The Slave Monopoly of the Government. 177 of the Grovernment — in sliort, a series of vexatious restrictions, wliich, at the desire of the commander, put obstacles of every sort in the traveller's way. This deliberate closing of the Soudan ought to claim the attention of all the geographical societies in the world.

" Since Gordon is in power all news from the interior of Africa is suspended. It is easy to govern and maintain peace when one acts like Gordon on the system of laisser aller. He neither will nor can restrain the slave trade, and by this he puts himself in opposition to all the philanthropic societies of England. He can only arrest slavery on the chief highways, but is unable to confiscate the slaves for want of means to support them.

" We have already energetically called the attention of geographers and philanthropists to this subject in an article entiled ' The Seribe of the Gazelle River,' (No. 11 Esploratore, p. 27), which has been reprinted in several English and Continental papers. But the news which continually reaches us from Egypt and the Equatorial regions obliges us to return to the subject.

" One of our correspondents, who is in a position to obtain official information, communicates to us still sadder news than the foregoing, on which we demand that fuller light shall be thrown. It is said that the Government has sent some people into Bahr-el-Ghazal to capture ten thousand slaves, and that they pay to the executors of this infamous order five francs a head ; if this be true, we must not be surprised if Gordon Pasha looks askance at any expedition, and if our friends Gessi and Matteucci meet with obstacles they did not foresee, since from their letters and the assurances of the Italian Consul, made, we believe, in all good faith, they indulge in the delusion that they are supported by the Egyptian authorities, at least as far as Fazoglii.

"Manfeedo Camperio, Edito7\' N