The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-23 00:00:00

Marriages.

BRETON—SLADE.—On the 20th inst., at Saint Mary's'
Brompton, Alexander Gordon, youngest son of the Rev.
Edward Breton, rector of Charmouth, Dorset, to Florence
Barbara, youngest daughter of Sir Frederic Slade, Bart.,
Q.C., 46, Onslow-square.
late' of Stansfield, Suffolk.
Goopsort—l'cncocx.—On the 20th inst., at Denstono
Suffolk, e
Mr. William
Bate, the
Goodson,youngest
doafutghheteßdaughter.tot rfton Mr.H Gotceol:
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Deaths.
DOSSETOR.---011 the 21st inst., Thomas Dossetor, EST) of
the Poultry, London, aged 76.
GOLDING.—On the 21st inst., at his residence, Boltons;
West Brompton, Benjamin Golding, M.D., aged 69.
ITANLEY.—On the 20th inst., at Ilighhury,Williain Lucas
Hanley, Esq., aged 56.
SNELLING.—On the 20th inst., at Havant, Hants, IVIIII
Snelling. Esq., aged 66.
STONE.—On the 20th inst., at Streatly House, Berks, SV'
Henry Stone, Esq., aged 64.

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SEA. First-cln PS APPRENTICES required
in an East Indianian..—l' it premium, name of ship, te.
rip to Messrs. Lain, and Co.. 27, Colman-street, Bank.
control over or interference in the outfitting exercised

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF
ENGLAND.
p LECTURE, by Dr. VOELCKER, onComparative
livered
of Different Manures upon Grass Lands," will be de-
ivered to the Members at the Society's House, 12, Hanover-
''quare, London, at Twelve TO-MO RROW, the 24th June.

N°. 22,148.

By Order of the Council.
11. lIALL DARE, Secretary.

SALE 01 INTEREST in MILL PREMISES and LANDS at
O'BRIEN'S BRIDGE, in the County of Clare.
-HE COURT of BANERCP rCY and INSOLVENCY.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
the Matter of William Digan and Henry Wickham rlird,
nth
of O'Brien's Bridge, in the County of Clare, Milers,
Isankrupts.
0 BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION, pur-
suant to the order, and subject to the approbation of
e said Court. at Michael Ilartigan's Auction Rooms,
July,l-street, LIMERICK, on WEDNESDAY, the Ist day of
1863, at the hour of One o'clock in the Afternoon,
.11 the Estate. Right, Title, and interest of the said Bank-
-IPts, a .d of thiir*Assionecs. and of the Mortgagee of, in,
od to all that and thos.;'the Dwelling-house, (15ces, Stores,
thd mills situate, lying', and being at 0' I;rien's Bridge, in
b °unty of Clare, held under n'lndenture of Fee Grant,
d`dte the 15th August, 1854, forthe Yearly
BZBent of Zl2O izs. iOd , with the right of turbery on the Red
O'Brien's Bridge.
..,;11d also all that and those that part of the lands of
Brien's Bridge, containing- 2 roods, and known by the name
Of the New Mid Pond, situate, lying, and being at O'Brien's
Bridge aforesaid, held under Indenture of Lease dated 19th
November, 1828, for the lives therein named, at the Yearly'
Aent of £2 ;Os.; and also
that and those, that part of the Lands or Building
Groupd of O'Brien's Bridge, held under Indenture of Lease,
Zdated 19th November, 1828, tor the term of three lives therein
"'bed, at the yearly rent of £3; and also
,All that and those, the Watercourse or Mill Stream run-
-4:11 through the lands of Moss Bank, part of the said lands
;; O'Brien's-lodge. t gether with the strip of g-round orpath-
Or running alongside said new Watercourse to the 'eft
P.eol, as it proceeds from the Bridge at Bridgetown. coc-
a9llV in length, from the Bridge at Bridge. own to where
aid course joins the old Mill stream. 95 perches and 6 feet, or
thereabouts, and in breadth 8 feet, held under lease of 25th
November, 1628 for lives renewable for ever, and subject to
80 rent.
CHEYNE BRADY, Chief Registrar.
For particulars of Title and conditions of Sale, seeAb stra c t
of
Title posted for inspection at the Court of Bankruptc
Rod Insolvency, Four Courts, Dubin ; at th e Auctioneer's
°f ors, Cecil-street, in the City of Limerick; or at the office
Joseph Murphy, Solicitor for the Mortgagee.
_ravine
car-
-o..ar of the Salf!„ No. 11, Bachelor's-walk, Dublin,
_veil,
Ige-ktreet, Limerick. Michael Murphy. Egg., um
Assignee, No. 33, Upper Ormond-quay, Dublin.

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DESCRIPTIVE PARTICULARS.
These Mills are within seven miles of Limerick, in the
v▪ entre of an extens ye corn-growing country, embracing-part
of the counties of Clare, Limerick, and Tipperary, are situate
On the banks of the River Shannon, with water carriage al-
test to the Mill door, and having the same communication
With Dublin, Athlone, Arc., &c., and are in every possible re-
'Peet about the best circumstanced in the South of Ireland.
„They are nearly quite new, and have been erected with all
tae new and modern improvements, and have cost, from time
▪ time over £20,000, and consist of
O. I—A Steam Mill, driven by a powerful Steam Engine,
hY Caird and Company, of Glo3gow, with three very large
'loiters, which work up to 100-horsepower, and for the supply
of Which there is abundance of fuel in the immediate neigh-
bourhood.
This Mill is in the most perfect order, is fitted up with 9
Da'r of first-class 4-feet Belgian stones, with Bovill's patent
exhaust, 4 Silk-dressing Machines, 1 Wire Machine (Ameri-
can) another patent Cleaning and Screening Machine, all on
the new, st and most approved principles, and are capable of
Grinding and Dressing. 1.200 Barrels 01 Wheat per week.
No. 2—A Water Mill, fitted up comnlete, with four pair of
new 4 feet 6 inch French Burr Stones, two Silk-dressing Ma-
chines, and is capable of Grinding and Dressing a very large
quantity of both Wheat and Indian Corn. In this Mill acre
is room for two pair more of Mill Stones, and the Water-
power has been vastly increased this seation by extensive
drainage works, which are being carried out in the neigh-
bourhood.

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THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE,
JUNE 30, 1863.
A Grand MELANGE DRAMATIQUE will take place in
AID of the FUNDS for a NATIONAL METROPOLITAN
MONUMENT to SHAKESPEARE, under the immediate
Patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales, before whom 60 eminent artistes will have the
honour of appearing. —Hon. Sec., Mr. Adolphus Francis, 43,
Cumberland-street, Hyde-park.

T H E
0 X F O R D,
6, OXFORD STREET.
Will be performed Selections from the following Operas :
LA. CJRCASSIENNE, MARTHA, and
MASANIELLO.

