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SCRAPBOOK 13	Scrapbook, 1875-1876
SCRAPBOOK 13		Scrapbook compiled by George Thompson and F.W. Chesson. Approximately 20 cm. 57 items, 138 pages. Articles are pasted in a volume of New Zealand Settlers and Soldiers, or, The War in Taranaki, Being Incidents in the Life of a Settlerby Rev. Thomas Gilbert. London: A.W. Bennett, 1861. Newspaper clippings unless otherwise noted.
		Arranged by order of entry
		The cape Colony ... The Colonial Intelligencer, June 1875, pages [203]-206.
		The Natal question ... The Colonial Intelligencer, June 1875, pages [208]-212.
		The treatment of Indian Coolies in the Mauritius ...The Colonial Intelligencer, June 1875,pages [222]-226.
		The Herald of Peace. London, July 1st, 1875. Danger of war with Burmah ...
		["Times, Aug. 12’ 1875"]. The Alleged massacre in Zululand. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ...F.W. Chesson, Secretary of the Aborigines’ Protection Society.
		Indian labourers in the Mauritius. To the Editor of the Standard. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Secretary to the Aboritignes Protection Society, Canada Building, Westminster, August 18.
		["Sept. 22nd 1875"]. The military situation in Germany ...
		Coolie immigrants in Mauritius. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines’ Protection Society, Canada Government Building, Westminster, March 31.
		The Mauritius. (To the Editor of The Friend). Dear Sir ... F.W. Chesson, Secretary of the Aborigines’ Protection Society, Canada Buildings, King Street, Westminster, August 22nd, 1875.
		["Sept. 29, 1876"]. The Papal struggle in Spain ...
		["Times. Sept. 11, 1875"]. Bishop Colenso and the Matyana inquiry. Mr. F.W. Chesson, Secretary of the Aborigines’ Protection Society writes to us ...
		["Nonconformist, Oct. 13, 1875"]. A vision of Utopia. Good men in all ages have dreamed of a condition of things far superior to any of which it was possible that they could have actual personal experience ...
		["Nonconformist, Oct. 20, 1875"]. A model city. Mr. Cross, in addressing the Conservative working men of Edinburgh, referred in appropriate terms to the Artisans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings Improvement Act ...
		["Nonconformist, Nov. 10, 1875"]. Mr. Forster on the British Empire. The valuable address which Mr. Forster has just delivered to the citizens of Edinburgh, raises several questions of great interest ...
		["Nonconformist, Nov. 24, 1875"]. New Guinea. The proposal to despatch a colonising expedition to New Guinea has received an unexpected check, and which may perhaps have the effect of inducing the leaders of the undertaking to consider the expediency of abandoning it ...
		["Scotsman, Dec. 22nd 1875"]. The Devil’s chain. A new story by the author of "Ginx’s Baby" naturally suggests a comparison between the author’s present and his previous work ... [review of The Devil’s Chain by Edward Jenkins].
		["Nonconformist, Dec. 25, 1875"]. The present state of the Liberal Party ...
		To the Editor of "The Daily Telegraph". Sir: In the new Admiralty circular British naval officers are informed that if any person should claim shelter on their ships on the ground that he has been treated as a slave contrary to the treaties existing between Great Britain and the territory from which he has escaped, he may be received on board until the truth of his statement is ascertained ... F.W. Chesson, Secretary to the Aborigines Protection Society, Canada-building, Westminster.
		["Nonconformist, Dec. 29, 1865 [ie. 1875]"]. "The Devil’s Chain". A new story from the pen of "Ginx’s Baby" is sure to command a large share of public attention, and we are glad ... [review of The Devil’s Chain by Edward Jenkins].
		["Nonconformist, January 1876"]. The new fugitive slave surrender ...
		["Nonconformist, January 12, 1876"]. Irish politics and English liberals ...
		["Nonconformist, January 19, 1876"]. The situation in France ...
		["Scotsman. January 26, 1876"]. The Suez Canal purchase ...
		["Daily News. January 19, 1876"]. The proposal to cede to France the British Settlements on the River Gambia cannot fail to engage the attention of Parliament at an early period of the ensuing Session ...
		["Daily News. Feby 2nd, 1876"]. Two influential deputations waited upon Lord Carnavon yesterday, for the purpose of protesting against the proposed cession of the Gambia to France ...
		["Nonconformist, February 2nd, 1876"]. The proposed cession of the Gambia Territory ...
		["Nonconformist, February 16, 1876"]. The new shipping bills ...
		["Daily News, February 21, 1876"]. To-day, a deputation, with Lord Shaftesbury at its head, will bring before Lord Salisbury the question of the opium trade ...
		["Daily News. February 22nd, 1876"]. Lord Salisbury, in replying to a deputation on the opium trade yesterday, took exception to some remarks which we had made on a Bill which Sir W. Muir introduced lately into the Calcutta Council ...
		["Nonconformist. March 1, 1876"]. The fugitive slave debate ...
		["Daily News, March 30, 1876"]. Our readers will perhaps remember that several months ago a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the Copyright question ...
		["March 31st"]. As soon as possible after Easter Sir George Campbell intends to call the attention of the House of Commons to the Report of the Royal Commissioners, Messrs. Frere and Williamson, who were appointed to inquire into the alleged ill-treatment of Indian labourers in the colony of Mauritius ...
		... A ceremony which took place in Westminster Abbey yesterday afternoon was unique of its kind ... Dean Stanley unveiled the tablet which has been erected to the memory of John and Charles Wesley ...
		["Vanity Fair, March 4, 1876"]. The cession of the Gambia ...
		["Daily News, April 3rd 1876"]. Lord Selborne’s speech on the fugitive slave circular ...
		["New York Evening Mail"]. A private letter from Mr. F.W. Chesson, formerly our London correspondent, says: The Madrid journals have circulated a preposterous, but amusing, story concerning Colonel Macias, the Cuban patriot, and myself ...
		["Nonconformist, April 29, 1876"]. An Oxford professor’s view of India ...
		The annexation of Perak. (To the Editor of the Herald of Peace). Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society, King Street, Westminster, April 22nd, 1876.
		The riots in Barbadoes. To the Editor of the Daily News. Sir: ...Canada-building, Westminster, May 4. F.W.C.
		["May 15, 1876"]. The petitions in favour of the Royal Titles Bill. To the Editor of the Daily News. Sir: ... A Liberal, London, May 13.
		["Spectator. May 20, 1876"]. The alleged poisoning of natives in Queensland. (To the Editor of the "Spectator"). Sir: Since the publication of the article on "Vivisection," in which you express incredulity as to the truth of Professor Jevons’s statement that Queensland aborigines are poisoned wholesale by strychnine, more than one inquiry on the subject has naturally been addressed to the Aborigines Protection Society ... F.W. Chesson.
		["May 24, 1876. Nonconformist"]. Literature. "British Opium Policy" ...
		["Daily News. May 31, 1876"]. Is a naval captain responsible for the discipline of his own ship? And is the chaplain on board the superior or subordinate of the captain ... Captain G.L. Sulivan, late of H.M.S. London ......
		The alleged poisoning of natives in Queensland (To the Editor of the "Spectator"). Sir: I ask your permission to make a few observations on Professor Jevons’s letter, the publication of which is, I think, calculated to do much good ... Canada Building, Westminster, May 29. F.W. Chesson.
		["Daily News" June 13?, 1876"]. Our readers are aware that in consequence of an outrage on a British subject at Whydah, and also of a defiant message sent to our naval representative by the King, we have been brought to the verge of a rupture with Dahomey ...
		["Daily News, June 19, 1876"]. On Friday night, at a somewhat late hour, Sir George Campbell complained of the manner in which Scotch legislation during the present Session has been conducted ...
		["Nonconformist, June 25, 1876"]. The fugitive slave report ...
		["Daily News, July 8, 1876"]. A few days ago we reported the proceedings of an influential Scotch deputation which waited upon the Chief Commissioner of Works, for the purpose of remonstrating with him on his refusal to permit a certain inscription to be inscribed on a tablet which is destined to perpetuate the memory of Dr. Thomas Gillespie in the Abbey Church of Dunfermline ...
		["Daily News, July 14th 1876"]. The debate on Captain Sullivan’s case which took place on Tuesday night on the motion of Mr. Evelyn Ashley, together with the further explanation which Mr. Ward Hunt made last evening in reply to Mr. Anderson’s question, has, we believe, entirely justified every statement contained in the article we published on the subject several weeks ago ...
		["D.N. July 19, 1876"]. A deputation from the Anti-Slavery Society, influenced by a laudable desire to protect the interests of the emancipated negroes of Jamaica, waited upon Lord Carnarvon yesterday for the purpose of protesting against a local ordinance ...
		["Daily News, July 14th 1876"]. The debate on Captain Sullivan’s case which took place on Tuesday night on the motion of Mr. Evelyn Ashley, together with the further explanation which Mr. Ward Hunt made last evening in reply to Mr. Anderson’s question, has, we believe, entirely justified every statement contained in the article we published on the subject several weeks ago ...
		["July 20th 1876"]. Both Sir Henry Peek and Mr. Fawcett have given notice of questions having reference to the Bill for the abolition of Tolls on the metropolitan bridges ...
		["Nonconformist, July 5, 1876"]. Pere Hyacinthe at St. James’s Hall ...
		["Daily News, July 24, 1876"]. Some idea of the heat of the political feeling generated in Barbadoes by recent controversies may be derived from a despatch addressed by Governor Hennessy to Lord Carnarvon on May 29th, in which he gives an account of the circumstances attending the celebration of the Queen’s birthday in that colony ...
		["Daily News, Aug. 1st 1876"]. The arrival in this country of Mr. Molteno, the Premier of the Cape Colony, and also of the delegates from Natal, marks another stage in the progress of the Confederation movement in South Africa ...
		["D.N. Aug. 4th, 1876"]. Several Chambers of Commerce and other representative bodies have arranged to present memorials to Lord Derby at the Foreign Office this afternoon on the subject of the restrictions lately imposed upon British vessels in the Red Sea ...
SCRAPBOOK 14	Scrapbook, 1876-1877
SCRAPBOOK 14		Scrapbook compiled by George Thompson and F.W. Chesson. 23 cm. ca. 125 items, 288 pages. Acq. note: "68734 ‘05". Articles are pasted in a volume of a bound volume collection of issues of the Sailors Magazine and Nautical Intelligencer of the British and Foreign Sailor’s Society.Newspaper clippings unless otherwise noted.
		Arranged by order of entry
		["Nonconformist Aug. 2nd, 1876"]. The debate on Barbadoes ...
		["Daily News, Aug. 5, 1876"]. As we have already informed our readers, the chief object of the deputation which waited upon Lord Derby yesterday was to protest against the restrictions which, under the guise of quarantine regulations, have lately been imposed upon British ships trading in the Red Sea ...
		["D.N. Aug. 7, 1876"]. According to a telegram just received from Simla, the Supreme Government of India has passed a resolution taking a very grave view of the present condition of the finances of our Indian Empire ...
		["From Lord G. Hamilton’s Budget Speech published in "Times" Aug. 11, 1876"] ... He had been a little surprised the other day to receive a pamphlet entitled "The Indian Budget for 1876," by Mr. John Dacosta ... Attached to that pamphlet were many distinguished names ... The last name on the list ... was that of Mr. Chesson, the secretary of the Aborigines’ Protection Society ...
		The Indian Budget. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Canada Building, King-street, Westminster, Aug. 11.
		"Nonconformist, Sept. 15, 1876. Lord Lytton and the natives of India ...
		["Daily News, Aug. 24, 1876"]. During the last Session the Copyright Commission held a considerable number of sittings ...
		["Daily News, Sept. 21st 1876"]. The questions connected with the law of copyright, now undergoing investigation, are of a very complex character ...
		["Daily News, Sept. 23rd 1876"]. Lord Carnarvon is evidently determined to lose no time in taking advantage of the defeat of the Boers and the successful defence by Secocoeni of his territory ...
		["Daily News, October 17, 1876"]. The administration of the great province of Bengal ... has always proved a heavy tax upon the energies of even the ablest of our Indian administrators ...
		["Nonconformist, Oct. 25, 1876]. The Transvaal and confederation ...
		["Nonconformist, Nov. 1, 1876]. From the North Pole ...
		["D.N. Nov. 6, 1876"]. Information received from Natal justifies the apprehension that, unless either the Governor of the Cape Colony or Sir T. Shepstone is armed with extraordinary powers, events of a serious character may soon occur in the Transvaal Republic ...
		["D.N. Nov. 15, 1876"]. The restoration of the church of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, is a matter of more than local concern ...
		["D.N. Nov. 16th 1876"]. The appointment of Cardinal Simeoni as successor of Cardinal Antonelli recalls a not very pleasing episode in the recent politico-ecclesiastical history of Spain ...
		["Nonconformist. Nov. 22, 1876"]. American Slavery and the Underground Railroad ...
		["Daily News. Nov. 27, 1876"]. Although for the present the Eastern Question has passed into the region of diplomacy, it has been thought desirable that English sentiment should continue to make itself heard and felt on the subject ...
		["Daily News. December 4, 1876"]. Probably no meeting of Englishmen was ever called together for a great public object by a more distinguished list of conveners than the Conference which on Friday next, is to assemble at St. James’s Hall, under the joint presidency of the Duke of Westminster and Lord Shaftesbury ...
		["Daily News. Dec 7, 1876"]. Sir George Campbell on Turkey ... [review of] "A Recent View of Turkey." By Sir George Campbell, M.P. London : John Murray].
		["Daily News. Dec. 8, 1876"]. Yesterday we published an announcement to the effect that Lord Derby had declined to receive a deputation from the Anti-Slavery Society on the subject of the slave trade ...
		["Nonconformist. Dec. 20, 1876"]. The late George Moore ...
		["Daily News. Dec. 21, 1876"]. If there is one duty more than another which appears to be incumbent upon this country at the present time it is to take care that its own subjects are not implicated in the iniquities of the slave trade ...
		... The Slave trade in Brazil. Sir Julian Pauncefote, on behalf of Lord Derby, has addressed a communication to the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society ...
		["Non.Con. Dec. 28, 1876"]. Sir G. Campbell’s handy book on the Eastern question ...
		["Daily News. Jan. 1, 1877"]. Lord Carnarvon has lately performed an act of justice in Natal which deserves cordial recognition on the part of all who desire to see good faith maintained in our relations with the subject races of the British Crown ...
		["Nonconformist Jan. 17, 1877"]. The new famine in India ...
		["Daily News. Jan. 16, 1877"]. The announcement we made yesterday of the appointment of a Secretary to the Chinese Embassy which is now on its way to England justifies the expectation that the new mission will exert a salutary influence on the relations of the two countries ...
		["Daily News Jan. 19, 1877. An announcement which we made in October last is confirmed by intelligence just received from India. We then stated that Sir Richard Temple would shortly retire from the Government of Bengal, and that his successor would be Mr. Ashley Eden, who has had a life-long experience of Indian administration ...
		["D.N. Jan. 24"]. It is natural that the appointment of Sir Bartle Frere as Governor of the Cape Colony should excite considerable interest in this country ...
		["Nonconformist. Jan. 24, 1877"]. The new governor of the Cape Colony ...
		["Non. Con. Feb. 7, 1877"]. The government on its trial. Whatever new political phase the Eastern Question may enter upon, there is fortunately no lack of information to guide the public mind in its judgment of past events or in its broad views of the policy which should hereafter be pursued ...
		["Daily News Feb. 5, 1877"]. We publish in another column a letter from Mr. Joseph Cooper, Honorary Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, which certainly claims a share of public attention. Mr. Cooper first refers to the rumours which it appears are still current at Cairo, that the late Minister of Finance, Ismail Sadyk Pacha, was executed in prison on the first night of his arrest ...
		["Daily News. Feb. 12, 1877"]. Our readers will remember that, in the Session of 1875, Sir Charles Dilke brought before the House of Commons the case of certain unreformed corporations in England and Wales ...
		["Daily News, Feb. 15, 1877"]. Our readers will have seen from an announcement we made yesterday that Lord Carnarvon has addressed a despatch to the Administrator of the Gambia, informing him that her Majesty’s Government has decided that M’Carthy’s Island is henceforth to be the extreme limit of British jurisdiction in the River Gambia ...
		["Non.Con Feb. 14, 1877"]. Japan, China, and India. On Sept. 1, 1877, Mr. R.N. Fowler left London for New York en route for the three countries above named ...
		["D.N. Feb. 19, 1877"]. The appointment of Colonel Gordon to the supreme governorship of the Soudan will afford great satisfaction to everybody except to African slave-dealers, who lately have exhibited an unusual amount of activity ...
		["D.N. Feb. 23"]. A few days ago, in reply to Mr. M’Arthur, Mr. Lowther denied the accuracy of a statement we had made as to the withdrawal of protection from the merchants trading in the upper waters of the River Gambia ...
		["Daily News. Feb. 26, 1877"]. We have received for publication a letter which the Committee of the French Evangelical Missionary Society have lately addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury and to the two great Missionary Societies connected with the Church of England ...
		["D.N. Feb. 27, 1877"]. It may now be regarded as certain that the monotony of domestic questions in the House of Commons will be relieved by a really stirring debate on the Universities Bill ...
		["D.N. March 3, 1877"]. The judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the Folkestone ritual case is naturally anticipated with great interest by both parties in the Church ...
		["D.N. March 12, 1877"]. The Spaniards are now making a supreme effort to suppress the insurrection which has raged in Cuba for many years ...
		President Hayes and his Policy. The Presidential crisis in the United States has at length terminated, and after prolonged scenes of excitement and tumult in Congress ... Mr. Hayes was declared to be the lawfully elected President of the American Republic ...
		["D.N. March 14, 1877"]. We fear that both Ritualists and anti-Ritualists will find it necessary to exercise a little more patience before their anxiety as to the judgment in the Ridsdale case is finally set at rest
		["D.N. March 15, 1877"]. To-day a deputation from the Amalgamated Society of Tailors is to wait upon Mr. Cross for the purpose of asking him to deal, under the Workshop Act, with what is known as "the sweating system" ...
		["D.N. March 17, 1877"]. The return of Miss Irby to this country, after her prolonged sojourn among the victims of Turkish misrule who have sought a refuge on the Austrian frontier, is an event which eminently deserves public recognition ...
		["D.N. March 20, 1877"]. On Saturday, as we yesterday reported, the Chinese Minister received the first deputation which has waited upon him since his arrival in this country ...
		["D.N. March 22, 1877"]. This evening Mr. T.B. Potter will ask the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether he is able to throw any light on the state of the negotiations between Egypt and Abyssinia; and also whether there is a prospect of the establishment of friendly relations between Great Britain and the Government of King John ...
		["Daily News, April 7, 1877"]. Mr. James’s motion for inquiry into the financial affairs of the City Companies was expected to engage the attention of the House of Commons last evening ...
		["D.N. April 9, 1877"]. The British colony of Fiji now rejoices in a Land Law which ... could hardly fail to satisfy the most advanced English reformers ...
		["D.N. April 10, 1877"]. Egyptian affairs have become unpleasantly prominent of late. The mystery of the missing Abyssinian Envoy has yet to be cleared up ...
		["D.N. April 19, 1877"]. Death of Mrs. Cobden ...
		["D.N. April 20, 1877"]. As our readers will remember, the high-handed proceedings of the King of Dahomey towards certain British merchants at Whydah last year led to the imposition upon that potentate of a heavy fine ...
		["Non. Con. April 18, 1877"]. The Budget ...
		["Daily News. April 23, 1877"]. The system of Coolie labour in the Island of Jamaica is on its trial ...
		["D.N. April 26, 1877"]. An impression appears to exist in Natal that the movement of troops to the Transvaal frontier implied an intention upon the part of the colonial authorities to intimidate the Boers of that Republic into accepting Lord Carnarvon’s scheme of Confederation ...
		["Non. Con. April 25, 1877"]. The Conservative victory at Salford ...
		["D.N. April 28, 1877"]. It is seldom that so large an operation of the kind has been performed as the recent disinterment of several thousands of dead bodies in the Quaker portion of the Bunhill Fields Cemetery ...
		["Daily News. May 1, 1877"]. This evening Mr. Alderman M’Arthur is to move a resolution in the House of Commons in favour of abolishing the system of ecclesiastical endowments which exists in Ceylon ...
		["Daily News, May 3, 1877"]. There are various indications that the people of this country are determined to have a voice in the national policy on the Eastern Question ...
		["Nonconformist, May 3, 1877"]. English neutrality and its assailants ...
		["Daily News. May [?], 1877"]. The supporters of Dr. Smith’s Irish Sunday Closing Bill have achieved unlooked-for success in connection with the Committee which was appointed in the early part of the Session for the purpose of considering the desirability of modifying the provisions of the measure ...
		["Daily News. May 10, 1877"]. We have more than once adverted to the sinister rumours as to the probability of disturbances among the native tribes of South Africa which have been from time to time widely circulated in this country ...
		["D.N. May 15, 1877"]. On Saturday morning we announced that Sir Arthur Gordon had transferred the capital of Fiji from Levuka to Suva, in Viti Levu, or Great Fiji ...
		["D.N. May 16, 1877"]. The deputation to Lord Derby on the Scotch Herring Fishery, which we briefly reported in our impression of yesterday, serves to illustrate the multifarious nature of the interests which require to be considered in the negotiations for the renewal of the commercial treaty with France ...
		["D.N. May 17, 1877"]. The Scotch lose no opportunity of promoting the interests of education in their own country ...
		["D.N. June 5, 1877"]. As our readers are aware, the Colonial Marriages Bill is intended to confirm in this country the legality of marriages with a deceased wife’s sister, which are lawful in those British colonies where they have been solemnized ...
		["Daily News. June 14, 1877"]. Home and foreign budgets. The Cobden Club has succeeded in obtaining a considerable body of information with reference to the mode in which the leading civilized States of the world endeavour to control or regulate their public expenditure ...
		["Daily News. June 16, 1877"]. We have reason to believe that the Government are keenly alive to the embarrassments of their position on the Irish Sunday Closing Bill ...
		["D.N. June 18"]. This evening, Mr. Lefevre intents, for the second time, to call the attention of the House of Commons to the injurious results which have ensued from the abolition by the present Board of Admiralty, two years ago, of the principle of competition in the appointment of naval cadets ...
		["D.N. June 20, 1877"]. There are probably few subjects in which the working classes at the present time take more interest than the one which is still engaging the attention of a Committee of the House of Commons, presided over by Mr. Lowe. The question of the liability of employers for accidents which befall their workmen when the latter are engaged in the active discharge of their duties has been complicated by conflicting judicial decisions, which singularly illustrate the uncertainties of the law ...
