The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-08-25 00:00:00

AJ OR LA ING-A ERICA.

Despatchea have been received at the Colonial Office, I
dab d Nth June, from Mr. Warrington, British Consul at
Tripoli. These despatches, we are delighted to state, an-
nounce the arrival of our intrepid countryman Major
Laing at the great centre of African internal commerce,
the long-sought city of Timhuctoo. The date of his ar-
rival is not stated, but front the time he left Twat it was
probable it took place about the beginning of February.
The next caravan which arrives at Tripoli from Timbuctoo
will bring us further accounts front our enterprising tra-
veller regarding his future movements. If lie proceeded
down the river Niger as expeditiously as he could, we may
soon expect to hear of his errival in England. The reports
of the dispersion of the caravan with which he was travel-
ling, after it hail left Twat, and which had reached this
country through a respectable channel, are thus, we re-
joke to say, falsified. Inured to the .Vrican climate, and
arriving at Timbtictoo early in the dry season, we con-
sider every danger to Major Laing as over. The navigable
current of the Niger will rapidly bear hint we think to the
Atlantic, through countries and powers deeply impressed
with the majesty and fame of Great Britain. Two British
travellers are at present in the heart of Northern Africa,
to which they have advanced from opposite points. Thus,
sirable and important objects are nnplished, when
these are left to men of jeldgment land knowledge ; and
much as we differ from Mr. II crow about the course and ter-
mination of the Niger, still it is but justice to state, that it is
to him, and the alacrity with which his %lewd are seconded
by the Colonial Office, that the c enstry is indebted for
these expeditions, and whatever imp2rraut geographical
discoveries may be made in them. Had these matters
continued to be left in the hands of the African Institution,
they would have drivelled for a century about Sierra Le-
one, and never have ascertained even the source of the Ni-
ger, though that settlement, now settlevl nearly forty years,
is as near the source of that river as York is to London !
No later advices have been received from Clapperton than
those which announcexl his arrival at Sackatoo ; but by the
arrival of the Despatch matt of war from the coast of
Africa (the Bight of Benin) some previous despatches
from !hat traveller have been received, which are of con-
siderable importance, as disehrsing his route and progress
to Sackatoo. On the 7th of March he was at Katangba,
the capital of Yarba or Yarriba, a country bordeiing on
Nyfil., from whence he was pripati,:x to set out for Kiama,
and from thence to IVauwa and Youri (distant four
Jays' journey from Wauwa), thus passing the places
where our unfortunate countryman Park was lost. Ka-
tangha is stated to be thirty miles east of the Niger. Im-
portant information he must, of course, have obtained
there, but still more important information he of course
obtained, and has, no doubt, generally transmitted to this
country, in his advance to Katangha, and in his further
advance northwards, because in that route and in the latter
space he must have crossed the Niger and passed Syffe,
at that point where some will have it that the Niger turns
east to the Nile of Egypt; and others that it empties itself
into an inland lake. There he must have received positive
information whether the mighty Niger runs eastward, or
continues its course, as we believe it does, southward through
that line of country yet unexplored, through which twenty
mighty rivers, which enter the sea in the Delta of Benin,
descend to the ocean. These points, we have no doubt,
are in a great measure determined by the advices received
from Clapperton; and probably the next Quarterly Review
may !avow ns with a peep behind the curtain, which we
wait with undiminished confidence to perceive drawn up.

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NEW FORK, JeLl• 22.

The transactions in Cotton since our at have been a
little more extensive, but at a reduction of about half a
cent from previous rates.
Flour continues extremely dull, and we reduce our quo-
tations 12,44 cants per barrel. Exported this week, 16,897
barrels Wheat Flour.

GRAIN.—The market has deeined, and we reduce our
quotations. Two or three parcels of new Wheat have
been received from North Carolina, of handsome quality,
and realiz.Al 1 dollar 2 cents a 1 dollar 3 cents per bushel.

The condition of trade continues to he the sole and the
overwhelming object of public notice. Sorry we are, how-
ever, that there is little, if indeed any thing, in the state of
the workmen or of production to warrant very much of
flattering anticipation. There are undoubtedly very nume-
rous discrepancies in the accounts which we receive :—but,
unhappily, these discrepancies themselves must furnish the
most conclusive proofs of a general uncertainty and de-
pression. As time passes, it is true, the distress must be
drawing nearer to its close; but x 'tether it is not still to
be marked by deeper misery or more flagrant outrage, no
one, we are afraid, can at all pretend to dctermine.—Edia-
buret Observer.
The mills in the power-loom trade in this neighbour-
hood have, with an exception or two, resumed longer time,
not so much from any improvement. which has taken place
in the demand for goods, as from the impression that the
prices of yarn cannot possibly he 'owe!. The yarn for a
piece of 11" 4-4 calico, weighing 41b. 40z., can be pur-
chased at about .ss. 3il. The goods are selling at 7s. and
7s. Gil., according to quality. The remuneration for weav-
ing is too low ; but if the works are managed economically,
the manufacture may be accounted safe, at a time when a
revival of trade is confidently looked forward to.—Ghtsgony
Chronicle.
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An affecting story is told in the iifoniteur of a young
slave of the name of Zelie, who was born at Martinique,
and was brought from Guadeloupe to Paris by her mis-
tress, a lady of the name of Mademoiselle Dcsnoyers. The
poor creature, who has been in Paris three years, heard a
conversation between her mistress and a relative alxnat
sending her back to Guadeloupe, where she was again to
be sold. She therefore took to flight, and committed her-
self to the protection of an old colonist, whom she recog-
nised in Paris. Her mistress claimed her; but the case
being hned in the Justice of Peace Conti of the second
arrondissement, the claim of her mistress was misted, and
a guardian appointed to the infant.