2 MAY 1874, Page 2

Lord Carnarvon took an opportunity on Monday to state that

Captain Glover would receive the IS.C.M.G. and a grant from the Gold-Coast funds, and his chief assistants the C.M.G. and a smaller sum. It appears there is no precedent for asking for English money for purely Colonial service, but we do not see why an Indian precedent should not do, and there must be plenty of them. Does not Lord Lawrence hold an English as well as an Indian grant, and did not Lord Hardinge also ? However, the grant is a capital comment on Mr. Helms's proposal. In answer to a very good speech of Mr. Hanbury on Monday asking the House not to recede from the Gold Coast—a proposal we have discussed elsewhere—the Member for Hackney advocated an im- mediate retreat. .It follows that we are.tatax.Fanteee for defend-