The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-16 00:00:00

LIVINGSTONE 8 LAST RIMIARCHIS IN AFRICA.

Sir R. L. Mturebison writes :—" Of the abiding
legatees exercised by Livingstone over the minds and
affections of the natives of South Africa the moat
striking examples were narrated by that great
traveller when he told us of the staunch fidelity of
his deeded° companions under the moat trying difficulties,
and how these poor natives were awaiting his return on the
Lower 7Ambesi, in the confident belief that he would make
good his pledge to reecoduct them to their houses. To the
tionour of our country, my intrepid and distinguished friend
has honourably kept his word. By the last racket I learn
from himself that, after a journey of about 1,400 miles,
for the most part performed on foot. be has (with his
companions, Dr. Kirk arid Mr. Charles Livingstone)
revisited his friend the King Sekehan. at Sheskeice
and taken bask the remnant of his Macololo escort.
The discovery and opening out of the great river Shim
and the examination of the salubrious mountains on its
banks having been completed. Livingstone then set about
to realise his promise to the Macololo, and in this last
journey hes made considerable additions to phial
and geologiral knowledge. Thus, he his dedwd the course
of the chief affinecte of the Zambesi, the depth of that
river at different semen, and the nature and extent of its
rapids. He has also ascertained that the mai of the sand-
ame region (whisk I believe to be the true old
roans vastly extended to the East, the mineral fro.
quently reappearing in natural outcrops over a very
wide area. Revisiting the celebrated Victoria Fails,
and examining them in detail, our faithful explorer
has found (a most uncommon defect among travellers) that
he had greatly underrated their maineitude in his published
work. Their breadth, which he had estimated at about
1.000 yards, I. now ascertained to he at least
1.560 yards. with a sheer fall of 310 feet. These
and many other phenomena will be treated of at the
next meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on the
22nd inst., when an interesting memoir will bs read desarils-
ing the country lying between Kafue and the Victoria
Falls as occupied by the Batoka, an industrious and sai-
-1 cultural people, of peculiar habits, who were very kind to
our travellers. In his last letters, dated the Ist and lied
of February last, from Kongone, at the month of the Zane.
bed, Lidneerame earionners that the new steamboat, the
Pioneer, which has been sent out to him by her Majesty's
government, woe in the ours, and, thus provided, be pro-
posed to ascend the river to beyond the Portuguese settle-
ments, and thence carry out the ulterior objects of his

THI amain. RESOLUTIONS.

The following resolutions will be proposed in
Committee of Ways sad Mesas by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Moaday nest: _

" Iscors TAX.

"2. That, towards raising the supply granted to her
Majesty, there shall be charged, collected, and
paid for one year, comessocing on the 6th day of
April, 1861, for and is respect of all property, profit', and
gains mentioned or described as chargeable in the act
passed in the 16th and 17th years of her Majesty's reign,
chapter 34, for granting to her Majesty duties on profits
arising from property, profemions, trades, and offices, the
following rates and duties (that is to say) : For ever,
twenty ehilliess of the annual value or amount of all such
property, profits, and gains (except those chargeable under
Schedule (B) of the said act), the rate or duty of 9d. And
for or in respect of the occupation of lands, tenements,
hereditament', and heritages chargeable under Schedule (B)
of the said act, for every twenty shillings of the annual value
thereof, in England the rate or duty of 40. And in
Scotland and Ireland respectively the rate or duty of 3d.
Sabjeet to the provision contained in the said Act 16th
and 17th Victoria, c. 34, a. 28, for the relief of perm*"
wham incomes are under 1501. a year respectively, from so
much of the said duties as shall exceed the rate of sixpence
for every twenty shillinp of their respective profits and
gains, computed as in the said enactment is mentioned;
and subject also to the provision therein contained for the
exemption of persons whose whole incomes from every
source shall be lees than 1001. a year respectively.

"TEL AND iINIAB.

"& That, towards main the supply granted to
her Majesty, the deities and drawbacks of customs
now charged and allowed es the articles undermew
timed 'hall continue to be levied, charged, and allowed as
and after the let July, 1861, until the Id July, 1882, as
importation into Greet Maim and Ireland, or on exports.
tics therefrom to foreign parte, or on removal to the Isle
of Man kr consumption therebi, vie.—Tea ; sugar.
as does in the ; espy sane juice
toolimess ; almonds, paste of ; cherries, dried ; eamlty
dry ; omit y, gluier, preserved ; marmalade.
plum% preserved is sugar ; succadea, including all trolls
and vegetables preserved in sugar not otherwise mums.
I rated.

" EXCIIII:—PAPZI Dorn.

" 4. That on sad after** Id or et October, 11161, tlr
duties of excise now
aprbis opal or Is reot of pow of
any denomination, buttiowbeard, mil-board, pods-
board, sad scale-board made is the United Kingdom, and
also aU allowances and drawlinede Cl or in revellc:lmo:az
such duties, shall awe, and doll be DO longer
levied, ellowedtir, paid respectively,