The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-03 00:00:00

THE WEST AFRICAN mAir-s

ARRIVAL OF THE CALABAR.-ARREST OF
KING AGERY.

The Royal Mail steamship Calabar, Captain A.
J. M. Croft, arrived in the Mersey yesterday morning,
afters detention outside the bar for several hours, in con.
sequence of waiting for a pilot. The Calabar is the first
of the steamers connected with the bi-monthly trade
between Liverpool and the West Coast of Africa.
The Calabar brings dates from Benin to December 3 ;
Fernando Po, Nov. 29 ; Cameroon', 29th ; Old Calabar,
27th ; Brass River, Dec. 2 ; New Calabar, 2nd ; Bonny,
2nd ; Lagos, sth ; Jellah Coffee, 6th ; Accra, 7th ; Cape
Palmas, sth ; Sierra Leone, 15th ; Bathurst, 19th ;
Tencriffe, 24th ; and Madeira, 26th.
The Sunshine and Phrenologist were at Benin. The
Eromango, Terrier, and her Majesty's ship Torch were at
Fernando Po. The Burns, Harriet M'Beth, and Elizabeth
Emily were staimeroons. The Britannia,Huddenlield,and
Troapail were at Old Calabar. The Retriever (es.) was at
Brass River. The Clara Hargreaves, Illumini, and Royal
Arch were at New Calabar. The Charles Montan, Star
of Hope, St. George, Benledi, Star of the Sea, and the
steamer William Taylor were at Bonny. The Astarte was
at Accra. The Lord Duncan was at Cape Palmu. The
Alligator *as at Cape Coast Castle. The Pioneer (ss.),
Africa, Virginia, John Mayall, and Lagos (R. 51.6.) were at
Sierra Leone. The Lagoa sailed again on December 11 for
leeward. The Kelpie and Arabistan were at Bathunt.
The United States steamer Sacramento and the French
steamer ForfaM were at Temeriffs. Her Majesty's ship
Zealous was at Madeira.

Old Calabar, Cameroon, Fernando Po, and Bonny were
quite healthy, but trade was exceedingly dull. The ship
Elizabeth Emily was to sail from the Cameroona for Bris-
tol on the 2nd Dec. ; the Eromenga, from Fernando Po
for Glasgow, on Dec. 3. The Manners Sutton sailed from
Bonny for Liverpool on the 2Gth Nov.
The trade at Lagos was very brisk. Twelve merchant
vessels were in port, and all were engaged for homeward
cargoes. His Excellency Governor Glover was sworn in
on the 20th Nov. He met with a very warm reception,
both from European and natives. His Excellency Ad-
miral Patey left by the Calabar for Bathurst, at which
port he relieves his Excellency Colonel D'Arcy, who returns
shortly to England.
Owing to some misunderstanding at Cape Coast Castle
between his Excellency Colonel Conran and King Agery,
the latter was arrested and sent on board the Calabar to
Sierra Leone.

Trade was very dull at Sierra Leone, but the colony was
quite healthy. The Royal Mail steamer Lagos sailed,
Dec. 11, for leeward ports.
Sickness had entirely disappeared from Bathurst, and a
fair trade had been done during the month.
The Calabar was again placed in quarantine at Teneriffe,
the authorities at that place refusing to assign any reason
for doing so, although the ship was quite clear of dis-
ease. The French steamer Forfait sailed for China on
Dec. Si.

Her Majesty's ship Zealous was ►t Madeira, and would
sail on the 28th Dee. for Rio Janeiro and the l'acifie.

SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 2.—The North German
Lloyd'. steamer Bremen was prevented from sailing to-day
for New York in consequence of the heavy snow storm.
She will sail to-morrow morning, weather permitting, with
87 cabin passengers, including Captain Dayton, who com-
manded the yacht Vesta, and several officers of the Fleet-
wing. The mails for the Atrato due here at midday did not
arrive till late this evening. It is not expected that the
Atrato will proceed to sea till to-morrow morning. The
Shannon's passengers were admitted to pratiquo this
afternoon.—healer's Tele:groat.

Quaerorrovrtr, JAR. 2.—The Inman steamship
City of New York, from New York on the 22nd ult.,
arrived here at one p.m. to-day with 18 cabin and 104
steerage passengers, and 11,600 dole. in specie. After
landing two cabin, andl4 steerage passengers, and ten sacks
of mails, she proceeded at 1.20 p.m. for LiverpooL—Rester's
2Wegrose.
THE New ZEALAND CENSUS.—The census enu-
meration, it is to be premised, was taken on the night of
the lit December,i 1864, on • plan substantially the same
as that adopted in the previous census in December, 1861,
by which the information was obtained, not only for each
province of the colony, but for electoral districts returning
members to the General Assembly. The numerical results
are carefully put in a tabular form, from which we
now proceed to make • few notes. The popu-
lation of European descent in December, 1864 (ex-
clusive of the military and their families), was, from
these returns, 172,138, of whom 106,560 were males and
65,578 females. The distribution of the entire popula-
tion throughout the several provinces was as follows :
Auckland, 42,13'2 ; Taranaki, 4,374 ; Wellington, 14,967 ;
Hawkes Bay, 3,770; Nelson 11,910; Marlborougli, 5,519;
Canterbury, 32,276 ; Otago, 49,019; Southland, 8,083 •. to
which, to complete the aggregate given above, is to be
added (86) the population of the Chatham Islands. Con-
trasting the entire European population of the Northern
Islands with that of the Middle Island, it is per-
ceived that the Northern Island contained 65,263,
or 37.93 per cent. of the population ; and
the Middle Island 106,809, or 62.07 per cent.
The military and their families, who are not included in
the above enumeration, were calculated at 11,973.—Nrw
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