The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-08 00:00:00

THE AFRICAN MAILS.

PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY NIGIIT.
The African Mail Company's steamer Candace,
Captain Hawkesley, has arrived, with the usual"
mails, 27 passengers, a full cargo, and 3,000 ounces
of gold dust, and her cargo includes 340 casks of
palm oil, 180 cakes of beeswax, and 70 pieces of
ivory.

Her dates homeward are :—Old Calabar, Aug,
29th; Caaneroons and Fernando Po, 30th ; Bonny,
Sept. 3d ; Lagos, 6th ; Accra, Bth ; Cape Coast,
9th ; Liberia, 9th ; Sierra Leone, 18th ; Bathurst,
22d ; Goree, 23 ; Tenerifre, 28th ; and Madeira,
30th.

The news brought by this arrival is satisfactory.
The coast was healthy, there were no recent dis-
turbances, and the trade was tolerably brisk.
At Old Calabar, the captain of the English ship
Africa had been severely beaten on shore by the na-
tives. He was progressing favourably. The Euro-
pean residents had sent to Fernando Po to request
the Consul there to send a man-of-war to inquire
into the circumstances. The Candace left Madeira
on the Ist inst., at which the cholera had nearly
subsided. It was estimated that 8,000 persons had
been carried off, but not twenty of whom wero
English.

Much rain had fallen at Liberia, Sierra Leone,
and Bathurst, but those colonies were healthy.
Eight thousand persons are supposed to have
died at Madeira from cholera, which was subsiding.
Her Majesty's screw steam sloop Plumper, 12,
Commander Wm. Haswell, left Lagos on the sth
of September, on a cruise.
Mr. Thotna,s Hutton, a Merchant, had taken
passage in the Candace for England. Whilst com-
ingieli
he was capsized,
and on board
canoe
he
w in
At Sierra Leone, on the 18th Sept., wore her
unfortunately
ats drowned.wlt
Majesty's ships Bloodhound and Firefly. At Bt-
thurst, the Dover Company's steamer Niger left
Liberia, outward bound, on the 13th September.
A French screw steam ship-of-war was lying at
Goree on the 23d of September.
The Candace signalled, on the 13th September,
in ht. 5.57, ion. 10.30 W., the ship St. Andrew
October 4th, in lat. 41.23 N., lon. 11.43 W, the
the
barque Henrietta and in lat. 49.25 N., lon; 5.12
W., the Belgian barque Van Dyck. On enterinf,
the Channel, on the 7th of October, observed a large
number of vessels.

A LADY Pittemint.—A Doncaster paper states that
Miss Buck preached: two sermons in the Wesleyan Cha-
pel of Luddingtou, on Sunday last, kindly lent for the
occasion to the Primitive Methodists. The children con•
netted with the Sabbath school recited a number of
sacred pieces in the afternoon. Miss Buck preached
again on the following evening, in the same place.
THE INCUMBENCY OF CLERKENWELL.—The election by
the vestry (under the recent Local Management Act) of
an incumbent for this parish, rendered vacant by the
death of the Rev. AV, E. L. Faulkner, is fixed for Friday
next. Great excitement prevails amongst the inhabitants,
and the walls of the parish are covered with printed pla-
cards setting forth the claims of the several candidates.
Many of these placards outvie is virulence and abuse
those which occasionally appear in the heat of the fiercest
political contest. Motives of the worst character are im-
puted, not so much, however, to the candidates for the
ministry of the parish as to their leading supporters ;
and this is the More strange as all the clergymen who are
before tine electors belong to the evangelical party.
Tsn FLOGGING OF PAUPER CHILDREN OF ST. PANCRAS
AT WHITECHAPEL UNlON.—Yesterday a meeting of the
directors of the poor of St.. Pancras was held in the
Board-room, Vestry-hall, Camden Town, for the purpose
of receiving the report of a committee appointed rela-
tive to the alleged flogging of pauper children belonging
to the parish of St. Pancras, farmed out at the sch*ools
of the Wbitechapel Union at Forest Gate. The particu-
lars respecting the alleged flogging, it will he recollected,
were contained in a letter written to Mr. La,wferd, a St.
Pancras director, by Mr. Potter, the late master of the
St. Pancras Union, who had been transferred to the
jurisdiction of the Whitechapel authorities. Potter's
letter stated that a boy had been flogged till the blood
flowed. The committee reported that they had examined
Mr. Parton, the schoolmaster by whom the punishment
was inflicted, and eeveral others, including the boy who
was flogged, from whose statements it appeared that the
assertion in Potter's letter was unfounded, aed Potter
himself, ou being interrogated, admitted that ho did not
know that any blood flowed after the beat7eg of the boy
Cowan, but that he was told so by one of the boys. The
committee, therefore, expressed to the guardians of the
Whitechapel Union their regret that such a statement
should have beeri made, and recommended the direct irs
of St. Pancras to intimate to the guardians of White-
chapel that they did not, after what had occurred, de-
sire thorn against their wish to continue in their service
an officer capable of making so grave and unfounded a
staLment. Several directors baying expressed their
Strong opposition to corporal punishment in any form,
the adoption of the report was carried by a largo ninjo-
ray, after which the beard separated.