		["D.N. June 25, 1877"]. Even the sanguine optimism of Lord George Hamilton was unable to make the Indian Budget for 1877-78 appear very encouraging or attractive ...
		["D.N. June 27, 1877"]. The complimentary breakfast which the Anti-Slavery Society gave to Mr. Garrison yesterday morning afforded the veteran anti-slavery leader an opportunity of delivering a speech of no little interest ...
		["D.N. June 29, 1877"]. A deputation from the Labour Representation League will, we understand, call the attention of the Lord Chancellor this morning to a provision in the Employers and Workmen’s Act of 1875 ...
		["D.N. July 5, 1877"]. Although Mr. Blake has been twice baffled in his efforts to call Mr. Parnell to account for the language in which he is reported to have spoken of the House of Commons and of the Speaker at public meetings lately held in London, it is, we believe, not unlikely that this evening he will find an opportunity of bringing forward a substantive motion on the subject ...
		["D.N. July 12, 1877"]. This evening the supporters of the Irish Sunday Closing Bill intend to raise a discussion on the present unsatisfactory position of that question ...
		["D.N. July 13, 1877"]. We are glad to learn that the Senate of the University of London have resolved, by a decisive majority, that so far as they are concerned, women shall be admitted to all their degrees ...
		["D.N. July 14, 1877"]. On Thursday last the Royal assent was given to the Metropolitan Toll Bridges Bill ... The example of obstruction which certain Irish members have set during the present Session appears to have excited a spirit of emulation in a quarter where we should have supposed that Messrs. Biggar and Parnell would hardly have been able to exert any influence at all ......
		["D.N. July 17, 1877"]. The annexation of the Transvaal Territory to the British possessions in South Africa is naturally an event which has excited considerable interest in Holland ...
		["D.N. July 18, 1877"]. The House of Commons to-day will be asked to consider the provisions of Mr. Sullivan’s short Bill for dealing with another phase of the intoxicating liquors controversy ...
		["D.N. July 21, 1877"]. The annual dinner of the Cobden Club will be held under the presidency of Lord Hartington ... The large towns of England claim a share of the surplus funds of the Great Exhibition of 1851 ...
		["D.N. July 24"]. So many complaints have been made by the Spanish Government in connection with the alleged practice of smuggling at Gibraltar ...
		["D.N. July 27, 1877"]. The compulsory clauses of the Education Act are being enforced with tolerable strictness in the towns of Scotland ...
		["D.N. August 4, 1877"]. More than once lately the Irish Obstructives have used language which implied that they represented the national feeling of Ireland
		["D.N. August 6, 1877"]. The South African Bill was read a third time on Saturday ...
		["D.N. August 8. 1877"]. The meeting of Home Rule members, which we reported yesterday, was held for the purpose of sitting in judgment on the conduct of the Obstructionists in the House of Commons ...
		["D.N. August 9, 1877"]. In another column we publish a letter which has been addressed to the Chairman of Committee of the National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War ...
		["D.N. August 13, 1877"]. A few days ago it was announced on the authority of a telegram from Philadelphia that the Chiefs of Samoa had requested the Governments of England and the United States to establish a Protectorate in their group ...
		["D.N. August 16, 1877"]. The deputation which waited yesterday upon the National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War has performed an important public duty ...
		["Nonconformist, June 6, 1877"]. The last annexation. The annexation of the British dominions of "the Dutch Republic of South Africa" must be regarded as another illustration of that doctrine of "Manifest Destiny" which a good many other nations besides the one that invented the phrase are in the habit of acting upon ...
		The Nonconformist. Wednesday, June 13, 1877. Summary. The Parliamentary news of the week, if somewhat meagre, is not without interest ...
		... British interests and the war. Thus far all the efforts which have been made by the venemous apologists for Turkish misrule to excite the war feeling among the British people have signally failed ...
		["Nonconformist, July 11? 1877"]. "Turks and Greeks" In a small, well-written volume, Mr. Dudley Campbell has given the public the benefit of his notes of a tour which he made in the autumn of last year in European Turkey and in Greece, partly in the company of his relative, Sir George Campbell ... [review of] Turks and Greeks. Notes on a Recent Excursion. By the Hon. Dudley Campbell, M.A. (London : Macmillan and Co.)
		Literature. South Africa "South Africa, Past and Present : a Short History of the European Settlements at the Cape." By John Noble, Clerk of the House of Assembly of the Cape Colony. (London : Longmans and Co., 1877) ... [review]. F.W. Chesson.
		July 18, 1877. Literature. Sir John Bowring’s recollections ... [review of] "Autobiographical Recollections of Sir John Bowring." With a Brief Memoir by Lewin B. Bowring. (London : H.S. King and Co.).
		["D.N. August 21, 1877"]. At the present moment the colony of Queensland is being made the theater of a social experiment of singular interest ......
		["Nonconformist, August 1, 1877"]. England and Egypt. In an article in the current number of the Nineteenth Century, Mr. Edward Dicey has addressed himself to the question of Egypt ...
		["D.N. August 24, 1877"]. The public will remember that last year an International Exhibition of apparatus for the protection and saving of human life was held at Brussels ...
		["D.N. August 27, 1877"]. The deputation which waited upon the National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War on the 14th inst. have submitted a further statement to the Council of that Association ...
		["D.N. August 31, 1877"]. In two recent issues of L’Echo Universel, M. Victor Schoelcher, the French Senator, calls attention to a Convention entered into two years ago between the Governor of Natal and the Governor of Mozambique, by which the former is permitted to recruit labourers in the Portuguese territories on the east coast of Africa ...
		["D.N. Sept. 21, 1877"]. We learn that during the present year the insurgents in Cuba have made a sincere attempt to effect an arrangement with their Spanish rulers ...
		["D.N. Sept. 29, 1877"]. We regret to learn that the Government of the Swiss Republic have drawn up a tariff which threatens to prove most injurious to our trade with that country ...
		["D.N. October 2, 1877"]. The Slave Trade papers lately laid before Parliament by command of her Majesty contain a letter from Mr. Layard which singularly illustrates the impulsive character of that gentleman, as well as his proneness to inaccuracy of statement and exaggeration of language ...
		["D.N. October 3, 1877"]. More than a year has elapsed since a Convention between the English and Chinese Governments was negotiated at Chefoo ...
		["D.N. October 5, 1877"]. A painful question is likely to be raised in connection with the recent wreck of the Eten on the coast of Chili ...
		["October 18, 1877"]. It is, we think, desirable that the public should know what steps the authorities of Christ’s Hospital have taken to give effect to the recommendations made by the Royal Commissioners in the report they addressed to the Home Secretary in August last ...
		["D.N. October 22, 1877"]. In February last we called attention to the fact that Lord Carnarvon had addressed a despatch to the Administrator of the Gambia informing him that her Majesty’s Government had decided that M’Carthy’s Island should henceforth be the extreme limit of British jurisdiction in the River Gambia ...
		["D.N. October 29, 1877"]. The Chefoo Convention. We understand that Lord Derby, in reply to a memorial addressed to him by no fewer than a dozen of the principal merchants engaged in the trade with China, has declined to publish at present those portions of Sir T. Wade’s report on the Chefoo Convention which were omitted from the Margary correspondence ...
		["D.N. October 29, 1877"]. We have on a previous occasion adverted to the publication, in a mutilated form, of Sir Thomas Wade’s Report on the Chefoo Convention ......
		["Non. Con. October 31, 1877"]. The Opium traffic. In some respects the recent correspondence between the Society of Friends and the Chinese Ambassador, Kuo Sung Tao, may be regarded as inaugurating a new era in our relations with China ......
		["Non. Con. October 31, 1877"]. Pictures of Coolie life. Mr. Jenkins is already favouably known to the public as the author of "The Coolie" the most comprehensive work yet published on a system of labour which appears to have been devised as species of compromise between slavery and freedom ...
		["D.N. Nov. 2, 1877"]. A few days ago we published intelligence to the effect that considerable friction existed in the relations between Mr. Pope Hennessy and the European inhabitants of Hong Kong ...
		["D.N. Nov. 10, 1877"]. If the difficulties connected with the satisfactory management of Coolie labour in our own colonies appear to be almost insurmountable, we fear that it must be practically impossible to secure adequate protection for the Indians who are permitted by Treaty to be indentured for a term of years in foreign countries ...
		["D.N. Nov. 19, 1877"]. It will be remembered that at a Free Trade banquet given in Melbourne to the Hon. John Young of Canada, Sir C.G. Duffy, the ex-Victorian Premier, endeavoured to justify his own inconsistencies on questions of fiscal policy by an appeal to the authority of Mr. Bright ...
		["D.N. Nov. 26, 1877"]. Mr. Gladstone and Circassian Slavery. To the Editor of the Daily News. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, King William-street, Strand, Nov. 24.
		["D.N. Nov. 27, 1877"]. We have more than once referred to the long delay which has taken place in the ratification of the Chefoo Convention ...
		["Non. Con. November 21, 1877"]. The fall of Kars: What next? The fall of Kars is not only a military achievement but a political event of the highest importance ...
		["Non. Con. Dec. 5, 1877"]. The Liverpool black book. The boast of the nineteenth century is that it is an age of civilisation ... The case of Liverpool is one eminently deserving of attention, for the Black Book of that town contains facts so startling that they cannot fail to produce an impression upon the mind of every thoughtful person ... during the year 1876, 45,000 persons were judicially punished in Liverpool; that is to say about one in ten of the population ...
		["D.N. Dec. 10, 1877"]. There are various signs at the present moment of an awakening interest in the affairs of India. Meetings on this subject will be addressed during the next few days by Mr. Bright, Lord Northbrook, Sir A. Cotton, and Professor Monier Williams ...
SCRAPBOOK 15	Scrapbook, 1881-1882
SCRAPBOOK 15		Scrapbook compiled by George Thompson and F.W. Chesson. 23 cm. Approximately 215 items, 460 pages. Articles are pasted in a copy of a bound volume Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs Accompanying the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1859. Washington, D.C.: George W. Bowman, printer, 1860. Newspaper clippings unless otherwise noted.
		Arranged alphabetically
		["D.N. [Daily News] Jan. 11, 1881"]. The Government have lost no time in redeeming their promise to publish for the information of Parliament the instructions which Lord Kimberley addressed to Sir Hercules Robinson on the eve of his departure for the Cape Colony ...
		["D.N. Jan. 15, 1881"]. A short time ago Sir William Harcourt, in addressing a deputation at the Home Office, expressed himself strongly in favour of appointing working men to offices in the higher branches of the public service, of course with the necessary reservation that they were properly qualified ...
		["D.N. Jan. 18, 1881"]. Last night Sir Charles Dilke, in reply to Mr. Bourke, stated that the Pesther Lloyd had correctly summarised the note which M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire on December 24th last addressed to the representatives of France abroad ...
		["D.N. Jan. 25th, 1881"]. Sir James Ferguson, the Governor of Bombay, has lately made a tour in the principality of Kattiawar, where he was received with great hospitality by the Thakore Sahib and other chiefs ...
		["D.N. Jan. 27, 1881"]. In the speech in which Sir Arthur Gordon on the eve of his departure for New Zealand reviewed his successful and prosperous administration of Fiji, he stated that he was still to exercise some supervision of their affairs of that group ...
		["D.N. Jan. 31, 1881"]. A few days ago Mr. Grant Duff, in reply to Sir David Wedderburn, treated as an "unofficial rumour" the fact that in May last a Zulu Embassy visited Natal for the purpose of asking whether the British Goverment would consent to release Cetewayo and to restore him to Zululand ...
		["D.N. Feb. 3, 1881"]. Although there is no truth in the report that an insurrection has broken out in Armenia, yet the conduct of the Turkish Government in that province is well calculated to provoke a rising of the people ... The premature publication of the Bill for the Better Protection of Life and Property in Ireland has naturally caused its provisions to be much discussed ...
		["D.N. Feb. 5, 1881"]. Some time ago a telegram from South Africa mentioned a rumour that it was not improbable that a contingent of Zulu warriors would be employed in the military operations against the Basutos ...
		["D.N. Feb. 15, 1881"]. We have already announced that Letsea, the paramount chief of the Basutos, has asked the Cape Government to grant an armistice, and that the latter have accorded a suspension of hostilities for a week ... ...
		["D.N. Feb. 19, 1881"]. It appears that the Basutos have asked that they may be permitted to negotiate with the Imperial Government, that is to say, we presume, with Sir Hercules Robinson, instead of with Mr. Sprigg ...
		["D.N. Feb. 23, 1881"]. The anniversary of the Brahmo Somaj has just been celebrated at Calcutta, but the success of the demonstration was to some extent marred by the vagaries of Babu Keshub Chunder Sen ...
		["D.N. Feb. 25, 1881"]. Both England and the English Government have had the misfortune to fall under the displeasure of the Turks, and in consequence they predict the speedy ruin of this unfortunate country ...
		["D.N. Feb. 28, 1881"]. Last night the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, in reply to Mr. Carington, made an important statement concerning the terms of peace which the Cape Government have offered to the Basutos ...
		["D.N. March 2, 1881"]. Colonel Gordon, in the pamphlet on Expenditure in India to which we referred yesterday, makes some remarks on the position of the Governor-General which will no doubt excite attention ...
		["D.N. March 5, 1881"]. We are glad to learn from the answer that Mr. Gladstone made last evening to a question which was put to him by Lord Elcho that the armistice in Basutoland has been prolonged ...
		["D.N. March 9, 1881"]. Mr. Dillwyn has given notice that he intends to move a resolution to the effect that it is necessary to make some alteration in the rules and orders of the House of Commons regulating the public business ...
		["D.N. March 15, 1881"]. On Monday evening Sir David Wedderburn addressed to Mr. Grant Duff a series of questions concerning the detention in the Cape Colony of Cetewayo, the ex-Zulu King ...
		["D.N. March 18, 1881"]. We publish this morning the text of the resolutions of which Mr. Dillwyn gave private notice in the House of Commons last night ...
		["D.N. March 21, 1881"]. In the House of Commons on Friday evening, Mr. Brinton and Mr. W. Holms sought to obtain from the Government information as to what steps they were taking to protect British interests in anticipation of the early promulgation of the new French Tariff ...
		["D.N. March 24, 1881"]. The country has good reason to be satisfied with the arrangement which Sir Evelyn Wood has made with the Boers for the termination of hostilities and the re-establishment of peace and order in the Transvaal ...
		["D.N. March 30, 1881"]. Mr. James’s Bill for the Amendment of the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act of 1877 comes on for second reading at the sitting of the House of Commons to-day ...
		["D.N. March 31, 1881"]. The question which Sir Wilfrid Lawson intends to ask the Under-Secretary for the Colonies this evening with reference to the Basuto war gives expression to a very general feeling in this country that the Home Government ought now to make some further effort to bring this wretched quarrel to a conclusion ...
		["D.N. April 5, 1881"]. A few days ago we stated that the Cape Government had refused permission to a French missionary (the Rev. H. Dieterlen) to pass through the lines of the colonial forces with medicines and ambulance materials for the use of the Basuto wounded ...
		["D.N. April 14, 1881"]. During the last few weeks Mr. Rylands has more than once questioned the Under-Secretary for the Colonies concerning the projected reform of the system of taxation in Cyprus ...
		["D.N. April 26, 1881"]. Several of the Continental Governments have lately had under consideration the expediency of concerting measures for the suppression of political conspiracy ...
		["D.N. March 24, 1881"]. The country has good reason to be satisfied with the arrangement which Sir Evelyn Wood has made with the Boers for the termination of hostilities and the re-establishment of peace and order in the Transvaal ...
		["D.N. April 28, 1881"]. We have already informed our readers that during the Easter holidays Mr. Monk, President of the Association of Chambers of Commerce, visited Paris for the purpose of ascertaining what was the actual position of the proposed Anglo-French Commercial Treaty ...
		["D.N. May 2, 1881"]. Lord Hartington, in the debate on Mr. J.W. Pease’s motion with reference to the opium traffic ... made an important statement on the relation of the Indian Government to the cultivation of the poppy ...
		... The announcement which we make to-day that peace has been concluded between the Cape Colony and the Basutos will afford general satisfaction ...
		["D.N. May 6, 1881"]. In the House of Commons last night Mr. Rylands asked the Under Secretary for the Colonies whether the Colonial Office had received from Colonel Lanyon during the years 1879 and 1880 any despatches testifying to the hostility with which the bulk of the Boers regarded the British Government ...
		["D.N. May 13, 1881"]. Last night the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, confirmed the intelligence which has been received from Bulgaria to the effect that Prince Alexander, after threatening to resign, had suspended the Constitution of the Principality ...
		["D.N. May 17, 1881"]. Cyprus is again threatened with a visitation of locusts, and in July last the Governor, in anticipation of the calamity, issued a notification requiring every adult male in the island between the ages of 18 and 60 ... to collect a specified quantity of locust eggs ...
		["D.N. May 19, 1881"]. In the House of Commons on Monday evening Mr. Summers asked Mr. Grant Duff whether Mr. Sprigg’s Ministry refused permission to a French missionary ...
		["D.N. May 21, 1881"]. We are glad to learn that the House of Lords Committee on Standing Orders has dispensed with the Standing Orders in the case of Mr. Bryce’s Parochial Charities Bill, thereby permitting the Bill to go forward without delay ...
		["D.N. May 31, 1881"]. We announced the other day that the Government intended to issue a circular inviting the co-operation of the Chambers of Commerce in connection with the work of the Conference now sitting at the Foreign Office ...
		["D.N. June 3, 1881"]. The detailed intelligence received from the Cape Colony by the last mail shows that the collapse of the Sprigg Ministry was even more complete than we had supposed ...
		["D.N. June 11, 1881"]. A telegram from South America states, on the authority of intelligence received at Valparaiso, that a body of negroes has massacred a thousand Chinese near Santa Rosa, in Peru ...
		["D.N. June 14, 1881"]. An Oecumenical Conference of Wesleyan Methodists will be held in London in the month of October next ...
		["D.N. June 15, 1881"]. The statement which Mr. Trevelyan made in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon in reply to Sir John Hay and other members discloses the existence of a very unsatisfactory condition of affairs in the Western Pacific ...
		["D.N. June 22, 1881"]. We lately called attention to the extraordinary proceedings of the authorities in Cyprus in connection with the destruction of locust eggs ...
		["D.N. June 23, 1881"]. We lately called attention to the frequency with which, for some time past, outrages on Europeans have been taking place in the Pacific, and we pointed out that there was too much reason to believe that in many instances they had been provoked by the gross misconduct of labour vessels ...
		["D.N. June 28, 1881"]. An article on the late Mr. Adam which Mr. A. Craig Sellar has contributed to the July number of Fraser’s Magazine will, we think, fully confirm the opinion, generally entertained, that by the death of the late Governor of Madras the county has lost a public servant whom it could ill afford to spare ...
		["D.N. July 2, 1881"]. The public have reason to congratulate themselves that the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the expediency of removing the Mint from the site which it has so long occupied to a costly piece of land on the Embankment have decided to spare the pockets of the taxpayers ...
		["Non. Con. [Nonconformist] and Independent, July 7, 1881"]. The re-settlement of the Transvaal ...
		["D.N. July 8, 1881"]. The letter which Cetewayo has written to Sir Hercules Robinson on the subject of his continued detention in the Cape Colony, and which is included in the batch of South African correspondence just laid before Parliament, is well deserving of public attention ...
		["D.N. July 11, 1881"]. A considerable party in the Cape Colony are still in favour of calling upon the Home Government to resume the direct control of Basutoland and of the Transkeian territories ...
		["D.N. July 16, 1881"]. On Thursday night Mr. George Palmer asked the Government whether any time had been fixed for the liberation of Langalibalele, who has been detained a prisoner in the Cape Colony during the last six or seven years ...
		["D.N. July 21, 1881"]. From time to time intelligence reaches England from the Soudan which leaves no room for doubt that the African slave trade continues to be in vigorous operation in that country ...
		["D.N. July 26, 1881"]. Our Correspondent at Larnaca, in a telegram which we publish this morning, states that in a petition addressed to Mr. Gladstone complaint is made of the bad administration of the island, and annexation to Greece is asked for ...
		["D.N. July 27, 1881"]. The spread of the movement for superior technical instruction has induced Lord Rosebery, Sir John Lubbock, M.P., Mr. T. Burt, M.P. Mr. Ashton Dilke, M.P., and other gentlemen to take the initiative in an attempt to reorganize the Trades’ Guild of Learning on a larger basis ...
		["Non. Con. July 28, 1881"]. The debate on the Transvaal ...
		["D.N. August 2, 1881"]. In the year 1877 Governor Hennessy called Lord Carnarvon’s attention to the fact that in Hong Kong the Chinese and Portuguese were increasing in number, while the British, Germans and Americans were diminishing ...
		["D.N. August 8, 1881"]. As we have already stated, Mr. Jesse Collings intends to raise a debate in the House of Commons to-night on the expedience of rendering public aid to Art and Industrial Museums in other towns of the country besides London, Edinburgh, and Dublin ...
		... In the House of Commons on Friday evening, Sir John Hay raised a short but interesting debate on a motion which he made to the effect that the duties of High Commisioner in the Western Pacific should no longer be performed by a civil Governor, but should be entrusted to the naval Commander-in-Chief on the Australian station ...
		["D.N. August 9, 1881"]. The Aborigines Protection Society, in a letter addressed to Lord Kimberley on March 31 last, called his attention to the case of Sekukuni, whose country they thought should be excluded from the province of the Transvaal ...
		["D.N. August 13, 1881"]. In the House of Commons last night Sir Charles Dilke, in reply to a question put to him by Mr. Arthur Pease, stated that an increase of the tax on foreign opium was under the consideration of the Chinese Government, but that the Foreign Office had received no information with regard to any contemplated increase on the tax on native-grown opium ...
		["D.N. August 15, 1881"]. A Bill to make provision respecting certain statutes made by the Commissioners under the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act of 1877 has passed the House of Lords, and now awaits a second reading in the House of Commons ...
		["D.N. August 19, 1881"]. The deputation from the Anti-Slavery Society which waited upon Lord Granville yesterday to represent to him the expediency of adopting a more vigorous policy for the suppression of the Egyptian slave trade did not leave the Foreign Office without receiving satisfactory assurances ...
		["D.N. August 22, 1881"]. It was only reasonable that the vote of 78,000 [pounds] as a grant in aid of the revenues of Cyprus should have caused some discussion in the House of Commons even at so late an hour as three o’clock on Saturday morning ...
		["D.N. August 25, 1881"]. In the House of Commons on Tuesday, in reply to Mr. Hopwood, Mr. Trevelyan gave an account of the punishment of one of the murderers of Lieutenant Bower. It appears that Bishop Selwyn accompanied Commander Bruce in the Cormorant to Gaieta Bay, in the Solomon Islands, and succeeded in inducing Kalikona, the chief of the tribe, to surrender the actual ringleader of the massacre ...
