The National Register.
London, England, 1816-03-25 00:00:00

TRADE, MANUFACTURES, & COMMERCE.

The Litclafirld Herein, says—•• Wc regret that we have this
wedk to ottiimmee the stv,peo,ion of payment, in the old
and establi.slied banking-house of Gibbons and Co. of Wolver-
hampton.
The severe and unexpected shock produced lov this occur-
rence, canoed a temporary run upon the flank of Slessrs. Ma-
der', Mollncux, and Co. ; but it has subsided.

We regret the tat ale of another batik ingliolusr, that Messrs.
Itriektfale and Co. of Taunton, Somerst•tshirr.

Ike letters received on Saturday front Liverpool, mention
that the Committee nominated to inspect the 170111 Cl. rug ofMessrs.
Roscoe and Co. had proposed that the v% hole of the demand
shottid be paid Da in six years by instalments, of 3s. td. itt the
pound in each year.
Two great Russian Images failed lately in St. Petershurgh
one of them for five minimal; of rubles. Their misfortunes are
intribnted to on extensive monopoly of colonial produce, par-
ticularly sugar, for the disposal of which, they have been
enabled to find no advatatagetatas market.
Friday, accounts reached town from Denbigh, that the bank.
ing.house of Messrs. Clough and Co. had stopped payment.
The house of Messrs. Scot, Burn, and Co. we regret to
state, stopped imminent on Wednesday last; also, the house of
Messrs. Hood and Co. Crosby-square.
The Moister of the Interior has addressed to the Chamber
of Commerce of 'Sautes the following letter:—
•• Gra: believe I ought to all your attention to thaw!
pasts of the Sca Which offer matter for useful spconlations. A regular
orgarizatioc—a perfect security and European institutions---vamot foil
to recall to our navigators the cumous and ninnies of trading with
01.401‘1111Vret. arairutly frequent: 41. Tl7cy tan establish the surest
av f'or prodawts.where they tied a hospitable reception in tnc ports
or the Baltic, anal there they iin!ot with i‘eculiar advantages. The corn
motGtos and naval I,rovi.ions. which they seek in Russia, and are not
found in the Northern marks,., but at the charge of a long conveyance,
are the products of conntries in the neighbourhood of the Mu:: Sea.
%Isere in oonsequence of the course of that area, they hare established
in Crimea a ;mach better market. Our wines' our liquors, the same
pmduets which we furniht to If ussia by the North Sea, and which are
proper Mr the consumption of the more Eastern countries, form the
means of advantagtou, exchange. It will be desircable to increase
commerce of France, end to place a within the ru of enjoying those
othaunages which the benevolence of the Emperor Alexander appears
to hotel out in the relations between the two counttiei, and the Govern-
t t Collamuitts all tllose laudable ants of the merchants that purpose,
and will record their cfliwts with all their influence. It will be &onside
that your vessels should make a trial of Coat track.and ohs:•r,e, Vicif is
(be a flat by a crowd ofaainsiderations, to the acs of the North,
aril to the ineonveniencies of the Stains of the Baltic.

•• I sliAlll:Aan with ;Ms-faction of those expeditions in the Crinwar
%Melt have made Liuerprizei at your request, and I shall receive
a ith pleasure any einomunications you nur te...ke to on the
ft:Elides which they may expect firm Governm.iit, and on t 11.2 obstacles
which Government may he enabled to re:nov.2.
(Sig: etl) VaI:IOLA:4 V, Ow A:U.lliter Scaetary of State.

NATIONAL RZ(

EXPEDITION TO AIR/CA.

The expedition nnder Captain Tnekey's directions in the
Cen2o sloop, accompanied by the Deruthy transport, for ex-
plotiog the smtree of the river Zaire, or, us it is commonly
termed, the Congo, has sailed on that important discovery. The
steam-engine which had been fitted on board the Congo has
been removed, together with the whole of its vast machinery,
as its use was found impracticable, and it prevented the sailing
of the vessel with the eelerity that was requisite.—While this
expedition is proceeding, another is to be affected across the
continent of Africa, to the point whet, Atiego Park ter, )) ill ated
his laborious career, anti thence en tin• Niger, in the expecta-
tion of meeting with Captain Turkey, anti, in that event, es-
tablishing the hypothesis which has long been indulged, that
the Zaire or Congo, anti the Niger, are one and the same river.
The source of the former, as also the teratination of the latter,
have hitherto caused a large chasm in the internal geography
of Africa ; and until now nu measures so extended, or similar
with regard to the employment of vessels, have been attempted.
The terre,trial mission is placed under the direction of Major
John Peddle, assisted by Captain Thomas Campbell, anti the
number of persons to be attached are not fewer than those
under ',ark, whose line of march is to be adhered to. The fob
10.. t Mg important document, of which sonic numbers have been
printed in the Enlli•lt and Arabic langnages, still be distri-
buted for the purpose of the natives rentteing such service as
the travellers may stand in need of; and partimnially in the
conveyance of dispatches from them to any of our sett!ements
on the coast. The following is represented as a true copy, to
which the seal of the African Company is affixed.
"(LS.) Free trade to Africa by Act of Parlistrint, 1750,
- -

