Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-11 00:00:00

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24th ult. The Africa royal mail steamerEthiope at
Cape Palmas on the lOth.September, outward bound.

OLD CALABAR,

A new king has been placed upon the throne of Duke
Town, in Old Calabar,. under the title of Archibong 2nd.
At the ceremony of installation all the supercargoes and
missionaries were present at Palaver House. The
people having been all assembled by beat of drum, a
native officer proclaimed the new king. In the after-
noon, a grand dinner, partly in native and partly in
European style, was given in the king's own house.
The king presented each white man and native gentle-
man present with a silk scarf. There were some
speeches made, and a groat deal of kind and friendly
feeling seemed to prevail. The king was crowned with
a black beaver hat. The first act of the new monarch's
reign was the abolition of Swiday markets, which had
hitheato been regularly held.

The West African Herald says :—The mortality on
the Windward Coast has been awful. The Armenian,
Captain Walker, which arrived on the 17th instant,
brings intelligence of a great number of deaths in Sierra
Leone and Gambia ; at the former place the Colonial
Secretary, Mr. Smyth, and Mr. Drape, the editor of the
Yew Era, besides several others, including several of
the Roman Catholic priesthood. At the Gambia six-
teen out of forty Europeans were dead, and most of the
remainder had led.

FERNANDO PO

Spain, which for so many years utterly neglected and
despised her possessions in the Bight of Biafra, now at
last recognises their value, and evinces her determina-
tion to develop their resources. We have before us a
royal decree, dated the 13th December, 1858, directing
her most Catholic Majesty's Minister for the Colonies to
" adopt the necessary measures to colonise the islands
of Fernando Po, Annobon, Corisco, and their depen-
dencies." The Minister of Marine is also directed to
arrange with the Minister of the Colonies as to what
vessels of war are to be kept on that station.
Three hundred thousand dollars in cash have been
imported into the island of Fernando Po by the new
governor for the necessary exuenses of the Government.
Pluto captured a slaver with a Spanish crew,
(name and nation unknown, as her commander showed
no colours or papers) in the neighbourhood of Kabenda,
at the end of July last. She has been sent to the
mixed Commission Court, at St. Helena, for adjudica-
tion.

DEATH.-At Bonny, on hoard the Athenian, on the
28th August, Captain Philips, of the intereolonial mail
steamer Retriever.

FERNANDO Po, Sept. 28.—H.M.S. Vesuvius, Com-
modore Wise, to sail for Ascension, 2nd October.
H.M.S. Buffalo, five Spanish men-of-war, and the
British barque Lucetta in the bay. The new Governor,
who had recently arrived, had received from the Spanish
Government the sum of £75,000 to lay out for the im-
proving of the island. He had sent to the Windward
Coast for 500 Kroomen, as labourers, for that purpose.
European residents very sanguine as to ultimate great
increase_ of trade. Rains very heavy. Colony healthy.
UAMEROONS
Oct. I.—Trade dull. Colony healthy.
shortly between native

of a disturbanc

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY Or BAHR NOTES, GOLD, AND
JEWELLERY, AT THE OLD SWAN.-011 Wednesday after-
noon, between the hours of half-past four and seven
o'clock, a most daring robbery was committed at the Old
Swan, when property to the amount of nearly £2,000 was
stolen. It appears that, about three months ago, a mid-
dle-aged man, named Henry Moore, a boiler-maker,
came to reside in Sandstone-road, Old Swan. He had for
some years previously followed his occupation in Manches-
ter, Paris, and London, and had managed, during that pe-
riod, to save out of his earnings £2,000. A few weeks ago
he purchased a property in Toxteth-park, and in order
to pay for the same, he drew £1,500 in bank Rotes, and
about £lOO in gold, out of a bank at Manchester.
The sum had only been in the house a few days. On
Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Moore had occasion to go to
Liverpool, and there being no one residing in the house
at the time but her husband and herself, Mrs. Moore
locked up the premises, and considered that all was
safe. On her return home, about half-past seven
o'clock in the evening, she discovered that the house
had been entered, and all the bank notes and
£75 in gold, two watches, and three brooches, stolen.
The property was deposited in a bag in one of the
drawers, in a bed-room, which was docked, and there
can be no doubt that the thief or thieves must have
well known where it was placed, for the only drawer
broken open was that in which the property was placed.
Unfortunately Mr. Moore had not the numbers of the
notes (three for £5OO each) ; but yesterday' he went to
Manchester, to the bank, and is in hopes that he will
be able to stop payment of them. We understand that
suspicion attaches to a domestic recently in Mr. Moore's
service. From footmarks at the back of the premises
lealthy. the house appears to have been entered through a bed-