		["D.N. Aug. 31, 1881"]. One of the coast provinces of Zululand has lately been the scene of events which, while containing some elements of romance, illustrated in a marked degree the uncertainties of South African politics ...
		["D.N. Sep. 6, 1881"]. Some time ago we called attention to information received from New Caledonia to the effect that a French vessel, known as the Aurora, had been engaged in kidnapping natives in the New Hebrides and other Polynesian islands ...
		["D.N. Sep. 17, 1881"]. A few days ago we published a telegram from Capetown, announcing the complete submission of Masupha, the last of the Basuto chiefs who held out against the terms offered to the tribe by the new Cape Government ...
		["D.N. Sep. 19, 1881"]. The severe indisposition which Sir Samuel Rowe, Governor of the Gold Coast, has suffered since his settlement of our last difficulty with the King of Ashantee ought to cause the Colonial Office to direct its serious attention to the sanitary condition of the British settlements in that part of Western Africa ...
		["D.N. Sep. 28, 1881"]. In June last a letter appeared in the Sydney Daily Telegraph announcing that a Government official had been killed and eaten in Fiji ...
		["D.N. October 3, 1881"]. We stated the other day that Captain Maxwell, of H.M.S. Emerald, as the result of an extensive cruise in the Western Pacific, had expressed the opinion that an international convention to restrain the traffic in fire-arms among the natives would be most useful and prevent much bloodshed ...
		["D.N. Oct. 12, 1881"]. Lord Granville’s speech at the banquet of the Iron and Steel Institute yesterday was as effective as it was genial ...
		... To-day the Prince of Wales will visit each of the three towns which constitute the Parliamentary borough of Hythe, and he will also make acquaintance ... with the camp at Shorncliffe ...
		["D.N. Oct. 14, 1881"]. We stated some time ago that the Basutos who were lately in arms had all accepted the proffered terms of peace, and that even Masupha, who represented the heathen element of the tribe, had submitted to the authority of the Government ...
		["D.N. Oct. 17, 1881"]. The papers relating to the protected Malay States which have been issued from the Colonial Office during the last day or two give a very satisfactory view of the progress which these countries are now making under the supervision of the Governor of the Straits Settlements ...
		["D.N. Oct. 29, 1881"]. According to the evidence taken before a Commission of Inquiry in New Caledonia, a Martinique black named "Tom" has recently played an important part in the kidnapping of natives in the Pacific ...
		["D.N. Oct. 20, 1881"]. When the Portuguese Government colonised the Mozambique they found the greatest unwillingness on the part even of the more reckless class of adventurers to take up their abode in that deadly region ...
		["D.N. 1881 Oct. 22nd"]. The meeting on the opium trade which was held at the Mansion House yesterday has again brought prominently before the public a vexed question, which, as Lord Shaftesbury reminded the audience, has been a subject of agitation for a period of not less than forty years ...
		["D.N. Oct. 26, 1881"]. The disputes which have so long embittered the relations of the Europeans and the natives of the province of Taranaki, in New Zealand, have now unfortunately assumed a more than ordinarily threatening character ...
		["D.N. November 1, 1881"]. The health of Mr. Alexander Macdonald had been so critical during the last two Sessions that his death will hardly surprise either his constituents or the large class with whose interests he was specially associated ...
		["D.N. Nov. 3, 1881"]. The Greek Government are wisely taking every reasonable means to assure the Mohammedan population of Thessaly that their rights will be carefully respected, and that they will share, with their Christian fellow-subjects, the full advantages of civil and religious liberty ...
		["D.N. Nov. 5, 1881"]. As we stated a few days since, on the authority of a letter written by the Bishop of Natal, it is likely that Cetewayo will before long be allowed to visit England ...
		["D.N. Nov. 7, 1881"]. The temporary suspension of the negotiations at Paris in connection with the French Commercial Treaty will give a little breathing time to the two Governments, and enable them to consider carefully the points of difference which have arisen between the Commissioners during their recent sittings ...
		... A visit which Mr. Errington, one of the members for Longford, is now paying to Rome has excited an interest far beyond the sphere of the Church of which he is a member, and has given rise to many rumours and some controversy ...
		... The land dispute in New Zealand has entered upon a new phase by the arrest of Te Whiti and two other Maori chiefs who for several years past have made themselves conspicuous by the passive resistance they have offered to the colonisation of the native lands which have been confiscated in Taranaki ...
		["D.N. Nov. 10, 1881"]. The approaching admission of a Turkish Ulema into the Church of England, of which we gave an account yesterday, is an event that calls for some notice, especially when the convert has already achieved a kind of European notoriety. It will be remembered that Ahmed Tewfik Effendi, who enjoyed considerable reputation as a Turkish scholar ... had been engaged in assisting Dr. Koelbe, the German missionary, in translating some religious works into the Turkish language ...
		["D.N. Nov. 11, 1881"]. A Blue-Book which has just been published contains an interesting report by Dr. Gouldsbury, Administrator of the British settlements on the Gambia, of an expedition to the regions approached by the upper waters of that great river
		["D.N. Nov. 14, 1881"]. We announced some time ago that a Commission on native affairs was about to be appointed in Natal, and that probably one of the objects of the inquiry would be to throw light upon the present state of native law in that colony ...
		["D.N. Nov. 15, 1881"]. The transference of Volo to the Greek Kingdom, which our Special Correspondent announces to us by telegraph this morning, concluded a series of transactions which, under the skilful guidance of Lord Granville, have liberated Thessaly from the thraldom of the Turkish yoke, and at the same time successfully asserted the authority of Europe ...
		["D.N. Nov. 15, 1881"]. The state of anarchy into which Zululand has drifted calls for the prompt attention of her Majesty’s Government ...
		["D.N. Nov. 22, 1881"]. A few days ago we called attention to the rumours concerning the proceedings of Mr. Errington at Rome which had been widely circulated in this country ...
		... We regret to learn from the West Indies that yellow fever still prevails in that part of the world ...
		["Nov. 22, 1881"]. It is satisfactory to learn that for the present, at all events, all danger of a new native war has passed away in New Zealand ...
		["D.N. Nov. 25, 1881"]. Our readers will doubtless have noticed the existence, both in this country and in Natal, of a strong opposition to the appointment of Mr. W.J. Sendall, Assistant-Secretary of the Local Government Board, as Lieutenant-Governor of Natal ...
		... At Bradford, a night or two ago, there was held another of a series of remarkable meetings that testify to the great and increasing interest which the women of this country are taking in the subject of their political enfranchisement ...
		["D.N. Nov. 26, 1881"]. The last Cape mail has brought to this country a report of certain proceedings in the Volksraad which call for some explanation on the part either of the late Administrator of the Trasvaal or of the Colonial Office ...
		... Our Special Correspondent has sent to us from Volo a telegram announcing the enthusiastic greeting which King George has received in that town from his new subjects ...
		["D.N. Nov. 29, 1881"]. Lord Hartington, in his speech on Saturday, took credit to the Government for the part they had taken in settling the Montenegrin and Greek questions, and stated that Lord Dufferin was now striving to secure for the Armenians some measure of self-government ...
		... We learn by telegraph from Queensland that the railway exploring party, under General Fielding, have reached the Gulf of Carpentaria, and are expected to return to Brisbane by December 20 ...
		["D.N. Nov. 30, 1881"]. Our Correspondent at Pietermaritzburg, in a telegram which we published yesterday, stated that numerous applications had been made for the sub-Residencies in Zululand ...
		["D.N. December 1, 1881"]. The excitement in Natal still appears to be at fever heat ...
		["D.N. December 3, 1881"]. It was hardly to be expected that the conclusion of hostilities with the Basutos would at once be followed by an era of perfect tranquility ...
		["D.N. Dec. 5, 1881"]. As we state elsewhere, Lord Kimberley has decided to accede to the request of the inhabitants of Natal that he should appoint a Governor and not merely a Lieutenant Governor, to administer the affairs of that colony ...
		["D.N. Dec. 5, 1881"]. We are glad to learn that the British Government have offered to mediate in the unpleasant controversy which has arisen between the Greek Government and the Porte with reference to the closing of the Greek Post-offices in Turkey ...
		["D.N. December 7, 1881"]. We have now received details of the dreadful massacre which lately took place in the territory of Hamu, one of the thirteen appointed Zulu chiefs ...
		["D.N. Dec. 8, 1881"]. A day or two ago we published the substance of a despatch in which Lord Kimberley informed the High Commissioner of Cyprus that he intended to send Mr. Fairfield, of the Colonial Office, to that island, for the purpose of making a thorough inquiry into all matters connected with the local revenue and expenditure ...
		["D.N. Dec. 9, 1881"]. In our issue of the 21st ult. we published a letter from a Durban correspondent, in which he replied to a statement with reference to Cetewayo which was made by the Colonial Secretary of Natal in the Legislative Council of that colony in October last ...
		["D.N. Dec. 13, 1881"]. We lately stated, on the authority of a correspondent at Rarotonga, that twenty-one islands in the South Pacific are threatened with annexation by France ...
		["D.N. Dec. 16, 1881"]. We learn with satisfaction that affairs in South Africa have so far reverted to their normal condition that Sir Hercules Robinson is now exercising full authority as her Majesty’s High Commissioner in the territories and States beyond the boundaries of the British colonies ...
		["D.N. Dec. 17, 1881"]. There are few public improvements in London more necessary than the widening of Parliament-street ...
		["D.N. Dec. 17, 1881"]. The Christmas season hardly seems to be appropriate for the inculcation of lessons of thrift, for in a week or two even the poorest members of the community will indulge in an expenditure which they would consider lavish at any other period of the year ......
		["D.N. Dec. 20, 1881"]. The recent visit of Sir Arthur Gordon Governor of New Zealand, to the Fijian group where he was formerly Governor, has raised a question of considerable public interest ...
		["D.N. December 21, 1881"]. A Sierra Leone journal complains that a large proportion of the Europeans filling the higher offices in that colony are absent on leave ...
		["D.N. Dec. 23, 1881"]. It is impossible to disguise the fact that a grave state of things exists in Basutoland, and that more than once lately Sir Hercules Robinson has been made to feel how great is the burden of responsibility which has been imposed upon him by the errors of his predecessors ...
		["D.N. Dec. 26, 1881"]. Information received from New Zealand by the last Australian mail justifies the belief that that colony has had a very narrow escape from being involved in another Maori war ...
		["D.N. Dec. 28, 1881"]. We have more than once called attention to the condition and treatment of the forty thousand Indian subjects of the Queen who labour, under a system of indentureship, on the plantations of the French island of Bourbon ...
		["D.N. Dec. 29, 1881"]. The Report of Dr. Daumas, the surgeon of the Red Cross Association, who was despatched to the seat of war in the Transvaal, in the expectation that his services and those of his staff would be largely required by the Boers, is a somewhat remarkable document ...
		["D.N. January 3, 1882"]. The elections in Greece, occurring as they have done so soon after the cession of Thessaly, will excite more than ordinary interest ...
		["D.N. January 4, 1882"]. As we have already stated, the negotiations for the renewal of the Treaty of Commerce with France have proved unsuccessful, and although Mr. Crowe remains for a short time in Paris to receive any further proposals which the French Government may make, unfortunately there is no reason to anticipate that a Treaty will be concluded ...
		["D.N. January 5, 1882"]. The death of Mr. Burgers, late President of the Transvaal Republic, withdraws from the scene a public man who at one time promised to play a prominent part in the politics of South Africa, but who has long since passed into an obscurity ...
		["D.N. January 10, 1882"]. There is still some ground for uncertainty as to the results of the Greek elections; and even if M. Coumoundouros has obtained a majority, some time must elapse before we can judge whether it is large enough to enable him to carry on the government of the country ...
		["D.N. Jan. 12, 1882"]. A Scotch Chamber of Commerce has proposed that one of the subjects of consideration at the annual meetings of the Association of Chambers of Commerce, which are to be held in London at the end of next month, should be the expediency of memorialising her Majesty’s Government to take the earliest opportunity of negotiating a commercial treaty with the Government of Spain ...
		["D.N. Jan. 13, 1882"]. We have more than once had occasion to refer to the so-called "Africander bond," which has led to the retirement of Mr. Hofmeyr from the Cape Ministry, and which threatens in the hands of extreme men, to cause the establishement in the Cape Colony of a Dutch national party ...
		["D.N. January 14, 1882"]. Mr. W. Wedderburn, of the Bombay Civil Service, is now successfully engaged in an effort to introduce Agricultural Banks into India ...
		["D.N. January 20, 1882"]. A Mauritius journal has lately published some absurd rumours, manifestly derived from French colonial sources, concerning the visit which Admiral Gore Jones has recently paid to the Queen of Madagascar ...
		["D.N. January 20, 188"]. The power given to North Borneo Company to farm out for revenue purposes the right to sell opium in the company’s territories has excited a good deal of unfavourable criticism in this country ...
		["D.N. January 24, 1882"]. The natives of India who pay any attention to public questions are up in arms against the Assam Emigration Bill, which they describe as "a Slave Bill in disguise" ...
		["D.N. January 26, 1882"]. Some time ago we called attention to the fact that the Volksraad had charged the British authorities in the Transvaal with having in the year 1878 apprenticed to farmers about 800 Kaffirs, with no regard whatever for their personal rights ...
		["D.N. Jan. 30, 1882"]. Some time ago we called attention to the state of anarchy which existed in Zululand, and especially to the proceedings of Chief John Dunn in interfering in a quarrel in another part of the country with which he had nothing whatever to do ...
		["D.N. February 1, 1882"]. The resolution on the subject of the municipal government of London which was passed at the great meeting in Chelsea last night ... possesses much greater significance when viewed in the light of Sir Charles Dilke’s subsequent remarks on the same question ...
		["D.N. February 3, 1882"]. No one who looks at the Tower of London from the Thames can fail to see how much it is disfigured by the large brick buildings which have been erected immediately under its grey wall on the river side ...
		["D.N. February 6, 1882"]. The public will be glad to learn that the Governor of the Gold Coast, in a despatch to Lord Kimberley, entirely discredits the revolting story of the massacre by the King of Ashantee of 200 young girls ...
		["D.N. February 11, 1882"]. Mr. Dillwyn and Mr. Gorst have both given notice of their intention to bring forward in the House of Commons the question of the granting of a Royal Charter to the British North Borneo Company ...
		["D.N. February 15, 1882"]. In the House of Commons in August last Mr. Hopwood put a series of questions to the Under-Secretary for the Colonies with reference to the alleged cruel treatment of certain prisoners in the gaol at Freetown, Sierra Leone ...
		["D.N. Feb. 17, 1882"]. We believe that at the present moment the Cape Government have under consideration a proposal for dealing with the Basuto difficulty which may be attended with important consequences to the peace of South Africa ...
		["Feb. 17"]. The explosion which took place yesterday afternoon at the Trimdon Grange Colliery, near Hartlepool, bids fair to prove one of the most disastrous that have yet befallen the miners of Durham ...
		["D.N. February 23, 1882"]. A movement of an interesting character was launched at the Westminster Palace Hotel yesterday. It was proposed to establish a League, irrespective of party, with a view to insist upon a policy of non-aggression, and to secure a more effectual control in Parliament over the external relations of the country than at present exist ...
		["D.N. February 27, 1882"]. The Porte, which might do much to reconcile the Armenians to its rule by showing some desire to execute the long-promised reforms in Armenia, continues to exasperate the people by a series of tyrannical acts ...
		["D.N. Feb. 28, 1882"]. We hope that the Colonial Office will soon be able to give the House of Commons some definite information concerning the policy which the Cape Government intend to adopt towards the disaffected Basutos who have refused or neglected to carry out the Governor’s award ...
		["D.N. March 6, 1882"]. A few days ago we announced that Mr. Mieville had been appointed her Majesty’s Consul in the Soudan ...
		["D.N. March 9, 1882"]. The correspondence which has passed between the Cape Government and the Secretary of State for the Colonies clearly and concisely describes the difficulties of the situation in Basutoland ...
		["D.N. March 13, 1882"]. The Report of the Royal Commissioners who were appointed to settle the terms upon which the Transvaal should be retroceded to the Boers is a very interesting document ...
		["D.N. March 14, 1882"]. The brief debate on the North Borneo charter which took place in the House of Lords last night was restricted to very narrow limits ...
		["D.N. March 16, 1882"]. The new Africander Bond has already borne fruit ...
		["D.N. March 18, 1882"]. Although Mr. Gorst’s motion concerning the British North Borneo charter, which was negatived by 125 to 62, had exclusive reference to the slavery question in that territory, the debate which took place last night covered a very wide area ...
		["D.N. March 21, 1882"]. We stated some time ago that Mr. Fairfield’s visit to Cyprus is likely to result in a substantial reduction in the expenditure connected with the administration of that island ...
		["D.N. March 22, 1882"]. The annual meeting of the chiefs of Fiji has become an event of considerable public interest at the Antipodes ...
		["Non. Con. March 23, 1882"]. The North Borneo debate ...
		["D.N. March 25, 1882"]. In a telegram which we published yesterday morning our Correspondent at Pietermaritzburg stated that the feeling in Natal is generally against accepting full responsibility in the present critical position of affairs, though favourable to a progressive change ...
		["D.N. March 31, 1882"]. The statements which were made in both Houses of Parliament last evening as to the prospects of peace in Basutoland were extremely satisfactory ...
		["D.N. March 28, 1882"]. It is not surprising that the members of the House of Commons who are interested in religious equality should have arranged to hold a meeting to consider what steps they shall take with regard to the more important of the ecclesiastical Bills now before Parliament ...
		["D.N. April 5, 1882"]. The correspondence relating to the affairs of Zululand which has just been laid before Parliament contains an important letter from Mr. Bok, the State Secretary of the Transvaal, dated January 16th, in which he complains of the miserably disorganized condition of the Zulu county, and states that his Government, in order to prevent bloodshed, has asked her Majesty to release the Zulu King Cetewayo ...
		["D.N. April 17, 1882"]. Some time ago we published a rumour to the effect that the King of Dahomey, at one of his annual customs, had murdered 200 girls ... The truth of this report was discredited by Sir S. Rowe, Governor of the Gold Coast ...
		["D.N. April 21, 1882"]. The official Correspondence relative to the "alleged" existence of slavery in the British colony of Hong Kong which has just been published contains many painful facts that demand the serious attention of the public ...
		... It is satisfactory to learn that the new native policy announced by the Cape Ministry has met with a cordial reception at the hands of the Colonial Legislature, and that no part of their programme is likely to meet with more general acceptance than their proposal to repeal the Peace Preservation Act which was the cause of the Basuto war ...
		["D.N. April 24, 1882"]. We have repeatedly called attention to the unjust treatment of the Indian subjects of the Queen who, to the number of fifty thousand, labour, under a system of indentureship, on the plantations of the French colony of Reunion ...
		["Athenaeum, April 8, 1882"]. "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglas from 1817 to 1882," written by himself (Christian Age Office), is a work of singular interest ... [review].
		["D.N. April 26, 1882"]. The debate which has taken place in the Cape Parliament, on the motion of Mr. Hofmeyer, that it is desirable to allow members of that body the optional use of the Dutch language, has brought to light some interesting facts ...
		["D.N. April 28, 1882"]. Two telegrams from our Correspondent at Pietermaritzburg, one of which appeared in our second edition of yesterday, leave no room for doubt that a grave crisis exists in Zululand ...
		["D.N. May 1, 1882"]. We publish this morning a telegram from our Correspondent at Pietermaritzburg which contains some further explanations concerning the large deputation of Zulus whose arrival in Natal has occasioned so much anxiety ...
		["D.N. May 5, 1882"]. A day or two ago we referred to the disclosures which the War Expenditure Commissioners in the Cape Colony have lately made in their Report to Sir Hercules Robinson ...
		["D.N. May 6, 1882"]. In the House of Commons last night Mr. Slagg moved a resolution to the effect that it was desirable in the interests of British commerce and as a means of supplanting the slave trade that the existing postal facilities between Aden and the East African ports should be maintained, and that similar communications should be established in the Red Sea ...
		["D.N. May 11, 1882"]. It would be difficult to exaggerate the gravity of the crisis which has arisen in Egypt ...
		["D.N. May 15, 1882"]. The intelligence from Egypt which we publish this morning will, if possible, increase the importance of the ministerial statements which will be made in both Houses of Parliament this evening ...
		["D.N. May 15, 1882"]. It is a satisfactory feature of the Egyptian crisis that the other Powers fully admit the preponderating influence which England and France are entitled to exercise in the settlement of the question ...
		["D.N. May 15, 1882"]. A piece of intelligence which reaches us from the Gold Coast is not without interest to the public. Father Moreau and M. Brun, two Frenchmen well known on the West Coast of Africa, have gone to Coomassie avowedly to increase French influence in Ashantee ...
		["D.N. May 16, 1882"]. In the House of Commons last night, Mr. Evelyn Ashley, in reply to Mr. Puleston, confirmed the statement which our Maritzburg Correspondent telegraphed a day or two ago to the effect that, by order of the home Government, the visit of Cetewayo to this country had been indefinitely postponed ...
		["D.N. May 19, 1882"]. Our Correspondent at Maritzburg, in a telegram dated yesterday, states that the Natal elections show a decisive majority against the acceptance of responsible government ...
		["D.N. May 25, 1882"]. The telegrams which we publish this morning from our Correspondent at Cairo are of a very alarming character ... A few days ago Arabi Pacha was regarded in some quarters as a person whose authority would collapse as soon as the Powers made a naval demonstration ...
		... In the House of Commons the other day Mr. Cropper asked Lord Hartington whether Coolie immigration from India to Reunion had stopped ...
		["Athenaeum, May 20, 1882"]. "With the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange Free State" in 1880-81. By Charles L. Norris-Newman (Allen and Co.) ... [review].
		["D.N. May 31, 1882"]. The letter from our Correspondent at Maritzburg which we publish to-day shows that we have been guilty of no exaggeration in our repeated warnings as to the serious nature of the crisis which has arisen in Zululand ...
		["D.N. June 3, 1882"]. We lately published a brief epitome of the Report in which Mr. Probyn and Mr. Cunynghame describe their recent investigations into the Administrator-General’s Department in British Guiana ...
		["D.N. June 14, 1882"]. We learn that an important meeting of delegates representing various British Colonies has just been held at Barbadoes, for the purpose of considering the best means of improving telegraphic communication between the British West Indies and the United Kingdom ...
		["D.N. June 8, 1882"]. Many years have elapsed since attention was seriously called to the subject of over-population in Malta ...
