The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-10 00:00:00

WEST COAST OF AFEICA

PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 9.

The African Steam Navigation C..mpany's mail
packet Ethiope, Commander G. Corbett, arrived
this afternoon. She left Cameroons on the 28th
June, Old Calabar 30th, Fernando Po on the 2d
July, Bonny sth, Lagos 9tb, Accra 11th, Cape Coast
13th, Liberia 17th, Sierra Leone 22d, Bathurst 25th,
Goree 26th, Teneriffe 31st, and Madeira on the 2d
August.
She brings 2,857 ounces of golddust and 5001. in
specie, and her cargo includes 425 casks of palm oil,
106 pieces of ivory, i 8 cases of gum, 6 bags of cochi-
neal, 3 boxes of arrowroot, 25 pieces of blackwood,
432 pieces of beeswax, and 10 cases of merchandise.
The rainy season had set in along the coast earlier
and with more severity than usual, as much as eight
inches having fallen in two days. Heavy rollers
prevailed, and Europeans were suffering in conse-
quence. Excepting in palm oil trade was exceed-
ingly dull.
Capt. Pearson, Ist West India Regiment, who
shot Lieut. Watson dead in his bed, was sentenced
to be hanged, but died in prison of a liver complaint
a fortnight before the period fixed for the execution.
In consequence of the internal disturbance among
the natives in the Grohs' country there was very little
oil on sale at Accra. At Almina, on the Cape Coast,
the trade in oil and goldduat was improving. A
large prOportion of the Ethiope's gold was shipped
there.

The paddlewheel steamsloop Heels, 6, Comman-
der E. Aplin, had just left for the Sherborn to sup-
press a disturbance. Several of the native servants
of the British Consul had been killed, and Mr. Ran-
som's life was threatened. Commodore Wise left
Sierra Leone in the paddlewheel steamsloop Vestr•
vms, accompanied bythe steam tender Brune, Lieut.
Swinburne, on the 17th July, for the south-
ward. Bight's division is healthy, the :average
of sick being 2 to 3_per cent. only. The steamsloop
Hecate, 6, Commander George Burgess, was at
Lagos. The crew were fitting a steering apparatus, , '
her rudder-head having been twisted off by the
rollers. One of her boats was capsized, July 4,
in crossing the bar. A Krooman and the boat were.
lost. The previous day a boat belonging to a mer-
chant vessel was lost, and five men drowned,. The
steamvessel Firefly, 4, Commander George Day, is
off Whydah, where there is said to be a large supply
of slaves.. The steamvessel Trident, 6, Commander
F. A. Close, was at Clarence on the Ist of July,
waiting to return to Cameroons with Consul Hut-
chinson, to investigate a charge against some of the
Cameroon chiefs of having murdered one man and
conveyed three into the interior. These men were
part of the crew of the brig Spartan. The screw
steamship Dayspring left the port of Clarence on
the evening of the 29th of June for the Niger ex-
plorations. The crews of several vessels in harbour
cheered most lustily as she steamed out.
The steam-vessel Antelope, 3, Commander J. W.
Pike, took a prize on the 15th of June at Aghwey,
in thetßight of Benin. She was cared the Jupiter,
and was under American colours. When the
hatches were burst open 70 slaves were discovered,
and the master then threw his papers overboard.
150 slaves were waiting on the bsacn for embarka-
tion the next day. The Jupiter is a fore-and-aft
schooner, and has been condemned.