The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-27 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE.-FRIDAY, AUGUST 23.

INSOLVENT.
William Corp, Great Tower-street, carpenter.
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Jared Terrett Hunt, Princes-street, Lambeth, bone-merchant,
BANKRUPTS.

David Miller, Bristol, drOggist.
William Roberts, Batley, Yorkshire, cloth-manufacturer.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. and S. A. Weston. Koightsbridge, clmnists.—T. S. Wright and
W. Edwards. Southatn, Warwickshire, ataltneys.--T. L. Milner and
11,tis'ouit, York, commission-agents.—W. and' . Rake, Bristol, con-
,' angmiteciatintnltou t:
lers.—T. Simmons and E. Franels,lptiwlt'n,
and E. Booth, Manchester, calico-printers.—J, Elkins and Co., New-
man-street, Oxford-street, attorneys.—J. Biss and. J. I. Buck, Bath,
cheese-factors.—T. Petherick and S. F. Kingston, Usington, Deyon-
shire, miners.—W. Newton and R. Cook, Princes-street, Leicester-
square, brush-makers.—T. Bayley, sell., and T. Bayley, jun., Great
Union-causeway, Southwark.—J. Bridgett and M. Booth, Derby,
silk-throwsters.—G.Bramwell and Co., Inner Templ#, Parliamentary-
agents ; so far as concerns T. Fenner.—G. Eadon, jun., and Co., mer-
ehants.—W. I. Welch and J. R. Lax, Wells, Somersethire, common-
brewers.—J. Nicholl and co., Lillypot-lane, City, worsted-stuli-
manufacturers ; so far as regards J. N icholl.
DIVIDENDS. -
Sept. 17, N. C. Boesha, Regent-street, dealer in music.—Sept.
16, W. Lines a nd .1. Fisher, Ipswich, Suffolk, maltsters,--Sept. 18,
G. Mander, W arwick, coal merchant.—Sept. 16, J. Humfrey, lUan-
ningtree, Essex, wine-merchant.—Sept. 16, E. Lawrance, Ipswich,
Sullolk, scrivener.—Sept. 13, W. Burraston, Worcester, hop-mer-
ehant.—Sept. 17, G. Osborne, Colchester, Essex, seedsman.—Sept.
17, S. Chambers, jun., Birmingham,-. ivory-worker.—Oct. 1, S.
Stocker, Bristol, victualler.
• CERTIFICATES—SEPT. 13. . '
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F. Grosjean, Smith, Bristol, merchant.—
T. Rovedino, Manchester-street, Manchester-square, musie-pub-
lisher.—A. Meredith, Bristol, coal-merchant—P. Cates, Old Drury
Coffee-house, Bridges-street, Covent -garden, hotel-kceper.--H.
Primer, Southampton, china-dealer.—B. Cook, sen., Birmingham,
brassfounder—C. Haynes, Mitcham, Surrey, ,carpenter.—J. Wil-
kinson, Sheffield, tavern-keeper.-

RIDICULE.—The most refined of human feelings are the mos
exposed to, and the must liable to be affected by ridicule; as the
finest edges are the easiest destroyed.-G/eaniugs from the Scrap
Book.

INSPECTORS UNDER THE FACTORY BILL.—We have just
seen a memorial to Lord Althoip which will this (lay be open
in various parts of the town to receive the signatures of the
inhabitants of this borough recommending Mr. Lees to the
appointment of inspector under the Factory Regulation Bill.
the other candidates, if report be true, are Mr. Baker, sur-
geon, and Mr. John Peele Clapham, the former supported by
a number of the Factory Masters, and the latter by the interest
and secret influence of the Rawsons, the Baines,_ and the Clap-
hams over the independept and faithful T. B. Macaulay, Esq.
What, let us ask, have Messrs. Baker and Clapham done for
the Leeds members or the public that they should give them
their support in preference to Mr. Lees, who did more for
them and their cause than any other man in the borough? If
we look at Mr. Lees in the last election as the very nucleus
of their party, and see him now deserted by those who could
have made him a grateful retain, we are forced to confess that
base ingratitude is attempting-to deprive the public of an use-
ful servant and filling the place with men, we hesitate not to
say, for various reasons, totally unfit for the situation. On
these grounds we presume that the inhabitants, generally, will
support Mr. Lees, by signing a memorial in his behalf; and
placing public opinion in opposition to private interest and
secret iufluence.—arrespondent of the Leeds lutelligcncas.

AUGUST 27, 18f'4.

LANDED R'S SECOND VOYAGE • UP THE NIGER.

(From the Kelso Chronicle.)

