weeks over a cause fully dscussed, keepng man, was there~he cry; he cry, he no able for stand up and look, and he no drunk for o~eu hm mouth; ha f rad, maybe the poor sutors lngerng about hs courts, untl, perhaps, each them sx Frenchmau what flog the boy tll hm beef and hm has spent and lost n lma and money more than the amount a blood fly all about would flog hm too. Masse he flog tll he dsputo;.and then he wll gve a knd of half.and-half judgment~ hand tre, then Mr. flog tll he tre, there that youngfull of b~g.words, and almost always unsatsfactory to both redes. ~renchman flog tll he tre, there them three bhek Frenchman Many people are consequently afrad to brng ther causes nto flog tll dey tre, then masse begn agan and tat the others blow court. tey done kll the boy."--afrr4n lnter2reter. You have alluded to Mr. Parker n so frendly a tone, that wrte ths qute n a frendly sprt. We apprecate Mr. Parker s good ponts, and would lke tone 9 hm cute hmself of hs faul~ Nmzx M~ss~ox,--n hs frst charge to hs natve clergy on the ~v.e up lstenng to vle news gossps, and arrve at ~dl hs deccroons on open, sred evdence, wth manfest convcton and banks of the h ger, Dr. Crowther, the natve Afrcan Bshop, states that there are now 6 statons, 146 baptzed members, wth wth prompttude, and perhavs your notce of th s wll have good 56 canddates, 89 communcants, 149 school chldren~ the adultresults, and brngabout a chang e that would lead to Mr. Farker congregatons numberng all 272. beng loved and e~teemed by us all A~ov~ 23, 1867.] THE AFRCAN TM:Ed. 19 want to wrte you about mlssonary progres~ hero. t s the respect end coufdence of the nadve~, could by perry, sgn n. a subject of great nterest and mportance. The progress made dace them to do much more than any Admnstrator could succeed n effectng hyfor #. durng the last ffteen years s exceedngly cheerng. know you beleve that Chrstlsu cvlzaton wll ere long pervade all Ha flattered hmself that he could thus succeed n nducng thes~ terrtores. Well, under God, the great mend of prase Wll the natve chefs and people of the Eastern dstrcts of the Gold belong to the Wesleyan Mssonary Socety. They have dspersedcoast to consento a knd of patched.up peace wth the kwoonlahs; for areal peace s qute out of the queston untl one sde abroad, sown, planted, and watered the precouseeds of the Gospel, and everythng presages a glorous harvest. But must or the other s thoroughly defeated and exhausted. However, wrte you separately of these thngs ; they are too mportant for any knd of peace would have served hs purpo.~e ;auy chance lha fag.end.of a letter.~yours sncerely, that would afford an opportunty and furnd~ materal for a grandloquent de, patch to the Duke of Buckngham, anuouuong the fnal adjustment of the vexed Awoonlah queston, restoraton 2"0 THE :EDTOR 01z ~ AFRCAN TMF~. of peace, openng of the Voho, reuewal of trade, &o.,&c.,&c.; Cape Coast, July7. accompaned possbly by an "address" got up n the usual Gold Sr,--0ur Actng Admohtrator, 3ft. Ussher, has been two Coast fashon (of whch more next month). months at Acorn shootng partrdges, whle the utmost confuson All ths you see, Sr, would have resulted most probably n prevals here. We have heard of Colonel Conran s death. s t the Secretary of State sendng hm by return mal hs comms- as full admnstrator by way of reward for hs emnent ser- not strange Mr. W. Z. Coker has gone too.~ (both Kng Aggery sson great persecutors). Mr. Coker was drowned on the 16th June, vc~ S. ~ whle gong off to the mal steamer; the sea was very bad ndeed, and he would go, aganst the advce of hs frends. pean and natve (wth the excepton of two or throe parastcal But ths has not succeeded ; for tho entre commuulty, Euro- The rany season s very unhealthy here ths year, as we hear and unnfluental Europeans), havng,he nterests of the country t has been at Lagos. Of course the deaths here are not al~ray~ at heart, was opposed to the lne of polcy whch the Actng Admnstrator had drawn up for them to follow u hs lead. from clmate, excepthat men cannot do certan thngs here wth mpunty--but of thrteen re,mental offcers who arrved on the Percevng ths, he casts them off, aud calla to hs ad lathe crss {}old Coast on the 80th May, 1866, from the West ndes, and men who have been but a very short perod u the country; who e ght more who joned from England, there are only fve reman-havng; sxteen have been nvalded home, or olherwso gone on paltry and nsgnfcant a nature that people are forced to wonder no stake or nterestheren, and whose busness s of so leave, or are dead. what earthly reason they can have for remanng u the place at We hear that Mr. Ussher, the Actng Admnstrator, has latelyall. t.s these men that are now adng the Actng Admnstrator to run the cauntry, because they know well that t~y have been re~y ~eedy.--yours truly, V, nothng to lose, come what may. RE CRENSTLL AND THE LATE COLONEL CONRAN. n selectng these nstruments he has not acted wthout judgment, for more wllng and plantools t would be mpossble to zo zaz r.~ror o:~ za]~ ~c~.x zmr.z. meet wth anywhere. They have already commeuced to reap Cape Coast, July 8, Sr,~ notce a letter sgned "Wllam the reward of ther venalty n the shape of mmunty from Cleaver" n your punshment for acts whch, under an mpartal rjgm~, would journal dated Aprl 10, 1867, and caunot fnd words to expresscause them much personal as well as pecunary nconvenence. my utter astonshment at ts contents. As the step whch Mr. Ussher, by the advce of hs coun- adopted, has faled n producng the desred effeot, we t s true that Crenstll dd not menton Colonel Conran ssellors, name when he wa~ makng hs dyng declaraton, bu t he look wth some anxety for hs next move towards the pt of de~rbed Colonel Conran ~a mnutely that t would have been destrneton.--yours, ~., A~rz-zo~z. ml~o~sbl~ not to know that he was the man whom Creustll recognzed that ordered th~ ~older~ of the 4th W.. Regment ACCRA, GOLD COAST. to take hs lon-cloth and te hm, whch they dd, and zo ~nz tanrer o~ Z~E a~uc~x zmzs, murdered hm. Crenstll declared at the same tme that f t July 7, 1867 had not been for a short man (meanng the notorous Martn Sr,~There s no peace as yet wth us. When the Governor Doorly) who was wth the tall offcer that commanded the returned from Jals Coffee, as you have been before nformed, he troops at the Prab, hc would have been klled on the spot. As proclamed that he had made peace : ths had no fouudaton n ~r. Wllam Cleaver was the magstrate who took Crenstll sfact. To declare that there s peace when the Volta and the dyng declaraton, perhaps he would oblze us wth a cony. as roads to Krepee are stll shut up by the enemy s unpardonable, he doubtless ~s what has become of the ~y~l ~w. ~ al. and has ledto very serous consequences. and my people have a-dozen educated men w~ra present when Crenstll made hs suffered. was at Kporng when the news of Governor declaraton, so would advse Mr. Wllam Cleaver to be carefulblaokall havng made peace came up from Acorn; so, as have a n future how he contradcts sworn facts.-- am, your obedentgreat deal of property shut up there, sent some of my people ~ervant, W~. C~zs ~r.*sex, down to Addah wth a Portou; but, to my sorrow and loss, nstead of there beng peace, as the Governor had sad, my men One of the Sx who was present when Cronstlll the murdered man gave he dyng declaraton to Wllam Cleaver. were sezed by the enemy--they were plundered, of course--and the poor creatures heads were cut off also. mnst have redress DESTRUCTVE POLCY AS REGARD3 THE ~KSTERN and compensaton : am enttled to t. DSTRCTS. $1LE ENnLlS-DnrC T~ETY zo ZHZ ~nrron OF zn~ ~ ~c,~ ~F.S. s very mportant for the :Eastern Dstrcts, as t pu,s an end to Eastern Dstrct, Gold Coast, June 6, tha decetahd rule on the Coast. Good days are dawnng on the Sr,~The young man who has been placed at the head of Eastern Dstsots, and the Queen s authorles wll have all proft affars Fro t~n. hy one of those extraordnary flukes whch aud no trouble wth us f we are well governed for the future. fall to the lot of only one or two very lucky men n a mllon, s Wth proper securty, the Yells dstrcts wll become the seat of a bent on completng the run of the country~ although there were very large and mportant trade, whch wll make Englsh people most favourable opportuntes ofeffectng good for t, and ts huuh eds of thoosands ofahabbsnts. Asyour correspondents keep you Beleve me, they wll pay well for the oxpouse of cvlzng them. open ther eyes at last to the great value of these terrtores. pretty well nformed offac~, shall only gve you the opnon entertaned by all honest and ndependent men here, that not for a. --Yours, very long perod has the poltcal atmosphere had such a lowerng THE CHURCH AT CAPE COAST. aspect as at present. The tornado seems ready to burst over us, zo z~z znzzor o~ ~H~ arnrc,x ZL~ZS. and should t do so, none can foretell the havoc t may make. Cape Coast, July 8, The old trte adage comes nto.one s mnd, "Qu~m vurperdere Sr,--0ar pretty lttle chureh s now closed. t ~ ndeed a D~ pru~ demeter," when reflectng on the thoughtless, headstrong, nsane, sucdal polcy now beng pursued by the presents qute ncapable of dong any good here. We look a wn for pty. We earnestly hope that Mr. Blake wll not return, as he Actng Admnstrator of thesewretched settlements. Hs frst auother Hansels! Can t you help us?--youm truly, acts after hs accesson to offce led ordnary mnds to ndulge A CHURCn~Ax. hopes favourable for the country ; butths was only a ruse, whch deceved many others as well as myself. But some wary old t has been stated n the House of Commons, and not contradcted by Mnsters, that 750,000 persons have pershed mser- brds shook ther heads. "Ths," sad they, "s only the old dodge; wa tll he thnks he s seated frmly on he throne ofoffce, ably by starvaton n the provnce of 0Hess, BrlsA.Ear na ~. and then see! And we do see! Mr. Ussher seems to have de. Our correspondent wll ~ tha ths reward has already been confen ~ We are glgd to see the Adfng Admnstra~orshp s at an end ; sred, by a show of frankness, and wshngood for the country, to conclate the goodwll of the natves and those Europeansand hope t~t M.r. ~ssher, feelng now t~a real responsbltes of hs podlon, wll show h~ an uprght, wse, aud decded Admlnstrator.~ who had been many yearn n the country, and who, havn ganedev.,~./. -. t- : t :1

