The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-17

of the House of Bonaparte, whether it will
once again rule the destinies of France, On
whether it will sink into oblivion, this saying
of the young Pretender will live. 1t was in
the circumstances wise utterance, and in the
future it is quite as likely to be remembered
as the Bridge of Lodi or the Star of Austerlits
or the Baptism of Fire. "Viue EnpircF"
would have been dangerous saying "Vive
Ia France" was happy and to the point. II
may yet be remembered in the interest of the
Prince but for the present it is an admission
on the part of the Bonapartes themselves that
the Empire as well as the Emperor is dead.
News from DR.. ivingstono-With STAN
ley's Supplies He Is on Again to Solve
the Mile Mystery.
We have the gratifying information by cable
that yesterday at London advices to the 30th
Of November were received from Zanzibar,
which state that letters have been received
there from Unyanyembe announcing that the
which was sent forward from the coast by Mr..
Stanley, had reached the intrepid traveller.
and that on the 18th of August he had again
set out for the interior of Africa-his great
object being the solution of the still unsolved
problem of the sources of the mighty Nile.
We hope that the outfit thus secured will
enable DIR. Livingstone to finish his appointed
work. From Unyanyembe he will have hun
dreds OF miles to travel westward to reach the
point where from sheer exhaustion he was COM
PEELED to suspend his explorations and hobbls
back to Ujiji But, after reaching that point
again, he will have only hundred miles or SO
to traverse, in order to determine whether his
immense system of interior lakes and rivers
south of the Equator, the general drainage of
which, SO far as explored, flows northward, are
discharged into the Nile OF the Congo. Spoke.
Grant and Baker, in their discoveries of the
two great equatorial lakes, the Victoria and
Albert Nyanza, were certain that they had
reached in these magnificent lakes the foun-
tain-heads of the great river of Egypt Spoke
and Grant were right in their conclusion re-
garding the Victoria Lake; for they explored
the south end of it, and found there dividing
ridge or water shed, from which on the one
side the drainage was into this lake. and that
on the other side the waters flowed southwest
into Lake Tanganyika On the east there
FORE the Victoria Lake is the fountain-head of
the Nile. The Albert Lake, on the west side of
Victoria, may also be the head of the Nile for
that basin; for the opinion which had existed
that probably the Tanganyika had its outlet in
the Albert Lake was set at rest by Livingstone
and Stanley in their famous boating excursion
from Ujiji to the northern end of Tanganyika.
where, instead of finding river flowing out,
they found strong river flowing into, the
lake. The drainage of this lake, it was thus
settled, goes down to the Indian Ocean.
But beyond the western highlands of the
Tanganyika and some hundreds of miles to
the southwest of the southern end of the
Albert Lake, lies that vast basin of interior
lakes and rivers discovered by Livingstone,
and which he believes to be the head basin of
the Nile. If SO, his Lualaba River and its
combinations, with their chain of lakes, be-
come the main stream of the Nile, and the
united outlet of the Victoria and Albert lakes
is reduced to a mere tributary of the wonder
full river Of Egypt. Furthermore, if Living
stone is correct in his conclusions, his dis
coveries will add some seven or eight hundred
miles to the length Of the Nile and great
Empire to its drainage in one of the best
watered and most fertile regions of Central
Africa. Livingstone thinks the drainage oil
this basin goes into the Bahr-el-Gazal, river
which comes into the Nile from the southwest
some eight hundred miles below, or north of
the Albert and Victoria lakes. But here lies
the controversy, and this is the question
which, with his fresh supplies from Stanley,
Livingstone has set out to solve.
Meantime additional interest is given to this
exploration from the expeditions in this direc-
ton sent out by the enlightened and progress
sive viceroy of Egypt. First of these expedi-
lions is that of Sir Samuel Baker, who with a
force of five thousand men and hundreds of
camels, and with sloops, portable boats, &C.,
some two years ago was sent up the river to
annex its whole valley to Egypt. 1t was re-
ported and feared lately at Cairo that near the
equatorial lakes Baker, from his diminished
forces and exhausted supplies, was in great
danger of being cut of. Hence o second ex-
petition of five thousand men from the Vice
roy, which, detailed by way of the Red Sea
and Zanzibar, goes for the relief of Baker.
From Zanzibar it will doubtless take the route
Of Stanley, across the land to Ujiji and thence
strike northwardly around the west side of the
Albert Lake in search Of Baker. At the same
time it is conjectured that the viceroy has an
eye to the annexation of these new discoveries
of Livingstone should it be found that they
belong to the Nile Valley; though England,
should it come to this will have word to say
on the subject.