"FOR GOD, AND GOOD TO AFRICA AND HER PEOPLE." VoL VI., No. 68.] LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, { CONTENTS. PAOE West Coast of AJ rica...

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1 the are of a for.l Psh dtto at for /~egstered for] "FOR GOD, AND GOOD TO AFRCA AND HER PEOPLE." [Transmsson Abroad. "f any tl~ 6 o~on~t hs of ~ufer~ th~ fr~a~ Colonal njustce, M~n{~ter w)~aterer n th~s may country."--exrl be M8 dtu% ~ ondcccon, OF C~X~VOX, or SECRET~" ~ eolo,r, OF ~ Srazg ha~ a #qg.~ lo ~ or THE redre~ CoLonc, a~ Acovs~ 2, 1866, VoL V., No. 68.] LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, { POBLSHED MON ~LY. Subec~ptlon, 5s. per Ann:, CONTENTS. PAOE West Coast of AJ rca Yellow Fever Fbre3 (No. 2) The Secretary of State for the Colones on the Jamaca Queston...31 Lberalty of the Me~ts of the Gambls Law Justce at Cape Coast... 8Z Rver Osmbs The Gambs HospRal An~boe Dahomeu Envoys to Engl Admnstraton of Justce at Cape Co~ t.-~-stpendary Magstrates Human Sacrfces Court Abeok-uta " " 38 T~e.W~r n thevolta DL~rets... : Mr, R. B. Walker s Expedton nto the nteror from the Rver Cape Coast Female Natve School Oaboon Subscrptons Advertsements A~yssua :... 3 Afrcan Donatons Subscrptons pad to the "Afrcan T~mes"...30 Clmate o West Afrca... 8~ General Observatons : Parlament : 3ambles... 3~ Fb~ The State o[ Jamaca... 3~ THE COMPANY OF AFRCAN YERCHANTS, LSTED. OAPTA~-- 400,000, n 40,000 Shares of 10 each, WTH POWER TO NCREASE. DRECTORS. WM. DE~T. Es~.,Ohalrmauofthe Thames an~ Mersey nsurance J. ASPNALL TOBN, Es~. (Messrs. Trros. Toms aud Son). Company, London. Ch~rmau of the Lverpool London nsurance Company, ABOHBALD HAMLTOH, Esq. (Mesars. SteeLers, ]~glton, Lverpool. C,~ ). Lbudon. L. ORUNNG, EsQ. (Messrs. FRED. HvrH Co.), Lverpool A. "CASTELLAN, Esq. (Messrs. FEED. Hv~H Co.), Lverpool. [ R. RUMNEY, Ea~., Man :heater. MANAQNQ DRECTOR.,7. ASPNALL TOBN, ESQ., ~Valmer-buldugs, Water.street, Lverpool.,BANKERS. THE ALLANCE BANK OF LONDON, LVERPOOL, AND MANCHESTER, Y~ C.atfft~l of th# Company l~ been fully ~u~cr~bd. Up to the present tme comparatvely lttle has been done to develop the resources of Western Afrca. Trade there s merely n ts nfancy; but the Drectors of ths Company beleve that t may soon be made mo~t valuable to Great Brtan. n 827, the value of Brtsh Foregn Goods exported from the Unted Kngdom to the We~t Oos~t of Afrca was ,7~9 n 1840,,,,,,, 410,798 n 1850,,,.,, 890,216 n 1860,,,,,,, 1,148,484 The total actual value of mport~ from Afrca nto the Unted Kngdom for the sx years, 1886 to 1861 nclusve (beng the late~t 0f~cal return), amounted to n 1818, the mport of Palm 0l nto Engl from AfrCa was. - 1,4 65 tone. 9,804,8~6 n 1823,.,, 3,328,, n 1831,,,,, 8,164,, n 841,.,, 19,853,, n 1860,,,,, 40,216,, Ths ncrease one artcle, Palm-ol, though large, s trflng when compared wth the resources of Western Afrca, whle many artcles equally or more mportant abundant have been totally neglected, or have only very recently receved attenton. The Drectors are convnced that, by a judcous encouragement of, co-operaton wth, natve traders persons resdent on the Coast, the mports of Palm-ol may be greatly ncreased, end also that other most valuable products, htherto dsregarded, may be made a source of we~th botl~ to Afrcans to ths Company. Cotton, Fbres, Palm-nut "Kernels, Pea Nuts, Ol Seed, Coffee, Pepper, Gnger, 0~a, nda Rubber, Gums, Dyes, Beeswax, Ebony, Cop~er Ore, other Mnerals, are all artcles that.afr.ca can ~pply n large quanttes. The Compauy s prepared to receve consgnments of produce for sale n Engl, to purchase shp goods n return, generally to transact busness on commsson aganst credts or good securty. The Company s large fleet of vessels wll offer great facltes to shppers, secure rapd returns. Goods can be delvered at the varous small towns on the Coast wth the greatest regularty, at moderate rates of freght. The ample resources of the Company guarantee to Afrcan shppers the hghest possble prce forthelr consgu. ment~, that purchases wlt be made.for them on the most favoursble terms (the large amount of goods purchased by th~ Co~rpany from the leadng manufacturers of all artcles sutable for the Afrcan Trade wll enable them to buy such goods on far more advantageous terms than could otherwse be looked for), whle the busness wll be conducted such equtable prncples a~ to foster encourage the development of Afrcan resources.. Busness wll be transacted both u London Lverpool. l~or further partlcular~ on busness generally, addre~ AMBS.As~ALL Tosr~, Esq., Managng.Drector of the Cdmpsny of Afrcan Merchants Lmted (at the O~]ces of the Company, Walmer.buldngs, Water-street, Lverpool. t, ) : [ 1..f., ~,

2 t 26 TLE AFRCAN TMES. [SErw~Bsa 22, WEST COAST O~ AFRCA. be preferred tohard water; as West Afrca s, lkosome ptrta The Roytl mal steamer CalNt~r ~rrved at L~ fpoc4 on of talf, pre-emnently l of rvers streams--t ougltt, ~el~ 8, from the Wet Co~t of kyr~. She brought 37 p~therefore, lke taly, to be foremost n the markets of Europ~ floe ~engem, 3,500L n spece, a qu,m~ty of gold dent bar the coloar of ts fbres. For ~e rettng l~,~eess, the rann t~ slver. strea may be used, or t, mka may be dug n the earth, by the Her dates were: Benn, July 25; Cameroons, July 30; Old rver sde, of suffcent depth for the uppermost fbres to be Calabar, Aug. 2; Fernaudo Po, Aug. 3; Brass Rver Bonny, covered eghteen nches n water, of such length as s most Aug. 5; Lagos,-Aug. 8; Acorn, Aug. 10; Cape Coast, Aug. 12; convenent to receve one or more lengths of the plants. Such Palmas, Aug. 14; Serra Leone, Aug. 20; Bathurst, Aug. 24; tanks or pools ought to be su arranged that all the used water Tenerffe, Aug. 29 ; Madera, Sept. 1. may easly be drawn off, where t s practcable ; t s bes to dg lq ews unmportant. such pooh beneath the shade of trees. t s now sad s Trade health were good, except at Bathurst, where yelloweurope that elm trees are best, as the leaves whch fall therefrom fever has proved fatal to seven ~uopea~ a bad nat.v fever assst n cleansng the fbre. When a runnng stream s used t prevals among the natves. s very convenent to place the bundles n slghtly-made wooden frames called cradles, whch, when flled, are sank to the bottom FBRES. by the help of heavy peces of wood or stones. The plants havng been made nto hles, the tops roots eat off, [Letter :No. 3.] zo rne znroa or ran Arnex~r z~zs. carry them forthwth to the water, st them uprght, so that the bottoms or thckest parts of ther stems be only mmersed n the water; on the followng day, lay them down ~o Sr,-- now propose to lay before your Afroan readet~ a few astrnetons cultvatng those two useful fbres, Sda Rhombode Sda Rhombfols, preparng them for the Englsh that they be altogether mmersed n the water, lay ether stonm market :~ or heavy peces of wood on them to keep them mmersed sgh teen nches underwater ; n about forty-eght hours they mu*t ~elon of Stzds.~n a country where these plants are so abundant n a wld state, be careful to collecthe seed n dstrers where t na~.urally grows n the greatest luxurance, be closely watched, as soon as lttle bladders or bubbles am seen to arse through the water over the plants they mu~t be where the fbre s most slky or whte, fne trod glossy u appearance, of the greatest strength ; be careful to choose the seed stem; f they don t separateasly the proea~ must be contnued tred to see f the fbre wll separate from the woody part of the whch s brghtest u colour heavest n weght. longer. As soon as they wll separate freely the whole must, Choce of Grouncl.~A good lght frable 10am s to be preferred, mmedately be removed from the water, as to contnue the process that n such a stuaton that the ran-water cannot reman any longer would rot them nstead of rettng them,. thereby render the fbres useless of no value. on t to become stagnant, as these plants cannot grow n perfeelon on a very wet ground. By a lght frable loam mean a W a~mn$ Beallny.~As ~oon as the retted bundles of plhnts sol composed eta mxture of clay, s, vegetable mould. are taken out of the water, a man takes a hful thereof,, On a stff sol these plants become so fall of gummy resnous stng n a stream of water, beats them up down n the matters as to be much more dffcult to be prepared for market, water, frst one end then the other, to thoroughly remove all whlst on a sy sol they become weak of nsuffcent drt flth. He then strkes them wtha bamboo, orfat stck, strength of fbre : hut our Afrcan frends cannot do better than to remove the green or outer bark from the fbre, breakng detachng also thereby the woody stem from the nsde. These to ob~rve on whch of ther sols these plants grow n the greatest thngs beng accomplshed, well rnses the stems, to carry off sl~rfecton, end be n good to heart select such strength: sols to sow t n. Ths laud any remans of outer bark an d woody.boom, then, tyng one.preparng t~e Zana.~u ease the l requres manurng, let stem n a half knot round the rest to keep the whole regular ths be done before ploughng, dggng, or strrng ; use only such straght, he han~ t up to dry, thus he contnues untl manures as wll asssthe sol n ts lghtness, horse-dung s allthe retted bundles arew~hed, beaten, dred. t s of preferable to Cow-dung, brd s, sheep, or pg s dung wll be the utmost mportance to dry them thoroughly before packng, found very u~eful; nghtsol, when well fermented mxed as otherwse they would get mldewed, on the sea passage wth vegetable mould, wll be found to be a valuable manure, as they would be lable to heat, thereby lose all merchantable wll also anmal urne. Plough, dg, or str the soft untl t becomes thereby; wth a good harrowng, as fne as an ash,bed. value..packng.~when thoroughlydred, te s the way above,named The plough, the spade, or the Spansh vneyard hoe, may be used about Seven pounds weght of fbres nto a large bundle, double for ths purpose; ploughng wll be chespest, spade-dggng the tops downward, about one-thrd of ther length, so as to cause the best. them to pack square n be2. The East ndans pack n bales.1t me of 8owng.~n Afrca the natves must be guded by of two a-half hundredweghts, whch they press fght ther natural sproutng or germnatng seasons. n Asa they bnd wth coarse ropes, n whch state they are ready for market. prefer a fne day, whle the ground s most at such a tme thnk t would be better to make the market bales only of one before the rany seasonsets n that the young plants may gan hundredweght each. suffcent strength not lobe njured by the rany season, but that N.B.~st. Never cover the stems whlst rettng Wth clods they may grow n greater luxurance through the same. Do not of earth, as that destroys the colour of the fbre. sow too large pece~ atonce, t s better to sow several small peces 2nd. Never attempto whten the fbre by lme-water, as tha~ at ntervals of ten or twelve days, that there may be contnuous burns destroys the fbre for spnnng uses. work for the hs employed. The extent of l to be sown 3rd. When grown for seed, let the plant st untl the seed must be n proporton to the number of the hs that can be got s rpe; cutt so as not to shak off the seed, beat out the to pull rett the plants, a greater quantty would spol from seed on a sheet or pece of canvas n the f~t.t. The stems the mpossblty of pullng rettng them n due tme. may then be retted, as above descrbed, fnshed the same Sowng. ~Ths must be done broadcast by the h, so way ; but the fbre of those plants on whch the seed has mstared w 1 be coarser, harsher, more dffcult to bleach, thck that the stems of the plants may be so cl6so that they cannot throw out any branches, but must draw each other up n n a word, only ft for the strng-makers uses, therefore straght stems. n nda the Englsh acre s varously stated to wll only brng a low prce n the market.-- am, Sr, yours take from two to four bushels of seed, a~ordng to the nature of truly, A Co~ sr~,sz Rsxvz~. the sol. All authortes agree t must be sown very thck. n nda they sow these seeds at dfferent seasons of the year, so as LBERALTY OF THE MERCHAN S OF THE GAMBA. to get two even three crops n the year ; thnk the same NOTCES OF AFFARS ON THE RVER GAHBA. number of crops could, n the year, begrown n Western Afrca. n the battle of Toobabcoolong, where the left wng of the 1Tarro,cn] ~r Ra~ ~g n ~ ~ Seed.--Theso seeds do not requre beng buredeep n the earth, but they must be lghtlympetuosty [see Afrcan 2f mes of Aug. 23], our determned 4th West nda Regment dsplayed so great darng covered wth the sol. old Governor showed such dashng bravery as to call forth loud Weedng.-t s well to pull out the weeds when the plantsprase from the whole of the nhabtants of the Oambs, are about twelve nches hgh. When the plants get hgher great respect from the :~ohammedan cheftans around. Colonel stronger, beng so close together, they thereby choke all weeds, D Arey was the frst man n the stockade. He was there clear the ground for the followng crop. surrounded by the fery looks of these sons of the faho prophet~ -Pullny.