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8 LIVINGSTONE AND Continued Comments of the Eng- lish and Scotch Press. . LIVINGSTONE AND PTOLEMY. The Continental Newspapers on the Herald African Expedition. French, German, Russian and Bel- gian Opinions. The following is the expression of journals not yet quoted from regarding the success of Mr. Stanley, the HERALD African explorer, 1 his search for Dr. Livingston: {From the Manchester Courier, August 8.) The despatches which we published in our im- bare yesterday must be, and will be with in- nite satisfaction by the public, accepted as conclu- sive evidence on the great Livingstone-Stanley uestion. Stanley has discovered Livingstone, and ere is every reason to believe that Livingstone is on the high way to the discovery of the sources of the historical Nile. Let us hasten to offer our hearty congratulations to the gallant and plucky correspondent of the New YORK HERALD, who suc- ceeded where our own search expedition so signaily fatled, and who succeeded because he set about his enterprise in & manner exactly the reverse of that in which the pioneers of the Royal Geographical Society were allowed to do. It was, Periars, natural that the good news which Mr. itanley brought with him should be received or re- garded at tirst with caution, and even, as regards some Of its details, with sentiments closely border- ing on scepticism. Was it not too good to be true? If the great explorer were really alive, had sur- vived all the trials and dangers, tne perils by land, the perils by water and chiefly the perils to which || he was perpetually exposed at the hands of a pop- ulation whose cowardice it seems can only be equalled by their treachery, should we not nave had tidings of him before? Was it conceivable that our earliest direct and authentic intelligence of his exploits and his whereabouts should be conveyed to us, not by a compatriot of Lavingstone’s, not by an Englishinan, not bya Scotchman, but by an American of the Americans? it certainly would neither have been conceivable nor possible if our government had not displayed fn the matter all the unlovely features and the ped- dling parsimony of a petty tradesman—had not shown itself unable or airaid to award the slightest mMeed of practical recognition or assistance to an energy and a heroism which are unsurpassed in the annals of chivairy itself. Via prima salutis Quod minime reris Graid pandetur ab urbe; and Dr. Livingstone, we may be quite sure, was as much surprised when he knew that the first white man who had rendered him solace or help was a citizen of the States, as ever the Trojan chief could have been when he learned from the lips of the Cuma’an Sibyl that it was aGreek city which ‘would first, in the ages yet to be, come to his rescue As the good news was startling in itself, so did the language in which it was conveyed come with a certain sense of novelty and even ring strangeness to our feelings. ir, Stanley's tters: have from the first had the true sensational ring of the Transatlantic newspaper correspond- ent—a ring not unsuccessfully reproduced by our distinguished radical and ministerial contempo- rary, Which was first in the great race of metro- titan journalism, whose goal and prize was the terviewing of Mr. Stanley at Marseilles, But the odd thing has been that the literary style of Mr. Stanley was the literary style of Dr. Livingstone— a style about as opposite to the customary tone of the Doctor's composition as a leading article in the Daily Telegraph is to an essay of Bacon. Even in these indisputable authentic despatches to the For- eign Office there is noticeable a boisterous hilarity at times which {ll-harmonizes with what we know or remember of Livingstone’s character. They are indeed “tamener” itself, as an American editor would estimate tameness when compared with the letters to the New YORK HERALD, but they still abound in passages which are conceived in a precisely similar spirit and often couched in lan- guage which would have commanded the approval of Mr. James Gordon Bennett himself or even of his late lamented father, Without eles | into the literary influences which protracted residence amid the savage tribes of Central Africa are likely to exercise, or ‘the exhilarating effects of Mr. Stanley's society as they may be reasonably expected to be dis- played in the composition of letters addressed to a jew York newspaper or to the Foreign Office itself, let us endeavor to form an_ approximately accurate idea of the work which Livingstone has accomplished and of the work which there yet remains tor him todo. And here we may remark that the public are at this moment in possession of all the particulars of Livingstone’s progress which they are likely for a long while to have—till, in- deed, Livingstone reappears among us in the flesh, or another investigator as indefatigable and as successful as Mr. Stanley goes in gue of him. ‘There are, itis true, certain despatches from the Doctor to be read at the forthcoming meeting of the British Association at Brighton. These may give additional details full of a scientific significance and an esoteric interest. But they can do nothing more. We know in the words of Livingstone him- sell all that can be either interesting, or, we might add, intelligible, to the general public. This infor- mation was first conveyed to usin the letters of Mr. Stanley and in the communications of Dr. Livingstone as sees appeared in the New York HERALD, and is for the second time, in a somewhat more staid and sober form, given us in the despatches of Livingstone to the Foreign Omice. We shall not here repeat the tale of the supreme and continuous dangers as narrated by the great explorer himself, to which be has been exposed during the six long years that have elapsed since England, Europe and Civilization lost sight of him— his miraculous hair-breadth escapes, the frequent attempts on his life, his perpetually recurring de- sertion by the native slaves, who, as the Doctor bit- terly complains himself, were sent to assist and res- cue him, instead of the free men whom he really wanted, his wearying sicknesses, and his other countiess, innumerable trials. Any one of these singly would have been enough to deter and dia- courage a spirit less intrepid and devoted than Liv- ingstone’s. That he should have triumphed over them collectively constitutes a feat of which not merely England and Scotiand, but humanity itself, may well be proud. The despatches whieh we published yesterday conta the intel- ligence or the’ hint of two grand discov- eries of overwheiming interest and impor- tance to geographical science. In the first place Dr. Livingstone bas contributed to our knowledge of the map of Africa by ascertaining that this mys- terious and gigantic continent, of which Pliny wrote that it was “always Live | something new,” is watered by a third “line of drainage,” of Whose existence no geographer had previously dreamed—a line compo: alternately of huge lakes and Stately Streams stretching far to the west of Lake anyika. In the second place, Dr. Livingstone, if he is not yet actually able to Jay his finger on the first fountains of the Nile— to say certainly where they are—is atleast able to Say Where they are not. lie has conclusively dis- proved the conjectures and surmises of those who have preceded him, and he ison the high road to conclusively and practicaliy, we see no reason to doubt, proving the theory Which he was advancing with confidence of the origin of the