7 MARCH 1874, Page 1

The Colonial Secretary of State on Thursday forwarded to the

papers a statement received at the Colonial -office from Goldsworthy, second in command under Captain Glover, and dated H.M.S. ' Victor Emmanuel,' Cape Coast, February 8th. It announces that CoOmassie is taken 'and the King a prisoner. The latter part of this news instill distrusted, as it seems Inexplicable that no official despatch should have been received, but it was for- warded also byJudge Marshall to a gentleman in Liverpool, and is certainly, therefore, believed at Cape Coast Castle. If the King has been captured in a skirmish, the best thing to do with. hint would be to show him England and send him back to Coomassie. He would never fight us again, and it might _become a tradition with his dynasty to leave the white man and ids dominions alone. It, however, he is to be kept in confinement as a punishment for treachery, the Andaman Islands would exactly suit his constitu- tion, and have all requisite means for keeping him in open arrest. It is most probable, however, that he has been compelled to visit the Coast as a hostage, and to convince all the tribes that their dreaded enemy is fairly within our power.