~As soon as the bloom or flowers are dyng off, several of whom at the same moment levelled ther guns at hs the seed-~e=-~els formng, ther plants should be pulled, made nto head. One was shot down dead by a solder of the attackng small bundles, the roots blossoms then c~t off. party who was near; another was soon despatched by the _Rtlh ng.--ths the most mportant operaton of all the work, revolver of the Governor, who, by dexterously usng t on ether consequently requre~ the utmost care attenton. The sde, the solders clearng the way by a bayonet charge, qualty of the water n whch ths s donets of great mportance ; quckly led to the.takng of the stockade. t was beautfm, never use drty or stagnant water, as such water spols the colourafter the battle, to look at the quet calm appearan~ of h~ of the fbre; never use salt or bracksh water, soft water s to Excellency, to whose antque contour of head face aadtton~ 8.vrmtBSR 2, 1866.] THE AFRCAN TMEfl. 27 dgnty s lent by a venerable patrarchal beard (flowng from a to say. wrte ths to you though people say that you wll not pleasng benevolent countenance) whch swept hs breast, put anythng your paper aganst Colonel Conrdo, but don t The merchants were determned not to let ths pass unnotced, beleve b" t as. Why, look - at Anamaboe Fort. All hero s left a subscrpton lst was opened to present hm wth some under one man, Mr. ~. am sure you wle say that t s no mark of respect apprecaton of hs servces, one hundred good government to leave all authorty n the hs of such a pounds was wthn a few hours subscrbed, man as ths Mr. ~, who buys keeps domesto slaves, A few days before ths they had subscrbed, much to ther has qute a harem of slave women at hs house? s such a man prase, over one hundred 15ounds towards assstng the wdow of as ths ft to hold Her Majesty s commsson as Justce of the the late Leutenant Kelly, 4th West nda Regment, who was Peace? say no [ And would a good governor let such a man unfortunately shot n the same engagement. To Captan Brdge, hold the commsson? say no. And what. sort of justce are a month before, a sword was presented of the value of 60l. we lkely to get from such a Justce of the Peace? ~ay, Thus, wthn three months the merchants of ths place have none at au.~your obedent servant, ~F. nobly subsorbed towards acts of gallantry about ~dpro2os.--the Msrsboutsnce the Badaboo war have so "o ram ~rron o~ ~rr~ Ara~e~ ~r~zs. learnt ho~r to deal wth reekers as to show that they possess much more ~otus than the anthropologsts of St. Martn s-place Cape Coast, August 11, allow them. Whlst the men were engaged n defendng the 8r,--f the Englsh Government wsh to do anythng at all stookade, a few, wth the women, were suppled wth wet payneato edvantago us, they must frst learn to treat ua as human bengs (country-made cloth) buckets of water ; as soon as a rocket not as brutes; to have a ltdo respect for our Kngs. s thrown nto the stockade ts deadly effect s put a stop to by am sorry to say that the rcoommendatons of the Parlamentary the buckets of water, as fast as the houses were set on fre Commttee of June, 1865, for the Protectorate, have not at all they were as fast aa possble putout wth the wet paynes. A. beeu carded out n a way to do us any servco~or f they have, we are up to ths tme keptu the dark about t... Thngs are gong on worse than ever ; nothng s defned. At the present RV R GA~BA. tme, Oovernment seems to ba aganst our welfare---encouragng r0 TKE F-A)r OR 01 ~.[g AVROAN 23~1~. dstmoamong us. Whether ths be ou account of our deputes Rathurst~ August 24, to the Commttee of Parlament or not, we cannotell. u feet, Sr,~There s scarcely anythng gong on as regards trade. we do not underst them. f the present s the way they am Th e colony of Bathurst s not healthy at ths tme of the year gong to tran us for self-government, Cape Coast wll be oblged, as the rans set n n great force. Remttent fever assumes a for the safety of ther lves property, to ask them to wthdraw. For we are contnually threatened, wthout any cause, by malgnant character to ether colour. We have to plash on record the deaths, about a fortnght ago, the Governments that ther cannons rockets are ready u the of many Europeans. At that well-known house of Murrel et C ~" Castle to blow us up-- for what reason? Can cvlzaton (French merchants) two of ther clerks an agent ded. be taught hy such threats, by mplements of war? must The busne, s s almost entrely cloud untl the arrvals of thersay, agan, f thngs are allowed to go on n ths manner, Caro sucoessora from France. Also of the death of Mrs. Alfred Keen. Coast wll be oblged to say, Pray lear~ us. n shorț we mnt of the Mltary Store Department; lastly, the postmaster of say, "au open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended frend s Bathurst (J. P. Hurst, Esq.), whoso death s very much to" worse; Jalso, tt oppresson maketh the wse man mad. Agan, deplored hy hs frends acquantances the colony. are we not to help ourselves n brngng round a better order of Wth regard to poltcal Or Government matters, am glad to thngs? are we to be always o ppo~d by those Whose duty t s state for ) our nformaton that of your Brtsh readers that to teach u~ but who wll not.~your obedent servant, the Governor, Colonel D Axoy, who was exposed to rdcule ~ POOR AltaeA." oftentmes n publo ppers, s endcavourng to beat a retreat, now conductng the settlements n a most satsfactory A.DMNSTRAT[ON OF JUSTCE AT CAPE COAST. pleasng way, so that we hope, by the grace of God, he may STPENDARY MAGSTRATES COURT. yet mert prasequal to or more than the just censure to whch 0 TKE EDTOR OF ThE A ReAN TMF-,~. he beforexposed hmself. Cape Coast, August 11, The merohautahavo made a subsorpfon to gve hm a testmonal for hs servoe~ at the stockade attack. You may be sure tratea Court. Mr. 0ekes, P.M.0. of the 2ad West nda Sr,~There has been a great row n the Stpendary Matng f he behaves well you wll never hear any complants of hm Regment, summoned Mr. W. C. Fnlasou for twelve guneas from us. We shall only be too glad to have to honour ann for medcal vsts. ~L[r. Fnlason pleaded that he was only prase hm. C. ndebted sx guneas. Captan Hall, 2rd West nda Regment also, sat as stpendary magstrate. He eaton nto court arm.ln. zo vaz zvrron or ~ xrmex_w ~-ntzs. arm wth hs frend Afr. Oaken, the plantff, who sat on the Rver Gambs, August bench wth hm. Mr. Oaken stated hs case, but; called no Sr,--Yellow fever s, greve to say, makngreat havoc n wtnes.~.~. The defendant called evdence to establsh that Mr. Bathurst. Seven European deaths have been recorded. Ths s Oaken only attended hem frs ~m~s. The magstrate s examnaton of the wtnesses, one n partcular, was very severn. The e heavy per.cantata of our small whte populaton. Ths calamty, the prevalence of a bad natve fever among the defendant then addressed the Bench,, among other thng.s, populaton generally, has nduced Colonel D Arey, Her Majesty sad "he knew hew the case must end," upon whch Captan Admr, strator of ths colony,.. to appont a santary commsson, Hall attacked hm very volently, chargng hm wth havng composed of Hr. Commssarat-General Blanc, Dr. Calvert, P.M. mputed to hm somethng dshonourable. The defendant apolotned f he had sad anythng dsrespectful, such not beng hs Offcer, Dr. Sherwood. Among the European vctms are Dr. Hammond, who came here n the Calabar on hotoutwardntenton, stated that whet he meant was that Captan Hall voyage (she now takes ths mal home), poor Mr. John must necessarly, arer the evdence, dcode n hs (the defendant s)favour. The magstrate stopped hm, sayng he dd ~urst, the Postmaster of Bathurst. ~[r. Julan Agen, of Messrs. Murrel a house, two of ther French clerks also are not beleve a word," that, n a prevous case, when the among the dead.~yours truly, F. defendant, was actng a~ an advocate, he uttered a _gr ~s- falselwod to the ehtefjustco. The defendant, consderng hmself nsulted, sat down. Oa leavng the court, a few mnutes after, n a great ANA~ABOE. rage, as mght naturally be expected, he asked a natve gentleman, also an advocate u the courts, whether the latter dd not zo ~az ~vr~on or ~nz ~a~eaz~- zmrs. Cape Coast, July 11, consder that he had been grossly nsulted, to whch the reply Sr,~ cannot conceal from you my apprehenson that the was: "Yes, he s a blackguard--a mean, low blackguard to new system of Government polcy for the Protected Terrtores take such an advantage of you," whch met, of course, wth wll lead to all sorts of confuson trouble, prove emnently dsastrous for these countres. - f Government cannot do but u the Fort ; a byster, however, carred to hm nformaton acquescence. Captan Hall, the magstrate, was not tfen n tourt, anythng for us, why are we to pay dutes? f no solders are of what had been sad. Accordngly, on ths followng lfouday, to be moved from "the forts for any servce, why should any Judge Hackett,~ttng n the Supreme Court, called upon lfa. dutes be pad, except at Cape Coast, where they are statoned? Fn[anon to explan, whc he dd, to the effecthat whatever he There may be some reason for Cape Coast Town payng dutes, mght have sad was "out of our~"--that he had receved a because Colonel Conran, who s a goocl fdlow for ths, has takenmost unwarranted nnprecedented nsult from the Beneh~ a great deal of trouble n clearng all the rubbsh from the town, that he was n a great rage out of court, mght possbly puttng the streets n order; but n the way thngs now have made use of such words, for whch, however, f he hsd so go, we do not thnk he s good as a governor for anythng else done, he was sorry, hoped that Captan Hall would also besdes ths. You have sad n your paper that the Ashantcemake the ares,de l~onoram~ to hm. Ths Captan Hall dd not peace has been made, but them s nothng of the knd, am sorrydo. Upon whch the natve advooato before-mentoned got up. : [ 1,t J l C r"

3 t." 28 THE AFRCAN TMES. [SSPTE~V,R 22, took the onus upon hmself, ~yng that the words reported On the llth 12th the natves of the Aecra towns under were hs not Falason s, proceeded to repea them two Dowoonah--v[z., Labaddy, Teshe, Tenmab, Boney, mus. or three tmes be[~r~ th~ judge before Captan Hall, sayng, terng 3,000 more, joned. Durng ths perod, they had been " sad you were a blackguard on Frday last, say so n communcaton wth the doubtful trbes s the vcnty, most agan, aud that you are a low, mean blackguard." Upon ths of whom had already eahn fetsh wth Gezaldo, to fght for hm, ~nlason got up sad tho~ words were not hs, that he but seeng the large force preparng aganst hm, had begun to must not be consdered as n any way endorsng them, proceedng to state to Judge Huckett that great dssatsfacton prevaled waver. Leutenant Herbert, thokng hs force suffcent to take the feld, despatched Mr. rvne aud ~r. Clayton to Addah to among all clas~es at the "orderly-room system" whch had muster 1"00 large canoes, convey them from Addah to Me. lately been adopted--that t would never answer~that durng tamfee to transporthe force across the Volta to attack the Judge Harkett a absej,ce very lttle of anythng enttled to the enemy. Through the usual dlatorness o~ the natves, t was four name of justce had been had there. Hs honour here nterposed days before they could reporthat they were ready to start from by sayog that, even f all ths was true, Fnlason was not just-addahfed n us,,g such ns goage, but oughto have complaned to hm the 17th March, at sx ~.~., :Leutenant Herbert, wth hs 6,000 wth ouly sxty-fve canoes. Accordngly, on Saturday. or to the Governor of Captan Hall s conduct, whch Fnlasonmen, marched to Metamfee, whch was found to bequlte deserted, nformed hm that some of Colonel Conran s offcers had publclythe nhabtants havng, gone aoress to the enemy, who wese sad tbet theculonel had fold f~er~ "to do a~ fh~y lked encamped exactly opposte the place (the rver s there about 400 would ~ack thtm."* yards wde), but one man was captured, who, wth another, After ths, Fnlsso the other were served wth a notcehad been left to watch~he other escaped by swmmng to show cause ~ tbn four days why they sho~ld net be commtted across the rvet, although at least ffty shots were fred at hm. to 1)rsen for contempt of court. Judge taekett, n a lengthythe enemy retu/ned the fre, whch was qute harmless, GerMdo hmsel frng hs Mns rfle. Ths man was reoognsed speech, eondemued the conduct of both,, at the same tme, addressed the followng remarks to Captan Hall: " do not at once, stng a very promnent poston. thnk t rgh that a magstrate should use language of that knd n consequence of the very dffcult nature of the ground from to any ~n~ n court; n fact, he ought to abstan from usng Kauar to Metamfee, t was 3 P.m before the rockets " feld language whch s uuusual among gentleman." Falasen was pece came up, under the charge of ~r. Smth ; on hs arrval, nformed that he was no longer to be allowed to plead n court ; Leutenant Herbert drected hm to throw a shell a rocket two days later a notce s posted up at the court that he s nto Gereldo% camp. The frst rocket destroyed half ther camp, not to be allowed to do anythng--f.