, 1876-05-06

P"'S'NU'0t' tOCOtVtng 6u0 &C.
ceptlng $4,000, for the destruction of bic
yacht. No compensation 10, however.
mentioned to the relatives Of the young
lady who was drowned. The affair NAV
IS well rest, and indeed, as Mr.. Hevwood
Is conte Il, must rest; but it will leave an
unpleasant impression that if the alberta
had not been the Queens yacht. her own
ers would have been liable for all the
damages caused by the reckless speed at
which she was driven across the Solent.
Lieutenant Cameron, who performed
the great feat Of crossing Africa rom
Zanzibar to the Western Coast, which
ne reached only towards the end Of last
year. after a long disappearance In the
c'ntre OF africa, was entertained on Mon
lay Afternoon in the Liverpool Town Hall.
WIRE he gave some account OF his iour.
nay He Is very confident that the river
which drains Lake Tanganyika Is no other
than the Congo, though he had not bsen
a9le to trace 1t quite throughout its course /;
out MS most remarkable statement was
tIIs.-that the Congo and the Zambesi
co1 q oe Joined by q canal no. mora than
~ " M - IN length, so that in that
'lg,-5tring rapids, -water-communics.
non c." 1a established betwean the
East an Vest cOsst OF that wide oonti-
nent. he spoke, too, of the riches of the
interior as " unspeakably great" and
thought that the highlands Of the water.
courses OF BengueIa on this side of Tan
ganyika, would be o great centre of Arr.
can civilization. Clearly the time nav
come when the Nile, the Congo, and the
Lambesl will all be united by the artif.
cial connection of their head waters.
The cloud In the East does not dispsrae,
The official papers continue to assert tbat
the imperial Powers are in cordial agrees.
ment, but it would be more true IN saw
that Austria is watching Russia. and
Germany watching both. The insurrao.
ton rather spreads than decreases in
Bosnia and the Herzegovina, and Seryie
is ready to declare war if she can obtain
a little money. The Austrians threaten
that II she does they will occupy Bosnia.
and a silent struggle is evidently going on
IN st. Petersburg as to the course to be
pursued In that e%ventuaIity. The Car
aud the party roughly described as
" German wish to remain at peace, the
Car observing, it is said, chat if the
interests OF Russia require war, he will
abdlcate f.; while the Caesarevitch and the
Russian party think that the Southern
Slavs ought to be allowed to fight Turkey.
as their hereditary oppressor, unmolested.
1t was believed in Vienna on Wednesday
that the war party had won, and Russian
funds fell 6 per cent, but the alarm, was
probably premature. All accounts 70.
present the feeling in Servis &c most
violent, and it is not improved by the
savage civil war which has broken out
IN some parts of Bosnia between Christians
and Mohammedans.
The World asserts that q parcel of DIV.
Mantle robbed from a man in a Bayswater
omnibus by a thief, who mistook it for q
roll of silver, is knocking about London
somewhere, and may spring sudden des.
truction upon some of us, where or when wa
know not. Probably the thief, when he
discovered that it was not silver, would
have had no means Of recognising the sub.
stance asa highly explosive one, 10 that it
might be cast into a drain or into the Ere
without any suspicion of the consequences.
Really. the very complete incognito I'M
der which these world compelling forces
travel about our planet has something very