Statements of the misgovernment of the Congo State are accumulating
fast. The Daily Telegraph of Tuesday pub- lishes a letter from an English gentleman high in authority in Uganda, in which he reports the evidence of a native -named Kadia, in whom he evidently believes. This man reports that the "European with soldiers," who hanged Mr. Stokes, seized that trader's ivory, and ordered his porters to carry it. They refused, and he had them at once shot down to the number of one hundred ! It is further stated in Reuter's telegrams of Wednesday, that many tribes of the State are in revolt ; that no less than five punitive expeditions are in motion ; and that one of them, six hundred strong,"' was defeated by the native chief Bafulra, "between the third and fourth parallels N., and near long. 28° E." Bafuka's men rushed the square formed by the Belgian troops (Houssas), and „killed and wounded more than one hundred and fifty men. Immediately after another native chief slaughtered Captain Ffansens and sixty men; and then, again, a little chief killed Mr. Graham, formerly a British soldier, but employed in one of the expeditions, and ate him. There is, we are told, grave reason to fear that in some of these expeditions gain is the real object, and that the irritation of the people is not unjustified. The German papers are declaring that the fiat of Europe, by which the Congo State was created, ought to be revoked; and it appears certain that the King of the Belgians in assuming the sovereignty undertook a task too big for. his means, He cannot raise enough revenue or keep his subordinates in hand.
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