% "that no power of a very extensve one. The enemy must have suffered great attorney n hs favour ~vould be recognsed"~wheh wen:l.ddamage ths frst day, wthout loss to us. On the 18th, at prevent hs actng as agent for any one n :Engl or elsewhere. x.~., Mr. rvno arrved wth 800 Addahs, n sxty-fv ~canoc% Constables were sent round the town, wth a "gon.9on," to ~oorted by a guard of ffty meu of the 8rd West nda Regment, under Captan Humphrey Leutenant Stewart, wth make ths generally known. The authortes refused to allow a copy of ths notce to be taken, or would have sent t you, Dr. Daves, S. A. S. (a natve), n medcal charge, a rookeh ann t was after a cher tme removed. one howtzer. On Captan Humphrey s arrval, he, as senor to An appeal wll of course be made to the Governor-General at Leutenant Herbert, assumed the ~ chef Comm, drected ~erra Leone, who has already cancelled some of the absurdar. Smth Leutenant Stewart, wth ther guns rooket~, arrangements lately made here, such confdence s felt n hs to shell destroy the remanng porton of the enemy s camp. mpartalty that t s consdered certan he wll annul all ths. Ths was very speedly affected. Captan Humphrey, charrng :Nothng new about the Ashantee peace busness, or the that Geraldo had severalargo :Englsh canoes boats hauled troubles n the Eastern Dstrcts.~Yeurs truly~ t. up on the opposte bank, called for ffty volunteers to pzoce~ across ~he rver take possesson of them. The~o ffty men, THE WAR N THE OLTA DSTRCTS. furnshed by :~essrs. Hesse, Br, Addo, Bannerman, joned by 150 A.ddahs, crossed over u sxteen cauoe~, though ~~ THE ]F~DTOR OF THB AlrRe~ Y~ES. opposed by some 300 of Oeraldo a men, posted on on emnence, Chrstansborg, June 10, made good ther lng, drove the enemy from ther peston, Sr,~n February, the Governor (Colonel Conran) determnedkllng large numbers ; but, nstead of carryng out ther orders# to assst n the expedton aganst Geraldo hs b of rob. brngng away the canoes boats, they pursued the flyng bets. After havng ssued out 1,200 om muskets, some fftyenemy nl untl the latter were largely renforced, drev~ kegs of damaged ball cartrdge to Kngs Curler, of James Town, them back. Dow0onah, of Chrstansborg, he gave them three.days to They succeeded, however, n brngng off wth them dx start take the feld, under pan of takng away the arms, large cannes, but at the very moment of pushng off, another canoe~ &o., should they not leave wthn that tme. 2hs hurryng the whch contaned the head chef of Addah, was upset, the people on so fast was the frst error, a very great one, n the enemy beng secreted n thck bushes wthn ten yards, pcked late affar. The co~sequenes was, that on the mornngof Sunday, off ths chef four of hs prncpal captans, some dozen :February 18, when Leutenant Herbert, the Cvl Commaudant. nferor men; the~e were klled outrght, some thrty-sx Commer-n-Chef of the expedton, started from :[ames Town more were wounded. (Through the skll of Dr. D~ves, ~ ~#~rg wth Kng Cudjce, there was no~ a sou3 that accompaned them wounded man has snce recovered). Ths affar had a bad effect on but ]fr. John Smth, of James Town, who had charge of the rocketsthe wholecampagn, as from that day the Addahshad no leaders. the guns; Mr. E. Bannerman, who had voluntered as On the 20th the re mander of the force reached the camp: Quow Adjutant-General Prvate Secretary to the Commer-u- Daddy, Wng of Aquapm, a very bravo man, but most bloodz Chef, the four men who carded Cadjce a basket of state. thrsty cruel, arrved wth 4,000 men ; hs men were by far At 5 P.~. on that day ths party reached Bran Premj twenty-theght mles from Accra. On the 19th, at 6 P.~., these were authorty of ther Kng. Kng Tanker, the Kng of the whole best n the feld~ beng most amenable obedento the joned at Pram Pram by Mr. rvno ]fr, Clayton (the only Eastern Dstrcts, but resdng n Dwca () Aecra, also arrved on Rnglsh merchants who had engaged personally n the war, the same day, wth about 4,000 men, brngng up the force to besdes furnshng large supples of money materal), over 16,000. Wth ths large force, Captan Humphrey decde~[ two other of the Bannermans, wth about 200 men, whom these to cross at once, sent a body of Addahs over at daylght on four had equpped as voluuteera, tolerably well dscplned. the 21st to establsh themselves on-a hll to the left of the The tme fxed for stoppng at Pram Pram was two days, enemy s poston, so as to wthdraw ther attenton, whls the thoughto be suffcent for" enablng the whole of Knk Cudjoe sman body crossed s ther front. The Addahs ganed ther men to jon; but t was nne days before the expedton could poston wthout beng opposed~ aud mmedately cent one cadge proceed, nnd then wth only 400 men, to-nngo, the ~ext town back, wth the nformaton that the enemy had entrely vanshed. on the route to Addah, only eght mles from Pram Pram. Order was then at an end. Captan Humphrey then wshed There t wasted three days for the J ames Town people. But to etart n pursut of the enemy at once, wth the vaw of Kng Dowoonah s force had taken the nl route; the eft cotng the capture of Geraldo, who t was reported had been expedton, whch up to that tme had marched along the sea- severely wounded by the burstng of a shah. But the people, shore, ntendng to go by the beach to Addab, at the mouth of: who looked more upon Kng Tanker a~ the Commer-n-Chef the Volta, joned hm cn the let March, at Eaaar, who h was the than upon Captan H., grumbled growled, hestated. place of genera[ rendezvous. There the whole force remaned for Captan H. then gave orders for 2,000 men to occupy the poston seventeen days, dong nothng. Kener s about four hours foot recently vacated by the enemy ; ths order the ch efs, all wth jouruey from Addsb, two hours from Metamfeon the Volta, the exreplon of Dowoo~ah of Chrstausborg, refused to obey. opposte to whch town, on the Awoonlah ade, Oeraldo bad ancamped. The whole force at Kanar, on st M areh, only musteredhagen some forty year/ago by the Dansh Goner.amens, orde ~ed Dowooaab, who s a very sensble old man, educated n Col)ca: 800 men; by the 8th the James Town Chrstansborg ~opl~ hm joned ther chef, besde.s the natves of Pram Pram, 8tafl Amhtant 8wgeon--a ~loured ~ntlsmao, who, wth Dr. Hoxt~v, another of Kng Cudjogs tawn~ whch gave 3,000 armed men. d4 good ~ree n the ~abantce expedtov.--l~ A.T. Sm~rS~a 22, ] THE AFRCAN TZ[ES. 29 hs men across the rver, ntendng to go hmself, wth hs tent, protectorate, on ths sde the Yol~. -The Metamfeea are naturally &e., next day, rayng that he, as a Brtsh subject, would not recognlse the authorty of a kng lvng under the Dutch flag munton from the Addaha for the purpose of adng them to fght alles of the Addahs, therefore of Aecra also. They took am- who had brought Dutch flags to the campagn. Ths created aganst Geraldo. They also receved some from Gemldo wth much fll-feelog n camp;, as nearly the whoe of the otherwhch t~y a~tuauy foasht ~a~ the Addshs, ~. H~ towns sded wth Tackeo the Dutchman, they compelled Dowoo. jomec the Addahs, or e~a remaned neutral, Oeraldo could have ash to recel hs men from the other sde. Captan 2~ ump;rey, gven no trouble to the country. When the alled forces arrved.se~fn.q tms dv,~ t n ~ d~faac~_ of Ms ~ ~or~y, a~ n ~ hfl for n Kanar camp they came offered to jon. The nght Adda~ wft~ M, detachment, harf~ 9 t~s expedt lon n e~rgs of before the force left Kanar for Metamfee, they decamped Z~ utennnt J~ erberl Leutenant Herbert called a general meetnggave Geraldo ful nformaton of all movements. ~ ad tha of all the chefs, told them planly that f they refused to p~l~ c~pf,r~d a ~d-flds.awaq~lah ma~ they would r~r ~Ps obey hs orders, chose to look to the Kng of Dutch Accra ~acu~d hm. They would ether keep hm as a slave, or let hs as ther chef, he also would leave them, take away the guns famly ransom hm. s the heat of battle they sometmes do rockets, that the Europeans natve gentlemen wouldkll prsoners, but not always. accompany hm. They then promsed wllng obedence from By the evenng of the 25th, some 16,000 men were all on ha that day. But as he had notone regular ~older wth hm, he had Awoonlah bank of the rver Volta. By the let Aprl the force no power to ~nf~rc~ obedence. was weeded of some thous or ao cowards, who dd not relsh On the 22nd Mr. ]rvne left ]ffetamfee for Acorn Cane gong nto the heart of the enemy s country, dsappeared. Coast, deputed to apply to the Governor for a further supply o f On the 3rd Aprl the force marched from Adodomay to attack ammunton, n case of refusal to purchase some. Mr. the enemy, supposed to have eneamped about a day s march from Clayton, beng sck, left wth hm, both on horseback. that place. On the 4th t reached the rver Tojey, a branch 0f Metamfee s eghty mles from Aecra, through a most magnfcent country, but nothng to eat on the road untl you reachof palm trees. The camp here was for once formed n regular the Yolta, aud havng crossed t, encamped n au mmense grove Pram Pram. order, especally that of the Aquapma t took four hours to On the 23rd, 24th, 25th the whole force crossed over el, t the whole camp, hurredly even. The for~o halted there encamped at a place called Mdodamay, exactly ol~poste Metamfee. Durng the perod from the 20th to the 25th, some to ~o sea coast town of Awoonlah, the captal of Awoonlah, tll th8 12th, when t advaueed wth thententoa of gong dr~t twenty.stragglers belongng to Metamfee, who had joned Oeraldo, resdence of the Kng head fetsh. t was supposed to be but had de~erted hm, were caught. All these, the chefs, ~wm. sx hours journey. After marchng about two hours very slovenly, wthrcoket tubes feld-pece n front, the Awoonlaha, ~,under Leutenant Herbert, executed n cold blood, as soon as they found that they had fought on the opposte ~de on the eght thous strong, suddenly pounced upon the expedton n -prevous Sunday. Ther hcadswereeut off, the skulls, havnga place most favourable to them, a very narro~ defle, surrounded bern cleaned, were fxed to the drums as trophes l [ Thre~ men by thck bush. The enemy had possesson of the bush u fron~, thor were caught on the day of the enemy s retreat-were rescus~ on each flank; ther frst fre throw the leadn_~ men ~mo~ by Mr. E, dmund Bannerman, as Leutenant Herbert had ssuedof whom were carrers of luggage) nto great confuson, these orders that no one should be klled wthout beng frst broughtfallng back, got mxed up wth the woman carryng loads; t to hm; as he was conductng them to that part of the camp was a regular surprse. The Commaut, wth most of the where he was quartered, some of the crowd followng (about 5,000natve gentlemen, were actually sttng down n frout close to men), recegnsed them as three of the prnt/pal of Oeraldo s sup. the gun wheu the frst masker was fred by the enemy. Un- tha carrers of the ammunton for the roel~e~ tube porters, two ofthem beng blacksmths, who had been engagedfortuuately xor nx mon~ns castng Mnd bullets for hm, the thrd a fetshhowtzer were nowhere to be found. The enemy advaneng man, who used to makefts~ fur hm for he beheved n t. n rapdly, there was no help for t but to abon gun~ rocket, lug- everythng; a complete panc ensued ; not a shot could lem than ffteen seconds ther heads were off, all Ar B. s effortsgage, to save them beng unavalng; aud he had hmself a narrow be fred wthout httng our own people Our men were beng ea~ape, as the people n ther eagerness to kll them were hot shot down, cut down, caught alve wthout resstance. Here we were, 15,000 men, who boasted of havng conquered l~oular e so~nes as to the n camp drecton at ths n tme whch were they truly struck. awful. The cuttng4he Ashantees, well armed, no doubt brave, flyng before at ol of heads, the mutlaton of bodes, -leavng them to ~ most Awoonlahs, whos only bullets were small stones dsposed of by turkey buzzards pstakoos (hyenas), dreadfult was dsgraceful. All effurta to check the flght were n van. a~au ths wa% were byno means the mo~t panful sghts. A few, especally the Dutch Acorn% made a st, suffered One day our people heard that the wves chldren of the most severely n consequence, but t checked the enemy, At ~etamfees, those who had aded wth Geraldo, fought aganstlength Quow Daddy, the Kng of Aquapm, who had, wth hs them, were hdng n tha bush close to Metamfee near thercemp. 4,000 brave men, taken a dfferent lne of march, got lethe rear 8ome 800 of them at once proceeded to the spot capturedof the Awoonlahs placed them n ther own trap. They then the whole, consstng of about 500 women chldren, of from began to turn, fnally threw away ther arms fled. beng twelve years down to nfant& These, however, turned out to be, pursued by the Aquapms a few Accras. These slaughtered n~.