The Herald of Wales. — 1889-11-30 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MANSLAUGHTER. to Fort Bodo. In the meantime the leader of An inquest has been held on the body of Wm. a trisener in Strangeways Gaol. , the relief exradition hurried back to search for Hu: Ciathtfa his miming rear column. It was upon that ;to gaol I e deceased had been eemunfited gaol for being drunk and disorderly. He journey that the most terrible privations were 1 "'" was found, to be sufferiag from "delirium teeexperienced. In one dreadful camp twenty-ono (mons," and was sent to the prison hospital., persons succumbed do the pangs of hunger. We may well imagine Mr. Stanley's consternation I Daring Friday night he was strapped down, when, surmounting all difficulties, he at last j lte"d., the iwarder in charge,, a man named Anobtained news from Wadenti. Some super- I nY. Mitchell, ii alleged to have beaten him, el; on him, and otherwise ill-treated him. stitious or treason-ridden rogues spread a Ile was found next morning with his breast. rumour that Mr. Stanley was a mere adventurer, bone broken, moskof his ribs fractured, and leis who meant to take the garrison, their wives and body covered with bruises. Al:11011g those who children oat of the country and witnessed the assault were Dukes, the man who sell them for slaves to the 'English. If Emin Paella's authority had been on a la te be tried °Li TharsdaY far the SarY murder l a man in custody on suspicion of being -sounder basis that crisis would never have oe• mined in the Atherton murder; and SAO, mimed. If he had known his own mind when the rescue party arrived many perils and privaman awaiting his trial .for imares'eug,hter, nu, tions might have been averted. No doubt we they were called as witnesses. They all demay honour even his weakness, since it spring dared they would have interfered and thrashed the warder but for the fear of prejudicing their from a generous sentiment. Yet the tantalisown mums The jury returned a verthet of log position in which Mr. Stanley was placed is no ard to realise. "I could save a dozen "Manslaughter"ee against lifieLl'hollr who i* a P s," he rays in that brave letter to Mr. pensioned cea"nr-aergeent' has a wife and dephaten, "if they were willing to be saved. I family, and is nearly 50 years of age. would go on my knees to implore the Pasha to * be sensible in his own case." And then with regard to Mr. Jepheon his mind was terribly uneasy. "Don't you be preverse but obey, and let my order to you be as a frontlet between the eyes, and all with God's gracious help will end well." We have always looked upon Mr: Stanley as a man of inflexible resolution, but there are passages in these letters which present him in a new light— a light that has something of the divine in it. General Gordon in such a crisis would have blended the soldiers and, the Christian just as Stanley did. There is pathos, too, in his warning to Jephson not to be "drawn into the fatal fascination Soudan territory seems to have for all Europeans of late years. As soon as they touch its ground they seem to be drawn into a whirlpool whieh sucks them in and covers them with its waves." These words have a sad truth in them, but it was Dr. Emin and not Jephson, who hesitated while Stanley waited and dreaded every moment of delay. What might have been the result had the garrison remained faithful, and the Mandist advance been :longer delayed, it in needless to speculate. Mr Stanley was growing weary of hesitation when at • lest the fugitives yielded to necessity and placed themselves under his protection. , Discovery after discovery in the wonderful region was made—the snowy range of Ruevenzeal, the 'Cloud Ring' or 'Rain Creator,' the Semliki River, the'Albert 'Edward Nyanza, the plains of Ueengora, the salt lakes of Ratime, the new peoplea, lirakonju of the Greet Mountaine, the dwellers of the the rich forest region, the Awamba, the fine-featured Wasongora, the Wanyoro bandits, and then the Lake Albert Edward tribes, and the shepherd race of the eastern uplands, the Wanyankori, besides the Wauya-rawamea and the Wazinja—until at last we Church, whose cross dominated a Christian settlement, and we know that we had reached the outskirts of blessed civilisation."  I althrgh