Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-14 00:00:00

A RAILWAY CARRIAGE ON FIRE.

An eye witness of a dangerous a•!ci,lent that occurred
on the Great Western Railway on Friday afternoon, thus
writes .—I was a passenger in the up tram which is due at
Paddington at 5.20 p.m. ; we left Slough about 5 p.m., and
a short time after, happening to look out of the window, I
saw several people leaning out of the windows of a carriage
some distance from me, who were making signals, and
evidently trying to attract the attention of the engine-
driver. 1 soon perceived that the carriage was on lire, as
the smoke began to curl out be ween the -heads of the
affrighte I passengers. We immediately :made
such signals from our own carriag as we coald
with a handkerchief fastened to an umbreda,
hoping that, as we were nearer to the engine, we might
succeed in attracting the attention of the driver; all
these signals, however, proved vain for at least twenty
minutes, ana the train whirled aloag the imprisoned and
sufficated passengers at the rate of forty miles an hour,
until, as it approached London, the speed diminished to
about ten miles an hour, as it was preparing to stop at
the ticket platform ; we were about 45U 3 arda distant
from the part o the platform where we should have
stopped, when we saw a policeman on the line. We
made signals to him with frantic energy, and were over-
joyed to find the speed blacken and the train at last
stop, after going about two bun !red yards.. We
rushed instantly to rescue the passengers, some of whom
had fainted, • and had been cut by glass which the heat
had sent flying in splinters about the carriage; in one
minute more fi Lfne was darting out of the windows, and
in two or three more the whole compartment was full of
fl Imes. The carriage Durnt furiausly for half an hour,
and three out of the four compartments were entirely
des' royed Had the train not stopped till it reached the
platform the pas,engers, of whom several were ladies,
would have been in their burning prison for at least one
minute, and some of the unfortunate passengers must. have
been burnt alive. '

AP PRENT.CES DECI lON. -Th3 mulls-
sioners of St.l laps have iss red an trder Lot to assess any
duty o apprentices' indentures where no fee h /mid or
where the fee is wider £lO. The ac' as to the 2$ 6d
stamp on those indentures has been miAcoa,trued at the
stamp-offic., 53 it on'y applied to Rigland It is time
th t the stamp-once shoal) Low find thfir error, after an
iucalculable amoun of injury has ben done both to
masers an 1 appren ic:s. The unstamped indentures
heretofore signei, where the fee dp_s cot amount to LlO, is
still vAlil and is force.

CAP &AIN DOINE&U.—The r;ASt of (,:lipt si;tl D,in tv!, the
French officer 4:10 was lat,ly condemned to u'—atli fur the
murder of an Ar c't"e, was warmly di.'""ed at oh last
C Winet Cuuaci', and. it is Tory probabl'a th.t.
will be a com.notAti.,n to imprisonment. The °twain ;
a rela ive of M. laroche. M. Jules. Fevre also "5
ceived t.vo drys back by the Empeyor, to whom h
presented tle on of Bel Hadj, for whot4 ad pie Aded at '
oad in the affiir of Captain Drineao;.o &Emperor
gave hill the most courteous ..'2elr64olz, tliy1);
the yolng Arab that the ca..° of .4c,s-fait
diligoatly considered. ills lift4x iifttt
du,,ed the young lad '‘o the .h; YtkOW*
•cry kindly.

DR. LIVINGSTONE IN LIVERPOOL.

