... the Colonies, has been compelled to vindicate the conduct of his Department in New Zealand and on the Gold Coast of Africa. The Maori war with its unsatisfactory victories, checkered by one mortifying reverse, has confirmed the growing conviction that ...

... THE WEST COAST OF , AFRICA: The Royal Mail steamship Athenian arrived at, Liverpool. on Friday, with the mails from the West Coast of Africa. The yellow lever had tot entirely left the rivers on the leeward coast. Several fatal cases occurred during the ...

... WEST COAST OF AFRICA. The Royal Mad steamship Ethiope arrived is the Mersey Saturday from the West Coast of Africa, Traeriffe, and Madeira. The news by the steamer is rather important, and it shows that tie. slave trade. so far from demeasing, is rapidly ...

... THE IMPENDING WAR. VIENNA, May 7. Orders have been issued for placing the whole Austrian army on a war footing, and for concentrating the army of the north on the Bohemian and Silesian frontiers. In view of the danger of war the government intends to ...

... and in Africa. Mr. Buchanan congratelstee his on the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the right of the madeni to hold slaves; while, oe the other band, Mr. Buchanan says that he will strenuously oppow the slave trade in Africa. This ...

... India contract. Upon the vote for the Western Coast of Africa, BLr F. Baring, with reference to the Asbantee war, suggested the expediency of Incrrising the check upon the officials on the coast of Africa, and that, with that view the House should know something ...

... Iftbis from abroali. The atsam•ahi Africa, from New York, with dates to the 2 d ult., brings on intelligence that the Federal Government has resolved to declare war against any interfering between it and the Southern states as, however, this information ...

... him his first decoration of the Legion of Honour in 1832. In his despatch to the Minister of War, Savary, Duke of Rovigo, who then commanded the army of Africa, thus spoke of Jusuf :— I know not to what page of history to turn to find a parallel for his ...

... LATEST NEWS FROM AMERICA. By the Africa, which brings news from America to the 20th of last mouth, the hopes of a favourable ending to the Trent difficulty are somewhat strengthened. No expression of opinion had been given by the United States Government ...

... curious, and is as follows : He is a native of Bornon, a Mohammedan kingdom in Central Africa, and was the son of a cavalry chief in the royal army, who was killed in war with a neighbouring nation. The boy Said was kidnapped at fourteen by Bedouins, carried ...

... is the coast of Africa, and the width of the straits between Tarifa on the Spanish coast, and Ceuta on the African side, is scarcely fifteen miles. Through these straits must pass all the commerce of the Mediterranean, all the men-of-war of the British ...

... She well knew that after war had been declared her fleet could not \lope long to keep the seas against such a force as England and France could bring against it. She bad chosen a vulnerable point, and on that so soon as war was declared she was determined ...