Supported by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, Miss Ellison,
Messrs. Albert, Green, Bernardi, Huish, Kimberley, and
W. Evans, with full band and chorus.
Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.
Drew Dean's Flute Solos
Master Sanders, the Juvenile Vocalist.
UNSWORTH, the modern Demosthenes.

No. 3—A 1 .rge and convenient Cern Stores, quite tree and
independent of the Mills, and capable of containing 10,000
Barrels of Grain.
No. 4—A. large range of Shedding, Stabling for 12 Horses,
Coach-houses, Bake-house, Piggeries, &c. Arc.
No. s—The Dwelling House and Garden, modern and con-
Venient, handsomely fitted up, and is in perfect order and
tePai.r.
The whole of the premises are thoroughly enclosed, are all
In the most substantial order and repair, ready for immediate
,4_°cconation, and do not require an outlay of one shillin; for
the Milling Trade on either Machinery or Buildings.
Those Premises are so extensive that there is ample room
and sufficient spare buildings, so that a portion, with great
advantage
and at a small outlay, could be easily converted
to a first-class Brewery, for the carrying on of which trade
there is every possible facility, and for which this situation
Presents
many most important advantages, offering thus on
in:v
ue wh
menole t
to trailers and capitalists a rare and most desirable
est

Eugene, W. Randall, J. Hutcherson, and the mat vellous
ARTHUR and BERTRAND.
The HALL has been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and
is now one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.

CANTERBURY HALL AND
FINE ARTS GALLERY.
NOTICE.— ENTIRE CHANGE OF ENTERTAINMENT.
This Evening the
the Marvellous
Two Frew h Clowns ARTA UR and BERTRAND,
ARTHUR LLOYD'S burlesque
im. Drama, arranged expressly
fo
A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH'S new Comicalities, &c,
SAM COLLINS, with new Songs.
UNSWORTH, the celebrated Stump Orator.
EUGENE, and G. HUTCHINSON.
GRAND SELECTIONS from ONTATA PERAS, GLEES, and
CAS.

THE EGYPTIAN COMMERCIAL AND
TRADING COMPANY (Limited).
TO be Incorporated, with Limited Liability, under "The
Companies Act, 1862."
Capital £2,000,000, in 100,000 Shares of £2O each.
Payment on allotment £2 per Share.
The Capital has been subscribed, with the exception of 25,000
Shares, which have been reserved for issue to the public by
the International Financial Society.
DIRECTORS.
president—H. H. Prince HALIM PASHA, late Governor of
the Soudan.
4011 Cater Esq., Director of the Bank of Egypt, London.
Bervieu,, Esq. E. Dervieu and Co.), Alexandria.
W. Larking, , London.
OPpenheim,Es Esq q. (Oppenheim, Nephew, and Co.), Alex-
andria.
br Rose, Esq. (Briggs and Co.), Alexandria.
a. andria.
Ruyssenaere, Dutch , Ale
P. Scholfield, Er.q.,Consul.General London (late A. and S. Henry and
Manchester).
Sulzbach, Esq. Frankfort O.M.
Alexander Tod, Esq., London (Tod, Rathbone, and CO.,
11:14-Ypt ; and Stephen Kennard and Co., London).
MANAGER.
M. Sakakini, Esq. (Sakakini Brothers), Cairo.
AGENTS.
Messrs. Fruhling and Goschen, London.
M.M. Marcuard, Andr6, and Co., Paris.
The Bank of Saxe Meiningen, Frankfort.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bircham, Dalrymple, Drake, and Ward, 46,
Parliament-street, Westminster.
PROSPECTUS.
Encouraged by the desire of the Government of his High-
ness the Viceroy of Egypt, several Commercial Houses and
Society have united to form this Company:—
The International Financial Society, London.
Mec.isrs. Fruhling and Goschen, London.
Yieggrs. Marcuard, Andre, and Cie., Paris.
Mr. W. F. Jaeger, Frankfort.
Mr. S. Sulzbach, Frankfort.
Messrs. Oppenheim, Nephew, and Cie., Alexandria.
Messrs. Dervieu and Cie., Alexandria.
The object of the Company is to devote special attention to
the development of Commerce with Upper Egypt, Nubia, the
Soudan and adjoining countries, as well as the borders of the
8d Sea, and to establish trading relations with those dig-
Pats, the enormous resources of which—till now almost un-
meveloped—are so well known as to render it needless to
enter into a lengthened description.
The Company will buy or exchange the produce, which
consists of cotton, coffee, sugar. rice, tobacco, gu
,oms•
genue, beeswax, ostrich feathers, gold dust, silk, in-
, ec e.
The Viceroy of Egypt has, by the grant of a liberal subsidy,
Red
into existence a Steam Navigation Company for the
-tied Sea and the Nile : he is also about, with the view of as-
sisting the operations of this Company, to complete, at his
own expense, telegraphic communication between Alexandria
and all the principal stations which have been selected for
,the operations of the Company, extending to Khartoum, the
,arthest town of importance in the interior of Africa within
the limits of Egyptian territory, and to Taka on the frontiers
of Abyssinia.
By these means the difficulty of communication, hitherto
existing, will be removed, a d means of transport greatly,
facilitated. It will be an object of this Company to encou-
rage all enterprises which will tend to provide means of
rapid transport, whether by steamers, railways, canals, or
by the organisation of caravans. It will also be an object of
the Company to encourage, by the advance of money to cul-
tivators, importation of seed, establishment of cotton gins,
'&e., the cuttivation of cotton in tipper Egypt, where there
exist immense tracts of land capable of producing it to al-
kost any extent. The population in those districts is nume-
loos and iudustrious.
„ It is a well-ascertained fact that, in Upper Egypt and the
NMelan, cultivators and traders can afford to borrow money
at 4 and 5 per cent. per month, and still amass considerable
Wealth.
The Company intend to establish agencies on both coasts
of the Red Sea. On the Arabian coast Dgeddah has been
selected as a principal place of commerce. On the coast of
Abyssinia agencies will also be established at Dossier, Sa-
Nvakim, and Massawah.
The trading operations of the Company will extend from
Cairo up the Nile, as far as possible into the interior of Africa,
following the courses of the White and Blue Nile, whilst
the Red Sea, and its east and west coasts.
It is intended to commence operations below Siout, ex-
tending gradually upwards, employing the capital, in the
first instance, by making advances to cultivators in Upper
gypt, operations with which the Alexandrian Directors are
11 acquainted, and which, being highly lucrative, at once
insure a large interest on the capital employed.
The capital of the Company will be gradually called up as
its operations are extended.
Mr. Sakakini, who has for many years carried on, and is
thoroughly acquainted with, the trade of Upper Egypt and
its adjoin,ng, countries, has consented to act temporarily as
Manager, in order to give the Company the advantage of his
experience in the organisation of a sufficient and competent
staff.
The Articles of Association will provide for a defined and
limited participation by the Directors in the profits, after
payment of interest, on the capital called up, and the houses
who have founded the Company will be entitled to the privi-
lege of taking one-th rd of any further issue of Shares, sub-
ject to which all new Shares will be distributed pro rata
amongst the existing Shareholders.
Applications for Shares must be made to the International
Financial Society (Limited), at their Offices, 54, Old Broad-
street, B.C.
No application will be received after Saturday, 20th June,
at 12 noon.
London, June, 1863.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the International Financial Society
(Limited).
Gentlemen,—I request you to allot me Shares of £2O
in the Egyptian Commercial and Trading Company (Limited),
and I hereby agree to become a member of that Company,
and to accept such Shares, or any less number that may be
allotted to me, and I request that my name may be placed
,on th.. Register of Members in respect of the Shares allotted
le me.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
No. time in full
Address in full
deference .. ••
Date

