ABSTRACT
Returning to I~ondon, the commissioners received, on the 25th of February, in an interview with Lord Aberdeen, the assurance t.hat the independence of the islands would be virtually or really acknowledged, and that Mr. Charlton would be removed; and on the 1st of April his lordship formally communicated to them the willingness of the English government, and its determination, to recognise the independence of the Sandwich Islands under their present sovereign; adding that Her Majesty's government desired no special favour or immunity for British subjects, but on the contrary wished to see all foreigners residing in the Sandwich Islands treated on a footing of perfect equality before the law, and equal protection afforded by the government to all.
