23 MAY 1874, Page 2

The Guatemala Government have, it appears, offered Consul Magee an

indemnity of /10,000 and "every possible reparation," for the insults and injuries inflicted on him by Colonel Gonzalez in ordering him 200 lashes. We trust that our Government is demanding something more than a personal indemnity to Consul Magee. The British nation has been insulted in the insult offered to the British flag, and it would ill become us to regard a pecuniary indemnity as in any degree adequate. The insolent author of the injuries, if not a lunatic, should be punished promptly and condignly, as well as all who might have interfered to prevent the infliction of the injury, and did not. We cannot afford to sell for gold the right to insult the. British flag.