We have been &vol.-lied with a very interesting
from the letter of aifilffice,r of the party, giving an account
which
of Lander's second trip up the 'Niger, the contents of
IN(
must be interesting, as we are confident they must be ne
to the public., The letter is dated
12- _
" Fernando Po, H. M. S. Curlew, Nlar
" Mr. Lander arrived here some days ago from the Sun or
Niger. I had been then in the Curlew only a week befuire;
when they had received. no intelligence of the expedition for
five months. qage
"It appears the large steam-boat, the Quorra, after a pas- a
extract.
of three months, only reached the river Shadda, or rather with,l_
six miles of it, when she was thrown by the strength of 0,7
stream (or by bad steerage,) noon a bank, where she remained
for three months with about three fathoms water close to ham''
This delayed the expedition, for the little steamer, the Alburii.
was obliged to attend her consort for fear of accidents. Mr,
Lander left them about three or four weeks ago, in order to Sea;
a supply of medicines, tea, &c. Curious enough, the inedic!,
man who went up the river was quite an inexperienced praVl,
tioner and neglected to take up a proper quantity of stores:
consequence has been, that after getting into the Nun, (WI
lost about six men) before, twenty white men died of fever
dvsentary, and amongst the number the doctor himself, (or
Briggs, ) and all the officers, excepting Mr. Laird, Mr. Lancl7
Lieutenant Allan, and the captain of the little steamer. 'Ft, re
are now living on board the two boats, only fourteen whire.s"";
They luckily took plenty of blacks with them, (Itroonien)
twenty in one boat and fifteen in the other, wheraire all alive'
The success of a future expedition is. now certain, if IS
perly conducted, for the only opposition Lander has met eg
was between the mouth of the river and a place about half "I
to Eboe, and three and a-half days from the sea. At th,'s
place, the boats on going ashore to wood, were fired upon u 7
the natives; and, although every means were used for conci-
liation, the steamers were obliged to fire their guns, and eve!:
tually set fire to the town. This happened on their way er
The chief of the place has now joined nine others, and they
have determined upon preventing the return of the expedl-
- is, of course, all nonsense. These chiefs all' live
within ten miles of each other, and although they have large
canoes, they can do nothing against a steamer ; they have beell.
egged on by the English Palm Oil Captains, and Captains °'
Slavers, who have been doing every thing to thwart the view!,
of the expedition. Lander met King Boy at Eboe, (whom Ye"
may recollect as the person who, on a former occasion, ran;.
somed the- two brothers ,and brought them down to Brass) and
ol
his Majesty gave him a passage down in his war canoe,
has promised to take- him up again. I mentioned the extrema
mortality that has occurred ; Lander thinks it was caused by
the imprudence of Captain Ilarris, a' master in the navy, wb°
made a coasting voyage of it from Sierra. Leone, and took the
boats\ (he commanded the large one), up one or two rivers M.
order to pass away the time, as he considered the season
far advanced enough to enter the Nun. The consequence visso
fever broke out, mil six persons, including. Hams himself',
died before entering the river, and great sickness continue
up to the moment of Lander's quitting them the other day. int.'
Allan had been attacked, but was quite well again, and left la
charge of the boats, while Mr. Laird had gone up the river
Shadda in the long boat, partly for his health and partly to traue
The country was quite healthy where the steam boats oet!
lying, and they had plenty of provisions. Bullocks cost only
eight shillings, and weighing about two cwt., and fowls aline"
a penny. Lander' says the victualling of about thirty perso&ns
amounted only to about Is. 6d. a day, including yams, rice,
They have not succeeded 'well in trade—having procured only
about five tons of ivory; this was owing to their not haviag
good interpreters, and to their not being far enough up the
river. Had the large 'steamer not grounded they would hal
been up to Boossa. Owing to the strong current against theel
their fuel only lasted two days, and it took them ten to oael;
plete again. Lander's complaint is dysentery, which is Or
nearly subdued; he came down here from the mouth of the
Nun in an open boat (for change of climate,) and luckily had
not a drop of rain the whole passage, for three days. One tor-
nado must have killed him, and we had a severe one 'the dal
before he arrived and the day after. I am just starting on
6
cruise, and intend calling in for him in about a week and .talt,
him up to the Nun. He has obtained several good interpreters
here----good disciplined lads who have been well drilled P.l
Colonel. Nicolls. Want of discipline appears to have baco,„
sad effect on the expedition I have just been attemptingl,l‘
give you an outline of. Ou Captain Harris's death, Mr. Lair
appears to have behaved in a most mutinous manner toot'''.
Lander, and only gave in When seized by illness; want of har-
mony appears to have been the chief cause of these misfortunes'
As to the opposition on the part of the natives, there maybe
said to 'have been none; for, if the ten chiefs continue hostile'
we can convey him up so far under the guns of the Pluto, with
the Curlew in tow, if requisite—there is plenty of water over
the bar of the Nun.
"I have given you a very hasty account of Lander's expeal;
tion rather than none at all, as (sending my latter by Ascension)
you may not have heard of it before. Mr. Allan is getting °I"
well with his observations; he has been of great service t°
Lander in supporting him against Mr. Laird."