The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-09 00:00:00

AFRICAN TRAVEL.

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We read in the Akhbar of Algiers:—" One of our
officers of Spahis, M. tiecquart, has just returned from
an interesting journey into the interior of Africa. He
departed from the French factory of the Grand Bassam,
in benegambia, to ascertain if, as the naives affirm, the
river Akba is only a tributary of the Niger. Having
been abandoned by his guides, he was forced
to return, but set out the second time
on September Ist, 1850, from Sedhiou, on the Casa-
mame. Having gone up that river to Camako, where
it ceases to be navigable, he crossed the space lying
between that river and the Gambia, notwithstand-
ing the heavy rains which fell the whole time. He
then went up the Gambia to Fatatenda, aid reached
Kade, the point where Mollien stopped. At Kade,
M. Hecquart was robbed of everything ho possessed,
whic, however, did not prevent his continuing
his journey to Timbo, in the Fouta.Diolou. He was
therefore made prisoner by the Almani, who, how-
ever, allowed him to explore that rich country.
He was at last permitted to return, and set out on
June 23, 1851, and atter a journey of forty-five days in
the midst of great privations, he arrived at Senou-
debou, literally in rags. In his return he visited
the Tends, the Niocolo, the Caman, and the Boudou,
and viewed the sources of the Senegal, the Falinia,
the Rio Grande, and the Gambia. M. Hecquart had
intended to penetrate to Tiwbuctoo, and although he
did not succeed in his attempt, his journey will have
the effect of opening a surer route into the interior,
and has already been attended with happy effects
for our commerce at Senegal, as the Almani
caravans to our factories.
toSt. Louis, accompanied by re-
presentatives sent
Almani, and these were sent back
Ip°lmsolr. eaudlie:di.cta haswcittliitvt r
hers oprace:strueetnhrats and highly gratified with the re-
ception given them by the Governor. M. Hecquart
speaks several of the dialects of the countries which lie
visited, and will, we doubt not, render great services to
our colony at Senegal.

ending Feb. 7,1852
ending Feb. 8, 1951
BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.
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... £7,861 4 0
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7,789 15 9
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1852 .. 46,623 6 4
Total
pofast3heenghearlsf-y1;r:
7t,01;6i2s
.date,....185.4.31.
,xt., .6:0,9364 -1,9823911 4
Total number of Passengers—Week ending
Goods ••• ... ... ... i,9 , 4 4 3

Total ... £7,861 4 0
...
Total miles open, 1852, 173 L 4 ; ditto, 1851,
17114.
London Terminus, Feb. 9, 1852.

Alurdo Young for an early delivery of Tuesday's
THE Still NEWSPAPER.—We are indebted to Mr.
Sun, con-
taining the Queen's Speech and the opening of Parliament.
The proprietor of The See has again commenced his extra-
ordinary express editions, and the paper of Tuesday evening
contained several columns of the debates in both Houses on
the Address. This journal is noted above all its evening
contemporaries for late information and extraordinary dis-
patch.—Derby Reporter.
THE Avon STEAMEZ.— It may not be generally
known that Captain-Onslow, of the Royal Mail steam-ship
Avon (which sailed from Southampton on Sunday last, to
convey home the mails 'which would have been brought by
the ill-fated Amazon), who only returned on the 25th De-
cember, atter eighteen months' active service in the West
Indiee, was one of the surviving crew of the unfortunate
steamer Tweed, wrecked about four years since on the
Alacranes. It was siii
c
sympathy and gocd feeling that
and kept the surviving
crew and passengers on the
rocks whilst his brother officer, the brave Ellison (now chief
officer of the Teviot), heroically volunteered to go in the
mail-boat, although she was very much damaged (her stern
torn out, and bottom and stem stove in), to search for some
vessel, with nothing to guide him but a compass between his
legs. He fell in with one about one hundred miles from the
wreck, and after an absence of four days triumphantly re-
turned and saved 79 persons, who must otherwise have pe-
rished on the desolate rocks. The City of London most gene-
rously rewarded the captain of the Spanish brig Emilio, but
we believe the heroic conduct of Ellison was never requited.
[Considering the extraordinary notice recently taken of Mr.
Vincent in regard to his conduct towards the passengers and
crew of the unfortunate Amazon, it is earnestly to be re-
gretted that no attention whatever has hitherto been paid to
the really remarkable services, the heroism and the self-pos-
session of the gallant young officer whose name is above-
mentioned.
Yet whatever may be the treatment experienced
by Mr. Ellison, it cannot very speedily be forgotten that to
his courage eighty persons owed the preservation of their
lives, although to accomplish this he had in an open boat to
traverse a distance of nearly one hundred miles - a feat
almost unparalleled in its display of daring and persever-
ance. Now that public attention has been recalled to a cir-
cumstance which must still remain fresh in the general- re-
membrance, we trust that an officer so peculiarly entitled to
promotion—and one whose conduct upon the occasion re-
ferred to must ever excite our warmest admiration—will not
continue much longer among the list of those whose courage
and humanity are only repaid by ingratitude.—ED. Sun.]
THE Fox CLUIL—The first meeting of the Fox
Club this season was hell on Saturday at Brooks's. There
were present—The Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Albemarle,
Viscount Enfield, M.P., Sir Robert Heron, Sir Robert Adair,
Lord Foley, rn
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Lord Creorne, Earl of Strafford, Mr. H. F.
Stephenson, Colonel Bolder°, Viscount Ebrington, M.P.,
Mr. A. K. Stephenson, lord Marcus Hill, M.P., Mr. Row-
land
Alston, Earl of Zetland, Mr. Frederick Dundas, Mr.
Iloughton Langston, Hon • C. C. Cavendish, ALP., Lord de
„14.1a,n, ley, Dr. Lushingson, Earl Fortescue, Hon. E. L. Dlostyn,
"'", Mr. E. A. Sandlord, Major-General Fox, Lord James
Stuart, M.P y
y
Hon. Hamilton Duncan, Mr. A. W. Roberts, Lord Camoys.
Colonel Boyle, M P , Lord Saye and Sele,
His Excellency Lord Cowley, the newly.ap-
pointed Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
French Republic, in the room of the Marquis of Normanby,
accompanied b Lad Cowley and suite, are expected to
leave Mivart's Hotel, where they have removed from Lord
Robert Grosvenor's, in Park-street, at the close of the week,
for Paris, where his Lordship
will assume his diplomatic
duties.
The temporary church erected for the use of the
late congregation of Carlisle Chapel, Kennington-lane, was
opened yesterday for divine worship, under the licence of
the bishop of the diocese. At both services the building
was densely filled. There was no foundation, it seems, fur
the report that this congregation had seceded, together with
their former minister, the Rev. Tenison Cuffe.
INrAwcr.—As the infant begins to discriminate
betwee-t the objects around, it soon diEcovers one countenance
that ever :Smiles upon it with peculiar benignity. When it
wakes from its sleep, there is one watchful form ever bent
over its cradle If startled by some unhappy dream, a guar-
dianhappytheshefirstobjectits angel seems ever ready to sooth its fears. If cold, that
ministering spirit brings it warmth; if hungry, she feeds it;
if
esorrow,r in weal or woe,
she presence
i 4
ileayen.
i This mother is the Deity of igfancy,
thoughts.ln joy or