Principal Artistes —Missiclussell, Miss Townley ; Mr. Green,
Signor Bunali, and Signor Tivoli.
Conductor, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, ed. ; stalls and balcony, is.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Miss
M`i;regor, Messrs. Albert, Vernon, Rigby, dm., dM.,
with Full Chorus and Band of 60 Performers.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—THIS
EVENING, and during the Week, at Half-past Ten,
the FAIRY FOUNTAIN. "It Is indeed a remarkable and
beautiful speetae .e."—lffustrated London News.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—Trium-
phant Success of the marvellous RISARELIS and
LES TROIS NICHOLETS.

ARGYLL RO OM S.-JULLIEN'S
PROMENADE CONCERTS.
NOTlCE.—Duricg the Week the Selections will be—" Der
Frieschutz "—" La -Forza del Destino "—" Il Trovatore "
"Don Giovanni," SEc.
LEVY, the great wonder on the Cornet-a-Piston, plays
from half-past Nine to Twelve.

Admission, is.

WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS.

SOUTHGATE and BARRETT will SELL, by
AUCTION, at their ROOMS, 22, Fleet-street, TO-
MORROW (WEDNESDAY), at One o'clock, by order of
Mr. R. Ackerman, of Regent-street, who is retiring from
business in favour of his sons, a COLLECTION of WAT ER-
COLOUR DRAWINGS. including Fifty Military Subjects
by H. Martens, many Engraved ; 120 large Military Scenes
by Orlando Norie, very talented ; 18 Views in London by G.
S. Shepherd, a series of interesting and highly •finished
Drawings ; numerous examples by
Dewint, Varley, Rolfe, Holland,
Weigall, Stephanoff, Pyne, Allen,
Baynes, Evans, Ince, Corbould,
W estall, Buckley, Barrel t, I ). Cox,
Cotman, Duncan, Warman, Powell,
and others ; Chinese Drawings, on rice paper; Sporting, by
Aiken, &a , &o.
Catalogues forwarded on receipt of two stamps.

MR. T. CARRICK begs to announce to his
Artist Friends and the Public, that his Photographic
Establishment, 32, Regent-street, Piccadilly-circus, is now
in full operation.
Cartes de Visite, 10 for 10s. 6d ;21 for £l. Miniatures on
Ivory, Marble, and the Photographic base in his former
styles.

CIPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented
►,-J Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the
Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra-
ordinary re def to weak, di,n, and detective vision.—S. and B
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Eyebrows produced in a few weeks by the use of
ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOT lON, the stimulative properties
of which are unfailing in their operation. Thomas Elliott
invites a trial from the most sceptical, that they may be con-
vinced of its infallible power. Price 35. 6d., Is. 6d., 10s. id.,
and 21s. Forwarded on receipt of postage stamps.—Thomas
Elliott, hairgrower (first floor), 51, Fenchurch-street. T. E.'s
wigs. £1 10s.

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.

