The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-17 00:00:00

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He is anxious for the civilisation of his people and the
cultivation of his country ; but be has had no one to teach
them anything of the latter, end so the fruithil son of his
dominion lien unproductive, save in the one material of palm-
oil. Those who agree with me in thinking Christisnity and
civilisation to bo came and effect in Africa, as they are all
over the world, will rejoice to hear that be has given every
countenance and assistance to the body of Presbyterian mis-
sionaries settled at Old Relater. He spans, reads, and
writes the English knguage very well ; keeps hie own
accounts; and translates the Rev. Mr. Waddell's sermons
into the Efle tongue for hie congregeilon. The king's sons
are the only members of his family that have made an open
profeasion of their belief in the doctrines of Christianity ; but
Eyo enjoins the sacred keeping of the Lord's Day—has no
dinners for the traders when it comes round in its elght•day
rotation ; has abolished the market formerly held on Sundays
at Creektown—commands the weekly attendance of his
people at the missionary sanke in the galvanised iron church ;
is most respectful and attentive during worship ; end follows
the preacher, tanirlating sentence after sentence for the
audience. He is a man past forty yens of age, about Eva
feet eight inches in height ; of a stout muscular frame ; with
gee and lips of the usual prominence observable in the
Ethiopian face, and grey whiskery. Him dress consists of a
cloth, generally silk, tied round hie loins ; a silk hankerchid
thrown over his shoulders ; a black hat with a gold band, and
a binding of the same material about the edge. His one.
meats are circlots of blue glass or coral beads round hie neck,
wrists, end ankles, with a maerive gold ring on the Wiz
eager. He portable freely of snuff, and this is carried by
his slave in attendance in a silver box. It is the only luxury
in which be indulges, for he never smokes, and hm spi-
rituous liquors no man can be more abstemious.
The Descendants of the Stua►te. By WILLIAM TONEWLI.
London : Longman*.

Mr. Tonend has spent a vast deal of industry to little per-
pose. " That a narrative of the Eoman Catholic Stuarts is
a desideratum," he tells a*, " in Anglican literature is proved
by the absence of each a work." On the contrary, does not
the &bunco of such a work show that it is not required ?
When we rematches that no sane man cares one straw about
the Stuarts or the oath of abjuration, it mint be admitted
that the probability is that our inference is more likely to be
correct than that of our author. Booksellers have a keen
eye to business, and are but too happy to cater for the wants
of the reading public. If the oath of abjuration is refereed
to now, it is limply because it accidentally keep the Jaws
out of parliament when the majority of people in this coun-
try wish to see them in. But, es to the Stuart,, what signi-
fies it to us who they ere, or where they are ? We believe
Mr. Tosiend has collected and published all that is known
about them.
gives us
somigil interesting have been wor;tioczoaprsied and of
.
But we
moat protest against the spirit of his book. We can reveres
the decision of history. A thouand feats from a thousand
sources have shown the Incompetency of the Worts. It Is
too late now to ask us to believe that they were simply wrfor.
tunate—thet they were too good for the times—that they fell
because, as Mr. Tonend affirms, they allowed them-
selves partially to be governed by sentiments of equity.
Mr. Tonend compels us to remind him of a few facts which
ought never to be forgotten. In 1688 a glorious deed wee
done. It was proclaimed to the world that in England mis-
government might not for ever exist—that We were ready
to vindicate our rights—that we were a free nation, and that
we had the power to depose the king, when that
king trampled upon law. If the revolution had
not taken place—if James had had his own way—Eng-
land would either have been what Spain and Portugal Ms
now—or a revolution like that of France at a later paned
would have deluged the land with tears and blood. Fortu-
nately for us--unfortunately for his own peace of mind—
William was compelled to govern rather by law then fun
Notwithstanding the perils by which he was surrounded—
notwithstanding that the only troop. on,whose attachmest Its
could rely were disbaoded—notwithstanding that the finger of
acorn was pointed at the only friends be had—notwithetud-
ing that he was reproached with being a foreigner end a So-
cinien—notwithetanding that within a few hours' mill these
was a King backed by the most powerful enemy Protestant-
ism then had, striving to win bock the crown of which he
had been righteously deprived—William remained true to
the people of England, and the malt was ra
development of principles which made England Bre.
most amongst the nations of the earth. The gest
practical benefits of the revolution were numerous—
it exalted parliament to its right place as the paramount
power; it gave us toleration in England, sad Raved Scot-
land from the spisoopallsninn, which, red with the blood of
the saints, had gone through the land as " the pentium
that walketh in darkee‘s," and as "the de/Arent,* that
wesestis et nosa-day." It gave power to awn, who, with
eR their rots, maintained that power was a crest for the
mph, sad that it I. held not for private but for public ands.
Mr. Towed 'WWII as If none of these Oder bed laaPP.md
r If the Stuarts were the beet end their seceessces the worst
of teen; es if that were an evil boar which broke the or
guesoes yoke—which emancipated clad—which stayed the
torrents of blood persecution for conscience wed had oaued
to flow—which sent the lest of a line of king teals
in a foreign land.