The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-11 00:00:00

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WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

LIVERPOOL, Thursday.

The African mail steamship Magrerr Laird has
arrived with the mails to the following dates :
Benin, October 24 ; Fernando Po, 29th ;
roans, 31st; Old Calabar, November 2; Brass Riv;:r,
4th; Nun, 4th; Bonny, 7th ; Lagos, 10th ; .Accra,
12th ; Cape Coast Castle, 14th ; Cape Palmas,
Sierra Leone, 21st; Bathurst, 25th; Teneriffe,
cember 1; Madeira, 3d. 16th ;
Staff-Assistant. Surgeon Crow died on boa-'d at
Madeira of dysentery.
Her Majesty
's ships Griffon and Dromedary
were at Fernando Po ; the Eigiva was to sail
thence for Glasgow in a few days; the George,
Hussar, Lucetta, Oeeola,
and Ann were also there.
Consul Burton had arriv, d from the South Co,lst,
,tnd was expected to leave on the 10th of Isit,vtinlir
for D thomey. Trade was flat.
The Mary, Invincible, ArtsmJs, C,)nirnErot?,
Moselle, and the Venus sailed from the Csmercr,ns
tor Liverpool on the 14th of October. Trade was
active, with high prices. The river was healthy.
remain in
From Old Calabar the Commodore, Royal Arch,
Golden Age, and the Huddersfield sailed forLsi•itnecre
October -
pool on the 16th of October. The Cressy was to
sailt
onest
2s9p, r ianegd.
things T r a d ew
ehadre likelyeen stoppedtoma
this state for some time. King Eye and the chiefs
had evacuated Creek Town in consequence of a raid
of the Bioodmen to obtain satisfaction for injuries
inflicted ou some of their tribe by the Creek Town
men. The river was healthy. _ _

The Earl Derby and the Benin were at Benin.
The Lord Burleigh, Express,
Mary Black, Selina,
Orient, Virginian, Paragon, Albr9, Pri le of Canada,
and the Ben M'Cree were at the Brass River, where
trade opened on the 25th of October. The Investi-
gator had come down the Niger, and was met by
Dr. Baikie at theconfluence. Lieutenant Bedford
was left with him. All was well. Six bales of
cotton from the Niger for Manchester have been
shipped in the Macgregor Laird. This is the fiest
product of a screw press fitted up by Mr. Crowther
up the Niger,
The Ipiiigenia, the Richmond, the Cockatoo, the
Belle of the Ocean, the Grand Bonny, the Flora
M'lvor, and the Charles Horsfall were at Bonny.
Captain Peter Thompson, agent for Messrs. Hatton
and Cookson, were drowned on the 10th of October.
The river was very healthy.
Her Majesty's ships E3poir, Investigator, and
Handy, and the sohooner Commodore were at Lagos.
The steamer City of Norwich succeeded in shipping
and getting clear of the coast with 1,200 slaves from
Whydah on the 16th of October.
The hoe Irohin of the 24th of October says :
this
place early in September to proceed up
Her Majesty's ship Investigator, Lieutenant. Commander
the Nigambier,
er, forleft e
purpose of communicating with Dr.
Baikie, and doing several other things of which we have
been unable to precusa any Information for the public. She
arrived at the Nun on September 7, the bar ofwhich river
she crossed on the same day. On the next day, having
on beard the Rev. Samuel Crowther and several other taken
er per-
sons connected with the Church Mission, she proceeded up
the river, anchoring every night. She arrived at Onitsha
on the 13th September, where she discharged most of the
people who were taken on board at the Nun, and, having
procured a supply of wood, went on the confluence at Gbegbe
where the Rev. Mr. Crowther and his party landed. They
then went to the other side of the river, to Lukoja, where
they met Dr. Baikie, On the 19th she left for Egga, and
arrived on the 21st, On the 22d Lieutenant Commander
Gambier, Mr. Adlam, Mr. M'Coskry, and Dr. Baikie set
out for Beda to communicate with the celebrated African
potentate Masaba (Mahomed Saba). We have been unable
to learn any of the incidents of this visit, which must have
been very interesting, beyond the fact that his Highness
sent two horses, one to be presented to her Majesty, and
the other to our Lieutenant-Governor. On the 4th October
they returned to the ship, and started down the river, stop-
ping for fuel, &c,, at most of the places at which they had
stopped on the up voyage. The Rev. Mr. Crowther and
his son, Mr. Josiah Crowther, returned with the Investi-
gator. They crossed the bar of the Nun on the 14th, and
arrived within our port on Sunday morning, the 16th inst.
Some of the officers and crew of the Investigator have suf-
fered slightly from fever."

