The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-13 00:00:00

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

The Afrieen mail steamer Cleopatra arrived in the
Mersey on Saturday afternoon, with 3,000 ounces of
gold, the usual mails, and cargo.
Her biajesty'e steam ship Pluto was reported to
have taken a prize on the south coast, with between
800 and 600 slaves on board.
The deaths of Major Barry, ILE., at Cape Coast,
on the 17th of December ; of J. Howell Smyth, at
Sierra Leone, on the 19th of January ; and Lieut.
A. C. Aflame, of her Mejesty'a steamship Arrogant,
on the 12th of January, are reported.
In the Via-Admiralty Court at Sierra Leone, on
the 4th of January, the court condemned the brigan-
tine Rosarito, on the ground of being equipped for
the slave trade.
GOLD COAST.—The gold trade was very dull, and
a great deal of uneasiness was occasioned by the fact
that a large quantity of bad gold is being brought into

the market. It seems that for many months pad some '
nat:ree up in the interior had been manufacturing an
article which they sell to the bush traders as " ma-
indentured gold.' It is alloyed considerably, some-
time* with more than SO per cent. of other metal,
and so skilfully made up that detection is difficult.
The merchants on the coast were complaining
sadly of the small profits on trade. Palm oil season
had not come in previous to the departure of the
Cleopatra. but a fair sewn was anticipated.
'there had been several serious disturbances in
Cape Coast. The people had been fifhting among
then:wives, and in a pitched fight which had taken
place 15 were killed and upwards of 40 wounded.
The ringleader in the disturbances had been sent on
board a man-of-war and ordered to Quittah, when
he would be kept in prison for two yeses. Several
of the natives had beet very indiant at this, and
threatened to break out again. At the time of the
steamer. departure representations MVO being made
to the governor, with the hope that by an energetic
interference he would soon settle matters.
At the Gold Coast a movement was on foot to in-
crease the cultivation of ootton. At present there
are two agricultural societies in the course of esta-
blishment, one at Caps Coast and the other at Accra.
Sir bales of cotton of a capital quality had been
shipped at Aoera for England.
The African, under the head of " White Slavery,"
corroborates the statements made in " Itichardson's
'ravel, in Morocco," that white men are kept in
bondage on the line of *oast below Wadnoun and the
adjacent Sahara.

PORTUGAL.

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LISBON, Fes. 7.
A statement having been made lately in the
government paper, the Regolmps° de Betembro, that
Mr. Bravery is connected with Salamanca in the
affair of the Eastern Railway, a most unqualified
denial has been given to such statement, and pub-
imbed in several journals by Mr. E. Medllcott, the
agent of Sir S. M. Peto.
The celebrated French pamphlet, " Le Pape et le
Courts," has mimed a great sensation here among
all eke's'. Many articles have been written on the
subject, both in the religious and political news.
papers, and a reply on the side of the Pope has also
been published by • catholic nobleman.
The Duke of Northumberland is still staying at
the Braganca Hotel. It is said that his gram paid
a visit the other day to the English nuns of the order
of St. Bridget, who are the descendants of those of
Sion lions., at lsleworth, a property which still
belongs to the dale, and which was given to his
family in the reign of Henry VIII., when the
nuns were driven Into exile. The sisters still
presses the keys of the ancient house at Isleworth,
which they showed to the Doke, who before leaving
the convent made the sisterhood a handsome present,
MI • record of his visit.

Her Majesty's ship Brunswick has sailed for Eng-
land. The Neptune is anchored in Paco d'Areos Bay,
and is exorcising her guns; she will shortly proosod
to Gibraltar.

.eOCZJAO PRAYS 0r A RAILWAY TIGHT
00LLIC1011.—IT8 18 DA II

This Biasing, between eight and nine o'clock,
the body et respeetehly the
man wee fouud au
a the arches at the Leaka sad Oresawiri
Railway ernered with bleed, mad the gull frettewed
a a Meal 1•111111110/T
Tbs reliable lafurtuatita eileired byallesSe wee
IbM shortly after elerea o'cieak at the prinrkeee Thee.
Perk's., a tees readarg at Prespea-piece, the, ea
prolog the eget at wide* the deceased wee lowad,
wroth ha feet s
aga what he taaceived to be
a dream era it some penman who, beta the lardy
eaters 04 the pima, wee lytag there far the wpm, el robbery.
Perinea, therefore, be ea without tekteg lay bertha
auks. Tile het a the deceesed's saver welsh mod
geld peed bass lewd safe fa bre paha did easy
silk the 'apparition at hit eeitartelaid thee wadi
ad ben perpetrated, ad host the peados Is white the
body was hated It wee ocasetared that it sitglit be that of •
peaseegee aa• af the poring tram. The railway a/-
dale were eceonliagly at ewe eemeneakreted with, sad N,.
Lai, the mister at the Deptford etegoe, west sad Whitewall
the body of the demand, which he Isoleatly recegalsed a•
tam at Will.. flouedliag, mann at wen-Masi Mt*
sad erapl.yed se • ticket collseher et the Opeatued shake,
wed eh,. a wee ranewobered. Ifteoololl is lamas 2 sb.
10 'LS train es wadyeight. AA ozugailies the
beer pathway wee the. made, to secaeria. V
Ike whet passer the deceased meld haw seam la Curt:
aim he wee haat 0. Iseastan sae el Vie
pews eau tor Cealeclal Deek Medea, a peaks It
wad with wee Matevered braes away , sad aria et hind
ea the other image. lam* ae Meat that the had et
&towed rani have sere in anted thwart* is pastas
Mau sae mle anew for sereenenfialwil ZEIBA
alma IA hat
he eneeeseedle big Seem ear as gamest le •
.

