The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

THE NIGER EXPEDITION,

This expedition consists of the Albert, Captain H. Dundas
Trotter ; Lieuts. E. G. Fishbourne, and H. C. Harston ;
Master, G. A. Harvey; Surgeon, J. 0. M`William, M.D. ;
Assistant Surgeon, James Woodhouse ; Purser, W. Bow-
den; Mates, W. C. Willie, M•Leod, B. Cockraft, J. W.
Fairholme ; Second Master, W. H. T. Green ; Clerk, W.
R. Bush. The Wilberforce, Com. W. Allen ; Lieut. Jas.
N. Strange ; Master, Wm. Foster ; Surgeon, Morris Prit-
chett, • Assistant Surgeon, T. R. H. Thompson
Purser, '
C. M.D.Wakeham • Mates, H. C. Toby • E. N. Rolfe
Clerk. J. H. R. Webb. Soudan, Com. Bird Allen ; Mas-
ter, John Belam ; Surgeon, W. B. Marshall; Assistant Sur-
geon, H. Collman ; Clerk in charge, N. Waters ; Mates, W.
Lidney, AB. Davies, and W. R. 'Webb. The time of the
expedition entering the river will be the beginning of March.
Dr. Vogel goes out as botanist, and Mr. Russell as a practi-
.cal gardener. The society has also engaged Mr. Roscher, a
practical miner, to accompany the expedition, and report on
the geological structure of the country, and its mineral re-
sources ; Mr. Fraser goes out as zoologist; and a draughts-
man is engaged, who will be useful in all those departments
where the objects are too large or too delicate to be preserv-
ed. The Ashantee Princes will also avail themselves of this
opportunity to return to their native country. The expedi-
tion will call at St. Vincent, one of the Cape de Verde Islands,
for coal ; at Sierra Leone, for Kroomen and interpreters ;
and at Cape Coast Castle ; and will probably arrive at the
mouth of the Niger early in March. The vessels will here
fill up their coals from a store-ship, already sent out for that
purpose; and having placed their heavy stores, &c., in ca-
noes, and otherwise lightened the vessels for river naviga-
tion, they will proceed up the Quorra, either by the Formosa
or Nun branch, whichever may be reported of most favour-
ably ; and steaming rapidly through the Delta, make their
first halt at the town of Ibu, on the left or western shore of
the Nun, about 120 miles from the entrance. Here they will
commence their operations with a view to the execution of
the principal objects of the mission, namely, to make treaties
with the African chiefs to put down the traffic in slaves, and
to substitute instead of it a friendly intercourse with this
country. After as short a delay as possible at Ibu, the ex-
pedition will proceed up the river; and, forty miles beyond,
reach the first hills at the apex of the Delta, about 190 miles
from the sea—a distance easily accomplished, with earn mo-
derate steamers, in from three to four days. Here the mo-
notony of an alluvial soil, and all the malaria of the Delta,
are left behind, and the traveller looks cheerfully forward to
the remarkably formed range of the Kong Mountains, which
show themselves in the distant northern horizon.
Here an opportunity will be afforded for shewing the Afri-
cans the best mode of cultivating the ground, and of distri-
buting plants and seeds suited to the climate and soil. Should
any opportunity be afforded, the vessels will probably ex-
plore the upper part of the Quorra (Kawara), towards Basah,
where Mungo Park lost his life, and also the Chadda, as far
as water communication will admit of it, and thus open the
road to the missionary, the merchant, and the man of science.
The committee has placed £lOOO at the disposal of the com-
mander of the expedition, to be used either in benevolent
plans for the Africans, or endeavouring to gain a more inti-
mate knowledge of the country

STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY,
ON THE IST OP FEBRUARY, 1840.

