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Further accounts, dated the 19th September, but reaching to the

211, have been received of the Niger expedition, which had at the former date ascended the river to the confluence of the Tchadda and Quorra; and at this point de- termined upon a change of operations. The original plan, to be guided, how- ever, by events, was that the steamers should proceed in company ; but cir- cumstances have led to a resolution that the Prince Albert, Captain Trotter, should ascend the Quorra, and the Wilberforce, Captain W. Allen, should navigate the Tchadda. The Soudan, Captain Bird Allen, had returned down the river with invalids ; for we regret to say that considerable sickness had pre- vailed, in spite of all the precautions taken to prevent it : and eight Europeans, sailors, had died since the expedition left England. Captains Trotter and B. Allen had both kept their health ; but Captain W. Allen had been ill, but was recovered. The sickness which attacked the crews attended the vessels all the way up to Attah, about two hundred miles, above which we do not hear that it continued. Whilst the Prince Albert and Wilberforce made their way up the additional seventy miles to the site we have indicated as the junction of the two grand branches, viz. the Quorra or IN ifrer, flowing from nearly the North or North-north-west, and the Tchadda or Chad, from the Eastward ; the Soudan, from Attah, had got down to the coast in three days ; and providen- tially found the Dolphin, Lieutenant Littlehales, cruising oft the mouth of the river, and put the sick on board, to be carried, we believe, to the Isle of As- cension.—Literary Gazette.