WELCOME TO THE DISCOVERERS OF THE
SOURCE OF THE NILE.
Last night a special meeting of the Royal Geo-
graphical Society was held in Burlington House,
Piccadilly, to welcome Captain Speke and Captain
Grant, the discoverers of the source of the White
Nile, on their return to this country. The hour ap-
pointed for the commencement of the proceedings
was nine o'clock, but long before eight o'clock a
stream of carriages flowed steadily into the court-
yard, and, shortly after that hour every nook and
cranny was filled to overflowing by an audience re-
presenting the fashion, art, and science of the
metropolis, while an almost equal number in vain
sought admission. The utmost animation and ex-
citement prevailed in the immense audience, which
was so densely crowded that it was with the ut-
most difficulty the President fought his way to the
dais, and the heroes of the night, in the effort to
find their places on each side of him must have
preferred many of their experiences of African
travel. Among those in the immediate vicinity of
the chair, we noticed Sir R. Peel, M.P., Mr. Munck-
ton Milnes, M.P., Mr.Layard,M.P., Mr. Alderman
Salomons, M.P., Mr. Gregson, M.P., Sir L. M'Clin-
took, Lady Franklin, Sir G. Clerk, Sir A.S. Waugh,
Sir H. James, Admiral Murray, Col. Lynch, Che-
valier Duprat, Signor Nigro, Sir H. Vavasour, Sir
F. Nicholson, Sir T. Fremantle, &c.
Sir R. MURCHISON, the president, said—The hour
appointed for commencing the business was nine
o'clock, but looking at the crowded state of the
room, although it wants 15 minutes to that hour,
we may as well proceed. The hon. baronet then
spoke as follows :—Gentlemen, we are now specially
assembled (for our regular session has terminated)
to do honour to the two men who have accomplished
the most remarkable geographical feat which has
been performed in our time, and one which it has
been the ambition of other nations to accomplish
during all ages. The council of this society has the
greater reason to be proud of this achievement, be.
cause it was by their exertions that the means were
obtained to carry it out; and her Majesty's Govern-
ment and the Indian Government must also have a
real gratification in reflecting that they complied
with the wishes of the geographers who organised
the East African expedition, in furnishing the essen-
tial means of accomplishing it. But, gentlemen,
whilst we may well dwell with satisfaction on the
encouragement we warmly offered, let us at once
turn to the man, without whose earlier as well as
recent labours this great feat could never have been
brought about—l mean, of course, Captain Speke.
(Cheers.) In the year 1858, when serving with our
former medallist, Burton, and when that eminent
explorer lay sick at Kazeh, Captain Speke having
heard of this lake from Arab merchants hastened to
reach it; and, finding that its southern extremity
was on the high plateau-land, between 3,000 and
4,000 feet above the sea—(the land which forms,
indeed, the watershed between North and South
Africa in that meridian)—he finding also that
the waters of this vast lake were fresh,
he, then and there, after accurately determining
the longitude of its southern end, was convin-
ced that this body of water must be the great
southernmost reservoir out of which the White or
Main Nile flowed at its northern end. It was for
this first great discovery that the Royal Geogra-
phical Society awarded our founder's gold medal to
Captain Speke. Though obliged to return to Eng-
land with his leader, Captain Burton, Captain
Speke held pertinaciously to his project; and en-
gaging his Indian brother officer, Captain Grant,
to accompany him (an officer, let me say, who dis-
tinguished himself, and was severely wounded in
the great Indian mutinies), and, encouraged by this
society and the Government, he has gone and done
the great deed, and has followed the Nile from its
source to its mouth. Gentlemen, it is not for me
to recapitulate any portion of that abstract of the
vast labours gone through by Captains Speke and
Grant which I read to you at our anniversary, and
which was printed in the public journals of the
26th May last. But I think it necessary to say that
I now know, that, in my anxiety to satisfy the
desire of the public, there were omissions and errors
in that address. I know, for example, that I did
not on that occasion do sufficient justice—and I am
sorry for it—to able critical geographers, who had
framed hypotheses, or had collected data from na-
tives and other authorities as to the probable source
of the Nile ; but I beg you to consider that I was
then solely bent on developing, as well as I could,
from the records sent home by Speke, the main
features of the great actual and practical survey
which had been made by himself. As to the errors
in that rapidly-prepared abstract, I may advert at
once to one. It was stated by me that the young
King of Nganda, who was so kind to Captain
Speke when he was separated from his companions,
had 3,000 wives, but I now find that there was a
nought too many, and that his Majesty has
hitherto been contented with 300 wives ! (Laughter.)
Then as to the statements which are arising and will
arise as to the dates of the old maps on which lakes
were marked in the interior of Africa, and out of
which the Nile is made to flow, they are not con-
fined to the old (probably Portuguese) maps of the
16th century, of which I spoke, and which exist in
the library of the Propaganda Fedc in Rome. One
Arabian map is now indeed cited, which is upwards
of 1,000 years old, in which one or more pieces of
water occupy nearly the position of the Victoria
Nyanza of Speke. Not pretending to be able to
decide upon who may have been the people who
first were acquainted with such great interior waters
Capt. Speke informs me that he believes the traders
from Hindestan were probably anterior even to
the Greeks in visiting this region. When, how-
ever, we come to the latter, Captain Speko is of
opinion that Ptolemy, that great geographer, is
the authority who first placed upon historical
record the existence of African lakes under the
Equator, out of which the Nile flowed. But age
after age rolled on ; traveller after traveller, from
the days of the Roman Emperors to our time, endea-
voured to ascend the Nile to its source, and all have
failed. In our days, one Miani, a Venetian, who
had lived many years in Egypt, is the person who
got farthest southward in ascending from Egypt,
and he, not being an astronomical observer, thought,
and has asserted, that he had reached to the second
degree of north latitude, where he cut his name
upon a tree, He has even written to me from
Vienna what he calls a " protest " against the
river of Speke being the true Nile ! Speke, how-
ever, in
passing southwards, determined the lati-
tude of that very tree, with Miani's name on it, to
be 3-1 degrees north latitude; and as Speke had
traced the water of the Nile from 3 degrees
south of the equator, it follows that the Venetian
was never within about 400 miles of the head
waters of the Nile ! As it would be impossible on
this occasion for Capt. Speke to carry you along
with him on this long pilgrimage which he and his
ibinargdoontatsheineawsht
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kingdoms an
were so long detained, he will new first read to
you a brief sketch of the whole course of the great
White Nile, and will show you
it is, not only in length, but also
hoinwvvoalsutmlyesaupnderim-
portance, to all the affluents which it receives from
the east or from the west, including the great Bale
Nile. Cavillers about the source of the Nile there
are I know in abundance, and such persons will pro-
bably not even be satisfied by my assuring them
that Capt. Speke himself does not talk of the source,
% but he tells you that, whilst the southernmost end
of the late Victoria Nyanza does not receive waters
from the south, that great body is fed by numerous
small streams which flow into it from the west and
the east as it extends northwards ; the great fact re-
maining that the southernmost end of this lake is on
the watershed between North and South Africa,
and in 3-1 degs. south latitude. Before I call on
Copt, Speke to read his communication on the Nile,

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I must acquaint my associates with the deep inte-
rest which our patron the Queen, and our vice-
patron the Prince of Wales, take in this great dis •
covert'. When I recently waited upon the Queen
at the building of the International Exhibition,

along with other Royal Commissioners, her Ala-

jesty was pleased to congratulate me most gra-
ciously upon this great geographical feat, and I feel
certain, from the kind and emphatic manner in
which her Majesty expressed herself the first time
in which the Queen had appeared after ber sad be-

reavement, that she is truly proud in the reflection
that two of her own gallant Indian officers should

have succeeded i❑ doing what the people of every
European nation have failed to accomplish. Then
as to our vice-patron, the Prince of Wales, I know
that his Royal Highness, who is himself a great
traveller, and who loves our science, would have

. .
been here this evening had not a very special

engagement prevented him ; but arrangements
have, I am happy to say, been made by which his
Royal Highness will hear, to-morrow night, a lec-
ture from Captain Speke at the Royal Institution.
Whilst our own Royal family recognises the im-
portance of this great discovery, the King of Italy
has taken the lead amongst foreign sovereigns in
the expression of his desire to commemorate this
great discovery, and has directed two gold medals
to be struck in honour of our heroes of the Nile.

One of them, or that which is destined for.the leader,
has arrived, and 1211 S omit the insdiption, " Honor a
Nilo." I mast here add that the letter of the
Italian Minister, the Marquis d'Azeglio, which
accompanies this appropriate reward is such an
elegant and apposite composition, that it is worthy
of the country which reared a Columbus. -The
chairman read a letter from the Marquis d'Azeglio

expressing the admiration of the King of
Italy for the gallant explorers, and concluded
by saying, " As the French Geographical Society
(like our own society) gave a gold medal to
Capt. Spoke for his original discovery of the great
lake, he, in grateful remembrance of that act,
named a large channel at the head of the Victoria
Nyanza after the Emperor Napoleon, who will, I
doubt, duly appreciate the honour of having had
his name affixed to such an important feature in the
heart of Africa, and by such a distinguished British

geographer." I now call on Captain Speke to read

Captain SPEKE said—ln attempting to describe
the extent and character of this great river—the
Nile—compared with its tributaries, within the
limits of actual inspection by myself, I will first
treat of its head, the Victoria Nyanza, from its
southern extremity, which I found by astronomical

observation in 1858, to be close on 3 deg. S. of the
equator, and gradually bring it down to its point
of debouchure in the Mediterranean Sea, 31 deg. N.