~ta~fe~, but belongng to neutral trbes, who, n fear, had them lke sheep. Notwthstng all ths turn of the td~, at hdden ther famles n ths way. The Commant, on ths least 5,000 Of our men contnued ther flght. The whol~ affar beog reported to hm by Kng Dowoonah, drected Mr. He.zse lasted only three or four hours; durng ths perod the gun was Mr. E. Bannerman to go to every chef dem the captured re.captured a dozen tmes. When the Awoonlahs rmtoraton of all these poor creatures thus taken by ther peoplefrst sezed t, one of them jumped up on the top of t began n ths manner about 450 were recovered. The scene that took to dauce; he was at once shot down. Another took hs place; place when the~ 450 wereall colleeted n front of the Comman. he was shot, so on, untl ten had been so klled. Then they dent s quarters wa~ truly panful. Mothers who had been fought head to h for the gun untl they were fnally drve~ separated from ther cacklng nfants, chldren who had lost away. We lost about 65 klled 320 wounded, as we ther parents, thus meetng agan, atll uncertan of therhad now no Dr. Daves, at least 150 of these subsequently ded. ultmate fate (for the men taken wth them had been decaptated The enemywas pursued almost as far as Jeleo Coffee Awoonlah. Nothng had uow to be done but to fallow them up wth the n ther presence), embracng clngng to each other, the whole weepng walng n a manner that mgl~[ dssolvewhale force, fnsh th o war at one blow. Bat the mornng s stones, but could not, dd not have the slghtest effect on the panc had totally dsorganlsed dsprted the whole force. persons who had orgnauy psnyarred them, weru eagerly They declned to Obey the orders of Leutenant Herbert, ether watchng for any want of vglance to retake them. t was v to advance or halt. They preferred retreat. The chefs also truth a most panful sght. There were many of these women were not unanmous. Kng Quow Daddy was ao annoyed at ths aud chldren carred off by the Addahs Accr~ before we couldconduct the part of hs alles that he at once struck hs camp nterfere. should thnk that upwards cf 109 to dfsappe~r:d ; marched hs brave army drest home, leadng hmself ou foot, some who ought to have been above such dealngs partc-pated n the horrd plunder. Those that were released were fdence n no one else than Quow Daddy hs people, at once fne, tall, hsome man. The rest el the army, havug con- re~t~fed to ther homes. Wth regard to the executon of followed. Th~ was on the mornng of Frday, the 13th. The pr~cm n cold blood, the act tself perhaps was not so much to ~ame evenng we reached the Volta, eros.=-ed t next day. We be blamed as the horrblend cruel mode u whch t s carredthen proceeded to Addsh wth our reekers aud guns; the m~jorlty cut. Most of those that were decaptated were deservng of deathof the army had le ft ther chefs gone home. The chefs properly nfletad. For nstance, all the Zfetamfces who were went wth us to Addah. Leutenant Herbert, fndng ths was caught wth arms n hs should have been hung at once, the state of affars, beng sck, left for Accra,-placog the would n most nstances have been so hung, had they beeu comm of such an army as was left n the hanch of Mr. Hesse, brought before the proper authorty; but they were generally de- who, wth the other gentlemen that were lelt wth hm, arrved,ptted as soon as they were recognsed as Metamfees. They fve d~ys after n Acorn, leavng the three kngs of Acorn (,[ames may have deeervedeath for ths res.~n. Metamfee s n the Town, Dutch, Chrstansborg), who, wth ther prncpal $ hx l { [

4 l 4 3O THE AFROAN TMES. [swprsm3ba 9,2, captans, are stll at Addah. where they are determned, they say, GENERAL OBSERVATONS. ~" to reman tll Oeraldo s captured. The exhbton of produce manufaetnresheld last year at Thus ended the frst campagn aganst Geraldo the Serra Leone has already borne frut. A smlar exhbton s Awoonlahsl now announced to be held at the French colony of Senegal, from whch the chocest artcles wll be sent to the F~urs Exhb. SUBSORPTONS AND ADVERTSEMENTS. ton of We regreto learn that Mr. ]~. B. Walker, who started a fag, TH~ AFacx,x TL~ES beng now at the sole rsk monthsnce from the Rver Oaboon to explore the nteror, has charge of one ndvdual, t becomes ndspensable so to met wth msfortunes dffcultes, prncpally through robbery ncrease ts revenu~ as to nsure ther beng adequate to deserton by hs natve carrers, that wll prevent hs dong meet the outlay whch the publcatlon, efflce management, much u the way of dscovery on ths occason. &o., of the journal nvolve. Among the means for The West Afrca Company steam.vessel Thomas Bazhy has ths there are two whch ouzht to be made mmedately left Lagos for another voyage up the Nger. Her ~lajesty s avalable. One s, that our Subscrber should wlthout shp nvestgator has also been ordered to make another a.w~nt delay pay up all arrears,, as at the commencement, of that rver. one year s subscrpton n advance. "The other s, that There have been seven deaths of Europeans at Bathurst from they should encourage the paper as much as possble by yellow fever. There seems to have been no mprovement a the pad advertsements. The AFam.tx T~ss has now obtaned such an establshed poston crculaton down mode of treatng ths dsease n Afrca. The :Englsh mercantle agents at Lutes, we are glad to hear, now attend Dvne ~ervce on Sunday, havng been moved to ths the SVest Coast of Afrca among the real frends of by a serous remonstrance the part of Her/~aje~ty s Admnstrator of that colony. Ths s ndeed a move n the rght drec- Afrcans n Engl, that ts columns offer every faclty for makng known to all frends the BroTHS, ~t.[arrag E,S, ton. DZATHS that occur among the educatexl Afrcans. Such as are the Tmes the Mornng Post for smlar FBRES. subjects n Engl, nda, the Colones, &o., such ought Ta~zns s a great mne of productve commercal wealth the At, mc.~,~ TxMzs now to become for the educated n Western Afrca, htherto.almost entrely unexplored: Her A.frcan people everywhere. fbres for spnnng other purposes, so abundant of such n order to facltate the adopton of these two means good qualty, consttute ths mne, whch we are constantly for assstng commercally the AFarcxx T~ss, we beg to endcavourng to fnd the means for workng. All our Afrcan suggest that the followng gentlemen wll receve natve frends, all who know Al~ca, wll be able partly to forward fo us the overdue advance subscrptons for comprehend the dffcultes that beset us at every step n ths the journal, as well as advertsements to be nserted, matter. We feel certan of ultmate success~certan that we the amount due for them, whch must at all tmes accompany the advertsement :- ths rch mne, whch, unlke mneral ones, wll, when once shall fnally.open to natvexerton to commercal enterprse opened, prove nexhaustble, because of the rapd reproductve Bathurst... Mr. Harry Fnden. agences at work n tropcal clmes. But the mpedments McCarthy e sl Mr. d. Mlbury. Serra Leone... Messrs. Pratt. delays that we encounter are legon. The natve system of Lber~... The Agsnla of the-company of extracton of such fbres as they are accustomed use for ther Afrcan Merchants. own purposes s so tedous neffcent, that commercal quanttes of fbre cannot be thus obtaned; no machnes have yet Cape Coast Castle... Hou. ~ Grant. Acorn... Mr. J. Brt or Mr. Hesse. been nvented that wll be cheap, effectve, easly transported. Anamabce... Mr. R. GhuRy. The latter qualty s as essental as the former n ~frca, where Lagos... } Mr. W. P. Rcharda there ~re no roads, all produce has for the most part to be Abeokuta J borne to the Coast on human heads shoulders. These re.- The charge of nserton for Brths, Zarrla_o, marks apply more especally to leaf fbres. We have therefore Deaths wll be 3s. each, not to exceed fve nnes ~ forty drected our chef attenton for some tme past t) stalk bark words; exceedng fve lnes or forty words, an extra 6d. fbres; nqury examnaton have demonstrated to us for every eght words or fracton of eght words n addton. that there s scarcely any, f any, fbre of whch nda can boas~ that does not exst n abundauce, n equ~ jf not superor P.S.~Ohanges n the above wll from tme to tme be qualty, n Western Afrca. But the commercal value of these advertp~d, should such occur. fbrous plants has not been htherto recognzed there. They am For the Edtor of the AVROAN T.xlDS, beproduced n constant successon over wde tracts of country, but WLLAM EDWARDS, Fnancal Agent, go to waste, partly through gnorance of ther merts value, 4, Coleman s-buldngs, Boorgate-street, London, E.C. partly through the absence of any good syetem of preparng the fbres for exportaton. We are now endeavourng to make the.dfrean 1~ mt~ the menus of dspellng ths povertyperpetuatng gnorauee. n our last we gave an engraved ropreeentaton of one of the valuable fbre-producng plants, whch t~e know grows luxurantly abundantly n many parts of SATU.RD.A~ SEPT.EMB.ER 22, AVestern Afrca, near the sea-coast rvers. u our present :number we gve a detaed account of the best mode of cultvatng, croppng, rettng, preparng for exportaton the plant AFRCAN DONATONS AND SUBSCRP]?ONS PA ED TO "AFRCAN TMES." :E fbre abovd mentoned. We beseech the partcular attenton of Mos~ thankfdlu acknowledged by t~.f/]lon.~:~ 9nr educated natve Afrcan frends, of commercal agents on the Coast, to the plate letter now alluded to, to th~o whch we hope to gve n successve numbers of ths journal. Fnden, Bathu t,.. We have every reason to beleve that the jute, hemp, grass Mr. J. D. Rchards, Bathurst 0.0~ Of nda,,chna, ~ apan, can be equalled f not surpassed n... Western Afrca; t s tme that the development of these :Frends at Cape Coast (names not yet receved) per ~,~0~,O. extensve.valuable resources of the country should commence. Thomas llughes, ~sq... 2~ "-~" The present meagre lst of valuable exportable produce n Afrca S~RHONS. ]J must 13o extended, f that wealth s to be created there wthout Mr. D. W. Thorpe, Frcetown, 8erra Leone ~ whch the spread of cvlzaton seems to be mpossble. Oar efforts are drected to the chewng that there are n Western W. P. Rchards, Esq, Lutes, on account of Sub- scrptuns Donatons, partculars to be here- t ~ Afrca such a varety abundance of valuable produc~, as wll justfy the applcaton of reasonable sums of money judeoufly after announced... 1 ~ ~expended, for openng mantanng mproved routes of communcaton between the Coast the neghbourng nteror. CAPE COASt FEHALE NATVE SOOOL~{.] ~ Hgh ways of commerce of Chrstan cvlzaton mm~ be propared n Afrca, f we are ever to behold among her hthedo Mrs. Jo~ph Moseley gratefully acknowledges thesd~l~t.l~e~ donatons :-- ~ ~]J~ Amount already publshed ~ 21 ( degrhded populatons those cbanges whch we so ardently desre 8o confdently hope for. The Gospel of Peace eternal ~ro. Kennedy... [ 5: ~b ~( lfe ~ust be preached there; God seems to oven by commerce /fr. G. Chsttell... ll ~{ doo~s hera of access for tbo bearers of glad. tdngs from Bethh lg. W. Peeves, Esq., Tverton, Devon. (hlvary. There s scarcely one of our educated natve frlenad~t Mrs. Wllams, Gloater Vlla, Warlord. whohas not been educated n a msson.~chool. We am sum tha 0::6\/0 ~ "~ SzPa~xmRn 22, 1866.] THE A~OAN TMES. 81 they must do desre that the knowledge of GOd should be spreadwe beleve t to be the former; so belevng, we reg,rd wth abroad amt~gtthe r countrymen; we would earhestly urge_ horror, as well as wth sorrow, the recorded mortaltes n the them.to c " y zeal, not only for ther own personal nt~- Brstol at the Oamba. As regards the shp, we have also rests sggrsement, but also as a means of forwardng the another word to say. There are very few 6eeasons on whch great work of Chrstan enlghtenment. the actual presence ef a p~rtcular shp of war, whether flag Or other, on aetaton, s so absolutely necessary that she cannot for YELLOW FEVER. a shor tme remove from t, wthout any njury, to the publc servce that could or ought to be put n competton wth the r s wth deep sorro we have recorded the death by yellow fever of.seven Europeans at Bathurst, Rver Gnmba. Seven lves of ot~cers men. We do say, lheu, that there ought to deaths, n the course we beleve of three or four days, out of a be a general order n the Navy, that whenever yellow fever, or any other very fatal dsease ncdental to a partcular clmate, :Europeanpopulaton.. of at most some thrty or forty There s ths fever pecularty on the West Coast of Afrca, that whenever the common fevers are very vrulent among the natves, breaks out ou board a shp, the captan should not only be deemed justfed n proceedng mmedately to other lattudes, but should be bound to do so. The Brstol was yellow f.ever attack.s Europeans. And ths type of dsease seems unhapply to h~ve lost none of ts fatal power n that part of sent out to releve the Rattlesnake, a flag-shp on the Afrcan staton. The yellow fever appeared on board the ltatflesnake the world.. The ~ me~ has lately ndul~,edo a furous samtsr~" v leader agansthe West Coast, nserted numerous lettersbefore the Brstol arrved.out to releve her; Commodore dtropos of the mortalty by yellow fever on board Her ~ajesty swlmot, to hs great prase honour~ determned therefore shp Brstol.