would be taken off the gingerbread complexions of the Caffres if their
faces were made familiar to the public in Hyde Park, sent a policeman to
take the "chief" into custody. NKULOOCOOLO, however, who seems to take
the thing coolly as well as cavalierly--or Caffrely--refused to walk in,
but stood outside the door, rendering it hopeless that anybody would pay
half-a-crown to "walk up," when the chief was to be seen "alive, alive"
for nothing at the threshold. The proprietor endeavoured to push the
chief inside, but the chief gave a counter-push, and there seemed a
probability of a war-whoop being got up at the expense rather than for
the benefit of the enterprising individual who had engaged the whoopers.
Upon this the chief was taken into custody and charged with an assault,
and with having desired the proprietor (in Caffre) to "look out"--an
expression which, though not very alarming in English, seems to have had
in Caffre a very frightful effect on the mind of the hearer. Perhaps,
being familiar with the club exercise of the Caffres, he might have
reason to fear that their "native customs" would make them rather
awkward customers.

The complainant was, however, most properly told by the Magistrate that
the Caffres cannot, by law, be restrained from going wherever they
please, though they may have agreed to whoop and yell, but their
whooping and yelling can only be enforced by civil process. If a Caffre
chooses to take a walk in the Park, or anywhere else, he has a perfect
right to do so, if he does not break the law by tomahawking the public,
or any other "native" eccentricity. The "proprietor" seemed to feel
himself rather aggrieved that he could not dispose of the Caffres in any
way he pleased, but it would be rather too absurd, that the principle of
slavery and absolute control over the person of a human being should be
recognised for the benefit of an individual who has speculated in the
attraction of savage yells and barbarian antics.

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THE PARSON'S PARLIAMENT.

Every now and then we read in the papers an account of the Convocation
of Prelates and Clergy, at which, by general consent, nothing seems to
be done, and nobody appears to be present. If this assembly, which never
assembles, and a body, which nobody troubles himself to form, is
supposed to represent the Church, we must admit that the representation
is--as far as sinecurism is concerned--a very faithful one. Th