mystical river of the Pharaohs, It is somewhat strange—nay, doves it not almost read as the veritable irony o history’—that Livingstone, irom actual and prof longed experience of the places themselves, should- vile exactly where it was fixed ago by Ptolemy—the bases of the mountains moon. “This, writes Living- Stone, “is unquestionably where the springs ot the Nile do arise, and this is just what Ptolemy put down, and is true geograpliy.” As yet, that is to say in March last, Livingstone has traced what he Mrmly believes to be and what, doubtless, is the nascent stream Within 180 miles of the spot where it assumes its historical name and character. The task which now awaits him is to complete the links in this chain of investigation. Humauly speaking we believe he is certain to do this; and the chances are that when we next hear of Livingstone he will have arrived, following the Nile course into Egypt, and Will have joined \orees with Sir Samuel Baker, STANLEY, | sezotbruxinenne ‘ both its Loe yoy feel somewhat anxious that Mr. Stanley, the discov- of Dr. ne, should not take leave of e cing in ample measure ity and roval. Mr, Stanley's achievement is unquestionably a marked reproach upon our own ente! 7 especially upon the Mtthty of the Royal phical Society, but this is no reason for slighting it, or for ignoring his claims to our commendation, He has accomplished Agreat thing, and certain itis, that had he gone from this country, in place of America, there would have been no necessity to point out what manner of welcome should be given him. It is almost certain that Mr. Stanley will come to Liverpool, if only to take ship going home. We are shortly to have the Japanese Ambassadors among, us, to Whom our commercial community will have pleasure in giving every requisite attention, and in avery short time afterwards, as we authoritatively announced some weeks ago, and again on Satur- day, we shall have to prepare for receiving His Majesty the King of the Belgians. But with both these ‘engagements in view it is still possible surely, for us to aiford the time and means to do honor to Mr. Stanley, That gentleman’s claim, as we take it, is a very urgent one and any honor that Liverpool can do him will 1 ot be disregarded by the country or by our friends across the Atlantic. A ublic banquet to the returned traveller in St. eorge’s Hall will not only be a fitting “God speed” to bi on his departure from England, but an interesting, gratifying event for our town and port. There are many who Will hope that this suggestion may be acted upon. {From the London (August 4) Correspondent of the Scotsmat Thad intended to see Mr. Stanley yesterday; but as he had to attend to an invitation to breakfast in the morning and an invitation to dinner in the evening, I did not succeed in catching sight of him. To-day 1 called at an early hour at the house of a mutual friend, and there I was fortunate enough to mect Mr. Stanley, But even now I had not fully secured him, for before many minutes he rushed out On some business, telling me he would be glad tosee me an hour or two further on in the day. About twelve o'clock I was able for the first ume to get a few minutes of quiet conversation in a room in the Langham Hotel. Even here, however, we were not left undisturbed for many minutes. First, there were several American acquaintances of Mr. Stanley in the hotel, and then the boy Koluiu called for some attention on the part of Mr. Stanley. The nousekeeper had’ presented the lad with a pair of stockings, but he did not relish the ift, and {t was only by the intervention of Mr. Stanley that he.could be induced to don those habiliments, Mr. Stanley began his career of adventure atean early age. “When he was but a lad, eighteen or nineteen years of age, he entered the Northern army asa volunteer, In 1865 he was still following the colors; but he had by this time exchanged the gun for the pen, and in place of being a soldier was a speclal correspondent. A few years more and he was in Asia Minor. Thence he passed into Syria, Persia and India. You know already how he went along with the Abyssiman expedition, and how he distinguished himself by sending the news of the taking of Magdala to New York before any English We forbear to expauiate upon the enormous gains | to geograpical science—nay, to every science of which mau has heard—the magnificent triumph of | human effort and energy which the fact of those two discoveries contrivy It simply comes to this:—We shail not merely have to draw out the map of Africa anew, but we shall be able jor the frst time in, the history of man to draw tt out in anything like its integrity at all. Our readers wiil have already perused with profound interest the accounts of the other discoveries of Livingstone which we printed yesterday—his revelations of the abominable slave trade of Central Africa and the cannibalistic tribes, In the present state of en- gineering science the construction of a ratiway over the heart of the African desert is not merely not an impossible but a probable contin- gency. Two seas may thus be united, two conti- | nents joined. Should the next generation ever witness this result it will be entirely due to the Jabors of Livingstone, The imagination recoils dizzy from the etjort to look down the interminable vista which will then be opened up for human en- terprise, commerce and industry. Africa will yet be civilized. Anthropophagy will become a thing of the past. The slave trade will cease to exist. For each and aji of these things posterity and the world will be in debt to Livingstone; but Living- stone, successfully to guarantee his great search, must have “State help,” That is the immediate moral which it is the duty of the government and the nation to take to heart. (From the Liverpool Albion, August §.] Whoever admires courageous, geierous resolu. tion, whoever can appreciate accumulations to the stock of human knowledge, and whoever desires to see the extension of international courtesies, must correspondent had sent it to London. Mr, Stanley has also been through the Caucasus and Southern Russia and through Egypt. His travels have been equally extensive in Europe. He ran the bDleckade in Crete at the time of the insurrec- tion, and he was in Spain ot the September revolution and described for the H#RaLD both the event and the conflicts between the diifer- ent parties in Spain which arose shortly after. Your readers will remember that when first Mr. Stanley set out for Ujijl his passage was opposed by Mirambo, King of Ujowa, Of this monarch Mr. Stanley speaks in very admiring terms, He is, he says, a man of undoubted abilities, and has organ- ized his kingdom with great skill. He is now about forty years of age, and is still in the prime of his energy, physical and mental. Dr. Livingstone and Mr, Stanley, as has already been stated, spent twenty-eight days exploring Lake Tanganyika. These days appear to have been the pleasantest of Mr. Stanley’s journey. All day long the Doctor and he, sitting at one end of the boat, watched the course of the waters, so as to solve the great problem of “influent or emuent.” In the evening came the time of rest. They then pitched their tents, and, lying down under this, they chatted of all things under the sun, Dr. Livingstone, Mr. Stan- ley says, is one of the most agreeable of com- | sectthpaet A and chatty, unless when greatly latigued. He at the same time always preserves & certain gravity and dignity of air that impress you with the real elevation