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ENGLAND. ...,,,,e... •. , , - --„,2,..„--- A LECTURE, by Dr. VOELCKER, on the "Comparative /~ /L~rl~l~--~41 i, _ . - ~~ - ~~ ~~ ~~ ..yam SPARER-- _ ks. a Effect of Different Manures upon Grass Lands," will be de livered to the Memb er s a t the S o ciety's House, 12, Hanover - a "are, London, at Twelve TO-MORROW, the 21th June. PRICE..... —..4d. STAMPED ....sd. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1863, By Order of the Council. H. HALL DARE, Secretary. N°. 22,148. I must acquaint my associates with the deep lute- SOLE of INTEREST in MILL PREMISES and LANDS at O'BRIEN'S BRIDGE, in the County of Clare. IN THE COURT of BANKRUP roc and INSOLVENCY. IN BANKRUPTCY. Inbthtohe Matter of William Dion and Henry Wickham Hird' of O'Brien's Bridge, in the County of Cl ,re, Milers Bankrupts. To BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION, pur suant to the order, and subject to the approbation of t he said Court. at Michael flartigan's Auction Rooms, July,e Et, a LIMERICK, O on WED N ESDAY, the let day of " 63 , t the hour of One o'clock in the Afternoon, All the state, Right, Title, and interest of the said Bank rupts, and of their Assignecs, and of the Mortgagee of. in, and to all that and those, the Dwelling-house, )ffices, Stores, Mills situate, lying, and beingrrien's Bridge, in Le County of Clare, held under n Indenture ot Fee Grant, raring, date the 15th August, 1854, for ever, at the Yearly .rnt of £l2O 115. tod. with the right of turbery on the Red "" u g at O'Brien's Brid'Re. and also all that and those that part of the lands of O Brien's Bridge, containing 2 roods, and known by the name ;,,th,e New Mil Pond, situate, lying and being at O'Brien's No vember, aforesaid, held under Indenture ot Leas , . dated 19th ii°Vernber, 1828, tor the lives therein named, at the Yearly e " of £t 'Os.; and also _All that a n d t h ose, that part of the Lands or B u ilding Ground of O'Brien's Bridge, held under Indenture of Lease, dated 19th November, 1828, tor the term of three lives therein 4 amed, at the yearly rent of £3; and also All that and those, the Watercourse or Mill stream run ' _Pig through the lands of Moss Bank, part of the said lands ,(2! O'Brien's-lodge, t .gether with the strip ofgromd orpath 'o7 running alongside said new Watercourse to the 'eft .rreof, as it proceeds from the Bridge at Bridgetown, co/t -aming in length, from the Bridge at Bridge,ovvn to where !aid course joins the old Mill stream, 95 perches and 6 feet, or t hereabouts, and in breadth 8 feet, held under lease of 25th fNovember, 1828, for lives renewable for ever, and subject to .o re nt. CHEYNE BRADY, Chiet Registrar. For particulars of Title and conditions of Sale, see Abstract Of Title posted for inspection at the Court of Bankruptcy a nd Insolvency, Four C'ourts, Dub in ; at the Auctioneer's Cecil-street in the City of Limerick ; or at the office Joseph Sal" No. for lothe Mortgagee, caving car- of the ll Bacher's-walk, Dublin, and 55, ` , A er , rge-street, Limerick. M i c h ae l Murphy, Esq., Assignee, No. 33,Upper Ormond-quay, Dublin. Official DESCRIPTIVE PARTICULARS. These Mills are within seven miles of Limerick, in the 4 :ntre of an extens ve corn-growing country, embracing part `of the counties of Clare, Limerick, and Tipperary, are situate On the banks of the River Shannon, with water carriageal ltost to the Mill door, and h a v in g the same communication With Dublin, Athlone. &c., drc., and are in every possible re ',Peet about the best circumstanced in the South of Ireland. They are nearly quite new, and have been erected with all the new and modern improvements, and have cost, from time to time, over £20,000, and consist of No. I—A Steam Mill, driven by a powerful Steam Engine, oy Caird and Company , of Glasgow , w ith three ve ry lar g e Boilers, w hich work up to 100-horsepower, and for the supply of which there is abundance of fuel in the immediate neigh bourhood. This Mill is in the most perfect order, is fitted up with 9 pair of first-class 4-feet Belgian stones, with Bovill's patent exhaust, 4 Silk-dressing Machines, 1 Wire Machine (Ameri can) another patent Cleaning and Screening Machine, all on the new , st and most approved principles, and are capable of Grinding and Dressing 1,200 Barrels of Wheat per week. No. 2—A Water Mill, fitted up comnlete, with four pair of new 4 feet 6 inch French Burr Stones, two Silk-dressing Ma chines, and is capable of Grinding and Dressing a very large quantity of both Wheat and Indian Corn. In this Mill there is room for two pair more of Mill Stones, and the Water power has been vastly increased this seaaon by extensive drainage works, which are being carried out in the neigh bourhood. No. 3—A large and convenient Cern Stores, quite free and independent of the Mills, and capable of containing 10,000 Barrels of Grain. No. 4—A large range of Shedding. Stabling for 12 Horses, Coach -houses, Bake-house, Piggeries, dr,c. No. s—The Dwelling House and Garden, modern and con venient, handsomely fitted up, and is in perfect order and repair. The whole of the premises are thoroughly enclosed, are all in the most substantial order and repair, ready for immediate ° ,? oll Pation, and do not require an outlay of one shillin4 for ~1 1 '-c! Milling Trade on either Machinery or Buildings. Those Premises are so extensive that there is ample room and sufficient spare buildings. so that a portion, with great advantage and at a small outlay, could be easily converted into a first-class Bre ~e ry, for the carrying on of which trade there is every possible facility, and for which this situation Presents many most important advantages, offering thus on „the whole to traders and capitalists a rare and most desirable investment. THE EGYPTIAN COMMERCIAL AND TRADING COMPANY (Limited). To be Incorporated, with Limited Liability, under "The Companies Act, 1862." Capital £2,000,000, In 100,00 0 Shares of £2O each. Payment on allotment Z 2 per Share. The Capital has been subscribed, with the exception of 25,000 Shares, which have been reserved for issue to the public by the International Financial Society. DIRECTORS, President—H. H. Prince HALIM PASHA, late Governor of the Soudan. John Cater, Esq., Director of the Bank of Egypt , L o ndon. „, • Dervieu, Esq. (E. Dervieu and Co.), Alexandria. W. Larking, Esq , London. Oppenheim, Esq. (Oppenheim, Nephew, and Co.), Alex andna. • Rose, Esq. (Briggs and Co.), Alexandria. Ruyssenaers, Duh Consul• General, Ale Indria. " • F. Scholfield, Et tc q., London (late A. and S. Henry and Co., Manchester). _ Sulzbach,.Esq., Frankfort O.M. Alexander Tod, Esq., London (Tod, Hathbone, and Co., Egypt; and Stephen Kennard and Co., London). MANAGER. M. Sakakini, Esq. (Sakakini Brothers), Cairo. AGENTS. Messrs. Fruhling and Goschen, London. M.M. Marcuard, Andre., and Co., Paris. The Bank of Saxe Meiningen, Frankfort BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bircham, Dalrymple, Drake, and Ward, 46, Parliament-street, Westminster. PROSPECTUS. . • - Encouraged by the desire of the Government of his High ness the Viceroy of Egypt, several Commercial Houses and Society have united to form this Company:— The Internat,onal Financial Society, London. Messrs. Fruhling and Goschen, London. Messrs. Marcuard, Andre, and Cie., Paris. Mr W. F. Jaeger, Frans fort. Mr. S. Sulzbacn, Frankfort. Messrs. Oppenheim, Nephew, and