The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-09 00:00:00

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, 2 A.M.

The African Steam Navigation Company's steamer
Candace Captain Hawksley, which arrived in the
Sound last evening, left Bonny Aug. 25, Old Cala-
bar 27, Cameroons 30, Fernando Po Sept. 4, Lagos
7, Accra 9, Cape Coast 11, Liberia 15, Sierra Leone
19, Bathurst 23, Goree, 23, Teneriffe 28, and Ma-
deira 30. She brings 2,531 ounces of golddust, and
her cargo includes 500 puncheons of palm oil, six
tons of ivory, 134 packages of gum, and 142 pkg..
of beeswax. Among her passengers are Governor
M'Gowan, from Cameroons ; Captain Cahill, from
Bonny ; Lieut. Soukin, R.N., from Fernando Po ;
Rev. M. Cason and wife, from Lagos ; Lieutenant
Craig, from Accra ; President Robert, from Mon-
rovia, and Dr. Bethercourt, from Madeira.
The River Cameroons was very unhealthy. Dr.
Shaw died of fever on the 30th August.
The mate of her Majesty's paddlewheel steam-
vessel Trident was unfortunately drowned while
helping to save the cargo of the bark Agnes, of
Liverpool, totally wreck off the Bimba.
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Her Majesty's- paddlewheel steam-sloop Hecate,
6, Commander Gordon, and the Firefly, Comman-
der George F. Day, were at Lagos.
The Antelope; 3, which was cruising off Wydah,
has lately taken a schooner with 191 slaves on
board.

The Childers, 12, Commander Hickley ; the
Pluto, 4 ; and the Brune, were at Sierra Leone.
The African Steam Navigation Company's packet
Ethiope was at Monrovia on the 15th Sept. The
company's steamer left Fernando Po on the 25th
for England.

. Merchant Shipping.—The Calabar was totally
wrecked off the Bar ; cargo nearly saved by the
company's steamer. The Moselle, the Porto Nova,
the Spartan, and the Arabian, were at the Came-
roons ; the Paramatta, the Fanny, the Mermaid,
the Loadian, the Etulrage, the Petrel, and the Clan
Grigor (ready for sea), at Old Calabar; the Pomona,
the Garland, the Mary Black, the Alondine, the
Dorothy, the Grand Pony, and the Golden Age at
Bonny ; and the Faith and the Catherine at New
Calabar. The Candace spoke at sea the Nepaulese.