3 20 Tt~, A.FROA.N TMES, [.A.uaus r 28, LAGOS. 2"0 ~Hg EDTOR OF THE AFRCAN ~M~. AFFARS OF THE EA.STE.RN DSTRCT OF THE GOLD COAST. July, A kng has now be~n seated ou the stool of the he Quow Daddy (Aquapm), whose death a year ago was made an occason Sr,--t s a long tme snce.xou heard from me. We are for human sacrfces. The present kng sent a message to thequet now here. 2he merchan~ don t complan; and ths s Actng Admustmt~r to say te was to be crowned at aeeran date, sayng much for our rsng colony. Our Governor, after all, has and that he wll be eareful not to have any human sacrfce on seen the fruts of hs labours, and how consolng ths s [ "Thor the occason. Mr. Ussher very wsely sent up Mr. T. B. Free-shalman, late (some years,~go) CMef Cvl Commandant n the promse. see the fruts of thy labour," s a comfortable Scrpture Eastern Dstrct, one of the best men we have. EverythngSnce last wrote you, our young, rsng colony, fall of promze went on quetly ; no human sacrfces were made openly, and t and hope n herself, s attached to her old sster colones, Serra s hoped none secretly ; nor was any great barbarty commtted. Leone, Gamble, and Cape Coast; so that young Loges, n spte The Awconah dsturbance stll gong on. Kng Cudjoe, ef her many extensve facltes, n spte of.her many good prospacts, must follow n ther wake. We are not blessed wth refusng to come to Pram Pram~ was suspended from hs stool as Kng of Jamestown (as was also the Actng Chef of Chrstansborg). Here s the sense to see tha ths s uufar. Now, take t for granted that mnsteral endowments or qnallleatons, but people have common have and am ble~cd wth a grandfather, a father, and an YYhereas Cuajoe, Chef of Brtsh Acera, and yekec, known as uncle; say they have passed ther days well and prosperously, an Actng Chef of Chrstansborg, have, n contempt and defance wth the assstance of ther great-great-grandmother, who spared of the order of Her Majesty s representatve, refused to qut Addah, no money, tme, labour, or l~-es, to establsh them; say that ~, and have frustrated the attempts of Her Majesty s Government young, robust, buoyant, promsng, strong, and wllng, born of to re-establsh peace n the Eastern Dstrct, by levyng andsuch worthy relatons, pos~ssng more of ther calbre, more of carryng on war n one of Her Majesty s possessons on the Goldtherches nnate me, and consderng that n my day, n my Coast, contrary to the njunctons of her sad representatve, ardtme, wth these advantages, should walk and not creep, how aganst her peace and dgnty ; would t appear f n pushng onward should just be placed And whereas, by such acts, the sad Chef Cudjoe has forfeted n the wake of my relatves to bury all the advautag es possess, hs oath of allegance to 1er Majesty s Government, and provedand be jus told, yea ordered, to begn where my grandpa began hm~lf an enemy, together wth tha sad yekee, to the welfare Such s the poston Lagos s placed n by your great men of of ter Zajesty s settlement on the Gold Coast, and to tha Pro-Downng-streettectorate large ; Serra Leone, Lsgos must shut herself up and follow dotage [ Ted to the heels of Cape Coast, Gamba, and Be t therefore made known and proclamed that the sad J udge, theu, the petton of our energetc Governor J ohn~ Kng Cudjoe s hereby suspended from hs offce and functons of wth the many facltes whch Lagos possesses, our revenue Chef of Brtsh Accrs, and s held to be au outlaw, untl thegrowng great, our nteror extensve and unlmted, our trada further pleasure of Her Majesty be made known n the matter; growng and openng by the energy of our Governor, everythng and thathe above.mentoned Chef yekeo be also held to be an promsng a good harvesto the colony, f properly and contnually worked up by proper hands. Your Mnsters tell Go- outlaw, ndt n lke mauuer the pleasure of Her Majesty be made known. vernor Glover, "Fold your hands, st down, smoke your cgarotta, Gven at Aeera ths 18th day of J une, 1867, and muse." The nterests of our Lagos bewal these absurd measures. By hs Excellenoy s command, W. CaozEza, Cvl Commandant. t s all very well for your great men to st down n ther cosy GOD sns za~. Qwsx! chars, and just wrte to our chefs out hera to do ths and not The kwoonahs str stop the roads to the mportant dstrct do that, wthout knowng anythng of the nternal workngs and whch supples the Coast wth cotton--vz., Krepoe. They have wants of a country lke ours. The blnd Jebu "natves and those attacked a large number of cotton-bearers t rom that dstrct, cutn power, and the bugbears who are dssatsfed wth the present off ther heads, and taken many as slaves; but, wth au empty system of labour andtvng, takng advantage of the above measures, throw nfnte obstacles n the way of progress. exchequer, wth the uflueuce of the Brtsh Government almost lost n the nteror countres, and wth no power to act for Now, snce the openng of the notable badan road, merchants generally are beng satsfed, also the natve farmers and war hmself, what can an Admnstrator do? We have had a fne rany season, the best for years past, butboys take more nterest farmng and tradng. Our cotton gns very uuhealthy. A.P. are worked here by nteror war boys prucpaly ; but some lldsposed and dssatsfed partes take to shutha road, to prevent P.S.--Kng Attah, of Eastern Akn, s, we are told, dead, and there have been a great many human bengs sacrfced at hs nteror people from commg down. "Your fathers," they say, obseques. Quacoo Dnah, Kng of Ashantee, s reported to be "dd not do ths; they passed your trade through our hands, to also dead. Just as the mal leaves we hear of the death of Lagos, and trade from that place passed through us to you." Thus Captan Crozer, 2nd W..R., Chef Cvl Commandant, Easternsay the/ebus, and they ere stoppng the produce of our wde, Detrch Gold Coast; and Leut. Sayce, 2nd W..R., Garrson wde nteror, by preventng the nteror people from comng Adjutant, and Polce nspector. down wth them to us. Old thngs wll be comng on agan. The war boys, who have had better employment to draw ther Another htfer says:- attenton and keep them from evls, wll go ba~k agan to war The Actng Admnstrator, Mr. Ussher, goes up n ths mal and pllage. to Cape Coast. You would naturally ask, Who do ths? The Jebus, a stub- stupd, thoughtless people, nhabtng the terrtory Although no human sacrfces were made openly n Aquapmborn, before Mr. Freeman, there s too much reason to belave that at between ths and peru, on the road to badan. least forty vctms were sacrfced.~ecretly. A Fellow of the Geographcal Socety travelled two years Poor ffuptaa Crozer, Cvl Commandant, ded yesterday-- through Central Afrca, and, n hs way to Eurol)e, passed to us through Rabba, lorn, on to badan. Ask hm; he s now n remember, no~ from t~ dmat~! Leutenant R. E. D. :Nose, 2nd W..R., succeeds hm pro tern. Leutenant Ness s a very Europe, beleve near you n England. Through all hs travels, young man, son of a clergyman, seems quet and gentlemanly, no town, trbe, or people stopped hm from gong on hs way; and does not drnk at all, except n reason. Ths s all knowbut when he reached peru, a town two days journey from us, of hm. he was stopped, cad t was wth great dffculty he could pas~ to Lagos. Why should ths be allowed? Why restrct us hem from attendng to our own concerns? Wth our revenue we A BEOKUTA. could buld two or three forts n korodu, 0fn, and peru; to T~Dz RsPoRr.--The past monthas been a most unproftable protect and keep open that notable road through whch Lagos and unsatsfactory one to merchants. 0n the one band, produce can mantmn an extensve trade wth the nteror. Twenty or s becomng so scarce as to prevent any reducton n the hghthrty Houssas n each fort, properly managed, wll keep the prces whch are at present demanded by the natves, whlst on road open ndeed, therefore great events hangng on small thngs the other hand, merchants cannot dspose of ther goods and cow-wlxes, as they are unable to pay the present hgh prces, n palm-the." Beleve me, t s reported that the Governor of surely come to pass Ah! wo shat then "floursh as the the face of contduel unfavourable odvees from the European Lsgoa was sendng hs staff ( mean messenger staff) to badav, markets. Palm ol, 15 hds. Cotton, 20 st. :Exchange, 3 hds. 16 st. and the Jebus of peru had the unheard-of mpudence to ~end t Account of producexported from Abeokuta for the monthhack!.a new tmng na~.doml Ths, wth a dsplay of ~ endng 30th June, 1867, ordered for publcaton by the drectom lttle sprt, wll soon be put a stop to, so that t be not rel~. tea of the Egba Unted Board of Management: From $ane 1 to 30, cotton, 363 bales, contanng 48,061 lbs. ; vory, 2 peces, 72 and saddled wth the Serra Leone saddle, he must g~o througag lbs. ; palm ol, 10~945 gala. ; black ol, 220 g~ls. forms and ceremones before he even demand the respect due By command, J. ~f. Tv-m~ER, Collector. hs Queen s staff. Wth folded hands he s oblged to look on--" Avaus~ 23, 1867.] THE AFRCAN TMES. 21 hs, plans frustrated, hs plants rooted up by aggressors who are of assaults upo natves of the colony by certan servants of the wthn hs reach to feel hs Queen s power, yet he s told to foldcrown, t was the ntenton of the Colonal-offce to deny the hs hands. And thnstate of. tha country.wll grow worse thanprotecton of tral by jury n cvl actons to the natve populaton; and whether the attenton of the Government had been t had been! Forgve ths lberty, from yours very respectfully, kx~ M~s. called to certan judgments recently delvered n the crmnal courts of that settlement, n whch the punshment awarded RVER GABOON. was sad to have been n excess of and contrary to law, and 3"uue 8. whch were set forth n a petton sad to have been addressed to The French steamer Ponner has ma~e a trp up the Ogovethe Secretary of State for Colonal Affars. fver a lttle above the confluence of the Okandand l~gunge. Zr. Adderley sad the queston put by the hen. baronet was Owng to ~cedents to the boler and machnery, the vesselcalculated to gve currency to a most erroneous statement of the dd not ascend so far as was desred; treates, however, werefacts of the case, whchad been fully dealt wth by the authortes on the spot. The assaults were not commtted by servants made, some mportant ponts were ceded to the French, and trade wll probably soon be opened wth that rver, th~ mo, t mportant ~tream of Eguatora1,4f ~. Our correspondent nformsunder very great provocaton happened to be a servant of the of the Crown specally, though one assalant who struck a natve us that Z[r R B N Walker (of whoso attempto penetratecrown. The protecton of tral by jury had not been dened to the nteror from the Gaboon we lately gave account) renderedthe natve populaton by the Crown, for the Crown had only con. consderable eervea to the commander of the expedton, not frmed a local ordnance, qute as much n favour of the blacks only as nterpreter, but n otherespects, for whche has as of the whtes, abolshng tral by jury n cvl actons, n receved a most handsome flatterng letter of thanks fromwhch ca~s t worked exremely ll.