* A great amount of nonsense has n ths case been at once, n the ntereetaof hs offcers crew, of the publc mxed up wth the unhappy truth of nearly thrty deaths n the servce, not to wat for hs relef, but to steam off for Engl. course of a few months among the offcers crew of that llfated vessel. :f the loud denouncers of servce on the Afrcansystem has been adhered to n the case of the Brstol. Dsease He dd so, the fatal dsease dsappeared. But the red-tape Coast, because of these deaths, had consulted the statstcs of the havng, as we have been nformed, been generated by mpru. Navy for some years past, they would have found.that the dent mproper treatment exposure of the men, the mortalty has been by no means the greatest on the West Coast Brstol could not be moved farther north than Ascenson [ The of Afrca--that there are other naval statons on whch the Brstol must be kept at Ascenson, the offcers crew be deathtrato s hgher. We do not, however, hear t proposed klled under routne We may well say, Go~ help the crew of that tho~ staton should therefore be gven up; t s only a shp of war when her commer has not enough courage decson to do what s necessary for savng the human lves for as regards the West Coast of Afrca that such abonment of natonal duty s ur. ged. t s unhapply fashonable at the presen tme to attack Afrca the Afrcans. whch he s morally responsble, by actng wthout orders, or even u dsobedence to the stereotyped orders of the servce A leadng ~rtele of the Dal R Telegraph, on occason of the There may be exceptonal crcumstances n whch t mght be beatawal of a knghthood on Sr Edward Baker, lately returned ncumbent on a commer to keep hs vessel at a certan pont, from tha sources of the Nle, mght be adduded as addtonal however deplorable the mortalty, n such cases we know evdence of ths fact. We do not deny the state dsgustng that Brtsh offcers would do ther duty; but under any other horrble barbarsm cruel superstton of the mass than such exceptonal ereumstancea we feel that they ought not to keep ther vessel u a poston where clmate does not assst of the natve Afrcans, whether on the coast or n the nteror ; we do not deny that there are dseases prevalenthere whch the medcal offcers n battlng wth the dsease on board. make the countres so dangerous to Europeans as to exact from them, f they have any regard for ther lves, extreme care THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONES ON: prudence, reooul-~e to the best means of preventon cure. THE JAMACA QUESTON. But we do t~y that the deeper, the more ntense, the more dsgustng horrfyng the barbarsm superstton may be, TH~ speech of Lord Carnarvon u the House of Lords on the 2n~ of August, whch, as promsed, we have now gven n eztenso, the greater the duty of Chrstau Engl to endeavour by the dffuson of Chrstan truth to mtgate those horrors; we deserves consderaton the part of our Afrcau frends, wll make them better acquanted wt hs lordshp s offcal een~menta. do also affrm, tha the Afrcan dseases, ncludng the occasonal yellow fever, have not uecessarly that fatal character whch s than could have been expected wthn so short a tme after hs attrbuted to them. The mortalty on board the Brstol, f not accesson tooffce. t s not our ntenton to re-enter upon ths owng (as n some prevously notorous eases) to an abomnable Jamaca queston, beyond the nserton of the Earl of Caraarvon a source of nfecton the shp tself, must have had some recognsablo cause or causes. A rgd nqury seems to us to be speech the debate n the Jamaca Commttee, whch we have a~ last forcbly made room for; but we cannot refran from some necessary, not only as to the orgnal outbreak of the fever among few observatans on one or two mportant ponts, respectng whch the dets of the Colonal Secretary s full explct; the crew, but as to the means of preventon cure adopted. on another, n whch the absence of a smlar character s f we are not msnformed, t would-be found that the mortalty much to be deplored. We beg partcularly to refer our readers has been chefly among men who were most njudcously mproperly exposed to excessve labour under a tropcal sun, to the sentence we have had placed n talcs : "f any eolou~ ~uffer~ from nj ustce, whaterer mast b~ hs c/ass, hfs condton, or ammedataly alter ther arrval from Engl, whle yellow fever was known to be about. No such case of mortalty as ths hs edour, h, has a rghto redres~ at the hangs of tl, e 6 otonal Mnder, n fh~ otmtry." Ths swhat we have always contended for, endeavoured to eaforco; wheu we were of the crew of the Brstol ought to reman unnqured nto. t s easy to cover fatal most condemnable errors by a denuncaton of clmate. We should lke, alas ] to know what was contendng, month after month, prevous to the decsons of the the course of medcal treatment adopted on board the Brstol, late Parlamentary C-~mmttee, on the advsablty necessty what among those who have ded at Bathurst? Yellow of rasng the whole of the Protected Terrtores on the Gold Cape Coasts to the rank of a Brtsh Colony, we had constantly fever, lke cholera, s one of those malgnant forms of dsease n our mnd ths great truth whch has now beeh so clearly that do not admt of beng trfled wth. The old system of treatment of yeltow fever was one under whch to be attacked was enuncated u the House of Lords by a Colonal Secretary of State. Th.% too, was our ttle justfcaton n expo.qag the almosto have the death-warrant sgned for the unhappy sufferer ; a persstence at the present day n such system gves necessarly pretty smlaresults. But f under that system so few abuses that were sad to preval, to worknjustce njury to the colonsts on the Oamba. And so strongly do we feel the mportance of ths declaraton by the Secretory of State for the recoveres take place, why are there not mperatve orders from the Admralty tha Colonal Offces, that n all outbreaks of Colones, that we have almost decded on ts constant nsertou yellow foyer, th~ ~alns treaty*ant, recommended by Dr. Stevens, off the ttle page of ths paper, as a most mportant artcle n the under whch almost all yellow fever patents are sad to have recovered n the West lades--why, we say, are there not mperatve we conscentously beleve, these are somethng more than mere Magna Charta of colonal rghts, lbertes, clams :f, as orders that hs system should o tred? These are not the days n words on the part of the present Colonal Secretary, we hope he whch the lves of our offc rs end salors Government wll long reman at the head of the Colonal 01~ce, to gve effect emtaloy& ought to be allowed to be trfled wth. Every dscovery of modern scence ough to be at ther comm for ther narvon has put ou record opnons respectng the proclamaton to the great prncple they express. Then, agan, Lord C~r- use servce, or scence may, so far as they are concerned, shut enforcement of martalaw u a colony~ whch comcs pretty up shop at once. We nsst upon ths pont. What has been nearly up to those whch ws ourselves expressed months ago. t s put forward by Dr. Stevens hs followerss true, or t s a le. very gratfyng to us to have those opnons of ours thus endorsed by Her Majesty s Oovernment; we do not thnk tha~ u When gong to press our attenton hm been called to another letterfuture any Oovernor of a Brtsh Colouy, wll lghdy employ Oaths 8uhject from an offcer the 4th W~,t, lnda Regment, ~ho ~Jgns, ~newhoha~ Escaped the Jaws of Death. Ths letter, whch we now the brufum fulmen of a threa to proclamartalaw n the nsert, wll be found n page 34, wa ehall refer especally to t n our countree Under hs comm. ~ext nmnber.--ea). A.T. But a proporton as we are gratffd~ feel bound n j q,st[co. } :[

5 32 THE AFRCAN TMES. [SgPT~MBER 22, ~-record our trbute of prase to Her Majesty s Secretary ef mpartal admnstraton of justce? Soon after ths ournal wu establshed, four or fve yearn snce, we nssted on the necessr7 Sta e for the Culones for what he has so well expressed, n the same proporton are we d~pponted at hs reply to Lord Houghton on the subject ofgvug compeu~ton to some of the sufferng of some new arrangements at Cape Coast as regards offlcal re~. deuce. We sad the~, we say now, that the judges famles n Jamaca. That a wanton destructon of property took magstrates ought not to be resdents n the Castle wth the Go. place, has been fully establshed. Ths has been expressly statedvernor mltar cstern. A ~udge ought to be beyond the by the Commssoners; t s no answer to the just clam of an suspcon of partalty or bas, f hs decsons are to be respected; njured person, that, f he be recompensed, fraudulent clams wll we are sorry to see that the Oolc aal-off~ have not made he put forward by others. t mght, as hs Lordshp states, any change n ths respect. requre "great sagacty" to dstngush between just Wth regard to the matters treated of n the letter from Calm Coast, wc wsh to stats that we know nothng of the medcal fraudulent clams; but surely, among the host of emp[oy~at the dsposal of Her Majesty s Government, ths amount of offcer mentoned, or of Captan Hal, whose conduct as stt~ sagacty may be found To say the contrary, would be to declare magstrate n the Stpenda y COu~t comes espeda]ly uad~ that all past Colonal rule from Downng-street had been a notce. The letter n queston does not state what Captan routne of jobbery favourtsm, so nfamously practsed, that, Hall s decson was ; whether he decreed the plantff twelve w not even as a soltary excepton, had any one wth a full average sx guneas; nor have we any knowledge whatever as regarch degree of ntellect been admtted nto the publc servce underths. We cannotherefore be charged wth nsnnstng that he that department. Now, bad as thngs may bays been. the)- are was bassed n he decson when we say that t was very mproper not qute so bad as such a statement would proclam. The under the ereumstances, very rrtatng to the defendant~ queston of compen~ton may be as dmcult as the work of unnecessary, consequently unjust, destructon was easy, the that he should have come to the court arm-n-arm wth the plantff, the medcal offcer of the same regmento whch he Colonal Exchequer may be poor, the House of Commons belonged, have placed tha plantff en the bench besde hm. may bo very reluctanto make a grant; but f njustce has We go further; we do not hestats to say that under the crcum. been dela, f wanton uunecessary njury has been nflcted, stances he ought not to have sat at all as judge n such a case the honour of ths country s concerned n gvng a prompt that ha ought to have declned to adjudcate, have peetpened the case untl some ether ]person, not sn offcer that sufacent recompense n all canoe; Her Majesty s Mnsters, as representng the honour aud nterests of Great Brtan regment, could be foun% to pre~de. Ths beng our vew, we before the world, are bound to arrange the means for decdngregard the whole proceedngs as rregular, say that we hope upou the quan~m of recompense to be gven, for procurngthe Governor-General wll order them to be set asde altogether. the necessary amount wthout further delay. Wth respect to the scene n court, what subsequently eceurred, we blame all the partes concerned. We do not emonerats the others because we look upon Captan Hall as the LAW AND JUSTCE AT CAPE COAST, moat blameworthy. And whle congratulatng Judge Haokett on hs return to Ca.l At~FA~S at Cape Coast are very far from beng as they ought to ~ Co~t, Ca..pc Coast on hs return, by whch the further sttng as judge~ n the Supreme Court of mltary be, as we could desre that they should be. So strongly do ofl~cera wll we holm be effectually put an end to, we regre to we feel ths, that we had ntended to gve a lull revew of the have to express our dsapproval ef hs decson. We thnk he poston ths month. But Mthough unable to do ths, we cannot s gulty of an error n judgment. Tf Captan Hall merted the avod notcng the facts contaned a letter from one of our remarks ~d to have been addressed to hm by ~udgo Hacke~ correspondents there respectng certan proceedngs the Stpendary Magstrates Court. The due mpartal admnstraton there were suffcent grounds to justfy hm n puttng an end to the whole affar, wth a cauton to all partes Concerned, that of justce ough to be locked upon as a matter of the frst conlequence n a Brtsh colony or settlement. n the absence of a such proceedfg~ such language would not be tolerated n any of the courts at Cape Coast whle he should contnue to "Secretary of State for the Department of Publc Justce" from retan the crce of Supreme ~udge : that n any future case the roll of Brtsh Mnsters Councl, t devolves on the of a lke knd he would resend the lcence to practce n the Colonal.crce to be especally watchful careful n ths ra. courts of all who Should thus offend. We thnk ths would portent matter. We beleve that n a Brtsh colony or settle-havment, where there s no dstncton of races, there wll be found been the proper vew for ~ udge Hscketto have taken ; we do not thnk that even the offcers, among whom he resdes, to preval pretty generally such an admnstraton of justce, wth whom he s compelled to constantly assocate n the C, astle~ because a communty of Brtsh settlers wll not bear to be would have made any anmadversons such a decson. As regaxds the fnal porton of the letter, we e.an only say that f the facts trfled wth n such thngs. But unhapply ths s often far from beng the ca~ where the courts of justce are establshed prncpally for what slooked upon as an nferorace. We have seen am as there stated, whch we suppose they are, everybody con. corned n the postng up publc proclamaton of such a too many examples of ths. The sad outbreak n Jamaca was notce deserves, we hope wll receve, the strongest