19 JANUARY 1884, Page 2

General Gordon has accepted the supreme control under the King

of the Belgians of the establishments formed by the International Association upon the Congo. His plan, it is stated, is to come to an agreement with the French by ceding to them a province, establish stations along the Congo up to its -middle course, and then, advancing by that channel, declare war on the greatest slave-hunting tribe, the Niam-Niam. By -drilling released slaves, he hopes to form a small but devoted army, with which he can quell the slave-dealers, and establish on behalf of Europe a regular Government in Equatorial Africa from Stanley Pool up to the Nile. He will thus kill out African slavery at its very source. The project is a very noble one, but rests a little too much upon the health and strength of one man.