Cie., Alexandria. Messrs. Dervieu and Cie., Alexandria. The object of the Company is to devote e s pecial attention to the development of Commerce wit h Upp Egypt, Nubia, the Soudan, and adjoining countries, as well as the borders of the !led Sea, and to establish trading relations with those dis ‘riets, the enormous resources of whic h—till now almost un developed—are so well known as to render it needless to titter into a lengthened description. The Company will buy or exchange the produce, which consists of cotton, coffee, sugar , rice , tobacco, gums, oils, Ivory, senne, beeswax, ostrich feathers, gold dust, silk, in eoc. The Viceroy of Egypt has, by the grant of a liberal subsidy, Galled into existence a Steam Navigation Company for the Red Sea and the Nile he is also about, with the view of as sisting the operations of this Company, to complete, at his Own expense, telegraphic communication between Alex s ndri a and all the principal stations which have been selected for the operations of the Company, extending to Khartoum, the farthest town of importance in the interior of Africa within the limits of Egyptian territory, and to Taka on the frontiers Of Abyssinia. By these means the d:fficulty of communication, hitherto existing, will be removed, a , d means of transport greatly , facilitated. It will be an object of this Company to encou rage all enterprises which will tend to provide means of rapid transport, whether by steamers, railways, canals, or by the organisation of caravans. It will also be an object of the Company to encourage, by the adva nce of mone y to cul tivators, importation of seed, establishment of cotton gins, km, the cultivation of cotton in Upper Egypt, where there exist immense tracts of land capable of producing it to al most any extent. The population in those districts is nume rous and iudustrious. It is a well-ascertained fact that, in Upper Egypt and the Soudan, cultivators and traders can afford to borrow money at 4 and 5 per cent. per month, and still amass considerable wealth. The Company intend to establish agencies on both coasts of the Red Sea. On the Arabian coast Dgeddah has been selected as a principal place of commerce. On the coast of Abyssinia agencies will also be established at Kossier, Sa- Wakim, and Massawah. The tradin_o - operations of the Company will extend from Cairo up the Nile, as far as possible into theinterior of Africa, following the courses of the White and Blue Nile, whilst communication will be carried on between the interior and the Red Sea, and its east and west co asts. It is intended to commence operations below Stout, ex tending gradually upwards, employing the capital, in the first instance, by making advances to cultivators in Upper IllY.ypt, operations with which the Alexandrian Directors are delll acquainted, and which, being highly lucrative, at once Insure a large interest on the capital employed. The capital of the Company will be gradually called up as its operations are extended. Mr. Sakakini, who has for many years carried on , an d is thoroughly acquainted with, the trade of Upper Egypt and its adjoining countries, has consented to act temporarily as manager, in order to give the Company the advantage of his experience in the organisation of a sufficient and competent staff. The Articles of Association will provide for a defined and limited participation by the Directors in the profits, after payment of interest, on the capital called up, and the houses havewho founded the Company will be entitled to the privi lege of taking one-third of any further issue of Shares, sub ject to which all new Snares will be distributed pro rata amongst the existing Shareholders. --- Applications for Shares must be made to the International Financial Society (Limited), at their Offices, 51, Old Broad street, E.C. No application will be received after Saturday, 20th June, at 12 noon. London, June, 1863. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the International Financial Soddy (Limited). Gentlemen, —I request you to allot me Shares of £2O in the Egyptian Commercial and Trading Company (Limited), and I hereby agree to become a member of that Company, and to accept such St ares, or any lees number that may be allotted to me, and I request that my name may be placed on the Register of Members in respect of the Shares allotted to me. I am, Gentlemen, y o ur obedient servant, No. Pierce in full Address in full tieference Date ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail- Way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, li.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of .evernors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form viz., that which is accom- Pcnied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient Magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting; into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. M. , reover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3, 000 out-patients a week. The W e ekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mitaterman, Esq., Nic h o l as -lane; also by Messrs. 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T HEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE, JUNE 39, 1863. A Grand MELANGE DRAMATIQUE will take place in AID of the FUNDS for a NATIONAL METROPOLITAN MONUMENT to SHAKESPEARE, under the immediate Patronaze of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin cess of Wales, before whom 60 eminent artistes will have the honour of appearing. —Hon. Sec., Mr. Adolphus Francis, 43, Cumberland-street, Hyde-park. T 1' E 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD STREET. Will be performed Selections from the following Operas : LA CJRCASSIENNE, MARTHA, and MASANIELLO. Supported by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, Miss Ell!son, Messrs. Albert, Green, Bernardi, Finish, Kimberley, and W. Evans, with full band and chorus. Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Drew Dean's Flute Solos Master Sanders, the Juvenile Vocalist. UNSWORTH, the modern Demosthenes. Eugene, W. RaßTHUndall, and BERTR , RANDand the marvellous A . The HALL 1198 been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is now one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. NOTICE.— ENTIRE CHANGE OF ENTERTAINMENT. This Evening the Marvellous ARTHUR and BERTRAND, the Two Fren h Clowns. ARTHUR LLOYD'S burlesque Drama, arranged expressly for him. A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH'S new Comicalities, SAM COLLINS, with new Songs. UNSWORTH, the celebrated Stump Orator. EUGENE, and G. HUTCHINSON. GRAND SELECTIONS from OPERAS, GLEES, and CANTATAS. _ Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Townley ; Mr. Green, Signor Bunali, and Signor Tivoli. Conductor, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, ed. ; stalls and balcony, is. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Miss M',;regor, Messrs. Albert. Vernon, Rigby, &c., &c., with Full Chorus and Band of 60 Performers. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.-THIS EVENING, and during the Week, at Half-past Ten, the FAIRY FOUNTAIN. "It is indeed a remarkable and beautiful spectae.e."—lllustrated Loudon News. 'ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—Trium phant Success of the marvellous RISARELIS and LEa TROIS NICHOLETS. A RGYLL ROOM S.-JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. NOTlCE.