to the west coast. One chief gave him twenty-seven men
and fifteen oxen, abundance of provisions, as much as be
could carry, and presents to give to the different chiefs
through whos3 territories he was to pass. This chief, also,
evinced much anxiety lest he (Dr. Livingstone) should
perish in the journey, end blame be attached to himself
by the white man. he said—" Now you are going
into a country that we do not know anything ahout ;
you are going among people whom we do not
know. If ycu are killed by these people, will nct the
white man put the blame upon me for letting you go into
that country ?" He (Dr. Livingstone) left a volume of h s
journal with this chief, and told him, if he did not return,
to send it to Mr. Moffat in the sou h, and the book would
tell that they had p 'reed on perfec,ly friendly relations.
(Applause.) He went away, goir g, as the chief imeg ned,
to the country rf the white man, whence all the fine
things came. When the natives there saw a print from
Manchester, they could not conceive that it was the work
of mortal hands but imegined it came from some snperior
being ; and the different native slave traders who had
gone into the country had told the people that these things
came from the white men, who lived in the sea. (Laughter).
Believing them to be quite supernatural ptoductions, the
natives readily believed the rest of the story. When he
was going to the north, his men were anxious to pass
him tiff to the be-t advantage, and, therefore, said
he was a " real white man." (Laughter). " Does
he come out of the sea ?" was asked. " Yes ; do
you not see his hair how it is all straightened
out by the water." (Grew laughter.) He did not much
like to be passed off as a genuine merman—(laughter)
but he could not help h:mself ; for always when he was
out of the way the men pastel him off as a genuine he-
mermaid. (Great laughter ) In going to the coast he
was simply following the people's own plan. They were
both w .nting the same thing. They were both wanting a
path from the centre of the country to the sea, but they
wanted it for very different objects. He wanted it in order
to introduce Christianity among them, and they wanted
it in order to h ye commercial intercourse with the white
men. Now he did not see why Christianity an I commerce
should not go together. (Hess, hear, and loud aptleuse.)
In msking down towards theses there was much to contend
with because the tribes near to the Portuguese were all
very unwilling to allow them to go to the sea. They
wanted, in fact, to be middlemen. The people who came
from the centre of the country were anxious to et gage
directly in trade with the white man, but the border
tribes always came be weed them, and said—
No, you bring the things to tia we know
how 'o sell the things better than you," and then they
would have .all the commerce. The tribes in the centre
were so anxious to have intercourse with the white men,
that they fed his party and without payment. After they
reached the Portnguesc settlements he c iree through a
great number of forests, and river., and marshes, and saw
that it was totally impossible to have a pathway for any
four-wheeled conveyance, and en that account he resolved
to go back from Luando to the centre of the country, and
then try the opoosite side; try the large river Z emboss to
see if it afforded water conveyance dowif to the sea. When
going down, his men were told by the people on the borders
that the white man was only taking them d3en to the sea,
and as scon as he gut them there would wheedle them on
beard ship, and there they would be fattened and eaten.
(Laughter) But notwithstanding that, th y went boldly
with him to the east. They told him abeut it, and he
simply mentioned to them a circumstance which had
occurred in the central country. A chief offered him a
slave. He explained that Englishmen did not keep slaves;
I that they disliked the thing altogether, and th-.t therefore
he could not have her. The chid thought he wise die
pleased with the size of the girl, and setna for one a head
taller. (Laughter.) He declit ed her too; and then,
when his men told him what the people had been telling
them, he said. "Now you saw that I would have nothing
at all to do with the slave when she was offered to me -
You know that Englishmen are not like Portuguese in
that respect We never keep slaves, and we never sell
them. You saw what I did there. If eon have any
doubts about me you had better go back ; I alone will go
on " They said, " Ob, we believe you ;" but still they had
some supicion, until they came down to the sea. When
he took them on beard a man-of--war, and slowed them
the guns, and the men our Queen employed to put down
the slave-trade, and from that time forth all suspicions
vanished. (Applause.) Dr. Livingstone then alluded to
to an attempt made by him to export some goods on behalf
of the natives in the h tenor; and described the result of
an effort made for the first time by some t f the
same people to dispose advantageously of their ivory to
some Portuguese traders Ha then precseded to say that
when he got beck to the centre of the country, the chief
wanted a sugar mill, when be was trade aware that sugar
could be got from the sugar cane, which is to be found
throughout the whole country, and he commissioned
Dr. Livingstone to purchase him one, giving him a number
of tusks for that purpose. There were thirty tusks—twenty
