The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-26 00:00:00

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Barns Ist dividend at la dd., Dee. 30,
eaterriat Wedarday, at Iderwaeo, LirepteE
CIMILEIS TIO? Jrna ma, thwarter. art Cannon-alvell
Peat, City, mew maim, rwatertare—lie dividend
adlutz. 12, and any earicart Toothy, at Fowl%
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t.' dividrd ot 2a. I Id., Jaa. 12, sad any enteeraer Saw
day, at Friers, Marin...ter.
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divideed et ne., Dr. 26. sad any eabseprat /.terry, et
Baker's, Newcastle. aim-Tyne.
DIVIDENDS.

Jas. 72. W. floe, Bisbonagainntreet Without. City, eta- Negro race. We may, as a nation of shopkeepers,
doser—Jea. 19. C. Branprtn, Greenwich and Deneßmi, sometimes think too much of the sale of cotton, but
Kest, gower—Jaa. 18. J. Cannel, Gatterlana, Ctty, cut. if we do not set so high a value on glory se our neigh-
Stung owebooonses---Jaa. IS. E. Whits, NVW Cora Bs-
then"... Wwit•lotte; Stratford, Foam and Glob. wham, bourn, we have at all events the fortitude to endure
wrote eon towhees —Jsa. IS. C. Devon, Crosby-row, the inconvenience' of dear sugar without attempting
W worth-root. sad Q4llllll.4butiellsgs. ltalshtabrkise, pro-
vince merthaat—Jaa. 16. T. Na.l4,JBs,Orpat 1,1‘,...1t to cheapen it at the expense of Africa, or by the sacri-
Soutliwsek, trum maker—Jas. 16. 1. Wltsught, thiebey flee of morality.
Ilistb, Herd...l6lrue, borodrapnr—.lsa. 11. H. Carter,
Worthros, Sanwa, teller--Jen, M. J. ar.by, yee.beii. No recent act of the QCEE4'3 Government will
walk, Lembeth, buildor—Jaa. IS. I. Lovelock and T. For- receive more general approbation than that of sending
eser. Dwyer-lull, City. GM Ileemeirm, Seevey, indainikt., . .
.Or i IVINUSTONZ out in • suitable steamer, properly
mrsuiciasore—J... IL J. Cons Ombra Norflk tailor • '
—Jen. It T. Seraborme, Frillerstesot, Clisesside, ware- equipped, to explore the Zambesi river. It is shire
houssesem—Jso. 16. J. F. Gawk Mewl* spathe... 7— One to his long e spent' nee of the interior et Southern
Jr. 111. J. B. Tomo Leonine* Pomeesey•lsmi. City, ebio-
inewar--Jas. 16. O. i•Mdkn Cam KA mar ft...ouch, Africa —to his arduous and painful journeys from the
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Devesokb*, Wilder.
CZETIIICAT ES le b granted, nalem COMO to shows to from Loanda across the continent to Gl:Ullmane on
Ys conduey ea tilt dey of momitio. the east coast—to his remarkable influence over the
h.' 15.3. at Bhultaet H4aßthaat Cm"— native mind wherever he went, to his knowledge of
Jr. 16. T. Dey, DOA, Km; Metuallew—Jaa.l6. J. M.Vaa
Winkle. Poultry, City. omen keoper—Jan. 16. 8. Freud, native languages, to his eminently practical habits
frGene* Wettore-trea, Boblbeilea. botlare—Jas. 15. F. B of observation, to his sensible views of the connexion
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2.. AlesanQ'Tar,butidlrlens atikmnond,Pka.Cosbrrallialad"l,P".—broicar—jaa. between commerce and Christianity, that the scr-
nim. 1.5. T. Tayhor. Blaelibimk, Lao 'mem—Jan. 16. vices of such a man in this great field of enterprise Wine, Ilish-wreet, Nebo, cent weercbsat—Jsa. 16. should be continued. It has been assigned to Dr.
et:use sad T. R. Hamm listemnemreisi, and Thiele,
etadordabire. lanky rsakent—Jsn. 16. J. Faith. Camkb4 LIVIIItMTOSZ to discover a great internal water, to
toed. Wtiterad. *tonne* welvbeat—.lla. 13. 3. erase a great continent for the first time, to conciliate
filtrawl, victualer—Jon 16. W. Hardlog, Lewisham
Mersey Knit, bailer—J.. IS. J. Stamm, IP. tribes hitherto unknown and unheard of, to find in
stem, St. Georgola-therliast, ewe chemiller—J.. the centre of Africa a healthful and salubrious ell.
"1ab."... B".""l"bmbim•lhvkU'a"mate,and to 1 the descent of agreat
seat —Jas. Is. 3. Words, Cosdalt-stasol, Herover.equare,
"Bw—Js. 13. B. &Wel, Inzekla-kas, Combat, mining river to the sea. We hesitate to give our aunt to

