The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1890-11-29 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

THE JAMESON INCIDENT. drops. The diadems', too, especially when old, and Commenting on Mr. Jameson's account of the only able to mend old webs, not to spin new ones, are always ready to drink. It would cannibal incident, the Spectator says: It is hardly appear that the only sense which is developed to possible for a story to be blacker than that, for it any extent, and that most marvellously, is the sense clearly shews that Mr. Jameson saw the murder, of touch ; hearing, taste, and smell to a small dee and sanctioned it by his presence, when he could gree; but sig'it, as we understand the term, in spite have prevented it. It is nonsense to say he could of their numerous eyes, seems to be absent. The Tegenaris will stand within half an inch of a fly not, for his revolver was in his pocket, and every feigning death, without being able to find it; Mussulman with him—that le, the Arabs and Zanziwhile the geometrical spiders, under like circus- bans—the only regularly armed men, would have stances, gently pluck line by line until the effect of protected him willingly in such a cause. He was the inertia (not weight) of a motionless object tidesnot hated like Major Barttelot. Moreover, ordinary them to the proper place. These remarks not apply to the hunting spiders. Englishmen in such a scene would have interfered, without considering consequences, if they died the The Origin of Gold. next minute. His countrymen are therefore cornAccording to Professor Lobley, while geological polled to rank Mr. Jameson as a thoroughly. callous evidence is against its igneous origin, all the gold and bad-minded man, on his own shewing; but of all the rocks may have been derived from nevertheless he did not buy the girl in order that aqueous deposition; that, in fact, all this gold may she might be killed and cooked. Of that crowning have been deposited by marine action in the same atrocity we still believe him to have been innocent. way as the materials of the aqueous rocks them- If he had wished to lie about himself, he would selves have been. And, moreover, our unaltered have blankly denied everything except his accidensedimentary rocks, even of tertiary age, may con- tal presence after the girl was killed, and no one tam an equal amount of gold in proportion to their could have contradicted him. His story. we accept bulk with that of those altered or metamorphosed as true, and as one more proof that Africa attracts Cambrian and Silurian rocks which have hitherto to itself very often men in whom the conscience is been regarded as the earth's great treasure of practically dead. That is another reason for placing the precious metal. The knowledge now possessed all African explorers under a system which shall of secondary and tertiary auriferous veins in Cali- make the statute, 24 and 25 Viet., cap. 100, which fornia controverts the Plutonic as well as the we had forgotten, and which would have made palceozoie hypothesis; and she discovery of gold in Jameson liable to trial, practically operative. If it seawater, and of its precipitation by organic cannot be done without appointing a Protector of matter, alters the position of the question from that the Negroes in each port with judicial powers, it it occupied in the days of Murchison and Forbes. must be done that way; but we should think it If gold was originally derived from Plutonic sources sufficient to invest each Governor of a settlement it ought to be found among volcanic products which and Consul-General with that function. Colonel come from the same deep-seated sources, and Euan-Smith, if evidence of the original charge were only differ from Plutonic rocks in being solidified produced, might be as fully trusted to hang the under different conditions. But gold, although a accused as any London jury. most widely distributed metal, is almost, if not quite, unknown as a product of volcanic regions. I