* The petton referred to n the :French Admral commandng on that coast, hs name havngtha queston was sgned by ffteen persons, ~f whom the only been also mentoned n the order of the day. one known was the edtor of a newspaper; but no complant had The "dutes," we learn, are stll n abeyance, no furtherbeen made by any of the prsoners, or by any person on ther nstructons havng been receved from France. behaff. Neverth elesb the statements n the petton requred We are glad to ]earn that the Admral has taken some serous attenton, because, f tral by jury were done away wth, steps to remedy the evls justly complaned of n the postalthe judgeshould be persons wthout suspcon as to ther ntegrty and capacty. The statements set forth n the petton ~ystem. t s really too bad that our letters brought tof_mgland from Fernando Po n Brtsh postal steamers (the postage fromhad, as far as they were capable of nvestgaton as yet, been (]abeon to Fernando Po and Enghnd beng frst pad n Gaboonfound full of nacouraces. should be sent to Pars, and reach us only after some days Auo~ys~ 8. delay, wth a French postage eharge of 8d. per ¼ oz., s. 4d. per Mr. B. Cochrane gave notce that early next sesson he would oz., 8~,c. move for au nqury nto the system of the admnstraton of H.M.S. Brstol, flagshp of Commodore B ornby, arrved at patronage n the colonal servce, and nto the salares and dutes Gaboon ]flay 15, to mee the Zenobe and Admral De tangle, by of offcers the Crown servng the colones. appontment. The Zenobe, however, havng been detaned by the bad bar at Grand Bassam, had not arrved, and the Admrals EDUOATON OF FEk[ALES N AFRCA. would therefore meet at St. Helena n June. The Brstol went The C~ureh f~fs~fonar F onto the Co~,go, to nqure nto some acts of plunder by natves 2~eeord, gvng account of the erecton of an edfce, at the cost of 2,500/., for a female boardng-schcol at n that rver. Serra Leone, the moneybeng an anonymous gft of a gentleman Health was good n the Gaboon when our letters ~ere sent n England for that especal purpose, says truly: "Theducatonal off. prt)eess s gong on amongst the men ; that of females must keep pace wth t, else dsastrous consequences must ensue. As :~r. PARLAMENTARY NTELLGENCE. Ncol well observes, the proper tranng of the youngeneraton HOUSE OF COMMONS. now wll be conducve to the progress of relgon and cvlzaton n Afrca. Afrca must be regenerated by Afrcans themselves. " COLO~ Alr 60YERN OPt. Mx. B. Cochrans (n commttee of supply) moved an address How strong an appeal ths n favour of Mrs. Moseley s ndustral Female School for Cape Coast! We most earnestly desre to see for a return of the names of all the colonal governors, the dates of ther appontments, the amount of ther salare~ and the that fund completed. Zrs. Moseley oughto leave England n October on her work of love and mercy. Would that some of number of years servce of each, and nqured what were the rules whch were for the future to regulate the appontment of our frends whom God has abundantly blessed would come colonal governors. forward wth the really small amount now wantng to make up Mr. Adderhy sad that such returns were furnshed perodeally, and one was just now due. The rght hen. gentleman ex- the requred sum! l)laned the mode n whch colonar governors were apponted, :RESEARCHES N AFRCA. l~ad, and promoted. Dr. Or, a natve of Tuscany, well known n taly for hs ARer some remarks from Mr. Crum Ewng, scentfo acqurements, especal/y n relaton to natural hstory, Mr. B. Cochrane sad that as the answer of the Secretary for has lately returned to Caro from a very adventurous expedffor the Colones was unsatsfactory, ha should take an earlynto the nteror of Afrca. Avalng hmself of hs offcal peso )pportunty of brngng the whole queston before the House. ton as Physcan-n-Chef of the 8oudan country, conferred The amendment w.as wthdrawn. hm by the Vceroy of Egypt, and under tha espeesl patronage of Vctor Emmanuel, who defrayea the expenses of the expedllon, Dr. 0r~ accompaned by hs wfe, an talan lady of great x~c~ua~ mw ~ zmz co~n~. n answer to Mr. W. :E. Forster, endurance and courage, made a journey whch has occuped ~fr. Adderley sad tha the nstructons to be sento colonal nearly seven years. Hs prncpal researches have been carred governors for ther gudance n cases of nsurrecton wouldon n the lttle known terrtores of Darzaleh end Darfur, the latter requre modfcaton, and ther producton must therefo e be berderng on the Egyptan Pashalc, and n the country adjoung delayed for the present; but the purport of the nstructons was, the Blue and Whte Nle. Dr. Ol s exploratons, whchave that no proclamaton of m~rfal law :was to be ssued unless the extended over fve thousand mles, have led hm nto dstrcts nsurrecton were such as placed t beyond the ordnary power of never before vsted by a European, n whche has collected a suppresson; that the proclamaton was to confer no extraordnary Powers upon cvl magstrates ; tha the commandng rare anmals and plants. Dr. Or s now engaged n preparng vast number of soentfo treasures, neludng many specmens of o~cer was to have the entre control n the dstrct over whchhs journals for publcaton, whch we have reason to belav~_ the proclamaton extended; that, except n cases of urgentcontan matter whch wll add largely to our knowledge of Central necessty, no detachments of troopshould be sent away unlessafrca. When hs lterary undertakng s completed, we understand that t s Dr. 0r s ntenton to renew hs researches n under command of a commssoned offcer; tha the powers of the provost.marshal should be lmted by wrtten nstructons; thatafrca, hs experence derved from hs latexp]oratonrenderng courts.martal, unless n cases of urgent necessty, should consst hm very sanguue of success. We may add that Dr. Ol s of not less than three commssoned offcers; that every reasonable med[eal knowledge, acqured durng a long course of study at faclty should be gven to the prsoners tral; and that no the Unversty of Pss, and hs acquantance wth varous Afrcan sentence of death should be recorded unless there was a majorty dalects, were of great advantage to hm n hs ntercourse wth of two-thrds of the court n favour of t. tha natves, whom he appears to have had the good fortuue to Avevs r 7. have conclated u a very remarkable manner.--affcan ReRoKt~ry (May). SERRA LEON ~. Sr ~. Gray/~ked the Under-Seeretsry of State for the Colones whether, havn~ re~ard to the fac that n a despatch from the The Marnb~g 8/.at of tha 13th Ang~st contmned remarks on ths Oovernor of Se~rra~., one, bearng the date of 22nd of March, spe~hch we are sorry we have not room for the. month.. Why do not our Afrcan frends eupport us better, that we m~ght gwe them a larger 1867, hs Excellency acknowledged the comm sdon of a ~rcepa~r?--e~. A.T.

4 . r. y [{" j,. d }.q J, r z q. 22 THE AFRCAN TldES. [_A_UGUS~ 23, CAPE COAST FEMALE NATVE SCHOOL. Caltbrna wll be able to rval, and perhaps undersell, the Frenolt market. [Why cannot West Mrca also produoo ts "mlk~.~ Mrs. 3oseph Moscley acknowledges the followng :- Amount already publshed Ev. A. T.] Hs Excellency Leut.-Colonel Blackall, Governor- ENGLSH AND DUTCH: TREATY. General Serra Leone :Bshop of Norwch Tn~ text of the Edglsh and Dutch Treaty for the mutual, ex. Phlp Cazenove, Esq chanze of certan portons of ther respectve possessons on the :Barone~ Wndsor 0 0 Goldcoa~t, and for levyng unform customs dutes wthn the Samuel Thompson, E~ : terrtores ef the two contractng Powers, appears n ths present ~re. Henty, Northlands number of our paper. The Treaty s to come nto full operaton :Bshop Anderson, Clfton on the 1st of January, Of ts mportance there can be no Zss Henchey (thrdonaton) reasonable doubt. t must necessarly mark the commencement of a now era for both dvsons of the country to whch t relates. The "dove.taled rule," as one of our correspondents terms t, s NOTCE. at Persons ndebted to the Afrcan Tmes are hereby nformed b an end. u leu of a jumble of jursdctons along the.coas there s a lne drawn, on the one sde of whch all s Dutch, and that the undersgned s authorzed to receve all mones due to on the other all s Brtsh. Our sentments and vews regardng the above paper u Cape Coast and ts vcnty; and unlessmmednts payment s made, he wll resorto unpleasant measures to has taken place s not that whch we should have preferred. We the Gold Coast are prettywell known. The arrangement whch compel a settlement. CHAS. FNLASON, thoughthat Great Brtan ought to have possesson of the whole Agent to Afrcan ~ mes for Cape Coast. coast.lne from Apolloas eastward. We would have bought out 3uly, the Dutch f we could not obtan an entre cesson on any other terms. We are told ths was mpractcable. We do not lose SPECAL NOTCES. sght of what we sad n our May number, but.we never behaved We beg that our ~ub.~erbers tcffl pay mmedately to cur teveral agentsn the mmovable realty of that alleged obstacle. Of course t the subscrpt~on for the new year begnnng trth Jut V, 1867, and all was mpractcable unless we were prepared to pay n good p:ee. arrears due from them to us. But here was alwaya a stumblng-bleak. Ther possessons on Stzm~ L~oxE.--Ve hear that a great many Subscrbers trha ae n the Gold Coast cost the Dutch some 12,000L a.year, out of arrear ~lnnot be Treraled upon to pay. f after ths publc noffe Dutch pockets; therefore t was lad down that they were not they stll refuse to ]pay up ther arrears to 1867, and ther year sworth anythng to Holland, and that she ought to be glad to get subtcr pton n advance to July, 186~, tee shall be under th2 panful rd of them. Our own possessons requred a grant every year nece-~tty of stol~ p~ng all ther papers, pubahng ther names, and from the mperal Exchequer, so t could not be of much value?r $orlnff to other mea~ure,n G~x Posr-or~ m~.~lve hare rent!red and strong eornplalnts of to us to add the Dutch possessons to them. And by ths fal~ reasonng the future of that valuable porton of West Afrca was the non-delvery of the Aratcx~ TxaEs at the Oamba. As we can vouch for ez ery Subscrber s pal~er beng posted n.england, the faultdetermned. Brtsh offcaldom, whch had never heard of the must be at the Gamble. of the management of tcheh Post-offwe $o dog n the mnnger, could not be made thoroughly to comprehend many corn plants reach us. We adr~e a change of system, or tee that t would be worth whle to gve Holland 50,000/. or shall try to obtan a change of #nen. 100,000L for her scattered Gold Coast possessons. ParHamenb. we were told, would never grant the money for such n purchase. n van we have urged that t need not come out of the mperal frkal nu. Exchequer except ns a loan ; that t mght form the commence~ PUBLSHED MONTHLY. PRCE 5d., STAMPED. ment of the Gold Coast ~atonal Debt; that a revenue of 40,000L You are earnestly requested to allow your name to be added to the or 50,000/. a-year, whch mght thenceforward be mmedately!stofyearly subscrbers. PHce 5s. per annum for each copy, payableobtaned, would be a very good guarantee for the nterest. No: n advance. the 100,000/. purchase was n ease, the 50,000L a.year n po~. The one, f a treaty on such a bass was made, would have a~a, luldy to be pad; the other mght only poubly be obtaned. And so--well, made up our mnds to get the best we could, and we have, at last, the Treaty for exchange, Whch was ratfed on the 5th July, And we are thankful for t. Of course, we do not approve of handng over the nhabtants the SUBSCRPTONS, ETC., FROM AFRCA. places where we exercsed authorty to another Power, not only :Dr. Fletcher, Cape Palmas, per Mr. ]=[azeley wthouther desre, but notorously agansther de, re. We AFrend, R., Serra Leone shall never be found to approve of handng over people, wth T. O Connor Kng, Monrova terrtory, lke goods and chattels n a house--" fxtres and furnture ncluded." Bat we are not gong to make a specal L. J., 1st W..R., Bathurst Ray. F. France, Afrcan grevance of ths. t s a false ejtma~, under whch Zr. B. Rothman,/ per J. C. Brandt, Accra whtes, as well as blacks, have had to suffer; and f some ~ ew ~r. C. P. Gusepp, M~. Campbell, Pars, Palmer, Betts, Dougan, Rollng, Shaw, Carrcl, permessrs. Pratt, Serra Leone, 5s. ea lose, others wll gan by t. t s a great step made towards future good government, towards the more rapd develot~ meut of the great materal resources of countres now ncluded wthn the Brtsh boundares, and the spread and Noncz.