The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS

Rev. James Tillard, M.A., of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, to the Rectory of Connington, Cambridgeshire ; pa-
tron, the Bishop of Ely.
Rev. P. Abbot to be Head Master of Queen Mary's
School, Clitheroe.
Rev. B. Addison to the Ministry of Bedford Chapel, Char-
lotte-street, Bloomsbury, London.
Rev. Philip Anderson, Curate of St. Peter's Church,
Ashton-under-Lyne, to be a Chaplain to the East India
Company at Bombay.
Rev. C. U. Burrow, 8.A., of the Trinity Hall, Cambridge,
to be Chaplain to the Mayor of Cambridge.
Rev. J. C. Barnett to the Vicarage of Berrow, Somerset,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Charles Johnson ; patron,
the Archdeacon of Wells.
Rev. H. Chevasse to be Incumbent Minister of the new
Chapel, Ward End, Ashton, near Birmingham.
Rev. H. Dyke to the Curacy of Sudbourne, Suffolk.

Rev. J. W. Harden to the Vicarage of Condover, Salop ;
patron, E. W. J. Owen, Esq.
Rev. Edward Pidsley, to the Curacy of Downham Market,
Norfolk.

Rev. M. Powell, to the Incumbency of the new Church,
Clapton.
Rev. H. Valiance, to be the Incumbent Minister of St.
John's, London-road. Southwark.
Rev. T. Walpole, to the Rectory of Limpsfield, Surrey,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Robert Mayne.
Rev. P. Watman, to the Perpetual Curacy of Barnley-
upon-Don, Yorkshire ; patron, D. Gresham, Esq.
Rev. W. Whiting, to be Chaplain of H.M.S. Cambria.
Rev. John F. Witty, to the Curacy of Woodbridge,
Suffolk. _

Rev. T. G. B. Moore, Curate of Bomsgrove, to be Chap-
lain to the Bomsgrove Union, in the room of the Rev. Mr.
Fessey, resigned.
Rev. Henry Wm. Wynne Jones, to the Perpetual Curacy
of the new Church at Denbigh; patron, the Rector of Den-
bigh.
Rev. John Mickle, Vicar of South Leverton, to the Per-
petual Curacy of Apesthorpe.
Rev. George Edmonds, Vicar of Madeley, Salop, to the
Rectory of Little Wenlock, Salop, void by the death of the
Rev. Dr. Forester ; patron, Lord Forester.
Rev. W. G. Mayne, M.A., to the Curacy of Prestbury,
Cheshire.

Rev. John Geale Uwins, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy
of St. Matthew, at Ebley, in the parish of Stonehouse,
Gloucestershire, void by the cession of the Rev. W. H.
Daubenv.

The following institutions have been recently made by the
Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells :—The Rev. G. B. Garrow,
8.A., to the Rectory of Chiselborough, with West Chinnock,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Charles Digby ; patron, the
Earl of Egremont.—The Rev. Samuel Marindin, M.A., to
the Rectory of Penselwood, Somersetshire, vacant by the
death the Rev. J. H. Biging ; patron, the Earl of Egremont.
—Rev. G. W. Newnham, M.A., to the Rectory of Combe-
Down Church, Somersetshire, vacant by the resignation of
the Rev. Wm. Hodgson.
* This young gentleman is the son of the Rev. J. Jones,
of St. Andrew's, in this town.—E. L. S.

