The New York Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1872, Page 3

— cease ata aaaaaaeacceceacncaaacaaccaaaaaa amma ‘very great ex, aeel THE STANLEY REUEPTION. Meeting of the American Geographical Seciety at the Cooper Institute Last Night---A « Large and Fashionable Attendance, MR. STANLEY UNABLE TO BE PRESENT. a) Interesting Speeches by Judge Daly, William 5. Stearns and Dr. Bellows—Letter from Dr. Liv- ingstone from the Country of the Cannibals— The Four Mysterious Fountains of the Nile—Mistakes and Foregone Conclu- sions of the Former Travellers in Ethiopia—Lincoln, Palmers- ton and Frere, the Three Great Anti-Slavery Champions. The American Geographical Society, with their Yriends, met last evening, in the crypt of the Cooper Institute, to give to Mr. H. M. Stanley a public reception on his return to this country, It ‘will be seen by Mr. Stanley’s letter, given below, that this reception was unavoidably postponed in wonsequence of the sudden sickness of the great explorer, When Juage Daly, who presided, made this announcement to the very large, intel- ligent and fashionable audience, that nearly filled the hall, there was # look of blank disappointments in every face, but the national reputation for good manners was thoroughly maintained. Deep as the regret must have been, there were no outward signs of an- moyance, and no one rose to leave. Judge Daly an- nounced that the exercises of the meeting would be continued, so that the disappointment that must naturally be felt by those who had attended ono inclement a night might be thereby some- what mitigated. The platform was covered by the members of the society, Among those present were Mr, John Livingstone (brother of Dr. Living- stone), Dr. Bellows, Peter Cooper, Prof. T. W. D ight, T, B. Myers, G. Cullum, N. M. Beckwith, F. “A Hout, Henry Gringely Bee. zohp Rosia, w. F ffearns “and Augustus “Schell, Immediately behind the chair was a large and well executed map of Africa, bordered with star-span- gied colored silk, and on the right of the speaker's desk was a terrestrial globe, There was present a very large representation of the fair sex, and the fadies at the close or the meeting were heard to declare their regret at not seeing Mr. Stanley in tones that were serene, but in speech that was tinged with a slight shade of severity, which indl- vated that their disappointment was not meekly borne. ADDRESS OF JUDGE DALY, Judge Daly said:— LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—I am sorry to begin the evening by announcing a ried eaekar ele and [ shall have to give it to you in the writer's words, It fs a letter just received this moment from Mr. Staniey, Firm Avenve Horst, Toxspay, Nov. 27, 1882. My Dear Sir—It is with the utmost reluctance that I have to inform you that, owing to sudden and severe ill- mess, consequent upon the fatigue attending meetings since my arrival, I am quite unable to have the honor ot meeting the members of the Geographical So- elety to-night Tiiced hantiy ay how deeply Tregret being unable to attend and how deeply sensible Iam of the honor your society has done me. the excessive strain of the last few days my physician has strolutely, insisted upon an interval of rest to-night, but I trust that your society will give me ee opugrraully of mequing them and their friends. Thave the honor to remain, oo een very truly, STANLEY, To Hon. ©. F. Darr, &c., &c. I know how arse the disappointment will be; but you will, no doubt, excuse it, when you know Mr, ‘Stanley suffered twenty-three attacks of the moeierial fever of Africa in expedition for the q@iscovery of Livingstone, and that he should be guédenly rendered unable by this attack of illness toe present with us this night isa matter which, I mink, you will excuse. e propose, therefore, ‘to-go on with the ordinary exercises of the meet- amg, that you may not be ciesppoiniee, havi come out on this inclemen: night. Ladies an L iapramnye it willin some degree compensate for e absence of Mr. Stanley when I inform you that 4m the course of the evening we wi intro- duce to you_ the respected brother of Dr. Livingstone, (Cheers.) His presence will in some degree compensate for the absence ofthe deliverer of the great traveller. The circumstance which we are met to-night to mark out appreciation of will hereafter be regarded as one of the most fomantic incidents of Feceranhiont discovery—I —— the sending