The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-26 00:00:00

LATE FROM THE COAST OF AFRICA

We have received a file of Africa's Luminary from
October 15 to the 17th of December inclusive.

The slave trade is carried on as briskly as ever. A
sin al lsharp schooner ran into New Cess early in October,

took on beard 200 slaves. and in six hours was off.
Matters and things at Cape Palmas were peaceable
and prosperous. A letter speaks encouragingly of the
Wesleyan mission on the Gold Coast.
Continued efforts are made to introduce horses at Li-
beria-; three had been brought from Sierra Leon 2, and
it was hoped they would not die as all those previously
imported had.

A cutter of 25 tons was to be launched at Monrovia
on the 20th of November.

The English barque Niger,- Merritt, from Bristol, on a
trading voyage along the coast, was wrecked near the
mouth of Mesurado River, Oct. 28. The first mate and
two sailors were drowned. The cargo had been got
ashore, damaged.
The morus multicaulls has been successfully intro-
duced at Monrovia ; also the alligator pear.
A Portuguese schooner had been taken by the natives
at Berrybee, some distance below Cape Palmas. Several
of the crew were killed.

There had been dreadful mortality in the Niger ex-
pedition.
lhe vessels succeeded in getting up the Niger, and
had just landed the model farm, when sickness made
its appearance, and threw them into a state of de-
spondency. Twenty-six soon fell victins to death ; and
seventy were yet on the sick list, and in a very pre-
carious situation.

The Wilberforce has gone to the island Ascension.
The Sudan was at anchor off the river Nan, awaiting
the arrival of the Albert, which was some distance up
the Niger, but unable to come down, either from want
of hands, or not being able to stem the current, which in
this season rims up that river very rapidly.
'Ship• Saul, from Norfolk, had arrived out. When
three days from Norfolk, William Savage died of a chro-
nic complaint. Mr. Savage was about 26 years of age,
and formerly from near Savannah. He immigrated to
Liberia in 1840. _ _

Dr. Wilson is dead. Ile died near Cape Palmas,
November 13...

Intelligence has reached us from Cape Palmas of the
existence of an epidemic dysentry at that place ; and
also along the coast, north and south. It has raged
equally among colonists and natives—carrying off many
of both parties. At Cape Palmas it has been gene-
ral in its attack, although except in a few cases, the aged
and infirm of the colonists only have died. It had gotten
into all the missionary schools, and swept away native
youths from the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Episcopal
establishments, and had only partially abated when our
informant left. Indulgence in the too free use of new
rice is supposed to be the cause of this fatal epidemic.
The crops promised favourably..

The Siecle states that an aged Russian Baron, for-
merly a diplomatist, who had Mr some time been paying
his court to a young Italian lady, a public singer, lately
took her in his carriage to the shop of M. Pradher-Bury,
a jeweller, Where, at the request of her lover, she se-
lected some valuable articles, which were to be sent home
on the following day. On the return of the Baron and
the lady, she was presented by him with two handsome
breast-pins, which he had contrived to purloin without
being observed by the jeweller. On being applied to by
the tradesman, when he had discovered his loss, the
Baron denied all knowledge of the affair, and the
jeweller laid his complaint before a Commissary of
Police, but the lady, having learned that the pins had
been obtained dishonestly, immediately sent them to the
jeweller. The Siede does not say whether any proceed-
ings have been instituted against the purloiner.
A duel, which terminated fatally, took place lately
at Foix. A quarrel arose between M. Alphonse S—
and M. Louis V , respecting some insult offered to
the sister of the latter during the late Carnival, and
which the brother attributed to Ai, s—. The latter,
when reproached with having acted improperly, altoge-
ther denied the truth of the accusation, declaring that it
was not probable he should treat otherwise than with re
spect a lady to whom it was the intention of the two fa-
milies that he should be united. The brother was not,
however, satisfied, and persisted in demanding satisfac-
tion for the insult. This twing refused, he waited until
M. 5 was surrounded by his friends in a public cafe,
and gave him a violent blow in the face. A meeting
having thus, according to the received notions of honour
beCome inevitable, a challenge ensued, and the parties
fought with pistols at a distance of 50 feet. At the first
fire, M. S. received his adversary's ball in the lefttemple,
and immediately fill. lie lingered a short time, and then
expired. His antagonist immediately fled to avoid arrest.
On Sunday the Garde Champetre of Montmartre
observed Iwo men coming away from a retired spot near
the Clignancourt-road, and watching- them, perceived
that they had sharpened foils under their coats, the point
of one of which was stained with blood. While he was
interrogating them, two others appeared, one of whom
was faint and weak from a wound in his breast, to which
he pressed a handkerchief to stanch the blood. They
were all four taken before the Commissary of Police, and
at once admitted that a duel had been fought. The fol-
lowing was stated as the cause •of the meeting :—The
wife of C , a button-maker, having absconded from
dhaimeed, hfei,.oatafteiriear
itliemmee; discovered
journeyman saddler.
_rered,a that she had been se-
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and —by beingllu ndeadll
A challenge was given anti-ttePepte, 04 the terms that
the combat was to cease at the first blood drawn. At
the irri-
tated
scoundrel
buta at the time by C—, he- insisted that the affair should
oeeodn thea chi
go on, - They yppplypd it and haying broken
C--'s sword, plunged his- own Into his adversary's
breast, While -under examination C----- fainted. A
surgeon was called in, who dressed the wound, after
which the unfortunate button-maker was carried to the
hospital ; the other three were committed for trial.