The Sun. — 1857-08-10 (London, England)

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.  PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 9.  The African Steam Navigation Company'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 9th, Accra 11th, Cape Coast 13th, Liberia 17th, Sierra Leone 22d, Bathurst 25th, Goree 26th, Teneriffe 31st, and Madeira on the 2,1 August. She brings 2,837 ounct s of golddust and 500/. in specie, and her cargo includes 425 casks of palm oil, 106 pieces of ivory, 8 cases of gum, 6 bags of cochineal, 3 boxes of arrowroot, 25 pieces of black wood, 432 piece,s 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 consequence. Excepting in palm oil trade was exceedingly 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 Crobs' country there was very little oil on sale at Accra. At Aluaina, on the Cape Coast, the trade in oil and golddust was improving. A largo proportion of the Ethiope's gold was shipped there.  The paddlewheel steamsloop Hecla, 6, Commander E. Aplin, had just left for the Sherborn to suppress a disturbance. Several of the native servants of the British Consul had been killed, and Mr. HanSOlre s life was threatened. Commodore Wise left Sierra Leone in the paddlewheel steamsloop Vesuvius, accompanied by the steam tender Brune, Lieut. Swinburne, on the 17th July, for the southward. 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 merchant 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 stoain.vocciel Trident, 6, Commander F. A. Close, was at Clarence on the Ist of July, waiting to return to Cameroons with Consul Hutchinson, 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 explorations. 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 the Bight of Benin. She was called 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 beach for embarkation the next day. The Jupiter is a fore-and-aft schooner, and has been condemned.