--M Afrcan payments wll n future be acknowledged regularly n the Afrcan ~q mes. frm establshment of Chrstan cvlzaton them; and ths cannot take place wthout exercsng an mportant nfncn MSCELLANEA. u the same drectons n the contermnous terrtores, wllethe~ Dutch or natve. We therefore agan congratulate our Gold The appreheuson generally prevals that France stll ntendscoast frends on the change whch s about to take place. All to "pck a quarrel" wth Prussa, and that there wll be a war our correspondents who may be deemed capable of formng a between the two Powers. eorsect estmate, value the future revenue from customs dutes A number of emandpados from Wavannal~, who arrved at u the Brtsh dvson at from 20,000L to 30,0001. per annum, Southampton on ther way to Lagos, left for that place by the nstead of the paltry 5,000L or 6,0O0L htherto derved; and mal steamer of 10th nst. ths we say ought to be doubled wthn a few years. Wth News reached London, August 6, of the Abyssnan prsonersmuch good may be done, and t shall not be our fault f the beng taken from out of the power of Kng Theodore, by the good s not done. We begn to see the way toward the carryng success of those who have been for some tme endeavcurng to out of our plans for the ntroducton of thefadll~ of cvlzaton, dethrone hm. We hope soon to hear of ther safe arrval n :Brtsh terrtory. Durng 3use, 1867, :France and the Channel slandsent to the total absence of whch we bare so long deplored, a~ condemnng the terrtores, whle that absence contnued, to a mere snal-pace advance n all that tends to the wealth and England through Southampton 20,000,000 eggs, 1,400,000 bushelsgeneral well.beng of a country. We have before us an agreeable of frut, 4,800 tons of potatees/ and 1,700 tons of butter. We understand that Governor Blackall purposez returnng to Serra Leone by the mall.steamer of the 24th September, or at latest by that of the 24th October. vsta of mproved facltes for embarkng and dsembarkng produce and goods; of steam power on the Rver Volta; ot trunk and good connectng branch roads; of canalzed water* courses for rrgaton; of cotton, coffee, ndgo, ol-seed, and S~x CoLvC~z.~Some years ago a gentleman ntroduced the sugar plantatons, &o, &o, wth many, many other thngs that Hlkworm nto San Josd, CaLforna. The experment has proved come wath these and follow " m thear " track. We re ~ea~ the let _ so successful that there are now over four hundred slk plantatons ~ anuary, 1868 wll be the commencement of an entrely new ex~ n the State, and t s confdently expected that n a few years --an era of (we hope rapd) progres~ A.uovsr 23, 1867.] THE AFRCAN T]L~E8. 23 n our ~ay number we sad that we had seen the map preper~. by the Dutch Government, and that the whole country on a great change n future. Why, that fl~jgng to death scene at people that has real aspratons for freedom, and we hope to see each ade of the boundary lne was coloured up ~o t~.d#~an~ the French factory n the ~ehceufe Rver, whch we are ndeed frontor wth the.r.espeetv.e Dutch and Englsh tnts that desg-gratefurated ther respechve temtones the Coast, Wassaw, &o., bear- ought to set every Serra Leone man s blood, and every Afrcan to the Serra Leone nterpreter for havng made publc, ~g the Dutch hue. Our Gold Coast frends know well how man s blood who reads t, bolng n hs vens. We, at least, ~dently the Dutch have coveted the Wassaw terrtory, not only have been dong our duty for Afrca, n endeavourng to prevent because ot access to Azhantee, but also because of ther supenormous value as gold-producng countres. When we through so foul a~ agency; and we do venture to hope that thn tl~ runousuccess of that ntrgue carred on n Serra Leone ~aw, therefore, the map coloured as we have descrbed, we man artery of Serra Leone commercal lfe may yet be saved to ~hought t d~n~fe~j, and observed, "Tbe Dutch have lost no tme Serra Leone as a Brtsh colony. But the colonals must be up n takng nomnal possesson of the gold dstrcts." The Treaty, and dong. Ther enemes, and those who would sell them, am however, snce proves to us that they had good and vald reasonarrve and unscrupulous, and only vgour and boldness wll preval agansthem. for so dong. The frst artcle of the Treaty (see page 24) con t n s: " The ~e#n~ry betwem t~ rans two very mportant pc ~zz~s~o~a [of the- two Governments] wll ~ a lm~ drawn KNG AGGERY S DEPOSTON. tra ~wrlh from t~ eemr~ of t~ moutt~ of t~ 8wee~ Rrer, as far ~ the last dspatch prnted among the papers lad before the House of Commons, relatve to Kng Aggery, hs deposton, &e., Lord Canarvon says: "The anomalous poston of the ward, ar~.now declared to be poa,ea, o~ of the Brtsh Crown ; Brtsh Government on the Gold Coast affords no general prn- for the decson of such questons as the present." The all to the west of the lne are Dutch possessons. The secondcples pont s that provdng for a devaton of the lne ~vthn threefact of the "anomaly of the poston" forces tself upon us mles of the Coast, so as to retan as Dutch or Brtsh any vllages throughout these papers, and has been confrmed by subsequent whch have been n habtual dependence on the respectve Governments. How can we nterpret all ths, but that the show the case of Kng Aggery. They show hs endeavour to events. The parlamentary papers as publshedo not farly ~ anomalous poston," as Lord Carnarvon justly terms t, a coon establsh an ndependent Kng s Court at Cape Coast mmedately ~o be at an end? s t not true that u every sense the Gold Coastafter he became kng. We very dstnctly stated at the tme how Wll be from the 1at of January next at the commencement of much we dsagreed wth ths endeavour on hs part--not because.an entrely new era? n future artcles we shall look the of Kng Aggery hmself, but because Kng Aggery could[ not be ;altered poston fully n the face. We feel that our made an excepton n the Protecterate, and the barbarous oppresson and njustce of natve courts, as a rule, has only been dutes and responsbltes are greatly ncreased by the change, and that t s necessary for us to place" ourselvesmodfed sad kept under control by the power of appeal from :n a poston to render to the nhabtants of the terrtores on the those courts to the Judcal Assessor Supreme Court at Cape ene hand, and to Her ]~[ajesty s Government on the other/thatcoast. But these papers do not gve nny of the ntmatons c0nveyed from the Brtsh Government to the people of the Pro- assstance whch they wll mutually requre. We cannot, how-.ever, even now dsmss the subject wthout expressng a hope teated Terrtores after the celebrated parlamentary debate of that the Dutch Government wll enter upon the same just and 1864 (whch led to the Commttceof 1865). They do not show us, wse cour~ as-respects the appropraton of revenue to the as wa./the case, that the kngs and chefs were then nformed that "facltes of cvlzaton" whch we expect from our own. t n future they were not to expec that armed protecton from ~~ well known that the Dutch tenure of ther Gold Coast possessons has htherto been a very precarous one. ndependenthey had htherto confded, from the perod at wmeh they England to whch they had htherto looked, and u whch of ther stll consentng to hold St. George d Emoa from the came under the Protectorate; that n future all they were to expact, even n the eveut of an Ashantee nvason, would be the Kng ef Ashantee, and to coulees hs rghts of soveregnty by "the payment of an annual rent or trbute, t s but too well gft of some guns, powder, &c., and, perhaps, the a~stance of a :&news that ther occupaton of that and other ponts has only mltary offcer, but that ~ubstanlally they must provde entrely been preserved by the mltary and naval support whch the for ther own defence, and for the peace and tranqnlllty of ther Brtsh authortes were ever ready to gve, and dd gve, when-several dstrcts. Now ths entrely altered the poston of affars..ever the Dutch found themselves n danger from the natves. Kng Aggery (n euclosure ~o. 9, n Gover~ or Pne s Dspatch ~ueh supporthe Dutch wll have no rght to expect from us n No. 1) says ttl~t Captan ~aclean ~c wres ted " n au " lmpercept ble 1 future. t s ther duty so to govern ther terrtores (wthnmauuer from the hands of the kngs, chefs, and head men, the the lne of whch we shall n future not possess anythng) as to make themselves beloved by the natves; and so to ~ldthem, p... (. y) po that they may be able to defend themselves aganst all natvekngs, chefs, and bead men ; and ths was a natonal o~nsequence attacks. The~ they wll not be able to do wthout an entre or result of the 1~roleclora~, as ~ Was the~ understood..change of system, and the ntroducton of measures, means, and Great Brtan had setted terms and made peace wth Ashante~ applances for the Chrstan cvlzaton of the people--a work for the countres ncluded the new Protectorate. That peace they have htherto entrely neglected. t s only then they wll was under ts safeguard and guarantee, and naturally nvolved be able to develop the enormous wealth of the rch Wassaw all such lmffaton of the power of kngs, chefs, &c., as was Opo :gold.felds---a valuable ~o~hon f dealt wth ~on enlghtened posed to the good government, peace, tranclullty, and progre.ss prncples. those countres. The kngs, &o., gave up a porton of ~er of power to ther great protector n return for what they consdered THREATENED FRENCK OCCUPATON OF THE to be a substantal and effectve protecton. t was, therefore, not MELCOURE RVER. unnatural that Kng Aggery, when the Brtsh authortes an- that n future there would be no real protecton, but BA~zr as we had but too much reasou to thnk of Governornounced Blackall for a long tme past, we are stll at a loss to conceveonlygood o~ee~, should have thought he mght re-establsh nde- Kn~s Courts, whch are, n fact, the only regal source "how he could have allowed the preparatory steps to French occu-pendenpaton of the Melooure to reach the stage they had reachedof revenu~ belongng to the kngs of the Protectorate--a pecu- to whch much of ther vcousness s to be attrbuted, as wthout local remonstrances hs part, or the adopton of coun-lartteractng measures, or warnngs to Her ~ajeaty s Government. the frst am n them was not to admnhter real justce, but to "Was he bamboozled by the adulterous ntrguers who have had make so.called justce a means of revenue. There s no doubt ths matter n hand n Serra Leone, or has t been but anotheraggery thought t rght and necez.,sary to establsh such a court, nstance of lamentable fleapacty, or s t that hs nveterate as he dd also to establsh an armed force, "for the beneft of.hatred had gone so far that he was determned to effecthe entre the country--that s, for self-defence" (p. 56, par. 6, enelo. 2). run, mmedate and future, of Serra Leone--at least as a BrtshThen, also, as on prevous occasons, he asks that what he may do, -colony? because what t mght be as a French pos,~don we are and wha~ he may not do, may b~ exactly defned, order that he.not, of course, able to say. Be t as t may, t furnshes an may not commt hmself n any way. But ths was never done; -added prcof of how utterly unft he a to be Governor-n-Chef of he was left to put hs own nterpretaton upon passages n the West Coast, and how unfar t s to the Coast throughoutdspatches publshed darng the precedng twentyears and on =that he should be contnued by Her Majesty s Government n the resolutons of the FarlamenL~ry Commttee. Colonel Conran that porton. And what have the Serra Leone people been was hs personal enemy, and a man wthout any admn~ about? We can understand partly, though we condemn t as t tratva.capacty; so he never ~ught to have ths defnte ~deserves, that seeng how utterly dsregarded all ther pettomlmtaton sent out from England, and the ]=l omo Government and remonstrances have been by Her Majesty s Government, thc~ should have been ready to abandon themselves to despar, anc told Mr. that, Card~-eH, n return when for protecton, wrtng hs we expect dspatch, Msy ~ 18~5, seems to allow Melcoure frst, and themselves next (an the only way hays forgotten what he hlm.~f had done. - deferenc~ to our Ha says, "A~ry authorty"~ must be esoape from run when the ~elceure was gone), to be hande~ and yet Mr. Cardwdl ]~ed, n 18~ had ordered all the kngs to be.-over to :France. Bat ths sort of lethargy s unworthy of ~/ totd they were hoe fo rec~ w Frc4~/on n future.!.,?, d.]