l large and ten small ones, and they were carried by 114
men. When, how.,ver, they got down to the east coast,
their raiment was so torn that they were a'most naked,
and he (Dr Litirgstone) had to exchange the ten ma 1
tasks for clothes and ornaments for them. He left the
other tusks with the Portuguese, with instructions to sell
them in case of his non-return, and to give the goods to
the natives, lest they might be under the impression that
he had gone away with the tusks and "boned" them.
(Laughter.) On this side of the country, too, he found
wheat as abundant as on the other The people also pro-
duced cotton, and used an iron rod to separate the fibre
from the sod. The cotton did not seem to be good on
either side of the country, but the land was fer,ile, and
he thought that where acme was produced much more
might be produced. (Rear, hear.) At Tete, where the
Loangwa falls in- o the Zambese, he found the remains of a
Portuguese station, and at one time they there traded
not only in ivory and gold duet, but also in indigo and oil.
When, however, the slave trade became brisk, the Portu-
guese sold their slaves, and soon their trade at Tete died
away. Shortly before he arrived, there were only fifty
Portuguese in the whole conntry, but the Portuguese
g wernment had lately sent out 1.`,0 soldiers. The slave
trade had annihilated all lawful trade, and now they could
only find a few twittered coffee trees, al ch had not pro-
pagated on this side as they had at Angela, as a proof of
the trade which was formerly carried on there. Indigo
was also to be found rowing wild, and senna, and columba-
root, which, it was supposed, the natives need as a dye,
and he was informed that they also made oil from the
seeds cf a kind of cucumber. On the Highlands wheat was
produced, and formerly the Portuguese produced a con-
siderable quantity at Tete, a large district of the conntry,
these being annually inundated by the Zambese, as the
planes of Egypt are by the Nile, and he was assured that
in four months from the time of sowing, the wheat was
about ready for the sickle. On the Highlands, too, about
5,000 feet above the level cf the sea, the Angora goat or
an animal very much resemhling it, was to be found, but
the great advantage of this side cf the country was the
pathway, there being on the west side no pathway. They
got a great quantity of ivory, beeswax, and palm-oil from
Angola, but they might get a much larger quantity, and
also a supply of cotton, if there were a pathway. Ihsre
was no pathway there, and there was no prospect of one,
for the Port ugese who went to the colony, went to ke a
little money and then to return home. Their system was
a military c ionisation, and they never could develop° the
resources of the country. They nester carried their wives
with them—they never became setters, as Englishmen,
and even the governors went there only for a few years
and sought to make FS much as they could in that time,
in order that they might return h -me and spend it. some
governors, seeing the eevantages of roads, had endeavoured
to make them, but they were recalled before their designs
were completed. On the east-side, however, they had a
latga river which would serve the 1 urposes of a highway.
He meant the river Zambese, the mouth of
which was not to be found where geographers placed it,
and from conversation with Captain Parker, and Lieut.
Hoskins, who had alto visited the river when it was six-
teen feet lower than when he saw it, he believed with
them that it was suitable for the purposes of navigation.
It could be navigated for 300 miles at all times of the
year in flat bottom boats, but above Tete, there was an
impediment in the shape of a rapid. He did not see it,
having had to make a detour when near it, but shim e the
rapid, there were 300 miles more of the river which were
navigable. At Tete, there was a large ceal field, no fewer
than nine seams showing on the surface. He measured
one seam and found it G 8 inches thick, the strata being first
a quantity of sheal, then 10 inches of coal, then eheal
again, and then 58 inches of coal, and below that there
was water, beyond which he could not measure. There
was no impediment between this coalfield and the sea, and
the prospects of developit g the resources r.f that side of the
country were mach better than on the West. His view
was that if they could have free intercourse up that river
to the healthy highlands, then both the commercial man
and the Missionary could work from those highlands with-
out that less of lite which they had so often to deplore up
the country. The people in the central parts were
friendly, and the only difficulty they had was with the
people on the banks of the Zambese. He himself found
no difficulty in passing through them, and he found
that they knew an Englishman even 400 miles inland—
they knew that there WES a tribe of vbiternen who had a
heart for the Meeks. (Aeplanse.) Ho proposed, on his
return, to distribute a better kind of cotton seed among
them, and to produce the impression that there was a tribe
willing to engage in trade with them--that there was a
market for their produce; and by that mesas to inspire
confidence in them. There was a navigable river there,
and the communication through that river would extend
English influence. The Portuguese, he should observe,
were remarkably kind to him, both on the west and on (the
• ,st side, and he even carried letters of recommendation. i