—Durieg the Week the Selections will be—" Der Frieschutz "—" I•a Forza del Destino "—" II Trovatore " "Don Giovanni," &c. LEVY, the great wonder on the Cornet-a-Piston, plays from hall-past Nine to Twelve. - - Admission, is. WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS. QOUTHGATE and BARRETT will SELL, by AUCTION, at their ROOMS. 22, Fleet-street, TO MORROW (WEDNESDAY), at One o'clock, by order of Mr. R. Ackerman, of Regent-street, who is retiring from business in favour of his sons, a COLLECTION of WAT KR COLOUR DRAWINGS. including Fifty Military Subjects by H. Martens, many Engraved ; 120 large Military Scenes by Orlando Norie, very tainted; 18 Views in London by G. S. Shepherd, a series of interesting and highly -finished Drawings ; numerous examples by Dewint, Varley, Rolfe, Holland, Weigall, Stephanoff, Pyne, Allen, Baynes, Evans, Ince, Corbould, Westall, Buckley, Barrel t, I). 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WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXIIIBITED IN TIIE GREAT FRITIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of HERN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the toffy, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the doc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn ,luring sleep. A descriptive circular may he had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. N Double Truss, 31e. 6d., 425., end 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. 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After a few dressings with theicsomunegnuaetuurt natural e au s 4 kilf a e p el p s ea so ran ft cane healthy, its secretions ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. WELCOME TO THE DISCOVERERS OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. Last night a special meeting of the Royal Geo graphical Society was held in Burlington House, Piccadilly, to welcome Captain Speke and Captain Grant, the discoverers of the source of the White Nile, on their return to this coup try. The hour ap pointed for the commencement of the proceedings was nine o'clock, but long before eight o'clock a s'ream of carriages flowed steadily into the court yard, and shortly after that hour every nook and cranny was filled to overflowing by an audience re• presenting the fashion, art, and science of the metropolis, while an almost equal number in vain sought admission. The utmost animation and ex citement prevailed in the immense audience, which was so densely crowded that it was with the ut most difficulty the President fought his way to the dais, and the heroes of the night, in the effort to find their places on each aide of him must have preferred many of their experiences of African travel. Among those in the immediate vicinity of the chair, we noticed Sir R. Peel, M.P., Mr. Munck ton Milnes, M.P., Mr.Layard, M.P., Mr. Alderman Salomons, M.P., Mr. Gregson, M.P., Sir L. M'Clin tock, Lady Franklin, Sir G. Clerk, Sir A.S. Waugh, Sir H. James, Admiral Murray, Col. Lynch, Che valier Duprat, Signor Nigra, Sir H. Vavasour, Sir F. Nicholson, Sir T. Fremantle, &c. Sir R. MURCHISON, the president, said—The hour appointed for commencing the business was nine o'clock, but looking at the crowded state of the room, although it wants 15 minutes to that hour, we may as well proceed. The hon. baronet then spoke as follows :—Gentlemen, we are now specially assembled (for our regular session has terminated) to do honour to the two men who have accomplished the most remarkable geographical feat which has been performed in our time, and one which it has been the ambition of other nations to accomplish during all ages. The council of this society has the greater reason to be proud of this achievement, be cause it was by their exertions that the means were obtained to carry it out; and her Majesty's Govern ment and the Indian Government must also have a real gratification in reflecting that they complied with the wishes of the geographers who organised the East African expedition, in furnishing the essen tial means of accomplishing it. But, gentlemen, whilst we may well dwell with satisfaction on the encouragement we warmly offered, let us at once turn to the man, without whose earlier as well as recent labours this great feat could never have been brought about—l mean, of course, Captain Speke. (Cheers.) In the year 1858, when serving with our former medallist, Burton, and when that eminent explorer lay sick at Kazeh, Captain Speke having heard of this lake from Arab merchants hastened to reach it; and, finding that its southern extremity was on the high plateau-land, between 3,000 and 4,000 feet above the sea—(the land which forms, indeed, the watershed between North and South Africa in that meridian)—he finding also that the waters of this vast lake were fresh, he, then and there, after accurately determining the longitude of its southern end, was convin ced that this body of water must be the great southernmost reservoir out of which the White or Main Nile flowed at its northern end. • It was for this first great discovery that the Royal Geogra phical Society awarded our founder's gold medal to Captain Spoke. Though obliged to return to Eng land with his leader, Captain Burton, Captain Spoke held pertinaciously to his project; and en gaging his Indian brother officer, Captain Grant, to accompany him (an officer, let me say, who dis tinguished himself, and was severely wounded in the great Indian mutinies), and, encouraged by this society and the Government, he has gone and done the great deed, and has followed the Nile from its source to its mouth. Gentlemen, it is not for me to recapitulate any portion of that abstract of the vast labours gone through by Captains Speke and Grant which I read to you at our anniversary, and which was printed in the public journals of the 26th May last. But I think it necessary to say that I now know, that, in my anxiety to satisfy the desire of the public, there were omissions and errors in that address. I know, for example, that I did not on that occasion do sufficient justice—and I am sorry for it—to able critical geographers, who had framed hypotheses, or had collected data from na tives and other authorities as to the probable source of the Nile; but I beg you to consider that I was then solely bent on developing, as well as I could, from the records sent home by Speke, the main features, of the great actual and practical survey which had been made by himself. As to the errors in that rapidly-prepared abstract, I may advert at once to one. It was stated by me that the young King of Nganda, who was so kind to Captain Speke when he was separated from his companions, had 3,000 wives, but I now find that there was a nought too many, and that his Majesty has hitherto been contented with 300 wives ! (Laughter.) Then as to the statements which are arising and will arise as to the dates of the old maps on which lakes were marked in the interior of Africa, and out of which the Nile is made to flow, they are not con fined to the old (probably Portuguese) maps of the 16th century, of which I spoke, and which exist in the library of the Propaganda Fede in Rome. One Arabian map is now indeed cited, which is upwards of 1,000 years old, in which one or more pieces of water occupy nearly the position of the Victoria Nyanza of Spoke. Not pretending to be able to decide upon who may have been the people who first were acquainted with such