censure based upon the real or fanced oppresson exercsed by a dstrct court, the decsons of whch were taxed wth partalty conr~quently wth njustce; t s mpossble tbr us to look wth that hs Excellency Governor Blaekal can proncunee. The matter s a dsgraceful one from begnnng to end for all concorned, the sooner t s consgned to oblvon by a re~ndng any zatsfaeton upon what s recorded n the above-mentone~ of every decson n the case from the very commencement, the letter as havng taken place at Calm Coast. t must be. borne n better wll t be for all partlee. mnd~ too, that the crcumstances at Cape Coast ere exceptonal, exceptonal n a partcular whch renders t tenfold more than ordnarly ncumbent on the Colonal-ofllco to provde THE GAMBA HOSPTAL. agansthe possblty of any rregular proceedngs or charge of njustce the Cape Coast courts. Under the new decson of Sogs of the dfl]~ltsa wth whch we. have to contend n our Downng-street, so far as we can gather these from facts efforts for Afca may be gathered from perusal of the letter now partal revelatons, all that Cape Coast s to receve from Greatpublshed by us sgned " Harry Fuden." t s wth ths object Brtan, n return for the cusloms other dutes, &c., exactedwc have nserted t. But, before alludng to tho~ dffcultes, s an adm, ~traton of justc~--a the mantenance of open we thnk t necessary to state our convcton that our natve courts n whch justce, n conformty wth Brtsh law, shall be frends beleve what s not true when they gve credence to such admnstered to colonsts natves. Yet, notwthstaudng ths, statemen~ as are theren contaned. "We are perfectly aware we had occason to remark n past months on the seat of justcethat n but too many nsttutons of a lke character many requstons of medcal comforts steres are made ostensbly for the both n the Stpendary Magstrates Court n the Supreme, Court beng flled by of~cers of the West nda Detachmentuse of the patents, whch never really reach the latter. But quartered at Cape Coast Castle. Now ths s u every respectwe do not beleve that the prncpal medcal othcers of those ndefensble. The Earl of Csrnarvon (n hs speech on the establshments are to blame, except for that cardessness Jamaca queston whch appears n our columus), treatng of ndfference of whch the chef of the Oamba Hosptal has been courts-martal, says that "these form at all tmes a very excep-stonal very deplorable trbunal." And why? Lord wood of any complcty n the mproper use of supples sent nto often accused n our columns. "We entrely acqut Dr. Sher- Carnarven explans: "No one wll doubt ths who con- the hosptal ca requston, Gentlemen n hs poston may be ~ders the youth, the gnorance of the frst prncples of law, arbtrary, e~rele=-% n other respects greatly blameworthy, very often the prejudces of ther members." We have elmnated what was rrelevant napplcable,. And can any one as seems to have been stated by the person who has snce come but they do not condescend to paltry lttle peculatons. But f-- doubt that these objectons to the admnstraton of justce by forward as a defender of the nsttuton he s represented n th mltary offcers are equally applcable when such offcers are apponted to presde, n the Supreme Court the Stpendarypatents, we cannot acquthe prncpal medcal o~cer of blame. letter as condemnng~tho.~ medcal comforts, &c., do not reach the M~gstrates Court at Cape Coast, a localty n whch, perhaps, t s hsduto Y see that whats... thee ordered s vrol)erly appled,. because of pecular" clmate, passons sad prejudces seem to nter-anfere, even under the most favourable crcumstances, wth the ment. Our Oamba natve french must also bear n mnd not consumed by the underlngs on the staff of the establsh- that SEPrE]ffBER 22, THE AFNxCAN TMVS. 33 the subordnates hosptals are not expected to fnd ther own proval of, or even nto a ce~aton of protest aganst, those horrble utensls, that, therefore, plates, teacups, saucers, dshesbarbartes by whch D,homey s polluted, especally n those are necessary for the servce of such establshments, whether the supersttous " Customs" n whch human lfe s so wantonly patents ever obtan the enjoyment of the use of any of them destroyed, we shoul say at once that such envoyshould not bo or not. admtted, ether formally nformally, to the Royal presence; But now to the dt~cultes n our path as shadowed forth n but f, as we thnk them s reason to beleve, the personal ds. ths letter. Our efforts have been drected to ths amongst otherpleasure of our Soveregn at such atroctes, pronounced by thngs~vz., that the natveshoulderve the greatest po~bleherself n presence of thos envoys, mght have the effect of n- the Kng to put an end at once for ever to hs slave beneft from the nsttutons establshed among them for therducng use, whether pad out of mperal or Colonal funds. Those wars to those appallng " C,stoma" for whch Dahomey has who complan to us are, as mght be expected, natves who become so nfamously dstngushed, we do venture to expre~ the are dsapponted n ther just expectatons, or who fancy they do holm that n the event of the envoys arrvng here, some means not receve the advantages they am enttled to. But look at the may be devsed by whch they may thus become assured of Her case before us. We have every reason to gve credence to everymajesty s abhorreuce of thngs n whch the Kngs of Dahomey word wrtten e us by Harry Fnden, who bears a hgh reputa-havton for probty truth. And now, what do we see? We whch they have glored as ncompatble wth the exstence of delghted, aud that Her H.~jesty consders thos~ thngs n see, f that statement be correct, a European who has been an any frendly under~t.g, or nterchaega of courteses betweeu nmate of the hosptal dscoursng wth the natves as to the herself hm. We do thnk that some means may be devsed alleged abuses n the management of the nsttuton, speakngby whch such a Royal Chretan effort mght be made u the very strongly r condemnaton of them, nstgatng one of causa of humanty of Chrstau cvlsaton n Afrca wthout them to fresh complants to the Afrcan Ym~. Later, when any sacrfce of Royal dgnty. The end n vew s really a great those complants become so serous as to arrest publc attenton, one. The ceseatmn of dave-huntng wars of " Customs" the same ndvdual wrtes to the Afrcan Tme~ n laudaton of n Dahomey, the entry of that country, however feeble at the persons whoso conduct he s- sad thus n conversatons to frst ts steps may be, nto the ranks of the world s advancng have mpugned, n hs zeal s qute ndgnant wth us for Chrstan evlsaton, would have a great effect on the surroundng the delay of a month n the nserton or hs letter, the nserton countres. A new way would be opened through Dahomey of Whch s speedly followed by hs advancement to a yery much nto the nteror of Afrca. And as the Dshoman Oovernmcut more lucratve alce than he before held. The complannghas long snce shown tself alve to the mportance of good roads natve seem thus to be made tooh for a man s advancement n between ts prncpal places, more mght po.~sbly be done wthn offcal lfe; we are denounced, as abettors of false chargesn short tme n that than n any other natve Afrcan country aganst Europeans others n authorty by those who have n establshng mproved communcatons between the coast been n converaatnn fortfyng the natves n the rdetermaadon the nteror. The vst of the Dahoman.envoys to ths country, to appeal to us for correcton of alleged abuses under whch they ther judcous recepton entertanment here, are therefore have been sufferng. We do not thnk ths needs any furthermuch to be desred. t would be absurd, of course, to brng comment from us, beyond the expresson eta hope that the prncpal medcal o~cer wll look closely nto the conduct of hs to the rgours of wnter ; but we hops that such an answer may them over at ths tme of the year, when they would be exposed subordnates, who, f~what was then stated n conversaton be be gven to the Kng s applcaton, end such nstructons be correct, may have been the cause of much of the obloquy whch ssued arrangements made, as may lead to the presence of has fallen upon the establshment upon hmself; that u those men among us some tme n the months of May or Juno future we shall have nothng to record bat prases of the manage-omeet of an nsttuton of so great mportauca to them, f properly next year. drected.* HU~[AN SACRFCES. "to 2"KB RDr0R OF TaB afr CA~ Z~F.~. DAHOMAN Y_,NVOY8 TO ENGLAND. Chrstaasborg, Accrs, August 0. Ws announced more than twelve month snce that the Kng of Sr,~Affars u these eastern dstrcts of thu Gold Coast get Dahomey.was very desrous to send some of hs prncpal chefs rather worse nstead of better. The Awoonlaha show no nclnaton for peace, so that n November we shall be compelled to on a mxs.~on to ths country. t seemed to us ~ advsable n the nterests of Afrcan cvlsaton that he should be not only al. renew the w~r, whch we are determned to do wth vgour. lowed, but encouraged asssted to do so, that we have Kng Dawoonahas returned sck from Addah. Of the death of strenuously advocated the measure. n our May number we KngQuou Daddy you wll have heard by last mal. Deplorable made some comments on a letter of the late Commodore on the to relate, the number of human bengs offered up n sacrfce at "West Coast staton; n whch, n pursuauee as we beleved of Akropong, &o., on occason of hs death, s sad to amounto orders from home, the Kng of Dahomey s request wan refused. thrty. Our correspondhnce from Dahomey shows us, however, that the The Volta s stll shut up, but a small quantty of cotton has Kng has not accepted ths reply of the Commodore as a fnalbeen smuggled down from Krepee.~Yours, &o., H.R. decson aganst hm, but has appledrectly by letter to Her Majesty s Government wth the same: object. n the artcle n ABEOKUTA. our May number before alluded to we exposed the error We are sorry to repor that the Rev. C. ~. Leb was very nconsstency of ~uch a refusal as had been gven to the Kng, severely beaten n one of the streets of gben, Abeokuta, on endeavoured once agan to show howmuch that change whchsaturday, the 23rd of,tune, by a man called Bada aud several we so desre for Dahomey Ashantco mght possbly be forwarded by brngng some of the chef men of those countres nto every apology they could, promsed to punsh the offender n others ; no provocaton was gven whatever. The chefs offered mmedate personal contact wth our advanced cvlsaton all due tme accordng to ther custom laws.~u:~ tem,. the humane nsttutons" to whch the blessed precepts of the Gospel of Peace have gven rse among us. There s nothng MR. R. L WALKER 8 EXPEDTON NTO THE more necessary to be shown to the authortes of those barbarous NTEROR FROM THE RVER GABOON. count on than,he value whch we attach to human lfe; that Mr. Walker wrtes under date l{empses, R. Ogowe, West although. uuha0ply wars have sot ceased among so.called Chrs Afrca, May 30, " have htherto met wth msfortunes tta natons, human lfe s, except upon the battle-feld, regard ed o[stacles, whch have to s great extent overthrown my as a sacred thng, n no ease to be wantonly taken away, n hopes of makng mportant dsoovere.% or penetratog the all eases to be hedged rouud by the supreme authorty wth all contnento any great dstance on the present occason. ~ possble protectons. We do not know what may be the decsonaddton to a heavy loss whch sustaned by the deserton of of our ~overnment, what answer may be sent to the Kng of my carrers wth a largo porton of my goods at the very outset Dahomey. We have reason, however, to beleve that the arguments put forward by us have not been wthout effect n mod-supply whch had ~nt for sezed by the natves, only a few of my journey, have lately suffered agan by havng a small DfTng ahome y s opnons wshes n w~s ouarters known where to exst. opposton There s to consequently the Kng of mles from ths.~ have consequently made up my mnd to do as well as can wth the lttle have, end then make for the reason to holm that a favourable answer may be accorded, at coast sgae. Uofortunato as have been, ntend at a future leas to the extent of meetng th~ Kng s wshes that some of hs lme to renew the attempt; but~ meanwhle, ehall r~turn to my chefshould come over to ths country, by offerng those facltes wthout whch t would be dffcult, not mpo~ble, for them Evdence of ths s offered ; but we must exprtsa our belef that there has been some msapprehensou on the part of the o~c~r who s ]~do so. Ths, a formal recepton of such envoys by Her beleved thus to hays reported Colonel Conran, or of those to whom hs s _ o~t Gracous Majesty the Queen, are two very dfferent thngs. supposed to have n~da tha st~tement.--en. A. T. latter could by any po~blty be construed nto an up- " Surely these untoward experences wll change, n soma degree, th opnon of the Authtopoogcah a~ to tha superorty of the untutored1 9 Ths leader wan shut o~t last month. The letter alluded to appeared h/zbarans over the educated natves_of ~e Co, t--the mp.h of mlsson n the August number. ~chools ~--ED. A. 