		["D.N. June 17, 1882"]. The public will learn with satisfaction that the Indian Government have at last decided to stop Coolie immigration between India and the Island of Reunion ...
		["D.N. June 20, 1882"]. The Government of Lagos are it appears indirectly involved in a quarrel with Ogudipe, a powerful Abbeokuta chief, concerning his fugitive slave-wife Owode, who has sought refuge from her husband in the British colony ...
		["D.N. June 22, 1882"]. We have already announced the principal conclusions to which the Select Committee on Artisans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings have arrived, but their Report calls for some more detailed observations ...
		["D.N. June 23, 1882"]. In the House of Commons last evening several questions were put to the Under-Secretary for the Colonies concerning the terrible outrages on natives which ... are now of frequent occurrence in Northern Queensland and in the islands of the Western Pacific ...
		["D.N. June 24, 1882"]. Our Correspondent at Pietermaritzburg sends a telegram warning the public, on apparently official authority, against exaggerated reports concerning Zululand ...
		[["D.N. June 26, 1882"]. We learn on the authority of our Correspondent at Maritzburg that Cetewayo will proceed to England at once, and that Mr. Henriquez Shepstone was to go to Capetown on Saturday in order to accompany him ...
		["D.N. June 27, 1882"]. In the House of Commons last night Mr. Evelyn Ashley, in reply to Mr. W. Fowler, fully confirmed the statement of our Correspondent at Maritzburg ... to the effect that Cetewayo was after all to visit England ...
		["D.N. 29 June, 1882"]. Our Correspondent at Maritzburg, in the telegram which we publish this morning, confirms the peaceful news from Zululand which he telegraphed a day or two ago ...
		["D.N. 29 June, 1882"]. The long-existing controversy between the Bishop of Grahamstown and Dr. Williams the Dean of that diocese, reached its final stage yesterday ...
		["D.N. July 3, 1882"]. The Parochial Charities Bill, in the form in which has been re-introduced into the House of Commons, is the result of the inquiry of a Select Committee, whose Report shows that while determined to protect the rights of the Inhabitants of London they by no means committed themselves to the assertion of an extreme view of those rights ...
		["D.N. July 4, 1882"]. The brief debate in the House of Lords last night on Cetewayo’s visit to England will confirm the great majority of the public in the favourable opinion concerning the policy of the Government which they have lately expressed ...
		["D.N. July 11, 1882"]. We referred yesterday to the fact that the French have claimed to exercise a protectorate on the west coast of Madagascar, and that they have apparently backed up their claim by sending a man-of-war to Tamatave ...
		["D.N. July 12, 1882"]. As might have been expected, General Gordon has signalised his appointment of the chief command of the Cape forces by proposing some important reforms in the organization of the troops under his control ...
		["D.N. July 15, 1882"]. The offence of illicit diamond dealing has so greatly increased in Griqualand West that, according to a Report of a Select Committee of the House of Assembly at Capetown, the entire industry of diamond mining is placed in jeopardy ...
		["D.N. July 18, 1882"]. We published on Saturday a telegram from our Correspondent at Maritzburg, in which he stated that the Legislative Council of Natal have rejected a resolution proposing to renew the protest against Cetewayo’s restoration to Zululand ...
		["D.N. July 18, 1882"]. Yesterday a deputation of a very unique kind waited upon Lord Kimberley at the Colonial Office. For the first time in the history of that department a party of Maori chiefs sought an interview with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in order to make known to him the grievances of which they complain ...
		["D.N. July 21, 1882"]. The crushing defeat which the Egyptian troops have sustained in the Soudan bodes ill for the movement against slavery in that province ...
		["D.N. July 24, 1882"]. We learn from the Gold Coast that the King of Ashantee celebrated the Queen’s birthday in a manner wholly unprecedented at Cocmassie ...
		["D.N. July 27, 1882"]. The serious events that are now taking place on the western frontier of the Transvaal, although they have been the subject of a few questions in the House of Commons, have not excited the attention to which they are entitled ...
		["D.N. July 29, 1882"]. In reply to the appeal which Mr. Anderson made in the House of Commons last evening on behalf of the people of Malta, Mr. Evelyn Ashley announced that the Colonial Office had decided to enlarge the franchise in that island ...
		["D.N. July 31, 1882"]. The deputation of Chinese merchants and traders which waited upon Sir John Pope Hennessy a day or two ago, to thank him for the just policy that he had pursued towards their fellow-countrymen in Hong Kong, complained that since his departure from the colony matters were not going on so well as during his presence ...
		["D.N. August 2, 1882"]. The correspondence between Sir Henry Bulwer and the Bishop of Natal, which has just been laid before Parliament, concludes with a brief letter from the Governor, dated June 16, in which he expresses his "regret and concern" at the part which the Bishop had taken in the political affairs of Zululand ...
		["D.N. August 4, 1882"]. Our readers cannot fail to be interested and amused by the account of the voyage of Cetewayo to this country ...
		["August 4"]. We lately called attention to the disturbances which are taking place on the western frontier of the Transvaal, and which, as we then stated, have been largely promoted by lawless marauders who invaded South Bechuanaland for the purpose of robbing the natives of their land and cattle ...
		["D.N. August 8, 1882"]. It appears that the opponents of Cetewayo in Natal are doing their utmost to stir up public feeling in that colony against his restoration to Zululand ...
		["D.N. August 11, 1882"]. The course of her Majesty’s Government with regard to the Zulu question has been facilitated by the terms of the resolution which has been passed by the Legislative Council of Natal ...
		["D.N. August 15, 1882"]. The visit of Cetewayo to the Queen will probably be memorable, not only for the interesting character of the event itself, but also as a new turning point in our South African policy ...
		["D.N. August 16, 1882"]. It was announced in both Houses of Parliament yesterday that the Government have decided to restore Cetewayo to Zululand ...
		["D.N. August 18, 1882"]. We have more than once referred to the unfortunate difficulties which have arisen between the French political agents in Madagascar and the Hova authorities ...
		["D.N. August 22, 1882"]. We recently stated that another scandal in connection with the Indian coolie traffic had been brought to light at Mauritius ...
		["D.N. August 25, 1882"]. Our Special Correspondent at Maritzburg informs us by telegraph that Dabulamanzi is now in that town, and that he declares that when Cetewayo returns to Zululand the whole country will welcome him ...
		["D.N. Sep. 13, 1882"]. The readers of the recently published Zulu Blue Books must have noticed the acrimonious tone of Sir Henry Bulwer’s references to the Bishop of Natal, whose active and successful efforts to promote the restoration of Cetewayo have given great offence to the colonial authorities ...
		["D.N. Sep. 25, 1882"]. In the early part of last year we called attention to the nefarious practices in the Western Pacific of a French labour vessel, called the Aurora ...
		["D.N. Sep. 27, 1882"]. In a telegram which we published yesterday our Correspondent at Maritzburg states that small-pox is spreading through Capetown and the suburbs ...
		["Athenaeum, Sep. 23, 1882"]. "Amazulu:the Zulus, their past History, Manners, Customs, and Language, with Observations on the Country and its Productions, Climate, etc., the Zulu War, and Zululand since the War." By Thomas B. Jenkinson, B.A. (Allen and Co.) ... [review].
		["D.N. October 2, 1882"]. A message of the Governor of Fiji to his Legislative Council makes the satisfactory announcement that the financial prospects of the colony, in spite of some drawbacks, are gradually improving ...
		["Non. Con. and Independent, Oct. 5, 1882"]. The Malagasay embassy and the French in Madagascar ...
		["D.N. Oct. 9, 1882"]. Although one or two French journals have declared that the French Government will make no concessions whatever to the Malagasy Embassy, it may be confidently asserted that this statement is made without authority ...
		["D.N. Oct. 10, 1882"]. On Saturday we published a telegram from our Correspondent at Maritzburg announcing the resignation of General Gordon, in consequence of a disagreement with the Cape Ministry regarding Basutoland ...
		["D.N. October 13, 1882"]. Miss Rebecca Hussey, of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, who died in the year 1714 ... bequeathed a sum of one thousand pounds for ..."the redemption of slaves, if it may be effected, or else to the easement of their slavery" ... [establishment of training school in Lagos in 1880 from the bequest].
		[Non Conformist, October 12, 1882"]. The French on the Congo ...
		["D.N. Oct. 14, 1882"]. At the meeting of the Congregational Union the subject of the disturbances in the native territories adjacent to the western borders of the Transvaal was brought forward by the Rev. John Mackenzie ...
		[D.N. Oct. 18, 1882"]. A few days ago we stated that in consequence of a difference of opinion on the Basuto question which had arisen between General Gordon and Mr. Sauer, the Native Minster, the former had resigned his office of Commandant-General ...
SCRAPBOOK 16	Scrapbook, 1882-1883
SCRAPBOOK 16		Scrapbook compiled by George Thompson and F.W. Chesson. 25 cm. Approximately 103 items, 234 pages. Articles are pasted in a copy of a bound volume of The Confederation of the British North American Provinces by Thomas Rawlings. London: S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1865. Newspaper clippings unless otherwise noted.
		Arranged alphabetically
		["D.N. [Daily News] October 21, 1882"]. As any disinterested effort on the part of Englishmen to promote the well-being of India has always met with grateful appreciation among the natives of that country, it is only natural that the lamented and premature death of Sir David Wedderburn should call forth emphatic expressions of regret from the native community ...
		["Nonconformist, October 19, 1882"]. The Boers and the Bechuanas ...
		["D.N. October 24, 1882"]. A day or two ago the Pall Mall Gazette found fault with us for having treated the re-establishment of Imperial authority over Basutoland as an open question ...
		["D.N. October 26, 1882"]. More than two months have elapsed since the Government decided to restore Cetewayo to Zululand, and some uncertainty still seems to hang over the plans of the Government ...
		["D.N. October 30, 1882"]. One of the innovations introduced by Keshub Chunder Sen into the movement of which he is the leader is the inculcation of the tenets of the "New Dispensation" by means of the religious drama ...
		["D.N. October 31, 1882"]. In the House of Commons last night Mr. Gladstone, in reply to Sir W. Barttelot, frankly stated that he was unable at present to give any authentic information concerning the important events which are said to have taken place in the Soudan ...
		["D.N. November 2, 1882"]. It appears from a Blue Book just published that a new effort is about to be made to establish a branch of the Basle Mission in Ashantee, and that Captain Moloney, the Administrator of the Gold Coast, had been asked to accredit the missionaries to the King ...
		["D.N. Nov. 4, 1882"]. In the House of Commons last evening Mr. Hopwood put a question with reference to the destruction in April last by a British force of the town of Mattro, in British Sherbro, and the seizure of a chief named Lahsarrio, and his deportation to Sierra Leone, where he is now detained as a prisoner ...
		["D.N. November 9, 1882"]. Although the French Government are anxious that the Malagasy Embassy should accept the principle of a cession of territory to France, there is not the least probability that the Ambassadors will enter into so rash an engagement ...
		["D.N. November 13, 1882"]. The Madagascar Times, a journal published at Antannarivo, publishes the text of an address to the President of the French Republic from a number of French subjects resident in Madagascar ...
		["D.N. Nov. 17, 1882"]. The subject of Madagascar is naturally attracting some attention in the House of Commons ...
		["D.N. Nov. 22, 1882"]. In the House of Commons last evening Mr. Gorst put a question to the Under-Secretary for the Colonies with reference to the case of Langalibalele whose continued captivity in the Cape Colony has from time to time excited unfavourable comment ...
		["D.N. Nov. 24, 1882"]. The Madagascar Committee have issued an address to the public, in which they examine at considerable length the claims of the French Government to exercise authority in the northern and north-western parts of the island of Madagascar ...
		["D.N. Nov. 25, 1882"]. In giving instructions for the stoppage of coolie immigration to Reunion, it cannot be alleged that the Indian Government have acted precipitately or with any lack of courtesy to the French Government ...
		["D.N. Nov. 28, 1882"]. The sudden departure of the Malagasy Ambassadors from Paris under circumstances of an almost unprecedented character increases the importance of the deputation which is to wait upon Lord Granville to-day ...
		["Athenaeum. Nov. 25, 1882"]. "In the Land of Misfortune." By Lady Florence Dixie. (Bentley and Son) ... [review].
		["D.N. Nov. 29, 1882"]. The influential deputation from the Madagascar Committee which waited upon Lord Granville yesterday presented a strong case in temperate language ...
		["D.N. Nov. 30, 1882"]. We lately referred to the Report of the Commissioners appointed by the Governor of Natal to inquire into the condition of the natives of that colony ...
		["Nonconformist. Nov. 30, 1882"]. France and Madagascar. The Madagascar Committee and Lord Granville ... We may supplement the above article by stating that the Madagascar Committee comprises more than sixty M.P’s, many high Colonial officials, several directors of the London Missionary and other missionary societies, members of the Society of Friends, and supporters of philanthropic agencies. All communications should be addressed to the Hon. Secretary, Mr. F.W. Chesson, 17, King William-street, Charing-cross, W.C.
		["D.N. December 4, 1882"]. In the House of Commons last week Mr. W.E. Forster put a question to Mr. Evelyn Ashley concerning the disturbed state of Southern Bechuanaland ...
		["D.N. December 13, 1882"]. Our Correspondent at Martzburg telegraphs to us that on Monday last Cetewayo signed the new Zulu settlement at Capetown, it is believed under "pressure and protest." ...
		["D.N. December 15, 1882"]. The cordial welcome which the Malagasy Envoys received at the Fishmongers’ Hall last evening gave audible expression to the feeling with which their visit to this country is generally regarded
		["D.N. December 18, 1882"]. We recently stated that it was the intention of the Government to appoint a Commission to investigate the state of affairs in the Western Pacific, with especial reference to the High Commissioner’s Court ...
		["D.N. Dec. 20, 1882"]. The letter on the circumstances connected with the resignation by General Gordon of his command in the Cape Colony which we publish this morning will be read with general interest ...
		["D.N. Dec. 21, 1882"]. The Bishop of Natal has published the full text of the address which he delivered in October last before the Church Council of his diocese on the appeal of the late Bishop Merriman, of Grahamstown, against the judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case of Dean Williams ...
		["D.N. Dec. 27, 1882"]. Our Correspondent at Maritzburg, in a telegram we publish this morning, repeats the warning which he had previously given that the annexation of a large part of Zululand is probably about to take place ...
		["D.N. January 4, 1883"]. Our Correspondent at Maritzburg, in the telegram which we published yesterday, expresses his conviction that the annexation of a large portion of Zululand to the British dominions in South Africa is mainly the work of Sir Henry Bulwer, and that if Sir Theophilus Shepstone has had any part in it, he is only responsible in a secondary sense ...
		["D.N. Jan. 6, 1883"]. A story that has just reached this country from the Niger illustrates the cruelty and lawlessness which prevail in that region, and we fear also in other West African rivers not under the government of any civilized State ...
		["D.N. January 8, 1883"]. When England granted responsible government to her principal colonies there were those who believed that this act of justice would result in the disintegration of the Empire ...
		["D.N. January 12, 1883"]. The telegram which we publish this morning from our Correspondent at Maritzburg will deepen the feeling of indignation with which the proceedings of the Government of Natal in connection with the resettlement of Zululand are generally regarded in this country ...
		["D.N. January 13, 1883"]. Many members of the Liberal party both in and out of the House of Commons will have seen with much regret the announcement in our columns yesterday of the death of Mr. James White, formerly M.P. for Brighton ...
		["D.N. January 18, 1883"]. The public will be glad to learn that the opening of the Royal Courts of Justice will be quickly followed by the demolition of the old law courts which have so long disfigured and half hidden Westminster Hall ...
		["D.N. January 18, 1883"]. Our Maritzburg Correspondent, in a telegram we publish this morning, says that evidence continues to accumulate of the joyous reception of Cetewayo by the Zulus ...
		["D.N. January 20, 1883"]. The trial of Prince Krapotkine and his fellow-anarchists was brought to a conclusion yesterday, and, as was universally expected, the Judges who tried the case convicted nearly all the prisoners ...
		["D.N. January 22, 1883"]. As we announced on Saturday, the extra-ordinary Session of the Cape Parliament was opened on Friday ...
		... A day or two ago we published a telegram from our Correspondent at Cairo reporting a reverse which a body of Egyptian troops in the Soudan has sustained at the hands of the Mahdi; and there can be little doubt that the reconquest of that province will entail upon the Government of the Khedive a considerable expenditure of blood and treasure ...
		["D.N. Jan. 29, 1883"]. We announced on Saturday that the Legislative Council of the Cape Colony had passed a resolution, proposed by Mr. Vanderbyl, in favour of the repeal of the Basutoland Annexation Act ...
		["Athenaeum. Jan. 27, 1883"]. "With a Show through Southern Africa, and Personal Reminiscences of the Transvaal War." By Charles Du Val. 2 vols. (Tinsley Brothers) ... [review].
		["D.N. January 30, 1883"]. There seems to be little doubt that the activity of the French authorities on the East Coast of Africa at the present time is largely due to the determination of the planters of Reunion to obtain a supply of African labour, which would render them independent alike of the creoe [ie creole] population of that island and of coolie immigration from India ...
		["Feb. 6, 1883"]. The recently published Yellow Book on the affairs of Madagascar shows that Lord Granville, speaking through Lord Lyons, has called the attention of the French Government to the danger to which British residents in that island would be exposed in the unhappy event of France undertaking any naval or military operations on the Malagasy coast ...
		["Feb. 7, 1883"]. The Cape House of Assembly has accepted by 34 against 27 votes the Ministerial proposal for the future of Basutoland ...
		["Feb. 8, 1883"]. Yesterday afternoon a deputation waited upon Lord Derby for the purpose of urging the claims of the natives of the New Hebrides to British protection, and of asking him to take vigorous steps to suppress the abuses of the labour traffic in the Pacific ...
		["Feb. 8, 1883"]. We think that Mr. J.S. Balfour, M.P. is fully justified in using strong language with regard to the management of the Croydon Union
		["D.N. Feb. 12, 1883"]. Our Correspondent at Maritzburg sends us a protest against the partition of Zululand from Mnyamana, formerly Prime Minister of that country, and sixteen other influential Zulu chiefs ...
		["D.N. Feb. 16, 1883"]. The Danubian Conference seems to make slow progress. Both Roumania and Servia have successfully asserted their right to be represented at the Conference, and to take part in its deliberations ...
		["D.N. Feb. 17, 1883"]. The publication of the official Correspondence relative to the case of the slave girl in whose murder at Onitsha on the Niger two coloured men named John and Williams, formerly in the service of the Church Missionary Society, were implicated, is calculated to deepen the feeling of indignation with which that brutal crime was regarded by the public when the facts of the case were first made known ...
		["D.N. February 19, 1883"]. It appears that for more than two hundred years the Society of Friends have been in possession of a meeting-house at Bilsdale, in the North Riding of Yorkshire ...
		["D.N. Feb. 24, 1883"]. The publication of the Official Correspondence relative to the new settlement of Zululand will, we believe, fully satisfy the public that the Government were right in deciding to restore Cetewayo, and that the only cause for regret is that the act of justice which they have performed has not been made more complete ...
		["D.N. February 26, 1883"]. We think that Dr. Cameron is fully entitled to call for an investigation into the case of Thomas Harrison, who, having formerly been an inmate of a lunatic asylum at Cheadle, near Manchester, has, it is alleged, been illegally seized in Scotland by an attendant of that asylum, and carried back to England without due process of law ...
		["D.N. February 28, 1883"]. Lord Derby has administered a well-deserved rebuke to the Bishop of Colombo, whose misfortune it is from time to time to attract an unpleasant amount of attention to the manner in which he thinks fit to uphold his episcopal authority ...
		["D.N. March 5, 1883"]. The Zulu Blue Book issued a few days ago contains a despatch from Sir Henry Bulwer in reply to a letter on the condition of Zululand published in the Daily News in April of last year ...
		["Non. Con. [Nonconformist] March 1, 1883"]. French policy and Madagascar ...
		["D.N. March 6, 1883"]. The answer which the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs gave last night to Sir W. M’Arthur’s question about the old Servians who have been imprisoned by the Porte shows that cruelty and oppression still characterise what remains of Turkish rule in Europe ...
		["D.N. March 6, 1883"]. At the last meeting of the Essex Field Club, Professor Boulger and Mr. Meldola called attention to certain matters of considerable interest to all who desire to preserve the primaeval woodland character of Epping Forest ...
		["D.N. March 7, 1883"]. In the Correspondence relative to the affairs of the Transvaal which was published yesterday Sir Hercules Robinson has left no room for doubt as to what he thinks of the state of affairs in Southern Bechuanaland, and of the manner in which the Boers are treating the two loyal chiefs, Montsioa and Mankoroane ...
		["D.N. March 10, 1883"]. Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett gave notice yesterday that he would ask the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs on Monday whether the Government would send British ships to Madagascar for the purpose of protecting British interests there, and protesting against the action of the French Government ...
		["D.N. March 13, 1883"]. Death of Mr. Ashton Dilke ...
		["D.N. March 15, 1883"]. The mission of Dr. Jorissen to this country, even more than the debates in Parliament, raises the whole question of our relations with the Transvaal, and of our responsibilities under the Convention which was signed at Pretoria on August 3rd, 1881 ...
		["D.N. March 17, 1883"]. The Correspondence just printed relating to the mission of the Malagasy Envoys to Europe shows that Lord Granville has done everything in his power to secure a peaceful settlement of the differences between France and Madagascar ...
		["D.N. March 20, 1883"]. Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, if we may judge from the number and varied character of the questions which he is putting to the Government about Madagascar, is evidently absorbed by that interesting subject ...
		["D.N. March 26, 1883"]. We stated some time ago that, according to carefully-prepared official statistics which have lately been published, the decline of the native race in Fiji has been arrested, and a slight increase in the population has taken place during the last two years ...
		["Non. Con. March 22, 1883"]. France, England, and Madagascar ...
		["D.N. March 30, 1883"]. In the House of Commons last evening Sir Harry Verney asked the Postmaster-General whether her Majesty’s Government would take steps to keep open communication from Aden to Madagascar for passengers and the mails ...
		["D.N. April 4, 1883"]. The reply which the Under-Secretary for the Colonies has given to Mr. Dillwyn’s question concerning the reserved territory on the Natal border is not calculated to diminish the anxiety which has been excited by the action of the Government in that quarter ...
		["D.N. April 5 ..."]. We are glad to learn that the Commons Preservation Society have decided to oppose the third reading of the Bill, unless the company will consent to such an alteration in it as will secure the preservation of the burial-ground as an open space ...
		["D.N. April 11"]. We stated yesterday that Dr. Jorissen has had an interview with Lord Derby at the Colonial Office; and it will be seen from our Parliamentary report that Mr. Onslow has given notice of a question which is intended to elicit from Mr. Gladstone an explicit statement as to the nature of the communications which the Boer Envoy has made to the Government ...
