The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-07 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY MORNING.

The Royal African Mail steam-ship Ethiope,
Commander Croft, arrived in the Sound this morn-
ing. Her dates are—Fernando Po, July 29th;
Cameroons, 31st; Old Calabar, Aug. 3d; Bonny,
6th ; Lagos, Bth ; Accra, 10th ; Cap Coast, 11th ;
Liberia, 15th ; Sierra Leone, 19th ; Bathurst, 23d ;
Teneriffe, 29th ; and Madeira, 31st.
The Ethiope brings 2,656 ounces of gold dust,
£224 sterling, 25,000 franc pieces, 264 dols., and
379 casks of palm oil.

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Commander White from Sierra Leone and Capt.
Lock from the Gambia are among her 30 passen-
gers, who have presented Capt. Croft with a valu-
able telescope for courteous attention during the

voyage.
At Sierra Leone trade is stagnant, and not likely
to recover, as the King of Tootah has closed the
passes into the Moria country. Hides, 70. to Bd. ;
palm oil, is. 10d. per gallon ; nut oil, is. 6d. ; palm
nuts, 2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d. per bushel; camwood £8 to
£2O per ton.
There is some improvement in the weather.
The lady of the Bishop of Sierra Leone died on
the 4th of August, after giving birth to a son.
Disturbances have occurred in the Port Locho
and Ro Pett districts, several lives lost, and many

natives carried off prisoners.
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steamship Hecla, 6,
Commander Aplin ; the paddle-wheel steamship
Myrmidon, Commander Robinson ; and Spanish
war steamer, with the Governor on board, were .at
Fernando Po ; the brig Childers, 12, Commander
Swinburn ; the paddle-wheel steamvessel Trident,
6, Commander Close ; and the gunboat Teazer, were

at Sierra Leone.
The Sardinian brig-of-war Colombo, Commander
the Marquis Manstaca, was there on the 6th' of
August.
On the 20th the Ethiope supplied coal to the
steamer Rainbow, belonging to the Niger expedi-

VA ',AA,
The African Mail Company's steamship Gambia
was spoken on the 14th of August, bound to the
Cape Coast, and the American, on the 30th, for
Teneriffe. _ _

The merchant barque Genevieve, Captain Portal,
has been totally wrecked off the Island Matacong.
The brigantine Neophyte, which sailed July 6,
for Liverpool, returned on the 20th, to Sierra
Leone, having lost the master and all the crew,
several persons, from jungle fever. She was
brought back by two native seamen, super-
numeraries.

At Old Calabar the Africa, Paramattei at
Abeona ; at Sierra Leone the barques Enterprise
and ,Speculation, brigs Ben Campbell and Talbot,
schooners Robert 'Teddies, Emily, Elizabeth Marr,
Reive, Augusta, Maggie Walker, Malalong, and
Uncle Nat.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.

Prince Napoleon will, it is expected, leave Paris
about the 25th for Algeria, and will probably em-
bark at Cette. The council-general of the Herault
has expressed a wish that his Imperial Highness
would visit that port, which is the entrepot of pro-
ductions of the south-west of France destined for
exportation to the African colony, and it is thought
that his Imperial Highness will comply with the
request.
Marshal Bosquet, whose departure from Paris
for Pau has been announced, proceeded by railway
to Dax, where he was received by the members of
his family, who accompanied him to the Villa
Olympia, at Pau, which is occupied by his mother.
At the Marshal's express request no military
honours were paid him. He appeared much
fatigued, but nevertheless his health has improved,
and his physicians say that his native air will do
him more good than all the assistance of art.
" A statement having been made in an English
journal," says the Pays," that in consequence of
the murder of a French sailor in a street of Canton
all the inhabitants of the street had been massacred
by the French, we are.able to contradict the asser-
tion so made. A French sailor was, in fact, mur-
dered by the Chinese, but the assassins, three in
number, were arrested, and after being tried were
executed. They were the only persons who suffered
the punishment due to the crime."
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe arrived yesterday
morning in. Paris en route for Constantinople.
M. de Thouvenel, the French ambassador at
Constantinople, has obtained leave of absence, and
is expected in France at the end of the present
month. It is rumoured that he will request not to
return to Turkey, and that he will be replaced at
Constantinople by M. Benedetti, chief of the poli-
tical direction at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
BOURSE, Sept. 6.—The market has been buoy-
ant, and securities have improved. Threes, after
having been done at 71fr. 40e., advanced to
71fr. 85c. Mobilier varied from 840 fr. to 860 fr. ;
Austrian, 672 fr. 50c. to 682 fr. 50c. ; Orleans'
1,365 fr. to 1,372 fr. 50c. ; Lyons, 823 fr. 75e. to
830 fr. ; Eastern, 727 fr. 50c. to 740 fr. ; Southern,
565 fr. to 575 fr.; and Northern, 955 fr. to 962 fr. 50c.
The following were the closing quotations :-
41 per Cents. .. • . 97 65 Credit Foncier 640
Do. end month .. Belgian 41
3 per Cents. 72 Piedmontese (5) , 91
Do. end month.... 72 25 Roman 9l 25
Bank Shares. 3150 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 870 Spanish Threes
Do. Account

RAILWAYS.

Cash.

Accowr
1380 -

Orleans
Northern
New ditto. BlO
Lyons and Mediterranean B3O
New ditto
Geneva

962 50
812 50
828 75

620

Midi
Western

572 50 ..
632 50 ..

Eaetern
Grand Central
Sardinian

73.5 -

738 75

465
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Austrian

THE EAST.

A letter from Jerusalem of 18th ult. says :-

6'75 - .. 683 75

" Some of the leading Mussulmans of Gaza
attempted, after the massacre of Jeddah, to get up
a movement against the Christians, but did not
succeed. In no other place has anything of the
kind been done, though throughout the Turkish
Empire a certain degree of hostility to the Chris-
tians is manifested. The Pacha of Jerusalem has
not yet returned from his visit to Gaza, being
anxious to arrest the famous Santon or Mufti, who
is labouring to excite agitation amongst the people.
It is, however, no easy task to capture him, as,
from his reputation of sanctity, all protect him.
Nine persons who were arrested at Gaza are still
in prison at Jerusalem, and they are causing their
friends to exert themselves in order to avoid pay-
ing too large a sum for their release. During the
last ten years, the Mussulman propagandism has
been making great progress in Asia and Africa, and
the European powers have perhaps not paid suffi-
cient attention to the fact. This propagandism is
not only directed against Christianity, but against
the power of the Sultan, who is accused by fana-
tics of betraying Islamism. For years past, devout
scheiks, whose zeal has been exalted by pilgrimages
to Mecca, have been traversing the Asiatic pro-
vinces of Turkey in all directions to restore the faith
of the people, and excite their fanaticism against
Christians. In some towns they have formed asso-
ciations, and have enrolled numbers of persons.
One of these societies has been established at Jeru-
salem ; the members of it affect to be exceedingly
strict in their conduct, observe fasts, assemble every
Friday at the Mussulman sanctuary of Neby Daoud
(tomb of David) on Mount Sion, and go from it in