of the man’s character. Mr. Stanley is, as one might naturally expect, somewhat reticent on the subject of the English Expedition. This is a question on which he thinks he has no right to express an opmion. At the same time, as the expedition seems to have met a good deal of adverse criticism, he feels at liberty to si one thing regarding it. The eventuality of his find- ing Livingstone does not appear to have been taken into complete consideration by the Geogra- phical Society, and the instructions to the expedi- tion on this point were probably very vague. When, therefore, the unexpected news came that Dr, Livingstone had been really found by Mr. Stan- ley, the expedition toynd itself in face of an unfore- seen contingency, and their conclusion that their task was finished was not wholly unnatural. THE CONTINENTAL PRESS ON THE LIVING- STONE EXPEDITION. We present below the opinions of the European press outside of Great Britain upon the HERALD- Livingstone expedition. For several dass after the publication of the first letters from Dr. Livingstone to the HERALD the leading journals of France, Ger- many, Belgium, Russia and Italy contented them- selves with reproducing from the London dailies the text of these communications, introducing them to their readers in that peculiar manner which in the United States is known as “being on the fence.” Soon, however, scandal became rife; ‘the letters were not genuine ;” “they contained no new information, or were made up from books of travel.”” ‘These and a thousand other suggestions were made in the different countries by the savans, to doubt whom would be considered worse than treason. First in order came the Berlin geographer Kiepert, wlio sent a letter to the Allgemeine Zeitung filling half a page of that journal, in which, as ff by sudden and apparantly infallible inspiration, he predicted the whole affair would turn out a huge hoax. Stan- ley’s letters, to his mind, bore their own confatatio1 as for the geographical data contained in them the were not worth the paper they were written on, _ Herr Kiepert was determined to be first to exhibit his rare knowledge of the geography of Central Af- rica. Unfortunately, like the wiseacre Plantamour, he was slightly in advance of his age. Scarcely had this remarkable “epistolary confusion” of Kiepert’s been reprinted throughout Germany and at St. Petersburg than Earl Granville’s letter was given to the world, affirming undoubtedly, upon the authority of the experts of the Foreign Office well acquainted with Dr. Livingstone’s handwriting, the genuineness of the letters brought by Stanley to the British government. This communication was not copied in several of the German papers fora very good reason. It upset the splendid theory of Kiepert, so brilliantly elaborated a few days pre- viously. While Germany was endeavoring to clear herself of the blunder made by the Berlin savant, France had awakened to a sense of the importance of the question, The Geographical Society of Paris called a special meeting. M. de Vienne, French Consul at Zanzibar, was called in to give his version ofthe affair and, if possible, assist them in arriv- ing at a just conclusion amidst all the clamor and doubt and uncertainty that appeared to exist. This functionary did give interesting details, as we shall presently show. The result of this meet- ing appeared the following day in the Journal des Débats in the form of a long letter from M. Cortambert, secretary to the old royalist associa- tion, denying the genuineness of the whole affair. M. Cortambert, however, was soon undeceived. In the same number of the paper in which ap- peared his letter were the commun tions from Dr. Livingston's son and the British Foreign Office, headed by @ paragraph “That all doubts concerning the authenticity of the letters were dissipated.” From this time the tone of the en- tire press has changed. Italy and Spain have added their testimony, and Switzerland has also accorded warm congratulations to the originator and leader of the great work. The following extracts will speak for the other countries :— The Journal des Débats, of the 4th instant, after having translated the letters of Dr. Livingstone to the HERaLp, wished its readers clearly to under- stand there was a doubt abroad concerning the truthfulness of these reports of which it would not | have them ignorant. Prudhomme-like, tt would feign believe them false for the sake of the re- spected savans, whose judgments, according to a certain scientific code in France, are infalhbte, while it is apparent from its own language that a conviction of the genuineness and authenticity of the communication were established, It says:— The publication of the two letters from Dr. Livingstone, of which our readers have seen a full translation in our recent editions, has produced, as might be expected, a great excitement, not only in the world of science and progress, but also among those who are interested from @ purely romantic and — anecdotical point of view In the adventures of a man isolated jor seven years in the midst of savage people, and of a kind that could not fail to give rise to the most serious apprehensions, Unfortunately there ts a fear abroad that these are but coups de thédtre which have found thedr way into print, transmitted by Mr. Stanley to the New York » and telegraphed at great expense by the proprietor of that paper to te London Rournals. Some Kai serious tioubte have been from the first as to the authenticit, of these letters, and it 1s our duty to the public not to ignore them. This journal goes on to the extent of a column editorially to discuss the question from a peculiar standpoint, and asks, with great earnestness, how it is that Livingstone could find time to write long missives to the editor of a journal and yet not find time to write a few words to his family and the Royal Geographical Society, who had taken such an interest in his work. The writer of tnis remarkable article could not forego the opportunity of striking a blow at American journalism and puffism as he proceeded; that tne lette:s did not read like Livingstone; that they gave no precise information upon which sclence might act immedt- ately, and that they evinced no more knowl- edge of the country then could be written ss ® man acquainted with the current works of travel published concerning those regions. “They are such, in @ word, that they woul tend to show that Livingstone was occupying himself very little with the grand interests for which he had undertaken his iourney, or as having undergone in his faculties a certain alternation which it would be sad to see confirmed,” continued the writer in a melancholy strain. The Googe pion Society ot Pee he further states, was gréatly exercised concerning the question, telegram had been received the previous day from one of its most honored members at Versailles, M. Edouard Charton, which conveyed “very great doubts on the veracity of Mr. Stanley.” While the Parisian geopraphers were discussing the despatch from Charton, M, de Vienne, French Consul to Zanzibar, entered the saloon, who was immediately Invited by M. d’Avezac to relate all he knew of the Stanley expedition, the preparations for which he had witnessed at Zanzibar in 1870-'71. M. de Vienne gave the details of these preparations, which “were full of interest.” But he imagined he discoyered traces of American eccentricity in Mr. Stanley in rejusing all their counsel and acting in his own be- half, is, at least, proves that there was