from the Bishop of Angola to t!.e Governor of M zembique
The whole of the Portuguese treated him with the greatest
kindness ; and he would now say to them, as he would
say to the meeting, that the developing the resources of
the country would benefit both parties. (Hear, hear.)
Let them join. then, and do it. (Hear, hear.) The first
thing that should be done was for the Portuguese Govern-
ment to declare the Zambese a free path to all nations.
(Hear, hear) There was another product of the country
' which he might mention as being unknown in commerce :
he meant a kind of flax named booazee. It was not eul-
ivated, but grew wild. The na hres made of it fine threads
to string their beads, and the thread felt like catgut. He
brought wish him a sample to Landon, and it was
pronounced to be a stronger and fi ter fibre than flax.
It was probable that there were many other things in the
country that could be made remunerative as articles of
commerce, and to hoped that they would le able to make
the Africans feel that their interest mei ours were identi-
cal. (Hear, hear.) If they conducted their commerce so
as to elevate the Imo/ le, they would be conferring a great
blessing on them ; and be tad not the slightest doubt bat
that in course of time, if the country were opened out, it
would have a material effect on slavery in the United States.
As Englishmen, they bad a right to sympathise with their
brethren across the Atlantic, a majority of whom he did
not believe to he in favour of slavery. They were anxiously
working for its abolition, and they as Englishmen would
be doing them a kindness to aid them. It was unfortunate,
too, to bs depend nt for their supply of cotton on slave
labour. It was not what Englishmen loved —they would
much rather get their supplies of cotton from free labour—
and now this discovery offered them the prospect of a
riddance from that difficulty, in the course of time. He
did not promise them that it would be immediate ; the
process of development should be slow, but it would be
steady and sure (Applause).
Mr. T. B. H P , said that the duty of proposing
a vote of thanks to Dr. Livingstone fur his very valuable
statement had been assigned to him He was aware that
it was usual in proposing such a resolution to state that a
very easy and very agreeable duty had been assigned.
He felt that in this instance it was very a agreeable duty,
but not a very easy one ; for the st dements which Dr.
Livingstone had ;nada were of such a valuable character,
were detailed with such simplicity and truth, and con-
tained such important information, that he confessed he
felt himself quite inasterluate to do justice to Dr. Living-
store in proposing the resolution. In hare-g ne days they
had read of African travellers; they hid read of Park,
Clapperton, Denham. and a mUtitude of others, but he
was much mistaken if the travels of Dr. Livingstone would
nct be read with an interest at least equal to any of those
to whom he had a'l ded ; (hear, hear,) and he might say. on
behalf of Dr. Livingstone, that if the statement which he had
ma 'e conduced at all to premote a spirit of enterprise and a
spirit of research, havi, g for their object the promotion
of Christian principles, of civlisation and commerce, he
would feel him-elf amply repaid for all the perils of
trarel he had undergone. (Applause) He (Me Hors-
fall) could dwell at much ler gth, were he to permit
himself, on the statement with whicti Dr. Livingtone
had favoured them, but he could not, assembled as they
were in the Cotton Sales-room, pass unnoticed the very
valuable statement which Dr. Livingstone had made in
reference to the supply of cotton. He was quite aware that
their friends in Manchester looked to India, and almost to
India alone; and he felt it right to state that when it
was his duty in accordance with :he wishes of the Chamber
of Commerce to accompany a derutaion from Manchester
to Lord Palmerston on this subject, the observations of
the eerutstien under his (Mr. Horgan's) protest were
confined entirely to obtaining an additional supply of
cotton from India Now, he had stated before in that
room, a statement which he had repeated elsewhere, and
he was confirmed in the opinion by the statement he
had heard that day—that a very ample supply of
cotton might be obtained from Africa. (Hear,
hear.) They had learned from Dr. Livingstone
that the rite er Zembeze was a complete highway through
the centre of Africa and that abundance of cotton grew on
its banks, and that it only wanted acme of that British
enterprise, which had so often emanated from this town,
to bring a consiAerable supply of that cotton to the mouth
of Liverpool. (H.ar, hear) Dr. Livingstone had alluded
to the necessity of obtaining a pathway up the Zambese,
and he believed shortly after leasing Liverpool: it was
Dr. Livingstone's intention to proceel to Portugal himself,
and attempt a negoti ,tion for having that highway opened
up. (Applause) Having made those few remarks, he
felt that he should best consult the wishes of the meeting
by reading the resolution conveying, in much better
language than he could use, the thanks of the meeting to
Dr. Livingstone, for the very interesting statement which
he had made to them that day. The resolution was pre-
pared by a committee, and he was sure that it would
be unanimously adopted (Hear, hear) [The hon. gentle-
man then read the resolution, which was as follows :
"That the meeting has heard with the deepest interest
the details with which Dr Livingstone lies favoured them
of his p rilous labours and persevering exertions is ex-
ploring the interior of Southern Africa ; that the meeting
is fully alive to the g• eat advantages which Dr. Living-
stone's researches and discoveries in Central Africa are
calculated to confer upon the interests of religion, civiliza-
tion, and commerce amongst the natives of these regions ;
and in offering to Dr. Livings one their warmest thanks
and acknowledgments for the favour of his attendance,
and for the valuable information he has been pleased to
impart, the meeting most earnestly desires to oonvey to
him au expression of their ardent hopes that, under God's
blessing, the arduous labours which he is now about to
resume may be crowned with every success, and that his
life may be spared to return to his native land to enjoy
the fruits of his meritorious labours."
Mr C. BUSHELL seconded the resolution. He eulo-
gised the clearness and ability of Dr. Livingstone's
statement, and said that he believed in his heart that
Providence had laid a duty upon England in this matter.
He also observed that hal England developed the resources
of India during the time she had been in indisputed pos-
session of that country, she would not now have occasion
to lament the cruel maseacres which they heard daily were
taking place there. (Hear, hear.)
Dr. Lpaorasaerrn briefly returned thanks, and in doing so
alluded to the fact that in the small island of the Mauritins,
where sugar was grown by free labour, and for which guano
bad to be brought from Peru, so much sugar was produced
that it supplied one fourth of the whole consumption of
Greet Bri'atn. He pointed to this to show what might be
expected from a large cultivation cf sugar in Africa, where
the crop was produced without any guano, cr manure of
any kind, and with scarcely any labour.
The Rev. Dr. RIFFLES moved a vote of thanks to the
Mayor.

