_Mr. Monsell gave a cool reply on Friday se'nnight. Mr.
Fowler 'wanted to know if the Gambia settlement was to be sold to France, -and Mr. Monsell admitted that negotiations were going on, but thought it might be interesting to Members to know that the ammber of Europeans in Gambia was forty-seven. That is to say, Mr. Monsen doubts about selling Europeans, but has no objection =to sell Her Majesty's coloured 'subjects. Mr. Gladstone, we are +happy to see, declared that no transfer should be made without the -consent of Parliament ; but he probably knows nothing of the -transaction by which Amine Bay was sold a year or two ago to the .Dutch, in spite of heart-breaking remonstrances from the natives, -who have ever since continued in open insurrection. The old theory was that the British flag was a benefit to all whom it -covered, but this seems to have been abandoned, and we take it -away as if it were a mere piece of silk.
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