Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-09 00:00:00

HEIGIIT.

THE AFRICAN

MAIL

The royal mail screw-steamer Armenian, Blow, com-
mander, with the African mails, arrived in the Mersey
yesterday afternoon. She bring twenty-six passengers, and
2,010 ounces of gold-dust. Her dates are from Benin to June
24 ; Brass River, 25 ; Fernando Po, 29 ; Camerogus, July
1 ; Old Calabdr, 2nd,; Bonny, 7 ; Lagos, 11 ; Accra, 12 ;
Cape Coast Castle, 14 ; Cape Palmas, 17 ; Sierra Leone,
21; Bathurst, 25 ; Teneriffe, 30 ; and
,Madeira .to the Ist
of August.

Theili.M.S.S. Et:dope was off Cape Palmas on the 17th
of July, and the R.M.S.S. Athenian at Madeira, on the
Ist of August. •

Her cargo consists of 214 casks of palm oil ; 1 box, 2
parcels, and ,34 teeth ivory ; boxes specie, valued at
£10,700; 16' boxes of arrowroot ; 40' tons camWoiid.; ',3
packages beeswax; 10 cases monkey skin.; 52 bags cochi-
neal ; '67 boxes oranges; and 46 packageg;sundries.
The Armenian experienced strong smith winds from
Madeira, with thick weather.
The late disturbances in .the Bonny are at an end, and
trade improving. Ships h;.althv. -
In Cameroona River but little doing. The barque Crown,
of andfroinLiverpool, in entering thcCameroons river,struck
on the Dogs Heads rocks, and has been.condemned.. Most.
of the cargo saved, but much damaged. In Old Calabar
River an improvement in the supply of oil. Ships healthy.
The prico of palm oil at Accra has risen to the outrageous
rate of eight he ids Of.cowries for the pot of nine gallons. of
warm oil.

The rains this year have been terrific ill most parts of
the Eastern district. Some of the mountain brooks have
swollen into laroe rivers, and the path from Accra to Crob-
boe is quite flooded.

Strange to say. there has been very little rain in Crob-
boe itself.

• •
Advices from the Eastern districts of the Gold Coast,
under date of the 6th instant, inform us that, at the town
of Kpong, on the bank of the river Volta, there had been
collected four tons' of cotton, and.that two tons more were
on their way to Kpong; Other accounts of 'a later date
speak of the large quantities of this article that are 'likely
to be shipped to En,gland, now that the natives have been
taught to know that it is valuable. There is now no doubt
whatever that the Gold Coast will become a cotton export-
ing country.

SIERRA LEONE.—Neireide, just gone up river to load
timber; Speculation, ditto, about three weeks since; Mag Fie
Walker, undergoing repairs, having been struck by lignt-
Arriyed The brigs Black Prince, Caroline, and
Constant and the barque Auguste. Victor.

FERNANDO Po, June 29:--H.M.S. Hydra sailed the same
day for the southward. Trade improving.
LAGOS, July 9.—The sea had been so bad that no com-
munication had been had with the shore for ten days. Could
get no mails off, the bar being unpassable. Several canoes
had been lost on the bar, and seven people taken by the
sharks, of which there are literally thousands to be seen
here.

SIERRA LEONE, July 21.—The fever and smallpox had
somewhat abated, after having committed fearful ravages
among the white population, most of the remainder of whom
have left the place.
liAmuitsz, July 25.—A1l healthy.

TENERIFFE, July 30. Business quiet. A Spanish
frigate there, with the newly-appointed Governor of Fer-
nando Po and 200 soldiers, was to sail for the latter place
on 2nd August.
MADEIRA, August 1
the Bay

Xmerican frigate Cumberland in

LIST OF PASSENGERS.-Mr. G. B. 'Scala and servant,
Messrs. Lewis, Davies, Bartels, Davys, Thornley, Rosen-
brush, Fox, Harrison, Brcadhurst, Trestrail, Borel, Silva,
Baveirre, Dronet, Clonston, Ibbott, Escafette, and Benity;
Mesdames New, Grange, Sherman, Davidson, and Rolls.

The Observer understands that the royal commission wilt
speedily be issued for the amendment of the law and evi-
dence in courts of equity. It will be presided over by the
Lord Chancellor, and will comprise the leading law lords,
and other high legal functionaries.

BIRTHDAY OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED
ERNEST ALBERT.--Saturday being the birthday of his
Royal Highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, second son of
her Majesty, the bells of various church steeples in the
metropolis rang forth merry peals, and the flags were hoisted
at Somerset House, the Admiralty, and other Government
offices.