1 NOVEMBER 1873, Page 2

All the news we can detect in the letters which

have began to arrive from Ashantee will be found in another- column, exempt two rather important morsels. The import of rum has been prohibited by law, as it was in the last war with Burmah, to the immense improvement of soldiers' health (soldiers, Mr. C. Thompson ! have parted with their freedom of diet), and that there seems risk of want of money. Is Lord Kimberley quite certain that the right of drawing on the British Government is on such a coast all that can be desired ? Suppose in the momen- tary collapse of trade nobody can buy bills.