5 ! 24 THE AFRCAN TMES. [_A_tlousr 23, were only too glad to allow the "anomalous Kng of the Netherlands all Brtsh forts, Possessons, and rght~~ poston" to contnue. Then there came an evdent desre on the part of of soveregnty or jursdcton whch she possesses on the,gold Colonel Conran and Governor Blackall to fnd Aggery gulty of Coasto the westward of the mouth of the Sweet Rver, where somethng. He was not a Brtsh subject. Mr. Cardwell expressly cautons Colonel Conranot to commt hmself by any therespectve terrtores are contermnous; and hs Majesty the~ Kng of the Netherlands cedes to her Brtannc Majesty all assumpton of Brtsh terrtory outsde the fort. Colonel ConranNetherland forts, Posse~slons, and fghts of soveregnty or jurs. wants to make t Brtsh terrtory wthu cannon.shot, or threedcton whche possesses on the Gold Coasto the eastward of mles, but n tbls he meets wth no support at home. Yet Governor the mouth of the Sweet Rver, where therespectve terrtores :Blackall, n forwardng Colonel Conmn s dspatch and Aggery s are contermnous. ~he boundary between the possessons of letters home (p. 53), says that, as he has not the Mnutes r~... :1 ^f A,,rl he Her Brtannc Majesty and those of hs Majesty the Kng of the s, therefore, unable to judge hownetherlands wll be a lne drawn true north from the centre of: Ag e s propohl may be treasonable" Cthe propo the mouth of the Sweet Ever as far as the boundary of the pre. above alluded to, p. 56, p. 6, enc. 2). Not one word n extenuaton, ether by Governor Blackall or Colonel Conran, of the ntma- sent Ashantee kngdom, but wth such devatons wthn t~o Englsh mles of the coast, shall be nece~ary to retan wthn Brtsh terrtory any vllages whchave been n habtual de-- ton, gven n 1864, thathe kngs and chefs were n future to pendence on the Brtsh Government at Cape Coast, and wthn.?rovde for ther own clarence, for whcb, t must be presumed, an Netherland terrtory any vllages whc have been n habtuah armed force of some knd s necessary, when the probable enemydependence on the Nether]and Government at St. George d E1- s such a person as the Kng of Ashantee. But the treason whch Governer Blaekall could not exactly fnd n Aprl, 1866, Colonel mnn. Conran found n an ntemperate and mproper, but certanly not Artcle 2.~The two hgh contractng partes agree that thefollowng tarff of dutes of customs shall be enforced n therrespeotve possessons upon the Gold Coast : -",... treasonable ~ez en f Aggery had been a Brtsh subject), letter (p. 72), and Colonel Cenran arrested hm, and sent hm off custody to Serra Leone. Here he was allowed 100L a-year n the Brtsh Possessons : Ale, beer, wne, ann an spm~s or" sprtuous lquors, per old wne gallon, sxpence; cgar~, snuff, or" untl Her Majesty s pleasure should_be known. Colonel Conran had pronounced, Governor Blackall approved, and, fnally, tobacco n any shape, per pound, one penny; gunpowder, per" pound, one penny ; frearms of every descrpton, each one shllng ; on all other goods of every knd, au ad valerem duty of:. "Her Majesty s Government confrmed, hs.repetton as kng. There s to be no kng u future. Now ths s the exercse of absolute soveregnty over Cape Coast 3 l?er cent. on the nvoce prce. :n the Netherland Possessons : Ale, beer, wne, and all sprlf~ Town and all that terrtory n whch Aggery was acknowledged or sprtuous lquors, per ltre, eght cents ; cgars, snuff, or tobacco n an~ shape, per klogramme, ten cents; gunpowder, per- as kng. The -kngs of Cape Coast, though all subject to electon by the people on occason of a demse, exsted.n the person of ths very Aggery s ancestors before the Enghsh were at Cape klogramme, ten cents; fre,ms of every descrpton, each, sxty cents; on all other goods of every knd, an ad raeremduty of C=ast at all~even before Cape Coast Castle was bult for the purposes of the slave-trade. So far, at least, the anomalous three per cent. on the nvoce prce. Artcle 3.--n order to prevent frauds n the mportaton of" poston may be sad to have ceased. We have snce apponted a goods, the hgh contractng partes engage to empower the offlcers head man, wthout any electon by the people, merely upon the of therespectve customs on the Gold Coas to requre the nomnaton of some few ndvduals. Now, under the~crcumstances, we thnk that Kng Aggery has receved very hard masters of vessels to make declaraton of the nature, quant{-y~ and value of any goods whch they may be allowed to land. f treatment. Wthout enterng at all here upon the queston of the offcem customs shall be of opnon thathe value so to be the proprety or justce of hs arrest, deposton, and transportaton, we re eat that he a recevng hard treatment. Why should declared s nsuffcent, they shall be at lberty to take the gcod~ on publc account, on payng to the mporter the amount of h~ he he the, ctm of the,, ano, ous po to. " valuaton, wth the addton of 10 per cent. thereon, aud returnng any duty whch may have been already pad. suted the Brtsh Government to strew ~o commue, ann wmv,, they could have put an end to whenever they thought ft? Or, f Artcle 4.--The tarff of customs dutes Sl~efed n Artcle 2 t was deemed bes that he should be a vctm to the extent of shall be put nt operaton from and after a day to be agreed deposton and exle, on What ground can t be justfed that he upon between the two Governments, # and shall reman n force should be starved n hs exle? When he reached Serra l.,cone he was allowed 100L a-year, untl Her Majesty s ~easure should for a perod of ten years ; and further, untl the expraton of twelve months arer ether of the two contractng partes ~hall be known. Ths was approved. Subsequently ~Earl Carnarvon have gvenotce to the other of ts desre for a revson or taro approved OfA ggery s deposton (the last publshed dspatch), but runaton thereof. "wshes hm to be treated wth all reasonable consderaton; that he shall receve 10O/. a-year, but thbt he had better resde Artcle & The tarff of customs dutes may be enforced for Some few years n Serra Leone." But Governor Blackall relaxed by the local authortes, at ther own dscreton, or accordng to the orders of therespectve Governments, n resl)ec~ was not the man to let hs and Colonel Conraa s vctm off so of artcles mported for the use of those authortes, or for the easly. There s not one word n Lord Carnarvon s dspatch to personal use and consumpton of offcers n.-the actual servce of Governor Blackall about callng upon Kng Aggery, as a ~nd.tlon of hs penson, to acquesce n hs deposton, ann sell nsthe Government. ttle for 100L a-year. Lord Cameroon acted lke a gentleman; Artcle 6.~The mutual ttausfer of forts, possessons, an~ Governor Blackall lke what he s, a tyranncal hater of everythng Afrcan. He called mmedately upon Aggery to sgn a rghts of soveregnty or jursdcton, stpulated n Artcle 1 of the present Couventon, s dependent upon and subject to the paperenouncng all hs clam end ttle, &e., at Cape Coast, establshment of the proposed tarff, and shall not tak effect untl the Government of each country shall have procured the and approvng of everythng that had been done to hm, as sn ndspensable condton of hs recevng the 100L a-year for hs enactment of any laws or regulatons necessary n order to establsh tha tarffor the term and under the condtons heren- support. Aggery, to hs credt, refused to sgn. Blackall was before descrbed, and shallhave actually put the same ntoperalon. nexorable; Downng-street totally ndfferent; and ~ Aggery ~the vctm of an "anomalous Poston" created and mantaned by the Brtsh authortes~h erudly hfl to darts n Artcle 7.--After the transfer alluded to n the foregong Artcle shall have been made, a map shall be drawn of the now. Serra L,~one. boundary dvson accordng to the terms of Artcle 1. Two copes of the sad map, duly attested by the Governments on ~ONVENTON BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE ether sde, shall then be appended to ths Conventon for the KNG OF THE NETHERLANDS ~OR AN NTER- purpose of showng the boundary, whch shall undergo no alteraton, even should any of the vllages mentoned at the end of CHANGE OF TERRTORY ON THE GOLD COAST OF AFRCA. Artcle 1 be subsequently abandoned, or the tarff be modfed or (Sghed at London, March 5, Ratfcatons exchanged at wthdrawn. Londonj J uly 5, 1867.) Artcle 8.~Tho pre~ent Conventon, afterecevng, ao far as War Majesty the Queen of the Unted Kngdom of Great Brtan and reland, hs Majesty the Kng of the Netherlands, be ratfed, and the ratfcatons shall be exchanges at Lonuo~ may be necessary, the approval of the legslatve authon ~, ~_ beng of opnon that an nterchange of terrtory on the Westwthn a perod of four months, or sooner f po~ble. Coast of Afrca would conduce to ther mutual advantage, and n wtness whereof the respectve plenpotentares have would promote the nterests of the nhabtants, have resolved to sgned the same, and have affxed thereto e~.als of ther arms. conclude a conventon for that pur~x~, and have therefore Done at London, the ffth day of March, n the year of our ~ as ther plenpotentares, that s to say--there follow, the lord one thousand eght hundred and ~xty.soven. names of the plenpotentarea ]~who, after havng communcated C~vox. B~mcx. to each other therespectve full powers, found n good and duo Srx,x~m~. C.J.M. NAOralasform, have agreed upon the followng artcles :--... Artcle 1.