MEETING IN TBE COTTON SALES' ROOMS.

A meeting of metchants, traders, and the public
generally, was convened in the Cotto❑ Sales' Rooms,
yesterday, for the purpose of hearing et me accounts of the
results of his exploringl from the celebrated African
traveller, the Rev. Dr. Livingstone. There was a very
crowded attendance, the room being quite filled. The
chair was taken shortly of er one o'clock, by his Worship
the Mayor, Francis Shand, Esq. Dr. Livingstone, who
enter° I with the Mayor, was received with loud aprlanse
Am t g the gentlemen on the platform, were Masers T.
B. Horstall, 111. P , Charles Turner, Rev. Dr. M'Neile, J.
A Tobin, S. R. Graves, Rev. Dr. 'taffies, T. D. Anderson,
J. Tyrer. Christopher Bushell, James Livingstone, S.
Horstall, Edward Heath, Jame' Smith, J. S Kirkpatrick,
S. Martin, H. Glynn, Jsmcs Brown, Rev, G. Scott, Thomas
Harrison, N Rayner, Cliffe, Crosthwaite, Jones Hatton,
Cookson, Casey, Greenwood, Pops, Buchanan, &-c. &c. .
The MAYOR, in opening the proceedings, briefly apolo-
gised for having somewhat detained the meeting, having
been engaged in what he thought about as degrading an
occupation as any chief magistrate could be engaged
in—
the revision of the lists of municipal voters in Liverpool
(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He they, in a few words,
int oducel to the meeting the distinguished traveller who
was about to address them.

