The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-22 00:00:00

WEST COAST AFRICAN MAIL,

The Ethiope, African mail steamer, arrived in Ply-
mouth Sound on Sunday morning from the west coast of
Africa, with mails, &c. She has since come into Mill-
bay to discharge her passengers and cargo, and is to
proceed to. this port to repair and refit, she having
experienced some heavy weather, and her boilers being
leaky.

She left Lagos, December 11th ; Accra, 14th ; Cape
Coast, 15th ; Liberia, 20th ; Sierra Leone, 25th,;
Bithurst, 29th ; Goree, 30th ; Teneriffe, January 6th';
and Madeira, 11th. She brings about 4,000 oz. gold
dust, palm oil, &c. The weather experienced by the
Ethiope between Goree and Madeira was very severe.
She is the first vessel which has embarked gold dust at
Sierra Leone, where she reports freights are advancing
through the policy of the new government.
The Candace, African mail steamer, has arrived at
Plymouth. She will embark cargo and mails and leave
on Thursday next.
The cargo of the Ethiope consists of palm oil, bees'

wax, arrowroot, ivory, &c., and she has about 4.000 ozs.
of c,rold- dust. Among tha passengers are, from Lagos.
Lieutenant the Hon. J. Lascelles, on promotion, and.
Lieutenant H. T. Boger, invalided ; from Bathurst, Com-
missary J. M. Lindsey; from Goree. Captain Cote and
Paymaster J. H. Harry, of Her Majesty's ship
Myrmidon.

Trade is improving at Millicourie, where there is a
great influx of hides and ivory, but the high price of
tobacco bus restricted the exchange.
The differences with the chiefs of Sherbro have been
settled, and the Governor of Sierra Leone has issued a
notice to that effect, dated Dec. 12.

The trade at the Cameroons is entirely stopped, in con-
sequence of a dispute between the natives in the interior.

The screw steam gun-vessel Teazer, 3, Commander
Walter Grubbe, which returned 'to Sierra Leone on the
12th of December, from a cruise between Cape Mount and
the Sherbro, reports that a serious disturbance had
occurred at Sinew, arising from a canoe having been taken
from the British barque Ariel by one of the people there,
and the supercargo, Mr. Harriett, applying to the autho-
rities for its restoration, the sheriff sent to demand it,
when one of the native huts was set on fire, and in the
affray which took place one of the sheriff's men was
killed. Several of the surrounding towns were destroyed,
and one with upwards of 100 houses entirely burnt, with
the exception of a mission-house.

President Roberts, with the British Consul, Mr. Newn-
ham, left- Monrovia on the 26th ult., and arrived at Sinow
on the 27th, when they went on shore and found that
several of the Liberia people had been murdered. The
President and Consul returned the following day to
Monrovia, with several European ladies, in the Teazar :
and a voluntary corps was being raised to be dispatched
immediately to Sinow by the American schooner George.
An attack was expected at Cape Mount.
The paddlewheel steam-vessel Myrmidon, 3, Comman-
der Edward E. Maunsell, from Sierra Leone, arrived at
the Rio Pongas early in December, with the Rev. Mr.
Leacock, Commander Buck, and other officers, Captain
Fletcher, 3rd West India Regiment, &c., and, having an-
chored outside the bar, sent the deputation in boats up to
Tintania, where they were received by Kennebac Ali, the
Chief. The next day they were introduced to King Catty,
and a number of Mandingo chief. After a palaver it was
agreed that Mr. Leacock should reside among them, the
King promising to send his children to be educated, and
Kennebac Ali having given his residence until a suitable
house was built for the missionary.
From the Gambia our intelligence is satisfactory. Her
Majesty's ship Penelope, 16, Sir Wm. Wiseman, Bart.,
arrived at Bathurst on the Ist of Dec., and left for Sierra
Leone, Ascension, and the Cape of Good Hope on the 11th.
Major Harry St.:George Ord, of the Royal Engineers,
Commissioner to the Gold Coast, went out in the Penelope.
the hearer of despatches from Lord Panmure, ordered by
the Home Government on special service, to advise with
the Governor of the Gambia respecting the military
defence of that colony.
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The Governor and Major Ord inspected the whole of the
boundary line of the ceded territory, and Major Ord having
handed in his report on the 11th, they finally decided on
works necessary for the defence of Her Majesty's settlements
in the Gambia.

Governor O'Connor held a full and important palaver with
Demba Sunka, King of Barra, on the 7th of December. Sir
William Wiseman, his officers, the brass band, and 100 picked
Marines and sailors formed the guard of honour. The King
of Barra, his Alcadis and chiefs, attended with eighty Sur-
ruwoolie cavalry, under their leader, Ansummama Taji, and
1,600 infantry, the largest force ever present at any palaver
in Western Africa.

His Majesty was greatly pleased with the appearance of the
sailors and marines, but the brass band engrossed his principal
attention. He expressed to " his friend," the Governor,
" how much he felt gratified by the great respect paid to him,
and that all his troops and the Sqrruwoolies' were ready to
march against any enemy of his Excellency." The palaver
lasted several hours, terminating without an accident, and in
the most satisfactory manner.

