The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-17 00:00:00

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

HURRICANE AT TENERMPE.
The Athenian, Captain Davis, belonging to the
African Royal Mail Steamship Company, arrived
in the Mersey yesterday morning with dates from
Cameroon' to December 15 ; Fernando Po, 15;
Bonny, 18 ; Benin, 19; Lagos, 21; Accra, 23;
Cape Palmas, 28 ; Sierra Leone, 31; Teneriffe,
January 7 ; and Madeira, 9. She brings 30 on.
of gold dust, 900d015., and 8481. in specie.
The trade at Cameroons and Fernando Po was
dull, but the health continued good. Trade was
improving at Bonny, and the river was healthy.
Trade at Benin was almost at a standstill, in con-
sequence of the war which was still being car-
ried on with great vigour. Fronk Lagos we
learn that the disturbance at Abeokuta still con-
tinued, The Governor left by the Athenian
for Cape Coast Castle, to meet the Governor-in-
Chief. Trade was improving, and the general
health was good. Trade at Accra was very dull.
When the Athenian left the roads into the interior
were open, and one of the local merchants had got
a large quantity of cotton down to the °oast. The
hostile tribes had at last entered into peaceful
arrangements with the authorities. The health
continued good. Trade was very quiet at Cape
Palmas, but the health was good. Sierra Leone
was healthy, and the trade improving.
From Teneriffe we learn that a fearful hurricane
broke over the island on the night of the 2nd
January, which lasted the whole of the following
day. All the vessels at anchor, with the excep-
tion of one or two small sloops, were blown out
to sea ; several houses were unroofed, and the
walls were said to have shaken, as if from repeated
shocks of an earthquake. At Lagona, about three
miles from Teneriffe, houses were literally blown
away, and most of the cochineal plants were torn
up by the roots. Captain Davis reports that when
about 140 miles west of Cape de Verds it suddenly
commenced to blow very hard, and the sea became
fearful ; the ship, however, escaped without injury.
The Athenian experienced heavy gales from the
north-west after leaving Madeira. Coming up the
Channel she sighted the Colorado (s.s.), outward
bound, and the barque Orient, from Africa, 83 days
out, bound to the Mersey.

