The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-01-27
FOREIGN SUMMARY

| Additional letters from DIR. Livingstone, the
African explorer, are published in the Cape
I papers In one to Governor Sir George GREY.
he speaks of the obstacles in his way. remarking
that if he could travel as geographers do. with
pair OF eompasses, he might have been at his
place OF destination long ago. The engine of his
steam vessel consumes an enormous quantity
OF fuel, and when they have no Goals, half their
time is spent in wood-cutting. This, however,
led to their discovering lignumvite with ebony,
| teak, and African oak The river is deeper
! than anticipated, and with vessels of light
draught might be navigated for the greater por-
/ ton OF the year. With plentiful use of qui-
nine, the expedition has been kept free from sick
/ ness, and with care III going up the Tete, sick.
ness may be warded off, and beyond is the
/ healthy country. The Cape Town Ayqus saws
that Capt. Redingfeld, of the Royal navy, who
} accompanied the expedition as surveyor, has
{ resigned.
/ The Canadian authorities, it is now under.
! stood, will not demand Deputy Marshal Tyler
| for trial in their courts. The Windsor Herald
says: In this instance the vessel and the men
were all Americans and the murdered were i'm
mediately transferred to an American port,
where the victim died, and the homicide gave
himself up to Justice"
house of our late Minister to Mexico. and which
caused no little excitement in the Mexican
capital, Mr.. Forsyth has authorized the Mobile
! Register to say that he assumes and avows the
| whole responsibility connected with the secre-
ton OF the treasure in question that he is pre-
pared to defend and justify the act that he will
make public all the facts and circumstances of
the case as soon as it can be done with safety
to the parties in Mexico, who would be exposed
to peril in the civil war now raging in that
country by their publication at this time; and
that he is entirely confident his course in con-
nexion with the affair will meet the full sane
ton and approval OF ms countrymen as well as
OF his Government.
CUBA AND THE PRESIDENTS MEssAGE.-It
appears from late Cuban journals, that protests
against President Buchanan's proposed pur-
chose of Cuba have been sent to the Queen of
Spain from twenty-one cities and towns of the
island besides the bishop and eccesiastics of
Havana; the governor and ecclesiastics of San
tiago de Cuba; the ladies of Havana, Matan-
zas, and Bejucal the University of Havana
the economical societies of Havana and Santi.
ago; the battalions and squadrons of volunteers
OF Havana, and the army of Cuba the Bank
OF Spain OF Havana professors in the prepare
tory and special schools of Havana the col
leges of lawyers and notaries of the same city,
and tribunal of commerce of Matanzas.
The CUBAN NEys.-The Havana papers call
attention to the false reports of news of revolu-
tionary movements in Cuba, which are trans
mitted over the United States by telegraph from
New York and New Orleans. The last silly re-.
port, that the Captain General has been offered
bride OF fifteen millions of dollars to allow the
island to be revolutonized, comes from the acts
of crazy man or fool, who signed his name
as n. S. Reneau, "brigadier general" and
claimed Memphis, Tenn, as his place of resi-
dence.
Lord Elgin, the British Minister in China,
has projected an expedition up the Yangtse
river, in China, which promises many interest
ing results. With squadron of steam corvettes
and gunboats, six in number, and with the con-
sent of the Chinese authorities, he is going as
far as Hangehow, the principal commercial en-
porium on the river, Ave hundred miles from its
mouth, and more than three hundred miles
above Nankin, hitherto the utmost limit of =" out
side barbarian navigation. The New York
Post says /" The Yangtse is called the Misqis-
sppi of China, but as it drains about q third
of China, the population Qp its banks must be
| eight or ten times as much as that on the Mis-
sissippL'