great interior waters Capt. Speke informs me that he believes the traders from Hindostan were probably anterior even to the Greeks in visiting this region. When, how ever, we come to the latter, Captain Speke is of opinion that Ptolemy, that great geographer, is the authority who first placed upon historical record the existence of African lakes under the Equator, out of which the Nile flowed. But age after age rolled on ; traveller after traveller, from the days of the Roman Emperors to our time, endea voured to ascend the Nile to its source, and all have failed. In our days, one Miani, a Venetian, who had lived many years in Egypt, is the person who got farthest southward in ascending from Egypt, and he, not being an astronomical observer, thought, and has asserted, that he had reached to the second degree of north latitude, where he cut his name upon a tree. He has even written to me from Vienna what he calls a " protest " against the river of Speke being the true Nile ! Spoke, how ever, in p a ssing southwards, determined the lati tude of that very tree, with Miani's name on it, to be 32 degrees north latitude; and as Spoke had traced the water of the Nile from 3 degrees south of the equator, it follows that the Venetian was never within about 400 miles of the head waters of the Nile ! As it would be impossible on this occasion for Capt. Spoke to carry you along with him on this long pilgrimage which he and his companion made from Zanzibar on the east coast, to the central and equatorial kingdoms in which they were so long detained, he will new first read to you a brief sketch of the whole course of the great White Nile, and will show y ou how vastl y su p erior it is, not only in length, but also in volume and im portance, to all the effluents which it receives from the east or from the west, including the g reat Thue Nile. Cavillers about the source of the Nile there are I know in abundance, and such persons will pro bably not even b e sa ti s fi e d b y m y assuring them that Capt. Speke him se lf d oes no t t a lk of the source, but he tells you that, whilst the southernmost end of the late Victoria Nyanza does not receive waters from the south, that great body is fed by numerous small streams which flow into it from the west and the east as it extends northwards; the great fact re maining that the southernmost end of this lake is on the watershed between North and South Africa, and in 31 degs. south latitude. Before I call on Capt. Speke to read his communication on the Nile, rest which our patron the Queen, and our vice patron the Prince of Wales, take in this great dis • covery. When I recently waited upon the Queen at the building of the International Exhibition, along with other Royal Commissioners, her Ma- esty was pleased to congratulate me most gra-. ciously upon this great geographical feat, and I feel certain, from the kind and emphatic manner in which her Majesty expressed herself the first time in which the Queen had appeared after her sad be reavement, that she is truly proud in the reflection that two of her own gallant Indian officers should have succeeded in doing what the people of every European nation have failed to accomplish. Then as to our vice-patron, the Prince of Wales, I know that his Royal Highness, who is himself a great traveller, and who loves our science, would have been here this evening had not a very special engagement prevented him ; but arrangements have, I am happy to say, been made by which his Royal Highness will hear, to-morrow night, a lec ture from Captain Speke at the Royal Institution. Whilst our own Royal family recognises the im portance of this great discovery, the Sing of Italy has taken the lead amongst foreign sovereigns in the expression of his desire to commemorate this great discovery, and has directed two golclmedals to be struck in honour of our hefeeti - of tote Rife. One of them, or that which is destined for the leader, has arrived, and has on it the inscription, " Honor a Nilo." I must here add that the letter of the Italian Minister, the Marquis d'Azeglio, which accompanies this appropriate reward is such an elegant and apposite composition, that it is worthy of the country which reared a Columbus. The chairman read a letter from the Marquis d'Azeglio expressing the admiration of the King of Italy for the gallant explorers, and concluded by saying, " As the French Geographical Society (like our own society) gave a gold medal to Capt. Spoke for his original discovery of the great lake, he, in grateful remembrance of that act, named a large channel at the head of the Victoria Nyanza after the Emperor Napoleon, who will, I doubt, duly appreciate the honour of having had - - his name affixed to such an important feature in the heart of Africa, and by such a distinguished British geographer." I now call . - on Captain Speke to read his communication. Captain SPEKE said—ln attempting to describe the extent and character of this great river—the Nile—compared with its tributaries, within the limits of actual inspection by myself, I will first treat of its head, the Victoria Nyanza, from its southern extremity, which I found by astronomical observation in 1858, to be close on 3 deg. S. of the equator, and gradually bring it down to its point of debouchure in the Mediterranean Sea, 31 deg. N. of the equator, by which it will be seen the Nile re presents, considering it lies almost in one direct line from the south to north, a total in round num bers of 2,000 miles geographical rectilinear in length, and is, therefore, nearly 1-10th the circum ference of the globe. It must be borne in mind, however, that my observations respecting this great river are not the result of one expedition, but of ,wo ; that I have not actually followed its banks 'rom head to foot, but have tracked it down, occa. sionally touching on it, and even navigating it as occasion offered, for the barbarous nature of the African forbids the traveller doing as he likes ; therefore, to give full weight to any inferences I may draw, deduced from what I have only seen in part, I will blend native information to my own ex periences, and in doing so I shall hope to leach others what I know, and, beyond that, what I be lieve myself. In the year 1858, when I discovered the Victoria Lake, which is the great reservoir of the Nile, I found it a large sheet of sweet water lying on the main level, or from 3,000 to 4,000 feet above the sea level of the great interior plateau of equatorial Africa, looking for all the world like the source of some great river ; so much so, indeed, that 1 at once felt certain in my own mind it was the source of the Nile, and noted it accordingly. To add to this impression the natives, who there only know it by the name of Nyanza, which equally means lake, pond, and river, described its extension in this confused manner to the northward as being' boundless, whilst its breadth really—in fact its circumference—was enormous; greater, if anything, on the east than on the western side, for the negro informants knew the name of all the countries surrounding the lake, and must, bad they understood the value of geographical definitions, have been able to separate the river Nile from the Nyanza, and to reduee their explorations to any common understanding. Our informants, Arab merchants and their slaves, resident at Zanzibar, who penetrate Africa in search of ivory, who had completed the whole