The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-04 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH, MONDAY MORNING.

The mail steamship Athens, Commander Strudd,
arrived this morning from the Cape of Good Hope.
She left Table Bay Aug. 21st ; St. Helena, 31st ;
Ascension, Sept. 4th ; and Madeira, Sept. 21st.
Her cargo consists of 71 pipes, 188 hogsheads, 67
quarter-casks, 111 aums, 6 ankers, 4 kegs, and 6
cases wine, 1 case brandy, 181 elephants' tusks,
2,000 horns, 100 giraffe bones, 7 cases ostrich
feathers, 140 cases arrowroot, 17 bales of wool, 18
bales sheepskins, 18 casks whale oil, 9 bundles
whalebone, 5 tons spelter, 708 slabs copper, 100
bales cotton, 149 bags linseed, six bales rags, 60
cases cowries, 400 cases oranges, and 58 various
packages.
Her intelligence is nine days later than that by
the Indiana.

The markets continue unchanged, and great dul-
ness prevails.

The general election commenced in September.
The missionary party, consisting ofthe Ven. Mr.
Moffatt and wife, Mr. Moffatt, jun., and wife, and
the wife of Dr. Livingstone, were to leave shortly
for the interior. The missionaries for the Mako-
lobo and Matabelo will not accompany them, but
leave a month afterwards.

Colonel Von Haken, of the British Legion, a
Waterloo hero, who fought under Blucher, died
recently in Kaffraria.
It is expected that the second battalion of the
60th Rifles and the 26th Regiment will leave the
Cape shortly for India.
The steamship Megoera and the East India Com-
pany's war steamer were embarking horses in
Simon's Bay. The Hermes was refitting.
The Carpentaria, of Liverpool, from Bombay,
arrived in Simon's Bay on the 16th of August
leaky.

The crew of the Marion More were in a state of
mutiny.
The Athens was detained at the Cape 24 hours
by orders of the Governor, of whose arrival on the
frontier no intelligence had been received.
She experienced light winds all the way from
the Cape, with only one day north-east trade ; put
into Madiera for fuel ; subsequently strong north-
east winds prevailed, with heavy gales on the 25th
and 26th of September.
A large number of ships had called at St.
Helena for refreshments on 28th and 29th of
August.
At Ascension, the steam-ship Hercula, which
arrived on the 3d from St. Helena, and the store-
ship Buffalo.
A succession of S.S.W. and W. gales had been
experienced at Madeira.
The French brig Horns, Capt. Azemas, from
Cette, with wine, oil, and brandy, for Martinique,
foundered off the east end of the Island on the 20th
September : crew saved.
The Athens spoke Aug. 27, in lat. 20 S., long.
5 W., the ship Sumatra, of Palermo, bound to
Gibraltar, 105 days out : supplied her with pro-
visions. Aug. 30, lat. 10.40 S., long. 5 W., the
barque Wilhelmina Catharina, from Java for Rot-
terdam. Sept. 1, lat. 14.20 S., long. 7.30 W., the
barque Kahlambra, 42 days from Algoa Bay. Sept.
24, lat. 37.39 N., long. 12.52 W., barque William
Edward, for Rio Janeiro. Sept. 25, lat. 39 N.,
long. 13.50 W., ship Trafalgar, of London, steering
S.W, Sept. 27, lat. 39 N., long. 13.50 W., barque
Caledonia, steering S.W. ; and lat. 39 N., long.
13.50 W., ship Derwentwater, from London for
Hobart Town. Sept. 26, lat. 47 N., long. 15.39 W.,
Park Paragon, steering N.W. Sept. 30, lat.
43.49 N., long. 11.58 W., bark Moultrie, steering
S.W. Oct. 1, lat. 45.4 N., long. 9.51 W., her
Majesty's steamer Terrible, with the gunboats
Growler and Quail in tow, steering S.W.

AUSTRALIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE OCEAN CHIEF.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY E VENiff a.

The Black Ball packet ship Ocean Chief has
arrived at this port from Melbourne. She sailed
from thence on the 15th July, rounded Cape Horn
when twenty-five days out, crossed the Equator
August 28, and. since then has had light and
baffling winds. She has brought 47,594 ounces of
gold.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING

The British and North American Royal Mail
steam-ship Asia, Capt. Lott, arrived in the Mersey
shortly before noon to-day, with later intelligence
from the Western Continent. She left Boston on
the 22d, and Halifax on the 24th ult., and she
brings advices from New York by telegraph to the
23d. Besides the mails, the Asia brings 78 passen-
genera including Mr. Charles Mathews- and lady
(late Mrs. Davenport), of the New York theatres.
[lt ought to be noticed that the news brought by
the Pacific, on the Galway and Halifax line, which
arrived on Friday, is one day later than that
brought by the Asia, which arrived on Saturday.
This is an important point in favour of the Galway
line.]
The screw steamer North Briton arrived at
Quebec on the 20th, but in consequence of a storm
prevailing her news could not be•obtained until the
following day.
The Niagara (Cunard line) had arrived from Li-
verpool at Halifax on the 22d ult.
The Maine elections have ended in giving a com-
plete republican senate. • ,
The large steam-frigate noticed some months ago
as building for the Russian Government has been
successfully launched. Some 50,000 persons were
present.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided that
tamarinds preserved in sugar are subject to' a duty
of 30 per cent. ; cotton socks with dyed tips 15 per
cent. ; and spring steel the same rate of duty.
The steam-frigate Niagara left Charleston on the
evening of the 20th for Africa, with the Africans
captured in the Echo slaver, by the American brig
of war Dolphin.
The steamer Water Witch left for Norfolk on
the 21st, and the Fulton was to leave next day.
They were there to complete their crews, and
thence proceed without delay to Buenos Ayres to
await the arrival of the other vessels of the Para-
guay expedition.
The deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans
are on the increase. For the thirty hours ending
noon on the 20th they had reached to 107.
A plentiful supply of money continued to pre-
vail at New York. In Exchange there was nothing
doing. Cotton was a shade firmer, and prices
ranged from 134; to 131 for mid. Uplands. Flour
receipts were large. State and Western were a
shade better, with a good demand for home con-
sumption, and a moderate export inquiry ; unsound
brought 3 dols. 60c. to 4 dols. 60c. ; superfine
State, 5 dols. 15c. to 5 dols. 25c. ; extra State, 5
dols. Sc. to 5 dols. 60c. ; common to good extra
Western, 5 dols. 40c. to 5 dols. 70c. Southern
more active and firmer ; mixed to good selling at' 4
dols. 70c. to 5 dols. 50c. ; fancy and extra, 5 dolg
60c. to 8 dols.