an ex- pedition and that Stanley organized it. “But,’? continued M, de Vienne—probably as a balm to the troubied minds of is hearers—“contrary to the custom of the country, where they have little pity for the negroes, and where they disturb them- selves but little as to their comfort, but where they do not beat them, Mr. Stanley added to his want of care corporal chastisement, which these negroes were unable to put up with. It could only result in the expedition of Mr. Stanley being puerile, and upset by the rebellion of the blacks; and this will explain the fact that it took him nearly five months to reach Kazeh, a feat easily performed by caravans in three months. As to the meeting with Dr. Livingstone at Ujijl, there was nothing impossible in that, according to M. de Vienne.” ‘This witness of the French Geo- iapbice Society confirmed, then, that not only had there been an expedition organized, started and its arrival at Kazeh to his own knowledge, but there was nothing impossible in the meeting with Livingstone. We shall arrive at something more important resently from the columns of this ci devant leading Journal of Frattce, After reciting the story of M. de Vienne, the writer continued, it was not so mucn upon the reality of the journey of Mr. Stanley that the discussion was carried on as upon the sincerity oft the document he has brought, But an eminent writer of Paris, on August 3, explained that Dr. Livingstone “had for the present reserved the scien- tufle results he had acquired, which, he feared, ex- osed science to the fear, in case of the octor’s death in those far-off regions, would be Soa lost.” This is trimming with a ven- eance. But, again, “the antagonism between Dr. kirk and Dr, Livingstone, so clearly set forth in the letters, appears to confound with the antagonism, as stated by M.de Vienne, of Stanley and Kirk, which is one of the causes which should be regarded as nearer the truth. Dr. Livingstone’s son has taken up Dr. Kirk’s defence; but Mr. Stanley hav- ing maintained his accusations, 1» will be necessary poe before pronouncing upon them, until the proofs have been carefully examined, Meanwhile, that which adds a certain force to this argument of the identity of the passions of Mr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley ts the identity of the generous senti- ments, of the special knowledge and the language, the admiration for America, citations from Ameri- can authors, &c., which question was reasonably raised by the London Sta‘ a) and which induced them to hold to tne oid ideal of what Dr. Living- stone was until they were compelled to adopt the new. “This,” again the writer trims, “appears to us the wisest course. We have not the right to be as af- firmative us M. Kiepert, the correspondent of the Allgemeine Zeitung; it is suMicient for us to commu- nicate the news to those who wish and are able to form an opinion of the douots which are raised in the presence of a fact which may henceforth be ranked among the most interesting of travels.” Here follows a column and a half of extracts from the remarkable communication of M. Kiepert to the Aligemeine Zeitung, which, however satisfactory they may have been to the savant and his friends at the time, can now only the more surely exhibit his folly and partial knowledge. Following these extracts is a letter from M. Rich- ard Cortambert, a secre! of the Geographical Society of Paris, filling half acolumn. The line of comment is of that kind evinced ia the editorial above quoted, and the communication, with tire in- ference that if the news from Livingstone is true, yet discredited, Stanley has but himself to blame for it in adopting a romantic style in giving it to the world, But presto! The mist is suddenly cleared away; the dark clouds of doubt give way to ready cre- dence, and carping journulists and geographical critics and savans vanish like thin air, to use a common phrase, In a postrcript of the same num- ber of the Débats, and immediately following their words of wisdom aud Prudhommism, ocgurs the following:— “P.S,—The Times (of London) arrived this even- ing, bringing us the text of a letter from Lord Granville, the same as had been mentioned by telegraph (see despatches), and another letter from Doctor Livingstone, which to us appears of that nature to dissipate allthe doubts which have been raised upon the authenticity of Mr. Stanley's communications."’ After such an admission the editor reprints the letters from Earl Granville, Lord Enfleld and Tom S. Livingstone, and thus in one edition repudiates and acknowledges the work of the HERALD’s ex- plorer. The Independence Beige of the same date says :— Our geographers are not quite in accord concern- ing the discoveries of Doctor Livingstone, as indi- cated In his letter to the NEW YORK HERALD. Sev- eral among these savans believe that these are the sources of the Congo and not those of the Nile that the illustrious traveller has discovered in this great lateau of Central Atrica which he has been the rst to traverse, All the details of this question ‘will be discussed by the British Assoctation for the advancement of science, which will meet in Brighton in a few days. Mr. Stantey and young Livingstone are to attend this meeting. Severe criticisms are directed against the expedition sent from England to discover and carry reliet to Dr. Livingstone. In effect it 1s diMcult to comprehend why fhe leader of that expedition, Mr. Dawson, has not sought to join Dr. Livingstone siice the return of Mr. Stanley to Zanzibar. His mission consisted not in merely finding the Doctor, but to carry provisions to him and assist- ance of all kinds. Now, this assistance has been confided to the Arabs, who will psec disappear with them as their compatriots lave done in every such case for the tast four or five years. If Dr. Livingstone should return to England safe and sound, probably we shall never ag in hear of the futility of Dawson's Expedition; but if, unhappily, it should be otherwise, a great part of the responsi- bility would fall on those who did not attempt to succeed with thelr enterprise. What can more readily show their abstension in relief than the enetey, and courage of the correspondent of the ‘w York HERALD? We await with great impa- nce the ovations which he so richly merits, of which the welcome received from his compatriots in Paris has already given him a foretaste. ‘The same journal on the following day says :— The letters which have been received from Dr. Livingstone by his friends are filled for the most art with accusations directed against Dr. Kirk, the English Consul at Zanzibar. Dr, Livingstone ae- cuses him of having betrayed him, of hawing con- fided the provisions which were to have been sent to him to insecure hands, and of having neglected the most ordimary elementary precautions in order to assure himself of the honesty of the people he em- ployed to enter into communication with him. The despatches sent by the Doctor to the British Foreign Office contain the same accusations, They will there doubtless be examined with care. The pub- lic and the London journals defer discussing these facts until they know the defe: of Dr. Kirk. Mr. Stanley neverthelers supports warmlythe complaints of Dr. Livingsto He himself accuses Dr. Kirk of being the cause of the asco of the other expedition sent in search of the Doctor, pretending that Liv- ingstone would b ous if other Europeans should arrive in order to share the merits of his ex- ploits. Whatever it imay be, the failure