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6 "3 ~4 T q~, AFRCAN TMES. [SSP~R~tB~R 22, old occupaton of trade. The rans havng ceased, n a few the angry feelngs consequent what has taken place ought, for dahs go oo towards the nteror; hope to accomplsh somethng ere my goods gve out. At the same tme there s no usa n denyng that very greatu. the sake of the colony, as soon as possble to be put an end to. justce has been done, n many eases do not hestate to say ABYSSNA. that very great blame eppears to me to he due to tho~ who ca. couraged t. There are three classes of persons to whom that Co.xsrx~xr:,-orLe, Sept. th.--despatchea receved hero from blame s due--frst of all, the naval offcers ; secondly, the mll Massow~h state that aa engagemeut had taken place near Abrn, tary offcers; thrdly, the cvlans. Wth regard to the between the Abyssnans the Tgrd nsurgents. naval offcers, speakng ~enerally, should say that, upon the The Emperor Theodore was expected to arrve wth renforcemoots, t was beleved that the next engagement would be than effects auy other class. At the same tme there are cases whole, the amount of excesses ehwgeable to them s less, perhapb of a decsve character. whch requre nvestgaton,, though am not qute stre, beleve they are at ths moment under consderaton by the Ad. CLMATE OF WEST AFRCA. mralty. Wth regard to the mltary offcers the o~se s somewhat dfferent. Ther number s larger, the eases aganst some TO ThE EDTOR OF THE TMES. Sr,--As you have so kndly drawn attenton to the health of them are of a serous nature, at ths moment measures am of the Navy on the West Coast of Afrca, may be permtted to beng taken respectng them. L~okng at the report of the Com- t wll be seen that though there are many cases to say a word on behalf of the offcers the West nda regmentsmssoners, quurlered n that pestlental clmate? whch they allu.do, but three persons are desgnated by name as The 4tt, West nda Regment hes been on the Coast barely persons aganst whom further proceedngs should be taken. As three years, durng whch perod they have lost no less than to the Commsson, take t that t sts u ths poston : 19 or. 0 offcers, many more thau that number nvalded, a wa~ not a court of justce appouted to try these persons. t could great number of whom have been oblged, thlough ll-healfh, to not pronounce any verdct upon them or nflct any sentence. t exeh,mge, go on half-pay, or leave the servce altogether. had no authorty for ths purpose. As far as underst t, the The 8rd West nda Regment, lately sent to Jamaca, lost a Commsson was n the nature of a graud jury, tryng these peranus n order to ascertan whether therewem far grounds aganst great many offcers, but am not postve as to the exact number: Add to ths the mortalty n the medcal, eomm.~arat, store-thekeeper s departments, the sacrfce of lfe annually s fearlulposton n whch the Commssoners stood as a trbunal. New, for makng further nvestgaton: That, take t, ~ the to coutemplate, for what purpose, may ask, are troops kept t s true that the Commssoners menton several cases, such as at enormous expense to the country n a deaoly clmate lke those of Colonel Etkngton~ Colonel Hobbs, who afterwards came Afrca, where a good natve polce three would do all that s to a very untmely end, Captan Hole, Leut. kdceck, one requred? t must be remembered, although the men of West or two.others; mast say that t s mpossble to read many n0a :Regments are black, stll they arc not all Afrcans, the of theseases wthout feelng the deepest pan aud regret. thnk West ndansuffer nearly as much from fever as the Europeans. that the letters to whch some of these offcers have put ther hare been at every statou on the Coast, well know the names are ndecent absolutely dsgustng. (Hear.) But, msery of Afrcan fever, the d.,comforts an offcer s oblged sad before, the Commssoners only alluded to three ndvduals to b e,tr wth--vm, bad quarters, bad provsons, scarce very by name--provost-marshm Ramsay, Ensgn Cullen, As. expensve; n many places bad water, a weary monotonoussstant-staff Surgeon Dr. Morrs. Wth regard to Provostlfe, wthout even the advantage of pecunary benest, the paltrymarshal Ramsay, beleve that he s at ths moment stng pttance of de. per dem beng the only allowance granted for upon hs tral for murder n Jamaca. All further acton s servng oa country the clmate of whch s allowed to be the therefore precluded, t would be wrong for me to say anythng whle these judcal proceedngs are pendng. As regards worst n the world. Not a mal arrves at Lverpool wthout several poor fellowsensgn Cullen Dr. Morrs, the queston s a very dfferent nvalded, aud the sad ntellgence of the death of some other one. The Commssoners themselves stated that, n spte of conflctng evdence, the conduct of thesetwo-persons was of so vctm. enclose my card, am~ Sr, your obedent servant, suspcous a character that they recommended further nvestgatom 1 have, therefore, felt t my duty to brng the matter O~E WHO HAS ESCAPED THE "Jaws OF DEATH." under the notce of the Commer-u-Chef, to submt for HOUSE OF LORDS.--Avnvsr 2, hs consderaton Whether t would not be expedent frst of all J& ~[A CA. to try these two persona by courts-martal ;, secondly, nas- as Sr Henry Storks has left the sl, Major-~eneral The Earl of {oxa EY wshed to ask a queston of the noblelordmuch the Secretary for tha Colones, on a subject wth respect to whch O Connor, the chef offcer n comm ef the troops, was, uufortunately, mplcated more than was desrable, assumed a -agreat ram, yp er~ons~ felt a dee p nterest--he, meanthe condton. of Jamaca. There were few persons m the country who, whle very consderable responsblty n many of these trausaotous, anxous to see law order n the colony supported, were not have felt t my duty to submt for the consderaton of the as0 anxous that n support of law. order nothcg should ba Commer-u-Chef whether t would not be desrable ether to done at all njurous to the rghts of any number of Her Majesty s remove the courts from the sl of Jamaca, or td consttute subjects. There were, he was aware, certan other personso those courts of offcers who would be entrely ndependent of prejudced on the matter that no answer that could be gven the recent transactons there. That vew has been taken by would be satsfactory to them. t would be useful, however, f the Commer-n-Chef,, consequently, these two persons some statement should be made on the part of the Governmentwll be broughto tral, before courts-martal, takng the precauton whch have ventured to suggest. Lastly, there comes whch would ndcate the course of polcy that was lkely to be pursued, ths matter. What he wshed to know was ths-- the queston of the conduct of the cvlans ; hero, ef course, whetherher Majesty s Government agreed n the man wth the feel myself manly responsble, for hold ths dstnct vew~ vews o[ the late Mnstry on ths queston, whether hs nobletha f any colonal suffers from nju~ffc~, ~haf~rff may ~ h ~ frend could state what steps had been taken or would probablyclas~, hs condton, or h, s colour, hs has a rym to redre.~s at t~ be taken n reference to the state of affars n Jamaca. hs of th~ Colonal Mnster n ths country. (Hear, hear.) The Earl of Cas,xaavo.-,- : The queston whch my noble frendactng n ths sense, have nstructed Sr J. Grant, the present has asked me refers to a matter of the most panlul nterest. No Governor of Jamaca, to nsttute the most searchng uqutry n man who has at all looked nto the crcumstances of the case can hs power n order to ascertan whether there are any cvlans doubt the very grave necessty whch rested upon those n whoso conduct dems nqury. And have such confdenc~ n auth,,rty to adopt the most vgorous measures to repress the Sr J. Grant as a wse humane admnstrator, that whle on dsorders. On the other h, t s equally clear that there have the one h he wll not, beleve, rake up unnecessarly those been a low cases of undoubted cruelty, some cases of undoubtedsmoulderng embers whch t s for the good of the colony sheuld oppxe.-son, aud some of undoubted njustce. At the same tme expre as soon as po~sblot on the other h, f there be just mu~t say that t s very dffeul~ to form an accurate judgmentcause for nvestgaton, am sure he wll not shrnk from t, at ths d.,tance, wth the comparatvely nsuffcent materals whatever dfl~eult/es may attend that nqury. ought to menton further, that as some thrty-fve persons are at ths moment whch we have before us, because, bulky as s the report of the Commssoner.~, the evdence s such that t s exeeednglydffcult confnement Jamaca under long sentences for the part they for us h~re at home to deal wth t, or to know how thrly took n the nsurrecton, as beleve that many of these per= equally to apporton the blame among those to whom blame s sons are gnorant peo~le, msled by more desgnng persons, due. la the frst place the evdence s of a very conflctnghave left t to 8Jr J. Oranto reporto me whether n any oz nature. Makng all possble allowance for exaggeraton those eases the prerogatve of mer~y may not be farly wth msconcepton, there has been undoubtedly a great deal of very polcy exercsed. am sure that represent the feelng of Farlament as well as my own when say hope t wll be found hard swearng a great deal of perjury. qute agree wth the opnon expressed by the rght honourabte gentleman my possble to deal wth these offenders somewhat more lenently predecessor n offce, that the hcan-burncga, the rrtaton, than they have been dealt wthn the colony. My lords, shoutd S~m ~mma 22, 1866._] ~-glad to stop here, but fed bound, after the queston put to At the same tme, wsh to say there can be no doubt that both me by my noble frend, to say a few wards further. t s mpossble to dscuss ths queston wthouto/ehng morn or less[ who acted n subordnaton to hm, acted wth most eemplete/bna /fr. Eyre, who accepts the whole reapoedblty, end the offcers upon the conduct of Mr. Eyre, because, after all, Mr. Eym was ~&s n the matter. Personal feelngs rrelevant consdem. the Oovernor, he was responsble for everythng whch took tons were entrely absent from ther mnds ;, however ms- they were, they beleved they were pertbrmng ther duty. place. Now, cannot doubt, on the one h, that the nsurrec-taketon was a most serous one, aud that the crcumstances of the Therefore, the propo~l whch s sometmes put forward, to ndct tme were very grave. readly admt the prompttude, the Mr. Eyre on the charge of murder, seems to me to be one of the courage, the fearlessness of responsblty whch he dsplayed. most preposterous proposals that could be made. Whatever but, on the other h, am n justce bound to say that these offence Mr. Eyre has commtted, murder s certanly not the qualtes, f they are not accompaned by sound judgment on the offence that can be charged aganst hm, beleve such a part of the person who po~esses them, become faults rather than charge would be utterly repugnant to the common sense of Eng- ~rtues, arc n the nature of a cure rather thau Lshmen. thnk 3fr. Eyre has suffered severely ndeed; hs a blessng to the colony wth the government of whch that person s ntrusted. Ths, thnk, was the ease of Mr. Eyre. upon hm. Lookng to hs poston hs antecedents, beleve recall has been as heavy a blow as could possbly be nflcted beleve he was completely absorbed n the one paramount dea of that blow has fallen on hm severely. Ae regards the state of crushng out ths nsurrecton of savng the colony; but he hmaca now there are great dffcultes to be solved; but have saw only one sde of the queston--he saw only one half of hs every confdence n Sr John Grant, than whom, beleve, them duty, only acted up to that lmted porton of hs duty. Now, was no one more competeet to grapple wth those dffcultes, the governor of a colony s the representatve of the Crown, whoso appoutment as Governor s, [ behove, the best that could the frst attrbute qualty of the Grown s not only justce, have been made. but perfect mpartalty, the power of rsng above the panc Earl RVsszLL: concur wth the opnon pronounced by the the apprehe~etrs of the moment. t was just n ths way Commssoners wth regard to the tral executon of Mr. that Lord Cannng, when placed under crcumstances somewhatgordon. undorstaud the noble earl to say that he, too, con- u t. only wsh to say further, w0a regard to the late smlar, tho,gh undoubtedly much more momentous, deservedcurred obtaned the admraton of hs country, by rsng above the Oovernment, that we all thoughthe report made by the 0oremssoners was not only au able report, but.that t judged m- prejudces passons of the moment by preventng the rsons who surrounded hm from beug carred away by those partally the conduct of Governor Eyre of all the persons ~ lngs. t s to the fatal want of ths qualty n Mr. Eyre that whose conduct t dealt wth. beleve that, both u the pral~e wo may traca at least half of the mschef whch arose after the the Commssoners gave Governor Eyre, for the prompttude outbreak, through the unnecessary prolongaton of martallawextreme readness wth whch he put down an ncpent/nsurrse. the many excessve severtes whch took place dunng that ton, n the blame they east upon hm, the Commssonere perod. Courts-martal form at all tmes a very exceptonal ann were equally just, far, mpartal. qute agree wth the a very