		["D.N. April 13, 1883"]. In Fiji the experience of this country is essentially different from that which it has passed through in many other Crown colonies ...
		["D.N. April 16, 1883"]. The agreement between the Governments of Great Britain and Siam for regulating the traffic in spirtuous liquors is quite unique of the kind, and will give great satisfaction to the Siamese ...
		["D.N. April 19, 1883]. Several weeks ago when a deputation waited upon Lord Derby in order to ask him to repress the evils of the labour traffic in the New Hebrides, his attention was called to the fact that an association had been formed in New Caledonia for the purpose of promoting the annexation of those islands to the French possessions in the Pacific ...
		["D.N. April 26, 1883"]. Owing to the inability of Montsioa to prolong his resistance to the marauders who have invaded his country, the Republic of "Stellaland" has, for the present, made good its footing in Bechuanaland, and the lands of the despoiled nativees are finding many purchasers ...
		["D.N. May 1, 1883"]. The Corporation of Southport has published a statement of facts concerning the foreshore of that thriving watering-place which calls for, as we have no doubt it will receive, careful official attention ...
		["D.N. May 5, 1883"]. We have published recently two letters from the Cape Colony of considerable practical importance ...
		["D.N. May 8, 1883"]. The visit which the Prince of Bulgaria has just paid to Athens appears likley to exert considerable influence on the future relations of Greeks and Bulgarians ...
		["D.N. May 17, 1883"]. The unsatisfactory character of the latest intelligence from South Africa will, we hope, lead without loss of time to a careful examination of the whole situation, with a view to enforce adequate remedies for a state of things which has become intolerable ...
		["D.N. May 15, 1883"]. There is some similarity between the proceedings of the police authorities in Ireland and those of the Thuggee and Dacoitie department in India ...
		["D.N. May 24, 1883"]. There has been a lull of late in the discussion on the Bechuana question ...
		["D.N. May 28, 1883"]. Our Correspondent at Pietermaritzburg has sent us the substance of a communication with reference to the disturbances in Zululand which Cetewayo has addressed to the Bishop of Natal, and which has been published in one of the local journals ...
		["D.N. June 2, 1883"]. The paper on the condition of the Bengal ryot from the pen of Miss Florence Nightingale, which was read at a meeting of the East India Association yesterday, can hardly fail to excite a painful amount of public interest ...
		["D.N. June 7, 1883"]. It appears that a wave of revolution has swept over Ashantee and driven the sanguinary King of that country into exile ...
		["D.N. June 12, 1883"]. The new Blue-Book on the affairs of Zululand awakens, without satisfying, curiosity as to the causes of the civil war which has broken out between Zibebu and the Usutu ...
		["D.N. June 15, 1883"]. The present state of the Bechuana question may be briefly explained. The territory of the chief Montsioa has been appropriated by a large number of freebooters who have constituted themselves into an independent Republic bearing the name of "Stellaland" ...
		["Non. Con. May 4, 1883"]. Local option and the Government. The persistent agitation which Sir Wilfrid Lawson and his colleagues have carried on for so many years at last promises to bear legislative fruit in a great popular change in the laws affecting the liquor trade ...
		["Non. Con. date>May 4, 1883"]. Local option and the Government. The persistent agitation which Sir Wilfrid Lawson and his colleagues have carried on for so many years at last promises to bear legislative fruit in a great popular change in the laws affecting the liquor trade ...
		["Non. Con. May 4, 1883"]. Local option and the Government. The persistent agitation which Sir Wilfrid Lawson and his colleagues have carried on for so many years at last promises to bear legislative fruit in a great popular change in the laws affecting the liquor trade ...
		["D.N.May 25, 1883"]. In the House of Commons last evening Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, in reply to Mr. Monk, stated that communications have recently passed which give hope of the early renewal of diplomatic relations between this country and Mexico ...
		["D.N.May 26, 1883"]. We publish this morning a telegram from Calcutta which shows that the excitement caused among the natives by the opposition of the Anglo-Indian community to Mr. Ilbert’s Bill has extended to other subjects ...
		["D.N. June 18, 1883"]. We learn from a Correspondent at Calcutta that the opponents of the Criminal Jurisdiction Bill, not satisfied with the committal of the editor of the Bengalee for contempt of Court, have moved the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal to prosecute several other native editors for the articles they have published on the controversies that are now agitating India ...
		["D.N. June 21, 1883"]. The death of Bishop Colenso will excite deep feelings of regret on the part of all who are able to appreciate great intellectual and moral qualities and a pure and blameless life ...
		["D.N. June 21, 1883 ..."]. When the Langalibalele difficulty took place in 1874, Bishop Colenso warmly espoused the cause of that chief, and brought to light many acts of cruelty which had been committed in connection with the so-called outbreak ...
		["D.N. June 22, 1883"]. The unhealthiness of the West Coast of Africa is proverbial, and heretofore Lagos has not enjoyed a better reputation in this respect than Sierra Leone or the Gambia ...
		["Non. Con. May 4, 1883"]. Local option and the Government. The persistent agitation which Sir Wilfrid Lawson and his colleagues have carried on for so many years at last promises to bear legislative fruit in a great popular change in the laws affecting the liquor trade ...
		["D.N. June 26, 1883"]. We regret to learn from our Correspondent at Alexandria that Adriatic cholera has broken out in Egypt ...
		["D.N. July 5, 1883"]. Sir William Wedderburn, who has long and ably advocated the establishment in India of a system of agricultural banks, and has fortunately been able to some extent to give effect to his views, read a paper on that subject yesterday which cannot fail to command the attention it deserves ...
		["D.N. July 6, 1883"]. A few days ago we stated that the annexation party in Natal were taking advantage of the recent disturbances in Zululand to urge upon the Government the desirability of establishing British authority on the other sight of the Tugela ...
		["D.N. July 6, 1883"]. A few days ago we stated that the annexation party in Natal were taking advantage of the recent disturbances in Zululand to urge upon the Government the desirability of establishing British authority on the other sight of the Tugela ...
		["D.N. July 7, 1883"]. We learn, on the authority of a telegram from Australia, that a French man-of-war has taken formal possession of the New Hebrides ...
		["D.N. July 12, 1883"]. Our Correspondent at Capetown, in a telegram which we publish this morning, states that Cetewayo was pressing the united forces of Zibebu and Hamu, and that the latter has been conveyed a captive to Ulundi ...
		["D.N. July 13, 1883"]. About three years have elapsed since Mr. Firth, by means of a series of questions in the House of Commons, brought before Mr. Gladstone the desirability of making inquiry into the affairs of the City Liveries Companies ...
		["D.N. July 18, 1883"]. Our Correspondent at Pietermaritzburg, in a telegram which we published yesterday, announced that Mapoch had capitulated to the Boers ...
		["D.N. July 21, 1883"]. The establishment of direct diplomatic intercourse between China and England has led to results of great importance to the relations of the two countries ...
		["D.N. July 25, 1883"]. In the House of Commons last evening Mr. Ashley was not able to add much to the information concerning the defeat of Cetewayo ...
		["D.N. July 28, 1883"]. The latest intelligence from Zululand fully confirms the earlier telegrams, both official and otherwise, on the recent tragic events at Ulundi ...
		["D.N. August 2, 1883"]. It is very seldom that the governor of a British colony makes a speech at the funeral of a departed native chief, but this unusual honour has been paid by the Governor of Fiji to the memory of Thakombau, formerly King of Fiji, who was recently buried at the summit of a lofty hill on the island of Bau ...
		["D.N. August 8, 1883"]. A few days ago we referred to the absence of definite information as to the death of Cetewayo, and remarked that there was a bare possibility that he was alive ...
		["D.N. August 14, 1883"]. Mr. Gladstone was unable last night to name any day for a Ministerial statement with respect to the condition of things in Madagascar ...
		["Athenauem. August 11, 1883"]. "Through the Zulu Country: its Battlefields and its People." By Bertram Mitford. With Five Illustrations. (Kegan Paul, Trench and Co.) ... [review].
		["D.N. August 21"]. The foreign and domestic politics of France are in striking contrast and even contradiction ...
		["D.N. August 28, 1883"]. We publish this morning an interesting correspondence between Miss Colenso and Cetewayo, which has been called forth by the death of the Bishop of Natal ...
SCRAPBOOK 17	Scrapbook, 1883-1884
SCRAPBOOK 17		Scrapbook compiled by George Thompson and F.W. Chesson. 23 cm. Approximately 109 items, 226 pages. Articles are pasted in a copy of a bound volume: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs Transmitted with the Message of the President at the Opening of the First Session of the Thirty-Fourth Congress, 1855. Printed for the Office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington: Printed by A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856. Newspaper clippings unless otherwise noted.
		Arranged alphabetically
		["C"] ... witness, who has lately passed through Central Zululand, states that, in consequence of Zibebu’s wholesale defilement of the grain pits in that territory, it will be impossible to avert the horrors of famine from the people ...
		["D.N. Sep. 22, 1883"]. Early in the present century there was perhaps no part of the English coast more renowned for smuggling than the stretch of Kentish shore which the late Mr. G.P.R. James made the scene of his popular story, "The Smugglers." ...
		["D.N. Sep. 20, 1883"]. The Natal Legislative Council, by the votes of its non-official members, has thrown out a Bill to make provision for the due enforcement of the conditions subject to which the ex-Chief Langalibalele will be permitted to return to Natal ...
		["D.N. Sep. 25, 1883"]. We published yesterday a copy of a correspondence between Mr. William Grant of Durban and Sir Henry Bulwer, her Majesty’s Special Commissioner in Zululand, which may throw a little light on Cetewayo’s refusal to see the Resident or to reply to the message lately sent to him ...
		["D.N. Sep. 27, 1883"]. Before the Malagasy Envoys, who were recently in this country, landed on the south-west coast of Madagascar, they visited Natal, where they remained only a day or two ...
		["D.N. October 2, 1883"]. Lord Derby, in one of his recent despatches, suggested that the settlement of the questions affecting the extension of the British Empire at the antipodes would be facilitated by the federal union of the Australian colonies ...
		["D.N. Oct. 4, 1883"]. When the Judges of the High Court of Calcutta were asked to give their opinion on the Ilbert Bill, Mr. Justice Mitter, the only native member of the Court, into sharing the views of his English colleagues, drew up a separate minute ...
		["D.N. Oct. 6, 1883"]. Several days ago we published a correspondence between Mr. William Grant, of Durban, and Sir Henry Bulwer, in which the latter refused to permit Mr. Grant to join Cetewayho at Ikanhla, but without assigning any reason ...
		["D.N. Oct. 10, 1883"]. Professor Wordsworth ... Bombay, in authorising the republication of his letters to the Bombay Gazette in support of the Ilbert Bill, has written a prefatory letter which contains some further cogent remarks on that subject ...
		["D.N. Oct. 11, 1883"]. Mr. Scanlen, the Cape Premier, is now on his way to England, and may be expected to arrive here about a week before the deputation from the Transvaal ...
		["D.N. Oct. 12, 1883"]. Yesterday we published a telegram from our Correspondent at Pietermaritzburg to the effect that Zibebu is being employed to effect the subjugation of Cetewayo ...
		["D.N. Oct. 13, 1883"]. Ashantee is just now the scene of a civil war of more general interest than the sanguinary and purposeless feuds which so often distract the kingdoms of Africa ...
		["D.N. Oct. 16, 1883"]. The Cape mail which arrived yesterday brought details of the trial and conviction of Mapoch (or Niabel) and Mampoer, the two chiefs who were lately in arms against the authorities of the Transvaal ...
		["D.N. Oct. 17, 1883"]. We learn from Natal that, in compliance with the message or ultimatum of Mr. Osborn ... Cetewayo has surrendered himself to Mr. Fynn, and is now actually in the colony ...
		["D.N. Oct. 18, 1883"]. A few days ago we called attention to some of the occurrences of the civil war now raging in Ashantee, and in particular to the treacherous massacre of the followers of Koffee Calcalli by a chief named Owosucoroor, who acted in the interest of Ouacoe Duah, one of the claimants to the throne ...
		["D.N. Oct. 20, 1883"]. It will be remembered that the proposal made by several of the Australian colonies that, in order to prevent France from taking possession of the New Hebrides, England should herself annex those island, was met by a declaration from Lord Derby that both Powers had pledged themselves to abstain from any act of the kind ...
		["D.N. Oct. 23"]. We learn from our Pietermaritzburg Correspondent that Mr. William Grant, the duly-appointed adviser of Cetewayo, has not been allowed to remain with the King at Ekowe, and has therefore returned to Natal ...
		["D.N. Oct. 25, 1883"]. Lord Derby has addressed to General McIver "late of the Servian and Greek services," a letter which tells him in emphatic language that his contemplated operations in New Guinea will not be permitted ...
		["D.N. Oct. 26, 1883"]. A statement has lately been made in one of the West African papers to the effect that the French, in their efforts to extend their authority on the Gold Coast, are meeting with a certain amount of sympathy on the part of the natives ...
		["D.N. Oct. 30, 1883"]. There appears to have been considerable misapprehension as to the attitude of the Eurasian population in India towards the Ilbert Judicature Bill ...
		["D.N. November 1, 1883"]. In a few days the Transvaal Delegates will have an opportunity of making known their views to Lord Derby on the subject of the Pretoria Convention ...
		["D.N. Nov. 5"]. A very improbable piece of intelligence has reached Paris, by way of Reunion, from Madagascar ...
		["D.N. Nov. 8, 1883"]. The intelligence concerning the lamentable state of affairs in Zululand which we published yesterday is fully confirmed by the further information which we have since received ...
		["D.N. Nov. 9, 1883"]. The activity of the French in Africa is by no means confined to the regions of the Congo ...
		["D.N. Nov. 13"]. There is every indication that the affairs of Bechuanaland will form one of the most important of the group of South African questions which are now about to be discussed in Downing-street ...
		["D.N. Nov. 15, 1883"]. We lately called attention to the sanguinary revolution which took place a few weeks ago in Ashantee, and especially to the treacherous means by which Quacoe Duah succeeded in all but exterminating the forces of our old enemy Koffee Caccalli ...
		["D.N. Nov. 17, 1883"]. A correspondent on the Natal border has sent us some further details concerning the anarchy which prevails in Zululand ...
		["D.N. Nov. 21, 1883"]. The telegram from Captain Brooke, the senior naval officer on the West African Station, which we published yesterday, made the public for the first time aware that naval operations of a somewhat severe character have lately taken place on the Niger ...
		["D.N. Nov. 22, 1883"]. There is one feature of the scheme of the Metropolitan Railway for connecting the Edgeware-road and Knightsbridge districts with Westminster, which will certainly commend itself to the ratepayers of London ...
		["Nov. 22"]. The owners of the diamond mines at Kimberley have endeavoured to put in operation certain stringent regulations contained in the Diamond Ordinance of 1880, which apparently have not been enforced till now ...
		["D.N. Nov. 26"]. According to our Correspondent at Durban, Haum (or Oham), having induced the Boers to assist him in his rebellion against Cetewayo by lavish promises of land, now finds himself unable to prevent his allies from taking up their residence in his district, and appropriating what is probably the most fertile portion of his country ...
		["D.N. Nov. 29, 1883"]. The Pitso at which the proposals of the Imperial Government will be submitted to the Basutos is to be held to-day ...
		["D.N. Nov. 30, 1883"]. The telegrams from our Correspondent in Natal which we published yesterday contain information of great importance from Zululand ...
		["D.N. Dec. 4, 1883"]. A Bill has just passed the Legislative Council of Natal which calls for serious attention on the part of every one who has the least regard for public liberty. One of the charges brought against the Boers is that by means of pass laws they prevent the natives of the Transvaal from exercising any freedom of action ...
		["D.N. Dec. 6, 1883"]. A telegram from the Cape Colony which we published yesterday gave some particulars of the Basuto Pitso which has been held for the purpose of considering the proposal to transfer the administration of Basutoland from the Colonial to the Imperial Government ...
		["D.N. Dec. 8, 1883"]. Lord Ripon has taken advantage of the re-assembling of the Legislative Council at Calcutta to make known the final intentions of the Indian Government with regard to the Ilbert Bill ...
		... A Durban telegram which we publish this morning states that it is now regarded as almost certain that Cetewayo will be reinstated at Ulundi ...
		["D.N. Dec. 13"]. There unhappily seems good reason to believe that the Kaffir Chief Mampoer has been executed at Pretoria ...
		["D.N. Dec. 14, 1883"]. We think that on the whole the West African merchants who visited the Colonial Office on Wednesday will be satisfied with the answer they received from Lord Derby ...
		["D.N. Dec. 18, 1883"]. The Government, as we are this morning able to announce, have taken another step towards the complete pacification of South Africa by consenting to restore the old relations which existed between the Crown and the Basutos ...
		["D.N. Dec. 19, 1883"]. The Transvaal delegates, during their residence in England, have had ample opportunities of discussing with Lord Derby every clause of the Pretoria Convention to which they take exception ...
		["D.N. Dec. 22, 1883"]. The letter of Mr. Lawes, the missionary in New Guinea, to Mr. George Palmer, M.P., the substance of which we published yesterday, shows that ... some steps ought at once to be taken to secure justice in the relations of the English settlers with the natives ...
		["D.N. Dec. 26, 1883"]. The Transvaal Delegates, as our readers are aware, have visited this country for the purpose of obtaining concessions, political and financial, which will relieve the country they represent from many of the obligations imposed upon it by the Pretoria Convention ...
		["D.D. [i.e. D.N.?] Dec. 29, 1883"]. A few days ago we called attention to some dubious transactions in which certain speculators who have landed in New Guinea have been engaged in a district on the shores of Redscar Bay, where the soil is known to be admirably adapted for the cultivation of sugar cane ...
		["D.N. January 2, 1884"]. The Boers of the Transvaal have had recourse to a very singular mode of disposing of a portion of the recently confiscated lands of Mapoch’s tribe ...
		["D.N. Jan. 4, 1884"]. Several weeks ago we called attention to the provisions of the native jurisdiction ordinance, a piece of legislation for which the Governor and nominated Council of the Gold Coast are responsible ...
		["D.N. Jan. 7, 1884"]. We have now reached another crisis in the history of our relations with the Transvaal, and during the next few days the Government may be expected to arrive at a decision on the subject which will, if it prove final, affect the fortunes of South Africa for a long time to come ...
		["D.N. Jan. 7, 1884"]. The Government have called upon the Khedive to abandon the Soudan, and to retire to Wady Haifa or the second cataract. Our Correspondent at Cairo informs us that this important decision of the Government was embodied in a Note which Sir Eveyln Baring read to the Khedive yesterday morning ...
		["Non. Con. [Nonconformist] January 3, 1884"]. Lord Carnarvon and the Sydney Conference ...
		["Jan. 9, ?"]. Her Majesty’s Government are about to take another step towards the settlement of the Transvaal question ...
		["D.N. Jan. 12, 1884"]. We make this morning an announcement which has an important bearing on the settlement of the Transvaal question ...
		["D.N. Jan. 14, 1883" [i.e. 1884]. We recently stated that Baron Miklouho Maclay, the Russian naturalist, has written a letter to Lord Derby soliciting British protection for the natives of New Guinea, many of whom ... had requested him to act on their behalf ...
		["D.N. January 15, 1884"]. The conference at the Mansion House yesterday came to certain definite conclusions with regard to the Transvaal question ...
		["D.N. January 17, 1884"]. The telegram from Calcutta which we publish this morning gives some account of the great public meeting on the Ilbert Bill which the native inhabitants of that city held on Monday last ...
		["D.N. January 18, 1884"]. A day or two ago we mentioned the important fact that in that part of South Bechanaland which Lord Derby proposes to place under British protection there are not more than fifty land claims set up by the freebooters who have established what are called the Republics of Stellaland and Goshen ...
		["D.N. January 19, 1884"]. We publish this morning an account of the banquet given to the Transvaal Delegates by the Dutch colony in London ...
		["D.N. Jan. 24, 1884"]. It is satisfactory to learn from the South African mail which arrived yesterday that the Government have sent Mr. Fynn, who, it will be remembered was one of the interpreters attached to Cetewayo during his visit to England, to ascertain, by investigation on the spot, what is the actual state of affairs in that part of Zululand where a considerable number of Boers have taken possession of land belonging to the natives ...
		["D.N. January 28, 1884"]. After prolonged discussion, there is reason to believe that an understanding will shortly be arrived at between Lord Derby and the Transvaal Delegates on the main questions which have brought them to this country ...
		["Jan. 31, D.N. 1884"]. We published a telegram yesterday from our Correspondent in Natal to the effect that Cetewayo on Sunday left Ekowe with a number of his followers surreptitiously ...
		["D.N. February 5, 1884"]. We make this morning an announcement of considerable interest to those who are anxious for a satisfactory settlement of the border questions which have too long perplexed the British Government in South Africa ...
		["D.N. Feb. 5, 1884"]. The present state of affairs in the immediate neighbourhood of Walwich Bay, on the south-west coast of Africa, is revolting in the extreme ... Paul Vister, a Hottentot, or Bastaard headman ... has, it appears, invented methods of cruelty more barbarous than probably ever existed among the uncivilized tribes of South Africa ......
		["D.N. Feb. 9, 1884"]. We are now in receipt of accurate information as to what has lately taken place in Northern Zululand, where the frontier is conterminous with that of the Transvaal ...
		["D.N. February 5, 1884"]. We make this morning an announcement of considerable interest to those who are anxious for a satisfactory settlement of the border questions which have too long perplexed the British Government in South Africa ...
		["D.N. Feb. 11, 1884"]. The death of Cetewayo is announced by our Correspondent at Pietermaritzburg, who says it is confirmed by official advices received by the Governor ...
		["D.N. February 21, 1884"]. The see of Natal is still vacant, and, as Mr. Evelyn Ashley, in answering a question put to him by Sir William M’Arthur, intimated, her Majesty’s Government are not in the least likely to appoint a successor to the late Bishop Colenso ...
		... The official correspondence relative to Basutoland which has just been published amply vindicates, if vindication were necessary, the policy of the Government on that question ...
		["D.N. February 23, 1884"]. The conferences between the Transvaal Delegates and Lord Derby are now approaching a termination ...
		["D.N. February 28, 1884"]. The new Transvaal Convention was signed at the Colonial Office yesterday by Sir Hercules Robinson, representing her Majesty, and by the Delegates acting for what must now be called the "South African Republic" ...
		["D.N. March 4, 1884"]. The banquet which the Empire Club held last night in honour of Sir Hercules Robinson, and at which Lord Derby was present, was a well-earned tribute of respect to an eminent colonial adminstrator, who has hitherto been known to the nation more by deeds than by words ...
