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WEST AFRICAN MAILS.

The African Company's Royal Mail steamship
Macgregor Laird, Commander Croft, arrived at Li-
verpool at an early hour yesterday morning, with
the mails from the West Coast of Africa, Teneriffe,
and Modina. By this arrival we have dates from
Benin to March 25th; Fernando Po, 30th; Came-
roons, April 1; Old Calabar, 2; Bonny, 7 ; Brass,
4; Lagos, 10; Accra, 12; Cape Coast Castle, 15;
Cape Palmas, 17; Sierra Leone, 21; Bathurst, 25;
Teneriffe, May 1 ; Medina, 3. Besides a full cargo
the Macgregor Laird brings 50 passengers.
The tidings which reached us last month from
the West Coast of the intentions of the King of
Ashantee to make a descent upon the countries under
British protection are verified by the advices of the
present mail. The King of Ashantee had invaded
the protected countries on the Gold Coast, in conse-
quence of the refusal of the English Government to
deliver up to the officers of the King of Ashantee
the fugitive native chief who is accused of stealing
gold rock, and who, in order to escape losing his
head, fled into British territory. Owing to the
inn fficiency and timidity of the scouts of the Fantees
but little intelligence was obtained, and that con-
sisted of reports of a ♦aried character; but it would
appear that three large bodies of Ashantees are in
the protectorate, threatening the countries of Was-
sau, Assim, and Akim. The last accounts stated
that several skirmishes had taken place, and some
Ashantee heads had been brought to Cape Coast
and Accra.
On the morning of the 15th April a large body
of regular trcops, supported by volunteers, were to
hsve marched in aid of the main bcdy of Fantees,
encamped some distance in the interior. Commo-
dore Wilmot and the officers and men of the Rattle-
snake had entrenched ani garrisoned Cape Coast
and the environs, and assistance bud been demanded
by Governor Pine from Gambia and Sierra Leone, in
consequence of which nearly 200 men had been des-
pated at once from these stations to the Gold Coast.
It is calculated that we shall have about 750 re-
gular troops and upwards of 350 volunteers, all
armen with Enfield rifles, in andition to the large
native force.

It is thought that if we advance too far inland
we shall bo in great danger, both from the nature
of the country, which is composed of almost impe-
netrable bush, and therefore very favourable to the
Ashantees and theis mode of fighting, and from the
likelihood of being cut off by one or other of the
invading corps, and deprived of the means of com•
municating with headquarters or our base of sup-
plies. Her Majesty's shisps Rattlesnake, Ranger,
Medina, and Just were lying off Cape Coast Castle ;
while the Wrangler was at Sierra Leone shipping
troops for Cape Coast.