IMO of the more sanguine entiaipatione Dr 7
rillnfOorons has formed, bat no ow can appe-
als sod esteem more highly the heroism of the
MD Or the sueoess of the 'traveller. And if
Dr. LIVINGSTONE has achieved these great results
as an unaided simple missionary, how much more is
he likely to accomplish at the head of an expedition
carrying with it the authority, the influence, and the
power of the British Government, everywhere re-
eognised in Africa as the friend of its inhabitants P
The contrast between the African policy of the
English and French Governments is not more
striking than the contrast between the Western and
Eastern Coasts of Africa. At the present time our
entire trade with the Western Coast of Africa, in-
clusive of gold and the ground nuts we carry to
France and Germany, may fairly be estimated at
four millions sterling a year. Our commerce with the
Eastern Coast of Africa, exclusive of our own pee-
immions to the extreme *oath, is considerably leis
than 20,0001. a year. Probably that of Portugal,
with its own settlements on the Eastern Coast, is
larger than our commerce ; but it does not admit of a
doubt that the whole trade of this coast is utterly
insignificant as compared with the great and profit-
able commerce of the Western Coast of Africa. For
this remarkable inferiority and difference there are
many reasons. Amongst them is, however, a power-
fal one of which there is sow every reason to expect
the removal. The Portuguese have long been settled
at, and have long claimed sovereignty over, the
points of the coat most favourable for com-
merce between Delages Bay and Caps Delagdo.
Thence they at one time carried on an im-
mense Blare trade with Brazil, and during its con-
' tinuance they excluded, by every pos►ible means, all
foreign legitimate trade. The African Slave trade
having, however, entirely ceased in Brazil, this
policy of jealousy and isolation has become hurtful,
instead of beneficial, to the Portuguese settlements.
But of late the Government of the young King of
POITCOAL has had the sense to lee that if its Atli-
' can pemmican, now almost the only relic of its
Smarr tessuaarine greatness, are again to become
of value and importance, it must be by enoontuginll
lawful and not illicit commerce. The consequence
is a complete change in the African policy of Per-
, tugal. On the West Coast, Loanda has ceased to bee,
scourge and a misfortune to the interior; it is no
longer a depot for the slave hunts and wan of the
tribes of Central Africa. Al Dr. LIVINGSTONE Jour-
; nsyed eastward from Loanda, he found many evi-
, deuces that the Portuguese had betaken themselves
, to cultivation, and were becoming collectors of pro-
: dace, not of men ; and throughout his remarks on
the Portuguese pessamiess he pays only a jest tri-
bute to the altered views and objects of the Portu-
guese authorities. On the East Coast, Portugal has
in the same spirit already made Mosarabique
a free port, and opened it to the gage of
all nations ; and one important malt of Dr. Livrieo-
; cross's past discoveries and present expedition
may reasonably be expected to be the application
of the same policy to Quilimane, the Portuguese
, mouth of the Zambesi river, which be is about to
j ascend.

