The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-20 00:00:00

THE NEWS OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.

Tile hope which Sir RODERICK Mumcnisos has
expressed that in the course of a few weeks news
may reach England of Dr. Ltvixos-rmze's
arrival in Zanzibar, and that Dr. lAce.vo-
STONE himself may be among us to re-
ceive a Christmas greeting, will bo shared
by all:to whom LIVINGSTONE'S 11=110 is known.
The latest dates of direct information with respect
to the great traveller's movements and whereabouts
will seem to the reader unversed in African dis-
tances and delays discouragingly remote. But
there is no reason, Sir RODERICK Muacunsos
urges, for alarm. Notes written by Livizzos'roxe in
October and November, 1867, from Marunga and
Cazembe, places which lie S. and S.S.W. of Lake
Tanganyfica, have been received by Dr. Kum at
Zanzibar. lay INOSTONT, it appears, when he last
wrote, had been living for three months with a
friendly Arab tribe, waiting for the close of a native
war, before proceeding to Ujije, with the intention
of exploring Lake Tanganyika, and thence pushing
OD to Zanzibar. At T.Tjijo LIVINGSTONE would
find provisions, medicine, letters, &c., and
would learn the discoveries of Sir SAMITEL
BAKER. This information, Sir RODERICK
thinks, would induce him to attempt the solution
of " the great problem of the Nilotic watershed of
" Africa, by determining whether the great lakes
" (Albert Nyanza and Tanganyika) are united
" or separated by highlands, and if separated, by
" ascertaining into what river-system Tanganyika
" discharges its surplus waters." Ten months
would suffice probably to complete this work and
to bring LIVINGSTONE to the sea coast. The re-
port received by telegram from Bombay early in
this month to the effect that LtvlxesroxE was
within a week's journey of Zanzibar, confirms,
and is itself confirmed by these probabilities, and
ii.creases the confidence with which we may look
to scr. our great African explorer amongst us
fore the year ls out.

POYAL VISIT TO TIM 110SPITAL FOR SICK CULL..
Did N.—Yesterday afternoon her Royal Higlinisis the
Princess of Wales honoured the Hospital for Sick Chil-
dren, Great Grimed-street, with • private visit. Her royal
highness, who was accompanied by the Hon. Mrs. Coke,
was received Ly the Lady Superintendent and the Secre-
tary, Whitford. The Girls' Wards, a suite of noble
roems (formerly the drawing-room floor iii the old mut-
sion built in the reign of Queen Anne, by Dr. Richard
Mead, the court physician), were first visited ; afterwards
the Wards for Boys, which consist of five large rooms, once the dormitories of the old house; these wards con-
tained nearly 70 children, other children being in the
Fever Wards, which are isolated, and not open W visitors.
, Her royal highness evinced much interest in the little
patients and their various ailments ; kindly words were graciously addreesed to them, and the unreserved nature
of the responses by the children told of their ignorance of the distinguished rank of their visitor and the condescend-
ing
attention of which they were the recipient.. liar royal
highness remained some time in the hospital, and pre-
vious to her departure expressed her satisfaction at the
arrangements made for the comfort and care of the chil-
dren, the means adopted for their restoration to health, and
for their amusement and instruction during the brief
period they remain as
hereonvaleecenta. The visit being a
strictly private one, royal highness's presence in the
hospital was known only to the officials who were in
immediate attendance.
TILE PRINCE Or WALES IN WINDSOR FOREST.
—Yesterday his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had
another day's sport in the recesses of Windsor Great Park.
The Prince, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Koppel, left Pad-
dington by the 10.10 cm. down train, his royal highness
travelling in • first-class compartment. Mr. Alfred
Higgins, divisional superintendent of the Great Western
Railway, accompanied the train to Windsor, where it
arrived about 11 o'clock. A char u 6sic and four with
a shooting break had been out from the Queen's
etables by Mr. Moon, and in those his royal high.
new and attendants left the terminus, and driving
through the town of Windsor
ts
nueeeded to the GrGroatPark. The royal party found ample sport, the pheasan,
hart" awl rabbits being *Mafia and after shooting over
the preserve% in the neighbourhood of Cumborland-lotlgo
Partook of luncheon, and drove back to Windour, re-
turning to town by the Great Western Railway in the
afternoon at 3.50 p.m.