The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-15 00:00:00

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

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(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
PLYMOUTH, MONDAY.
The African Mail Company's steam-packet Faith,
Captain James Parsons, arrived at midnight. Her
outward dates are—Arrived at Obeira, May 13th :
Teneriffe, June Ist ; Goree, 6th ; Bathurst, 7th ;
Sierra Leone, 10th ; Liberia, 13th ; Cape Coast
Castle, 17th ; Accra and Lagos, 18th ; Bonny,
22d ; Fernando Po, 23d ; Old Calabar, 26th ; and
Lagos 29th. On the homeward passage she left
Lagos July 3d ; Cape Coast Castle, 6th • Liberia,
12th ; Sierra Leone, 27th ; Bathurst and Goree,
31st ; Teneriffe, August 6th ; and Madeira August
Bth. On outward passage the surf ran so high at
Lagos that the mails could not be landed, and they
were placed on board the brig John Bagshaw, lying
at anchor off the harbour. On the homeward pas-
sage severe weather continued.
At Lagos, Mr. Whitford, purser of the Faith, with
her gig and launch, manned by nine Kroomen be-
longing to her Majesty's ship Waterwitch, went
ashore with emigrants and baggage on the 30th
June, and left at 7 p.m. on the Ist July, with stores
and return mails. Mr. Whitford and all hands
were unfortunately lost. On the 2d of July the
screw of the Faith's propeller was unshipped in
consequence of the rottenness of a connecting part
of the machinery called the cutter. On the 3d she
was taken in tow by her Majesty's steamer Poly-
phemui, which conveyed her to Cape Coast Castle,
Liberia, and Sierra Leone, when the propeller was
repaired under the inspection of Mr. Williamson,
engineer of the Polyphemus.
The Faith has a large number of passengers,
among whom are Mrs. Kennedy, the lady of the
Governor of Sierra Leone, and his private secre-
tary, Captain Searle.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Myrmidon, Lieut.-
Commander W. K. Joliffe, was at Fernando Po on
the 26th June.

The Pluto, standing to the southward, was passe,
on the 13th July.
The Britomart was at Sierra Leone on the 27t'
July, and the African mail packet Hope, whic.
left Plymouth on the 2d August, was spoken wit]
by the' Faith, near Madeira, on the Bth inst.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

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HOUSE OF LORDS—(THIS EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at four o'clock.

ROYAL COMMISSION.

The Royal assent was given by commission to the fol-
lowing bills, viz. :—Public Houses (Scotland) ; Parish
Vestries (No. 2) ; Highway Rates ; Elections ; Entering
of Seamen ; Lunacy Regulation ; Incumbered Estates
(Ireland) Act Continuance • Newspaper Stamp Duties ;
Crime and Outrage (Ireland) ; Registrar of Meetings ;
Municipal Corporation Act Amendment ; Sheriffs
Courts (Scotland) ; Oaths in Chancery ; Naval Coast
Volunteers ; Land Tax Redemption ; Consolidated
Annuities (Ireland) ; Turnpike Acts Continuance
(Ireland) ; Poor Relief Act Continuance ; Electric Tele-
graph Company's ; Worcester and Hereford Railway ;
Westport Port and Harbour ; Bayswater, Paddington,
and Holborn Bridge Railway ' • West Cornwall Railway ;
Crieff Junction Railway ; Tralee and Killarney Railway ;
Imperial Continental Gas (No. 2) ; Breen Collegiate
Church ; Castlemain Estuary Reclamation ; Chard Rail-
way ; East Anglian Railway (No. 2) ; Limerick Im-
provement ; Monmouthshire Railway and' Canal ;
Severn and Wye Railway and Canal ; South Wales
Mineral Railway ; Staffordshire Potteries Water Work;
Stamford and Essendine Railway ; Cork and Brandon
(No. 2) ; Galway Improvement; and several private
bills.
The Lords Commissioners were—the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, and the Duke of Argyll.
Their lordships then adjourned during pleasure, and
resumed again at five o'clock.
The Earl of HARDWICK presented several petitions
from Liverpool praying to be exempted from the opera-
tion of the pilotage bill.
INDIA BILL.

Earl GRANVILLE said it had erroneously gone
abroad that he was opposed to the introduction of free
trade into India. He was reported to have expressed
such an opinion on the discussion of the India Bill, but
it was a mistake which he was glad to have the oppor-
tunity of correcting.
UNIVERSITY TESTS.

The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented peti-
titions from several places in Scotland against
the continuance of religious tests in the Universi-
ties of Scotland. The noble marquis said he
concurred in the prayers of the petitioners, and said he
hoped soon to see the day when these tests would be
abolished in the English as well as the Scotch Universi-
ties.

The Duke of ARGYLL presented several petitions
from places in Scotland, in favour of the University
Tests Bill, and praying for the abolition of all religious
tests in the Scotch Universities.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.

On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the
Commons' Amendments to the Charitable Trusts Bill
were considered and agreed to.

SECOND READINGS.

The following bills were read a second time and or-
dered to be committed, viz. :—Land Tax Commissioners'
Names Bill ; Defacing the Coin Bill ; Linen, &c., Ma-
nufactures (Ireland) Bill ; and Militia Ballot Suspension
and Militia Law Amendment Bill.
HACKNEY CARRIAGES DUTIES BILL.

On the motion of Lord STANLEY of Alderley, this
bill was ordered to be read a second time this day three
months, as an objectionable amendment had been intro-
duced into the fourth clause by the Commons.