Dr. lovreesnoste, on coming forward, was received with
loud applause. Ile said be should endeavour to give
them, in a• few words as possible, an account of that part
of Africa in which he had travelled. Most of them would
remember that the southern pertion of that continent was
of a conical form, and that portion, south of latitude 20,
was comparatively an arid region. The amout of rain
which fell was very small, and there were very
few rivers, and not many Luntains. When Me Orwell
and himself discovered Lake Ugami, they were obliged
to travel through a part of the country called the
Kallihari Desert, and occasionally obliged to go as
long as four days without a singe drop of water
for the oxen. When, however, they got beyond
Lake Ugami they came into a totally different region.
Lake Ugami was about south latitude 200. They
left the dry country to the south, and came into a
well-watered region, where, instead of going three or four
days without water for the oxen, he had been obliged to
leave his waggons already at Liante, end travel the rest of
the journey on ox-back ; fcr they had no horses in that
country, and he was obliged to adopt the best means he
could obtain, of conveyance. Ins ead of carrying water
from Lake Ugami to Luandn, they never carried a single
drop of water for a single day They stopped at water—
they gee water two or three times in the day, and then
came to water again in the evening The country having
so much more water, was of course much more fertile
The general shape of the country was a kind of elevated
basin. When you went frm the sea cow inland on both
sides, you gradually ascer dad until you got on each aide
about 5,000 feet erbove the level of the !ea; then you
descended s gain into a central' valley, sometimes about
4,000 feet above the level of the sea ; but the lowest part,
down near Lake Ugami, was only 2,600 feet above the
level of the sea. The rivers in that basin ran generally
from the sides into the centre. They formed a very large
river, called in some parts Zambese, in others Leeambye,
sad having several other names, all of which, however,
meant the same th7ng. "The River," in the languages of
the different tribes who lived upon its banks. This was
one part of the river system of the country ; but above,
there was a small lake named Delelo, and there there sat
another river system. The rivers ran from the sides into
the centre, and formed another large river which flowed
from the south to the north, and then away out to the
west coast The small 'eke, Delolo, gave off a little of its
waters to the Congo,
_ a river flewing away to 'he north, Z
and a little to the smbese iu the south, nd thus parted
its waters between the Atlantic and the Indian oceans.
The part of the country where that lake existed did not
consist of a mcunteinbus region. Instead of that it con-
sisted of elevated level elaine, about 4.00 feet above the
level of the sea. The Zambese flooded the southern part
of the c un'ry annually, exactly as the Nile did the valley
of Egypt. The country, instead of being arid and sterile.
as the country to the south of it was, was abundantly
fertile. Philosophers imagined That the central part was
a great sandy desert. They saw some rivers running in
towards the centre of the country, and not knowing how
they came out again, imegined 'hat they were lost in sandy
plains. But instead of that, he found an immense number
of little branches running into the Congo. Each of the
rivers had large begs. The rivers did not rise in fountains,
as some other rivers did, but in b Ts. There were, in the
adjacent lands, dense forests of gigantic timber, and
persons could only go through 'he forests by means of
small paths which the natives had made for themselves.
These forests were intertwined with large climbing plants,
and the soil was exceedingly fertile. Although in elevated
country, it was perfectly level ; sometimes one passed
about 100 miles together, without seeing a single
stone It was all a black, alluvial soil. When he
went down towards the west coast he found a
great variety of climate. On the top, ridge of the
high lands, on the west there was a totally different
climate from the country on the sea-coast. This was not
known to the Portuguese, although they had been in
Angola for about 300 years, and the judges in Portugal,
when they wished to sentence a man to a very severe
punishment, sent him to the interior of Angola. Now, it
was shown that the very place to which they sent such
men was the most healthy part of all Angola. The
country admitted of different kinds of grain and other
products being grown in it. On the high land he saw
very good wheat growing, and he never saw anything so
rank and luxuriant as the vegetation in some parts of the
valley. When passing along. siring upon his ox, he was
obliged always to hold a stick in his hand in front of his
face to keep the grass (ut of his eyes. ': he grace actually
toe ered above his hcad, and every morning, when he set
out, the dery was s ill upon the grass, and he got one side
of his body wet with the dew. He then came into a part
abounding with all products. Cotton was growing in
the central parts of the country as well as near the
coast. When they came within about 200 miles of the
toast they found cotton growing in very large quantitie
and the natives making use of it. They did not appear to
teiltivate it for any market—the only object they had in
view, was to make sufficient as clothing for themselves, and
to pay the tribute which they owed to the King of Por-
tugal, and which consisted cf cotton clothes, each cloth
being about 6 feet long, and 3 broad. As the traveller
passed along he could see the women spinning and the
men weaving cotton, which was spun in exactly the same
manner as the ancient Egyptians employed. The tribute
from one district was about 1,300 of these cloths annually.
There was no market and no inducement to cultivate, but
every sort of prov:sicns was excessively cheap, and about
150 miles from the sea, he pa-chased a pair of wellington
boots, made in the country, tor ss. Bd. When in that part
of the country, an intelligent Portugese gentleman told
if he had a few hundred pounds he would create
a revolution in the commerce of the country, by
purchasing up all the cotton the natives now
produced, and then next year they would be certain
to produce much more, and in the third year he would
make his fortune The cotton might be seen growing at
*lithe sleeping places, for the persons, as they went along,
were usr ally engaged in cleaning cotton, and the weeds
were thrown along all the sleeping places, and all about
the huts, and they vegetated and produced cotton almost
without any labour at all. At the time, he (Dr. Living.
stone) did not know that England WFS in need of cotton.
He found that all the people were anxious to engage in
commerce, but they had no road or pathway down to the
coast; for although they exported about £lOO,OOO annually
in ivory, bees'-wax, and palm-oil, yet every ounce they
produced was taken down to the coast on the shoulders
and heads of men. He was of opinion that cotton could
be produced to any amount there. There was indigo
growing wild all over the country, and the people dyed
their clothing blue with it. They did not actually make
into indigo, but they simply put the plant into
a vat along with the clothes, and it dyed the
clothing blue. sugar-canes were also cultivated
in small qnanlities all over the country, but it was scarcely
ever made into sugar. The coffee, which was introduced
by the Jesuits about 250 Jeers ago, had now propagated
itself all over the country, at (lit-relent points. At the
time he was in Angola, several new plantations of coffee;
self-sown coffees were found ; and all the Portuguese had
to do was to cut out the small brushwood, and leave a
number cf trees to shade the coffee, and there they had
line coffee plenteticn a He found the coffee plant growing
at one.place, ahout 300 miles from the coast. It had not
been planted by any one, but was simply eelf sown, or
probably by means of birds. That was one groat good the
Jesuits did in that country, and it was not the only good.
On going down towards the sea coast, he found a very
large number of people able to read and write, which he
found bad been taught by the Jesuits, prior to them
having been expelled the country by the Marquis of
Piomba ; they kept the knowledge of reading and writing
to that day, and if they had an oeportunity of
reading bike, he had no doubt they would
eagerly peruse them. At present they had nothing but
the "Lives of the Faints," and a few other unimportant
books. (Laughter.) They all spoke with the greatest
respect of their teachers—the Jesuits; and he believed
these Jesuits must have been really good men—(hear,
hear, and laughter)—and any one might see the fruit of
" sir lab urs to this day. Now, when the Portuguese
find it rather stiff work to go on with the slave trade
coffee plantation ready for them, if they only
est ways. (Laughter and applause.) The
~t 1 parts were all anxious for intercourse
-4 they aided him in his expeditio

The Rev. Dr. M‘NEILz seconded the motion, which was
carded by acclamation.

