to act as Magistrate - and never saw the day - the natives were waiting the fulfilment of Fenton's promises, and found themselves deceived when Fenton was gone - Or does his Ex. judge by the decisions upon appeals to the Supreme Court? I hope that it will be tho'roly understood that appeals are unattainable to the two races inland - all of them without exception are too poor in time and purse to indulge in appeals - they are out of our reach - if an unjust individual is appointed Magistrate to an inland district, he may play his unearthly pranks, he may play the despot with all but no fear of consequences, mention of it in a newspaper is the most he may expect - and how easy is it for him, in such a case, to depict the attack as the effect of private revate - or the utterance of a European Savage - a mean trader - or God knows what, and there it rests. I too was mulct in £12 by Fenton in a trial which would have been scouted in an English Court, instituted to flatter Mr. Ashwell's vindictive feelings for an exchange of ill words between him and me. I noted an appeal under the sense of the unlawful proceedings but considering afterwards the expense and time it would require - and remembering St. Paul's advise "Why do ye not rather suffer wrong" I purposed to abide the Christian advise