Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-01-05 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE STANLEY AND DE BRAZZA EXPEDITIONS.  correepondent visiting the south-west coast of Africa sends an interesting but gloomy account of Stanley!, Congo Expedition. Ile states: There seems to be a want of system in the management of the Belgian AssoMali., while it flees not appear very clear what are its objects. If it is, as the emptoy :college to open up roads and stetter., across the continent for the accommodation and ase:stmco of merchants and travellers, and for the furtherance of geographical research— ! the undertaking is eseeedingly philanthropic, but at : the same time a very costly one. Every praise is due : to the King of the Belgians for loosening his puree strings, and for tlef spirit in which be is carrying in the expedition; but to a casual observer it seems rather difficult to understand how the natives can be civil...l or cuointerce introduced at the point of the bayonet. To say mind, a great mistake has Leen CO. mated by the association in sending out such a conglomeration of Europeans—men who, with few curryBona, have never been abroad, and the result is that each nationality is jealous of the other, and quarrels-sometitnea even duels—are not infrequent. Many young fellows joined the association for the glory and ad, entore of the thing, but when they got out they found the country very far below what it had been represented, and the disappointment, together with the hard bush life, es reacted upon them that some committed suicide, while others had to return home quite broken in health. Young men joining the association should be prepared for a rough life in the hush, a hot malariaue climate, and for innumerable little discomforts, undreamt of in Europe, in the shape of recurring fever, "jiggers," mosquitoes, sandilys, and other peas of the jungle. flit quite appalling to me to compare the mortality and the enormous expenditure with the good which the amociation have accomplished or are likely to do. The way in which they are conducting operation now is open to serious criticism. Had they commenced trade in the first instance by establishing stations on the Congo, pushing forward into the Interior step by step as they got each station into working order, seine good reaults might by this time have bttU ehown, instead of, as now, all expenditnre and fighting. I fail to see how the acquisition of land in various parts will beer :t the association unless they send out labourers to culti'Ste it. The great outcry now is want of labour to collect the produee of the laud, and it is deplorable the great amount of palm-nuts, gum, cotton, Coffee, rubber, de, that ia waste' for the want of a little industry. Nothing is definitely known of the moomenta of NI. de Brame. There hen report, which Mnot much credited, that he has been shot by a Portuguese trailer up the .goe River. It is generally surmised that should I.e eel Stanley meet a fight will be the result ; but I am h.c ined to think that want of funds will prevent him puebing his expedition as far into the interior as he would wish. On the coast generally trade is improving, and at Ambris coffee is coming ia very plentifully, after three bad years. At Gaboon Mode is dull, owing to the severe restriotien placed on the merchants by the French come mender there, and several English and German fines have been heavily fined for importing rifled trade guns. The American Baptist Minion Society have been prohibited teaching English in their schools, and as they decline to teach French, their schools have been broken up.  AT the County Petty Sessions, Bedford, e man named William Denton, of Turvey, was recently charged with 4; musing " a horse to be cruelly ilfdreded. DM master bed been summoned for cruelty to the same animal, and the case dismissed one technicality. The only evidence against the defendant was to the e.'.ectd at he took the home from the stable to the railway station, no evidence being given em to his working it. Mr. Clare appeared for the defendant ; and, after a hearing of upwerds of two house, the ens was dismissed—William Smith, lalmurer, Stevington, was fined lot , and costs. for tying snares on the negate of the Marquis of Tayistock. —Two men, Immo,' Robert A)resandThomas Town:bend, were fined Ll and costs, for an assault on the pallor St Eaton Socon.  limonos Wran. a Boston solicitor, who hai been adjudicated bunkrupt, has absconded, a writ having been issued by the trustees under Mr. Pallthorpe's will for the production of the securities of £3:aoo iovested by Mr. iVise on behalf of the trust. There err other defalcations of a serious character. • portions of the foods of the charity trustees, for which Mr. flue 035 c:erk, are invested ou insufficient security. The lainkrupt vim also clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority. Are inquest has been held at the workhouse, Sedgley, respecting tha death of Mary Jennings, 0 years of age. When left alone in a house during the kihristmm holidays the deceased was sei ed with a fit. She fell on the fire and was found horribly burnt. She was removed to the workhouse infirmary, where she died. Some years ago the deceased fell on a fire under similar circumstances, and had since been a cripple, A verdict of .Accidental death was returned.  AN