circuit of the Nyanza, not in dividually but separately, some on one side and some on the other, assured me the Nyanza was the source of some great river. They knew not what, though they heard confused accounts from the natives living on the equator of the European ivory merchants who frequented the Nile in vessels at 5 deg. N., latitude, and had further heard through the same channel that with the rising of the Nile, and consequently the violence of its waters, islands were floated down its surface, which really is the case, not composed of earth and stone, but tangled roots of trees, rush, and grass, with even sometimes huts upon them, which otherwise undisturbed, are torn away by the violence of the stream, and carried down perfect floating islands, Then, again, these men described,the territory between the Nile and Asua rivers as an island on the one side and the land comprising the ancient kingdom of Kittara. accord ing to their acceptation of the word, as an island, also being nearly circumscribed by the Kitangule, and Luta Nzige rivers, in conjunction with the Lake Nyarza and the Nile. No merchants, however, had crossed the first parallel of north latitude ; none understood geography. They heard what the natives said, but could not fully comprehend them, and thus it was that a doubt still existed in every. body's mind but my own, as to the origin of the Nile, which no one would believe until I went again and turned the river down from hand to mouth. Had I been all alone in the first expedition I should have settled the Nile in 1859, by travelling from Unyanyembi to Uganda with an Indian merchant, Musor Mzuri, who was prepared to go there, but my proposal having been with the journey, I negatived siek a tthe b t y i thenieachief tiredof the expedition, who was re turned to England, and, to my inexpressible de light, the very first day after my arrival here, found in Sir Roderick Impey Murchison a warm advocate, and proposer to the Royal Geographical Society to complete what I had before begun, and, as mey be imagined, I could not rest satisfied until the world accepted my own views, happily now verified by in disputable means of actual inspection and astrono mical observation, that the Victoria Nyanza is the great reservoir of the Nile. Suffice it now to say, after returning to Unyanyembi (the old point), three degrees south of the lake, in 1861, I struck upon a new route, which I imagined, from the unsophisti cated depositions of the ivory merchants, would lead me to a creek on the westerly flank of the Nyanza, situated on the southern boundary of Karaguve. Geographical definitions were here again found wanting, for, instead of a creek to the great lake appearing, a new lake was found, called Luero (white), or Lake of Urigi, which formerly appeared to have contained a considerable amount of water, but is now fast drying up. Its head lies in Urundi, and, circling round the south and east flanks of Kara gave, in form a mountain valley, is subsequently drained by the Kitangule River into the Nyanza, but not in sufficient quantity to make any sensible impression on the perennial contents of the Nyanza basin. It is to the west and north of Karaguve that the lake receives its greatest terrestrial supply of water, through the medium of the Kitangule River, which, in draining the aforesaid Luero-lo•Urigi, drains off the superfluous waters of many minor lakes, as the Akeuyard in Urundi ; the Luckurow, which is the second of a chain with the Akeuyard ; he Ingerzi and Karagure ; and the little Winan- dermere, which, in Karanguve, lies below the capital on its south-eastern corner. None of these lakes are large—mere puddles in com parison to the great Victoria Nyanza; but still the Kitangule River, after receiv ing all their contributions, is a noble river, low sunk like a huge canal, about 80 yards across, with a velocity of about four miles an hour, which appears equal to the Nile itself as soon es it issues from the lake by the Ripon Falls. The question naturally suggests itself, what forms these lakes ? whence originate their waters P It is simply this : the mountains of the moon, in which they lie, encircling the northern end, and the Tanganyika Lake are exposed to the influences of the rainy zone, where I observed, in 1862, no less than 233 days out of the year were more or less wet days. Mashonde, in the Uddu portion of Uganda, is the first place where in this second expedition, I obtained a view of the Victoria Lake, called in these more northern coun tries Lueru (white)—(lo-of)—Lata (dead) Nzige (locust), in consequence of the reputed feet that . . flights , of locusts, in endeavouring to cross these waters, have dropped down from fatigue, unable to accomplish such an extended journey on wing, and, peilghifig in - ThiriMlHrebeerfoiiiid - difErdin dense masses by the boatmen. But, like the word Ny anza, it is also applied to the Nile and its tribu taries, confounding all inquiry. For instance, the Waganda—who know of the Nile and the Little Luta Nzige, a semi-lake tributary to it, flanking the northern boundary of Ungoro, that being the extent as to the instances of the dead locusts—say at once Uganda, conjoined with Ungoro, is an island, so that a man may walk for months and never see the end of it. The whole is likewise called Nyanza there, for, as might be expected in countries where no literature is known, nor knowledge sought be yond the actual requirements of domestic life, the people are satisfied with local names, never troubling their heads with general specific ones. This is the explorer's greatest difficulty in en deavouring to put together the information which he hears, though it may be overcome by close questioning, even better with the natives than with the Arabs, for whilst the former regard all rivers flowing, as we do, from head to mouth, the Arab invariably says it goes from mouth to head. In a southerly direction the Waganda boatmen go as far as the Island Ukerewe, which I saw ou my first journey to Maanzaat, the southern extremity of the lake ; and to the east ward beyond the escape of the Nile, to the north- eastern corner of Victoria Lake, where by a strait they gain access to another lake in quest of salt, possibly the Baringo of Dr. Kraph, which he, from information gained through the natives, called Salt Lake, most likely because there are salt islands in it ; which reasoning I deduce from the fact that on my former expedition, when the Arabs first spoke to me of the Luta Nzige, they described it as a salt lake belonging to the Great Nyanza ; yet not be longing to it, when farther pressed upon the sub ject. The Great Nyanza waters were purely fresh and sweet. They (the Arabs), like Dr. Kraph, merely narrated what they heard. As salt islands were visited by the natives in search of that mineral, the surrounding waters naturally were con sidered salt by them, deprived as they were of those connecting links, which included the whole area of ground under consideration within the limits of the drainage system of the Nile. The Arabs, it is now very clear, had heard of everything in connection with the Nile ; but from not being cognisant with the science of philosophical geography, were unable to connect what they had gleaned in detached frag ments from it. Dr. Kraph further tells us of a river trending from the river Nowey by Mount Kmnio towards the Nile. If such is the case, it must be a feeder to