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

COAST OF AFRICA.

The General Screw Staam-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,
Dec. 2, and brings a large cargo of African awl
other produce, viz. :—From Sierra Leone, 4,00 W.
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 biles 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 and 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.
Her Alajesty's steamer Dee, .17 days from
Plymouth, for Liberia, arrived at Madeira on
the 19th, and mail steamer again on theM 23d of Novwith the
ember.
The Royalagdalena,
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. —Billingsgate
market is largely supplied with monster lobsters, crabs, and
crawfish, from the coast of Hampshire. In former year'
they used to be obtained on the western coast of Englan,
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 smallt-
est distance by land and water carriage combined,
sand
Ramble, on the coast of Hants, has, for a long series of
ears been a depot for such fish. Although tueiree is
railroad to London from the West of England'
the fish alive.
occupied on the rail is too long to. Preserve
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vessels to Ramble,
whore they are thrown 1 1
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but latterly, they have been collected on the coasts of
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Franco, and shamble fishing-vessels are now building on
the American model, for swiftness, by which the Bay of
Biscay will bo visited. The Marquis of Clanricarde and
Earl Hardwick, the present Postmaster-General, have re-
sidences at Ramble. Mrs. Gore, the celebrated. authoress,
has also a seat there.
DIE POPISH MYSTERY.—The
states, from Rome, that the Pope has
mission to investigate the mystery of iteil: oof Genoaimmaculate
_appointed a com-
mission
of the Holy Virgin
minute-
ness. The commission is composed of ec grdea,teasltFopresident ; M. P i.g
- ac—ci, the Canon Aarucliffo, Father
Spada, a Dominican friar, and Fathers Pe • onue and
i
Passaglia, of the Company of Jesus.
CURIOUS LITIGATION
IN SCOTLAND.—On Tuesday
the 30th ult. Sheriff Trotter
rather knotty
point which had been submitted to him,
viz., whether the incorporated
trades of Dumfries were
entitled to sell, for their own behoof, the gold chain and
medal which had been presented to them many years
ago, for the purpose of being worn by the convener.
The pursuer in the case was one of the parties who had
subscribed for the purchase of the insignia. The sheriff
decided against the defenders. who are thus debarred
frOrn selling the medal.—Scotsman.
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from Mrs. Simpson, of Bramley, uear Leeds, dated Oct.
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afflicted for 18 months with a very bad leg, in which
there were three deep wounds. I tried all kinds of
remedies, and was under the care of different surgeons
here and at Leeds, but derived no benefit from their
treatment. I was at length advised to resort to your
Ointment and Pills, and I am happy to say, that by the
use of these valuable medicines my leg is completely
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Strand, London,