The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-23 00:00:00

DA. LIVINGSTONI'S lETORN.

"The public," writes Sir IL Murchison, " will
be 'led to Mara that thin great African traveller will
shortly be at home. By a letter which I bar just received
from him, and which was finished at Malta on the lith
inst., I leers that be leeched Bombay as the 13th of June,
after a voyage of 42 dap from Zanzibar in his own hire
steamer, the Lady Nyasa. Far from brag doormat at
the failure of the idlers hitherto made to check the slave
reds co the test rest of Africa, my dauntless sod err-
getic fired writes that he caner find it in his heart to
abandon his object.' He is therefor bent upoa
turniag to Africa, after • stay of aborts friar
mouths at home, dialog which time he will oossult
friends on the subject of the. future labours in which be
wooer to employ his steamer, now left at Bombay. Of
this creel, built at his own expense for river and lake navi-
gation chiefly, Dr. Livingstoos writes :—' The Lady Syria
is • first-rate little sea-boat, end she rose like • duck coo the
huge waves of the ocean.' The projected oew =polities
of Dr. Livingator is sot, he rya, 'so mach exploration, as
to set in train operations by merchants and others by which
the slave trade shall be eventually worked out.' I trust
that at the meeting of the British dasocistro, to be held at
Bath is the 14th of September, this truly disieterested and
good man will give us an socount of his last hold ad-
ventures.*

Mg-ritOrourAN BOARD OF WoRUA —A meeting
of the board ws held yesterday, at the manse, Spring-
gartheall ; Mr. J. Thwaites is the chair. A examsairatica
was read from the Poor.law Board, having reference to tbe
previsions of the bill introduced into perinatal' foe the
relief of the casual poor. Mr. Tits, M.P., seined the follow.
lag resolation :—" That the chairman be requested to state
to bet Majesty's goverment that the board have ots desire
to intervene in any way is the relief of the or the
maim of army for that purpose ; that parliament
be of opuuon that through the machisery at their disposal
tb•objectsought to be obtained by the Poor/Stolid (Metropolis)
Bill era best be accomplished, they are willing to undertake
the duties proposed to be imposed upon them by that met-
sure, uederstoodiog them to be purely miaisterial, but
that while the provision of relief for the casual
pour of the metropolis is so urgent a amenity as to justify
such • resolution on their pest, they ooesider the
basis of the rates levied forth. parposs of the Metropolis
Local Maoagement Act not a sir as. us which to is.
such a charge, since they are levied cm the priociple, sod
are subject to .11 the iocidesta of a sewers rate, which is
ementelly a landlord's tax, while the poor rates have, ever
i.e. the act of Elizabeth, bees • charge on the tenant ;
that the board are unwilling to impede the progress of the
bill by pressing this objection at the pruned momest, hut
they only contest to undertake this ditty as the
emditioa that the bill before the home should be limited
to the term of one year, and that the poor
rate be made the heals of the anesarnent.' Mr.
Indica, M.P., in seconding the motion, said it would
be impolitic on the mart of the board te refuse to do what
the geveremeet asked. Mr. Miller, M.P., moved so amend-
ment that it was the decided °vision of the board that
the bill was against the pnsdples and contrary to the
injects for which the board was coestiteted, and that the
hoard should intimate to the goverment its entire damp.
naval of the bill. Mr. Lees esconded the motion. After
a long dieousefon the ameadmmt was carried by • ensjority
of 2. Mr. Saunders seat moved tootle, amendment, to
the effect that the board had no dohs to internee fa the
relief of the poor, sod for the raider of money for that
purpose. The amendment was agreed to and carried ea •
substantive motion. It was sett decided that the hoard
should adjourn from the sth of Aimed next to the UM of
September. The beard Mee adjeented.