the Baringo, whose waters pass off by the Asua river into the Nile, for the whole country immediately on the eastern side of the Victoria Nyanza is said by the Arabs, who have traversed it for ivory, to be covered with low, roll ing hills, intersected only by small streams and nullahs from this point in Muanza to the side stream which is situated on the equator on the northern boundary of the Victoria Nyanza. Turning now again to Mas-horde, and proceeding north along the bending coast of Nyanza to the valley of Kalonga, which, as situated on the equator, the lake is constantly in view. The land above the lake is beautiful, composed of low sandstone hills, scoured down by small streams, the effect of constant rains, grown all over by gigantic grass, except where the numerous villagers have supplanted it by cultivation, or on the deltas where mighty trees, tall and straight as the blue gums of Australia, usurp the right of vegetation. The bed of the Ny anza has shrunk from its original dimensions, as we saw in the case of the Urigi Lake; and the moor lands immediately surrounding are covered with a net-work of large rush drains, with boggy bottoms, as many as one to every mile, even counting from the Kitanqula, which of itself was obviously at one period a much fuller stream than at the present day when the old bed was on the level of the present surface of the water, and its breadth was double that which now exists. The mountains of the moon are wearing down, and so is Africa. Crossing over the equator altogether the conformation of the land appeared much the same, but increased in beauty ; the drainage system was found the opposite, clearly showing we were on the north slope of Africa. One stream, the Mwerango, of moderate dimensions, said to arise in the lake, flowed north and joined the Nile in the kingdom of Unigoro, where its name is changed to Kafu ; or another stream, the Luagevri, followed its example ; and then still further on from the centre of the Lake Nyanzi's coast issued the parent stream of the Nile, flowing over rocks of igneous character 12 feet high, which, as the na tives and also some Arabs simply designate by the simple name of stones. I have dono myself the honour to christen it the Ripon Falls, after his lord ship who was the President of the Royal Geogra phical Society when the expedition was set on foot. This escape of the Nyanza waters, 20 miles north of the equator, is the only one accurately in spected, owing to the barbarous restrictions placed on visitors by the king of Uganda for the supposed maintenance of his dignity ; but it mattered not, as by following the Nile we saw the junction of both the Kafu and Asua rivers, and crossed Luagevri immediately before its place of junction. Now pro ceeding down the Nile from the Ripon Falls, the river first bisects the sandstone continued hills, which extend into Usuoga above the coast-line of the lake, and rushes along north with mountain-torrent beauty, and then, having passed these hills, of no great extent, it turned through long flats more like a lake than a river, where, in Ungyoso, it was increased by the contributions of the Kafu and the Luagevri, and continued in this navigable form to the Karina Falls in Choppi, where again, the land dropping suddenly to the westward, we saw the river rushing along with boisterous violence, but would not follow it owing to the war which lay upon the track. It was in deed a pity, for not 60 miles from where we stood, by common report, the Little Luta Mzige, which I had taken so much trouble in tracing down its course from the Lunre Montes with its salt islands in it, joined the Nile. The old river was next met with in the Modi country, due north of the Marine Falls, where it stillbore the unmistakable character eheve, e b of the Nile—long fl a ts, long rapids. to the junction of the Little Lute Mzige, to the navigable Nilc— the North a rapid extending down is navigable that is to say, the Nile which The S outhernable its entire half of the Madi was a fl at extending, w l eng th during the p eriod of its flooding ; and here it was the Asia r iver of whi ch we had heard drain ing from the n orth-east corner of Victoria Lake, joins—in a rainy season an important feeder, but when low fordable. The rest of the Nile, consider. ing it is 'lrrigated, ought to be well known; but it isnot so; as no one has yet taken the trouble to place kilometers on its various branches, by which we might know the perennial amount of water Grained away by each every year, and from want of which, it appears to me—who have seen them all in their dry season, the best time for judging their various degrees of magnitude—great misconcep tions have taken place. To these branches, then, more particularly, I wish to draw attention. No ticing only that the Nile—the White River, as it is called—in its south bearings, carries the palm with it in all instances, and its branching throughout has been so often described, especially to the junc tion of the Blue River. The first great affluent, which indeed is the only one worthy of remark on the left of the Nile, is the Bakr el Ghazal. It joins on with the appearance of a diminutive lake at the sharp elbow of the Nile, without any visible stream of its own, whilst the great river winds round with considerable velocity, carrying, as I have said, the palm with it. The second affluent in order of posi tion, which, with all the others, is on the right of the Nile is the Geraffee River swirling with consi derable stream and graceful round into the parent Nile. Its magnitude and general appearance is like that of a first-class canal, inferior to the Kil- angfile river, although not so much as equal in quality of fluid one-third of the Nile at its point of junction. It is navigable to a great distance south, but where it comes from nobody knows. It cannot be called a mountain river, as we found it full of rosets floating on its surface as in the Nile, evi dently showing that both the trunk and the branch. are subjugated to the same effects of sluggish flats and rapids. Indeed, its chazacter suggests the pos sibility of its emanating in the Victoria Nyanza, although it most surely is fed to a considerable ex • tent by minor branches from the Great Eastern mountain chain. The third is the Southern Sobat River, which was full and navigable—in breadth it is greater than the Geraffee River, but less in rapidity, so that we may infer their perennial con tents are much the same. Unfortunately the Northern Sobat was passed without our knowledge, which, also being navigable, would make the Upper Sobat, that is to say the Sobat above the Delta, of far greater magnitude than the Geraffee, unless, indeed, the three streams may be one river still further south, when, in its combination the comparison would have to be drawn with the Nile above, it would be very nearly equal ; for the Nile, with these additions, has scarcely doubled its im portance, considered as it was seen from above entering the Bakr el Ghazal. The Blue River was long assumed to be the Nile only because the peren- vial powers were never tested. It appears it is a mountain stream, emanating in the country without the rainy zone, but subject to the in- fluence of tropical rains and droughts, at one time full, and empty at another, so shallow as to be fordable. The suspicion, therefore, that it was the Nile must of itself appear absurd, for its waters, during