The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-19 00:00:00

ruary 25. With the exception of the three days
previous to making the land, and three days Wes.
terly gale to the north-east of Tristan D'Acunha,
she had light winds with three days' calms in lat.
38 S. and long. So E., which will account for her
long passage from Cape Verd. The Herald, sailing
frigate, sailed from the (,'ap© for England February
26. The Sampson, Cyclops, and Magicienne,
paddle-steamers, sailed far England on the 27th of
February ; the Sparrowhawk to follow about the
2d of March. The Cruiser arrived from China, en
route for England, 27th of February. The Brisk,
was senior officer's ship at the Cape. The Ariet
after refitting would relieve the Lyra on the East
Coast, when the latter would proceed to England:
A memorial from about 600 •of the shipwrights
now employed at Chatham dockyard has been laid
before the Board of Admiralty requesting their lord-
ships to allow the memorialists to be employed on
the iron mail-clad steam frigate Achilles, about to
be built at that establishment.

Commander James E. Bickford was yesterday
appointed to the Forte.

A" REPRISAL EXECUTION" IN BONNY •

Mr. Hutehinson, in his work on Africa, just
published, described as follows a dreadful scene he
witnessed in Bonny :
" As I looked through the slit in the wall on the
space between my place of concealment and the
Juju house, I observed no change from its appear-
ance the evening before. No gibbet, nor axe, nor
gallows, nor rope, no kind of preparation, nothing
significant of death, save the skulls in the pillars of
been
place, at
o relief,e
the Jul a house, that seemed leering at me with.
an expression at once strange and vacant. It
stillnessweuld ohfavtehe
heard i n
t something
eat hwing
awful
of what I had read of the preparations for an
execution in Liverpool or London—of the ham-
mering suggestive of driving nails into scaffold,
drop, or coffin—of a crowd gathering round the
place before early dawn—and of the solemn tolling
of the bell that chimed another soul into eternity.
Everything seemed as if nothing beyond the routine
of daily life were to take place. Could it be that
I had been misinformed—that the ceremony
was adjourned to another time, or was to be carried
out elsewhere? No. A distant murmur of gab-
bling voices was heard approaching nearer and
nearer, till passing the corner house on my left,
I saw a group of negroes. An indiscriminate
crowd of all ages and both sexes, so huddled
together that no person whom I could particu-
larly distinguish as either an executioner or culprit
was visible amongst them. But above their clatter-
ing talk came the sound of a clanking chain that
made me shudder. They stopped in the middle of
the square, opposite the ju-ju house, and ceased
talking.
" One commanding voice uttered a single
word, and down they sat upon the grass, forming
a circle round two figures, standing upright in
the centre—the executioner and the man about
to be killed. The former was remarkable only
by the black skull-cap which he had on him,
mad by a common cutlass which he held in his
hand. The latter had chains round his neck,
his wrists, and his ankles. There was no sign
of fear or cowardice about him—no seeming
consciousness of the dreadful fate before him—no
evidence even upon his face of that dogged stub-
bornness which is said to be exhibited by some per-
sons about to undergo an ignominous death. Save
that he stood upright, one would scarcely have
known he was alive. Amongst the spectators, too,
there was a silent impassiveness which was appal-
ling. Not a word, nor gesture, nor glance of sym-
pathy, that could make me believe I looked at
beings who had a vestige of humanity amongst
them. As the juju butcher stepped back and mea-
sured his distance to make an effectual swoop at his
victim's neck the man moved not a muscle,
but stood as it were unconscious—till—Chop
the first blow felled him to the ground. The
noise of a chopper falling on meat is familiar to
most people. No other sound was here—none
from the man, nor a whisper nor a murmnr from
those who were seated about. I was nearly crying
out in mental agony, and the sound of that first
stroke will haunt my ears to my dying day. How I
wished some one to talk or scream, to destroy
the impression of that fearful hough, and the still
more awful silence that followed it. Again the
weapon was raised to continue the decapitation—
another blow as the man lay prostrate, and then a
sound broke the silence. But, oh, Father of Mercy !
of what a kind was that noise —a gurgle and
gasp accompanying the dying spasm of the
struck-down man. Once more the weapon was lifted
—I saw the blood flow in gory horror down the
blade tn Imtohet 'a hand, and there it was visible
in God's bright sunshine to the whole host of
heaven. Not a word had yet been uttered by the
crowd. More chopping and cleaving, and the head,
severed from the body, was put, by the juju exe-
cutioner, into a calabash, which was carried off by
one of his women to be cooked. He then re-
peated another cabalistic word, or perhaps the
same as at first, and directly all who were
seated rose up, whilst he walked away. A
yell, such as reminded me of a company ortigers,
arose from the multitude—cutlasses were flourished
as they crowded round the body of the dead man—
sounds of cutting and chopping rose amidst the
clamour of the voices, and I began to question
myself whether, if I were on the other side of the
river Styx, I should see what I was looking at
here throagh the little slit in the wall of my
hiding-place? A crowd of human vultures gloat-
ing over the headless corse of a murdered brother
negro—boys and girls walking away from the
crowd, holding pieces of bleeding flesh in- their
hands, while the dripping life fluid marked their
road as they went along; and one woman snap-
ping from the hands of another—both of them
raising their voices in clamour—a part of the body
of this poor man, in whom the breath of life was
vigorous not a quarter of an hour ago ! The whole
of the body was at last divided, and nothing left
behind but the blood. The intestines were taken
away to be given to an iguana—the Bonnyman's
tutelary guardian. But the blood was still
there, in glistening pools, though no more notice
was taken of it by the gradually-dispersing crowd,
than if it were a thing as common in that town as
Heaven's bright dew is elsewhere. A few dogs
were on the spot, who devoured the fragments.
Two men arrived to spread sand ever the place,
and there was no interruption to the familiar
sound of coopers' hammering, just beginning in the
cask-houses, or to the daily work of hoisting palm-
oil puncheons on board the ships."

