The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-11 00:00:00

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 10.
The Royal Mail steamship Cleopatra, Captain A.
J. M. Croft, arrived to-day with the usual mails,
and 1,050 ounces in specie.

The Licorue, French frigate, had visited Bonny,
and threatened to bombard the town if a debt of
long standing, alleged to be due by the native
traders to a French firm, was not immediately paid.
The money was paid. The river was healthy.
Old Calabar was healthy.
At Cameroons trade was improving. The river
was healthy. The natives were still at war with
Ebo.

The Spanish emigrants were rapidly leaving
Fernando Po, owing to the great mortality among
them. Mr. Mann had ascended to the peak of Fer-
nando Po. While there he was caught in a heavy
hailstorm. With the exception of Governor Bea-
croft, he is the only person who has performed the
feat. Trade was in a fair condition.
The colonists at Sierra Leone were much disap-
pointed at the non-arrival of the Governor.
At Lagos fever was raging. Trade was dull,
owing to the natives being at war.
From the Gold Coast we have the following
report :—" These settlements are steadily ad-
vancing, as I learn, in a moral as well as mate-
rial point of view. Mr. Andrews, the new Go-
vernor, who arrived per Cleopatra, is very
popular, and it is believed he will effect much good.
The missionaries continue to do a great deal of good
in the way of educating and Christianising the
people of the settlements. The merchants complain
loudly that the trade is unprofitable, and they at-
tribute this to the fact of there being an immense
number of native petty traders in all parts of the
country. It is certain, however, that there are
now less of these „small traders than formerly,
several having failed in business. There is a plen-
tiful palm-oil season now. A movement has been
begun in the neighbourhood of Cape Coast among
some native merchants to dig in the mines of the in-
terior for gold dust. This article is to be found in
very large quantities in the Fantee and Ashantee
countries. Some cotton is being cultivated on the
Gold Coast. A native gentleman, named Francis
Grant, is giving great encouragement to it. His
Excellency Governor Andrews is also a warm sup.
porter of the movement that has been here initiated
to plant cotton. The peace of the settlements has
been endangered lately. Two powerful chiefs in
the interior, acknowledging allegiance to the British
Government, have been fighting against each other,
and much blood has been spilled. The
King of Ashantee, it is feared, has been mix-
ing himself up with the quarrel. The gold
trade has suffered much during the last month
in consequence of these disturbances. Much
confidence, however, appears to be placed in the
policy of the Executive Government. The ad-
ministration of justice by the British Courts at Cape
Coast is said to be working immense good to the
country."

Her Majesty's birthday was gaily celebrated at
Bathurst. Governor D'Arcy was very popular both
among the Europeans and natives. There was a
rumour of a disturbance likely to take place between
the Europeans and a tribe of negroes living about 12
miles from Bathurst.

Her Majesty's ship Eury alus arrived at Teneriffe
on the 27th, and left on the 30th for Bahia:
During his stay Prince Alfred, accompanied by
Captain Tarleton and Professor Piazzi Smyth,
ascended to the Peak, notwithstanding the great
accumulation of snow on the mountain. His Royal
Highness endeavoured to preserve his incognito
during his stay, but his rank was discovered, and
he received a very friendly reception. The winter
had been very severe at Teneriffe. The country
people were turning their attention to the cultiva-
tion of tobacco.

The Euryalus also touched at Madeira, where
Prince Alfred was received with due honour. He
was present at a ball given by the Consul, and
played at cricket with the club.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Ann and Elizabeth, and Madras, at Sierra Leone.
Bess Grant, and Maggie Walker, sailed from
Sierra Leone, for this port.
Elizabeth Emily, Lotty Sleigh, Medea, and In-
vincible, at Cameroons.

Mary Ann, :Mary Hamilton, Queen of the Isle,
Majestic, Paramatta, and Clangregor, at old Cala-
bar.

Orpheus, of Milford Haven, Victor, loading for
Queenstov,n, James Hay, and Eliza, at Fernando
Po.

Isabella Secundo (Spanish frigate intended for
bulk), Santa Maria, and Santa Teresa, at Fernando
Po.

Amelia, Lilly, Mary Ann Bruford, Empress,
Guanchee, and the French frigate Bayonnaise, for
Brazil, at Teneriffe.