--Her Brtanno Majesty cedes to hs /dajes~ the "The 1st of January, 1868, has been agreed upon for so. ths mrpo AuGust 23, 1867.] THe, A aloa TMES. 25 NEW WORK BY DR. AFRCANUS HORTON, S.A.S. journal, drectly opposed to the "power wth whche s nvested Dr. Afdcauus Herren s work on the Clmate and ~eteorology by the law. Ths advocate for the abolton of tral by jury n of the West Coast of Afrca has been publshed snes our lastcrmnal cases has already sentenced prsoners to be flogged, when number. Press of matter prevents our revewng t ths month ; the law prescrbed no such power; and he has adjudged ten but t contans much Valuable nformaton aud advce, and wll, years mprsonment when the law drected three! The we have no doubt, be a permanent authorty as regards the WestCrmnal Calendar of the Court at Serra Leone publshed n Coast on the matters qf whch t treat*. (See Advertsement, your last journal establshes ths terrble fact. p. 27.) The sentences of Mr. Husses (a fourth-class attorney a the West ndes, and who has never been called to the bar) must zo zns znrrez o~ znz ~axc~r z~xzs. c~mpol the Colonal-offce to cancel hs appoutment, uuless t Hotel de Rvol, Pars, July 30, permts Governor Blackall not merely to take away tral by jury Sr,--As you are the recosnzed" organ of West Afrcann that colony, but to allow the caprces and whms of Mr. rnterest~, and have htherto honoured soma of my communca. Justce Huggns to supply tho fxed rules and solemnty of law. lons wth nserton, am pecularly anxous to address you at f may be allowed, n a matter of such consttutonal and the present momento~s perod. socal mportance, to ntroduce my own humble name, beg to n common wth all the frends of Afrca, watched wth-sagreat anxety for the productoh of the papers on thd abolton Blackall and the Legslature of Serra Leone, composed almost that, by a sngular concdence, at the very perod Governor of tral by jury at Serra Leone, moved for by ~r. Charlesexclusvely of salared offcals, were ndecently passng ths Buxton, M.P. These papers, from whch you have gven Ordnance the secret Councl-chamber at Serra Leone, upon extracts n your last number, have now passed nto the hands of the fallacous and assumed grounds of the utter ncompetency the publc. of Afrcan jurors, was the means of gettng the Judcal confess that, notwthstandng my ntmate "knowledge of the Commttee of the PHvy Councl to reverse the judgments n admnstraton of the law at Serra Leone, almost began to threea~s tred before Mr. Carr end another judge n the Vcefear that u my absence from that colony some cases mustadmralty Court of Serra Leone w~ou~ aj~ry. have occurred justfyng the wthdrawal of a great consttu-tonal prvlege lke that df trsl by jt{ry from the Afrcancolumns, would ask the justce-lovng people of England not to concluson, Sr, through your valuable and fearless ~ople. defend ths Ordnance, whch, now that all the offcal documents ]n seekng the ad of members of theleglslature to preventconnected wth t have appeared, s proved to be altogether tlds law from remanng as a permanent ll, was always met unjastf~ble.-- am, Sr, your obedent servant, wth the remark, "Wat untl the papers are produced; Governor Blackall would never have dared to take away such a W. R~s% Barrster-at-law. rght unless t had beau grossly abused." PARLAMENTARY PAPERS. Ths was the assumpton upon whch ths emnently unconsttutonal Ordnafce was based, and wll, now that the ~lra t from a Despatch of G~vernor.Pns t o th~ 8ecrdary of Staff, KNG AGGERY. papers have been produced, fearlessly ask, "Has the Governor, Aprl 7, or hs recent upholder, ex-chef Justce Mr. Carr, produced any cases n whch a Serra Leone jury proved themselves unworthy Wthn three hours Mr. West wated upon me wth a of so sacred a trust?" The papers are before the world, and a letter, whch accepted, and trusted was a proof of perfect submsson the vtal queston, and named the followng day for place of ctng any partcular cases from the Supreme Court of Serra Leone, n whch the Afrcan jurors abused the power of tho ntervew" requested, at whch explaned shortly, but clearly the jury-box n cvl actons, both the Governor and the ex-chef and emphatcally, that would encourage to the utmost courts ffudge deal n general assertons and ursubstantated calumnes~ of arbtraton or conclaton for the Kng of Cape Coast, and Now let us sea the dfferent coat-so of acton pursued by these ethers, whoso powers wouldefne, who should be responsble p~or natve jurors whom Governor Blackall and ex-chef Justceto the Brtsh courts on appeal. especally la down the prncple that a Brtsh Governor could not permt rresponsble tr- Cart deemed to be unworthy of the frst rght of etsenshp. They, n opposton to ths "Ordnance, dd not deal a loosebunals exercsng the powers, at all events, of mprsonment; asserton or empty slander, but forwarded, through the Governor, tha the demand of the Kng of Cape Coast,.the only one wthu to the Colonal-offce a petton whch set forth the real cause of the protectorate who refused appeal, was, m fact, a severance the passng Of the Ordnance, and whch justfed ther vow~ from such protecton, renderng the Brtsh trbunals all but useless, aud deprvng the nhabtants of the counsel, ad, and assst- namely, to enable powerful European offcals to beather black servffuts wth mpunty. ance whch Great Brtan accorded them. You would magne, Sr, notwthstandng the ancent and spoke at some length ou these subjects, and urged all present chronc hatred of the Afrcan race entertaned by Governorthaths was the moment of all others to decde whether should Blackall, that he would pay attenton to specfo charges, of report to you, Sr, thaths porton ef Western Afrca decded cruelty and nhumanty cted agansthe Colonal Surgeon, to throw o[~he protectou of England, as they could, some of Treasurer, and Master of the Supreme Court (Messrs. Bradshaw, them, read themselves tha ths queston was beng d~ussed by Pke, and Mar~ton), n the petton addressed to the Earl of the naton. C, arna~von by the natve people." But the Governor dd nothng~extract from Mnutes of.exec,dra C~un l.-=sth ng of ~Tarch 95, of the knd, and t was not untl strongly censured by the Colonal-offce for not notcng them, as appears by the papers, t appears, gentlemen, that a natve-- ~ do not pretend a Brtsh subject---was taken be fore the Kng s court for Fetsh prac- that ha was constraned to deal wth these cases, and then he endeavoured to mtgate the character of outrages whc he tces, and mprsoned ; that he ran away to our court at Gotho acknowledged, by the flmsest defence whch a small heart and a House ; that 3~artn, the Kng s magstrate, was summoned ; but atu smaller uteuect ever suggested. ~pon the man s own confessou that he was gulty of Fetsh f then, Sr, the Ordnance be based upon a false assump-,ractceston, need not dwell upon the mode by whch t was caused,,~artn 5L sterlng only, for the assault, wth my sancton and our Actng Stpendary Magstrate fned the sad snce the F, arl of Caraarvon has already denounced t. The approval. Tho fne was not pressed; however, t was sent under Ordnance was passed n one hour, at one sttng of the Legslatve Councl, wth closedoors, wthout any notce whatever to the Kng admts the prncple, by payng the fne. n Governor protest wth alette rfromthekm" " o. Now~t " a PP ears to me that the pubhc. Maclean s tme ths would have been a very smple matter. A. thnk, Sr, Mr. Cart, the ex-ohef Justce, has been quotedfew troops would have been sent, and the unfortunate George as a hgh authorty n support of the removal of tral by jury. Blankson Wood brought away. Now can do no such thng. How was t, then, that for a quarter of a century, n the full tllnk yo~t wll agree wth me, thathe slghtest dsturbance at exercse of hs ntellect, he justfed a course of proceedng the the present moment would be a very serous matter for me, and enormty of whcha sees when hs eyes can only rest upon a for many here present. All that eau say s, tha the law must splendd penson and a lfe of ease. Governors, know, have a be respected. ~rbm tme mmemoral, the busness of our court great deal to do as to the retrement of publc offcers ; and, n has been the sftng of appeals from the country Courts to ours. fact, t s the only case where the out-gong offcal, no matterf ths thng s to be allowed, must shut up our court; we how exalted he may be, requres from the Governor a certfcate cannot reman here under the crcumstauces. of approval (n order to enable hm to obtan hs penson). Ths,.Eztract frow Letter of ~ng A ggerg to Gorermr.Pne,.Mare~, to a certan extent, may account for the new-born zeal of ex- f ths tme your Rxcellency has thought ft and proper to Chef Justce Carr as to the abolton of tral by jury. queston and protest aganst the consttuton of my Government llr. Huggns, who offcally worked out ths Ordnance, has sece been elevated to the bench, and how has he dscharged ts an.: my polcy, trust your Excellency s not unprepared to set bounds to my jursdcton as Kng, and pont out where should dutes? He who has declared tral hy jury should be abolshed Jn crmnal cases es well as n cvl actons, has been passng a go, where should not go. ~erles of sentences upon pr~ners, as appeared n your last Governor Pne. /

6 Eztract~ from J~tter of J~ng A. ery to Gorern~r Pm, settement bas bcen recently as 1864 dscussed u Parlament; Mare~ 16, and t a nnderstood that " the only ground elalmed by th~ t appears that whle vonr Excellency acknowledges wy r~ght, Brtsh Government a that wthn the walls of the castle," &o. as Kng, to rule and govern my country, your Excellency s not Agan, u as to the domestc affars of the natves;" 3~r. pleased to recognze my court and ts proceedngs, because, aa Chchester :Fortescue, a meh~ber of Parlament, and a member, alleged, t s rresponsble, and not amenable to appeal to the also, of Lord Palmerston s Government, tells us u hs speech of Brtsh judcal authortes. 17th Juno last, that " the Government dd ts besto reform our As a Chrstan, have already set myself to reform, to someways, wthout, however, forcng ther lawn aud usages upon us." extent, the common law of the country, but the laws and customs Meanwhle feel oblged to refer the matter to Her Majesty s ef the country cannot all be at once dsplaced and replaced wth-governmenout the effuson of blood, and feel t but madness on my partto report, by the marl packet hourly expected, on the state of n :England, especally as your Excellenoy ntenc~ to attempt cvlzng the people n one day. thngs here, and especally as we understand ~ commttee of the Here am compelled to observe, that u the days of Governor House of Commona wll be assembled ths search, the object of Captan Macleav, the Governor, n a very pecular, mperceptble, the Commttee n queston beng to nquh e nto the state of and unheard-of manner, wrested from the hands of our kngs, affars on the (]old Coast. chefs, and headmen, ther power to govern ther own subjeots. Zeuhman~- Governor Canran fo 8ecrdary of ~tafe, The Governor, placng hmself at the head of a handful of sol. O tohtr 7, alters, had been known hmself to travel to the remotest parts of Cape Coast, October 7, the nteror, for the purpose of compellng kngs, chefs," and Sr,--Th e anne ale~stoms (or Black ChrMmas), they are called, headmen (through fear of man or other feelng) to obey hs Excellency g summons or to comply wt hs Exeellency a decrees. and September, when each company under a captan armed wth gatherngs whch take place usually durng the months of August b- tj A blo was thus frmly, slowly, and persstently struck, and the dstngushng flags meets at some central spot for muster and. supreme authorty, power, and even nfluence of the kngs, chefs, parade for several days, but seldom for less.tha.n aweek ueludng Sunday, durng whch the state of nmxtcauon ~rom common and headmen gave way to the powerful Governor Maclean ( shall not