of the equator, by which it will be seen the Nile re-
presents, considering it lies almost in one direct
line from the south to north, a total in round num-
bers of 2,000 miles geographical rectilinear in
length, and is, therefore, nearly 1-10th the circum-
ference of the glolce. It must be borne in mind,
however, that my observations respecting this great
river are not the result of one expedition, but of
two ; that I have not actually followed its banks
from head to foot, but have tracked it down, occa-

lakes, as the Akeuyard in Urundi ; the Luckurow,
which is the second of a chain with the Akeuyard ;

the Ingerzi and Karaguve ; and the little Winan-
dermere, which, in Karanguve, lies below the
capital on its south-eastern corner. None of
these lakes are large—mere puddles in com•
parison to the great Victoria Nyanza; but
still the Kitangule River, after receiv-
ing all their contributions, is a noble river, low sunk
like a huge canal, about 80 yards across, with a
velocity of about four miles an hour, which appears

equal to the Nile itself as soon Es it issues from the
lake by the Ripon Falls. The question naturally

suggests itself, what forms these lakes ? whence

originate their waters ? It is simply this : the
mountains of the moon, in which they lie, encircling
the northern end, and the Tanganyika Lake are

sionally touching on it, and even navigating it as
occasion offered, for the barbarous nature of the
African forbids the traveller doing as he likes ;

therefore, to give full weight to any inferences I
may draw, deduced from what I have only seen in
part, I will blend native information to my own ex-
periences, and in doing so I shall hope to teach
others what I know, and, beyond that, what I be-

exposed to the influences of the rainy zone, where
I observed, in 1862, no less than 233 days out of the
year were more or less wet days. Mashonde, in
the Uddu portion of Uganda, is the first place where
in this second expedition, I obtained a view of the
Victoria Lake, called in these more northern coun-
tries Lueru (white)—(lo-of)—Luta (dead) Nzige
(locust), in consequence of the reputed fact that
flights of locusts, in endeavouring to cross these
waters, have dropped down from fatigue, unable to
accomplish such an extended journey on wing, and,
perishing in the lake, have been found dead in dense
masses by the boatmen. But, like the ward Ny-
aula, it is alsc applied to the Nile and its tribu-
taries, confounding all inquiry. For instance, the
Waganda—who know of the Nile and the Little
Luta Nzige, a semi•lake tributary to it, flanking

the northern boundary of Ungoro, that being the
extent as to the instances of the dead locusts—say
at once Uganda, conjoined with Ungoro, is an island,
so that a man may walk for months and never see
the end of it. The whole is likewise called Nyanza
there, for, as might be expected in countries where
no literature is known, nor knowledge sought be-
yond the actual requirements of domestic life, the
people are satisfied with local names, never
troubling their heads with general specific ones.
This is the explorer's greatest difficulty in en-
deavouring to put together the information
which he hears, though it may be overcome by
close questioning, even better with the natives than
with the Arabs, for whilst the former regard all
rivers flowing, as we do, from head to mouth,
the Arab invariably says it goes from mouth
to head. In a southerly direction the Waganda
boatmen go as far as the Island Ukerewe,
which I saw on my first journey to Mnanzaat, the
southern extremity of the lake ; and to the east-
ward beyond the escape of the Nile, to the north-
eastern corner of Victoria Lake, where by a strait

lieve myself. In the year 1858, when I discovered
the Victoria Lake, which is the great reservoir of
the Nile, I found it a large sheet of sweet water
lying on the main level, or from 3,000 to 4,000 feet
above the sea level of the great interior plateau of
equatorial Africa, looking for all the world like