of the ex- pedition led by Lieutenant Dawson greatly requires explanation. It was richly provided with funds, and has done nothing—absowtely nothing. In this case also théy will abstain from judging Dawson until he returns, but he has left Zanzibaron an American vessel en route for New York, and will = return to England before the month of septem- re La Liberté disposes of the question of authen- ticity in an ewsy manner, simply repeating that Miss Livingstone had the Doctor's diary fh Ireland, and that, unless in ie of the traveller's death, the results of his travels would not be published. Ze Constitutionnel considers the matter settled and publishes the correspondence between Earl Granville and Mr, Stanley, and has not the least reason to doubt that the journal, &c., brought home were from Dr. Livingstone, La Patrte (Geneva), July 31, says:— Mr. Stanley left Aden, on the Ked Sea, in com- pany with the son of Dr. Livingstone, with whom he arrived at Marseille * * * He brings, among other important things, the diary of the Doctor, containing his exploits since 1866; all the correspondence for his family, his friends, also for the British government. The most important of this correspondence has been forwarded to his daughter. The diary, this precious document, 18 enclosed, sealed and bears both the signature of Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley, with an endorse- ment prohibiting the opening of the packet. This packet has been carried by one of the Doctor's do- mestics, a little pure-blooded negro of ten years of age. * * © We have already given, in a pre- ceding number, the details of the menting of Mr. Stanley with Dr. Li , from which the ublication of the circumstances in the is an amplified repro- ly remains now add says that, on arri before the that Mr, Stanley town of Ujiji, he had no doubt that mission wouki there terminate. The truth concerning the Dr. Li by Mr. le the fact o1 casioned by the negligence of he Consul at Zanzibar. Mr. Stanley attributes great apathy to this functionary, and in the support of assertion he recounts the following remarkable fact:—In nine months the representative of the New York HERALD in London, by the courtesy and assistance of Mr. Webb, the American Consul at Zanzibar, forwarded eleven packages of letters addressed to Stanley. All these letters reached him at Ujiji, where he also received a telegram which had been only four months coming from the coust. For three years Dr. Livingstone had not received a letter from Zanzibar. 1t is possible that the British Consul may be able to give satisfactory explanations as to this but ap) ces are not in his favor. This fact easily exp) ing the con- dition in which Dr. Livingstone was found, Le Figaro, August 7, again refers to the expedi- tion editorially. It says:— A letter from Ear! Granville to Mr. Stanley and an attestation from the son of Dr. Livingstone appear to give definite proof of the accuracy of the American journalist ; notwithstanding, we find in the Journal des Débats a letter from Mr. Richard Cortambert, which throws the most grave doubts upon the au- thenticity of the letters from Livingstone commu- nicated by Mr. Stanley. Mr. Cortambert writes in the name of the Geographical Society of Paris, of which he is Secretary. How shall we reconcile such contradictory assertions? ‘They may suppose that Mr. Stanley, in order to create a great effect, has written imaginary letters for Livingstone, but there are evidences that he really met him at Ujiji. The Journal des Débats of the 7th instant quietly observes :— Yesterday the family of Dr. Livingstone, resid- ing at Hamilton, received letters from Dr. Living- stone, but their contents are not known, owing to his personal desire that they should be considered as confidential. There were thirteen letters in all. They have no doubt as to their authenticity, LOpinion Nationale of August 7, while publish- ing the whole of the correspondence, wishes to say a word relative to the various statements floating about in reference thereto. It says:— We have published the first part of the second letter from Dr. Livingstone. We reproduce to-day the last of this document; but we ought to warn our readers that grave suspicions have been raised as to the authenticity of these ietters, At Paris, as at London and Berlin, they can recognize neither stone the style nor the manner of the illustrious traveller, They profess to find, besides, some formal contra- dictions with the opinions and some facts pre- viously explained by Dr. Livingstone. But, on the other hand, Dr. Livingstone’s son has received from Mr. Stanley the diary that his father has written up day by day, with instructions to him by the Doctor, bearing his signature, and he declares that these documents are not open to the least suspicion. Earl Granville himself has written a letter to Mr. Stanley, in which he could not even admit the doubts which had been raised relative to the genuineness of the letters from Dr. Livingstone, Such is the state of things at present. An official Russian organ, the Journal de St. Petersbourg, says :—'‘We all know with what satis- faction the whole civilized world received the news that Mr. Stanley, correspondent of the New York HERALD, had not only gone in search of and found traces of Dr. Livingstone, but that he had actuaily found the great explorer himself, with whom he has had an interview at Ujiji. However, as soon as the first sentiment of joy has passed we find men commence to raise doubts concerning the asser- tions of Stanley.”” From the extracts from Kiepert’s communication which follows it is certain the writer had no doubt existing in his mind. The Wiener Abend Post, in translating Dr. Living- stone’s second letter, comments in high terms on the courage of Stanley and on the enterprise of the puppets of the HeRaLp in sending the expedition the way he did. Tne Neue Preussische Zeitung also gives the second letter from Jivingstone, and quotes its authority for the matter as though suddenly awakening to a true sense of the importance of the question. ‘The Neue Freie Presse appears to halt between two opinions, While it avails itself of the news from Africa it gives no indication that it either be- lieves or discredits it, and, on the principle that “yon pays your money and have a right to choose,” leaves the discussion to fis readers. The Press will awaken when it receives Kiepert’s letter. The Weser Zettung publishes the Livingstone cor- respondence, and in introducing the subject to its readers, generously credits the HERALD for supply- ing the injormation. Reiterating a few of the frets, it concludes by culogizing “the proprietor of at well known journal in sending such an expedi- tion, and congratulates him on its success.”” The Hamburgische Bvrsen-Hale, despite its dozens of columns of figures representing the finan- cial centres ofthe whole of Europe, makes room for Livingstone’s letters to the Hera.p, and, unlike @ certain contemporary at Berlin, does not agree with M. Kieper, and marvels how such a statement as his could be furnished on receipt of the first news from Africa. The Hamburgtscher Correspondent takes the same course as the BUrsen-Halle, and while presenting the HERALD-Livingstone correspondence to the public of the “free city,’ does not deign to recog- nize the wordy effort of the Berlin wiseacre, who, it claims, should have waited until he was certain of his subject. LIVINGSTONE TO HIS BROTHER, A LETTER FROM UJIJI TO CANADA. How Mourning Suits Are “Cept