enter nto detals, or shall be assalng the sanctuary Amercan rum, costng but 3d. or 4d. a pnt, s fearful to wtness. of the dead), k whte face, a red jacket was, n consequence, Ths year the custom was held opposte Government House f, terror on the Gold Coast. and very kngs were frghtened ntoby my permsson, the chefs havng promsed that t should be makng concessons, complancee, and obesances as degradng so conducted that no one should be h urt durng the frng, and the regal offce aa affectng the royal character, authorty, and ths promse they most fathfully fulflled, must confess, as far ncome. n order to gan hla Exc ellency s pont, the Governer aa ths town s concerned, whle the reverse was the case wthn spared no efforts to adopt measures calculated to breedsaffecton, dsloyalty, dsobedence, aud consequent estrangement n whle slxty-hree were wounded, some severely, and some, a few mles of t at Mumford, where four men were shot dead, L~..; the subjectowards hs lawful kng. A kng was regarded as suppose, slghtly, by one company (,000 men at least) frng not above the reach of the then establshed court of justce, and the other wth loaded arms. any one ndvdual subject was placed on a footng wth hs Last year, too, at Secondee, wthn a few mles of Cape soveregn as equally as the " kng s less than ell;" pe~apscoast, a smlar proceedng to that just quoted took place, whch forgettng that t s only when tha kng has volated the nxeuended n kllng twelve or fourteen persons, some of whoso and essental prncples of the consttuton of a naton thatha bodes saw paraded through ths town as unconcerned, F- a people, n the absence of any hgher trbunal to appeal to, mghtparently, as f they had ded from natural causes. lawfully do themselves rght. The Governor consttuted hmself as the people; complants of every descrpton from the laws but that of ther own (the Fantce), whch takes, t would Thnkng, therefore, that they are not amenable to any subject wer entertaned aganst the kng ; and the kng was not appear, no notce of such dongs, thought a notce publshed, unfrequently placed n the dock and fned or mprsoned, or such as the one enclosed herewth, mght on future oceasona be (hardly credble) flogge4 for trval grevances; many a subjecthe means of checkng such lawlessuess amongst them, and hope ~.as encouraged and counteuanced to throw off wth mpuntyt wll, too, by lettng them understand that our laws extend ther very alle~auce, an allegance whch could not well be ds-froowned and gnoredand dened wthout endangerng the securtymles, brngng them thereby wthn our laws, so far as we can, each castle and fort [o a dstance eta cannon shot,.or fve of the kng; and alas! subsequent events have recently eo far to deter them from such dreadful practces; whlst wthn such cons[&ed to press the kngs end chefs well ngh to throw the dstance the domesto slave queston cannot and s not ntended natk.n after ther last power and nfluence. Hence the threatened to be meddled wth ; and although the notce haa been ou~ now overthrow of the fghts of the natve kngs and chefs; hencefor a fortnght, not a sngle murmur from hgh or low have " the servlty and deluson nnd puerle confdence n governors, heard aganst t, the better classes of Fautees everywhere rather and the ndfference to lberty deep.seated n the natves hereapprovng of ts purport and meanng. " end on the Gold Coast generally;" and hence the:~lleged contnued practce (good or bad) n vogue--vz, that "the t must also be remembered, that for fft years back our decsons Government here have been n the habt of gvngrants of land of (as alleged)the kngs and chefs of Cape Coast and of the wthn ths range to natves and others upon applcaton for t on! nteror have been and ere nvarably subject of reversal, and n regular forms, provng at once, n ther opnon, our fghto eo such case such kngs and chef see (f of mportance) nvted, dspose of t. and, falng attentons, summoned to our courts; and at ths very Do away wth ths adnowledged rght on our part, and moment a powerful kng of a large dstrct has most promptlyltgaton must be the result, questonng our power to transfer obeyed ~u n.ctaton to confront one of hs chefs who hsa com-theplaned of hm." thnk, Sr, for the reasons etated here, that we had better own land. The Kng s Court s not of yesterday. From tme mmemoral let matters stand aa they are ths day, feelng certan, as do, t has exsted, end t even exsted before Cape Coast C~stle tselfthat t s the soundest course to adhere to uuder all crcumstances. was erected, and the ground on whch the ~astle stands was And may add, that have not known an nstance of domestc orgnally taken fromy ancestor nt ~ auuu~l rent slaves leavng ther owners for our castles, forts, setthment~ n the :Report of Her Majesty s Commssoner of nqury ntoon thls long lne of coast durng the las two years; they are the state of the Brtsh Setllcmeus on the Gold Cooer, &e., n thepart and parcel of ther famles, to whch they are as much year 1841, we have the followng words: " All the buldngs attached aa ther chldren are; consequently, there a no danger whch serve for the Governor s resdence, the barracks, the to be apprehended on ths pont.~ have, &o., hosptal, and the prsou, ere contaned wthn the walls of the EnwA~n CoN~N, castle; and these, wth the exeeptou of the two small forts of Colonel, Commandng Troops, Leut -Oovernor. the neghbourng heghts, consttute the only terrtory belongogry ~ onoura~[e ~?dward Card~ell fo ~ eul.~6vernor Conran. to the Brtsh Government." t. Dr. Z[adden contnues, " Downng-street, November 23, t s a queston whether the nland range of the guns cf the castle oughto be consdered the lmts Sr,-- have to acknowledge your despatch of October 7,- of our terrtory, and whether the town of Cape Coast, whch s enclosng the copy of a notce whch you have ssued, n whch wthn gunshot of the castle, ough to be consdered Brtshyou defne the lmts of :Her Majesty s possessons o.u the Oo!d terrtory not ;" and even stood by my late father, Joseph, Coast. am unable to approve the step whch you have ~a~,~ when hs Z[ajesty, " wth a number of the headmen and cabn declarng the terrtory wthn fve mles of eght ~eparato- Brtsh forts to be Brtsh terrtory, end have to nstruct you to- the notce n whch ths s done. Whatever dfloence you boceers of the town, argued, n the presence of the do~tor, veryrecall strenuously agansthe opnon of the natves of Cape Coast beng consdered aa subjects of the Enghsh SovereGn, and may be able to exert n decoursgng or repressng barb.~ro~. customs, leadng to the loss of lfe, wll be very proper, ana "t was not wthout," as the doctor htmself" admflted," " reason ~ o ar =~ ~ ~" We have already protested aganst the subject of shall be happy to approve your cxerdse of t; but the extersonof Brtsh terrtory s a dfferett matter, and cannot/-ece~ o m~" nh T nts C lm st;.;.nd othe pls,!oe re ed ~ ~rtbh subjects; and the poston of the ~.cauea :ape uoas~ eanctou.-- have, &~., Enw~sn C~m~wz~., 26 THE AFRCAN TZES. [Arouse 23, 18{} r AUGUST 23, 1867.] THE AFRCAN THES. 27 1Ny~t~,2t onoura~b Edward Cardw l to Lt~l.-Gorerrwr Conran. Downlng.street, December 22, [Anrgarsm~z~r.] Sr,-- have receved your despatch, of the 2nd ult., forward. ST. MARK S HOSPTAL, CAPE PALZfAS. nn a copy of a notce whch you had ssued to preventhe Subscrptons are solcted for the above hosptal by any frends aestructlon, of.~or~ mprovements whch you are carryng and wellwshers -nto effce~ m t o towns oz t~alm Coast, Anamaboe, and Acorn. The above ho~~ s bult for the accommodaton of seamen approve of the efforts whch you are makng for keepng these of all natons. ~owna n d.ecent order; but at the same tme draw your attenton All owners of vessels, captans, chef GrOCers, pursers, salors, to the caufou whch have gven you n a former despatch, and &o., are respectfully solcted to subscrbe for the support of the -wsh you to avod ntroducng any expressons whch be~r the above.named hosptal. :appearance of extendng jursdcton over terrtory at the (]old Ralstou, Subscrptons Esq., Consul-General wll be thankfully for Lbera, receved 27", n England Tokenhouse-yard, by Gerald Coast.-- have, be., Enw~m) C~m~wm~. ~traclfrom Deapa~c~ of ~ eut.-~orernar Conran to Eeeretary of London ; and on the Coast by the Hen. Joseph T. Gbson, Calm Elate, October 23, Palmas, Lbera..[l~TrlalofaSold[er have not been n court "Kng" durng formurderofafantce, ths tral, but have narot..] been nformed tha the jurors and others appeared to conduct themselves Just publshed by Messrs. Churchll aud Co., London, MPORTANT NEW WORK ON WEST AFRCA. (ou such a solemn occason,) more lke a rabble than anythngphyscal and ]~ecloal Clmat0 and ~lete0rology of else, whch arose, fear, out of want of respect for the Actng Chef Justce, who, from the hgh poston he holds, possessed the the West Coast of Afrca, power of keepng order n the court over whc he presded. WTH HNES TO EUROPEANS FOR THE PRESERVATON OF HEALTH N THE TROPCS. ndeed, Sr, Brtsh law a at a low standard here snce the B v -. <]eparturo of Chef Jua~ce Wackett; who, must say, never for y JAMES AFRCANU.