The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 9.

I)?. LIVINGSTONE.

For some months the English mind has been
prepared to hear the news which it to-day receives
of the safety of Dr. LIVINWITONZ. Not very long
since the intelligence which we now publish would
have brought a shock of joyful surprise to a people
boding the worst. Now it comes as a con-
firmation of hopes which have been gradually
strengthening into the certainty which has
at last been reached. From the first, faith,
more or less wavering, has been reposed in
judicious scepticism of Sir RODERICK MURCHIRON.
Sir SAMUEL 13 It.ltit'S obstinate conviction that

LI VI N ' ToyE ought to be dead, must be dead, and
was (load, naturally disturbed this belie!. The
result s.huws how much clearer may be the intui-
tions of the perceiving mind than those of the
gazing eye. Sir RODRRICK MURCHISON'S fulness
of knowledge, though the knowledge was derived
at second-hand, his power of realising and com-
bining in his imagination the scenes on which he
had never looked, and for which he was dependent
on the testimony of others, and his cool scientific
judgment, trained to weigh facts and to be guarded
in the inferences derivable from them, have stood
him and the public in much better stead than the
personal exptrience and special knowledge of Sir
SAMUEL BAK rut. No doubt the African traveller
rejoices as completely in the refutation of his dark
forebodings as the man of science in the fulfilment
of his Pieter and more cheerful expectations.

The direct news from Livimarrows himself
is more than twelvemonths old. The journey
which it may be hoped he has now all but
accomplished began in the year 1866. The
accounts received from him confirm► the report
brought home by the Search Expedition. He
appears to have travelled round the southern shore
of the Lake Nyanza, towards its western margin,
and thence to have struck in a north or north-
westerly direction towards the Lake Tanganyika,
which was the objective point of his march. The
journey was not without difficulties. At Lobisa,
midway between the two lakes, "formerly," as
Sir RODERICK MURCHISON writes, " a thickly inha-
" bited town, but now almost deserted," the
traveller and his party suffered much from hunger.
The land is elevated, covered with humid forests,
and destitute of game. They pushed on, however,
and reached lituka, in the Wremba country, near
the southern extremity of the lake Tanganyika,
where they recruited their strength by rest and
nourishment, in a region abounding with cattle
and food. The direct intelligence from LIVINGSTONE
himself dates from this place. The letters and
despatches which Dr. KIRK has received from him,
and of which he has sent a summary to Sir
RODZRICK MURCHISON, were delivered by the
traveller to the Arab messenger, BUNDUK who

accompanied the trading caravan from Zanzibar
to Mtuka. BIINDUNI arrived at Zanzibar on the
the 4th of February last, twelve months after part-
ing from LIVINGSTON& Sir RODIRICH MURCHISON
expects that the documents will reach Eng-
land in time to be read at the meeting of
the Geographical Society on the 27th of this
month. The latest news which we have from
lavirrowtortz is not the latest news of him. Infor-
mation has been received of his safe arrival at
1:/jiji, on the eastern shore of the Lake Tanganyika,
and about two-thirds of its length from its
southern extremity. There provisions and
stores from England and Zanzibar had long
been waiting him. The line which LIVING-
pawn would take from this point is matter of con-
jecture. It seems likely that, having accomplished
the more special object of his expedition, he would
make his way eastward to Zanzibar. But it is pos-
sible that he might pursue his march northwards,
visiting the Nyanza Lakes, Victoria and Albert,
and returning home by the Nile and Alexandria.
The value of the discoveries which LIVINGSTON'
may have made will be open to partial apprecia-
tion when the papers which are now on their way
to England shall have reached this coantrF• They
cannot be fully estimated until the illustrious
traveller himself arrives and places before the
world the complete narrative of his finished
wanderings and observations. Whether trade will
or will not profit by his explorations, whether
they will have any definite result which will bear