on Hand in the Family. TORONTO, Canada, August 19, 1872. The following is Dr. Livingstone’s letter to his ‘brother, John Livingstone, residing at Listowell, Ontario, Canada. It bore on the envelope, ‘This leaves Unyanyembe, March 14, 1872" :— Usrst, Nov. 16, 1871. My Dear Brorner—I received your welcome letter in February last, written when tne cable news made you put off your sults of mourning. This was the first intimation I had that a cable had been successfully laid in the deep Atlantic. Very few letters have reached me for years, in consequence of my friends speculating where I should come out—on the west coast, down the Nile, orgisewhere, e watershed isa broad upland between 4,000 and 5,000 feet above the sea and some seventy miles long. The springs of the Nile that rise thereon are almost innumerable. It would take the best part ofa man’s lifetime to count them. One part—sixty-four miles of latitude—gave thirty-two springs from calf to waist deep, or one spring for every two miles. A birdseye view of them would be like the vegetation of frost on the window panes. To ascertain that all of these foun- tains united with four great rivers in the upper part of the Nile valley was a work of time and Touch travel. Many a weary foot I trod ere light dawned on the ancient problem, If had left at the end of two years, for which my bare expenses was paid, I could have thrown very little more light on the country than the Portuguese, who, in their three slavery visits to Cazembe, asked for ivory and slaves and heard of nothing else. I asked about the waters; questioned and cross-questioned till | was really ashamed, and almost afraid of being set down as afflicted with hydrocephalus, 1 went forward, backwaras and sideways, feeling « my way, and every step of the way I was generally groping in the dark, for whocared where the rivers ran? Of these four rivers into which the springs of the Nile cotiverge the central one, called Lualaba, is the largest, It begins as the River Chambeze, which flows into the great Lake Bangweole. On leaving it its name is changed from Cham- beze to Luapula, and that enters Lake Moero, Coming out of it the name Lua- laba is assumed, and it flows into a third lake, Kamolondo, which receives one of the four large drains mentioned ab It then flows on and makes two enormous bh js to the west, which made me often fear that I was following the Congo instead of the Nile. It is from one to three miles broad, and can never be waded at any part or at any time of the year. Far down the’ valley it re- ceives another of the four large rivers above men- tioned, the Lockie or Lomani, which flows through what I have named Lake Lincoin, and then joins the central Lualaba, We have, then, only two lines of drainage in the lower part of the great valley—that ts, Tanganyika and Albert Lake, which are but one lake-river, or gay, if you want to be pedantic, lacustrine river, ‘These two form the eastern line. The Luaiaba, which { call Webb's Lualaba, is then the western line, nearly as de- picted by Ptolemy in the second century of or era, After; the Lomani enters the Lualaba the fourth great lake in the central line of drainage is found; but this I have not yet scen, nor yet the link between the eastern and western mains, At the top of Ptolemy's Loop the great central line goes down into large, reedy lakes, possibly those reported to Nero’s centurton, and these form the western or Petherick arm, which Speke and Grant and Baker tb lieved to be the river of Egypt. Neither can they be called the Nile until they unite. The lakes men- tioned in the central line of drainage are by no means small. Lake Bangewolo, at the lowest esti- mate, is 150 miles long and I tried to cross it and Measure its breadth exactly. The first stage was to an inhabited island, twenty-four miles; the second stage could be seen from its high- est point, or rather the tops of the trees upon it, evidently lifted up by mirage; the third stage, the main land, was said to be as far beyond; but iy! canoe men had stolen the canoe, and they got & hint that the real ewners were in pursuit and yt into @ furry to return home. OB, that they would! but I had only my coverlet left to hire another craft, the make being four bundred feet the sea, it was very cold. So I gave in and went back, but I believe the breadth to be between sixty and seventy miles, Bangewolo, Moero and Kamolondo are looked on as one great riverine lake, and is one of Ptolemy's. The other is the Tanganyika, which I found steadily flowing to the north This ta pher’s decessors must have gleaned their ‘aphy from men who visited the very m. The reason why the genuine geography Was rejected was the extreme modesty of modern map makers. One idle perce, in London published @ pamphiet which, with Bay ROY ne entitied, “Inner Africalaid Open,” and in the pewapepers, even ini the mes, rails at any one who travels an dares to find the country diferent from that drawn in his twaddie. Iam a ree sinner in the poor fellow’s opinion, and the Times published his ravings even when I was most unwisely believed oie eae xouody. out Lord Brougham and I le Bay after we are ne. The work of trying to follow the central ine of oonaae down taken me away from mails or The Manyema are undoubtedly cannibals, but it was long before I could get conclusive evidence thereon, I was sorely let ana hin- dered by having half caste Moskm attendants, unmitigated cowards and false as their Pro- phe of whose cape they have only im- ibed the fulsome pride, They forced me back when almost in sight of the end of my exploratio1 a distance of between four hundred "and five hun dred miles, under a blazing vertical sun. 1 came here a mere ruckle of bones, terribly jaded in body and mind. The he: man of my worthless Moslems remained here, and, as he had done from the coast, ran riot with the goods sent to me, drunk for a month at @ time. He then divined on the Koran and found that I was dead sold off all the goods that remained for slaves and ivory for himself, and arrived to find myself destitute of everything ex- cept a few goods I left in case of need. Goods are the currency here, and I have to wait now till other goods and other men come from Zan- zibar. When placed in charge of my fas of soap, brandy, opium and gan ow der from certain Banians (British subjects) he was fourteen months returning, all expenses being paid out of my stocks; three months was ample, and then he remained here and sold off alk ‘ou call this smart, do you’ some do, if you don’t, I think it moral idiocy. Yours affectionately, DAVID LIVINGSTONE, BRAZIL. nee Imperialist Relations Toward the Argen-= tine Confedcration—The Danger of War Passing Away—Railroad Surveying— Project of a South American Pacific Line—Movements of the United States Squadron, . R10 JANEIRO, July 25, 1872. The cloud of war which a few weeks ago threat- ened to burst into storm upon Brazil and the Ar- gentine Confederation is dissipating, and there now seems a possibility of its entirely passing away; though, on the part of Brazil, the precautionary work of preparation is not entirely stopped, # in- deed it has at all lessened, THE BRAZILIAN ARGUMENT, The rectification of the boundaries of the Argen- tine Confederation is not, say the Brazilian Pow- ers, in accordance with the treaty by which Brazil, the Argentine Confederation and Uruguay became allied against the common enemy, Paraguay, and in accordance with which treaty these three con- tracting Powers promised that the re- sults of the