The Nnron having briefly acknowledged the compliment,
the proceedings terminated.

DINNER TO DR. LIVINGSTONR.

Last evening the chairman, Thomas Berry Horsfall, Esq.,
111. P , and the other members of the African Association,
entertained the Rev. Dr. Livingstone at dinner, at the
Adelphi Hotel, previous to his departure to resume his
researches in Central Africa. We understand, amongst
others, the following gentlemen were present :—The Wor-
khipful the Mayor, Archdeacon Jones, the Rev. Dr.
MN'eile, the Rev. Dr. Raffles, the Rev. Mr. Robb, the
Rev. Mr. Towers, the Rev. Mr. Livingstone (the Doctor's
brother) Colonel Bell, Commander Bevis, R.N , J. Aspi-
nall Tob'n, Esq , Thomas Harrison, Esq., Wm. Crosfield,
Esq., Thomas Bonch, Esq (vice-chairman of the West
India Association), G. II Horsfall, Esq , B. Dawson, Esq.,
Christopher Bushell, Ism (vice chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce), Willism Hope, Esq , R. C. C,.osbie, Esq.,
E. Hatton, Psq., T. W. Cookson, Esq , R.W. Preston, E►q.
(chairman of the Wine and Spirit Association), Lloyd
Rayner Esq. (chairman of the General Brokers' Associa-
tion), James Esq. (Cotton Brokers' Association),
Scc , &c., &c.

BOYS' CLOTHING ',FADE WITH GRFAr TASTE, at LEWIS an

COMPANY'S, itanelagh street.

RETMs:ING TO I RET AND. —A correspondent of the
-Bowen Post, not:enz the contemplated claAitg of the
fHc'cries a, Lowell, Mass., says that duri;g the fait month
more than seven hundred of the I ish population have
purchased return tickets to Liverpool, attracted by the
improved and improving state of cgriealtural interests in
I e Emerald We.

" My dear," said an rffeetionate spouse to her husband,
"am I your trea.ure ?" " Oh, yes !" was the cool reply ;
" and I wculd yillingly lay it up in heaven."
A Wean Forrgosern.—Some of t'-e paws a-e lecturing
women upon the extrav;:zance in dress, and adviaing them
to retrench, especially during the present financial (=Eli-
ctilty. Doubtless there are many cases of unwarrantable
erravagaLce in this way ; bat do people ever consider
tha' two or three gla: sea of brandy and half a (lc z-n regalias
indelg,d in gaily by a man, to say nothing of five and ten
dollar dinners, amonst to more in a year tha would be
required to dress a woman up •0 the full rquirernents of
fashion? Much of this talk about the extravagance of
women is nonsense. They are almost urirorsally careful,
and 'nary a tracer would to-clay bare been safe and sound
if he hid lis'etcd to the prudent counsels of Lis wife, rather
than the reckltss promptings of his own ambition. It is
natural for mean men to en'eavOur to shift the responsibility
of their folly to o her shoulders, but it is rathcr tco mush
to charge a commerci ri-velsion lika this upon out's wife
and daughters.—New York Paper,

Exclusively for CLOTHING BOYS from Six to Twenty T4lit
LEWIS Ss COMPANY. Uanalaik-streq

THE NORTHERN TIMES.L-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1857.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YESTERD •Y.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.