THE NIGER EXPEDITION,

(From a Portsmouth Paper.)
The Horatio transport has arrived at Portsmouth, from
Ascension, which she left on the 27th of October, with inva-
lids from the African squadron. She brings sad accounts
of the disastrous effects of the climate on the crews compo-
sing the Niger expedition, no less than one-third of them
having invalided, of whom about 22 have died. The Saudon,
on quitting the Nun river, with thirty-six invalids on board,
fell in with the Dolphin, and transferred them to that ship.
Eight of these died on board the Dolphin ; and with the re-
mainder she proceeded to Ascension, where they were put on
board the Horatio, and have returned home. The havoc
made by the climate on the crews had greatly disheartened
the expedition, and it was considered doubtfnl whether it
could proceed. It is somewhat singular that the blacks who
went from England with the expedition were the first to fall a
prey to sickness on entering the river. The former accounts
received from the expedition mentioned that the steamers
entered the Nun river on the 13th of August. We now learn
that this river is two miles wide, and that it is thought to be
the chief of the many mouths of the Niger. The vessels,
with the Amelia tender, did not do more than about a dozen
miles, until the 20th, on which day they did about thirty;
the 21st, thirty miles more ; the 22nd, being Sunday, they
rested ; the 23d was wasted in looking after the Wilberforce,
which had gone up (without Captain Trotter's knowledge)
by a different channel. The 24th, they did twenty miles ;
the 25th, twenty-five miles ; and on the evening of the 26th
they all four arrived at the island of Ebor, 130 miles up the
river, according to its course. The river here is about two
hundred yards wide, and of good depth, the banks to the
water's edge covered with vegetation, with the cotton, um-
brella, palm, bamboo, and many other trees, of the kind.
The depth of the water varies from thirteen fathoms down to
very shallow indeed, the current against them going up about
two miles an hour. Thus far up the river its width varies
from one hundred yards to a mile and a half. The next
thirty or forty miles they saw very few huts indeed.
They next thirty or forty miles they paesed several villages,
than (for some miles) fewer inhabitants again, and latterly
none. The town of Ebor is very large, not on the main
river, but up a creek. The king went on board the Albert,
dressed like a mountebank, red coat, &c. The natives are
quite peaceful towards them ; indeed, they were fearful of
them ; they had provided them with vegetables and some
bullocks on the day the last letter was dated—viz., the 18th
of September. They have very large canoes, carrying forty
or fifty men each.
The following is an extract of a letter, dated Mount Stir-
ling, close to the confluence of the Niger and the Tchadda,
September 18, 1811, her Majesty's ship Amelia, tender (this
point is 300 miles from the sea, and being above the delta of
several rivers, is comparatively healthy :)
" The pestilence has broken out ; fifty or sixty are ill in
the squadron ; ten or twelve have died, and many more will
die, 1 fear. The Soudan takes the sick out of the river; the
Wilberforce goes up the Tchadda ; the Albert, with Captain
Trotter and Captain Bird Allen, goes up the Niger. Mr.
Horatio Collman, acting assistant surgeon of the Soudan, is
left in the medical charge of the Amelia, and the settlement
which is forming on shore here by the society, under Mr.
Carr. Mr. Nightingale, assistant surgeon of the Albert, is
dead, and also Mr. Marshall, acting surgeon of the Soudan."

(Fro•+: the Shipping Gazelle.)
Prior to the sailing of the Niger expedition, we expressed
an opinion that the adventure would terminate without the
attainment of the results that were promised. We have now,
however, obtained information which puts an end to all
speculation on the subject :—" The expedition is a failure ;
and the vessels may be expected home early in spring, if
not before." Advices, upon which we can place reliance,
inform us, that on the 18th of September, the expedition
was at the confluence of the Niger and Tchadda • that up to
that period seven individuals had been taken off by fever ;
that between seventy and eighty others were under the influ-
ence of the diseaee ; and that one of the vessels, the Saudan,
had been despatched with the sick to Fernando Po and
Ascension. The attempt had been made at the wrong season
of the year; the boats can make no progress up a falling
river; and its banks are loaded with decayed matter, which
throws off a malaria that is dreadful to inhale.

AMERICAN BREARVASTE.—This morning I again took
my place at the breakfast table, to see, with renevied admi-
ration, the galloping system. What I most envied, but in
vain attempted to imitate, was the marvellous skill evinced
by the natives in swallowing large quantities of iced milk and
oatmeal porridge. " Scotia, my own, my native land !" thou
are famed in verse and prose for thy breakfasts; but even
thou must hide thy diminished head before the accumulated
glories of the morning repast at Tremont House ; where, in
addition to the aforesaid porrige, are displayed tea, coffee,
omelets, beefsteaks, muttonchops, veal cutlets, kippered sal-
-111011, various kiwis of fresh fish, ham, eggs, cakes, rolls,
muffins, toast, &C., &C., ad infinitum !—Cal. Maxwell's
Run through the United states.