they gain access to another lake in quest of salt
possibly the Baringo of Dr. Kraph, which he, from
information gained through the natives, called Salt
Lake, most likely because there are salt islands in
it ; which reasoning I deduce from the fact that on
my former expedition, when the Arabs first spoke
to me of the Luta Nzige, they described it as a salt
lake belonging to the Great Nyanza ; yet not be-
longing to it, when further pressed upon the sub-
ject. The Great Nyanza waters were purely fresh
and sweet. They (the Arabs), like Dr. Kraph,
merely narrated what they heard. As salt islands
were visited by the natives in search of that
mineral, the surrounding waters naturally were con-
sidered salt by them, deprived as they were of those
connecting links, which included the whole area of
ground under consideration within the limits of the
drainage system of the Nile. The Arabs, it is now
very clear, had heard of everything in connection
with the Nile ; but from not being cognisant with
the science of philosophical geography, were unable
to connect what they had gleaned in detached frag-
ments from it. Dr. Kraph further tells us of a
river trending from the river Nowey by Mount
Kcenio towards the Nile. If such is the case, it
must be a feeder to the Baringo, whose waters pass
off by the Asua river into the Nile, for the whole
country immediately on the eastern side of the
Victoria Nyanza is said by the Arabs, who have
traversed it for ivory, to be covered with low, roll-
ing hills, intersected only by small streams and
nullahs from this point in Muanza to the side stream
which is situated on the equator on the northern
boundary of the Victoria Nyanza. Tuning now
again to Mas-horde, and proceeding north along the
bending coast of Nyanza to the valley of Kalonga,
which, as situated on the equator, the lake is
constantly in view. The land above the lake is
beautiful, composed of low sandstone hills, scoured
down by small streams, the effect of constant
rains, grown all over by gigantic grass, except
where the numerous villagers have supplanted it
by cultivation, or on the deltas where mighty trees,
tall and straight as the blue gums of Australia,
usurp the right of vegetation. The bed of the Ny-
anza has shrunk from its original dimensions, as we
saw in the case of the Urigi Lake; and the moor-
lands immediately surrounding are covered with a
net-work of large rush drains, with boggy bottoms,
as many as one to every mile, even counting from
the Kitanqula, which of itself was obviously at one
period a much fuller stream than at the present day
when the old bed was on the level of the present
surface of the water, and its breadth was double
that which now exists. The mountains of the moon
are wearing down, and so is Africa. Crossing over
the equator altogether the conformation of the land
appeared much the same, but increased in beauty ;
the drainage system was found the opposite, clearly
showing we were on the north slope of Africa. One
stream, the Mwerango, of moderate dimensions,
said to arise in the lake, flowed north and joined the
Nile in the kingdom of Unigoro, where its name is
changed to Kafu ; or another stream, the Luagevri,
followed its example ; and then still further on
from the centre of the Lake Nyanzi's coast issued
the parent stream of the Nile, flowing over rocks of
igneous character 12 feet high, which, as the na-
tives and also some Arabs simply designate by the
simple name of stones. I have done myself the
honour to christen it the Ripon Falls, after his lord
ship who was the President of the Royal Geogra-
phical Society when the expedition was set on
foot. This escape of the Nyanza waters, 20 miles
north of the equator, is the only one accurately
in-
spected, owing to the barbarous restrictions placed
on visitors by the king of Uganda for the supposed
maintenance of his dignity ; but it mattered not, as
by following the Nile we saw the junction of both
the Kafu and Asua rivers, and crossed Luagevri
immediately before its place of junction. Now pro-
ceeding down the Nile from the Ripon Falls, the
river first bisects the sandstone continued hills,
which extend into Usuoga above the coast-line
of the lake, and rushes along north with
mountain-torrent beauty, and then, having passed
these hills, of no great extent, it turned through
long flats more like a lake than a river, where, in
Ungyoso, it was increased by the contributions of
the Kafu and the Luagevri, and continued in this
navigable form to the Karina Falls in Choppi,
where again, the land dropping suddenly to the
westward, we saw the river rushing along with
boisterous violence, but would not follow it owing
to the war which lay upon the track. It was in-
deed a pity, for not 60 miles from where we stood,
by common report, the Little Luta Mzige, which 1
had taken so much trouble in tracing down its
course from the Lunge Mentes with its salt islands
in it, joined the Nile. The old river was next met
with in the Modi country, due north of the Karina
rails, where it stiil bore the unmistakable character
e Soatriern
of the Nile—long flats, long rapids. The
half of the Madi was a flat extending, we be.mvc,,
to the junction of the Little Luta Mzige,avjgab
a rapid extending down to
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that is to say, the Nile which is navigable its entire
length during the period of its flooding ; and here
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when low fordable. The rest of the Nile, consider-
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the source of some great river ; so much so, indeed,
that 1 at once felt certain in my own mind it was
the source of the Nile, and noted it accordingly.
To add to this impression the natives, who there
only kno w it by the name of Nyanza, which
equally means lake, pond, and river, described its
extension in this confused manner to the northward
as being boundless, whilst its breadth really—in
fact its circumference—was enormous; greater, if
anything, on the east than on the western side, for
the negro informants knew the name of all the
countries surrounding the lake, and must, had they
understood the value of geographical definitions,
have been able to separate the river Nile from the
Nyanza, and to reduce their explorations to any
common understanding. Our informants, Arab
merchants and their slaves, resident at Zanzibar,
who penetrate Africa in search of ivory, who had
completed the whole circuit of the Nyanza, not in-
dividually but separately, some on one side and
some on the other, assured me the Nyanza was the
source of some great river. They knew not what,
though they heard confused accounts from the
natives living on the equator of the European ivory
merchants who frequented the Nile in vessels at 5
deg. N., latitude, and had further heard through the
same channel that with the rising of the Nile, and
consequently the violence of its waters, islands were
floated down its surface, which really is the case,
not composed of earth and stone, but tangled roots
of trees, rush, and grass, with even sometimes huts
upon them, which otherwise undisturbed, are torn
away by the violence of the stream, and carried
down perfect floating islands. Then, again, these
men described.the territory between the Nile and
Asua rivers as an island on the one side and the land
comprising the ancient kingdom of Sitters. accord-
ing to their acceptation of the word, as an island,
also being nearly circumscribed by the Kitangule,
and Luta Nzige rivers, in conjunction with the Lake
Nyanza and the Nile. No merchants, however, had
crossed the first 'parallel of north latitude ; none
understood geography. They heard what the
natives said, but could not fully comprehend them,
and thus it was that a doubt still existed in every.
body's mind but my own, as to the origin
of the Nile, which no one would believe until
I went again and turned the river down from
hand to mouth. Had I been all alone in the first
expedition I should have settled the Nile in
1859, by travelling from UnYanyembi to Uganda
with an Indian merchant, Musor Mzuri, who was
prepared to go there, but my proposal having been
negatived by the chief of the Expedition, who was
sick at the time, and tired with the journey, I re-
turned to England, and, to my
inexpressible de-
light, the very first day after my arrival here, found
in Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
a warm advocate,
and proposer to the Royal Geographical Society to
complete what I had before begun, and, as mey be
imagined, I could not rest satisfied until the world
accepted my own views, happily now verified by in-
disputable means of actual inspection and astrono-
mical observation, that the Victoria Nyanza is the
great reservoir of the Nile. Suffice it now to say,
after returning toUnyanyembi (the old point), three
degrees south of the lake, in 1861, I struck upon a
new route, which I imagined, from the unsophisti-
cated depositions of the ivory merchants, would lead
me to a creek on the westerly flank of the Nyanza,
situated on the southern boundary of Karaguve.
Geographical definitions were here again found
wanting, for, instead of a creek to the greet lake
appearing, a new lake was found, called Lucre
(white), or Lake of Ut igi, which formerly appeared
to have contained a considerable amount of water,
but is now fast drying up. lts head lies in Urundi,
and, circling round the south and east flanks of Kara-
gave, in form a mountain valley, is subsequently
drained by the Kitangule River into the Nyanza,
but not in sufficient quantity to make any sensible
impression on the perennial contents of the Nyanza
basin. It is to the west ancinorth of Karaguve that
the lake receives its greatest terrestrial supply of
water, through the medium of the Kitangule River,
which, in draining the aforesaid Luero-10-Urigi,
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it isnot so; as no one has yet taken the trouble to
place kilometers on its various branches, by which
we might know the perennial amount of water
arained away by each every year, and from want of
which, it appears to me—who have seen them all
in their dry season, the best time for judging their

various degrees of magnitude—great misconcep-
tions have taken place. To these branches, then,
more particularly, I wish to draw attention. No-
ticing only that the Nile—the White River, as it is
called—in its south bearings, carries the palm with
it in all instances, and its branching throughout
has been so often described, especially to the junc-
tion of the Blue River. The first great effluent,
which indeed is the only one worthy of remark on
the left of the Nile, is the Bar el Ghazal. It joins

on with the appearance of a diminutive lake at the

sharp elbow of the Nile, without any visible stream

of its own, whilst the great river winds round with
considerable velocity, carrying, as I have said, the

palm with it. The second affluent in order of posi-
tion, which, with all the others, is on the right of
the Nile is the Geraffee River swirling with consi-
derable stream and graceful round into the parent
Nile< Its magnitude and general appearance is
like that of a first-class canal, inferior to the Kil-

angWe river, although not so much as equal in
quality of fluid one-third of the Nile at its point of
junction. It is navigable to a great distance south,
but where it comes from nobody knows. It cannot
be called a mountain river, as we found it full of
rosets floating on its surface as in the Nile, evi-
dently showing that both the trunk and the branch
are subjugated to the same effects of sluggish flats
and rapids. Indeed, its character suggests the pos-
sibility of its emanating in the Victoria Nyanza,
although it most surely is fed to a considerable ex •
tent by minor branches from the Great Eastern
mountain chain. The third is the Southern Sobat
River, which was full and navigable—in breadth it
is greater than the Geraffee River, but less in
rapidity, so that we may infer their perennial con-
tents are much the same. Unfortunately the
Northern Sobat was passed without our knowledge,
which, also being navigable, would make the
Upper Sobat, that is to say the Sobat above the
Delta, of far greater magnitude than the Geraffee,
unless, indeed, the three streams may be one river
still further south, when, in its combination the
comparison would have to be drawn with the Nile
above, it would be very nearly equal ; for the Nile,
with these additions, has scarcely doubled its im-
portance, considered as it was seen from above
entering the Bakr el Ghazal. The Blue River was
long assumed to be the Nile only because the peren-
_

nial powers were never tested. It appears it is
a mountain stream, emanating in the country

without the rainy zone, but subject to the in

fluence of tropical rains and droughts, at one time
full, and empty at another, so shallow as to be
fordable. The suspicion, therefore, that it was the