The extent to which Portugal claims—or the
authority on which she rests her pretensions to—
the sovereignty of the Zambesi river is not known.
But as it is by English enterprise that the muss
and capabilities of the river have been brought
prominently under the consider►tion of Europe, and
as it will be at the cost of the English nation that
the problem of its navigability by steam will be
solved, it is obviously the duty of the British
' Government to come to some understanding on this
subject with the Cabinet of Lisbon. The Portuguese
have three settlements along the lower banks of
the Zambesi—Mataro, Bens, and Tete, the last at
which, Dr. Ltrinoseows sap, "hue been the sal-

" vation of Portuguese power in this quarter," boa!
the strength, such as it is, of the fort. By means
of it the Portuguese have been able to main-
tain themselves against the wars which the
attempts of their ancestors to depopulate the sur-
rounding country in order to supply Brasil with
labour, brought upon them ; and the Zambesi being
broad and deep from Tete downwards, thus far the
Portuguese have preserved a free acmes into the
interior. Beyond Tete, however, that freedom of
access is supposed to be barred by rapids in the river.
The chief difficulties of the Zambesi are relieved to be
I at its mouths end at the rapids, neither of which has
Dr. LIVINGSTONE yet examined; and the obstacles
offered by them will be the chief problems to he
solved by the present expedition. Should they be
found not to be great or insurmountable,the Zambesi
will be an easy and an inexpensive route into an in.
termting—though not the principal or most impor.
tant—distriet of Central Africa; and by its agency—
men setting aside those visions of great ostton, sager,
and coffee production, in which we do not participate
—a very considerable commerce may be established,
and many useful missionary settlements be founded.
Hitherto the Slave Trade hal separated the interior
from the cost; but now that the Slave Trade has
ceased, it may be possible to convert the Zambesi to
the ems for which nature intended it. The facility
with which Dr. Lineations travelled is the more
central regions, the invariable hospitality and friend-
ship he met with, the constant invitations he had
from every village he entered to trade, indicate a
desire for intercourse and commerce which encou-
rage the happiest anticipations, if we only leave
them to take a natural course, and do not attempt to
force them into unknown and operose channel,.
But concurrently with Dr. LIVINGSTONE'S expedi-
tion some general and common policy ought to be
adopted by the English and Portuguese Govern-
ments to utilise in every way that is possible the
further discoveries which Dr. LIVINGSTONE may
make.

The interest which his Majesty Dom Psoso V.
takes in the expedition which will leave England
next month ought to make this a comparatively
light and easy task. But unhappily there still are
powerful Slave Trading interests in Portugal which
desire to keep English commerce out of the African
settlements and rivers of that country. On the
whole, however, the present is a propitious time for
coming to an arrangement; and Lord CLARENDON

could not better indicate the importance which Eng-

land attributes to the expedition confided to Dr.
Ltvitroexonx, or to his appearance in the 'Zambesi

river as the representative of the British Govern-
ment, than by entering into some definite relations
with Portugal for the purpose of opening up Central
Africa by its means to the commerce and civilisation
of Europe.

DEATH OF TILL COUNTESS (DOWAGEI NELSON.—
We regret to leant the Counter Praise Naar dkd
soddenly at Paris on Tuesday last. The dammed coantra,
Mud, one third daughter of the We Roar-Admire' 81r
Robert Barlow, K.C.8., and was widow of 26,.
Ulric Barlow, when she marled, sacredly, 28th ?lel=
1829 Wallow lira Earl Nara, only surviving brother of
i the mmortal hero of Tisfalriat. Horatio Relent, she berg
that aohieraa's owed wide. After the death of Reel Nelson,
Is F 111311, the cruder monied, thirdly, 7th
FelonFelonry, , Mr. Gawp T. Knight, who survives her
ry,
Tao Ray. Mi. Citii.—Mr. Caird was inducted
tale the New Park Chid yesterday (Thundery). The
Dr. WTeggart perelead std prealdad on the occasion. to
the Wigan Ur rang vaishaser sal the Prerytery of OW-
, Sow were enterodeid by the muggers of tho church to din-
ar la the Corporation Hafl. Nr. Coird will be iutrodred
I to his near congregare oa flarlsy by the Rwer. Norman
Macleod of the Barasy.—Okapee Daily Mail.