THE Waorena Mas.-131.ttcetive-officer Kennedy, (alias
the "general') charged two well dressed persons, named
Thomas Pollock of Mount Vonon-ror d, and Peter Cornice
of Recce-street, with having watoulte d him. The "general'
was out on his rounds cn Monday night, and when in
Ranelagh-place, he tvr,s accosted by a young female, who
solicited him to give her a drink, the " general" not only
does not drink, but discourages it in all war, as he
concludes it is one of the corner s'ones of all evil, and he
frankly told the applicant so, but instead of thanking the
rival of Gough and Neal. Dow, for his moral aeivice, she
gave him a ' c!out" on the back of the neck, which knocked
off his hot, and nearly made him come in kissing proximity
to his m Vier earth, or t.is cousins the paving stone'.
Having, with antelope agility, regained his chapeau. be
took the girl, with his usual pol:teness, into custody,
informing her, is as urbane language as he was capable f
comm aiding, that he was a poi :cc-officer, bat of cour e
she did not believe bim, and called on a crowd, that had
celleeted, to rescue her from the "Philestine." The
prisoners interfered, and rescind the girl, who went shou-
ting awl in triumph ; hut the " general" was not to be
" done," and he wiz d the prisolurs, and held them unlit
an officer in uriform came up and assisted him ; and after
a sharp struggle, they were arrested. The prisoners pro-
duced a witness in their fav•lisr, but Kennedy said he
recognised him as one of the crowd who assis'ed in the
rescue of the girl. The witness slid he did not know Chet
Mr. Kennedy was an officer at the time. The prisoners
were ordered to stand down for The present.
LazukTr —A young woman, named Ellen Lawrenson,
was charged with he:tin, posses,:ed of two bocks—one, "
Col-
ridge's Table Talk," the other, a smoll copy (in Hebrew) of
Psalms. She offered the books to Mr. Lastly, of Shaw's-
brow, who stoppel her, as she could not tell where she got
them. In reply to his Warship, the girl said, the Hebrew
book was sent to her aq a present from Australia; and the
other, she piced up en the road near the Old swan.
Mr. Mausfi : are yn a .;ewers? No sir, lam a Church
of Englsnd. Mr. ilansfiell : I dont ereit your story.
Remind her.

ALTERING A SAILOR'S CERTIFICATZ.—James Disper, a
sailor, was brought up by S :perintenda.nt Murphy, of the
Sailors' Home, on a charge of having altered a certifi-
cate, with the v:ew of ohtaiaing a ship. Mr. Tyrdill
appeared for the Board of Trade, and said he had rectived
a letter from the Board, directing him in all such caw,
to prec,ed beforo the magistrates for summary ecnvictions.
so that in fu:ure he wou'd not have to esk for a, y remand,
as at present, until be could hear from the Board. He
would ask H s Worship, in future, to fix an hour for
hearing such eases, as the time cf the officers of the
Sailors' Home was very valuable, and it would be great
convenience if an hour coald be named for their attendance.
His Worship axed twelve o'clock for the 'rearing of such
cases. In the present instance, the prisoner to k a certifi-
cate be'onging to his brath-r, whose name is William,
arid erased that name substituting his own, end thus pre-
senting it as his. This was eiservered, and the p isoner
was given in custoly. Ho admitted to Mr. Mnrphy that
be had ehanvd the name in older to get a ship vs he
ml; out of employme)t. He was fined £2, and £4. 108.
co ts, or to be imprisoned fo- two months.
THE " PARTHINCN," IN GREAT CH AVLOTTE STREET.—
An application was made on Saturdcy, for a warrant to
arrest and hold to bail, John George St. tt, the owner of
the above house. A report of the case appearel in
Monday's paper. The application was renewed yes,erday,
as the formal notice had hem served on Mr. Edward
Feltma, the parish corstablp, who was appointed to the
office bay years ag-. This using proved, the warrant was
granted.

THE IRISH GOVERNMENT AND THE
ORANGEMEN.

The effects of the Chancellor's missive to Lord London-
derry aro already made manifest by the submission of
one of the factions which for some months past had lent
its aid towards kindling the flame of religious discord in
the capital of Ulster. The Belfast gun club has laid
down its arms. A meeting of the members was held on
Thursday night, when, after some discussion, the follow
ingresolution was adopted :--,

'I hat inasmuch as this club was established srlely for mutual self-
defence against the attacks of Orange rioters, and as, on the appeal
of the peaceful portion of the population of Belfast, an investigation
has been held into the causes of the recent riots which disgraced our
town ; at,d as, fcriherrnorc, the Government have, through the voice
of the Lord Chans.ellor, pronounced condemn:,tio❑ on the trange
system and its leaders, the cause of these disturbances, as dangerous
to the peace of society. we, willin; to believe that the anthoriti,s will
afford us henceforth suffi.ient pr tection for our lives and properties,
do hereby dissolve this se•f•defensive society, and throw ourselves on
the Executive for that protection to which as peaceful citizens we are
en titled.

The Bel fast Mercury, a temperate Protestant journal,
referring to the Chancellor's letter, says :

In our pap.r of the 29th ult. we noticed Lord Enniskillen's
examina ion before the Government Commission, which fully proved
the uselessness and naschlevott tendency of the Orange Gintedera-
tion, even on its new and improved organi,,ation. It is, undoubtedly,
the duty of the Government to discountenance such a confe ieration,
and the rule now announced by the Lord Chancellor is only the
rev,val of one that was formerly in force. If the heads of the confe-
deration acted sensibly and in accordance with the spirit of the axe,
they would forthwith d s=olve as institution that has outd,ed all
practical utility. It only now tends to perpetuate part] animosities
and keep alive b.,d passions.