" This is to make known, that Major John Peddie, Captain Thomas
Campbell, and Surgeon William Cowdry, have been employed by the
British Government to proceed from Senegal into the intrnor of Africa,
to trace the source of the river Niger, and to obtain such information
respecting the countries throurrit which they pass, at may be use-
ful in the extension and improvement of commerce, which is the obj4ct
of the British Government m sending those peroms to Africa; and that
any person who may happen to meet with those gentlemen, anti shall
he the hearer of a letter to the Governor of this or any other British
Settlement on the Gold Coast, from either of them, shall reeeive use
ounces of gold, tied be liberally rewarded for any service or arts of
kindness which it may appear by such letter may have been rendered
to either of them.—Witness my hand at

The cumber of ounces of gold being fixed nt fire, has been
objected to by persons %% Ito has c been at Morocco, as an ex-
pression which is avoided by the Arabians and the Western
Moors in their numerals. When they wish to express that
number, it is generally done by saying four and one, or two
and three ; and the reason assigned for this singular custom
arises from their idea of the being connected with the epithets
of malediction, reprobation, &e. and also being the mar! of the
the lingers on the hand, in the manual rejection of any person
to *bow they baveun aversion.

INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE cllunal AIIS-

VOA'S I.V INDIA, AFRICA,

CALCUTTA—A Society has been established, to which
1,1001. per annum is allowed from the Society in London.
The European midents have patronised it so much as to add about
400. to he applied. besides the salaries allowed to the Missionaries; to
the pin pme of reader% of the Scripturva3 and CatedMsts, and the main-
tenance of native sdast!s.

A 31eissee. a converted Musselman, with Talib Messee
and several Christian natives are readers of the Scriptures and Cate-
chists under the Society, with encreasing success among the inhabitants
of that large and populous city; more than forty of whom, many of
them hitherto, proud mahometans, have been baptised in less than
a twelvemonth past. The Rev. Wm. Greenwood, an English Clergy-
man, and the Rev. Christian Frederick Cotthalt Schroeter, a Lutheran
clergyman, have embarked for India to assist in carrying on this great
work round Agra.
Mermes.—A society is formed, to which 5001. per annum is also
allowed for the same purpose. Two Lutheran Chrgpuen, .1. C.
Selmarre. and C. T. E. Rhenins, have proceeded to Madras under a
licence from the Court of Directors, to enter into the labours of the
Dr. John, and extend his tulyisable plans, cs opportunitits may
open before them. About son children in the schools of the late Dr.
John, are under the care of the society. And the Rev, T. Norton.
an English Clergyman, with his wife and child, have embarked for
Al.tdms.

Cov sotv.—P. H. Gerardus Philips, and J. G. P. Appohaney, two
native Cingalcse of high respectability. and dependents of Christian Mi-
nisters, educated in Holland by the Dutch Government, are now on
their voyage to England. having been selected and recommended by
Sir Alex. Johnston, Chief Justice of the Island, for education for the
Christian Ministry among their countrymen.
Settlements in Western Africa have also been formed at Rashia on
the Rio l'ongas, Canoffee on the Ballom shore, Gambier, and another
wasforming when the last letters were written. each conducted by two
clergymen and tlwir wives, who take an active and essential part in these
important concerns. In thew settlements about two hundred native
children, many of them the sons of the neighbouring chiefs, are con-
stantly under Christian instruction, and most of them wholly main-
tained by the society. Churches have been erected at Bashia and Ca-
nudist.. The New Testament is in a course of translation into the Estero
and I; ullorn languages. and elementary books have been printed in those
tunr.fies to teach the natives to read. Sinned the missionaries have sup-
plied the place of chaplain at Sierra Leone. and a great number of native
children have received instruction front them. The Rev. Leopold But-
s‘her is now chaplain to the colony, which has become a place of great
importance, containing about t nos Mi iMibitants, of which not much leas
than ti fro are native ebildren of different African tribes. li:west:xi tiom
smuggling vessels. A large event of land has limn) made to the society,
on which is erecting buildings for the reception and education of all
there destitute children, who will he instruct eel in agr:eulture and other
useful uertmations, to civilize their minds, and render them fit for
Christian instruction. Tire maintenance and tloatlurn. of each child
costs the society &strut five pounds a year, and they are baptised into *kWh
names as their liocrator may desire; more than one Montreal of the
had hero thins

tiosernoient have granted their ready support to these pnwedings in
Africa, and n onimodions chinch is to be criwtoil in the colony, agree-
ably to a memorial, in cthijoaction with tioventor Maxwell, and the
liberated children will he placed under the sixicty's care: and a regttlar
iistircourso will be henceforth maintained by a ship to be nanted the
Wil!wrforce. _ . _

'l•ue same twuve step are also in process under the direction of the
lire. Sam. Aar*len. and an inctiliarr society to be flintiest in New
South Watioi. principally in New Zealand, where there is ample en-
couragement. Mr. Midalen has purchased the brig Active, of 110
ton.;, and several New Zealand chiefs have been carried in her to New
South Wales; and after they had received instnwtion, lie to return
with them on a visit to New Zealand, accompanied by till the settlers.
Antigua, Malta, and the Levant c•:ttrnl the long line of these efliwts.
Two young Arabians, nine English :tridents, four Cennan students,
two I Ater:Tan rlerp't.'en. three schoolmasters, are prey arirg to under-
take these crchtims ard ht, fable lahours.
The ttlil Tietatiaut is now translating into Persian, to accompany
that of s:le New Testament by the lies. 11. Murton. The New Testa-
ment is proceeding in SUS/30 and Bulletin, two African tongues of great
extent. The Liturgy is in preparation in Ptrsisn, Arabic, and lain.
dostanee ; anti in these and various other languages of .ittlloitietans and
Heathens, entwines arc taking to print and circulate widely scriptural
and religious racers.