the droughty seasons, would be absorbed long before they reached the sea. But - apart from this feature of the amount of the Blue River, the Nile runs like a sluice in its wonted course, whilst the Blue River, conjoining with the Geraffee and Sobat, describes a graceful sweep. The Alhara, which is the last, is in all re spects like the Blue, only smaller. With one more remark I will conclude. In the height of the dry season in the White River, the Blue is freely navi gated, owing to the great accessions of the Geraffee and Sobat Rivers ; but below the Blue and Alhara rivers to the sea the sandbanks obstruct further pas- sage. There is one thing that I have left unstated, and that is the fact that on my return the first Eng lishman I met was Mr. Baker, with whose name you are already acquainted,who eame . up'for the purpose of heiping us out of a scrape if we had got into one. Mr. Baker hearing that there was one branch of the river that I had not explored, went on for the pur pose of searching for it; and I trust that before an other year is out we shall see him back to tell us all about it. (Cheers.) Another remarkable event was, that three ladies came up to meet me, but one having been taken ill, Miss Tinney and her mother went up the river to satisfy their desire for geogra phical knowledge. I endeavoured to persuade them to return, and subsequently wrote them a letter en- treating them to give up their journey, with what result remains to be shown. (Loud cheers.) If the remaining branch is not explored by these parties why I shall have to do the work myself. (Cheers.) Capt. GRANT, who was most cordially received, said he could not resist the temptation of accom• panying his brother Indian officer in his search. He considered that the important discovery that had been made was entirely owing to the skill, courage, and cordiality of Captain Speke. The PRESIDENT said it would doubtless be of interest to the meeting if Capt. Speke would give them some anecdotes of his adventures, and would describe the character of some of the equatorial kings. The whole particulars of the journey would shortly be laid before the public, in a forthcoming work, which he had no doubt would be eagerly read. _ _ _ Captain SPEKE, on presenting himself for the second time to the meeting, was again heartily cheered. In compliance with the suggestion of the president he proceeded to give some of the more in teresting details connected with his journey. These statements he prefaced by a few general remarks respecting the physical geography, the flora and fauna, and the natural history of the vast African continent. In a very clear and lucid manner he de scribed a few of the interesting events in his jour ney from Zanzibar through Uzaroma, Usagara, Ucoco, M'Gunda, Unyamwezi, and Uzinza. Those portions of his narrative in which the greatest inte rest was displayed were those which referred to the negro', territories bordering close upon the great lake which had been so successfully tracked as the source of the Nile. Describing his adventures in Uganda, he said—There was great difficulty in get ting persons to accompany him. Of two men who had travelled with them some time, one expressed himself willing to go, and the other was jealous at his companion having anything like superiority over him. All these men have their feelings of pride ; they have their own standing and rank just as we have among ourselves. At last he decided to take Barakko with him, because he bad hitherto found him a faithful and reliable servant; but after a short distance only had been got over, he found to his great surprise that the native would accompany him no farther, and he was compelled to return to Sorombo, which is a part of the kingdom of Uzinza. There was no resource left but to reorganise the eArabsx- The pedition, but this was no easy matt er. in this part had a great dislike t o him, an d were suspicious of his real intentions ; but at last he suc ceeded in finding one black man who expressed his willingness to aid him in his journey. The natives of these parts are tall a nd gaunt, and are certainly very superior to the common negro. The travellers were looked upon by the natives in this part as magicians. It happened while he was there that the King of Uganda had received some officers who had come on a mission from a neighbouring king to solicit the hand of his daughter for their master. These pleniptentiaries told the king th a t their master was one of the mightiest of an the kings on earth, and if the prayer were not granted a dire and terrible vengeance would he take. The King of Uganda did more for the exploring party than any other king in the conntry. His inflarnek , was an great that it did not, in fact, leave thorn until they got, to the Lake Nyanza itself. Aftet leaving this kingdom Captains Speko and Grant came to the more delightful Mountains of the Moon, within the territory of the King of Nuanda. One of these hills he estimated to be at least 10,000 feet high, judging from the immense altitude which they appeared to be at the great distance where he saw them towering in the clouds above everything else. The country was indeed a land of pleasure. He • had come through a land of persecution, and now t heartily appreciated the change. The country was e3 , -/ \ -- -:7 marvellously fi ne, and rd could not have believ9 l/ 7 -. _- _-., ~.- that there was anything like it in the heart rat ,--; ,:l f a : il l Africa. (Hear, hear.) Capt. Grant and my elf :::• - ati l : received at the hand of the King every possible c rr, a - 2 - ) t' ; s sideration, who, when he first heard of our inte 11 1 / 4 _ tion to go northward, was, however, much opposed, Al.r and endeavoured to dissuade us by every argu ment in his power. The King was a most intelli gent and inquiring man. His Majesty asked ques tions about the geography of the world, and espe cially about the north, and was astonished to hear of the land surrounded by water. He asked about the stars and sun, and what became of the old suns and moons. (Laughter.) His anxious desire was to obtain knowledge upon every topic which came under his notice. The King had heard of the ex traordinary power of the white people, and wished to know from us whether it was not so great that, if we chose, we could blow up Africa. (Laughter.) Scarcely a day passed while in this kingdom without going to pay a visit to the King ; and many strange stories were told which he could not now remember. This amiable King gave him much valuable information, ine:uding all that about the system of lakes and rivers draining into the Nile, and others rising in the Mountains of the Moon and in Uganda. Indeed, from this information he was enabled to send home a map very nearly as good as that which he had since been able to prepare after his journey to the Nyanza. We went out shooting together, and sometimes his sons accompanied him, and they always acted in the most courteous, and, he would say, gentlemanly manner. If he shot a rhinoceros they would come up and congratulate him on his success, shaking him by the hand. When about to resume his jour ney the King sent an officer to the King of Uganda, expressing his wish to visit the country, and pray ing his brother potentate to afford every facility in his power. But he still did not wish him to pass to the northward. His conduct in this respect seemed very strange, and was the only thing, in fact, that