		["D.N. March 4, 1884"]. The Treaty which has been concluded between this country and Portugal for the settlement of the affairs of the Congo has been prepared with a manifest desire to reconcile conflicting interests ...
		["D.N. March 7, 1884"]. Sir Hercules Robinson sails for South Africa to-day ...
		["D.N. March 8, 1884"]. Dr. Cameron’s motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the working of the commissariat and transport services of the British and Indian armies in the recent Afghan and Egyptian campaigns was supported by an array of facts of a very painful character ...
		["D.N. March 11, 1884"]. The second reading of the Parks Railway Bill, which is down for this evening, is threatened with opposition, although it is not likely to be of a very formidable character ...
		["D.N. March 14, 1884"]. We are glad to learn from a reply which Mr. Ashley made to Sir Henry Holland last evening that, in the judgment of the Colonial Office, the news of the threatened attacks of the Stellaland freebooters upon Mankoroane, which has lately reached this country, is probably exaggerated ...
		["D.N. March 19, 1884"]. A day or two ago Mr. Ashley informed the House of Commons that Lord Derby had under consideration a plan for the settlement of Zululand ...
		["D.N. March 20, 1884"]. The public in Malta seem to be a good deal exercised by the discussion on the language question which has raged for some time past in the local Council ...
		["D.N. March 27, 1884"]. The debates on the affairs of Madagascar which are now taking place in the French Chamber show that the colonial and Ultramontane parties are straining every nerve to induce the Government to engage in a war of conquest on the great African island ...
		["D.N. April 10, 1884"]. In a speech which Sir Evelyn Baring lately made at Cairo, he informed his audience that during the last five years no fewer than 9,000 slaves in Egypt had obtained their freedom through the various bureaux of manumission ...
		["D.N. April 11"]. A singular incident has just occurred on the Gold Coast. It appears that a German ship-of-war, the Sophie, lateley visited Little Popo, a place within the nominal jurisdiction of Dahomey, but in which authority is exercised by a so-called "Regent" named Lawson ...
		["D.N. April 21, 1884"]. The Cape Coast Courts have lately been called upon to decide the vexed question as to whether marriages celebrated in the Wesleyan chapels on that coast have been legally solemnized or not ...
		["D.N. April 22, 1884"]. We make an announcement this morning which will be eminently satisfactory to those who have long endeavoured to separate the military government of Malta from its civil administration ...
		["D.N. April 24, 1884"]. At the meeting at the Mansion House on Tuesday, Mr. Forster put the case of the proposed Home for Freed Women Slaves at Cairo in a strong but true light ...
		["Athenaeum, April 19, 1884"]. "South Africa: a Sketch-Book of Men, Manners, and Facts. By James Stanley Little. 2 vols. (Sonnenschein and Co.) ... [review].
		["D.N. May 3, 1884"]. It appears that when Cetewayo felt that he was dying he assembled several of his chiefs in his hut, and informed them of his approaching end, and, at the same time, nominated his son Dinuzulu as his successor ...
		["D.N. May 13, 1884"]. Mr. P.A. Taylor has lately put a question to the Under-Secretary for the Colonies concerning the infliction of excessive punishments in the colony of Mauritius ...
		["D.N. June 2, 1884"]. The installation of Dinizulu, the eldest son and legitimate heir of Cetewayo, as King of Zululand, by the Boers, has been followed by the restoration of peace between the two parties into which the country has so long been divided ...
		["D.N. June 9, 1884"]. Mr. Mackenzie, the newly-appointed Resident Commisioner in Bechuanaland, has thus far achieved no small degree of success in pacifying the turbulent elements with which he had to deal in the distant part of South Africa ...
		["D.N. June 16"]. Lord Derby in a letter to Mr. Dillwyn which we published on Saturday, referred to telegraphic rumours of a probable settlement of the affairs of Zululand which would prove acceptable to the Zulus ...
		["D.N. July 3, 1884"]. Although no successor to the late Bishop Colenso has yet been appointed, it is understood that the leading members of the Church of England in Natal are determined that the see shall not continue vacant ...
		["D.N. July 7, 1884"]. The last mail from South Africa brought details of the crowning of Dinizulu, the youthful son of Cetewayo, as King of Zululand, by a large party of Boers, under Mr. Lewis Meyer, late Landdrost of Utrecht ...
		["D.N. July 19, 1884"]. The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the condition of the dwellings of the poor have been sedulously engaged for several months past in the performance of their arduous task ...
		["D.N. July 24, 1884"]. Lord Derby in addressing the Maories and their friends at the Colonial Office on Tuesday did not exaggerate when he described the deputation as the most interesting and the most important he had ever seen at the Colonial Office ...
		["D.N. July 31, 1884"]. The debate on the affairs of Zululand, which occupied nearly the entire sitting of the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, was hardly equal to the importance of the subject ...
		["D.N. August 14, 1884"]. The Government, as we stated yesterday, have decided to establish a British Protectorate on the south-east coast of New Guinea ...
		["D.N. August 8, 1884"]. The Indian breakfast held at the Westminster Palace Hotel yesterday was a novel and interesting experiment ...
		["D.N. August 20, 1884"]. The Maori King and chiefs brought their visit to this country to a close yesterday by taking part in certain farewell proceedings at the Mansion House ...
		["D.N. August 25, 1884"]. A despatch which has been addressed during the present year by Sir John Pope Hennessy to Lord Derby, and lately laid before the Legislative Council of Mauritius, shows how necessary it is that the legislation of Crown Colonies should be revised by some independent and responsible authority ...
		["Sept. 3rd, 1884"]. The Polynesian labour traffic, the real character of which has lately been so severely exposed by Deputy-Commissioner Romilly, will receive another blow from the Report of the Acting Agent-General of Immigraton in Fiji ...
		["Sept. 5, 1884"]. It is perhaps as well that the public judgment as to the events which have lately taken place on the western borders of the Transvaal should be suspended until we are in possession of fuller information ...
		["Sept. 6, 1884"]. The British subjects in Morocco are wisely taking steps to protect their interests in that misgoverned Empire ...
		["Sept. 9, 1884"]. The recent appointment of M. Buonfanti by the King of the Belgians to carry on the work of exploration in the region of the Congo is fully justified by the details, lately published at Brussels, of the journey which the same adventurous traveller has made from Tripoli to the Gulf of Guinea ...
		["Sept. 19th"]. There died at Dunkirk a few days ago M. Malo, a local celebrity, whose career furnishes more than one passage of romantic interest ...
		["Sept. 21, 1884"]. We are now in possession of some further details of the events that have lately taken place in Bechuanaland ...
		["Sept. 24, 1884"]. In a despatch addressed to Lord Derby in May last, Sir H. Bulwer expressed the opinion that the Boers would eventually become the masters of Zululand unless that country was proclaimed part of her Majesty’s dominions ...
		["Athenaeum, Sept. 20, 1884"]. "The Promised Land, or, Nine Years (Gold Mining, Hunting and Volunteering) in the Transvaal." By E.V. C. (Blades, East and Blades) ... [review]。
		["Sept. 26, 1884"]. The affairs of Ashantee are again causing anxiety to British subjects on the Gold Coast ...
		["Sept. 27, 1884"]. At the present moment it would appear that any independent native tribe in South Africa is at the mercy of the lawless bands of adventurers who, since the Zulu and Transvaal wars, have been always ready for deeds of pillage and murder ...
SCRAPBOOK 18	Scrapbook, 1883-1886
SCRAPBOOK 18		Scrapbook compiled by George Thompson and F.W. Chesson. 24 cm. Approximately 153 items, 386 pages. Articles are pasted in a copy of a bound volume Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the Year 1862.Printed for the Office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863. Newspaper clippings unless otherwise noted.
		Arranged alphabetically
		The Transvaal: Earl Grey has written the following letter to Mr. Chesson, secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society; "Howick, Nov. 19, 1883... Grey"
		["Times. December 6, 1883"]. Banquet to the Cape Premier. Last evening the Lord Mayor, M.P. entertained a select company at the Mansion-house to meet the Hon. T.C. Scanlen, the Premier and Colonial Secretary in the Government of the Cape Colony ...
		["Times. December 29, 1883"]. The case of Mampoer. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines’ Protection Society, 3, Broadway-chambers, Westminster, Dec. 28.
		["Times. Jan. 4, 1884"]. The treatment of natives in the Transvaal. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... J.E. Mears, of Sunnyside, Pretoria. London, Dec. 31, 1883.
		["Times"]. London, Saturday, January 5, 1884. When the Transvaal Deputation arrived in this country, we explained at length the views they had come to advocate, and also the reception they were likely to meet with at the Colonial Office ...
		["Times January 8, 1884"]. The treatment of natives in the Transvaal. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines’ Protection Society, 3, Broadway-chambers, Westminster, Jan. 5.
		["Times Jan. 9, 1884"]. The South African Committee. A meeting of the South African Committee was held yesterday to consider the present state of the Transvaal question ...
		["Times"]. The native tribes in the Transvaal. Yesterday afternoon a conference, principally of representatives of various societies who take an interest in the welfare of the native tribes of South Africa, was held in the saloon at the Mansion-house ... gentlemen present ... Mr. F. W. Chesson (Secretary of the Aborigines’ Protection Society) ...
		["D.N. [Daily News] Feb. 11, 1884"]. Cetewayo and Zululand. To the Editor of the Daily News. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines Protection Society, London, Feb. 10.
		["Pall Mall, Feb. 11, 1884"]. Cetewayo is dead apparently of a broken heart ... Mr. Chesson, we see, protests this morning against the recognition of Usibepu ...
		["Globe. Feb. 11, 1884"]. Wanted, a fetish. Before many weeks elapse the British public will probably come across an advertisment running somewhat as follows, "Wanted, a brand-new idol, the blacker the better.
		Apply to the Aborigines Protection Society ...
		["Pall Mall March 15, 1884"]. Our first resident in Bechuanaland. To the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson. 3, Broadway-chambers, Westminster, March 13.
		["? Argus. January 2, 1884"]. Pro Patria. The South African problem ...
		["Times, March 29, 1884"]. The burial of Cetywayo. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson. Aborigines’ Protection Society, 3, Broadway-chambers, S.W., March 22.
		["Times May 14, 1884"]. Flogging in the prisons of Mauritius. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson. Aborigines’ Protection Society, 3, Broadway-chambers, Westminster.
		Home for freed women slaves. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... Charles H. Allen, Hon. Sec., Home for Freed Women Slaves, Cairo. 55 New Broad-street, April 10.
		["Times. April 23, 1884"]. Cairo Home for Freed Women Slaves. Yesterday, at the Mansion-house, a meeting was held to give support to the benevolent scheme of founding a home in Cairo for freed women slaves ... Mr. Chesson stated ...
		["Times May 22, 1884"]. The Aborigines Protection Society. Last night the 47th annual meeting of this society was held at the Devonshire house Hotel ...
		["Daily Telegram, June 4, 1884"]. The Maori King in London. Yesterday, Tawhiao, the Maori king, and the chiefs who accompany him on his present visit to England, made their first appearance in the streets of London
		["D.N. June 9, 1884"]. The Maori chiefs in England. To the Editor of the Daily News. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines’ Protection Society, Westminster, S.W., June 7.
		["Indian Spectator. May 14, 1884"]. Prof. Max Muller recently addressed this not to our good friend Mr. Chesson ...
		["Indian Spectator, May 25, 1884"]. A valued English friend sends us this fiery protest and challenges its publication. We print it verbatim ...
		["Christian Work. June 12, 1884"]. King Tawhiao, the Maori, is causing a mild sensation ... Mr. F.W. Chesson, the Society’s secretary writes ...
		["Glasgow Herald. June 13, 1884"]. His Majesty King Tawhiao, whose printed name, by the way gives but a very inadequate idea of its sound ...
		["Times. June 23, 1884"]. Zululand. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson ...
		["Times. July 2, 1884"]. The Maori King. Mr. F.W. Chesson writes to say that Tawhaio, in conversation with him, emphatically repudiated any desire to assume the title of "King of New Zealand"...
		["D.N. July 8, 1884"]. King Tawhiao. The Maori King and chiefs were entertained at dinner last evening at the Salisbury Hotel, Fleet-street ... The attendance included ... Mr. Chesson ...
		["D.N. July 14, 1884"]. The Maori King. King Tawhaio and two of his chiefs were present at a garden party given by Mrs. Alexander McArthur at Raleigh Hall, Briston-rise on Saturday afternoon ...
		["Pall Mall Gazette, July 16, 1884 ..."]. The Maori King in London. An interview with King Tawhaio ...
		King Tawhiao. To the Editor of the Daily News. Sir: ... Tawhiao. 13, Montague-place, Russell-square, July 17.
		["Times July 20, 1884"]. The government and the Maori chiefs ... The deputation consisted of Tawhiao ... Mr. F.W. Chesson ...
		The London correspondent of an Indian paper writes: The Aborigines Protection Society is on the war path just now ...
		["Times, August 6, 1884"]. Cetewayo and his friends. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... L.L. Dillwyn, R.N. Fowler, F.W. Chesson. 3, Broadway-chambers, Westminster, Aug. 4.
		["Times, August 8, 1884"]. Conference on Indian questions ...
		["D.N. August 14, 1884"]. Samuel Moroka. It will be remembered that a few months ago Samuel Moroka, a Barolong chief, visited England for the purpose of asking her Majesty’s Government to assist him to obtain possession of the territory of Thaba Nchu, of which he claimed to be the rightful ruler ...
		["Times. August 15, 1884"]. The native question in Western Australia. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines’ Protection Society ... Aug. 15.
		["Times. August 20, 1884"]. Farewell of the Maori chiefs ...
		["August 21, 1884]. Departure of the Maori King and chiefs ...
		["New Zealand Herald. July 19, 1884"]. Tawhiao’s visit to England. The action of the Aborigines’ Protection Society. Interview with the secretary. English views and notions. (from our special reporter). London, Tuesday, May 28 ...
		The destruction of Bishopstowe, Natal. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ...
		Page 113" [found loose]: Major-General Scratchley, C.M.G., is no sooner appointed Special Commissioner to New Guinea, than Mr. Chesson, with his Aborigines Protection Society appears on the scene ...
		The Orange Free State. To the Editor of the Standard. Sir ... E.D. Bourdillon, Poundisford, Taunton, September 3.
		A terribly sad thing has happened at Thaba’nchu. As you know, after the death of Moroka, Sepnare and Samuel, two of his nominal sons, disputed the vacant chieftanship ... Francis E. Colenso, Norwich, September 5.
		["D.N. Sep. 16, 1884"]. Letter from the Malagasy Prime Minister ... Rainilaiarivony, Prime Minister.
		The Orange Free State. To the Editor of the Standard. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines’ Protection Society ... September 6.
		Samuel and Sepinare. To the Editor of the Standard. Sir: In his effort to support the claim of "Samuel versus Sepinare" to the chieftianship of the Baralongs of the Free State, Mr. F.W. Chesson has failed to touch on the points essential to a fair and full understanding of the dispute ... Ex-Mayor of Bloemfontein, London, September 10.
		To the Editor of the Times. Sir: Your Durban Correspondent, in a telegram dated September 13, says: "Usibepu is likely to be located near the Natal border, about Inkandhla, where the Usutu malcontents seem disposed one by one to give in ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines’ Protection Society ... Sept. 16.
		["Non. Con. Sep. 18, 1884"]. The claims of Madagascar. To the Editor of the Nonconformist and Independent. Sir ... J. Thomas, Mile-end, E., September 15.
		To the Editor of the Nonconformist and Independent. Sir: Something is urgently required to be done, either in the form suggested by your correspondent, Mr. Dickerson Davies, or in some other way, to put the case betwixt the Malagasy and French in a true light before the whole French nation ...Yours, Mediator ...
		["D.N. Sep. 24"]. Sir Henry Bulwer and the Zulus. To the Editor of the Daily News. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines Protection Society, Sept. 23.
		["D.N. Sep. 25"]. Mr. William Grant and the Zulus. To the Editor of the Daily News. Sir: ... Folkstone, Sept. 24, F.W. Chesson.
		Zululand. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines Protection Society.
		["New Zealand Herald. July 19, 1884"]. Tawhiao’s visit to England. The action of the Aborigines’ Protection Society. Interview with the secretary. English views and notions. (from our special reporter). London, Tuesday, May 28 ...
		["New Zealand Herald. July 19, 1884"]. Tawhiao’s visit to England. The action of the Aborigines’ Protection Society. Interview with the secretary. English views and notions. (from our special reporter). London, Tuesday, May 28 ...
		["Times. Oct. 10, 1884"]. Mr. Forster on South Africa ...
		["Kensington Times, April 12, 1884"]. England and India. A public meeting was held at the Kensington Town Hall on Friday, April 4th, to consider the Indian view of Lord Ripon’s policy ... Among those present ... Mr. F.W. Chesson ...
		["Times. Oct. 11, 1884"]. The Transvaal and Bechuanaland. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... G.B. Clark, West Dulwich, Oct. 8.
		["Times. Oct. 13, 1884"]. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: Dr. Clark, in the letter which you publish in The Times of this morning, repeats a number of statements which the South African Committee fully answered when the Transvaal delegates were in this country ... F.W. Chesson, Hon. Sec. of the South African Committee ... Oct. 11.
		["Times. Oct. 11, 1884"]. The destruction of Bishopstowe. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... Francis E. Colenso. Norwich, Oct. 9.
		The sitauation in South Africa. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: In reply to Mr. Chesson’s letter in the Times of this morning ... G.B. Clarke, West Dulwich, Oct. 13.
		To the Editor of the Times. Sir: Many will feel grateful to you for giving publicity to the letters which have recently appeared in The Times on the situation in South Africa ... An Old Cape Colonist, October 14.
		["Times, Oct. 21, 1884"]. The situation in South Africa. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Hon. Secretary of the South African Committee ... Oct. 15 ...
		To the Editor of the Times. In the Times of the 16th inst. Dr. Clark makes the following statement, viz: "All the anarchy and bloodshed in Bechuanaland have arisen in consequence of the struggle between Montsioa and Moshette for the paramount chieftainship of the Baralongs, and of Moshette having been set up by President Burgers on false pretences for the purpose of introducing elements of strife into the country" ... J.W. Harrel, Junior United Service Club, 18 Oct.
		["D.N. Oct. 29, 1884"]. Mr. Lalmohun Ghose. To the Editor of the Daily News ... J.B. Firth, London, Oct. 27.
		["? Mercury, Oct. 21, 1884"]. Current topics. Mr. Merriman is credited in the Cape and some other papers with being the wire-puller-in-chief in London just now ... For whatever we may think of Mr. Chesson’s method, it must be admitted that for the last twenty years he has been the inspiring genius and motor of the philanthropic party ...
		["D.N. Oct. 24, 1884"]. Mr. Lalmohun Ghose. At the National Liberal Club yesterday morning, Mr. Lalmohun Ghose entertained at breakfast a number of his friends who are favourable to his candidature as a Liberal candidate for an English constituency ...
		["Greenwich and Deptford Chronicle, Oct. 31, 1884"]. Mr. Lalmohun Ghose also supported the resolution ...
		["D.N. Nov. 12, 1884"]. We regret to record the death, in his 70th year, of Mr. William Peploe, an old inhabitant of Blackheath ...
		["D.N. Nov. 13"]. At a meeting of the Committee of the Aborigines Protection Society yesterday ... the following resolution was adopted ... "That this meeting deeply laments the death of the Right Honourable Henry Fawcett ...
		["D.N. Nov. 13, 1884"]. The Representation of Greenwich. A meeting of the Liberal Five Hundred was held at the Lecture Hall, Greenwich, last evening to hear an address by Mr. Lalmohun Ghose in connection with the representation of the borough ...
		["Nov. 6, 1884"]. Mischievous philanthropy. To the Editor of the Standard. Sir: At such a distance I am naturally at a disadvantage, but I must ask a small space in order to reply to a letter from Mr. Chesson in your issue of September 9 ... E. Bourdillon, Bloemfontein, October 8.
		The Scotsman, Saturday, October 25, 1884. A native of India and the House of Commons. There was a meeting of about thirty gentlemen on Thursday at a breakfast at the National Liberal Club, Trafalgar Square, London, to confer respecting the candidature of Mr. Lalmohun Ghose ...
		["D.N. Dec. 2, 1884"]. Lambeth. A crowded meeting of the St. Paul’s Ward Branch of the Lambeth Liberal Five Hundred was held last night at 226, Walworth-road "to promote the organization of the Liberal party" ...
		["D.N. Dec. 4, 1884"]. Lord Ripon and the natives of India. Great demonstration in Calcutta. (from a correspondent) ...
		["D.N. Nov. 20, 1884"]. The Aborigines’ Society and General Scratchley. Yesterday a deputation from the Aborigines Protection Society waited at the Grosvenor Hotel on General Scratchley, Special Commisioner in New Guinea, for the purpose of congratulating him on his appointment to that office ...
		["D.N. November 11, 1884"]. Funeral of Mr. Fawcett (from our special correspondent) ...
		["Times Dec. 5, 1884"]. Native labour in Fiji. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines Protection Society, 3, Broadway-chambers, S.W., Dec. 2.
		["Times Dec. 4, 1884"]. Bechuanaland. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: In The Times of October 11 I notice a letter from Dr. Clarke ... on the subject of the Transvaal and Bechuanaland. I also saw Mr. Chesson’s answer on the 13th ... Alfred J. Bethell, Lieutenant 82d Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers), The Castle, Cape Town, Nov. 7.
		["Times Dec. 26, 1884"]. The Maori chiefs. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines’ Protection Society, 3, Broadway-chambers, S.W., Dec. 23.
		["Times. Jan. 2, 1885"]. St. Lucia Bay. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines’ Protection Society, 3, Broadway-chambers, S.W., Jan. 1.
		["Times Jan. 2, 1885"]. The Prime Minister returned to London yesterday in order to be present at the Cabinet Council which is summoned for to-day ...
		The Boers and Zululand. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson ... Jan. 8..
		["Manchester Times, Jan. 15, 1885"]. The West African conference by F.W. Chesson ...
		["D.N. Jan. 16, 1885"]. A singular movement in Basutoland ...
		["D.N. January 28, 1885"]. African exploration. At the Royal Victoria Hall last evening Commander Cameron, C.B. delivered a lecture entitled "How I got from the East to the West Coast of Africa" ...
		["Times Feb. 19, 1885"]. St. Lucia Bay and Zululand. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, 33, Broadway-chambers, S.W., Feb. 18.
		The government of Fiji. A deputation representing the Aborigines’ Protection Society, and consisting of Sir Foxwell Buxton, ... Mr. Chesson (secretary), waited yesterday in London upon the Hon. J.B. Thurston, Colonial Secretary of Fiji ...