a price in the market, is a matter of Someisiersble,
but yet of only esoondary importance. Keewledge
will be Inc:shed, both of man ant o 1 ths world he
lives in. Human conceptions a ill be enlarges,
and a more perfect picture of this k lobe, and of the
relations of its several parts to each (Aker, a truer
idea of human nature in its several stages
of development, sad in its essence will be
promoted. In the wider mental horizon, the richer
and more varied pictures presented to the imagi-
nation, the more copious data for moral judgment
and historic research supplied to the intellect, a
nervier is renderedtormankind as grestasbythe die-
' covery of the richest mines, the most fertile soils,
or navigable streams. By means of comparative
mythology and comparative philology, by
examination of the dialects and traditions
of men, by groping into the kitchen heaps and
refuse of extinct communities, by examining the
foundations of their lake houses, by scrutinising
their rude instruments of warfare and the chase,
science is arriving at a conception of the infancy of
our race, and of the several stages which mark its
progress upwards, which is rich in moral and politi-
cal instruction. The theories of law and govern-
ment and society which an ideal philosophy con-
structed at its capricious fancy are disappearing
before the historic and inductive methods of investi-
gation. The observation of the barbarous, or but
half-civilised races of remoter corners of the earth
throws light on the inquiries of such men as Lima.,
Lcssoce, and Niu.sorr, into the condition of pri-
meval man, and to the laws of individual
and social progress. The aid given to
such investigations by the reports of
travellers like Livinowrons is invaluable.
We say like LIVINGSTONE ; for a distinguishing
feature of his records is their evident and unim-
peachable truthfulness. The question which oc-
curs in perusing the works of other travellers over
unexplored ground—how much arewe to believe?—
never rises in reading his modest and simple narra-
tive. Perhaps the most important result of his
journey lathe display of noble human qualities which
they give occasion for. With the beneficent motives
and influences of peace are united the personal
courage, the physical energies, the prompt re-
sources, the faculty of commanding men, which
are the special excellence of war. In
a sedentary, languid, and lackadaisical age,
we cannot afford to discountenance tho spirit
of adventure. Dr. Livinoirrorra is a noble
illustration of its beet phase—at once daring and
peaceful, ready to encounter personal risk, and
eager to confer the material and moral benefits of
civilisation. The hunters of gorillas, hippopotami,
elephants, and camel-leopards, are not bolder than
he. The travellers who go out to shoot animals,
or to gratify a restless spirit, are not to be blamed ;
but they cannot be placed in the same rank with
those whose aim it is to elevate mankind.

TOOTIN.I-COMMON is perhaps one of the finest
pieces of rough, uncultivated land left to us
in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. For
beauty of situation, indeed, it may not be com-
pared with Hampstead-heath, but it has special
charms of its own, can boast several noble avenues
of trees, and a rural quietude undisturbed as yet
by thimble-riggers and donkey-drivers. The
manorial eighth on this Common have been
purchased by three gentlemen of Streatham for
10,0001., and they have offered on the reimburse-
ment of that sum to make over their purchase to
the Board of Works upon condition that the land,
which consists of 144 acres, shall be retained for
ever as a place of recreation for the public. We
think the public ought to be much obliged to these
gentlemen, and can but wish that so generous an
example may be followed elsewhere. At the same
time we confess to a fear lest the Board of Works,
which has unanimously accepted the proposal of
the lords of the manor, should injure the property
they have acquired in their endeavour to improve
it. Already it is rumoured that the Common will
be transformed into a park, which means, we sup-
pose, that it will be levelled, and rolled, and
gravelled, surrounded by iron railings, freed from
furze bushes and brambles, and generally tamed
down. We hope that the Board will do
nothing of the kind. Public gardens are all very
well where we cannot have anything better. Ken-
nington-park or Battersea-park, for instance, would
be worse than useless if allowed to run wild, but
Nature with scarce any help of art has had the
making of Tooting•common, and to convert its
rough acres into a carefully kept enclosure would
be worse than a waste of the public money.

THE practical philanthropy which has success-
fully pleaded for the suppression of the slave trade
by the employment of a powerful British force on
one of the most unhealthy stations in the
world, has not been gratified without a
large sacrifice of British life and treasure.
During the ten years that have elapsed since the
close of 1857 no fewer than 8,330 slaves have been
captured, or, perhaps it would be more correct to
say rescued, by the English naval forces ; but their
rescue has MI olved the death of 88 offic,rs and
380 men, and the expenditure of no less
than 740,8751. on account of wages alone. In other
words, the captures have cost us 881. a head in
money ; and for every eighteen slaves that have
been liberated from their thraldom, one British
life has been sacrificed. This estimate, however,
is based upon the account for wages alone, and
does not include the cost of building, arming,
and maintaining in a state of efficiency the
212 vessels which have been employed in the ser-
vice. The crews of these vessels number 2,9751
officers and 18,350 men ; and during the ten years
over which these returns extend there ware no
fewer than 33,713 cases of sickness, many
of them being of so serous a character that
in addition to the actual mortality of the
squadron 170 officers and 695 men were invalided.
Nevertheless, great as the sacrifice may have
been, it would be difficult to overrate the
value of the services rendered by the British fleet
in having effectually suppressed the export trade
in human slaves from the western coast of Africa.
Henceforth, the test of the squadron's efficiency
will be found, not in the number of cap-
tures that are made, but in the vigilance
which will prevent a revival of the traffic. As to
the mortality in the squadron, it is believed that
the shortening of the term of service on the coast
will exercise an important influence, and it is,
accordingly, to be hoped that what was understood
to be the resolution of the Admiralty will be effeo-
tually carried out.