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

Most of the samples of the English wheat on sale here
to-day came to hand in fair condition, but the show was far
from extensive. All good and fine qualities moved off
steadily, at full prices ; but inferior parcels ruled dull, at
barely late rates.

In the demand for foreign wheat there was no activityl
yet the quotations, especially:for good and fine samples,were
well maintained.
For floating cargoes of grain the inquiry was limited. In
their value, however, there is no change to report.

Fine malting barley sold steadily, at previous rates ; bUt
all other descriptions ruled dull.
The transactions in malt were chiefly in good and fine
qualities, at late rates.
The oat trade was firm, at fully the late advance in prices.
Both beans and peas changed hands at full currencies.
In flour a moderate business was doing on former terms.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt Oats. Flour.
English 1,120 i 2,030 5,090 I 10 1,710
•
Irish — --400 --
Foreign 13,320 2,030 8,360 720 sacks
-- brls.

NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supplies of meat on sale here are largo; and the trade
generally rules inactive at our quotaanao•
Per 81b. by the carcase'
adad
Inferior boor .. 2 8 3 0
Middling do. .. 3 2 3 6
Prime large do. 3 8 3 10
Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2
Large pork 4 0 4 8
Inferior mutton. 3 6 3 101

sdsd
midongmutton 4 0 4 4
Prime do . 4 4 4 8
Veal 4 4 6 4
Small pork
Lamb

fine
sOwile continue iiinOueP
For good and to haveos
plesrtecwadty.
mand, and prices are well supported. All other kinds,
however, move
Eastodvsa off slowly
Kent pockets so
lowlyonformertes rms
to
2:o
.. GOa 168 s
Sussex
Yearlings ... : 110 s 180 a

COLONIAL. 4
TEA.—At public sale the biddings were not very active t
and previous rates were sustained for most qualities.. SIIGAR.—The inquiries for good grocery descriptiotl9
_
have o
have been on the increase, and prices have slightl9,2_
vaneed. In the refined market dried goods havv"
dealt in, at slightly enhanced rates.
COFFEE.—The dealings have been moderate, active,
' skein
good and fine descriptions of Plantation C°?,43 a, shade
;1:n re g
high prices. Native Ceylon, however, 7
cheaper.
RICE. —The market has been dull, and East Indian qua-
lities are at rather lower quotations. a have been reported
SALTPETRE.—OnIy limited dealing
at about previous values.
ortan
speculative account
ce have been entc rel.,
TALLOW.—NO dealings of imp. on
into either for consumption T.
ted AL, and hot three pleutb. a
P.Y.C. on the spot IP 14749,
OP, pez CV,