The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-03 00:00:00

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The Cape papers which have come to hand thin
morning cantata tall report' Cl the drama dinner at Cape
Town, to Dr. lietegetone and the smears Cl the Lambed
eapedition. The Hen. W. Porter, attorney. general, presided
and Caplets J. It. 1111, civil ootarateaketer and reddest
austorste

of the Cape district, occupied the ace-chair. On
the right of the chairman sat his Excellency the Governor,
Captain Beddleglield, Mr. Imam Cloete, Rev. IL Moffatt,
Rev. Dean Douglas, T. Bar, Esq. ' • and on his left were
Dr. Livlngetone, Janke billi, R. Thornton, Frq., Hon. H..
Rivers, and the Rev. Mr. Livingshme.
The toast to Dr. Livingstone was proposed by his Excel-
limey.
Dr. LlVlNGSTOZZiaaoknowledging the tout said :—" If
you will allow me, I MB explain to you how I mean to en-
deavour to follow up the dimmer= which have been made.
The central part of the continent which we now stand upon
was supposed ter a long time to be a great sandy plain. Cer-
tain avers were known to be lowing is towards the centre,
but they were not known further, and they were supposed in
consequence to biome lost. Bat instead of that, the grand
view buret gradually on my mind of a very flue well-watered
country ; and not only that, but of certain watered
healthy localities on both aides of the country which were
ndtable for a European residence. Efforts have been mods
Mr centuries, to get into the Interior of Africa • but, =kr-
innately, it has been always attempted through the =heal-
thy parts near the coast. On the southern part of the =m-
iry, vs had the Kati= desert, and expeditition which
woes= out from Cape Town under Dr. Smith was prevented
Ran penetrating the interior by this same Ka thed desert.
The iminsithy made presented a barrier on both fides ; sad
this ilsoiripmesied an obstacle on the month : but when
Mums. Oswald, Murray, and myself succeeded In passing
round that dart, then we came into a new and well-watered
country beyond. When I pulsed Into that country, I bad
not the small= idea that there was anch a want of cotton as

I found to be the cue when I wed home to Ragland. Bat
there I saw the cotton grewtag wild and almost everywhere, ,
end that sugar was collected all over the country (although '
the people did not know that it could be produced from
the sugar-cane); end I found, further, that this was a great
; market for labour. When I lived et Kolobeng, men left
that tribe, and I found some of them within 200 miles •
of Cape Town, udder to obtain work. Now here we
have the produce and here we have the labour, and I
hope we may secure a healthy standing point, from •
which Europeans may push their commercial and their Ws-
sicmary enterprise to the unhealthy regions beyond. We
greased, first of ell, up the River Zambesi, and have the fall
authority of the Portuguese for so doing. This river is very
large; it is difficult to convey to the people of such a dry
matey se this an idea of its rise, but the narrowest part
that I maw seemed &haat to be equal to the Thanatos at Lon-
don-bridge. It was not known to be • large river, on ac-
count of its being separated into five or six branches at its
mouth, before it reaches the see. But, when we get Wised,
we have a noble stream, and we have at least 260
miles of the stream without a sines obstruction. Then
we come into a kip coal field, and this seems
to contain the elements of future civilisation. Then I
may state that, uwe have to examine the river, our
expedition will be a practical one. It is not like those
that have been sent to the North Pole. We hope
to have something to show when we come back. Our
botanist le an economic botanist, end the geologist le a prac-
tical minims geologist; and the naval akar, Captain Med-
dingfield, has had • great deal of experience in African
riven, and bee not been deterred by the fear of suffering
from African fever, any more than myself, from volun-
teering to go on this expedition. lie goes to examine the
river apnea, and give us correct information about the river
system- and its navig&biUty. And then we have an artist and
a photographer to give an idea of what is to beenm in the
I country. But think this expedition le dud In a some-
what peculiar position. I never heard of another expedition
being similarly situated. My compankies are all put on
their mettle. They are aware that it is very well
known that when alone I did something; and if we
don't do well now in this expedition, pee* will
say, ' Why, three knows have prevented him from doing
what be might l'—(laughter)--ao they are all put on their
mettle; end I have the greatest confidence in their desire to
essomplish the great °Veda of the expedition. We find that
in the middle of the eountry, there are &great many breathes
of the 2ambeid. Berard of them I have examined myself,
and found they weal oat a few tailes—emne tem or
twelve miles—end then CUM in again to the main stream.
, Now the natives pointed out a number more, and they lay
these ether streams come out of the main branch, and enter
it again, atter passing some hundreds of miles. This is
a most interesting point; bemuse if the departing and re.
to•aing branches a:tiredly seen—then we may go up them
in the small steam launch, end have a navigable pathway
into an immense extent of country beyond. We will riot be
then obliged to pas' the great fails of Victoria, which cannot
be pawed in any vessel. If we have a navigable pathway
, Into the country beyond—then there is a prodigious extent of
, country, ail well adapted for the cultivation of those products
which we now get through slave labour. And what I
hope to effect is this: I don't hope to send down cargoes of
cotton end sugar • perhaps that result will not be in my
lifetime. But I hOpe we shall make a beginning, and get In
the thin end of the wedge, and that we shall openertTAiptills-
. way into the interior of the country, end by g right
into the mitre have a speedy passage by an epee gray,
working from the metre out towards the aides. When
going into the country we don't mean to leave oar Chris-
, tianity behind as. (Cheers.) I think we made somewhat
of a mistake—indeed, • very great mistake—in India;
but where we are Going—we will have no and to be
ashamed of our Christianity. We go as Christiana; we
go to speak to the people about our Christianity,
[ and to try end recommend our religion to those with
whom we come in contact. I have received the greatest
kindness from all classes of people in the interior. I
have found that only when we approach the confines
of civilisation, the people become worse. Such is the
[ fad—the nearer we come to civilisation, we find the
very much worse than those who never have
' tear any contact with the white man. We hops we
will be able by out conduct to recommend our religion
to those with whom we come in contact; and I hops Chris-
tian merchants end Christian men will yet go into that corm- 1
try and form a standard far commencing operations amongst
those. I think you all most heartily for the kind manner la
which you have resolved me, and although I acknowledge
that the hand of Providence is in ell that has befallen me,
and in directing the attention of men to those objects
which he mesas them to work out, yet I feel most grateful to
, you—the instmemile of His grace. cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. iiiOF7L; re' in to • mad his
homer, mitered into en implicit g
of his miedonary
labours in BontkAtrice; mid referred to the salutary Influence
which he had exercised ever the onos-poteat Africansr
and the now renowned licesteluitee—an Mums which he
r hoped to twa to good sauna In respect to the expedition to
be undertaken by Dr. Livingstone ; and he expressed • fee.
vest haps of having the pleasure, at no very distant day, of
shaking hands with the dodo, and the members of his ups-
' Mau In the vicinity of the Limbed River.