A CURIOUS volume has been lately published,
which will amuse literary epicures, containing a
list of the writings of Wuxiam Ilaurrr and
Lr.roa Hour, with notes, descriptive critical, and
explanatory.. The book—s strange Medley—con-
tains some of the derce and scurrilous attacks
made upon these writers by the Tory journalists
of the day, but the compiler omits to mention the
fact, and we therefore state it for hint, that in the
case of Ku= the scurrility was not contined to

leas side. Ito critic eveiipoke *hilt yeast*.
bstimines than be, or WO less is *sisal
swabs emrioyed., Nothing, for iii‘osabe mop
offensive then his oharptter of Bit Wrists 80011 V
he vilified PALLY and Wzi.uwarow, Ilfatimarown
and WORDIFORTIOURII and Pirr, itivrazy and
Cantenro, and he affirmed that a Ter, was " not
" a man but a beset." knybodywho has the 1.1100
to search through the writings of this great critic
will find many such indanoes of coarse taste and
bad feeling, and he will find similar Instances in
the Quarterly Review and in the Blackwood of that
period. Happily in those days party spirit seldom
gets the better of good breeding, and if we are as
earnest in our convictions aspoliticians were fifty years
ago we may justly pride ourselves on an improve-
ment in manners. On the other hand the polite-
ness that arises from indifference is not a virtue to
be prayed for.

Ws find the following amongst the advertise-
ments in yesterday's Record :

F.ARLiWOOD IDIOT ASYLUM.
THE Rev. J. W. BURGON, Fellow of Oriel
College, Oxford, ENTREATS the favour of PROXIES far
POOR FRIENDLESS IDIOT (W. T. BEALE), whose election
about 100 more vote will secure. It le a very daserrlug case,
sad this Is the child's Mat chance. He Is no relation of IL
Bastes, M.A." So pray help us.
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The Record has been hoaxed. Igo clergyman of
Mr. Buncon's standing could be so careless of
himself or so cruel to his unhappy nominee, to say
nothing of the respect due to the other members
of his sacred profession, as to issue so silly and
ind:oent a doznment.

Le it; contempt for the alleged desire of par-
ticular reformers to make women resemble men as
much as poea.ble, the Times is led to a theory much
more Bestern than Western. No doubt, it says,
women aro ill-used and have much to complain
of. The same may be said of children. The
same may be said of the poor. Laws and insti-
tutions are made by men, by the strong, by the
wealthy, by the clever, and by tho adult, and in
all these capacities power is abused. But so it
has always been everywhere, and always will
be. " There is no help for it, and the only
" help for the China ill-used—that is, the
" children, women, poor, and simple—is that they
" should acquire the special craft, the special arts,
"graces, gifts, or what not, most befitting their
" humble and dependent condition, and most cal-
" culated to make the best of it, under circum-
" stances always more or leas unfavourable to very
" great results." A great many cultivated people
will be angry at this open profession of the philo-
sophy of the seraglio and the slave pen, but it is the
sort of idea about women which is still common,
and reformers ought not to object to see it stated
in its plainest form.

Ehe Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, AP= 8.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
went out in the grounds yesterday afternoon, and her
Majesty drove out this looming, accompanied by Princess
Beatrice, and attended by the Hon. Flora Macdonald.
The Prince of Leiningen visited her Majesty to-day, and
remained to luncheon.

Yesterday being the birthday of Prince Leopold, the
choir of St. George's Chapel sang in the afternoon in St.
George's•hall, before the Queen, Prince and Prince..
Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess
Beatrice, and the iodise and gentlemen in waiting.
The programme was as follows :
" Hear my prayer"
"Give ear unto me" Mozart, No. 671.
" As pants the hart" Spoltr, No. 656.
" My God, my God"
My God, my Cod, look upon me , why bast Thou forsaken me :
and art so far from my health, and from t►e words of my com-
plaint,
0 my God, I ery in the day time, but Thou hearest not; and
in the night season also I take DJ rest.
But Thou coatinuest holy: 0 Thou worship of Israel.
" Why rage fiercely" Mendelesohn, No. 716.
"Holy, Holy,•

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Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, sad it, and is to
oome.
Who shall not glorify Thy name? for Thou only art holy, Thou
only art the Lord.
Hallelujah. For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. The
kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and
of His Christ. And He shall reign for ever and ever, King of
Kings, and Lord of Lords.
God save the Queen.
Dr. Elvey led the choir, and accompanied them on the
organ.

