The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-13 00:00:00

WEST COAT OF. AFRICA.

'The African' royal mail steam-414i Armenian
arrived on Monday with tWenty-six passengers,
and 2,800 ounces. of golddutit and five bars of gold.
Her dates are as follows :—Benin, Feb. 81 Fer-
nando Po, Jan.. 29.; Cameroons, 'Jan. 31.; Old
Calabar, Feb. 2 ; Brass River, Feb. 4 ; Nun, Feb.
7 ; Bonny, Feb. 7,; Lagos, Feb. 10 ; Accra, Feb.
12 ; Cape Coast Castle, Feb. 14 ; Cape Palmas,
Feb..l6 ; Sierra Leone, Fel4. 21 ; Bathurst, Feb.
25 ; Teneriffe, March 2 ; and Madeira, March 4.

On the passage home ,the Armenian spoke the
following
.yessels:—Feb. 9, off Cape Palmas, the
ship Benledi, hence, 27 days out, all. well; March
5, in lat-35 18 N., lon. 15 35 W.; the French
barque Francois PiccOni, bound home ; Mama. 9,
in lat., 45 27 N., lon. 10 39. W., the brig Cornet,
bound to Madeira; March 10, in' sat. 48.2 a N.,
lon. 8 20W., the brig Dorothy, bound south •i•:and
March 11, at 4 off Tasliar,lhe S'te*art,
in tow of the steamtug Rattler. •

On the 3rd Feb., at 11 a.m., the Retriever spoke
the Majestic, off the Bonny River, 47 days
,from
Liverpool, all well. ~

Amongst the passenger's are Captain Phelan,
J. Woodward and W. J. Bailey, first and second
mates; and J. Murray, F. Toole, W. M'Cormick,
J. Johnson, and F. Newell, seamen, being pat of
the' crew of the 'barque Isle- of Skye, which
foundered, 21st, Feb., Tat 36 N, 101 l 17 'W.
They reached Madeira in the vessel's lung-boat,
after a run of fifty-two hours:
Major Barry, who had been sent out by the
English Government to inspect the forts on the
coast, died suddenly at Cape Coast on the 17th of
December. .

The African and Sierra Leone 'Weekly Adver-
tiser 'states that the latest • • intelligence of war
operations confirm the reports of the total defeat
of the SusiiS by- the Timnehs, the slaughter of
the former having been fearful.
. The, folloWn-ig are a few items of news :from
the summary prepared by Mr. D. W. Steuart,
the purser of the Armenian :
At Bonny trade was dull, .weather fine; :and
ships healthy. -H.M. steamship Spitfire, with
H.B.M. consul from Fernando Po, arrived'onithe
2nd Feb., to, settle some "palaver" with native
traderS. The palm-oil season was about 'to com-
mence at• Old Calabar. No further'outbreak had
taken place amongst the tribes at tbe-CamerOons.
Provisions were repoWd to be scarce at Fernando
Po. ' At Sierra 'Leone trade was a little brisker.
Yellen- fever, which had been prevalent amongst
the shipping, had disappeared, thirty-four deaths
having previously occurred. The season was very
sickly at Cape Coast Castle. Out of sixteen Ettro-
,peans attacked by yellow fever, four had died. iu
two. months. At most of the towns and settle-
ments on the coast trade was dull, but the weather
was fine.

LIST OF PASSE-NGERS

Lieut. Donaldson, 13. S. Navy, from PernandoTo ;
Mr. Chillingworth, and Mr. Mott, from Lagos ; Lieut.
Hewett, from Accra ; Mr. COnlon, from Cape-Coast
Castle ; Johui- Thompson, (A. 8.) from Fernando:To ;
Miss J. E. Sass, Miss A. A. Carr, '(7 years,) Mrs. Hamil-
ton and ,two children, Dr. Abbott, and Lieut., Mackay,
from Sierra Leone: Mr: de'Cmilsurid Mr.- L'eelere, from.
:Bathurst ; R. M'Ewing, from Benin ; R. P. IWynne,
from Lagos; G. Mosseuton, from Accra ; and J. Ormrod,
from Cameroons.