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Miscellaneous.
ABOLITION OF DUELLING . —Mr . Buckingham has introduced a bill to abolish the practice of duelling : he proposes a court of honour . The idea is taken from the chivalrous times of old , when even royalty did not disdain to preside on sucli occasions ; the president was generally a female . AVe remember a remarkable judgment of one , a princess of France ; the question was how soon may a woman appear in society after having listened to the solicitations of one of the opposite sex . Her answer was , with her husband immediately , with a stranger never .
DEATH OF MR . R . LANDER . —AVe regret to learn that intelligence has been received of the death of the enterprising African traveller , Richard Lander . He was fired upon and severely wounded by the natives on the Nunn river , where he had gone for the purpose of trade , early in the month of January , and he died at Fernando Po on the Gth Of February . The following is an extract of a letter from the agent to Lloyd ' s at Fernando Po : dated 6 th February : —On his arrival at the
Nunn , he left the cutter , and proceeded up the river in the boat with about . £ 400 worth of goods , to join the iron steam-boat , which he had sent up a few weeks before : she was to proceed about three hundred miles up , to a small island which he had purchased from the king , and where he had a factory . They had proceeded about one hundred miles up , the current being strong against them ; they were in good spirits , racking the boat along shorewhen they were fired on from the bush ; three
, men were killed and four wounded ; Mr . Lander was one of the latter . They had a -canoe of their own , and at the time they were fired on , the boat was aground , and to save themselves , they were obliged to leap into tbe canoe , ancl make the best of their way : they were immediately followed by five or six war canoes , full of men , keeping up a continued fire for five hours , until it got dark , when they lost sight of them : they arrived here on the 27 th ult . Mr . Lander expired this morning : he wrote me a letter
two days ago , requesting that I would take charge of the vessels and property belonging to the African Inland Commercial Company , with which I accordingly complied . The ball entered near h ' s hip , and "worked down to the thick of the thigh . It was a most malicious and treacherous attack . Mr . Lander told ne that there were Bonny , Brass , and Benin canoes ; so that from these circumstances I am of opinion that some ofthe slavers , or other Europeans , have been the promoters of this murderous affair . Colonel Nicolls has forwarded a statement of the transaction to government , and if proper steps are tcken . the whole must be brought to light . Mr . Landers clothes and papers are all lost . "
THE DEY OV ALGIERS . —Hussein , ex-Dey of Algiers , is about to undertake a pilgrimage to Mecca . He is very reli gious , and by acts of -devotion endeavours to reconcile himself to his loss of power . He takes his departure from Alexandria for the tomb ofthe Prophet . This town has become his usual residence , he having fixed his abode there when he left Leghorn , which he did not find agreeable , from its enabling speculators to make use of his name in acting upon the Regency of Algiers against the interests of France . Fearing that he might be troubled
from being supposed to take part in enterprises which were inimical to France , and not being sufficiently rich to live at Leghorn , Hussein applied to the Viceroy of Egypt to grant him an asylum . Mehemet Ali VOL . r . JC _ . ;
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Miscellaneous.
ABOLITION OF DUELLING . —Mr . Buckingham has introduced a bill to abolish the practice of duelling : he proposes a court of honour . The idea is taken from the chivalrous times of old , when even royalty did not disdain to preside on sucli occasions ; the president was generally a female . AVe remember a remarkable judgment of one , a princess of France ; the question was how soon may a woman appear in society after having listened to the solicitations of one of the opposite sex . Her answer was , with her husband immediately , with a stranger never .
DEATH OF MR . R . LANDER . —AVe regret to learn that intelligence has been received of the death of the enterprising African traveller , Richard Lander . He was fired upon and severely wounded by the natives on the Nunn river , where he had gone for the purpose of trade , early in the month of January , and he died at Fernando Po on the Gth Of February . The following is an extract of a letter from the agent to Lloyd ' s at Fernando Po : dated 6 th February : —On his arrival at the
Nunn , he left the cutter , and proceeded up the river in the boat with about . £ 400 worth of goods , to join the iron steam-boat , which he had sent up a few weeks before : she was to proceed about three hundred miles up , to a small island which he had purchased from the king , and where he had a factory . They had proceeded about one hundred miles up , the current being strong against them ; they were in good spirits , racking the boat along shorewhen they were fired on from the bush ; three
, men were killed and four wounded ; Mr . Lander was one of the latter . They had a -canoe of their own , and at the time they were fired on , the boat was aground , and to save themselves , they were obliged to leap into tbe canoe , ancl make the best of their way : they were immediately followed by five or six war canoes , full of men , keeping up a continued fire for five hours , until it got dark , when they lost sight of them : they arrived here on the 27 th ult . Mr . Lander expired this morning : he wrote me a letter
two days ago , requesting that I would take charge of the vessels and property belonging to the African Inland Commercial Company , with which I accordingly complied . The ball entered near h ' s hip , and "worked down to the thick of the thigh . It was a most malicious and treacherous attack . Mr . Lander told ne that there were Bonny , Brass , and Benin canoes ; so that from these circumstances I am of opinion that some ofthe slavers , or other Europeans , have been the promoters of this murderous affair . Colonel Nicolls has forwarded a statement of the transaction to government , and if proper steps are tcken . the whole must be brought to light . Mr . Landers clothes and papers are all lost . "
THE DEY OV ALGIERS . —Hussein , ex-Dey of Algiers , is about to undertake a pilgrimage to Mecca . He is very reli gious , and by acts of -devotion endeavours to reconcile himself to his loss of power . He takes his departure from Alexandria for the tomb ofthe Prophet . This town has become his usual residence , he having fixed his abode there when he left Leghorn , which he did not find agreeable , from its enabling speculators to make use of his name in acting upon the Regency of Algiers against the interests of France . Fearing that he might be troubled
from being supposed to take part in enterprises which were inimical to France , and not being sufficiently rich to live at Leghorn , Hussein applied to the Viceroy of Egypt to grant him an asylum . Mehemet Ali VOL . r . JC _ . ;