The Ashantee War appears to have come (for the present)
to an end—in a way that gives much force and point to Governor- Pope Hennessy's advice, to which Lord Kimberley alluded in the Peers' debate last week, and to which we drew attention in our- last issue—that a strong native force should be organised among the Houssas. Last Saturday's Times contains a letter, from a. soldier apparently, dated Cape Coast Castle, April 24, giving a painful picture of the panic prevailing in the settlement in appre- hension of tha Ashantee advance. It concludes, however, by stating that the -floussas were going out to encounter them. A telegram in the same paper, recording the arrival of the Nigretia at Liverpool, gives a fortnight's later news :—" The Houssa troops, under command of Lieutenant Hopkins, had defeated the Ashantees with heavy loss, and the latter had retreated into the interior." It would seem as if at present Governor Hennessy's estimate of the situation and the proper policy to be pursued were sustained by what the Emperor Napoleon used to call "the logic of accomplished facts."
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