		["Liverpool D[aily] Post. March 13, 1885"]. Sad death of a lady at Crosby ... Poisoned by laudanum. The county coroner (Mr. Brighthouse) held an inquest yesterday, at the Blundellsands Hotel, on the body of Eliza Louisa Spry, fifty-two years of age, wife of Mr. Frederick Arthur Nosworthy, a Liverpool merchant, and eldest daughter of the late Mr. G. Thompson, formerly M.P. for the Tower Hamlets ...
		["Times. March 31, 1885"]. The Maori chiefs. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines Protection Society, 3, Broadway-chambers, S.W., March 28.
		["Alliance News, April 4, 1885"]. The London correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury reports that Tawhiao has declared that the Maoris are a Christian people ... The Daily News says: We learn from New Zealand that Tawhiao, the Maori King, has definately recommended his people to embrace Christianity ... Mr. F.W. Chesson, in the Times of Tuesday, had a letter on the Maori Chiefs, giving fuller information ...
		["May 21, 1885"]. Aborgines Protection Society. The forty-eight[h] annual meeting of this society was held on Wednesday evening in Devonshire House Hotel. Sir T. Fowell Buxton presiding. Mr. F.W. Chesson read the report ...
		["Times. May 11, 1885"]. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: I observed in The Times of to-day that your correspondent at Durban states, on what he describes as "trustworthy authority," that the Boers in Zululand "would gladly join Natal were their land grants recognized, subject to a military servitude" ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines’ Protection Society, 3, Broadway-chambers, S.W., May 9.
		["May 24, 1885"]. Aborigines’ Protection Society. To the Editor of the Daily Chronicle. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, 3 Broadway-chambers, S.W., May 21.
		["St. James’s Gazette, January 9, 1885"]. Mr. Chesson’s letter on Zululand in the Times this morning is worth noting ...
		["Fiji. Times, Feb. 25, 1885"]. Mr. A.B. Gordon certainly has the satisfaction of knowing that in writing his letter which appeared in The Times of Aug. 13th, his labor was not thrown away ...
		["Times. June 12, 1885"]. The Maories. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ...F.W. Chesson, Aborigines’ Protection Society, 3, Broadway-chambers, S.W., June 6.
		["Aberdeen Free Press, June 27, 1885"]. Literature. The True Story of the French Dispute in Madagascar. With a Map. By Captain S. Pasfield Oliver, F.S.A, F.R.G.S, late Royal Artillery. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1885 ... [review].
		["Daily Chronicle. July 2, 1885"]. An Indian chief at the Mansion House. Yesterday afternoon the Lord Mayor received at luncheon the Rev. Henry Pahtahquohong Chase, an hereditary chief of the Ojibway Indians, there being also present Mr. F.W. Chesson ...
		["D.N. Dec. 15, 1884"]. Dr. Johnson’s centenerary ...
		["D.N. Dec. 15, 1884"]. Dr. Johnson’s centenerary ...
		["D.N. Dec. 15, 1884"]. Dr. Johnson’s centenerary ...
		General Grant. (To the Editor of the Daily News). Sir: ... F.W. Chesson ... July 6.
		["D.N. July 22, 1885"]. Extraordinary occurrence. On Sunday night, as the Rev. Canon Maccoll was walking along New Bond-street, a pellet was fired from a pistol behind him, and passed through his hat ...
		["D.N. July 22, 1885"]. The Government of Bechuanaland and Zululand. At a meeting of the Aborigines’ Protection Society, held at the Mansion House yesterday ...
		["D.N. July 24, 1885"]. The Armenian Patriarchate. At a meeting of the Armenian Education Aid Assocation held yesterday ...
		["Times. August 6, 1885"]. Colonel Stanley and Mr. Forster on South African affairs. Yesterday a deputation from the Aborigines’ Protection Society, the South African Committee, and other bodies had an interview with Colonel Stanley ...
		["July 27, 1885"]. Mr. Forster on South Africa. On Saturday morning, at the Westminster Palace Hotel, Mr. Forster, M.P., presided over a large company, including members of both political parties, who were entertained at breakfast by the South African Committee and the Committee of the Aborigines’ Protection Society ...
		["New York Evening Post, May 29, 1885"]. F.W. Chesson, a well-known writer and reformer, who is now Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Aborigines, and was, during the war of the rebellion, honorary Secretary of a society in which Cobden and Mill took a prominent part, formed to organize against any official recognition by England of the Confederate States, has placed at my disposal a letter of Victor Hugo which is interesting at the present moment ...
		["July 27, 1885"]. Zululand. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson ... July 23.
		["D.N. August 19, 1885"]. Sir Charles Dilke and the Chelsea Liberal Association ...
		["Times. August 22, 1885"]. Basutoland. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborigines’ Protection Society, 6, Broadway-chambers, S.W., Aug. 21.
		["Times September 1, 1885"]. Sir Charles Warren. A meeting of the South African Committee and the Committee of the Aborigines Protection Society was held yesterday ...
		["Plymouth Mercury. Sept. 1885]. Mr. F.W. Chesson, of the Aborigines Protection Society, is to publish an article on the commercial aspects of the Bechuanaland question in the September number of the British Trade Journal ...
		["D.N. Sep. 15, 1885"]. An Indian Dinner. The friends of Mr. Mosim B. Tyabji, the first Mohammedan who has passed the Indian Civil Service Examinations, gave a dinner in his honour at the Prince’s Room, in the Criterion, last evening ...
		["Alliance News, Sep. 19, 1885"]. We may add that Mr. Chesson, on behalf of the Aborigines’ Protection Society, wrote a letter to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on August 21st, calling attention to the deplorable condition of Basutoland ...
		Sir Charles Warren’s recall. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Hon. Secretary of the South African Committee, Folkestone, Sept. 18.
		Mr. Rhodes’s work in Bechuanaland. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: In the Times of the 22d inst. you print a letter from Mr. Chesson, of the Aborigines Protection Society, which conveys an impression that the land agreement of the 8th of September, by which Mr. Cecil Rhodes endeavoured to settle the vexed questions in Stellaland, was designed so as to despoil some of the neighboring native chiefs of a portion of the lands still remaining to them ... Ralph Ch. Williams, Beaumaris.
		["Sep. 30, 1885"]. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: I do not think it would be fair to ask you to devote your valuable space to a detailed reply to Mr. Ralph C. Williams’s letter which you publish today ... F.W. Chesson, Hon. Secretary of the South African Committee, Folkestone, Sept. 28.
		Mr. Rhodes’s work in Bechuanaland. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: I have no desire to continue a profitless discussion ... Ralph Ch. Williams, Beaumaris, Oct. 1.
		["1885 Nation, N. York"]. The Doctor Johnson Club. London, August 30. Probably few people are aware that there is in London a Doctor Johnson Club. It is of comparatively recent origin, and its membership list, which is limited to thirty persons, was immediately filled up ... Mr. T. Fisher Unwin, the well-known publisher, is the President, or Chairman, or Prior of the Club. The Vice-President, or Sub-Prior, is Mr. F.W. Chesson, the well-known Secretary to the Society for the Protection of Aborigines, and colaborer in almost every reform in London for the last quarter of a century ... "H.N."
		["Lives of Robert and M. Moffat"]. Mr. Chessson’s indefatigable efforts on behalf of the aborigines inspired Robert Moffat’s sympathy and admiration, and they frequently met to plead the cause of those interests they both had so much at heart. Mr. Chesson has kindly furnished me with some particulars of several of these occasions ...
		["Oct. 20, 1885"]. The Greek Committee. To the Editor of the Standard. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, 5, Tite-street, Chelsea, October 19.
		["D.N. Oct. 23, 1885"]. M. Tricoupis and the English friends of Greece. M. Tricoupis has sent the following letter to Mr. Chesson ...
		["? Oct. 24, 1885"]. M. Tricoupis will at once erase the Times correspondent from his list of friends, which will make more room for Mr. Chesson ...
		["Times Oct. 29. The position of Greece. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ...Oct. 27. A Greek.
		["D.N. Sep. 17, 1885"]. Sir C. Warren’s recall. A public meeting of Cape merchants and others interested in South Africa was held at Cannon-street Hotel yesterday to consider the recall of Sir Charles Warren, and to take such action as might be deemed desirable ...
		["? November 1885"]. King Tawhiao. By Frederick W. Chesson ...
		["Times Nov. 13? 1885"]. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: As Mr. Mackenzie is still in South Africa, I venture to ask your permission to correct one or two mistakes as to his proceedings in Bechuanaland which, it seems to me, Mr. Rhodes has made in The Times of this morning ... F.W. Chesson, Hon. Sec. of the South African Committee ... Nov. 11.
		["Times. Nov. 23, 1885"]. The Aborigines Protection Society. The following letter has been addressed to the members and friends of the Aborigines Protection Society ... We hope that you will do all in your power to urge upon the candidates who are asking for your support at the general election the duty of giving special attention to the claims of the necessarily unrepresented millions of various races and religions who reside within the limits of the British Colonial Empire ...Thomas Fowell Buxton ... F.W. Chesson ...
		[?? Gazette, Manchester, Oct. 21, 1885"]. Postal communication with Madagascar. The following is a copy of a letter which has been received by Mr. Chesson, Hon. Secy. Of the Madagascar Committee in London ... 14th September 1885 ... E.H. Lea, Assistant Secretary To F.W. Chesson, Esqre.
		["Times. December 14, 1885"]. Zululand. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Aborogines’ Protection Society, 6, Broadway-chambers, S.W., Dec. 9.
		["D.N. Dec. 14, 1885"]. The Johnson Club. The members of this club celebrated the 101st anniversary of Dr. Johnson’s death by a supper at the Cock Tavern, Fleet street, on Saturday evening. The chair was taken by Mr. Chesson, who was elected president of the club for the ensuing year ...
		["Daily Chronicle. Dec. 17, 1885"]. Breakfast to the Indian delegates. A farewell breakfast to the Indian Delegates took place at the National Liberal Club yesterday morning ... at which were present ... F.W. Chesson
		["? Dec. ? 1885"]. The Aborigines Protection Society. "I suppose this society is doing a great work in South Africa?" Mr. White laughed a sardonic laugh ... Laws would be passed but for the fear of English public opinion manufactures by the Aborgines Protection Society. For the life of me, I cannot see why the black man should rob the white with impunity.
		["Dec. 31, 1885"]. The National Liberal Club. The subject of "Political Organization" was discussed last night by a large meeting held at this club, under the chairmanship of Mr. F.W. Chesson ...
		["D.N. Jan. 5, 1886"]. Death of Judge Sheldon Amos. We regret to announce the death of Professor Sheldon Amos, who for several years has held the responsible post of English Judge of the Court of Appeal at Cairo ...
		["Times. Jan. 15, 1886"]. Damaraland. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: On behalf of the Aborigines’ Protection Society, I lately forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies a copy of a letter addressed to us by Kamaheroero, paramount chief of the Damaras ... F.W. Chesson, 6, Broadway-chambers, S.W., Jan. 16.
		["Times. Jan. 19, 1886"]. The Caffres and intoxicating liquors. The following letter has been addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. "Aborigines’ Protection Society, 6, Broadway-chambers, Westminster, Jan. 12. Sir: ... F.W. Chesson, Secretary".
		["Times. Jan. 20, 1886"]. It is impossible to keep pace always with the philanthropy of the Society for the Protection of Aborigines ...
		["Times. March 6, 1886"]. The condition of Zululand. The following letter has been addressed to Earl Granville, K.G., Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies by Mr. Chesson, Secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society ... Robert G.W. Herbert, to the Secretary of the Aborigines’ Protection Society.
		["Journal of Society of Arts, March 5, 1886"]. Mr. F.W. Chesson said that there was one remark which Mr. Mackenzie had made in his wise and statesmanlike paper that had particularly impressed him ...
		The Merchants and Planters Gazette, February 3, 1886. Postal communication with Madagascar. The following letter has been addressed to Mr. Chesson, Hon. Secretary of the Madagascar Committee in London ... 20th November 1885 ... H. Buxton Forman, for the Secretary. To F.W. Chesson Esqre. The Report of Mr. Green, the Colonial Postmaster, is dated May 31st ...
		["1886"]. Chelsea Relief Society. The 24th annual dinner of this Society was held on Wednesday night at the Grosvenor Hotel, under the presidency of Leedham White, Esq., and the company present included ... Mr. F.W. Chesson ...
		Sir Charles Dilke’s defence. We take the following from the Birmingham Daily Times of last evening ...
		["1886"]. Crawford v. Crawford and Dilke. To the Editor of the Times. Sir: ... D. Crawford, Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall-mall, S.W., Feb. 20.
		To the Editor of the Times. Sir: Quonsque tandem abutere? Silence and retirement would have been better for a while ... Plain Dealer.
		To the Editor of the Times. Sir: If what was published in the Birmingham Daily Times be Sir Charles Dilke’s real defence, why does he not give notice to the Queen’s Proctor ... Feb. 20. A Barrister.
		["March ? 1886"]. Sir Charles Dilke. To the Editor of the "Manchester Guardian". Sir: As an elector of Chelsea, my attention has been drawn to the allusions to Sir Charles Dilke which have appeared in your columns during the past two or three days ...Surely all fair-minded men, to whatever party they may belong, ought ... to be willing to suspend their judgment until the truth can be ascertained. The Liberal party in Chelsea have acted in accordance with this view, and I feel sure that they will never regret the course they have taken ... F.W. Chesson, 5, Tite-street, Chelsea, March 29, 1886.
		["Statesman"]. The Indian Delegates. To the Editor. Sir: ...J. Seymour Keay, Hyderabad, Deccan, February 25, 1886.
		["Statesman 4th March"]. Note: We publish this letter with great reluctance, but think we ought not to suppress it. The writer hardly does justice to Mr. Chesson whose influence is very considerable in London, and has uniformly been exerted in the interests of the people of India ...
		Mr. Seymour Keay and the Indian delegates. To the Editor of the "Englishman". Sir: ... Manomohan Ghose, 4 Theatre Road, Calcutta, March 8 ["1886"].
		["Times. April 8, 1886"]. At a special meeting of the committee of the Aborigines Protection Society, held yesterday, the Hon. W.H. James, M.P., in the chair ... moved the following resolution: "That this committee desires to express its heartfelt sorrow at the death of the Right Hon. W.E. Forster, M.P. ... A deputation consisting of Sir Robert Fowler, M.P., Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Sir James Anderson, and Mr. Chesson were appointed to represent the society at the funeral service in Westminster Abbey to-morrow.
		Sir William Des Voeux. A deputation from the Aborigines’ Protection Society yesterday, at Whitehall, presented an address to Sir William Des Voeux, late Governor of Fiji, and now Governor of Newfoundland, thanking him for his eminent services to the cause of civilization and humanity as Governor of Fiji and Her Majesty’s High Commissioner in the Pacific ...
		Sir Charles Dilke, M.P., on Madagascar and Great Britain. Last evening Sir Charles Dilke delivered a lecture at the Congregational Chapel, Edith-grove, Fulham-road, on this subject to a large and attentive audience ...
SCRAPBOOK 19	Scrapbook, 1884-1886
SCRAPBOOK 19		Scrapbook compiled by George Thompson and F.W. Chesson. 24 cm. Approximately 174 items. 560 pages. Articles are pasted in a copy of the first volume of The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament by Thomas Clarkson. London: Longman, 1808. Newspaper clippings unless otherwise noted.
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		["D.N. [Daily News] October 2, 1884"]. The public feeling which has been excited by recent events in Bechuanaland will not be allayed by the terms of the "treaty" made by the Boers with the native chief Montsioa ...
		["D.N. October 3, 1884"]. The premature and lamented death of Mr. Kristodas Pal, an eminent leader of the native community in India, has had the effect of calling public attention to the evils resulting from the system of infant marriage which still so widely prevails in that country ...
		["D.N. October 6, 1884"]. The Volks-Committee of Stellaland have lately issued a number of official documents which show that at the period of Mr. Mackenzie’s recall, he had made considerable progress in winning over the white inhabitants of that territory to the support of British rule ...
		["Oct. 6"]. The removal of the Pedlar’s window from Lambeth Church has naturally attracted the attention of the Vestry of the parish, whose funds benefit to the amount of upwards of a thousand a year by what is known as the Pedlar’s acre estate ...
		["D.N. Oct. 7, 1884"]. We publish this morning a letter from Sir William McArthur announcing his intention to retire at the close of the present Parliament from the representation of Lambeth ...
		["Oct. 7"]. If information which has reached this country from the south-east coast of New Guinea may be relied upon, there is urgent need for some decisive action on the part of her Majesty’s Acting High Commissioner in the Western Pacific ...
		["D.N. October 10, 1884"]. We have no doubt that the influential conference which was held yesterday at the Westminster Palace Hotel, under the presidency of Sir William McArthur, accurately expressed the opinion of men of all parties with reference to the affairs of South Africa ...
		["D.N. October 11, 1884"]. The result of the Chelsea Registration is an example of what can be accomplished by efficient organization, for a Liberal gain of 3,499 votes is the best evidence that could be afforded of the skill and success with which Mr. Loader has watched over the local interests of his party ...
		["D.N. October 14, 1884"]. We learn from Durban that the Transvaal Volksraad has adopted the proposal of the Executive Council at Pretoria to withdraw the Proclamation placing Montsioa’s territory under the protection of the South African Republic ...
		["D.N. October 16, 1884"]. The responsibility of devising measures for the establishment of British authority in Bechuanaland has been placed upon Sir Hercules Robinson, who, it may be presumed, will lose no time in freeing the Territory of Goshen from the presence of the filibusters, and in affording adequate means of protection and defence to Montsioa ...
		["D.N. October 20, 1884"]. We stated a few days ago that Sir Hercules Robinson had been authorised to take such steps as he considered necessary to re-establish British authority in Bechuanaland ...
		["D.N. October 23, 1884"]. In the Australian Colonies many questions which are still the subject of contention in this country have been settled in a very thorough fashion ...
		["D.N. October 25, 1884"]. The remarks which have been made in both Houses of Parliament on the South African question show that there is practical unanimity of opinion as to the steps which should now be taken to enforce the provisions of the Transvaal Convention in Bechuanaland ...
		["D.N. October 31, 1884"]. In a letter which we published yesterday Lord Derby states that the Government have decided to refuse the demand of the Chinese Authorities that eleven fugitives from the mainland who had sought refuge in the colony of Hong Kong should be surrendered under the extradition clause of the Treaty of Tientsin ...
		["D.N. Oct. 31, 1884"]. The further official Correspondence concerning the affairs of the Transvaal which was issued yesterday contains a detailed statement as to the circumstances attending the murder of Mr. Bethell, drawn up by Mr. Assistant-Commissioner Wright, whose letter was written at Zeerust, in the South African Republic on September 15 ...
		["D.N. Nov. 3, 1884"]. The Madagascar Times of August 6 contains the text of a proclamation which Admiral Miot has addressed to the Sakalavas, who are supposed to sympathise with the French in their efforts to establish a permanent footing on the north-west coast of Madagascar ...
		["D.N. Nov. 4, 1884"]. The influential deputation of South African merchants which waited upon Lord Derby yesterday found that he was in substantial agreement with them on the question of Bechuanaland ...
		["D.N. Nov. 5, 1884"]. The tactics which were employed by the Conservatives at Scarborough were novel even in the history of electioneering. Every effort was made to turn the false news of the fall of Khartoum to the damage of the Liberal candidate ...
		["D.N. November 10, 1884"]. The recent activity of the French in Western Africa has been marked by an enlightened desire to open up extensive regions by means of railways; and if the approaching Conference at Berlin should succeed in giving an impetus to such enterprises it will confer an unmixed benefit upon Africa and the world at large ...
		["D.N. Nov. 13, 1884"]. The Liberal Five Hundred at Greenwich have accepted Mr. Lalmohun Ghose as the second Liberal candidate for the representation of that constituency at the next election ...
		["D.N. Nov. 15, 1884"]. The answer which Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice made last night to the question put to him by Mr. Torrens is a pledge that the Government have not lost sight of the obligation they are under to promote measures for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in Egypt ...
		["D.N. November 19, 1884"]. The adjourned Conference on Imperial Federation held yesterday at the Westminster Palace Hotel was important for the enthusiasm and unanimity of the meeting, as well as for the confidence which the principal speakers expressed in the practical nature of their views ...
		["D.N. Nov. 20, 1884"]. General Scratchley, who, as we stated yesterday, leaves for New Guinea to-day, has made to a deputation which waited upon him on the eve of his departure a brief but satisfactory explanation of the nature of the duties which he will be called upon to perform in his distant sphere of labour ...
		["D.N. Nov. 24, 1884"]. We stated on Saturday that the Royal Commissioners for Housing the Poor who, since the reassembling of Parliament, have held many sittings for the consideration of their report, have decided to recommend that the sites of the London prisons should be utitlised for the erection of workmen’s dwellings ...
		["D.N. Nov. 26, 1884"]. The Governor of Fiji, in connection with certain judicial proceedings in the High Commissioner’s Court in the Western Pacific, has lately published the log of Mr. W. McMurdo, a Government labour agent, who in July of last year was wrecked in the schooner Stanley on Indispensable Reef ...
		["D.N. Nov. 29, 1884"]. The oppressive treatment of the Jews in Morocco justly excites the sympathy of the foreign population resident in that country ...
		["D.N. December 1, 1884"]. The colony of Trinidad has just been the scene of a deplorable tragedy which calls for immediate official inquiry ... Hitherto the coolies taken as indentured labourers to the British colonies have been allowed to observe the religious ceremonies which they practise in their own country ...
		["D.N. Dec. 4, 1884"]. The reception of Lord Ripon in Calcutta on Tuesday, on the occasion of his return to that city, appears to have been of an unprecedented character ...
		["D.N. Dec. 5, 1884"]. As we stated on Wednesday, the Agent-General for Queensland has received a telegram from that colony to the effect that MacNeil, a recruiting labour agent, has been sentenced to death on a charge of murder in connection with acts of kidnapping ...
		["D.N. Dec. 8, 1884"]. It is not surprising that the mission of Mr. Upington and Mr. Sprigg to Bechuanaland should have failed ...
		["D.N. Dec. 11, 1884"]. Some time ago we noticed the efforts which Mr. Behramji Malabari was making to induce his fellow-countrymen to promote a reform of the Hindoo marriage customs ...
		["D.N. Dec. 16, 1884"]. In Chelsea, as in several of the other metropolitan bureaus, the general representative Liberal Council has wisely delegated the most important of the functions it has hitherto exercised to those of its members who reside in each of the five constituencies which it is proposed to establish under the Redistribution Bill ...
