The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-08 00:00:00

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The African Steam Navic,ation Company's mail
packet Candace, Commander Hawkesley, arrived
this morning.
Her homeward dates are :—Old Calabar, Feb. 24 ;
Camaroons, 26; Fernando Po, March 2 ; Bonny, 6;
Lagos, 8 ; Accra, 10 ; Cape Coast, 11 ; Liberia,
15 ; Sierra Leone, 19 ; Bathurst, 24 ; Goree, 24 ;
Teneriffe, 30 ; Madeira, April 1.
She brings 1,241 ounces of gold dust and a small
amount of specie ; and her cargo includes 437 casks
of palm oil, 64 pieces of ivory, three packages of
skins, one cask of gum copal, 68 cases of arrowroot,
96 bags of cochineal, five hogsheads of wine, and
sundry pepper, argol, pineapples, &c.
Among her passengers are olonel Clarke and
Captains Macully and Hingston, 3d West India
Regiment.
The Governor of Sierra Leone returned on the
6th of March from a successful tour up the river,
where he arranged several treaties with the chiefs.
The war continued in Mellicourie, to the advan-
tage of the Moriahs, which tends to the progress of
trade.
The country round Ca,meroons is quiet.
Trade is brisk at Calabar.
An expediton to open a large palm oil country
is contemplated.
The River Bonny is unhealthy. The doctor of
the Ferozepore died on the 4th of March, and the
Charles Horsfall has lost several hands.
Lagos is quiet, and ample preparations are made
for any possible attack by Kosoko.
A rumour prevails that the Dahomey nation in-
tends making a descent on Abbeokuta.

Owing to the scarcity of rain provisions are dear
at Accra.

The disturbances between the Ashantees and
Fantees being settled, gold is arriving at Cape
Coast Castle. Ex-President Robert, with 110
men, has been successful in quelling a disturbance
at Cape Palmas, which is proposed to be annexed
to the republic of Liberia.
The steam-sloop Prometheus, 5, Commander C.
W. Hope, and the screw steam-vessel Teaz,r, 2,
Commander W. J. Lubbe, were at Old Calalear.
The steam vessel Myrmidon, 3, C3mmander
Edward W. Shaw, left Lagos on the 7th March for
Fernando Po.

The steam vessel Antelope, 3, Commander John
Pike, left Lagos on the 6th March
The steam vessel Merlin, 6, Commander Cecil
W. Buckley, and the steam ship Hecla, 6, Com-
mander Elphinstone, left Sierra Leone on the 18th;
and the steam ship Aplin on the 19th, for a cruise.
The screw steam troop ship Magcera, 6, Com-
mander George T. Purvis., touched at Sierra Leone
on the 13th of Mecoh.

The steam frigate Retribution, 28, Capt. Charles
Baker, was at Teneriffe on the 28th of Marcb.
The screw steam-ship Sanspareil, 70, Captain
Astley C. Key, arrived at Madeira on the 27th of
March, and sailed jmain on the 28th.

The steam vessel Dover was at Sierra Leone.
The United States corvette St. Louis was al
Liberia on the 15th of March.

The French frigate Jeanne d'Acre, the steamer
Tonnante, and the corvette Recherche were at
Goree.

The French packet Bresil arrived at Madeira, on
the 29th of March.

The mail packet Ethiopo arrived on the 13th at
Sierra Leone, and sailed on the 17th of March.
The screw steam-ship St. George arrived at
Sierra Leone on the 17th of March, with boiler out
of order.

The troop ship Perseverance, from the West
Indies, arrived at Sierra Leone on the 28th of
February, and sailed for the Gambia on the 9th of
March, and left there on the 21st for Goree,
whence she sailed on the 22d for the West Indies.
The merchant brig, Columbine, of Bristol, was
ashore at Old Calabar, and was seized and plun-
dered by the natives. The steam ship Scourge, 6,
has released the crew, who are coming home in the
Candace.

Spoke, April 3, lat. 47 30 N., long. 13 49 %V.,
the Hamburg brig Elice.

THE CONVICT NATION.—The execution of Thomas
Nation, condemned to death at Taunton on Saturday
last for the murder of John Aplir, under the circum-
stances detailed in the report of the trial which appeared
in The Sun of Monday, has been fixed for Tuesday, the
21st instant. Oa Sunday the prisoner had a lengthened
interview with his father and brother, but he made only
slight reference to the charge of which he had been con-
victed, and nothing in the shape of admission of the jus-
tice of his sentence or a confession of his guilt escaped

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THE TEA AND SUGAR DUTIES.—LivERPoot, Tuesday.--
The customs duties received at this port yesterday were
very large, amounting to 104,7161. 9s. 10d. This is
accounted for by the reduction of the duty on
tea and sugar—the amount paid on the former being
56,5721. 7s. 7d.; on sugar, 34,3951. 4s. Bd.; and on
molasses 1,1251. 17s. 9d. One house in the tea trade
alone paid 20,1391. 4s. sd. ; and another 5,6711. 4s.
The largest amount paid for duties on sugar by one
firm was 7,5421. 17e. 6d.