Paraguayan war should be amicably arranged; and because the Argen- tine Confederation took umbrage at the course of Brazil and made herself a treaty with Paraguay, instead of in company with the three contracting Powers, and,as the treaty specified should be done, Brazil has felt national offence, and severe and plainly-worded notes have passed be- tween the two governments. It seemed for a while as if war was inevitable. . MITRE’S MISSION. Genera! Bartholemeu Mitre, ex-President of the Argentine Confederation and ex-Commandern- Chief of the Army of the Allies, has been commis- sigoen Uy his government as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary with full powers to settle the diMculty, and is now in this city. He has been officially recelved by the Brazilian authorities, and a@ peaceful solution now scems probable. SURVEYING ON THE PARANA, Mr. Charles Palmer, a Swedish engineer, with a staff of twelve or fifteen, Swedes, English and Ger- Mans, and assistants of different nationalities, to the number of more than a hundred, sailed from here yesterday for Paranagua Bay and the Parana River, where, dividing into four p@rties, they will commence a survey across the southern section of Brazil, by the northern line of beak den and thus to the Bolivian frontier, not to the Pacific. They are splendidly pro- vided with everything which can in any way be considered necessary, for after making the start they do not expect to communicate with the coast again until the survey is finished; and Mr. Palm expects the work lafd out will take him from twelve to fifteen months to accomplish. He has made this country and this work a study for a num- ber of ye: and is very enthusiastic over the matter and the results which he expects to attain. RAISING THE FUNDS, The work is not prosecuted under the auspices of any er or corporation, but Mr. Palm has himself raised the funds of English capitalists, and of the extensive bankers, Maua & Co., of this city, having convinced them that Brazil must have a Pacific Railroad, and that this must be the route. le also expects to make mineral developments which will amply repay the trouble of the expedi- tion and make handsome pecuniary returns. The Brazilian government has granted lim the privilege to do this and afforded him some assistance. THE UNITED STATES FLAG. The new commander of the United States South Atlantic squadron, Rear Admiral William Rogers Taylor, seems to have taken hold of the command with energy and a desire to make as effective as pogsible the small force at his command. The flag- ship Lancaster, now lying in this harbor, ts, I understand, in such an unsound condition, as to be deemed unseaworthy, and needing extensive repairs before she can move away from here. She is certainly the finest specimen of naval architec- ture in the harbor and her simple presence here is good service. The Ticonderoga sailed from here on the 22d of June for the northern ports of Brazil, and will be at Para on August 6, and return here about Sep- tember 5 or 6. The Wasp sailed on the 15th inst. from Montevi- deo, bearing the American Minister to Assuncion, where he makes a short tarry. First Assistant Engineer Wells, lately in charge of the Wasp, goes home in the mall steamer North America by virtue of ie a of his term of ser- vice here; and Gunner Stewart, of the Lancaster, also goes home by the steamer, having been con- demned by a medical board of survey. The very latest news reports the United States steamship Ticonderoga at Para, ail well. LAND SLIDE IN JERSEY CITY. rd Hey Two Hundred Feet of Montgomery Strect Swallowed Up—The Largest of the Ring Jobs—Who Is Responsible? Six months ago @ large portion of the Mont- gomery street extension in Jersey City disap- peared in the swamp in one night. A lengthy account of the matter, together with the cost of the extension up to that date—over six hunared thousand dollars—was published in the HERALD. ‘The work has steadily progressed ever since under the direct supervision of Mr. Startup, Bumsted’s suc- cessor in the Street Department. The huge cavity was filied up on an improved plas, but the entire extension through the swamp was slowly ‘‘sag- ging.” In one place the immense pile of masonry leaned inward, in others outward, till, in the steep- est part, it became an irregular curve. Yet the filling process went on till the level was attained aud hundreds of pedestrians @ally wended their way along it. 7 On Sunday afternoon, about three o’elock, several fissures along the surtace were observed to expand slowly, and those who observed them got out of the way rather hastily, Fifteen minutes afterward the wall on the nortli side, about forty feet high, sunk into the swamp, leaving not a vestige be- hind. The south wail followed, and as the mass of earth between settled down a chasm was formed from the very bridge easterly avout two hundred feet. The bridge itself, whiok cost fully $60,000, will probably soon follow. ‘ie south bat- tlement leaned over last evening, Warning passen- gers to take some other course. As was shown in the article referred to this igs Hct street job was the most costly which the Thieves’ Ring ever imposed on the taxpayers of Jersey City. It has cost already about three- quarters of a million of dollars, and it is likely to cost as much in addition before it 1s completed. A weighty responsibility rests on the engineer who devised the absurd scheme of erecting a vast pile be masonry Mi a Ra = ele the swamp. was simply § put ‘the Beople “ot Jersey Clty object to the payment of $1,500,000 for such experiments, 7 has been shown in the HERALD time and time again that under the Bameted charter the Engi- neering and apitg ey” Department has cost the city more than all the other departments together, excepting the Board of Education. Competent en- gineers have repeatedly offered to perform all the work required for $20,000 per annum, a sum just the one-tenth of the cost under the Ring rgime, ENGLISH ORIOKETERS IN CANADA. QuesKc, Canada, August 19, 1872. The English eleven gentlemen cricketers have arrived in this city, and will play in Montreal on Thursday and Friday, on Tuesday and Wednesday folowing in Ottawa. and in Toronto on Septem- ber LONG BRANCH. Personal Notes About the President—What Ha Says About His Re-Election—A Four-Mile Heat Race at Monmouth Park. LONG BRaNcH, August 19, 1872. The President drove this afternoon to the resid dence of ex-Senator Cattell, at Seabright, Peop!