Colonel the Hon. G. and Mrs. Cadogan are expected
in town to-day from a tour of visits.
THE INDIAN RELIEF FUN/J.—The Earl of Portarling-
ton has written from Venice to his agent, Mr. William
Pigott, to pay to the Indian Relief Fund, collecting in
the Queen's County, the sum of 501. as his lordship's
subscription.
THE METROPOLITAN POLlCE.—Yesterday the officers
of the M division of the metropolitan police took the
initiative in subscribing to the Indian Relief Fund, and
upwards of 101. was collected and handed over to Mr.
Superintendent Branford, to be forwarded to the proper
quarter. It is believed that the other divisions will
follow this example.
MAKING THE BEST OF IT.—The manager of one of the
Liverpool theatres, with more promptitude than good
taste, is playing a piece entitled " Nana Sahib, or the
Demon of the Ganges."
It is said that the celonelcy of the 59th Regiment,,
vacant by the death of Lieutenant-General Henderson,
will be conferred upon Major-General Jeremiah Taylor,
who has a medal and four clasps for his services in the
Peninsula.
ACCIDENT.—As M. Adam, the mayor of Boulogne-
sur-Mer, and Madame Adam were two days ago re-
turning in a carriage from St. Jose to Montreuil to
proceed by the railway to Boulogne, the carriage being
badly driven, was thrown over the bank at the side
of the road and smashed to pieces. By a miracle, neither
M. Adam nor his wife received any injury beyond a few
slight cuts on the hand, and after a short time proceeded
on their journey on foot to Montreuil.
WRECK AND Loss OF FIVE LIVES AT HASTINGS
Oa Wednesday night, between 9 and 10 o'clock, a sloop
was observed to he in great distress a short distance fr to
the shore. The moon shone at the thee, and in a quar-
ter of an hour she struck upon the rocks. Efforts were
made to save the crave, who were seen clinging to the
matt, but without success. Here they remained for
nearly an hour, when the sloop broke up and all hands
were lost. The name on the stern of the punt is " Dra-
per, Thomas Price, Plymouth." According to papers
which have been waehel ashore she appears to have left
Newcastle for Fahuouth on the 28th ultimo, laden with
coal and machinery.
ROYAL EAST BERKS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.—
MAIDENHEAD, Oct. 7.—The annual ploughing match
and exhibition of cattle and roots took place yesterday
on Stroud Farm, near this town. The number of
cattle shown was greatly in excess of any former year,
and his' Royal Highness carried off no less than six priz
in Class 1. Mr. Palmer, M.P , and Sir G. East were
successful competitors with sheep, but the lambs shown
by Mr. li. Adams, Waltham, and to which were awarded
the first prize, were universally pronounced to be the
finest specimens that could be produced. The silver
cup given by the Prince Consort for the best five acres
of swede turnips was obtained by Mr. Baylis, of Hurler,
and the silver cup of 101. value, the gift of Mr. C. P.
Grenfell, M.P., was awarded to that eminent agricu'-
turist, Mr. Jos. Hobbs, of Cookharn. The Prince
Consort obtained the prize for the best pair-horse team:
and also for the best 25 mangold-wurzel.
INQUEST IN MILBANK PRISON.—Yesterday afternoon
Ur. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, held an in-
quest in Milbank Prison, touching the death of George
Roberts, aged 33 years, a convict under sentence of penal
servitude, who died in the prison on Monday morning
last, the sth inst. It appeared from the evidence of
Captain Craig, the deputy governor, that the deceased
was under a sentence of penal servitude for high way
robbery with violence at Southatiepton, and was received
into the establishment last March. He had been punished
by being handcuffed, and placed in the refractory cell,
for striking the resident surgeon, and othei acts of in-
subordination. Being of a very morose temper, and
having threatened to take away life if not removed from
the prison altogether, the governor bad him examined
by Dr. Baly, the prison physician. That gentleman
caused his removal to the infirmary, where symptom, of
consumption soon became apparent, and he was detained.
Although not exhibiting positive symptoms of insanity,
he behaved himself in a very strange manner to those
around him. The disease ultimately developed itself,
and he'became weaker, arid gradually sank until his
death Tee jury returned a verdict in accordancs with
the above testimony.
INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY.—An extraor-
dinary meeting of the Eotctric and leterna•ional 'rote-
graph C•nnpany was held yesterday efterno(ln, Mr. J.
L. Ricardo, M.P., in the chair, for the purpose of raising
the residue of the authoilsel share capital. The chair-
man observed that their debentures would soon fall due,
and that from the nature of the company's property,
which does not admit of so good a security being given
as inthe case of railways, a renewal cannot be effected
except on very unfavourable terms. By the statutes of
the company the greatest.amount of any call is limited to
51 , and in order, therefore, to procure about 115,0001.,
the sum required, the directors propose to allot the
whole of the remaining authorised capital uniesued—
viz , 439,0001., pro rata, to the shareholder-, giving
them the option of taking their share or not. Upon this
i new capital a call of Si. wilt be made, 2/. 10s. to be pay-
able in three ortfour weeks, and the same sum in F: b.
next. A resolution embodying the directors' proposit:on
was agreed to unanimously, and a contribution of one
hundred guineas was voted to the Indian Relief Fuod.
It was stated in the course of the meeting that the com-
pany have 5,439 miles of telegraph open, 430 station t,
and 2,172 instruments constantly working.
ENGAGED LADIES.—It is probably net generalty
known that when once a woman has accepted an offs of
of marriage, all she has, or expects to have, becomes
virtually the property of the man thus accepted as a hus-
band ; and no gift or deed executed by her between the
period of acceptance and the marriage is held ts be valid;
for were she permitted to give away or othertvise settle
her property, he might be disappointed of the wealth be
looked to in making the offer.— Westminster Review.
INCREASE OF MORTALITY IN LIVERPOOL,—At the
meeting of the Liverpool Health Committee yesterday
(Thursday) some discussion took place respecting the
increased mortality in the borough during the laot quar-
ter. From the report of Dr. Duncan, the medical officer
of health, it appeared that during the quarter end ng
Sept'. 26, the deaths in the borough were 3,42 b, i elud-
ing 189 sudden and violentdeathsand deaths in hospital,.
This number is 410 more than in the corresponding
quarter of last year, and 70 more than the corrected
average of the same quarter of the preceding nine years.
The deaths from diarshcex were 618—the average being
435. Thl medical e facer ate ibed the increased
mortality to the unusual heat of the season.
SALE OF WOMEN'S MILK.—Tbe first time I caught
sight of milk in a Chinese street, it was in the bends of
a female carrying a cup of what I thought to be the
genuine unclialsed articb'. "Excuse me, but what is
that ?" said I. "It is milk," she replied. "What milk ?
cow's or goat's ?" " Woman's milk, sir." " Woman's
milk l for what use ?" "It has been bought for an aged
neighbour." "And what's the price of that cupful r
" About eighty cash." Subsequently, I discovered that
it is not unusual for nursing women to sell her own milk
for motherless babes or octogenarians in second baby
hood, the nurses drawing their own milk to vend it at
21. or 3d. a cup.—Milne's Life in China.

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THE PATAGONIANS —Scandal says that the people of
Fuego are so fund of their dogs that, in the event cf
being compelled by famine to cock and eat the " near
and dear," they observe the knowing order—old women,
young wives, dogs. Capt. Snow, hoWever, makes affi-
davit, and says ho heard nothing of such practices. Capt.
Snow alio discredits the stories told about the giant stt -
turn of the Pata2,onians. Their average height, he say:,
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Puega.
A gentleman anxious to take a house in EiREX at last
saw a house that was shut up. After trying, in vain, to
obtain admission, first at the front and then at the back
door, he made his way to a boy at work in the fisid,
and said, "My lad, I waut to see this house." WI (el'
said the boy, " there it be,' I s'pc.se you aint