(From the United Service Journal.)
I:Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which
the Depot ,of the Regiment is stationed.]
Ist Life Guards—Windsor 40th Foot—Bombay; Chatham
2d—Regent's Park 41st—Madras; Chatham
Royal Horse Guards--Hyde Park42d—Corfu ; Carlow
Ist Dragn Gds.—Cauada; York 43d—Canada; Armagh
2d—Piershill 44th—Bengal; Chatham
3d—Sheffield , 45th—Belfast
4th—Leeds 46th—Gibraltar; Jersey
sth—Manchester 47th—Malta„ Longford
6th—Dublin 48th—Gibraltar; Youghall
7th—Nottingham 49th-Bengal; Chatham
Ist Dragoons—Glasgow 50th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham
2d—Birmingham 51st—V. D. Land ; Chatham
3d—Bengal 52d—West Indies, Naas
4th—Bombay 53d—Plymouth
6th—Newbridge 54th—Dover
7th Hussars—Canada, York 55th—Bengal; Canterbury
Bth—Norwich 56th—Canada ; Newry
9th Lancers—Hounslow 57th—Madras; Chatham
10th Hussars—Coventry 58th—Glasgow
lith Light Dragoons—Brighton 59th—Corfu ; Templemore
12th Lancers—Dublin 60th(lst battalon.)—Windsor
13th Light Dragoons—Cantrbry 2d batt.)—Corfu; Newbridge
14th,-Dorchester 61st—Woolwich
15th Hussars—Madras 62d—Madras ; Chatham
16th Lancers—Bengal 63d—Madras ; Canterbury
17th Lancers—Cahir 64th—America; Limerick
Grenadier Guards (Ist batt.) 65th—Canada ;t Plymouth
St. George's Barracks 66th—Gossport; Sheerness
(2d batt.)—Canada 67th—America ;• Galway
(3d batt.)—Tower 68th—Jamaica ;* Ashton
Coldstream Guards—(lst batt.) 69th—America; Nenagh
Wellington Barracks 70th—W. Indies; Spike Island
(2d batt.)—Canada 71st—Canada; Dundee
cotch Fusileer Guards —(lst batt)72d—Portsmouth
Portman Barracks 73d—Canada; Hull
(2d batt.)—St. John's Wood 74th—West Indies; Waterford
Ist Foot (Ist batt.)—Gibraltar 75th—C. of G. Hope ; Exeter
(2d batt.)—Canada; Buttervant 76th—West Indies ; Derry
2d Foot—Bombay; Chatham
7787tth:BMuralutale;yChatham
3d—Bengal; Chatham h
4th—Madras; Chatham 79th—Gibraltar; Stockport
sth—Cephalonia; Castlebar 80th—N. S. Wales Chatham
6th—Bombay; Chatham 81st—Barbadoes ; Ashton-under-
7th—Gibraltar; Newcastle Lyne
Bth—America; Guernsey 82d—Jamaica; Portsmouth
9th—Bengal; Chatham 83d—Canada; Boyle
loth—Manchester 84th—Dublin
11th—Plymouth • 85th—Canada; Plymouth
12th—Mauritius ; Paisley 86th—Dublin
13th—Bengal ; Chatham 87th—Mauritius
14th—Trinidad* ; Newry 88th—Malta ; isirr
15th—Winchester 89th*_West Indies ;* Clonmel
16th—Bengal; Canterbury 90th—Ceylon; Tralee
17th—Bombay; Chatham 91st—Cape & St. Helena;
18th—Bombay;. Chatham 92d—Malta ;# Sterling
lgth—Malta 93d—America; Aberdeen
20th—Athlon 94th—Madras, Chatham
21st—Bengal; Canterbury 95th—Ceylon; Tynemouth
22d—Chatham ; ord. to India 96th—Chatham
America; Chester 97th—Corfu; Limerick
—Canada; Kilkenny 98th—Newcastle-on-Tyne
-C. Good Hope ; Brecon 99th—Dublin
26tn—Bengal ; Canterbury
Rifle Brigade (Ist batt)—Weedon
27th—C. Good Hope ; Fermoy (2d batt.)—Newport
28th—N. S. Wales; Chatham Royal Staff Corps_Hythe
29th—Edinburgh Ist W. Ind. Regt.—Demerara, &e
30th—Bermuda ; Enniskillen - 2nd—Jamaica & Sierra Leone
31st—Bengal; Canterbury 3rd—Sierra Leone
32d—Canada ;t Dublin Ceylon Rifle Reg. Ceylon
33d—Gibraltar;; Chatham Cape Mounted Riflemen-
34th—Canada; Dover of Good Hope.
35th—Mauritius ; Gosport Royal Newfd. Veteran CO 4P,
36th—America; Clare Castle Newfoundland
37th—America; Templemore Royal Malta Fencibles—Mal
38th—Corfu ; Kinsale
39th—Madras ; Chatham
* Ordered to Canada. t Ordered home. t Ordered to We
dies. j; Ordered to Jamaica.

Dublin

PACKET BOATS.-FALMOUTH STATION,
GENERAL POST-OFFICE, February 5.

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