Of the Niger Expedition the Shipping Gazette says '. We
have this morning been favoured with the sight of a letter which gives further accounts of the Niger Expedition. Thus we learn that 'the Albert alone remains in the river; that she has but twelve White men remaining, besides Captain Trotter, the surgeon, Dr. M.William, and three or four ether officers.' 1wo of the twelve men spoken of by the writer were taken ill before his letter was closed, and an early departure from the coast was anxiously looked for.
"Another correspondent writes that—. Intelligence has been reved thateei the Niger Expedition has become dispirited, and that the whole of the steamers would rendezvous at Ascension on the 1st of January. The Wilberforce, which steamer was intended to remain in the Niger until the next season, had already arrived at Ascension. The expedition was reported to have left colonies up the Niger ; but what will be their fate without any establishment to communicate with outside, it is, perhaps, not difficult to foretell,'"
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