The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-11 00:00:00

COAST OF AFRICA.

A MISSIONARY STATION ATTACHED BY
SAVAGES.
LIVERPOOL, TURBDAT.

The Armenian has arrived. Her dates are :
Fernando Po, May 29 ; Cameroon, 31 ; Old Celebes,
June 3; Bonny, 7 ; Braes, 7 ; Benin, 8 ; Lagos, 10 ; Accra,
13 ; Cape Coast, 14 ; Caps Palmas, 17 ; Siena Leone, 21;
Bathaist, 25 ,• TWe, 30; Madeira, July 2. She brings
also the mails, 20 passengers, 2,6013 f. in gold dust, 182
packages of ivory, • large quantity of palm oil, Etc.
Though cotton was dull at the Cameroon!, trade gene-
rally appeared somewhat brisker. Heavy rains had set in,
but the river was healthy. A French men-of-war which
had been commissioned to " call for an account" due to a
French firm from the natives of Bonny had obtained a
settlement.
A treaty had been signed between the A.sltantees and the
British Governor at Cape Coast Castle.
The Armenian has brought intelligence of a dreadful out-
rage upon the inhabitants of Magbelli, near Cape Coast
Castle, on the morning of the 14th June. The following are
the details :--Most of the male population were absent, and
only the old and infirm were in the town. The Pa Subs
was at Ru Hanel* on the Port Lokkoh road. The attack-
ing party numbered about 300 or 400 men, and for the most
part were armed with cutlasses. They divided themselves
into small companies, and assigned different parts of the
town to each division. One of them attacked the mission
premises, another the British traders, and they were
scattered wherever they thought to find plunder. The
special objects of attack were the British subjects residing
at Magbelli, in revenge for our government having promised,
as they alleged, to aid and assist the Masimmerahs with arms
and ammunition. The barbarous people showed no regard
to the persons or property of the missionary party.
After forcibly entering- the dwelling-house they seized the
Rev. Mr. Wiltshire and him wife, and stripped them. One
man aimed with a cutlass at Mr. Wiltshire, but happily fell
short. Another pointed his gun at him bread and demanded
his coat, which was of course given up. Mrs. Wiltshire was
then seized, tied, and dragged to the water side, and then
forced into a caw, with the intention to carry her across
the river. But the canoe being too crowded with priecners,
and not having been caulked, was swamped, and sank im-
mediately on attempting to shove off from the beach. All,
however, came safely ashore. Providentially, just at this
juncture, there was heard a sound of musket @hole in the
distance. This proceeded from a few Sierra Leone traders
and others, from Rogbuntog, who were coming to the rescue.
The Kossoks at once left their prisoners and retreated,
but not without some loss on their side. Mrs. Wiltshire
was left tied in the bush, and, after some momeuta of
anxious suspense, was rescued from her perilous condition
by a Sierra Leone trader. In the meantime other parts of
the town had been given up to plunder. Mr. Thensted,
an English trader, was robbed of all his goods, and bad his
shirt stripped from his back, but happily escaped from his
captors and from further personal indignities. One of the
mission boatmen, named Buckner, who was ill at the time
of the attack, was cut across the belly and killed. A
schoolboy, about eight years old, refusing to leave the mis-
sion yard end go with the KOB,OlllO, was killed on the spot,
his bead being severed from his body. Another of the
school children (a little girl) was drowned along with many
others in a canoe which, from being too much crowded with
prisoners, filled and went down with all on board. The
precise number is not known.
The Kroomen were again in a state of mutiny, and cans-
ing much annoyance to the British shipmasters by their de-
sertiou. The American traders were accused of ill-treating
the Kroomen, and several capes of brutality were pealing
in the Supreme Court at Cape Coast Castle.
The Quittah Fart had been abandoned by the British
government. The English troops anderCaptain de Rusignes,
Limit Williams, and Ensign Horner, had returned to Cape
Coast Castle. It was reported that the two Kluge of Akio'
had agreed not to fight any more, end intimated their in-
tention of proceeding to the seaside in September to hold a
" palaver."
Mr. C. J. Baker, of the firm of Swaney and Co., London,
died at Cape Coast, on the 90th June, from abscess. His
funeral was attended by the governor and all the British
residents.
Mr. T. Crawford (Crawford Brothers) was drowned on
the 25th June, off Cape Coast, by the upsetting of a canoe.

THE PEERS AND THE REFORM BILL.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL CO U RT.
(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before the Lord Chief Baron.)

