The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-16 00:00:00

THE NIGER EXPEDITION

We have much gratification in stating, that the news of
mortality among the persons engaged in the expedition to tha
Niger, proves to be greatly exaggerated. A letter from a
gentleman on board of the Albert, dated off the Nunn, Aug.
10, says—" The Wilberforce Soudan, and Amelia, joined
us yesterday; the officers and men of all the vessels, so far
as I can learn, are in good health." On the Isth he again
writes—" We are now anchored above Alkurnah Island,
having passed over the shallow part of the narrow creek,
where we had 14 feet water, with the Amelia tender in tow ;
the Wilberforce and the Soudan come up to-morrow morning.
There is one coloured man in the Albert, and anther in the
Wilberforce, who have the African fever, but the symptoms
are favourable ; both these men are West Indian negroes, and
entered the ships in England. With these exceptions, lam
happy to say, the officers and men of the expedition are quite
well."

A letter from another gentleman, dated on board the
Albert, the 19th of August, says—" We entered this river
on the 14th. The health of the whole expedition has been
all along very good, considering the number engaged in it,
and any illness of consequence which has occurred has been
almost exclusively confined to the black men. In the Albert
we have unfortunately lost two men, one named Johnston, a
white, fell from the foreyard-arm during our passage from
Sierra Leone to Cape Coast, and died two hours after, the
accident from injury to the brain ; the other was Mr. Back,
the mathematical instrument maker, who was attacked on
the 9th instant, with symptoms of fever of a low typhoid
kind. It appears he had been suffering for some time from
dyspepsia, and this attack supervening upon a constitution
previously debihtated, proved fatal on the 15th ; !here evi-
dently was nothing local in the cause of his death. '
A letter from the chaplain to the expedition, dated the 18th
of August, says--" all the officers and people of the whole
squadron enjoy at present perfect health."
From letters received up to the date of the 20th of August,
the whole of the losses sustained appear to have been three
from casualties during the voyage, which, with two coloured
men, and one Eurppean—thilatter not from African fever--
comprises the entire loss of life sustained by the expedition
from the time of its quitting England to the 20th of Aug.
_ The total number employed in the expedition is about 300
persons.

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FRWAV. NovExuma 12

Wind N.W

AftklVED.—Fenella. Smardon, frorn Malaga —Ande. Burger,
from Lisbon—Ayrshire Lass, from St. Domingo—Maria &
Barn( tt, from London—and Sisters, M'Lean, from Cork.
SAILKI).—Jane, Slater, for Charleoton—and Dido, Malchow, for
Trieste.

Maria Louisa, Steene; Mary, Grees, and Atlas, Morton, hence
at Antwerp
Amanda, --, hence at Barcelona
Elizabeth, Brouwer; Harmonic, Schabeling ; Gezina, Postema,
and Neerlands Trouw, he Grout, hence at Helvoet _ _ _

ABEILDOVEY, Nov. lo.—The St. Peter, Cowley, from Youghal to
Liverpool, is wrecked about s miles to the northward of this port;
cargo (flour) saved in a damaged state.