Captain Glover has been entertained at a banquet at Liver-
pool, and has made a speech denying absolutely the report that any want of cordiality existed between himself and Sir Garnet Wolseley. Their official intercommunication was always accom- panied by private notes of the most cordial character, a state- ment curiously at variance with the apparent tone, though possibly not the intended tone, of the letters published by his brother. How- ever that may be—and Captain Glover must know his own meaning best—he states that the great obstacle to raising native troops is the existence of slavery as an institution recognised by British law and British Courts, the masters wanting, apparently, to be paid the full value for their slaves. Till slavery was abolished, nothing could be done upon the Gold Coast. Captain Glover praised Captain Sartorius as an accomplished soldier, but declared his march through Coomassie outdone by Lieutenant Barnard's act in storming with only 150 men an Ashantee camp with 2,000 men in it, whom he drove out. He- added that twenty miles above Accra, which was only twenty-two days' journey from Liverpool, they could dig for gold just as they dig for potatoes in England. They had only to send an agent to ascertain the facts, and his only danger would be that of breaking his neck down a gold-pit. The statement is doubtless accurate, but as far as Liverpool is concerned, wants, perhaps, one other word of ex-
planation. Whose is the gold ? The Coast is not yet a Queen's colony, nor, if it were, could we confiscate all existing rights.
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