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On this point we may quote some wise and powerful

words which appear in Lord Cromer's Introduction to Mr. Harris's "Dawn in Darkest Africa," just published by Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co., a book which we hope to notice next week at length :— " I venture to think, it would be a mistaken kindness to leave the Portuguese under any delusion on one point. There are some things which no British Government, however powerful otherwise, can undertake to perform. First and foremost amongst those things is the use of the warlike strength of the British Empire to maintain a slave state."