20 AUGUST 1892, Page 17

ARMED ANTI-SLAVERY EXPEDITIONS.

. [To THE EDITOR OF rag " ErICTATOL1 SIR,—The Arab rising in Nyangwe is reported to be against the Belgian Anti-Slavery Expedition, and, whether tame or not, the credit of the Society which I have the honour to represent appears to have suffered in public estimation. Will you kindly allow me to state in your world-wide columns that there is but one Anti-Slavery Society in England, viz., that which is called the British and Foreign ; and that this Society has not only never sent out any armed expedition whatever, but by the terms of its constitution it is opposed to the employment of force for the suppression of the Slave Trade, and believes that the only method of stopping that

trade is to be found in the abolition of slavery itself am,