out of an expedition to search for THE GREATEST OF ALL AFRICAN TRAVELLERS through the munificent liberality of a private in- dividual, and the success of it through the capacity and perseverance of the gentleman we hoped to welcome here to-night. During the the last quar- ter ofa century more has been done to explore and open up the great Continent of Africa than has occurred during the same period in the past history of the world. No ja ae has done 80 much in that great work as Dr. Living- stone, His explorations in 1849 on Lake Nagami and the country surrounding it; his discovery in 1861 of the stream flowing to the eastward, and which was afterwards found to be the Zambesi, and his following it up’by the still more important dis- covery of the ‘at network of water in the inte- rior plains of Central Africa flowing eastward and westward; his great journey northwest, I think, in 1854, to St. Paul's, on the western coast, until he came to the shores of the Indian Ocean; his ex- Plorations on the eastern coast, in 1858, and six years following; and, finally, the extent, interest and value of his explorations in the vicinity of the Equator constitute, in the aggregate of exploration and discovery, A MOST WONDERFUL MISTORY, and place him at the head of all African travellers. Beiore his time Central Africa wag a blank on the map, as it isso still south of the or, except in regard to those regions that he has brought to the knowledge of mankind and the world. We feel a deep interest in such a man after twenty years’ exploration of the great Continent. Alter six yea had transpired from the commencement of is last journey, and several years having elapsed without anything being heard from him, and doubts having been expressed as to whether he was living, it was greatly to the honor of Mr. James Gordon Bennett—(cheers)—who, single-handed and alone, had organized an expedition to search for him, to ascertain his fate and to rescue him if alive. (Cheers) How Dr. Living- stone himself appreciated that expedition, the act of Mr. Bennett and the services that ‘were rendered by Mr. Stanley in the execution of it, he has informed us by a letter written in Unyanyembe after Mr. Stanley’s return. It will be femembered, ladies and gentlemen, that Mr, Stan- fey, I think, parted with Dr. Livingstone on the 14th of March last, and in the succeeding July, four months afterwards, and while Mr. Stanley was in London Dr. Livingstone sent a letter trom Unyan- embe to his daughter, which was published im the London Times of the 23d of last month, the con- -Cluding portion of which I will take the liberty of reading. After telling her that he has entrusted tis journal to Mr, Stanley, he adds:—‘He has proved himself a good Samaritan to me ‘an my sore distress, and I felt, and I still feel, truly grateful. I have written two Aetzers to the New YorK HERALD. I meant to keep amoet of my matter for publication myself, but the nge which Mr, Bennett went to in nding Mr. Stunley induced me frankly to give Shimevhat would enable him to write a book. It Arill,in his hands do no harm, because the Ameri- eangyire good and generous friends,’ (Applause.) Wherr it is remembered, ladies and gentlemen, the pent at the traveller undergoes, the vaiue that e Er to his writings and the pecuniary bemefits teat follow their publication—I say when allghis is considered you will appreciate the mag- Qifieent lilwrality of this weroic traveller. I may ay, ladios a! f yp tag) in respect to his de- diverer, tat Mr. Stanley, had he lived in the middie ages, hie gulant exploit aud deliverance of a Christien-gentleman ia A PAGAN LAND would bave found their way intocome ballad, and he would re descended to posterity as one of the heroes of romance. In this age he meets the fate ef many travellers. He has come back with some- thing new and unprecedented to redate. I say un- edented because a large number of gentiemen jai made up their minds that Livingstone was dead, and it is. delicate thing to distuy"b the pride of those who had formed their.opinions,or deprive them of the vajuc ef their judgments, \ (Cheers.) EL might add that Mr. Stanley was not @ scientific man—he was not a geograplier, not a member of the.Geographical Society. Lassume this \because he told me he never heard of the Afierican Geographical Society until he heard of it in the wilds of Africa from Livingstone &imself. (Cheers.) After adverting to the fact tle! the researches @f Mr. Stanley in Abyssinia and Africa had confirmed the statements of Bruce and .