13 DECEMBER 1873, Page 3

The news from the Gold Coast is very slight, the

principal fact being that Sir Garnet Wolseley had been ill—with sunstroke, some accounts say—and had gone on board the Simoom. He -was, however, believed by the last advices to be rapidly recover- ing. We trust the War Office has provided him with a second- in-command, with rank sufficient to avoid any of the accidental supersessions of which we have already had so many. There is, we imagine, no obstacle if they have fixed upon their man, to giving him any local rank required, his commission to operate only when he takes command.