@ here seem to take little interest in his movements. Although he ig by nO means unpopular at tha Branch, yet his appearance attracts very little n: tice; nor does ne appear to crave the special att tions due to the Chief Magistrate of a great nation, At best not very imposing in pe: appearance, he looks to still greater disadvan: from the careless manner of his dress, The Presi dent.of the United States, I grieve to say, wears shockingly bad hat. Uncle Horace, with alt eccentricities, would not thus fing the gauntlet im the face of fashion. It would be @ good idea fon some enterprising Yankee to furnish the President with hats, and in return acquire the privilege of styling himself “Hatter to His Exeellency the President of the United States.” In England @ similar privilege is dearly prized by the British mind for the prestige which attaches to the fortunate individuals who supply royalty wit the different articles of dress. Why does not some enterprising American imitate this profitable ex- ample? It appears unseemly to criticise a man’s clothes, but general appearance has, after all, much! to do with personal popularity, It is within my, own knowledge that President Grant's shabby hat has lost him the vote of a fellow citizen of Africam lineage. The colored coachmnan of a high official staying at the, West Eid Hotel, who was but yester- day arabid Grant man, has abjured his political’ creed and become a Greeley man, simply because: he did not ke the appearance of the President. GRANT ON HIS RE-ELECTION, In conversation with one of his friends the Pre! dent lately expressed the opinion that he loohe: upon his re-election ascertain, Hesaid that he thought he would be elected more easily in Novem- ber next thanhe wasin 1868 and beat Greeley by a larger vote than he obtained over Seymour. To another friend he remarked that he pald little at | tention tothe campaign, that the election in No-) vember would go all right for him and that his friends gave him very favorable reports of the, progress of the contest. To judge from the fore- going the President is certainly sanguine of success- General Porter told me this afternoon that the President will probably remain about three weeks; longer at the Branch until the repairs which the: White House is now undergoing are fully com-, leted, He will, however, in the meantime attend wo or three Cabinet meetings iu Washington. THE DROWNING CASUALTIES whice occurred last Saturday are to be attributed) to the imprudence of the unfortunate girls, who ‘Went into the water when the strong ebb current prevailed, although they were warned of the dan- er, It is well Known that bathing is only safe luring the hours of food le, when, moreover, the necessary precautions are taken to prevent acoident, Fortunately such sad casualties are rare at the Branch. The body of the girl named Alice Tomany, who was drowned at eight. o’clock on Saturday evening, was found two hours afterwards in front of the Ocean Hotel, and for-' warded this evening in a rough wooden box to New York tor burial. The heat was quite qupreasiye in the morning,, but towards noon a sea breeze sprung up whic was truly refreshing. if A FOUR MILE HEAT RACE anda steeple chase handicap will take place at Monmouth Park on Thursday, the 29th inst. The gentlemen of this place are® looking forward! with much interest to this event, as i 1 @ long time since there has been a four mile heat race in this country, with the exception of the Bal- timore meeting last tall. The four mile purse will! be $2,500 and the steeple chase $1,000. ir. 8. Laird, proprietor of the Mansion House and ‘the United States Hotel, died to-day after a short ilines’, All the flags of the different hotels are at half mast in honor to his memory. THE HEAT YESTERDAY. The Sufferings of Poor Humanity—A, Thunder Shower— itrokes — High, Range of the Thermometer — The ‘Weather in Brooklyn. Yesterday the mercury in the thermometer?) ranged high steadily. A heavy thunder shower, passed over the lower part of the town shortly after’ noon, but it did not have the eifect of cooling the air, and the sun streamed down his scorching rays with a steadiness that was provoking. AT THE PARK HOSPITAL. The following victims of sunstroke were taken t® the Centre Street Hospital yesterday :— ' ‘Thomas Marve, ‘longshoreman, residing at Pirst, avenue and Twenty-fourth street, was resuscitated and discharged. John Lee, a commission merchant, living in Brooklyn, was found sunstruck in the street and taken to the hospital in an ambulance. ‘These last three were all doing well last night, and will doubtless recover. Cornelius Bromberger, @ laborer, forty-one years of age, died yesterday at 24 South Fifth avenue, from the effects of the intense heat. Coroner Kee~ nan was notified to hold an inquest on the body. An unknown woman, aged twenty-five, was Over~ come with heat in car No. 20 of Grand street line. Taken to Park Hospital. Ellen Dunnavat, aged thirty-five, no home, was found on pier 28 North River. Taken to Park’ Hos- pital. Aman named Murray, re thirty, living in East: Sixteenth street, while at work on pier 28 East River. Taken to Park Hospital. Freedon L. Lemen, steward on schooner Exer- tion, aged thirty-four, pier 28 North River. Taken to Park Hospital. Michael Donnelly, aged twenty-eight, residing at the corner of Broome and Elm streets. Taken to Park Hospital. OTHER CASES. John D. Curran, aged thirty-five, of 357 Madison. street, died sudaenly yesterday morning trom the heat. Coroner notified. George Knowlton, aged filty years, residing a Williamsburg, corner of Twenty-sixth street and! First avenue; taken to Bellevue Hospital. James Foley, forty, of Eighteenth stree' and First avenue, while at work plastering in new} building, 27 First avenue, was overcome with the heat and fell from the scaffold. Attended by a sur- geon and taken home, Grace McLaughlin, d twenty-five, cesiding in Hoboken, N. J., in West street, near Murray. At- tended by Dr, Hutchingson, and left for home. Joseph Branigan, 2 twenty-seven, of 24 Hu- bert street. Recovered and left for home. George Heeran, aged thirty-two, of 31 Willett street, corner of Water and Corlears street. At- tended and sent home. Henry Koehler, of 528 Ninth avenue, found insen< sible in the street last night. Attended by a police on and sent to Bellevue Hospital. lary McCarthy, aged thirty-nine, of 328 East Twenty-second street, was found dead in bed last evening, supposed to have been caused by heat. Coroner notified, EFFECTS OF THE HEAT IN BROOKLYN. The Coronor was summoned to hold an inquest on the body of Charles Wyborand, a German, thirty-two years of age, who was found deaa, it is supposed from the effects of the heat, at his residence, 1,062 Fulton avenue, on Sunday night, Mathew Rabitzkte, sixty yoars of age, residing at 125 Partition street, was sunstruck while at work ina se on Fourth avenue yesterday afternoon. He was carried to his house. es Stein, of 557 Court street, fell dead yes~ afternoon from the effects of the heat. Z, Giicrist, of 489 Baltic street, was overcome by the heat yesterday afternoon and died shortiy thereafter. John Gallagher, a boy eleven years old, residin, at 195 King street, was prostrated with the hea yesterday afternoon. Eugene Kennedy, a resident of New York, was rostrated by the heat yesterday afternoon at Bodenerg's Stores, at the foot of Richards street, South Brooklyn. Morris Mannas was overcome with the heat yes- terday afternoon while seated on a stoop in Siate street, He was taken to the hospital. The Thermometer. ‘The following record Will show the changes in thé temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- arison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Phar- macy, HERALD Butlding:. 1871, 1872. 1871, 1872. 3 A.M cid 78 88 3 % 4 82 OP. M. 12M 87 12 P. M. a = Average’ temperature for corresponding date, last year... soeveces TOG JEFFERSON MARKET POLICE COURT. The prisoners at Jefferson Market yesterday had a high old time waiting for a Judge to adjudicate on their respective offences. Judge Ledwith, being indisposed, could not attend, and sent own a a to his clerk to pro- another strate. It was not such an bee amfair, however, to find a Magis- trate, tl ay of those gentlemen being out of town, and it was near midday whem Alderman Vance came into Court and commenced business. The returns showed the usual number of Sunday liquorers and brawlers, with but a very few cases of even average importance. The Eight! precinct presented a motiey array of prisoners, 0 all colors, ages and sizes. numbering in all twentv- one.