the Northern District, that there may be no abstinence on the part of the Government from putting the law in force; and the Governor would express his earnest hope that this may be done without delay. The leaving it to the natives themselves to deliberate as upon an open question whether a murderer shall be surrendered, appears to him to be injurious to their good Government, anf to throw contempt upon the administration of justice. If, in this case, the law be not carried out, the Governor feels that it would be impossible for him to show his face in the District again; so prominently has the matter been forced upon him. He would not think such observations