Governor O'Connor's medical attendants have decided that
he must return to Europe in the spring, as his health has
become so much impaired from long tropical service.
The Emperor Napoleon has created Commander Duerest
de Villeneuve an officer, and Lieutenants de Romeau, Fillan,
and Morell, chevaliers of the Imperial Order of the Legion of
Honour, for distinguished service in the field, and at the
storming and capture of Sabbagee on the 4th of August. The
wounded soldiers, seven, received medals.

THE MURDER IN BEDFORD-ROW,

Yesterday morning, Mr. Wakley, the coroner, resumed,
at the Workhouse, Little Gray's-inn-lane, the adjourned
inquest on the body of Mr. Waugh, the solicitor, who was
assassinated in Bedford-row on Wednesday last, the
previous details of which have already appeared in the
NORTHERN TIMES. It will be recollected that the
adjournment took place on Friday last, immediately after
the close of the medical evidence proving:the cause of the
death, in order to have the prisoner present before the
coroner's jury for the purpose of identification, as the
Coroner stated that, without such appearance, he con-
sidered the inquiry would be only a mockery ; and he
had written on the preVieus day to the Secretary of State
upon the point, but had received no answer to the
application.
Mr. Wakley said, that he had had a communication
with the Secretary of State since the last sitting, which
resulted in a personal interview ; and the arrangement
was that the Secretary of State had not the slightest
objection to order the production of the prisoner before
the coroner's jury, but there was some legal difficulty at
present in the way, and he regretted that he should have
to adjourn the inquest again until :Wednesday morning
next at ten o'clock, when the person mentioned by the
.witnesses as having fired the shot at Mr. Waugh would
be present from the House of Detention. The authorities
had told him (the coroner) that it was their desire to aid
public justice in every possible way.
Mr. Lewis, solicitor, of Ely-place, said that he appeared
for the unfortunate man accused of this• offence, and he
wished to state for public information that there was not
the slightest cause for complaint on the part of his family,
respecting the deceased gentleman ; but the accused,
Westron, was a confirmed maniac, and that was well
known, both by his own friends, and those who were
acquarnted with him.
The Coroner told Mr. Lewis that the statement must
be reserved for the next sitting, as the proceedings were
now adjourned until Wednesday morning.
The proceedings then terminated.

A SECOND " ALICE GREY."
On the 29th December last (says the Bristol Mercury) a
robbery was committed at Lambessow Farm, near Truro,
Cornwall, occupied by a person named Thomas Williams.
During the morning a servant girl, named Jane Allen, had
placed four petticoats, 81 yards of calico, a chemise, and
a piece of Irish linnen to dry on a hedge adjoining the
farm yard. She occasionally went out to look after the
articles, and between eleven and twelve o'clock she
informed her mistress, that on going to the hedge to look
after them, she found that they were stolen, and she also
stated that she ha l seen a man looking over the hedge into
the field where they were drying. Mr. Williams and the
servants immediately proceeded in different directions,
and on meeting a person called Edward Williams
Drew, the son of Mr. Drew, innkeeper, of St.
Clement Church Town, he informed them that he had
seen a man jump over the hedge with a bag on his
hack. Info7mation was given to Mr. Nash, superinten-
dent of police, Truro, with a description of the man, when
William Conk, a collector of marine stores, was appre-
hended, that same night, about twelve o'clock, at a com-
mon lodging house, and immediately identified by Drew.
On the following morning police-constable Prater, in
company with Mr. Williams and several other persons,
found that the accused's shoes corresponded with foot-
marks near where the clothes were placed to dry. On
being taken before Dr. Carlyon, county magistrate, ho
was committed to take his trial at the last quarter sessions,
when he was found guilty and sentenced to six months'
hard labour. On Friday last, the 11th inst.. the same
servant, Jane Allen, again placed a number of articles,
consisting of three bed-sheets, two chemises, three pairs
of drawers, three caps, three collars, and a habit shirt, on
the hedge to dry, and about mid day she informed her mis-
tress that the articles which she had placed on the hedge
were stolen. Mr. Williams, his son, and several of the farm
servants scoured the neighbourhood, but could find no
one who was likely to have committed the theft. Subse-
quent inquiries caused suspicion to fall on Jane Allen her-
self, and at last some of the calico stolen on the 29th ult.
was traced to the possession of a young woman named
Amelia Williams, who proved that Allen had brought it
to her to make into chemises. Superintendent Nash, of
the Truro police, then took Allen into custody, and
charged her with the theft. In the course of the evening
she stated that those were the articles ;which Cook had
been convicted of stealinc, and that she had taken them
herself. On being asked what had become of the articles
s'ae had taken the day before, she said they were buried
near the quarry. 11Ir. Nash on going, in company with
Police-constable Woolcock, one of the detectives, to a
cartshed near the quarry, found underneath a quantity of
loose straw, the property stolen the previous day; and
about eleven o'clock the same night they found, on a wall
adjoining the field, four petticoats and a chemise, which
were hid behind the ivy which had overgrown the wall_
those articles were the remainder of the property stolen
on the 29th ult. The prisoner was taken before Dr.
Carlyon, who committed her to take her trial at the next
assizes. Dr. Carlyon has taken the necessary steps for
the remission of Cook's sentence. Great praise is due to
the superintendent for the very able Inanglez in which he
traced the rel?Per7 t 9 the re4l 9gelacler,;