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marvellously fine, and he could not have b?lievc(r.-_:-
1 that there was anything like it in the hpait , Or%, _k
Africa. (Hear, hear.) Capt. Grant andtinplept. f. 5
received at the hand of the King every possitriee4'4- ._.:'
sideration, who, when he first heard of our'inSenqzi

tion to go northward, was, however, much oppoSe.47-
and endeavoured to dissuade us by every argu-

ment in his power. The King was a most intelli-
gent and inquiring man. His Majesty asked ques-
tions about the geography of the world, and espe-

cially about the north, and was astonished to hear
of the land surrounded by water. He asked about
the stars and sun, and what became of the old suns
and moons. (Laughter.) His anxious desire was

to obtain knowledge upon every topic which came

under his notice. The King had heard of the ex-
traordinary power of the white people, and wished
to know from us whether it was not so great that,

if we chose, we could blow up Africa. (174lughter.)
Scarcely a day passed while in this kingdom
without going to pay a visit to the King ;
and many strange stories were told which he could
not now remember. This amiable King gave bim
much valuable information, including all that

Nile must of itself appear absurd, for its waters,
during the droughty seasons, would be absorbed
long before they reached the sea. But

apart from this feature of the amount of
the Blue River, the Nile runs like a sluice in its

wonted course, whilst the Blue River, conjoining
with the Geraffee and Sobat, describes a graceful

about the system of lakes and rivers draining

sweep. The Alhara, which is the last, is in all re-
spects like the Blue, only smaller. With one more
remark I will conclude. In the height of the dry
season in the White River, the Blue is freely navi-
gated, owing to the great accessions of the Geraffee
and Sobat Rivers ; but below the Blue and Alhara
rivers to the sea the sandbanks obstruct further pas-

nto the Nile, and others rising in the Mountains

of the Moon and in Uganda. Indeed, from
this information he was enabled to send home a map

very nearly as good as that which he had since been
able to prepare after his journey to the Nyanza.
We went out shooting together, and sometimes his

sons accompanied him, and they always acted in the
most courteous, and, he would say, gentlemanly
manner. If he shot a rhinoceros they would come
up and congratulate him on his success, shaking►
him by the hand. When about to resume his jour-

ney the King sent an officer to the King of Uganda,

expressing his wish to visit the country, and pray-
ing his brother potentate to afford every facility in

his power. But he still did not wish him to pass
to the northward. His conduct in this respect

sage. There is one thing that I have left unstated,
and that is the fact that on my return the first Eng-
lishman I met was Mr. Baker, with whose name you
are already acquainted,who camnup'for the purpose
of helping us out of a scrape if we had got into one.
Mr. Baker hearing that there was one branch of the
river that I had not explored, went on for the pur-
pose of searching for it; and I trust that before an-
other year is cut we shall see him back to tell us all
about it. (Cheers.) Another remarkable event
was, that three ladies came up to meet me, bat one
having been taken ill, Miss Tinney and her mother
went up the river to satisfy their desire for geogra-
phical knowledge. I endeavoured to persuade them
to return, and subsequently wrote them a letter en-
treating them to give up their journey, with what
result remains to be shown. (Loud cheers.) If the
remaining branch is not explored by these parties
why I shall have to do the work myself. (Cheers.)
Capt. GRANT, who was most cordially received,
said he could not resist the temptation of accom•
panying his brother Indian officer in his search, He
considered that the important discovery that had
been made was entirely owing to the skill, courage,
and cordiality of Captain Speke.
The PRESIDENT said it would doubtless be of

seemed very strange, and was the only thing, in
fact, that was not agreeable during his stay in this
part of the country. The gallant speaker referred
to the illness which had overtaken his fellow-travel-
ler, Capt. Grant, at this stage of the journey, and
proceeded to give some interesting accounts of his
visit to and reception by another sable monarch in

interest to the meeting if Capt. Spoke would give

them some anecdotes of his adventures, and would
describe the character of some of the equatorial
kings. The whole particulars of the journey would
shortly be laid before the public, in a forthcoming
work, which he had no doubt would be eagerly
read.

,he territory adjoining. Here he was surprised at

the neatness and tidiness of the people, the manner
in which they deported themselves, and the style of
the native dress, which, he said, would not disgrace
a fashionable promenade in London. These people
of Uganda were a most superior set. The King had
prepared a grand reception for him. On arriving
at the place indicated he found the palace filled
with men and women; cattle were being led about
the approaches to the palace; there were bands of
musicians, and a great display of public rejoicing.
When he reached the front of the palace the King
had not arrived, and he was requested to sit upon
the ground and wait the King's leisure, for his Ma-
jesty was dressing. This, however, he declined to
do, and walked back to his camp. The reason he did
not sit down upon the ground was that he was
anxious to assert a high position, and to obtain influ-
ence among the people which might be useful to him
in his future travels. When the King arrived and
found that the Englishman had gone, he sent an offi-
cer to summon him back, and when he returned he
explained to the King that he did not like to sit
upon the ground, and that it was little better than.
au insult to ask him to do so. In Uganda no one had
ever sat upon a chair or stool in the presence of the
King, but he was allowed to sit upon a stool, so that
he was the first person who had ever enjoyed the
honour of thus sitting in the presence of the ruler
of that nation. (Cheers.) The King was seated on a
throne of brass, beautifully dressed, and carried his
shield and spear, and bis warriors round him were
also armed with spears. The officers squtted around
the King, and with these a general conversation
was kept up. Wearied with sitting so long in the
sun, he (Captain Speke) put up his umbrella, to the
intense wonder of the court and its sovereign. At
last the courtiers and warriors left, and while in full
stare at him, the King said, "Have you seen me P"
He replied that he had had that pleasure, and leek-
ing at his watch, found that he had enjoyed that
gratification for exactly half an hour, and hoped his
Majesty was quite well. (Laughter.) The King then
went into the palace, to which he also had the
honour of being invited. When he arrived there he
found, to his great surprise, that the King was sit-
ting, not with men, as he had been just before, but
in the midst of his wives—at least 200 or 300 in

