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Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 684, 28 May 1859, Page 5

Shoet Sentences.—Missionaries are bringing to light many interesting facts in regard to the mental characteristics of the people of Africa. Mr. Moffat, who has seen much of the southern part of this continent, gives us the following narrative, related to him by a man from Central Africa. It is, peihaps, without a parallel for its simplicity :— "My years were eighteen.. There was war. At this time my mother died. My father died. I buried him. r I had done. The Foulahs caught me. They sold me. The Housa people bought us. They brought us to. Tomba. -We got up. To a white man they sold us. We had no shirts. We had no trousers. We were naked. In the midst of the water, into a ship they put us. Thirst killed somebody. Hunger killed somebody. By night we prayed. God heard us. The English are good. God sent them. They. came. They took us. Our hunger died. Our thirst died. Our chains went off from our feet. Shirts they gave us. Hats they gave us. Trousers they gave us. Every one was glad. We all praised the English. Whoever displeases the English into hell let them go."— Colonisation Herald. " Gab." —General Horatio Hubbel, of Philadelphia, has replied to a circular from his alma mater at New Haven asking money for a society or club instituted to train young men to premeditated extemporaneous speaking or discussion, declining to contribute. He says, —" Gab is the fatal epidemic of republics. What, distracted Greece ? Gab ! Whaifictionised Rome? Gab ! What anarchised France P Gab! What will dismember this Union P Gab! This eternal propensity of gabbling, upon all occasions and at all times, is the curse of our country,"