The same paper of the sth of November states
that the gentlemen who went to Ibadan on a mis-
sion of peace, sent by the Association of Lagos, re-
turned to Abbeokuta that day. The account given
of their reception was hopeful. They were most
hospitably entertained; their message, in short, was
well received. The chiefs spoke of the wrongs they
thought they had received, and said that they de-
sired to be on friendly terms with the Egbas. Their
reply to the message was, "We will gladly meet a
deputation from the opposite party on neutral
ground to talk over our matters, in order to come to
some arrangements." More than that could not be
expected. The Missionary party in Ibadan were
much better provided for than before; the supplies
carried to Oyo for them by Messrs Wood and Ash•
croft had been received, and had added greatly to
their comfort. The amount of produce which had
accumulated in their hands of the merchants and
traders during the long stoppage of the roads was
estimated at 1,000 bales of cotton of 120 or 130
pounds each, which would give at the present prices
at Liverpool a value of £12,000. There is more
difficulty at arriving at a fair estimattefaorf
of the oil, but it is supposed to be no
acnaudsetdrandoenres
times as much.
, the 7th ult. states
The Lagos Anglo-African 0, fromthe value
three
experienced last
that the rain, although abundant,
of the inconvenience which was
year at that time. The
d gtewcaoantfaenvoduinr:
ahabtsaci Delegates from
able. Trade was, as usual, °
an association of native mere
..„,.ead to the interior with were about to p.—
the object of making P
entertainer! parties. Hopes Peace health
between wofe.Lena
wereethe i . of their success,
nature of ease it was evident that
but from the
nothing beyond a temporary peace could be effected,
followed by negotiations for the settlement of the
questions in dispute. There was a rumour that there
had been another battle recently, and that the 'ba-
cillus bad advanced their Camp nearer that of the
Egbas• Another of the great chiefs of Abbeokuta,
Atambala, had died.

The brig Astarte sailed from Accra for London
on Nov. 12th ; and the royal mail steamer Arme-
nian left Cape
Palmas for the Leeward Islands.
Her Majesty's ship
cßoaasttt,laesundakheeraA, j
nidtehsetyb,Brig Alligator were at
Cape
Spar-
row at Sierra Leone.
The Spanish war steamer Gen. Alava, with 800
troops and ammunition, from Cadiz for Havannab,
put into the Island of Palma with her bunkers on
fire. In an attempt made to flood the bunkers the
ship Was sunk. The troops were landed and brought
On to Santa Cruz by her Majesty's ship Speedwell,
Commander Cottam. The Speedwell was to sail for
the Gambia with Governor Darcy and his suite on
Dee. 2. The royal mail steamer Athenian left 3si nad..
ceira on Dec. 2. Her Majesty's ship Pelorce
Faicon, and the steamships Celt, Dare, Presto, and
and Will-o'-the-Wisp were at that Island.

Sundayc, THE CORNISH COAST.—Eirq on
near ot.
ashore
the Prince Rupert, of London, went
she
was
greatly
Anthony's Point during a thick
, sua morning
injured. The bark Palenta, of London,t.
viDhni
rags i
ec' fencel hi
zroi eyrdse .
rails
curable
with Bft of water in her hold
Liverpool, was off Mount's
afternoon. The Castilian, of
,-..taia a ,d part of rigging.
W. The crew were brought
Boy on Saturday with loss of
has
put into Penzance with
The brig Cargey, of Blythec,;inolF4 Falmouth on Monday
two lads had been washed
loss of boats, bulwarks,l 45 •
overboard and drowneoffi
ter, arrived at Chattanooga ,
e could find accommodations for
of
a‘inpe—g4;A°'l4:llokhnneer°,ewand dar ain't nothin' for 'em to
HARD UP.
sah, 'bout the 'comraodations.
isonly a few barn doors, an' we want dem for
eat any more, ,--lcew York Tribune,
horses.
the general's,.„ rsvutsr.]—Consumption, all nervous, bilious ,
oafltehverreystdoreisocgripitteiovnajoboutat
fA°:-ftemach complaints, is every stage, are only ag-
liver- and s d accelerated by drubs
gravatei an
:Aerabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had
been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cure No. 02,914.
Miss Lange, 18 years of age, Cured after the medical men had
abandoned all hopes of her recovery from the last stage of
Pulmonary consumption, with fearful cough, expectoration,
exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow cheeks.
emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a perfectly
healthy, blooming, fleshy girl.—N. Lange, Commissaire doi,3
Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James
Roberts, of
Frim
Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of 19127. d )!lass
indigestion,
, liver
derangement. and partial deafness.—Cure, No.
47
Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness,
gatherincr.
.4,-, 1 .oNv spirits, and nervous fancies.—
Cure, No.
54,816. the Rev. James T. Campbell, Fak
ivenh, Norfolk,
which
had resisted
of indigestion and torpidity of the liver,
all medical treatment. In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; h
21b, 45 6d ; 51b,
-
Barry
and C)., No. 77,
rt
11s; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s. Barry duand
Mason;
and allegent-street, London; also Fnr'nhni
grow n!. and chemists in every WWII of the United Kingdom