—TMisteril use • niniad sm. cog Ma MI • ellle mad
rase Wally le aglow his dab s.d.

A Paris Idter ear:—" TM unconquerable Spur-
kft Peril this (Materday) maesisg. through which he
paiwei as it were like a whirlerisd. The Ponies pnblio,
however, se. mewl far lose escheated with his thee he sp.
issoid to Le with himself. Perhaps thus. Mem be game
resew for this. Whatever may have bees the aces' am*
of Mr. 14;.argeon's elogessee. It is certain that M
bee but lisle cease of osoplaiat statist the .alit{{
• h it produced, for the extreme geaerosity ed
his ooeinegatioss striated Itself is the well-Glial
vet.", which, piled up (in one case) with gold piece%
sea itcd the aseosishisent of the few French lis seen whet
bud toes as sews' provided with their us sou pieces, sad
*II,. us perceiving the niagniffornos disobeyed by the heels\
; .ri,te of the audios*, feeling slimmed of the costrast,
tersed by sad pore teething at all. I have beard of • die-
.outented iadivideal, perhaps • rival Fresh pastor,
srb, hit at thi. church • parcel of seas weight
ea' breadth as hie nistribetios to the erection of
N Spurgeon's church. It wee • terepting-lookiag
pe. Ist. beistifolly enveloped la silver paper sad
rwcfolly tied with roswoolcrered ribbon. The chreadele
•ps.ks not of the varied emotions which suet have Waned
the beet of the pesos who opened it ; bet merely inestkets
that nemeses consisted of • small brick from the deekwy at
bierniele, with a most polite mote, la which the eassymm
• trgre.ling hie inability to vie with the caber eastribs-
t,r. is is..s.r to that mighty work, begged to open his
pur scull:, in kiwi, etre...tog as his opisios that if every
• W legios• of admirers were do the same, that sot
• church but • city myiat be built with the materials thus
colleeted.'•

THE tkUrirl lON or Pori Plop. BLASPHEMOUS
r•kUI.T.— lea 74iilet of daterday mutates the following,
wis.b it puns tees Lela as well as Ilaglielt .—" Plea
I X let ve the Carignan, width I. ansounced are
ta be twirl la Paris, sun IMO. Tlts French
Xnnerra livbold the roan! What think ye?
keels, Away with him! away with him! Candy
bin I Aterdista —Thou boat said it. He Is deservng
nensib. ••••ttia-- What evil barb bedonei Ilardnia—We
have • law, and a. runny to this law he mast die. Prussia-
-1 11011 no ranee in ban. Spain— I ant innocent of the
Ithasi of ibis pat man. Portugal—Why this waste F Russia
—Whir is that to ar La pm to it. Naples—Although
all shnull 6,1 wasclalistal in the.. 1 will ant he acandallesd.
reineh Itabbi : (the spirit, Indeed, is
ardour. List the flesh la web.) It is expedient that owe
mat, should dlr for the pride. The French Brapiress—
ib .0 aort,iag to do wtth that just man, for I have oaf-
hrivl win..b in a drain ionerrning hint. Tb. Chriarin
Pe et iv-- W w to that men hy 11111..111 he shall be tot/eyed!
An na a.,sesslege—S.lffir HP bath borne n.e &arrows and
...tied our sine. Ilishitp• and prweis-- BP of goal brut, for
eh. t•nit et at hand astern UM will deliver thee. The Pope—
Fit ye bete while lin and pray. After three nr 11 day• I shall
.4111. sad bl«sed le the nun who shell not inn been
• nrl•lisrat is in."

Tel Cull OF TOE flit. Ma. Mmes.—l/cola-
here recently hem sale Wore It. A. Klagiabs,
1 ,ET laila• ..gaged is teitios et Writ% ears-Ware to
I h.• . ff.rt bat the rtulArva who pre oath otrwas 'vides°. at
ILe trial of gr. list. h which tended very masterialty to his
•••evi. •wee. at nsa time ostler die cert. of the heti., and
,tu than. roasted Estat of stteeiss untruths wee the Ire-
I sul•pwt of ormipkint ; sad the ladle. have mad* a de-
a 'bet lb." email/ plan. SO reliance whatever OS the
ow-wrote of the Allem —Nsreasslis CA•ootele.
A POT it ICA ItIF.S. HALL.—At • court of exa-
"E•re ,be gaiety Apetbeemire, held as Thursday,
Mt'SoUnwisi peathemes pasted their ezarsisetios is the
-are sad Freeriee of medicise, mad received certificates I.
'
• Deleiwash Freesias. Zan Isdise Fronds
0,4. Wiry WOW,. flesserstnhe. Heats. sad Join Tabbies,
h 1.., Toasty Ikea e.lebire The llowisfr gestiessee eAs
• slay poised tveir es.araetlnti Osage Inked
N. ...wt. ftveread , sad David Bowes Timms,
MoTenure%
O
ift 11. 4/10 BU.BT HAILWAT.-1111P 11000•11te
• wises, floe the half-yes, eadi,‘ De. 91 last slow a leleae• of :UAW Me favour of the ..autsay, sad the direr- !
t• have awersalawl t.. r,c-attaeal A.ridead of 21 2.. dd.
•-• i•elow tan) spa sects eh.re of 401., NMI
I,..r.rties theme "so :he half sad quarter edema