After a etay of four or five days, the Livingstone expedi-
tion left Simun's Bay on the let of May, for the Zam.;
her Majesty's steamer Hermes having preceded her, to see
her safely over the bar. Mrs. Livingstone, on sonnet of
indisposition, remained with her father, the Rev. Mr. Moffat.
The governor has since announced his intention to propose
to parliament the formation of five Intermediate poets between
the colony and the Zambesi, with a view to eartabllalt a line
of monthly communication, which, it is estimated, can be
carried ca at an annual cost of less than 2601.

The following is the text of the royal order which
prolongs the powers of the Prince of Prussia :—" According
to the physicians the re-establishment of my health re-
Takes several months' treatment end a journey abroad. I
beg your deer royal highness to continue for three months
longer, dating from July 23, to represent nee is the affairs of
the State and in the adaluistratics of the royal household.

Cosasiptently your dear royal highness will is good enough
to tag the necessary Wilifirel4-1, azDzalcz Waxinx,
Bess goad, June 26, 1866." This order, conntersigned by
all the ministers, wee seat to the Prime of Prussia, who the
ma, day sooepted the proloogation of his powers.

The Tamer, which arrived at Southampton yes-
temlay morning with the South American malls, Is the
first ship which has railed wince the recent modification of
the Royal Mail Company's contract, by which Madeira and
Teneriffe are omittcd from the Brazil route. The Tamar
was not due until the 6th test. She bee arrived thus nearly
four days before her time, and seven days before the
tare of the outward steamer. If she had not been
at St. Vinceot, where the coaling arrangement, en bad, she
would have reached Southampton on the 30th utt.
ART SCHRTHER'S LAST WORK.—On abnat canvas
Is sketched the List inspiration of Soludires gamine; the last
and the completed revelation, in an Moemplete form, of
Schafer's individuality : Below is Wag
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Martyrs, heroes, the goodthe,riddle the great,sal thea et= la the cause
of God and man : those who have heed, who have hoped,
who have striven, who have aspired, ley embed. and res•
noted by death, by tyranny, by pereteiNsm. b 7 birsUbbWr7
Injustice ; they have drunk the cap of wsliaring is the drop ;
"hid finished," and they give up the gleseL DM net toe
long in " cold obstruction." " Gat the beam liver Ike
the prophet of old we witness their restmeltatacat ; they wake,
they move, a power not their own rater them On thole het ;
they look upwards, eyes, bands, souls see lifted' el why,
surely, brodetlbly they mount, they must to where the
Saviour awaits them, and gradually se they rare hem the
repairs of blood, sad Ire, end mobs Si whim die of
His countenance" gleams es limey disk damn cheep and
mho, and grow ewes% night antislied, radiant ; end
among archangels end all the baited beams they kern the
mewling of time weeds, When dark shell be mellowed up
In Victory." Snob le the plan of Les Ilea:ewes de to
Terre, one of SD vastest pictures ever imagined by man.—
Literary Geselle.