The Right Hon. Benjamin and Mn. Disraeli left the
Castle yesterday.
His Ezoellenoy H. and Madame Van de Weyer arrived
yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen
and the Royal Family.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Prince Edward bland and
Berwnda. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the
Falkland Islands, the Bahamas, and to the Governor-
General of Canada.

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold honoured
Madame Tuseaud's Exhibition with • visit yesterday
morning, accompanied by the Rev. R. Duckworth.

MilturrirattAL MOVEMENTS.—The Right Hon.
Benjamin and )hi. Disraelileave town to-day for Bushell-

don-manor, their .tat, in Buckinghamshire. The Duke
of Buckingham, scoompanied by the duchess, has left
Chandos-hone for Stowe-park, Bucks. The Earl el
Malmesbury, Lord Privy Seal, left his residence in Stmt.
ford•place on Monday, for Heron-court, near Christchurch.
The Earl of Mayo, accompanied by the countess and
family, left town on Tuesday evealw for Dublin. Lord
John Manners has left Cumberland-terrace, Regent's-park,
for Folkestone. Sir Stafford Northcote, Bart., M.P., and
Lady Northcote and family, leave town =day for the
Pynes, near Exeter.
THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD ON THE 'RISE
CHURCH.—At his visitation at Newcastle, in the die-
mision on Synods, his lordship said :—" Dr. Armstrong
excused himself from attending yesterday the rural dean-
ery chapter at Stoke on the ground that he bad to meet
and reply to, at Hanley, an itinerant lecturer on the
Irish church. That supplies me with a strong argument
in favour of diocesan synods, for our true policy is, not
for each one of us to expend his strength and influence on
every itinerant lecturer who comes across our path, for
then we shall only get beaten in detail, but to act together
with the force and momentum which synodical action
would supply. Dr. Armstrong mays the attacks on the
Irish church are only the precursors of an attack on the
English church, the 111/006211. of which would bring into
existence a number of episcopal sects, and that this would
be a great calamity. I entirely agree with Dr. Armstrong.
lam personally 'minted with lfs. Gladsloas :we were
schoolfellows ; bat I am Indy resolved to offer
my most =pada= to what I believe is the
beginning of an 'Wok upon the church of England. Same
persona have supposed Oil Immo for 96 y.
ears I have
lived in the midst of nowooiablisiod amok sad have
seen it grow up in spite a 1116ofroomookorome of the re.
" !eatery '- '- that Weeks* las la hivenr of that

y printings, _ -
principle. Nothing of the kind. I kayo board amply,
ta whatever state I sat, therewith to be mated. Is New
Zeeland I found meal reeled to be the bead of • dot.
I tried to make the best of the position, sad I did so by
establishing dinned spade, without whisk we meld ad
have held oar ground for • moment I dam to
snd I dad that our dumb is at this messed in peeligigin
being diasetablishod. I Sherd= avow MS9II tb. MCI
determined upholder of the a*Millusisk se help me
Oed."

K Foacata.—A Paris letter, in the Salut
Public of Igo .. gives come melancholy details of the
manner in wide the mental alienation of M. Form&
!an smaihriled tapir. "He ore selied sisthe writer,
ca Mama de almiler, ha obtained •
pirate interview, preessied te , Veldt 1
Ism that thePriase Imperini merry a danghter
of lie Priam do Jamas in order le &sortgnutd a fusion et I
the two families. Ha them went to 11. Kira, and ea-
amassed that the Paperer bed appointed him
(IL !brew* Meister of illeds, but that be hit tatipined.
of sad la begged ha ecibages to be geed same' le emirs
ide-rasitelia Bele thaw adolebsen treated Ida
, and he reamed home and wreW ids fselaighyy
review for the Hems che Dais Made, Ovate be mist
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RIOOKAPI'I OLRIBALDI IN VANCE. k.

Riociutti Garibaldi Escorting Mn. Chambers and
bar three children trop Capra= to London, lift
Paris rioter*. atomise, after okaying two nights
at the Hotel de Russia, Rue Drouot. At
Avignon, where Riosiotti stopped for an hour, he
was recognised and received quite an ovation at the
railway station. There were cries of " Vive Gari-
baldi !" and several persons premed forward to
Make hands with the young chieftain who was
wounded at Montana.