deplorable trbunal. No one wll doubt ths who conrders ther consttuton, theyoutb, gnorance of the frstof murder; hut, at the same tme, we cannot help deplorng the noble earl that there are no~ nny grounds for accusng Mr. Eyre prncples of law, very oren the prejudce, combned wth severty that was used. the absolutely unlmted dscreton, of ther members. Perhaps The Earl of Cam-~s~vo~ : As far as underst the verdct of your lordshps may recollect how, not qute a century ego, Lord" the Commssoners respectng Mr. Eyro, entrely accept t Cornwalls, n the correspondence whch has been recently pubfshed, has left on record hs btter feelng of the atroctes carredproved to be gulty of complcty n ths nsurrecton, that coneur n t. underst t to be ths~that Gordon was not on n 1793 by courts-martal under hs own eyes, wth he was executed upon evdence whch was wholly nsuffcent. hardly any power ou hs part to suppress them. As courtsfaartal Were n 1793, so they are n 1866, because the ohjeetons~rd Honoarox: wsh to ask the noble earl Whether he has n that opnon entrely concur. to them depend so much on the nherent nature of the trbuhalentertaned the queston of gvng compensaton to any of the tself. wll not attempt to enter nto some of the legal techn-sufferncaltes, nqure whether or not courts-martal, f t be.not a The Earl of Cxras~avox: The queston of compensaton n- famles. solecsm to say so~ are legal. There may be eases of dre neces-volvesty, when t s absolutely mperatve to proclam martalaw, the Consoldated Fund or from coloual revenues. The place for ths pont---that compensaton mus~ be pad ether from to admnster t by court-martal ; but, n ouch eases, theredscussng queston of payng compensaton out of the Consoldated Fund would be rather the other House of Parlament are several rules whch ough to be observed. n the frst place, martalaw ought not to be allowed to contnue one sngle day than your lordshps fouse. shouldoubt whether ths country or hour beyond the tme whch s absolutely necessary. n the would be dsposed to make a grant on ths account. Of the colo- revenues can gve only a poor account. t wll requre the next place a cauton should be gven to those who admnsternal those courts, not udeed n the shape of a code of mnute rules, utmost efforts on the part of Sr John Grant to make both ends because that would be mpossble, but by a general nstruetomeet; probably t wll be many years before he wll be u a The offcershould feel that they w}l be held accountable for L 0ston to make any consderable allowance. t s also to be any excessve acts of authorty on ther part. Just n proporton rue n mnd tha the queston of compensaton s a most dffcult as they arc completely frea to act, so, thnk, they oughto be one. Fraudulent clams of all knds are sure to be put forward jealously watched,, f nseassary~ controlled checked by the moment you announce that ether the colonc2 or the mperal ther superor offcers. Unfortunately ths was not the case n Government wll pay compensaton; t would requre the Jamaca. n the panc confuson of the momenthese safeguards were neglected, no doubt very serous consequences should be sorry to debar myself absolutely from entertanng greatest sagacty to dstngush those that oughto be satsfed. resulted from that neglect. t has been sad, further, that ths questou. Much must depend upon the reports of Sr $ohn martalaw n Jamaca was complcated by ths pecular crcum-grantstance-that there was an Act n the colonal statute-book whch, compensaton shall be gven. wsh, ndeed, to leave myself shall be equally unwllng to make any promse that whle t certanly expressed the opuon that courts-martal oughtentrely free to adop the course that may seem best. not to be establshed except n cases of grave necessty, neverthe. less dd seem to encourage the Governor to proclam martalaw, HOUSE OF COM/fONS.---Ju~Y 31, under crcumstances somewhat less grave than should justfy At the evenng sttng, Mr. BwxroN called attenton to the such a course. He doubt 3~r. Eyre understood that he had no concludng paragraph of the report of the Royal Jamaca Commsson; moved the followng resolutons: " 1. That ths opton but to contnue that Act n operaton for a full month ; but that was a great mstake. t wll be the duty of lqer House deplores the excessve punshmeuts whch followed the.majesty s Oovernment to look Closely nto ths pont, frsto euppresson of the dsturbauces of October last n the parsh of see whether smlar Acts do not exst n some of the West udanst. Thomas, Jamaca, end especauy the unnecessary frequeuoy colones, of whch can t speak postvely now; second, wth whch the punshment of death was nflcted. 2. That ths to revse them aud brng them mere nto conformty wth our House, whle approvng the course taken by Her Majesty s Government u dsmssng ~r. Eyre from the governorshp of the dea of what they ought to be. am further consderng the expedency of drawng up a short smple cede of regulatons slaud, at the same tme concurs u the vew expressed by the for ~ the ~structon gudance of governors who may be placed n crcumstances smlar late Secretary of the Colones, that whlo any very mnute to those n whch Mr. Eyre was placed. eodeavour to punsh acts whch may now be the subject of regret do not thnk you can provde for every sngle case ; but you would not be expedent, stll that great offences ought to be may /ay down lmarks prncples whch shah gudo punshed, that grav excesses of severty on the part of any governors under such exceptonal crcumstances. 3[uch has been c vl, mltary, or naval ffcers ought not to be passed over wth sad respectng the case of Mr. Gordon, end do not want to say mpunty. 3. That a the opnon of ths House, t s the duty anythng about t,. for thn reason, that beleve t was a of Her Majesty s Oovernmeuto award compensatou to those most terrble case, one that was ndefensble. The evklencewhose property was wautonly cruelly destroyed, to the upon whch he was hung was nsuffcent to have convcted hm. famles of those who were put to death llegally. 4. Treat snce t A

7 36 THE AFRCAN TMES. [SEPTBMBER 2 ~, 1866; consderably more than a thous persons are proved to have[ HOLERA, TS CAUSE AND CURE ; beng the 8ubstavc~ been executed or severely flogged on the charge of part;_epatng of Two Dscourses by Dr. TcaLZr, F.E.S., W6rcester. n these dsturbances, a l further punshment ou eeeount of themsecond Edton. ought to be remtted." Mr. Buxt~n made a most elaborate London : H. Lamplough, 113, Holborn-hll; W. Edwards, 4, speech n support of these resolutons, quotng detal the ev-coleman-sreet-buldngsdence of acts of severty, mantanng tha they were notprce Sxpen~. Moorgate-street; all Booksellers. justfed by the exstence of a general conspracy n the frst place, or resstance to authorty n the second. 8E~/NARY FOR AFRCAN YOUNO LADE8, After a long debate, n whch Mr. Adderley, the Under-Secretary of the Colones, Mr. B. Cochraue, Sr H. Carns, Mr. Card- SS 8MTH receves 2, MPORTOBELLO ROAD. KENSNGTON PARK. LO~DON. wee, Mr. Mll, Mr. T. Hughes, Mr. A rton, end the Chancellor a lmted number of Afrcan Young Lades for Educaton. of the Exchequer took part, the fr~ resoluton was agreed to, TERMS. the othere~olutons were wthdrawn. For Board, a thorough Englsh Educaton, nstructon the French Language, Laundress, Seat n Church, SO: bf Pano, THE STATE OF JAMACA. Book% no., FORTY-TWO OUKgA8 per Annum... XO ~Udg EDl fon OF THE A~RCAN fl%f2. Home comforts, lberal treatment, parental kndae~ a/~ Sr,--Our agent sends us a bll ofladng some cotton fbre certan. - ~ a large quantty of arrow-root by themal, but he speaks very far Three months notce requred prevous to the removal of a "from satsfactorly as to the state of Jsmaca, end especally pupl Manehonetl. t appears that, for fear of fresh dsturbances, Sr Henry Storks has been nduced to send a gunboato reman n COTTON, WOOL, other Materal, PACKED by WALKER S PATENT PRE881k):: ]~T~TN(} the harbour. The people, our agent states, are very dscontented that he fnds t daft]cult to get them ether to pay rent PRESS, n HALF the USUAL TME; tsugar MllS" for for ther ls, or to gve labour n leu of rent. He doessplttng the Cane, Palm Nut A~ortera; Nut Cra ckers,~a.nd not beleve order wll be establshed untl the Government ever) knd of Machne for Afrca or nda.. :. : have carred out ther plan of a new consttuton, for whch all 17, COWPER STREET, CTY ROAD, LONDON. : are most anxous. The delay s obvously most prejudcal to everyone who has anythng at stake n the sl. Nne PROVSONS. famles, our agent states, lefthe sl by the last mal. HE underacted We hope Lord Derby wll take Jamaca nto hs early con-sderaton. f somethng s not speedly effectually done, to deen London : Sardnes, Preserved Salmon, dtto Lobster% Coeds, now on h" for mmedate shpment, beng only of the well-known br of FORBES, Aber- educate, employ, pacfy the mass of the.people, further ds. dtto Oysters, dtto Herrngs, dtto Mackerel, dtto Haddock/b turbances may be reasonably looked for.--g6urs, fathfully, dtto Turbot, Dred Codfsh, dtto Lngfsh, Hgh.dred Herrngs, 55, Chafng-cross, July 13. S~z~nr~ Bonm~ m 8altod Salmon~ dtto Herrngs, dtto Mackerel, Peser~d F~sh Soups, Herrngs ~ la Sardne, Preserved Soups, dtto.m~ts~dtto The paddle-wheel steam sloop Vrago, 6, 220.horse power, Poultry, dtto Game, dtto Vegetable% dtto Mlk, Pdt~l ~ts; havng undergone some heavy repars to ft her for serv~e-wth Anchovy Paste, Jam% n Tns or Jars, Fruts, Bottl6d. ~u]d ~t~d, the frst dvson of the Chatham steam reserve, n readness forl Pckles (Pure), Sauces, Mustard, Oatmeal, Darley, Ovrj, ~louk commsson, has shpped her coals, made a prelmnary The above may be had n any package or sze ; also H, m% :Bacon, tral of her engnes. The drect-actng engnes, formerly con-cheesestructed for the Vrago by Messrs. Bolton Watt, have been Prced Lsts end all other nformaton may be obtaned of Mr. Butter. removed, end n ther place has been ftted the machnery latelym. L. L~VN, 1, Beets Marks, London, Sole Agent for West -belongng to the Rhadamanthus. Durng the tme the "VragoCoast of Afrca, all orders forwarded hm wll receve mme.-" was n the shpwrghts hs--a perod of several months--she date attenton per return Mal... has been almost rebult. She s ntended for mmedate com, msson, for servce, t s understood, on the West Coast of Afrca. EST COAST of AFRCA, MADERA, TENBRLFFE. W.~The Afrcan Steamshp Company s vessels (carryng Her JOHN BROWN, Junor, Majesty s Mals) leave LVERPOOL monthly, wth gooda C03DSSOH ]derchant, p,a.,~engers, proceedng drecto MADERA, TENERFFE, BAqlURST, SERRA LEONE, CAPE PALMA8, CAPE 6, WOBURN PLACE, COAST CASTLE, ACCRA, ~fl0s, BEN[N, NUN, BRASS, RUSSELL SQUARE, BONNY, t~rnand0 PO, CAMER00NS, OLD LONDON. CALABAR, Nov.--The Company s floatng depot at Serra Leone havng Just publshed, n one eel., 8no, cloth glt, 10s.; plan, 7s., THE KNGDOM OF HEAVEN. By F. l~nzoznxln, E~q., Edtor of the "Afrcan Tmes," &o W. J. Johnson, 121, Yleet-street, London. MAnm~ or 2~zm.zr~ untl the removal of the quarantne Just publshed, Second Edton, prce 6d.; post-free, 7d., restrctons mposed at these places. AN EXPANDNG CURRENCY, The fne new Steamshp MANDNGO, 1,300 tons, 2?fhor~o power, E. F. LOWRY, Commer, wll leave LVER- FOR PREVENTNG NJUROUS FLUCTUATONS LN- THE RATE OF DSCOUNT, AND CONSEQUENT POOL on 2UESDA, the 25th 8EPTEMBE~ at ~.~. STAGNATO~ OF TLA.D~ Passengers embark by steam tender~ leavng the North Lng By F. rzozzald, E~q., Edtor of the "Afrcan Tmes," &c. Stage at 0 ~.u. punotually. W.. Johnson, 121, ~leet-street, London. Goods heavy baggage must be alongsde the shp at the loadng berth, llusksson Dock, not later than 6 r.u. on- the B 22nd. EADS, PROVSONS, TRA.DE GOODS, as under, on No goods or parcels can be ehpl~d wthout pro-payment of SALE at ~[. LEVN S ORES, freght. LONDON AND LVERPOOL. Bz_~us.--Agras, Seed, Corals, Popoppe~, Pounds, every No~tcz.--0wng to alteratons under the new postal contract n the dates of arrval at Lverpool of the mal packets, t s ether descrpton. decded to defer commencng the b-monthly salngs uutl Pnovxsloss.--Jams, Sardnes, Potted Meats, Potted Fsh~ lanuary next; thenceforward, dates of departura from Potted Soup~, Bscuts (tns}, Geneva, Bry, Rum. Lverpool wll be the 10th 24th, the a,rvals the 3, d Sv~nRLSs.--Musket% Cowres, l~lnt% Glass Goods, Combs, 17th of each month. Clothng, Crockery, S}atone~y. Aoz~c~,zs--Rmmel s: Pomades, Essences, end Perfumery. Yor further nformaton apply n Lverpool t6 the Company s Forbes : Provsons of every dezcrpton. Lamplough s : Drug~ Agents, Messrs. FLETCHEtt PARR, 23, Castle-street; Medcnes. or at the Company s offces, No. 14, Leadenhall.street, London. All orders addressed to M. L. LEVN, 1, Bells Marks. L~h~ don, E.C., wll receve attenton per return marl. been placed n quarant"ae, goods for that port wll meanwhle be led drect from the Company s steamers at shp s expense, but shpper s rsk. floods for Fza~rno Po the Rvers am transhpp~ at BossY, forwarded by branch steamers" at shpper s rsk. No-ncz.~No, passengers, goods, or parcels can be taken for.f London, for Fza.~nta.~m yrn~mmu~,/gpcl. --~ tt f ay AuGu, "V O,. Gamb~a S~gge~ on~ for Serra Leon... Co "Curous ] Rol0t v. the ( -.,..-. \