number. (Laughter.) Here again the same gazing
at each other ensued, and, at the end of about half
an hour the King again inquired if he (Capt Speke)
had seen him ? (Laughter.) In addition to this the
King asked him where he had come from, and said
he should like very much to see him again. He re-
plied that he should be happy to be favoured with
the opportunity of visiting his Majesty, and added
that, as was always the custom with him on ap.
proaching men of rank, he had brought with him,
and begged his Majesty's acceptance of, some small
presents. The King said, "Let me see them." The
first of the presents shown him was a ;evolver pistol.
This the King took up and played with in the most
ridiculous manner, for he had no idea of its use. At
the end of our interview ho said, "It is now getting
dark; would you like some liquor? what will you
take?"—(alaugh)—and said that he would send some
thing to-morrow. He appointed the following day
for a second visit, but subsequently said, "Oh no,
that day won't do, because I am going to show all
these pretty things that you have given me to my
mother the Queen Dowager and all my officers."
The following day was accordingly fixed. He visited
the King not only upon that but span almost every
other day during his stay. The King took a great
fancy to shooting, and several shooting parties were
arranged, the King having practised beforehand by
shooting the cows in his yard. The shooting parties
pleased the King amazingly ; they were accompa-
nied by bands of musicians—and very good bands
too they were—by officers, and by many of his
wives. The arrangement of the procession was a
somewhat difficult affair, and it was arranged that
the Englishman should go before the King. To this,
however, he (Capt. Speke) objected, on the ground
that he never went before royalty. The King was
in some difficulty, becan-e, by placing him after
him, he would be between his Majesty and his
wives. (A laugh.) The point, however, was con-
ceded, and he found that the best place in the pro-
cession, for the women were as amiable as amiable
could be. (A laugh.) Whenever any vulture or
other bird flew up the King shouted out, "Now,
shoot that," and he was kept firing as fast as he
could, and each time that a bird was knocked over
the King and his officers and his ladies clapped their
hands, and shouted and danced in the most extraor-
dinary and ridiculous manner. The speaker next
referred to his visit to Murchison Creek, a beautiful
piece of water on the north side of the Lake Nyanza,
ionneeolfi the most
and
loveli7 spots which he had met 'with
which he had named after tho
man who had been the first to take him in hand in
the matter of the expedition. (Cheers.) At this
spot he found as many as 50 boats, all well made
and well manned. It was his wish to go northward
and make his way thence for the Lake, following
the whole course of the Nile. Everybody, was, how-
ever, opposed to this plan, and the Queen Mother,
who was greatly attathed to him,
and was a very
Way—(a good sort of creature in her
great festivities that were to ctohmee
laugh)—
sought to dissuade him on
coro-
nation of her son—for
tas off groundon the of ra
elect. Some very yet he was but the prince
wives, there isgsa.l
eriouslhings take place at
the coronation of
so many As eachh sovereignf h
and on the accession of argenum
all
rhois children,as
and sisters killed a new king brothers.
are off, with the exception of
two, who are kindly reserved against any contin-
gency that may happen. (A laugh.) The king
was willing to allow hint to proceed north watt], for
he said the "Eoglishmen live in the north. end it
is froal the north that Africa must be opt-fled up."
Starting on his journey, Captain Speke told the
meeting how he was opposed by the native:3 of
Usoca, h9w boats filled with armed men threat,ned
to impede their progress, and how a complete
victory was gained by the discharge of ore or two
rifles, the t-ff, et of which spread the utmost euncter.
nut ion among the wail,' warrior=. The lalenEsn of
the hour prevented the gallant captain front dr- tt if-
log. any more of the interesting incidents of his
journey, and he resumed his seat amid much cheer-
ing.
Sir RODERICK MURCHISON, With a few appro-
priate words, placed in the hands of Captains
Speke and Grant a gol:. medal which the King of
Italy had forwarded to the Geographical Society,
with a request that it should be presented to the
suecesstul explorers of the source of the Nile.

Captain SPEKE, on presenting himself for the
second time to the meeting, was again heartily
cheered.. In compliance with the suggestion of the
president he proceeded to give some of the more in-
teresting details connected with his journey. These
statements he prefaced by a few general remarks
respecting the physical geography, the flora and
fauna, and the natural history of the vast African
continent. In a very clear and lucid manner he de-
scribed a few of the interesting events in his jour-
ney from Zanzibar through Uzaroma, Usagara,
Ucoco, M'Gunda, Unyamwezi, and Uzinza. Those
portions of his narrative in which the greatest inte-
rest was displayed were those which referred to the
negro: territories bordering close upon the great
lake which had been so successfully tracked as the
source of the Nile. Describing his adventures in
Ugunda, ho said—There was great difficulty in get-
ting persons to accompany him. Of two men who
had travelled with them some time, one expressed
himself willing to go, and the other was jealous at
his companion having anything like superiority
over him. All these men have their feelings of
pride ; they have their own standing and rank just
as we have among ourselves. At last he decided
to take Barakko with him, because he had hitherto
found him a faithful and reliable servant; but after
a short distance only had been got over, he found to
his great surprise that the native would accompany
him no farther, and he was compelled to return to
Sorombo, which is a part of the kingdom of Uzinza.
There was no resource left but to reorganise the ex-
pedition, but this was no easy matter. The Arabs
in this part had a great dislike to him, and were
suspicious of his real intentions ; but at last he suc-
ceeded in finding one black man who expressed his
willingness to aid him in his journey. The natives
of these parts are tall and gaunt, and lire certainly
very superior to the common ne gro. The travellers
were looked upon by the natives in this part as
magicians. It happened while he was there that
the King of Uganda had received some offieerk,
who bad come on a mission from a neighbouring
king to solicit the ha ud of his daughter for their
master.
These pleniptentiaries told the king
that
their master was ono of the mightiest of all the
kings on earth, and if the prayer were not granted
a dire and terrible vengeance would he take. The
King of Uganda did more for the exploring party
than any other king in the country. His influence
was so great that it did not, in fact, leave them
until they got to the Lake Nyanza itself. After
leaving this kingdom Captains Speko and Grant
came to the more delightful Mountains of the Moon,
within the territory of the King of Nuanda. One
of these hills he estimated to be at least 10,000 feet
high, judging from the immense altitude which
they appeared to be at the great distance where he
saw them towering in the clouds above everything
else. The country was indeed a land of pleasure. He
had come through a land of persecution, and now
; heartily appreciated the change. The country was

The compliment was acknowledged in a few
words, and the thanks of the meeting, proposed by
Sir Roderick Murchison, brought the proceedings
to a close,