%ther travellers, Judge Daly observed that it gave Him peed satisfaction to state that if the Roval eographical Society of London were anticipat\! fn the worthy work of ey | Dr. Livingstone b,* the greater promptitude of Mr. Bennett and the Marvelloys energy of Mr. Stanley, there would be no cause of exclusive triumph here or of complaint for Mr. Begnett was a member of their society, and the Royal Geographical Society ost in common With them rejoice that the Feroic oll traveller had been found, (Cheers.) # year before Mr, Stanley found Dr, Livingstone, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. whe ne was in his act of exploration, while ‘he was pursuing that great network of waters which he sui te have connection with thg sonrce of the Nile, and while he was reposing op the banks of one of those great rivers which he glone nas seen. of the nts of an old cheek book in hig ion he sat down and wrote a letter toa 8. Stearns, then a mer- cnant of Bombay, and his personal friend, givin; an account of bis explorations up to that requested Mr. St and he learns § to furnish the information to our society, and was pleased to that we had always honored him and that he attached value to our good opinion. In connection with which I may state that I believe the first let- or certainly one of the first, in re- jorations in Africa as ciety, and which its transactions, We have the pleasure to-night, as I have said before, of the presence of his brother, and the happy incident of also of Mr. Stearns, of Bombay, letter was addressed; the other a personal friend of the veller; and I have asked Mr. Stearns, for our gratifi- cation as well as for ar betore us this evening and read t! has been dong I will take occasion to call 1m an im- promptu manner upon twe or three of the gentle- men of the society igre to make up the evening by afew remarks in the absence of Mr. Stanley, hoping that you will be charitable under the cir- cumstances, and with that we will close the busai- ness of the e' . It affords eg ae pleasure, therefere, to mtroduce to you Mr. . Stearns. SPI OF WILLIAM 8. STEARNS. Mr. said:—Ladies and ntlemen—I have been juested to read to you this evening @ letter which lies before me and also to make a iew Temarks upon my connection and acquaintance with Dr. Livingstone, Ido not prepose to occu} ry your time with any lengthy remarks but armply. 10 state to you that in 1864Dr. Livingstone was as much @ myth to me as he is to you to-day. You have heard of him; some of you, perhaps, have seen him, ly of you never have seen him, and, perhaps, never will see him. But in 1864, the jatter part of it, I first pecame interested in him. In ~ 1865, in June of that year, Dr. Livingstone arrived in Bombay in the little steamer Nyarson, which had Lady in sections from England to as- sist in the ex] tion of the lakes of the interior of Africa. A: rforming this work the steamer was sent to Zanzibar for sale. It was afterwards thought advisable to bring the vessel to Bombay, and so it came about that on the 6th of June, 1865, the little steamer Lady Nyarson, scarcely ninety feetin length, sailed into Bombay harbor under the commandfand under the guidance of the en- gineer-in-chi Doctor Livingstone— (cheers). the only men on board being a carpenter, with a crew made up of several coolie boys. The same in- domitable ¢ and cour Ae had enabled him to explo) e. interor of Afric: ised. him, undér ah idence, over a wide waste of 500 miles. In 1865 I found myselfin the steamer Peomellies, and among those present of our fellow passengers was Dr. Livingstone. I made his aequain: ce nd formed a friendship which} shail never forget as long asi breathe = 4 tors wc THE BREATH OF 11 " that isin me. On our arrival in Bombay and dur- ing residence in Bombay I haa the pleasure of offering him @ place under my roof, He remained in Bombay about four moxths, and then, early in January in 1866, he started for Zanzibar and the mouth of the Ruanago River. I will not attempt any personal description of the Doctor, because I am glad to say that his duplicate (point- ing to Mr. John Livingstone, who occupied a seat by the side of the Chairman) is sitting here. .oud cheers.) Iam also glad to state for your in- formation and satisfaction that in a letter which was sent me early last