Our latest written intelligence from Cape Coast Castle is to the 12h July. A correspondent of the Times says the troopship Himalaya had arrived on the Bib idem. with the head-quarters of the 2d West India Regiment on board, consisting of Colonel Wise, Major Russell, and IL other officers, and 360 rank and file. Colonel Wise, being the senior officer, assumed command of the troops on the West Const of Africa, superseding Colonel Festing.
The Ashantees were still close round Cape Coast Castle, and on the 6th they burned down Bulah, destroying the Mi sion and garden there. Their head-quarters are still at Effootoo, which is equidistant from Cape Coast and Ehnina, and is about 12 miles inland. On the night after the Ashantees were repulsed at Elmina they killed 38 women and 46 slaves, who were all sacrificed in pu superstition that their dead nephew of their King, who fell at Elmina, might have women and slaved to: wait on him ip the land of spirits.
Private letters from Cape Coast describe the state of things there xs fearful. A great deal of sickness prevails, dysentery of a most malignant type being very rife. 'Tromendously heavy rains have fallen at Cape Coast, and, in consequence of the continued downpour, a very large number of the natives' houses have fallen i Within less than a week over 100 persons have been killed by the walls and roofs of houses falling in on them. The wretched inhabitants are lying and living in the ab under blankets and bits of canvas on sticks, The Spur Battery at Cape Const Cartle fell in owing to the heavy rains, and the Smallpox Hospital, which contained 194 patients, soon after gave way, leaving the miserable patients Without any protection from the terrific rainfall, 'A private letter from Cape Coast, written by a high official, say "Before the arrival of the head-quarters of the 24 West India Regiment we were packed as clone se herrings ina ba low I am @ loss for any illustration that would gi an idea of our position." The medical staff are dreadfully overworked, and several of them are on the sick list. All the Marines have been removed to Elmina, where Colonel Festin in command. The 2a West Indin Rogie avy rain prevents any operations being undertak
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