Yesterday afternoon the renters and debenture
holders of Drury-lane Theatre bald a meeting in the saloon
of the building, for the purpose of ooneidering • proposal
made by Mr. Rapine's, for their accommodation during
the opera season. The meeting Wei well attended, and
Dr. lieawn, the senior trustee, presided. Having heard
the terms proposed, the proprietors accepted the same,
amidst cries of ' Success to Ur. Blaploson."
THE CORONER/Mir roe WESTERN MIDDLEREE.
Dr. Whitmore, the medical officer of health for St. Meryl.-
bone, who was one of the candidates for the vacant core-
nership of Western Middlesex, be. signified his intention
of withdrawing from the contest. At • conference of his
friends and supporters It was found, it is said, that after
deducting necessary expenses the net emoluments of the
office would not suited 3501. per annum, whilst the elec-
tion could not be contested for leis than 1,1012. or 2.1001.
The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has accepted the
captaincy of the Irish Eight who are to shoot at Wim-
bledon this year for the International Trophy.
SPECIAL CONSTABLEA ON DllTY.—Whether the
government has received information of an alarming ohs.
meter which induces increased caution is not positivele
known, but the large body of special constables in Meryl,-
bone and St. Pancras has been called out. On Wednesday
they were placed upon duty earl in the evening, aed wed
detailed off to the various churches and chapels in the re.
spective parishes. A large number also patrolled the
streets in pairs until 7 o'clock on Thursday mornin
Last evening the superintendents of divisions were again
ordered to report them:wives upon duty at 4 o'clock with
those men whowere not on duty the night before. fhey are
required to be on duty from 4 o'clock in the ei ening till 7
o'clock the next morning, taking two-hour turns of active
service.
OPEN COMPETITION. —A supplementary clerkship
in the office of the Civil Service Commimicaun has just
been filled up by means of • competition open to all per.
sons above lb and under 20 years of age. Out of 138 ap
plicants, 83 went through the examination, of whom 27
reached the prescribed standard, which appears to be
somewhat higher than that fixed as the tat for ordinary
clerkships in several of the larger departments. The can-
didates, we believe, consisted chiefly of young men already
employed as clerks is shops and other honer of businees,
having mostly left school between the ages of 13 and 15.
" Carers, Jan. 3,1868. The candidate who obtained the first place received the
" The Ottoman domination is less hurtful to Greeceprincipal portion of his education at the schools of St.
than the Papal to Italy. The Turks oppress the Greeks Cherterhouse.
with every kind of barbarity ; appropriate to themselves Tee WORILINU MEN Or COLCHESTER.--SMOR the
the produce of their vintage; humiliate them by all sods Passing of the Refocus Act the working men of Colchester,
of servitude' prostitute their women ! their children But low these of many other towns in the kingdom, have
the Turks do not deceive their slaves, nor can they incorpo- hos. engaged in promoting an organise
tion for the
rate them,withthe stock,norassimilatethemtothe turpitude swam of their wthothi with
of their rulers; they do not, like theprieste,prostitutetbeir I th thy, minas Vioog piarad opor,—-Olortora rag tstar
understanding. The terrible yateghan deseends upon
skull of the miserable Greek, through lest of violence, a
she oadar the sew act. Accordingly a meeting was held
--
in Colchester, one ednesday evening, for the purpose of
cupidity, of laseivioutheas,.of barbarity. And the slaves , jsauguratinfL " Colchester Working Hens Liberal
repay the atrocities of their masters with hatred the mod Ammintion. It was ondongiaT working mews meetitg,l
inseams. The Greek sees in the Turk • horrible tyrant, ! a working man occupying the ask. the resolutions being
mender, • dm'. hen "'lle* His barred, Inswiard ',a I moved and seconded by working mask gad three-fourths of
transmitted from senersilon to111"*""ww. main tsimot I the many hundreds present beinz of the same clans. All
propagates, incresees itself. It has become ei en • kind a aorta et rumours were &fleet- as to „patina attains to
worship in the breast of the poor servant ; and sooner or the part of the conservatives to disturb the sasetiaZt
later this hatred will free the unhappy cociatry of Leonidas they were, it appeared, without foondatios. Mr.
The Greeks are cast down, but not converted. They 7;,mmfaat of he Reform Lana., was roma
fortify themselves by the very abjectnees of their slavery, by invitation. In the first rule of the nowdation
wk-
and preserve those limits which only death can pass be- mined to the meeting are embodied some of its thief
tween themselves and their oppressors. The masters of Obieets. It provides that the members shall take every
the Romans, the priests, have committed the Mani* nio- possible means to encourage their brother working men
calities upon their slaves, and, there eau be DO doubt, in not to aoeept anything ths shape of money for a row,
a manner even more atrocious, substituting for the yds- and not to give a vote under any undue influent:* whet,
the torture and the flame. They are guilty of tho ever, but to give it according to their honest convictions.
same licentiousness, the same prostitution ; they possess Other rules refer to members getting their names upon the
themselves of the substance of their slaves, sot onlY hy mister, and lay down the machinery to be employed for
vioides, as do the Turks, hut by cunning and deceit—by that purpose. The following resolution was passed :
ee'ergeS„!--erer "'misting with the of their own That the meeting expresses ire hearty congratulations
lusts most holy name of the Divinity—debasing it in that dam Dump yews of too. „prdms. a reform hill has
every manner ! Thus they waved their servants to their at tut been pared, which, whilst falling far short of the
own creed: they make their sons priests, after having requirements of the times In being hampered by the
perverted their "in* ; and, in gm. ***" the iftwit"." el obnoxious rate-raying 'lenses, and making no provision
the nations to the lowest rank of the human family !--r. for the peotectios the "tor by the ballot, as well um by
transformation which the prints alone could effect its inadequate redistribution of mats, still does oonfer eon.
Those who, remembering the greatness of Boos, Wire Adorable parliamentary power upon the people of
to cast off the iufamons yoke, they are incarcerated, rm. Enema." lir. Beales supported the resolution in along
scribed, burnt ! It
then, can only live ism, speech, after which the meeting separated.
tram.' and si'ves ; end werefore. I say to mys the Coxsuivariati AT Noarrien. —A conservative
ROM= people not doing its duty, who can hope from It
wergethat iotorreon.siito...o. whirahmormin
ezite,
inhomaaftporfromilmorits damming. ;trek
stion.
Bigeolawas hewealdidedat Namorwilessupportiveditz2dtahesday even:-
fully perverted ! I conclude, that the doodom I leading load °comedies& Mr. Augustus a
tion haiku loss injury opoa Groom than hears priestly upper
oonservatiLe candi.lat• fee.Norwishaaa.tiJanlypeat, 1186;),..„, was
by
Italy, and that the Greek has been able to = more Present- .110 meeting
of human dignity under Islamism than the undo. Jar. Leonard Sedgwick, honorary secretors of thZ-Niser-
tha worst votive Union Constitutional Association of Loudon, which,
Porar LB°til bib* "at. and Impost
ganernAtro—Lv it war dated, had 'heady enrolled 17.000 or 18,000 mow
tom while the number would shortly be therm:bed to
70,000 or 80,0J0. The union, Mr. Sedgwick also stated,
was shoat to issue a series of pamphlets in defence of oon-
ADNIXALTY Jan. 16.—ArFornreinnes.--Com. oar„tita nat., an aa to counteract the ....mon,
mender Charles 'E. Foot to the Defame ; Staff-Ocesamader lying 4 tVO---'opijoatoporty. It woo mob, od to fon,
Jahn W. Lowe, addidande to the pouting: galstonow* asseidatban to ad in ocaceet with the National Union. A
Lord Welter T. Herr to the Defuses ; Walter B. Bridges, mama= srm adopted, to
to the Royalist Ns lattallisaltes orreer A. mak* anemometer& to swore two teatimes te cosiest
Browsing, "didana. to Bint7 B. ""A. Norwich is dm coaservative interest at the mart electicm.
selditimsal, to the Tads*: ; Herbert F. mt. Goma:aid did sot middens the eneig, which dosed
Larva'` to the Defense ; Amillostafalionne Thom" with a cordial vote at thaake te the Great
efatiferddlo the JaskaL . I erediefrease wee erpreesed is Levi Derby end berwittety's
ROYAL Naval. BASIIIVI.—ifr. Geary Cele NW premed iervermaseak, theigheZishatembers el
with their predscwa:
been appointed hammy liedemiat in the'Reyel Navel eeetrostod tickle by
Swerve. Kea is ogles.