year, that circumstances known only to myself and Dr. Livingstone were referred to, which stamped them as genuine and as beyond the faintest shadow of adoubt, There are a great many who ask this question. I have heard it many times. It has been put to me a great ry. and there are those here who have doubtless heard the same. What purpose is all this waste ? Why bury himself in this dark region of Africa? Why refuse to return again to the civilization he has left? It isthe same question of old—the question that was put in the days of the Saviour by Judas, We are living examples of what has been brought about by this so-called waste. question, almost geen eal, the same with this, was asked by the ancient Britons. Dr. Livingstone has done a great and noble work, a work in which he should haye every sympathy and every prayer that could be given him. He is opening up a coun- try not only to our knowledge, not only to you who are interested in geographical progress and geo- graphical discovery, but open also to Christian civilization. been sent ous THE TWO NATIONS, too, are goimg hand in hand with him tn a barning desire to ig the terrible traffic in slavery to an end. Many and many a time have I heard him, with burning lips and Mashing eyes, tell the story of the wrol htful cruelties which he had seen enacted under his eyes, and the destruction that had been brought about in that country by the connivance of the Portuguese authorities. By the same means village after village has been laid waste and thousands upon thousands of people destroyed. I ai glad to see that the English gov- ernment and that England has taken this matter vigorously in,hand, andihope that this land of freedom Will¢ sist in this great and neble work and in exterminating this last great vestige of ep compa Mr, Stearns then read the following le! ri New Yore, Sept. 23, 1872, Hon. Saanes P. Daty, President American Geographi- cal yim Drag Simi have much pleasure in handing following extracts trom a letter received, throug! M. Stanley, Hsq., the indomitable tof the HERALD, from Dr. Livingstone. The Doctor requested me to furnish you with such extracts as I may think proper to ive. Orne letter in question was written in Manyema country, in November, 1470. In_a late letter, dated Unyanyembe, March 13, 1872, he say “Phe eniclostire was penned long ago, among cannibals, where [had no paper. I give you an idea of matters there; but my own knowledge has been increasing, and perhaps the enclosed statements do not tally e: tly with what I have to say now, and much of which will be pub- lished in my despatches.” The following is the letter :— LETTER TO MR. STEARNS, Manrema Country, Cextrat arnt} November, 1870. My Dear Stearns—I have not ascrap of paper, and there are no stores to buy any within a round’ 1,000 miles, so T cut a leaf out of my Bombay check book to of- jer thanks for all your kind services and give you a little intormation about the work that has detained me so long. When I leftin 1 to examine the watershed of South Central Africa I thought that I could easily do that, though itinvolved the solution of the problem of the sources of the Nile, in about two yeat then begin a benevolent mission onthe slope’ back to the sea, This last is greatly needed, for our fine, promis mis- un by good Bishop Mackenzie, has dwindled » missionary Bishop of Central Africa, dawdling at Zanzibar, and taking a peep at his diocese on the main land, some forty miles off, with a telescope, then be- coming sick and going to the Scyschelles Islands to re- cover. He seems to act on Bungan’s (sic) principle “He that fights and runs away May live to fight anothe! He blames me for his dawaling, says he was connected with my expedition on the Zambesi, and when I leit he to tollow. It must be failure ‘of memory, for he never connected with me on the expedition in any tever. Make me the Bishop of Central Africa and ng the fear of death woyld Keep me out of my ‘ou the diocese. The watershed is in latitude 10 degrees 12 minutes south, Here stand “PTOLEMY'S MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON," of no great height, however, between 6,000 nnd 7,000 feet above the level of the sea, atid never clad with show, at least since the last glacial epoch. And here also the springs of the Nile do unquestionably arise. The length of the watershed from west to east 1s be- tween seven and eight hundred miles. The