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London, England, 1858-08-09 00:00:00

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WEST COAST OF. ERICA.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

PLYMOUTII, SUNDAY.
The steam-sbip Armenian, Capt. Dring, arrived
here this morning with the mails from the West
Coast of Africa, Teneriffe, and Madeira.
She left Cameroons, June 26 ; Fernando Po, 28 ;
Calabar, July 1; Bonny, 6 ; Lagos, 8 ; Accra, 10 ;
Cape Coast Castle, 11; Monrovia, 15 ; Sierra Leone,
20 ; Bathurst, 24 ; Goree, 25 ; Teneriffe, 30 ;
Madeira, August 1.

She brings 32 passengers, among whom are Mr,
Hutchinson, British consul, from Fernando Po

Capt. Hunt, late of the Sunbeam, Niger exploring
vessel ; Dr. Beale, from Accra ; and Lieut. Blake,
from Cape Coast.
Her cargo consists of 4,621 puncheons palm oil,
36 pieces ivory, 20 packages of general merchandise,
50 bags of cochineal, and 20 pipes of wine ; also 1,555
ounces of gold, and £2,000 in specie.
At Cameroons trade was dull.
At Fernando Po Governor Lynslager had been
superseded by Signor Don Carlos Chacon. In con-
sequence of the rigorous proclamation issued by the
new Governor (referred to by the last mail) the
Protestant missionaries, accompanied by many of the
inhabitants, has left for Arnboises,Where they intended
forming a settlement:, •
The Ardent and Myrmidon Were at Fernando Po.
It was intended to found an hospital at. Point
William, near Clarence.
Trade vas brisk at Old Calabar, and the rains had
• •
set in. -
At Bonny trade was also prosperous. It wal
reported that small-pox had broken out on troard the
merchant ship Faith, lying in the river. -• • • - -
The brig Blondine, of Liverpool, laden with palm
oil, was totally lost outside the_bar ; -crew and -part
of cargo saved.
Palm oil trade was flourishing at Lagos.
H.M.S. Sharpshooter was at Accra.
H.M.S. Buffalo was at Cape' Coast Castle, waiti:eg
to convey Acting Governor Bird -to arbitrate on
some differences that had arisen between the natives
of Apollonia and Assince.
lI.M. ships Trident, Alert, and Childers were at
Sierra Leone.
A fatal accident occurred on the 24th June, on
the Gallinas bar, by the upsetting of a boat belong-
ing to the Childers, by which three officers of that
vessel lost their lives. Their names are—Assistant-
Surgeon Francis Davey, Assistant-Paymaster Chas,
Kenrick Foulkes, and Master's-Assistant Strome!),
The boat is said to have been only 100 yards from
the shore, and the depth of water between the in-
tervals of the breakers two feet. It is supposed thut
sharks must have seized the unfortunate officers, as
they were heard to shriek violently.
The coast was sickly.
The Armenian spoke, on 14th July, off Grand
Lestros, the outward bound mail packet 14:thiope.
Also, on 31st July, the Gambia mail packet, and the
Niger exploring vessel, Rainbow, bound south.

RELIGION 1N INDIA.
DEPUTATION TO LORD STANLEY.
On Saturday morning a deputation of gentletnen con-
nected with various societies carrying on missionary opera-
tions in India waited upon Lord Stanley, President of the
Board of Cqntrol, at the efflces in Cannon-row, for the
purprse of eliciting from his lordship an explanation of his
views and intentions in 'reference to the future policy of the
Indisn Government iu relation to Christianity in India.
Amona the members a the deputation were the Hon. A.
Kinnaird, M P., Mr. A. Letny, M.P., Sir M. Peto, Bart.,
Dr. Crawford, Mr. A. Haldane, Mr. E. B. Underhill, Revs.
W. Venn, Dr. Tolman, Dr. Mole, and W. Arthur, fie.
The Hon. A. KtsNainD introduced the deputation to
his lordship, and explained the purpose for which they had
waited upon him.
Having bun addressed by Mr. Lefroy, Mr. Arthur, and
Mr. Underhill,

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which had been expressed, that in any language which
might be used by the Govertiment, there should not only be
no insincerity, but nothing to lead to a suspicion of insin-
cerity, and that nothine more should be promised with regard
to non-interference with native customs than the Government
felt sure they would enabled under the circumstances to
perform. Great stress bad been laid on the fact that the
Government had in various ins!ances come into collision
with the naive observances, so that the neutrally which
they profe:sed had not in reality been observed. He appre-
heeded that what the Indian Government had al eays in-
tended was to act upon the principle of holding itself' alcof
from all questions involving merely differences of opinion in
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into collision with the universal, and he
ing rules of jestice. those ideas should
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were certain principles which were
probably elder than any form of belief now existing in
tile world ; sucls, for example, as the p-inciple that
equality of penisliment should tend .equality r f crime ;
and such principles they were bound to carry nut, in oppo-
sition to any native prejudices er feelings which might be
opposed to them, restrainul only by the recollection that
all innovations must be elowly, and gradually it ade. As
regarded the expressioe " reiigioue neutrality," the Go-
verntnent construcion of which the deputation expressed
themselves anxious to asce: tutu, he apprehended that what
was meant was that no steps should be taken, directly or
indirectly, 'to give to the opinions of Ettrope an apparent
preference over those which Were found existing in the
country. No doubt it had been thought necessary to lay
that principle down more emphatically, because, whatever
might be said theoretically in reference to the ej ec
rtion of
Government aid by Chi y, they knew that practically
Christians bad availed the
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ance Bud interference. It W S not enough for the
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official power or influence wlsich they
might possess in favour of their own o.pinion, and against
those of the =Hie popula their With respect to past
changes of Indian laws, he should observe that if they we-e
eproisye of propagating
made simply in elefetence twoh external and immutable
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in the country, they were not justifiable. There was great
difficultyprincipiesinbudtiswcuhsastintfic G
on the subject--and perhape there were any present who
would not dissent from the doctrine—was that the sphere of
government and the sphere of theological belief were abso-
lutely and entirely separate. He was afraid he could hardly
say that thw was the recognised doctrine of modern Europe,
but it was a doctrine that was making progress in modern
Europe; it was a doctrine which prevailed in England at
the present day ; it was a doctrine which had been carried
out in the colonial posseseiorrs of England ; and it was a doc-
trine which it seemed to him especially necessary to assert in
a country like India. His e!ings on this subject were very
much in sympathy with those which had been expressed by
Lord Ellenborough and Sir Geo. Clerk; but at the same
time he did not cousider the G tvernment pledged to carry out
any particular views which those gentlemen had expressed
in the document which had been referred to. What the
Government meant by " neutrality" in the inter of reli-
gion was neutrality as ;corded the action of the Govern-
ment ; neutralty as between the theological tenets of a
Christian nation, and the theological tenets of the natives.
They did not mean to say that in matters of justice as be-
tween man and man, or in matters in which scientific truth
was brought into contrast with ideas previously existing in
the country, they were tafilerifiCo their own principles and
opinion', excipt so far as prudence might dictate.
Severe) members of the deputation again addressed his
lordship with the view of eliciting further explanations of
his views, but nothing fell from him deviating materially
from what we have given above.

THE BRITISH AE OLOGICALI ASSOCIATION.—
The annual congress of this society has been held during the
past week at Salisbury. The numerous objects of interest
in and near that city have afforded abundant materials for
antiquarian investigation, The meeting has been a very
euecomfal one,