~ B. HORTON, M.D., S taffkss~stan t- one moment forgot he was the judge, and as suc hs courts were Surgeon of H. M. a Forces n West Afrca. PHce 10s. conducted and respected. Orders, wth remttances, wll be receved by the Edtor of have been here now for upwards of two years, watchng the the Afrcan Tme*, 4, Coleman-street-buldngs, Moorgate-street, l~roceednga of the natves of Cape Coast respectng law, and am London, E.C. ef opnon that the Brtsh must end should preval wherever Post Offce orders to Fcrduand ~tzgerald, Esq. there aro magstrates, makng allowances as far as po~ble for the customs and manners of the natves, lettng the kngs and JOHN BROWN, Junor, chefs everywhere throughout the Protectorate carry on ther COMMSSON-MERCttANT, own and present made of dealng wth ordnary eases (land questons, murders, be., excepted, whch must come to the 5, H A T T 0 N G A R D E N K 0 L B 0 R N, supreme courts). LONDON, E.0. There need be no msgatrates Wnnebah or Dxcove, whlst there must be at ths place, Anamaboe, and Acorn, n whch ( ~OTTON, ~ PACKED WOOL, by WALKER S and other Materal, PATENT :ROTATNG PRESSED and Brtsh law oughto bo mantaned ntact where such nsttu fleas as hosptals and schools must be establshed to the best ṖRESS, of Splttng n HALF the Cane, the Palm USUAL Nut Assorters, THE. ~ugar ~ut Crackers, Mlls for and our means ;as at present there s nothng of the knd n ether of those large towns, and untl now there was no hospral here, every knd of Machne for Afrca or nda whle the school could hardly be called one from the defectve 7, COWPER STREET, CTY :ROAD, LONDON. teachers placed over ther scholars, and ths well as the hosptal the asdstance ofcemmttees ~f other gentle-"]~est COAST of AFRCA, /ffadera, TENERFFE. men, abouto remedy as far as t h n my power to do ~. r v ---The Afrcan steamshp Company s fast and commodous (To ~ eonffnued n our,wzt.) STEAMERS leave LVERPOOL ou the 0tk and 24th of EVERY MO~TK (excepthat when the latter date falls on o ~n-s ~r~on o~ zm~ A~c~a~ ~nt~. Monday the Day of Salles wll be the 25th). (J~g a New ~rr,~en~ ~n ~England.) The packets of the 24th convey :Her ~ajesty s Mals, , August, 867. and proceed to MADERA, TENERFFE, BATHURST, Dear Sr,-- have lately seen your number for J uly. was SERRA LEONE, MONROVA, CAPE PAL~AS, CAPE ~ot before aware of the exstence of the Afrcan Tme,. feel C0AST CASTLE, ACCRA, JELLAH COFFEE, LAGOS, utere, ted n all that relatea to Western Afrca. Havng resdedbenn, BONNY, FERNAND0 PO, OLD CALABA:R, and there for some years, and been an e e.wtness of the way n CAMER00NS whch matters are carred on n connexon wth the Government, can mostruly testfy to the fearful real-admnstraton The packets of the 10th are open to call, by specal arrange- ment, at any por~ on the West Coast of Afrca, but as a rule ~at prevaled--nearly all the offcea connected wth the local they wll only call at Madera, Serra Leone, Cape Palmas, ~overnment flled up by mltary offcers (ncludng aubslterns), Antra, Lanes, Bonny, Fcrnando Pc, and Cameroons. Tenerffo who kn6w as much about Englsh law as an ox known about wll be called at on the home route only. astronomy, the consequence naturally beng msruleverywhere, to the annoyance of tl~e ntellgent porton of the natve The flue new Steamshp LAGOS, A.J.M. CROFT, Commauder, wll leave LVERPOOL on SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, populaton, to the dsgust of European merchants and others, and to the dsgrace of the Brtsh name Never wll thngs be at 12 noon. altered untl the fght men be put nto the rght place. f Passengers embark by steam tender, leavng the Prnce s were asked who should be Governor of Cape Coast Castle, Landng ~tage at ~.m punctually. would mmedately say, a men of hgh ntellgence, of Good and heavy baggage must be alougsdo the shp at the aupremo ablty, ~u~l of angular apttude for all the dutes of loadng berth, Coburg Dock, not later than 6 P.x. on the 22nd, a that post-----a man ncemparably superor to most of the noodles Shppng Note requred wth each carflcad, an4 contents of who have held offce there, and above all, a man who would be a packages descrbed theren. father to the country. Tt~ ruouree, of t~a~ prolfc regon rarer Norz.--Gooda for Serra Leone wll be lauded there at COrncan bs d~eloped as t~g ot~m, n b~ so long as the meu havopauy s expense, but shpper a rsk; at all other ports they must be epoken of are permtted to ~ ule. t would boa gloroua countrytaken from alongsdo nrrval, or they wll be carded on aud f t had far play. 0 that tho Home Government would awakotransferred to floatng dep6ts, or landed and stored entrely at to the mnortaneo of ths fact. and annont mea who would b shpper s rsk and expense. t he~r enlghtened... vews and Chrstan prncples be a real and Y Goods for Cameroo ns must (for the ~resent) be taken from lsstng blessng to the Afrcaa couutrles earnestly hope that alongsde at Greenpatch, consgneo a rsk aud expense, but the a thorough reformaton n ths respect wll speedly tako place, Company wll shortly provde a small salng vessel to convey ant that, nstead of hearng of nothng from there but ncessant cargo between the steamers at Grecnpatch and the anchorage grevances, wo shall hear of peace, contentment, and prospe~ty, at Camcrocna, at sh!pper s rsk. "--You~, No~e~.~Parcela addressed to dfferent cons]gue~, and made DED. up n one package, wll be cbarged freght on each parcel as f 3"ely 17, 1867, on board the Athenan, off Lverpool, Clara,shpped separately. All freght must be prepad. Norms.~The M COREGOR LARD wll be despatched on the ~vllthe belovedplease towf accept JulUSths asungar notce).esq" f of Aeons. (Frends 10th September for Madera, ~erra Leone, Calm Palmas~ Acorn, Lagos, Bonny, Fernando Po, and Cameroons. Dowsrs~-sraxer, August 14.~The Queen has been pleased For further nformatou apply a Lverpool to tho Agents,.appont Henry Dunkley, E~q., to be a member of the Legls-Mex~rs.= FLETCHER and PARR, 23, Caste-street; or at the htze Couucll of H er Majesty s setdement of Lsgos. Company s slcas, 1%. 14, Leadenhall.street, London.! t!! (,

7 ! G T Are manufactured n sutable styles for all occasons, and n the varous substances of cloth for allclk~tes, 59s:to 114s. MORNNG & BUSNESS SUTS 42s. to 84s. ] DRESS & PROMENADE SUTS. 17s. 6d. to 30a TROUSERS... 14s. to 26s. TROUSBRS... THE NEW BOOK ON GENTLBMEN S ATTRE Contans Forty-three Engravngs to representhe Fashonable Styles, a Lst of Prces, and novel rules for Selfme~ure. Prce 6<1., deducted from o purchase. Any garment can be suppled by sendng the followng.me~ur~ Gve, to ~,~/ne.a~, the wrst ; whole for length brght of of sleeve, person, arm ~x~--round the breast, round the wast, from centre oz vscx from top to bottom, ~nt. For W a~coa~--round breast and wast. For Tro~r~-~Length outsde seam length nsde seam from fork to bottom, round the wast, round the seat. LAMPLO PYRETC EFFERVESCNG U GH S SALNE. Halle teaspoonful, ftken n a tumbler of water, contrbutes more to the refreshment of the body thau any known beverage; nvgoratng and vtals~g the blood, t allevates thlrst n a most agreeable manner, and furnshes the system wth those salne prncples that are essental to health. SCKNESS, HEADACHE, and NAUSEA are n most cases mmedatelyreleved by takng a teaspoonful n a tumbler of cold water; ths can be repeated once or twce n two hours, f needful. SEA VOYAG ES.~ t ~s " a ve valuable ry accompanment,... and should on no account be omtted ; t nstantly allays the sckness.... t/~ttc ~r,pttrrtons. sdvn_~ rse to wtmted Secretons, ndloeshon, ~,. and. Eru. tons ~P, on the Sku~a toaspoonfut.... r of water, let ths fall to the n a letter of reqtlest tot an 9,o.aluontLt ~t,~z~-# *~- ~ -~- Majesty s Representatve, the ~-~vernor o~ ~e~ ~,~ the han&~ of all Europeans vstng the ~:~plc~." s of GREA~ VALUE. anc~ x ana~ re~om~ uj u~v,~,a =-, bottom of the glass, and then str nto t a teaspoonful of the Salne, and drnk durng effervescence. n JUNGLE, YELLOW, SCARLET, TYPHUS, anal GASTRC FEVERS, and ERUPTVE DSEASES, t should be gven n teaspoonful doses every four hours, n a glass hag full of water, or wth au ncreased quauh ty o U ~vater f the patent W. suffers Szzvz~ s, from Esq., thrst. ~.D. aud D.C.L., n a work upon fevers, s~ates that snce ts ntroducton the fatal West ud~ Fevers are deprved of ther terrors Ịn the sland of Trndad alone, out of upwards of One Thousand treated on ths plan, there were only eleven deaths ~ ^~ ~"fe taken Calomel or ~ercural preparatons, u order to t s partcularly recommenaea to a~ wno n.avea~ any p~r~v a ~.~. ~...,... :- ~mall re~eated t, doses " theremora 1. For - such t... s necessary to take the ~ttbrvescng x :--~ -~,^:- ryreuo ~anno "~ ~aluable mr severa~ nror~rles mou~,~,~ unmpared o by tme or clmate. e Well corkca use e ar s o0n, 8ha l~ wu~ ~v~,~ ~ - r r- N.B.~Keep the bottl ~-. P.... ~.,, t h th eat ~reparaton of the knd " have over met " w~t. " h, of the ~.,onoon rtospllal, ln n]s xe[ er, t~ttttt~... e b Dr. Septlmu, Gtbbo ~... ~----= ~-- ~-~;-ot experence ts suoerorty conssts m ~s veaog renuerca sefflness n the treatmen~ o~ mse~e nan ~ong v.~eu ~;uuu~,,,vu,,~... ~-_... r ~..~.~, ~o=, ~ ~be habt of usn t n vrvate pract][~or~ugbly anhydrous, &c.,&c. 1 spea~ from adequate knowledge of the preparer ~? "~" ~. ~ tcs for many years, and havng taken a large quantty wth me when [ went as physcan to the ~myrna nospt*,, n nol clmates, tee preparaton s of especal va~ue.~august cal 7, n~ 18.~7." ectcr of Em rauts from the port of Londou, wrtes: "From my personal au.d professonal Dr. Sparks, Government Mad. ~p, ~ g ~...,v,... r.u~u]?~^~,~.~,. ant have c.~n~nlants ~rest pleasure and other n bearng forms of my Feor, cord!ele and kuowledge of the value ot far..la~plou(}hs.-~rez ~... "~ ~a~ m nvt ~sue~::~/. ~t~e treatment of many of ~he ordnary and ehro~o f... sever~ otess~ons, the ~mca:y of dr=~,,p~,o=o.s Pz~uc ~.,.,.~z, m Oasmo and ~utenue ~xr,,~.~... wth Derangement of the Dgestve r. LAMPLOUOH S~-LNE org.ans.... Xtorthem Hosptal London" " have no hesltatlon a From "A"homas Cart ~Va ~ o ~sq., n P~RET[C. t s an admrable Febrfuge,.~.n. ~.~., aua ourgeoll to tro ~,J[u~, ~ t, and wll. be found -a.u ehg~ble Mech~.o.e~ommendmg the compound of M.. - "... b n kuown to me" and nave every rea~, where such remedy " ndcated. om m the habt of prescrbng ~t l~gely,~ts compos!hou e? g :~..~xl~ to he satsfed wthout. t s beautfully prepared, aud can be used at a moment s notce w~mout treacle, anu ~s tnetemrs p~,~u, a adapted for use n publc servce."... Ṡ, and ~A C &o, Medcal O~cer of the Clerkenwell Parsh : " [ have much pleasu~ From Davla lv~ovl~a# o the Esq..M medcnal D M..R. uahues C. of Mr J_~.~dPLOUO~S " " : PYazzle SALNE. have " " uses xtens" t e. n ~vely the trettmeut... o~ n bearng testmony t. q " " brfle affectons enerall, and have found " eraut t au Medcne admrable well calculated Refr~g :or... o~se~ses melaeuma a-~ ~e,~, Dmrrh~.a and Fe...,~.g~;~ f.7~... ṙl ~...~ t r,~ssesses chemcal uroverfes capable of f~rmsh/ng the moon wlta Gnu,.. warm curaces, more paructl,m,~j ~... ~ ~ " r matter.~pentonvflle, August 8, ur~eonms(or C. Murray, J Duff, M D, &m., :. ha l~e~srz, err and ~onm~ o ~daaras, n a Jet{er Gales ~eptemner z~,,ego, ~ta~,~ ~ -. j csjled for a further supply of all that we could g~e hm, and spoke of ts remarkable effects n the Jungle Fever n qute em~us~,, - terms, drectng a further supply to be Sent overland, besdes what had already been forwarded by the Cape. A case of Jungle Fever had been treated wth the partal contents of one bottle wth per/oct success; the medcal attendant, o!e.oons~" derable repute, lkes the medcne mucb, and wants more. n another ease of severe Vomtng, the patent was releved after the thrd do~, and fell nto a refreshng sleep. - Mr. Guthrle~ Army Medcal Drector, Becams a warm advocate for ts us. n varous dsesses, and had the P~rete SMne drset f~m the propretor for personal and fsm y use. E.G. H. LAMPLOUGH. 13, HOLBORN, SPECAL AGENTS FOR LAMPLOUGH~ PYRETC SALNE:~ Messrs. 0RR & ~o., Madras; Messrs. ~RAO~ SPTY~ & Co,, Calcutta; Mesn~ TRF.,AOHER & C~, Bombay. Frnted tndpubl/~h. d b~j~.,~ J" OANTOR and CO., SERRA LEONE.