Her Majesty's steamer Prometheus, Grace Work-
ington, Monte Cristo, Voyageur, Bon Pere, Ma-
thilde, and Marseille, at Bathurst.
Majestic, Paramatta, Elizabeth Morrison, Clan-
gregor, Honesta (ready for sea), Mosquita, Lucetta,
Africa, and Rhoderic Dhu, at Duke Town.
Spoken by the Cleopatra, June 4, in lat 37 18 N,
long 15 16 W, bark Janet; June 5, lat 40 37 N,
long 13 45 W, Suffolk, bound south.
St. Andrew's, Charles Horsfall, Osprey, Sobraon,
Benledi, Magnolia, Pomona, Woodman, Ellerslie,
Grand Bonny, ship (nearly ready for sea), at
Bonny.
Her Majesty's ship Arrogant left Laos for Fer-
nando Po and South Coast ; her Majesty's ship
Archer, on the South Coast ; her Majesty's ship
Prometheus, at Sierra Leone ; her Majesty's ship
Spitfire, at Cape Coast Castle; her Majesty's ship
Electo, gone south. At Lagos, her Majesty's gun-
boats Bruiser, Eagle, Providence, Pride, Richard
and William, Mentor, and Newton (master dead).
The Cleopatra towed out the Thornhill, from
Bonny.
The screw steamer Retriever towed the Tapley,
from Duke Town.
The Mary Hamilton, of Glasgow, and the Queen
of the Isle, of Liverpool, at Creektown.

Mr. Osborne paired with Sir E. Filmer against
Sir J. Fergusson's amendment on Thursday last.
THE LATE GALES.—Among the north country
vessels that are supposed to have perished during the late
gales with their crews is the Star of North Shields. She
sailed for Holland some days before the Whit Monday
storm, and has not since been heard of. She had eight
hands on beard. The owners had given up all hopes of her
on Saturday. ,Thero is a report of the loss of a vessel bound
from the Tyne to Holland, which, beside the crew, had the
master's wife and four children on board ; but it is to be
hoped that the rumour is not true. Five of the bodies of
the unfortunate seamen lost in the Jana Green near Hartle-
pool have been picked up and decently interred. The ships
stranded at Redcar during the storm have been got off with.
out any very serious damage.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.--.At the Comitia
:galore, held on Friday, June 8, the following members of
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square ; Nicholas Tyacke, M.D., Chichester William
Harcourt Ranking, L.M. Cantab., Norwich; Wm. Davies,
M.D., Bath; Alexander Bryson, M.D., Barnes,J Surrey;
Sir Henry Cooper, . •M D Hull ; Thomas Graham Balfour,
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M.D., 10, Sumner -place, n E ow.square ; Charles More-
head, M.D., Bombay ; Thomasf vans, M.D., Glocester ;
Charles E. Brown-Sequard, A 81,
Wimpole-street ; and
Henry Hurry Goodeve, M.D., Stoke Bishop, near Bristol.
Flowers and Gardens. --We loiter on, and
down a close, iron-railed area. We Elea a goodly number of
half-dead plants, with their brown leaves supported
by e
green st!.oka, m Pots of extreme brunette complexion,
some of which plant So totally devoid of " charac-
ter" in their foliage, that their "order" is a yitery.
These are the especial a znnd treasured property of the
cook, who is never known to abuse her favourite tabby—a
matchless mouser—save when he surreptitiously nibbles at
the white pinks ; she has serious thoughts of rubbing them
with mustard, to deter him from the indulgence, having
tried pepper without any success. In the balcony of
the drawing-room above, we perceive snewny
camelias
and
gorgeous cactuses and oleanders eta- ding up
la their rich china vases, in attractive and splendid
magntheenee. They belong to the young heiress,
who tends them daily with her own delicate and jewelled
fingers, and who dispensed as decided and 'vulgar a box oit the ear of her juvenile sister, for destroying the bud of a
matchless arum, as could have been bestowed by the
most unrefined of exasperated young ladies. It is plain
that those above and those below "love flowers."
Gardens are pleasant places. They were so when under
the classical patronage of Serairamus and Alcinous, and
th©y form charming, attractive " green spots" in the world's
arid choking waste in these modern days, past and present,
bearing the patronymics of Ranelagh, Vauxhall, Versailles,
Tuileries, hew, Rosherville, Kensington, or Cremorne.
There is something ;refreshing in the very word "gar-
den." Whether the style be Italian or Dutch, it is of little
consequence a, far as the general impulse of humanity is con-
cerned. We admit that we prefer to ramble where Nature and
Art keep up a becoming family feeling of union—yet, when
we find ourselves shut up with perfect Euclidian right lines
and angles, and peacocks cut out of box trees, whose only
merit is that they do not scream—yet, we say, we cannot
quarrel with the place they disfigure. We feel that a
" gardee was intended, and that is enough to sanctify the
most atrocious bad taste. "Flowers and sweet green
leaves" are among the most prominent of the "beautiful
and undying," and we reverently recognise them as the
silent ministers of God's unfathomable power and the un-
ceasing shrines of man's instinctive homage.--. Eliza Cook's
" Jottings from my Journals."