The revolution in Madagascar, described in another column, seems to
have excited the Anglophobia always latent in France. The people fancy that Radama the Second, a half- savage drunkard, was their especial friend, and the papers insinuate that he was murdered because he had granted ton large a concession to M. Lambert, a French speculator. This person, whom Mr. Ellis charges with intrigues carried on by making the King drunk, bad received a patent, ensuring him the monopoly of all the mines in the island, i.e., a complete control over one principal munition of war— coal. The British Government does not appear even to have remonstrated, but the French believe the charge, and Le Nord even makes the absurd assertion that the Emperor has demanded an explana- tion of Mr. Ellis's presence at the capital, Mr. Ellis being a particularly successful missionary.
