The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-09 00:00:00

COAST OF AFRICA.

The General SCT3IV Steam-shipping mail-packet
Hellespont, Captain Watts, chartered by the Royal
African Mail Company, arrived at Plymouth yes-
terday afternoon. She left Sierra Leone Nov. 18;
Bathurst, the 22d ; Goree, the 23d ; and Madeira,
Dee. 2, and brings a large cargo of African and
other produce, viz. :—From Sierra Leone, 4,0001.
in gold-dust and specie, 15 tons of camwood, 50
casks of palm oil, 129 cases and 4 bags of pepper,
15 boxes of arrowroot, 6 casks of beeswax, and 6
packages of sundries. From Bathurst, Gambia,
112 bales and 227 cakes of beeswax, 3 packages of
sundries, and 2501. in specie. From Teneriffe, 83
casks of wine, 472 bags of cochineal (the largest
shipment ever made in one vessel from the island),
24 baskets of fruit, and six packages of sundries.
From Madeira, 72 boxes of oranges.
On the 11th of November her Majesty's steamers
Polyphemus and Pluto and brig Ferret were at
' Sierra Leone. The Polyphemus left on the 13th,
Ferret on the 14th, and Pluto on the 18th of
November. •

Four French war steamers were lying at Goree
on the 23d of November.
The French war steamer Cadette entered Tene-
rife on the 30th of November.
A Brazilian sloop-of-war awl a Portuguese brig
of war were at anchor in Madeira, and the Prussian
frigate Gefion was off the island, waiting for the
sloop-of-war Amazon.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Sharpshooter, from
Plymouth, arrived at Madeira on the Ist of Decem-
ber, and when the Hellespont left was at anchor
there, bound for Rio Janeiro.
days from
efostry'Ls amibsetreia,
earrriDvePed atl7 Madeira on
PlHymeroutTi,aj
the 19th, and left again on the 23d of November.
The Royal mail steamer Magdalena, with the
London mail of the 17th of November, put into
Madeira for coal on the 25th of November, and
left again the same day for St. Thomas's.
Signalled December 2d, off Madeira, the bark
Mid-Lothian, and December 7, lat. 46 39 north,
long. 8 30 west, a schooner, with a blue flag,
B. 218.

SUPPLY OF LOBSTERS TO LONDON. —Billine.s, gate
market is largely supplied with monster lobsters, crabs, and
crawfish, from the coast of Hampshire. In former years
they used to be obtained on the western coast of England,
and as a chief object is to send them to the London market
alive, it is always desirable to bring them to London from
where they are caught by a route that combines the small-
est distance by land and water carriage combined, and.
Ramble, on the coast of Hants, has, for a long series of
years, been a depot for such fish. _Although there is a
railroad to London from the West of England, the time
occupied on the rail is too long to prerrve the fish alive.
s on board sailing
They are consequently conveyed. in tames
vessels to Ramble, where they are thrown into a preserve
and taken from thence and sent to town, on the South-
' Wa. Although the land carriage is very
short, it estern Railwis difficult lt to keep the fish alive in summer, even
when packed in ice. Formerly, the fish used to be col.
lected at the ports between the Start and the Land,s.end,
but latterly, they have been collected on the coasts of
France, and shamble fishing-vessels are now building on
the American model, for swiftness, by which the Bay of
Biscay will be visited. The Marquis of Clanricarde and
Earl Hardwick, the present Postmaster-General' have re-
sidences at Ramble. Mrs. Gore, the celebratedauthoress,nreSS
the e
has
aIsoMYSTERY.—The Bilantia of Genoa
TAEa seatop isit there.
Tlu p
states, from Rome, that the Pope has
immaculate
a
com-
mission to investigate the mystery f the iappointe a
ma
ness. The commission is composed of greatestCardinal
conception of the Holy Virgin with
M. Pacifici, the Canon Audifio, Father
rmoirililuatrei:
Dominican friar,
and
presidentspada a ;
Passaglia, of the Company of
_Fathers Nronne and
Jesus.
CURIOUS LITIGATION IN SCOTLAND.—On Tuesday
the 30th ult. Sheriff Trotter delivered judgment on a
r.hpi which a
#l2eadd
rather knotty point
viz., whether the incorporated tbraedenes fr ies were
entitled to sell, ,for- their own behoof, the gold chain and
medal which had been submitted'ofpum to. him,.
presented to them many years
ago, for the purpose of being worn by the s
co
whonveneh r.
the pursuer in the case was one of the partiead
subscribed for the purchase of the insignia. The sheriff
decided against the defenders. who are thus debarred
from selling the medal.—Scotsman.
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