		["D.N. Dec. 18, 1884"]. For some time past the French have established a Protectorate at Porto Novo, on the cost of Guinea ...
		["D.N. Dec. 20, 1884"]. There have been rumours lately of intrigues taking place in Zululand with a view to the establishment of interests in that country more or less hostile to England ...
		["D.N. Dec. 25, 1884"]. Some of the sterner members of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Transvaal have become alarmed at the lax religious opinions of men in high places ...
		["D.N. Dec. 27, 1884"]. The French have set their minds upon the acquisition of the New Hebrides, and there seems good reason to believe that their wish is about to be gratified...
		["D.N. January 1, 1885"]. Some time ago we called public attention to the grievances of the Jews in Morocco ...
		["D.N. January 3, 1885"]. Our Berlin Correspondent in a telegram which we published yesterday stated that Herr Luderitz had arrived in that city with "the bill of sale" for St. Lucia Bay and the adjoining territory, and it appears that he expects the German Government to support his claim to be regarded as the owner of the portion of the Zulu coast in question ...
		["D.N. Jan. 6, 1885"]. Admiral Miot, who is now in command at Madagascar, is a man of very different temper from his predecessor, Admiral Pierre ...
		[D.N. Jan. 7, 1885"]. A telegram from Durban which we publish to-day announces that a British Protectorate has been established along the entire coast of Pondoland ...
		["January 14, 1885"]. The Government having been unexpectedly called upon to deal with a group of difficult international questions in the Western Pacific will, we believe, endeavour to effect a general settlement of these vexed controversies ...
		["January 15, 1885"]. In a certain sense, the way for the annexation of New Britain and New Ireland may be said to have been prepared by a despatch which Baron Plessen wrote from the German Embassy to Lord Granville on September 4, 1883 ...
		["D.N. January 17, 1885"]. The Boers who are endeavouring to establish a Republic in Western Zululand a short time ago sent a deputation to Natal in order to establish friendly relations with the British Government ...
		["Methodist Times, January 15, 1885"]. The West African Conference by F.W. Chesson ...
		["D.N. January 21, 1885"]. The hostilities existing between France and China have had the effect of placing the French Jesuit missionaries and their native converts in a position of great peril ...
		["D.N. January 24, 1885"]. By the publication of a batch of official correspondence, which is far from being complete, Prince Bismarck has made the world aware that he is vigorously supporting a number of old German claims in the islands of Fiji ...
		["D.N. January 29, 1885"]. The Australian mail has brought further reports of the trials for murder which have taken place in the Supreme Court at Brisbane in connection with the recruiting operations of the labour schooner Hopeful, on the coast of New Guinea ...
		["D.N. January 30, 1885"]. Since Sir Charles Warren’s arrival at the Cape he has shown all the promptitude and ability for which the public at home have given him credit ...
		["D.N. February 5, 1885"]. We learn from South Africa by the mail which arrived in London yesterday that as far back as three weeks ago the greater part of Sir Charles Warren’s expedition had reached the country north of the Orange River, and that the pioneers of the force had actually arrived at Taungs, in Bechuanaland ...
		["D.N. Feb. 9, 1885"]. Some time ago we announced that a barbarous attack had been made on nine Armenian villages in the district of Karadagh, in Persia ...
		["D.N. Feb. 11, 1885"]. The members of the India Reform Association, in their interview with Lord Ripon yesterday, not only congratulated him on his successful administration of India, but also entered very fully into various questions, like the Bengal Tenancy Bill ...
		["D.N. February 16, 1885"]. The Colonial Office at Berlin must be kept busily occupied just now with the reports of their agents, confidential as well as recognised, in various parts of the world ...
		["D.N. Feb. 19, 1885"]. While the Madagascar Times continues to publish, week by week, the Malagasy news at Antananarivo, the French now issue a paper at Tamatve called the Cloche ...
		["D.N. Feb. 23, 1885"]. One of the sections of the Redistribution Bill provides that when an elector migrates from one division of a Parliamentary borough to another in London he shall still retain his qualification to vote at an election for the House of Commons ...
		["D.N. Feb. 27, 1885"]. If the news reported from Hamburg be true, the West Coast of Africa must be suffering from an epidemic of violence ...
		["D.N. March 3, 1885"]. We have already recorded the fact that Mr. Im Thurn has made a successful ascent of Mount Roraima, in British Guiana ...
		["D.N. March 5, 1885"]. The Chefoo Convention, which, so far as its opium clauses are concerned, is now undergoing revision, was signed at Chefoo on Sept. 13, 1876. More than eight years have elapsed since Sir Thomas Wade negotiated that agreement, but the ratifications have not yet been exchanged ...
		["March 5"]. Mrs. Grant Duff, the wife of the Governor of Madras, has just delivered a series of public addresses which, without containing anything positively new, are well calculated to give an impetus to the cause of education among Indian women ...
		["D.N. March 9"]. The telegram from South Africa which we publish this morning shows that unfortunate differences have arisen between Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of the Cape Colony, and Sir Charles Warren, Special Commissioner in Bechuanaland ...
		["March 12"]. The statement which has reached us to the effect that an epidemic of whooping cough has carried off three thousand young children in Fiji will excite the regret of all who take an interest in the good work which Sir Arthur Gordon and his successor, Sir William Des Voeux, have endeavoured to accomplish in those islands ...
		["March 16. D.N."]. There appears to be something like a general expectation in South Africa that when Sir Charles Warren has placed the affairs of Bechuanaland on a satisfactory footing he will visit Zululand ...
		["D.N. March 18, 1885"]. In reply to Mr. Barran on Monday night, Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice stated that the negotiations for a friendly understanding between England and Germany as to their respective protectorates in the Niger and Cameroons districts formed only one portion of a general scheme by which it is hoped that all the questions between the two Governments, whether in the Pacific or on the East and West Coasts of Africa, would be satisfactorily settled ...
		["D.N. March 21, 1885"]. In some quarters there are great misconceptions as to the offers of assistance which the Government of Canada are said to have made to the Imperial Government in connection with the war in the Soudan ...
		["D.N. April 3, 1885"]. The inhabitants of Penge and Anerley may be congratulated on the success of their efforts to remove an anomaly which they greatly deprecated. The Redistribution Bill, in its original form, provided that these two places should be included in the new borough of Lewisham ...
		["D.N. April 7, 1885"]. The depressed condition of our West India islands is a subject to which ... it will be necessary before long to direct the urgent attention of this country ...
		["D.N. April 9, 1885"]. The position of Sir Charles Warren in Bechuanaland entitles him to the sympathy and confidence of the British public ...
		["D.N. April 13, 1885"]. The scheme for promoting the cultivation of land by small proprietors, which will be considered at Willis’s Rooms on Friday next, cannot fail to excite the interest of the public ...
		["D.N. April 22, 1885"]. To the distant observer, Russia would appear to have chosen an inopportune moment for closing the schools in Russian Armenia ...
		["D.N. April 24, 1885"]. The intelligence received from South Africa yesterday is not satisfactory, so far as Bechuanaland is concerned ...
		["D.N. May 2, 1885"]. A considerable number of British subjects residing in Madagascar have been cut off from all regular communication with the outer world for nearly two years ...
		["D.N. May 7, 1885"]. Some time ago Mr. Gladstone stated that the question of publishing the Diaries of General Gordon would largely rest with the brother of that heroic man ...
		["D.N. May 16, 1885"]. Mr. Ashley did not throw much light upon the situation in Zululand on Thursday by his answer to the Lord Mayor ...
		["D.N. May 26, 1885"]. We published lately a brief statement concerning the serious state of affairs which exists in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone ...
		["D.N. May 27, 1885"]. The intelligence which reaches this country from Bechuanaland comes to us in a very fragmentary form, and it is sometimes difficult to estimate its full significance ...
		["D.N. June 1, 1885"]. A short time ago we called attention to the serious condition of the West India Colonies generally, arising from the depressed state of the sugar industry ...
		[D.N. June 4, 1885"]. Attention has been called in Australia to certain aggravated cases of persecution which have lately taken place in Mare, one of the islands of the Loyalty group under the protection of the French Republic ...
		["D.N. June 9, 1885"]. The report of the assassination of the Prime Minister of Madagascar which has reached this country from Natal has not been officially confirmed, the Foreign Office having received no information on the subject ...
		["D.N. June 12, 1885"]. It will be remembered that, acting on the suggestion of Mr. Torrens, the Royal Commissioners for Housing the Poor recommended that the London prisons should be demolished ...
		["D.N. June 22, 1885"]. It is difficult at the present moment to fasten public attention upon what is now taking place in South Africa ...
		["D.N. June 26, 1885"]. We announced a few days ago that Admiral Sir William Hewett had been appointed a Lord of the Admiralty in succession to Sir Frederick Richards, who has accepted a naval command ...
		["D.N. July 2, 1885"]. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Cardinal Manning, and others have lately shown much interest in a scheme for promoting legitimate commerce in the upper regions of the Nile ...
		["D.N. July 4, 1885"]. The Waterworks Amendment Bill, as our readers are aware, extends to the water supply of London that common standard of valuation which the local authorities are directed periodically to provide for other purposes in every parish and district within the metropolitan area ...
		["D.N. July 9, 1885"]. The Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the circumstances under which labourers have been introduced into New Guinea and other islands has now reached this country in an official form ...
		["D.N. July 13, 1885"]. As our readers are aware, on Monday last the Waterworks Clauses Act (1847) Amendment Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords, and ordered to be referred to a Select Committee, without a division ...
		["D.N. July 20, 1885"]. The question has lately been raised in the colony of Mauritius as to whether a person of European descent can, under the local Labour laws, accept service as an indentured immigrant ...
		["D.N. July 24, 1885"]. There is reason to believe that the Government are about to arrive at decisions of considerable moment with regard to South Africa ....
		["D.N. July 30, 1885"]. We stated yesterday that the Zulus have addressed a letter to the Queen asking for her protection; and ... that the first signature affixed to this document is that of Dinuzulu, in whose name the Boers in Zululand have claimed to act ...
		["D.N. August 4, 1885"]. Although there has been a disposition in some quarters to make light of the differences between Sir Hercules Robinson and Sir Charles Warren, it is worthy of remark that Mr. Evelyn Ashley, in his recent speech on the affairs of Bechuanaland, took a grave view of that matter, and earnestly besought the Government to give its best support to the Special Commissioner ...
		["D.N. August 5, 1885"]. One of the objects of the deputation which will wait upon Colonel Stanley this afternoon is to urge upon him the desirability of establishing a British Protectorate in Zululand ...
		["D.N. August 12, 1885"]. Mr. N. Darnell Davis, who occupies an important official position in the colony of British Guiana, has written for private circulation an interesting paper on the etymology of the word "Rum" ...
		["D.N. August 17, 1885"]. If the Boers in Zululand really believed that it would be possible for them to induce Prince Bismarck to proclaim a German Protectorate over that country and to give tangible proof of his being in earnest by sending a few ironclads to St. Lucia Bay, they will be greatly disgusted when they learn that he not only has no intention of complying with their wishes, but that a perfectly good understanding exists between him and her Majesty’s Government on the Zulu question ...
		["D.N. August 19, 1885"]. The Liberal party in Chelsea have exhibited a spirit which is very praiseworthy at a moment when in some quarters there is a disposition to convict a man not only without a trial, but even without hearing the evidence either for or against him ... [divorce trial of Sir Charles Dilke].
		["Athenaeum, August 15, 1885"]. The Complete Story of the Transvaal, from the "Great Trek" to the Convention of London. By John Nixon ... (Sampson Low and Co.). Our South African Empire. By William Greswell, M.A, F.R.C.I. (Chapman and Hall) ... [reviews].
		["D.N. August 20, 1885"]. From time to time scraps of news concerning the French expedition to the Zambesi have reached this country, where one of the leaders of the movement, M. Coillard, is known to a numerous circle as a Protestant missionary of considerable repute ...
		["D.N. August 21, 1885"]. Mr. Forster, in the speech which he lately made at the Colonial Office, called Colonel Stanley’s serious attention to the state of affairs in Basutoland ...
		["D.N. August 27, 1885"]. We make an announcement this morning which will, we believe, excite universal regret among men of all political parties interested in the welfare of South Africa. We refer to the recall or supersession of Sir Charles Warren, her Majesty’s Special Commissoner in Bechuanaland
		["D.N. September 2"]. Two years have elapsed since the French began their attack upon the independence of Madagascar, and they have made no visible progress ...
		["British Trade Journal, September 1, 1885"]. Central Africa and its trade possibilities by Mr. F.W. Chesson ...
		["D.N. September 4, 1885"]. It will be remembered that after the English flag had been pulled down at St. Lucia Bay a board was put up containing a notification which asserted the sovereign rights of her Majesty in that quarter ...
		["D.N. September 11, 1885"]. Some time has now elapsed since we announced that the Colonial Secretary had decided to dispense with Sir Charles Warren’s services in Bechuanaland, but up to the present time the public are without any official statement which explains either the policy of her Majesty’s Government or the motives from which it has acted ...
		["D.N. September 11, 1885"]. The heavy rains of the last few days have come just in time to illustrate the beauties of local government in the metropolis, at any rate, so far as the Strand is concerned ...
		["D.N. September 14, 1885"]. The Bicentenary of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes has been celebrated at Capetown, and at a meeting presided over by Sir J.H. De Villers, Chief Justice of the Cape Colony, and at which speeches were made by Professor Marais, Mr. Du Plessis, and other descendants of the Huguenot exiles, it was decided to erect in Capetown a monument which should be worthy of the occasion, and to offer a substantial sum of money as a prize for the best history of the Huguenots ...
		["D.N. Sep. 16, 1885"]. The appointment of Judge Shippart as Administrator has been quickly followed by the nomination of a Commission to settle, we presume, the question of land titles in Stellaland ...
		["D.N. Sep. 17, 1885"]. When Sir Charles Warren expected that, as her Majesty’s Special Commissioner in Bechuanaland, he would have the settlement of the land question in his own hands, he drew up a number of rules for the guidance of the Commission which he intended to appoint ...
		["D.N. Sep. 24, 1885"]. The Queensland Government has fulfilled to the letter its promise to return to New Guinea the natives whose kidnapping was lately the subject of inquiry by a Royal Commission ...
		["D.N. Sep. 26, 1885"]. The new gold law of the South African Republic ... finally passed the Volksraad on July 30th last ...
		["Athenaeum. September 26, 1885"]. Faithful Labour: the Lives of Robert and Mary Moffat. By their Son John S. Moffat. With Portraits and Maps (Fisher Unwin) ... [review].
		["Athenaeum. October 3, 1885"]. The French in Madagascar. Nos Drois sur Madagascar et nos Griefs contre les Hovas Examines Impartialement. Par R. Saillens, avec un Preface de M. Frederic Passy. (Paris Monnerat). The True Story of the French Dispute in Madagascar. By Capt. S. Pasfeld Oliver, late R.A. With a Map. (Fisher Unwin) ... [reviews].
		["D.N. October 10, 1885"]. The public in Natal have been startled by a provision in a new Post Office Bill which has lately engaged the attention of the Legislative Council ...
		["D.N. October 22, 1885"]. The speech which Sir Charles Warren made last night at the dinner given to him by the London Chamber of Commerce will confirm the public in the favourable opinion they had all along entertained of the character and services of her Majesty’s late Special Commissioner in Bechuanaland ...
		["D.N. November 7, 1885"]. Some time ago we referred to the existence of great distress in the more secluded parts of the island of Jamaica ...
		"["D.N. October 27, 1885"]. The agreement which England and Germany have entered into for the establishment of a joint policy in the Western Pacific has proved most useful in preventing misunderstandings between the two nations, and in securing the peaceful development of islands which sadly needed the protecting care of some civilized Power ...
		["D.N. November 9, 1885"]. The London Liberal and Radical Council has rendered a very useful service to the party by its efforts to settle the rival claims of Liberal candidates in the metropolitan constituencies ...
		["D.N. Nov. 19, 1885"]. Considerable progress has been made with the settlement of rival Liberal candidatures in London since we last called attention to the subject ...
		["D.N. Nov. 24, 1885"]. It will be remembered that at the first meeting of the London Liberal and Radical Council, which was held on September 17th, it was decided that wherever more than one Liberal or Radical candidate was in the field in any metropolitan constituency, the rival candidates should be invited to submit their claims to arbitration ...
		["D.N. Nov. 28, 1885"]. We have more than once adverted to the irregularities in the mail service between this country and Madagascar ...
		["D.N. Dec. 3, 1885"]. The St. James’s Gazette expresses surprise at what it calls the curious arrangement by which the Boundary Commissioners have published no map of Chelsea, so that one of its correspondents is unable to ascertain the position of Kensal New Town in relation to the main portion of that borough ...
		["D.N. December 15, 1885"]. The new Government of Bechuanaland has begun its existence by virtually annulling all the acts of Sir Charles Warren’s administration ...
		["D.N. December 17, 1885"]. A work has just been issued in Paris, from the pen of M. Louis Leger, Professor in the College de France, entitled "La Bulgarie," which cannot fail at the present moment to interest readers who are following the course of events in the Balkan Peninsula ...
		["D.N. Dec. 21, 1885"]. It will be remembered that in the early part of the present year a proclamation was issued in South Africa to the effect that the British Government claimed absolute rights of sovereignty over St. Lucia Bay, on the coast of Zululand ...
		["D.N. Dec. 23, 1885"]. The Foreign Office has, we think, acted wisely in recognising the friendliness of King John to this country by moving her Majesty to write him an autograph letter, and also by taking steps to present him with a sword of honour ...
		["D.N. January 2, 1886"]. It is satisfactory to find that the question of Liberal organization in London is exciting earnest attention, and that both the Liberal and Radical Council and the Liberal Central Association are prepared to grapple with the subject ...
		["D.N. January 5, 1886"]. The dinner given to Sir John Macdonald by the St. George’s Club last evening was a compliment justly paid to a statesman who has held the office of Prime Minister of Canada for more than 20 years, and who for twice that period has been a member of the Canadian Parliament ...
		["Echo, Jan. 19, 1886"]. The military operations which are now being prosecuted in Upper Burmah will, like the Afghan War, in all probability, give rise to a Constitutional debate of great importance ...
		["Echo, Jan. 22, 1886"]. It not unfrequently happens that the English readers of certain American journals are astonished to discover how many extraordinary events apparently take place from time to time on this side of the Atlantic which have altogether eluded the observation of the persons whom they ought most to interest ...
		["Echo, January 23, 1886"]. The debate on the Address has thus far established the claim of Ireland to occupy the first place in the attention of Parliament and the country ...
		["Echo, January 26, 1886"]. The duty of the House of Commons to lose no time in taking cognissance of the events that have suddenly added a new province to the British Empire was effectually vindicated last night ... [Burma].
		["Echo, January 30, 1886"]. The Greek question ...
		["Echo, February 2, 1886"]. The French treaty with Madagascar ...
		["Echo, February 6, 1886"]. The present distress ... [The poor of London’s East-End].
		["Echo, February 9, 1886"]. History repeating itself ... [Denmark constitutional crisis].
		["Echo, February 13, 1886"]. The prospects of peace ... [Between Bulgaria and Servia].
		["Leisure Hour, January 1886"]. Thirty-five years ago, when the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, there was apparently no institution in the world which rested on a firmer foundation than American slavery ... [Obituary essay about William Lloyd Garrison]. Digital edition through HathiTrust: " The Leisure Hour," January, 1886, pages 20-25: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010946401;view=1up;seq=37
		["Echo, February 16, 1886"]. Our last Asiatic annexation ... [Burma].
		["Echo, February 20, 1886"]. The mantle of Hume ... [Government expenditures].
		["Echo, Febuary 23, 1886"]. A plea for India ...
		["Echo, Feb. 27, 1886"]. The Commons and the Police ...
		["Echo, March 2, 1886"]. Annexing and poisoning the Burmese ...
		["Echo, March 6, 1886"]. An Egyptian scandal ...
		["Echo, March 10, 1886"]. A new route to the East ... [Canadian Pacific Railroad].
		["Echo, March 13, 1886"]. State socialism and the unemployed ...
		["Echo, March 16, 1886"]. Outrages and reprisals in the Pacific. The last cruise of Her Majesty’s steam corvette Diamond among the islands of Western Polynesia was accompanied by a series of incidents ...
		["Athenaeum, March 20, 1886"]. The Ruin of Zululand, an Account of British Doings in Zululand since the Invasion of 1879. By Frances Ellen Colenso. 2 vols. (Ridgway). Natal and the Zulus. By Lieut.-Col. Tulloch, C.B., Welsh Regiment (Privately printed in Natal) ... [reviews].
		["Echo, March 20, 1886"]. Foreign Policy and Parliamentary Control ...
		["Echo, March 23, 1886"]. The Indian inquiry ...
		["Echo, March 27, 1886"]. The control of the public purse ...
		["Echo, March 30, 1886"]. A slave story from Tangiers ...
		["Echo, April 6, 1886"]. The late Mr. Forster. The death of Mr. W.E. Forster ...
		["Echo, April 10, 1886"]. The Bulgarian settlement ...
		["Echo, April 13, 1886"]. A famine-stricken peasantry ... [West Coast of Ireland].
		["Echo, April 17, 1886"]. The Greek crisis ...
		["Echo, April 20, 1886"]. An emigration bureau ...
		["Echo, April 24, 1886"]. Greece and Turkey ...
		["Echo, April 27, 1886"]. A new movement in India ...
		["Echo, May 1, 1886"]. "The Lost Cause." Jefferson Davis, after the lapse of many years, has broken silence, and delivered a series of speeches to Southern audiences ...
		["Echo, May 4, 1886"]. The Greek crisis ...
		["May 8, 1886"]. Greece and the powers ...
		["May 11, 1886"]. The coercion of Greece ...
		["May 15, 1886"]. The Fair Trade debate ...
		["May 18, 1886"]. France and Madagascar ...
		["May 22nd, 1886"]. Greece and her new rulers ...
		["May 25?, 1886"]. Secret service money ...
		London, Saturday, May 29, 1886. Goethe and his English admirers ...
		["June 1, 1886"]. London bridges and open spaces ...
		["June 5, 1886"]. "The Abbey" ... [Westminster Abbey].
		["June 8, 1886"]. The French princes ...
		["June 12, 1886"]. The expulsion of the French princes ...
		["June 15, 1886"]. A Royal suicide ... [King Louis (Ludwig) of Bavaria].
		["June 19, 1886"]. The Queen’s jubilee ...
		London, Tuesday, June 22, 1886. The cheapening of elections ...
		The Colonies and the Mother country. The Colonial and Indian Exhibition has brought to this country troops of visitors from every part of Greater Britain ...
		["Echo, July 3, 1886"]. The Church and the people ...
		["July 6, 1886, Echo"]. The cloud in the East ...