176ontas Buxton, 27, was charged, apes the coroner's
inquisition, with the nuinslaughter of Catherine Keeney.
In this came it appeared that the deceased was very drunk
at the time of the occurrence, aal that she was throwing
stones at some children. The prisoner told her to desist,
upon which she struck him, and he pushed her away from
him, and she fell against the curb-stone and received inju-
ries from which she died. Thepixtreaat jury threw out the
The Chief Baron said it a to him upon a consi-
deration of the evidence that t e charge was aot supported,
and under his lordship's direction the jury returned a ver-
dict of Not Cuißy.
John Speyer, a Roman catholic priest, was charged with
the capital offence of assaulting a boy named WO' iatii John
Roberts.
Mr. Cooper prosecuted. The prisoner was defended by
Mr. Pearce.
The evidence in this case was not of a tutore to be made
The prisoner, who was stated to be a Roman
catholic priest, kept a school at Shoreditch, and the boy
Roberta was one of his pupil.. The prosecutor was severely
cruse-examined, and he admitted that he did not say a word
of what had happened until he was spoken to by the police.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
The prisoner was then tried for an offence of the same
description upon Leon Romeo.
The same counsel were engaged for the prosecution and
the defence.
The trial was proceeding when we went to press.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Crompton.)
Eliza Horrid Mary FeMaya, a well-dressed woman,
apparently about 30 years of age, surrendered to take her
trial for stealing some doyleys and a pair of mittens, the
property of Sir R. PeeL
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted; and Mr. Sericant Ba!Latins,
Mr. Beet, and Mr. J. H Lewis defended.
It appeared that on Saturday, the 9th of June, a fancy
fair for the benefit of the warehousemen and clerks' school
was held in the central transept of the Crystal Palace, at
which Lady Emily Peel had a stalL About 4 o'clo.,k, OS
tolice.ecrgeant Bell was on duty, he saw the pri-
soner near to Lady Emily Napa stall, and from what
he noticed her in manner his suspicious were aroused, and he
watched her. He then saw her go up to the stall, and
there unpin a doyley which was pinned to the still. At
that time some lady came round the stall, and the pri-
soner again pinned the doyley to the stall, and then
when the lady had gone prisoner again unpinned the doyley
and, crumpling it up in both her hands, secreted it in the
front of her dress. Prisoner Olen took a pair of mittens, and
then walked away. When she got • short distance she
wrapped the things which she bad taken in a piece of
paper and put them into her reticule. The officer then
went up to her and asked her what she had in her
reticule, and she said, what was her own. Bell then
told her who he was, awl asked her where she got them ;
she said she hail bought them. He told her that could not
be as he had seen her take them from Lady tkvr. stalL
She thou begged that he would not take her, end offered to
gave up her watch and chain.
The police were under examination when we went to
press. They were closely crow-examined, but there was
no material difference in the statements which they made.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
A little boy named Edward Firman, ten years of age,
was brought up for re-examination before the Lord Mayor
and Sir H. Carden, charged with stealing a flute
some money, the property of a young man named Hilberg.
It appeared upon the former examination of the prisoner,
that the prosecutor lived in Baker's-buitliegs, Bishopsgate-
street, and the mother of the prisoner lived in the 1,111110
neighbourhood, and Ids grandmother lolgol in the same house
with the prosecutor. There seemed to be very little
doubt that he got into the house under the pretence of
visiting his grandmother, that he got iuto the prosecu•
tor's room, and secreted himself under the bed and while
the prosecutor was asleep he rifled his pockets of some
silver and took a flute from the chimney piece. and
made off. The flute was afterwards found secreted in the
watendomt, and the prisoner admitted when he was taken
into custody that he had taken the money and spent part of
it., and had lost the rest.
The mother of the little culprit gave him a very had cha-
racter, and said she could do nothing with him. He re-
peatedly stopped out all night, and she had been com-
pelled to lock up his clothes to keep lain at home. She
hart also sent him to several schools, but none
of them would keep him. His father was ut sea, and she
did not expect him home for several mouths, and she said
she was most anxious to get the prisoner iuto some reforma-
tory, to save him from ruin.
Sir R. Carden asked the • r whether he wished to
say anything in answer to the charge"
He replied that he hail nothing more to say than that be
bad taken the money. . .

Sir R. Conifer—Then you plead guilty?
Prisouer—Yos.
Sir IL Urnkw -Do you wish me to deal with the case
here?

Prisoner-1f von please, sir.
The mother of the prisoner and the prosecutor also said
that they wished the case to be dealt with at once.
Sir R. Carden, after oonferring with the Lonl Mayor.
addressed the prisoner, and said ho appeared to be a very
bad boy. Kindness and severity appeared to have been tried
with hint and to have had no good effect, and othee
unawares must now be tried. The sentence the court was
about to pass might appear to he a seven, one, but it
was the most humane course that could be taken.
and would give him an opportunity of learning his
duty to God and to society. He then ordered the prisoner
to be evafined in Holloway Gaol for 14 days, and afterwards
sent to the Home in the East Reformatory School for four
years.

CLERKEN WELL
MAGIKTICHIAL CHM/UM.
Mr. Tyrwhitt, the seulor magistrate at thia court, anti
who has ~tt here for uuuy years ie, it is stated, to 'lit at
Marlborough-street, iu the place of Mr. Ihut;hatit who has
restgueaL Mr. liEyucourt, the senior mag.strute at Worship-
street., is to take the place of Mr. Tyrwhitt.