was not agreeable during his stay in this part of the country. The gallant speaker referred to the illness which had overtaken his fellow-travel ler, Capt. Grant, at this stage of the journey, and proceeded to give some interesting accounts of his visit to and reception by another sable monarch in the territory adjoining. Here he was surprised at the neatness and tidiness of the people, the manner in which they deported themselves, and the style of the native dress, which, he said, would not disgrace a fashionable promenade in London. These people of Uganda were a most superior set. The King had prepared a grand reception for him. On arriving at the place indicated he found the palace filled with men and women ; cattle were being led about the approaches to the palace; there were bands of musicians, and a great display of public rejoicing. When he reached the front of the palace the King had not arrived, and he was requested to sit upon the ground and wait the King's leisure, for his Ma jesty was dressing. This, however, he declined to do, and walked back to his camp. The reason he did not sit down upon the ground was that he was anxious to assert a high position, and to obtain influ ence among the people which might be useful to him in his future travels. When the King arrived and found that the Englishman had gone, he sent an offi cer to summon him back, and when he returned he explained to the Bing that he did not like to sit upon the ground, and that it was little better than au insult to ask him to do so. In Uganda no one had ever sat upon a chair or stool in the presence of the King, but he was allowed to sit upon a stool, so that he was the first person who had ever enjoyed the honour of thus sitting in the presence of the ruler of that nation. (Cheers.) The King was seated on a throne of brass, beautifully dressed, and carried his shield and spear, and his warriors round him were also armed with spears. The officers squtted around the King, and with these a general conversation was kept up. Wearied with sitting so long in the sun, he (Captain Speke) put up his umbrella, to the intense wonder of the court and its sovereign. At last the courtiers and warriors left, and while in full stare at him, the King said, " Have you seen me ?" He replied that he had had that pleasure, and look ing at his watch, found that he had enjoyed that gratification for exactly half an hour, and hoped his - Majesty was quite well. (Laughter.) The King then went into the palace, to which he also had the honour of being invited. 'When he arrived there he found, to his great surprise, that the King was sit ting, not with men, as he had been just before, but in the midst of his wives—at least 200 or 300 in number. (Laughter.) Here again the same gazing at each other ensued, and at the end of about half an hour the King again inquired if he (Capt Speke) had seen him ? (Laughter.) In addition to this the King asked him where he had come from, and said, he should like very much to see him again. He re plied that he should be happy to be favoured with the opportunity of visiting his Majesty, and added that, as was always the custom with him on ap proaching men of rank, he had brought with him, and begged his Majesty's acceptance of, some small presents. The King said, "Let me see them." The first of the presents shown him was a revolver pistol. This the King took up and played with in the most tidiculous manner, for he had no idea of its use. At the end of our interview he said, "It is now getting dark ; would you like some liquor ? what will you take?"—(alaugh)—and said that he would send some thing to-morrow. He appointed the following day for a second visit, but subsequently said, " Oh no, that day won't do, because I am going to show all these pretty things that you have given me to my mother the Queen Dowager and all my officers. " The following day was accordingly fixed. He visited. the King not only upon that but span almost every other day during his stay. The King took a great fancy to shooting, and several shooting parties were arranged, the King having practised beforehand by shooting the cows in his yard. The shooting parties pleased the King amazingly ; they were accompa nied by bands of musicians—and very good bands too they were—by officers, and by many of his wives. The arrangement of the procession was a somewhat difficult affair, and it was arranged that the Englishman should go before the King. To this, however, he (Capt. Speke) objected, on the ground that he never went before royalty. The King was in some difficulty, because, by placing him after him, he would be between his Majesty and his wives. (A laugh.) The point, however, was con ceded, and he found that the best place in the pro cession, for the women were as amiable as amiable could be. (A laugh.) Whenever any vult ure or other bird flew up the King shouted out, "Now, shoot that," and he was kept firing as fast as he could, and each time that a bird was knocked over the King and his officers and his ladies clapped their hands, and shouted and danced in the most extraor dinary and ridiculous manner. The speaker next referred to his visit to Murchison Creek, a beautiful piece of water on the north side of the Lake Ny anza , one of the most love l y s p ots which he had met with in all Africa, and which he had named after the man who had been t he first to take h im in hand in th e matter of the expedition. (Cheers.) At this Everybody,LaQk e, fol lowing was, spot he found as ma n y as 50 boats, all well m a d e a nd well manned. It was his wish to go n or th wards the ed whole ina k a courseais way of thence til eN i i e f o a. r n th itm e h e, and wasa how ever, opposed to this plan, y_ u_ ( e a en laugh)— sought to dissuade Mother, who was greatly attached to dh good sort of creatur e i n h er very Wa him on th e groun d o f som e great festivities that Were to come off on the coro nation of her son —for as yet he was but the prince elect. Some very my steri the coronation of Kings . ous things take place at As each sovereign h as so many wives, there is a large number of children, and on the accession of a new king all his brothers and sisters are killed off, with the exception of two, who are kindly reserved against any contin gency that may happen. (A laugh.) The king wag willing to allow him to proceed northward, for lie said the "Englishmen live in the north, and it is froin the north that Africa must he opened up," Starting on his journey, Captain Speke told the meeting how he was opposed by the natives of Usoca, how boats filled with armed men threatened to impede their progress, and how a compl e t e victory was gained by the discharge of one or two rifles, the effect of which spread the utmost constc.r. nat i on a mong the nat i v e warriors. The haul( wir of pr evented of theenteti the gallant captain from detdl interesting incidents of hi s i t i l l i g e hourany mo journey-, and he resumed his seat amid much cheer ing. ti„ Sir ODF.R.ICTi Muttents6N, with a few appro priate words, placed in the hands of Captains S pe ke and Graut a gola: medal which the King of Italy had forwarded to the Geographical Society, with a request that it should be presented to the successful explorers of the source of the Nile. The compliment was acknowledged in a fe N? words, and the thanks of the meeting, proposed by - Sir. Roderick Murchison, brought the proceedings to a close,