springs are innumerable, but all flow away to the north by three lines of drainage ; and these which we may call the head waters of the rivers of Egypt are lakes, with the currents and forms ot rivers. If not too pedant they are lacustrine vers. Tanganyika is one, and {rom twenty to thirty miles broad. I write on the banks of the central one, called Webb's Lualaba—at first eight or ten miles broad— and then holding a width of trom two to six miles, as far as itisknown. Tt was long ere I gained a clear idea of the drainage. I had to feel my way, aud every step of the way, and was generally GROPING IN THE DARK, for who cared where the rivers rant’ The Portuguese made two or three slaving visits to Cazembee, but they inquired for slaves and ivory alone, and heard of nothing else. Had lett at the end ot two years I could have told little more of this country of dense forests and running rills than they did. Linquired about the waters till [was ashamed, and almost feared that I should be set down as affiicted with hydrocephalus. Many a weary foot I trod cre light shone on the ancient problem. Had T known ali the hunger, hardships, toil and time involved [night have preferred a straight waistcoat to undertaking the task; but when [ had engaged to do it L could not bear the thought of being beat by difficulties, and I stuck to it with ‘BULLDOG TENACITY. Native wars were a great hindrince. Tilness and medi- cine lost caused serious delays; unsutiable, cowardly at- tendants an intolerable drag. ‘By mistaken kindness my liberated slayes were not toreed to work and carn as yout and T were. They had all been slaves and of the crimiant class in their own country, and feared nothing so much as being caught and made to work again. I look with great anxiety to your (reedmen, but they were never of the criminal class in America. [am reduced to inactivity by these worthies, some of whom became eager slave- hunters of their own countrymen when, from fear of guns, there was no danger to them. Tcould finish all that remains of the exploration in four or five months if Lhad men and @ canoe. It is the western drainage alone that detains me tor work. West of this there are two large rivers each called ‘ ‘Thes unite and torm a large lake, which I am tain to call LARE LINCOLN, in honor of him who, by passing the amendment to the United States constitution, gave treedom to 4,000, sla Looking south from this Lake Lincoin'we have a remarkable mound or hill on the watershed that gives out four tull-grown, gushing fountains, each of which #4 large, Fiver. | One fountain “on its is bre be enough. for, nob to on the other side, is the source of the Liambal, or Unper Zambesl, A smaller one on the samme side becomes Lucrize, and far down Katue, where it falls into the Zambesi. T wish to name the large fountain, the source of the Zambesi, after good Lord Palmerston, ‘oge on the northern side of the mound ater Sir Bartle Frere, Lincoln, Palmerston and Frere (in Seinde) have done more to abolish slavery and the slave trade than any of their contemporaries. Lincoln and Palmerston are po Jonger among us, but in using the names of these great.and g am tain to place, as it were, my Door idttle « love op their tombs, hose ren ble fountains, not ten Tiles apart, are probably’ the fountaine of ihe Nile menthaned to’ He- rouotus by the secretary of Minerva in the city of Sais, from whieh, he said, half the water flowed northward to Egypt and the ottier hail fo inner Ethiopia. 0 Mangeme country (scovered largely with forests, from whigh even the flerce vertical sun is all taut ex: cluded, No trader can come here, 6o the tusks have lain rotting with the other bones where the animals tell. Hordes, of haltcastes now collect thia ivory for a meré drife. The Mansema are reputed to be cannibals, and Nad T believed @ tenth of what was told by adjacent tres T might not have ventured among them: ‘ty mover never frightened me in infancy with “bogie,” &c.,:@ Tain not liable to nOoTK PHORTA, pod men T Jani of to which awful disease eyergthing horrible Is credited i¢ only iwonted to the owner ofa dark skin, Jt raged as an epidemic lately in Jamaica, and the methers of the Jamaica planters have much to answer. 8 #® The Geographical Soclety of New York has always hon- Sieg me: hsneed not “that 1 Walue their, approbation ly. ou ie im extracts trom. ps DAVID LIVINGSTONE. P. &.—It you give extracts to the Geographical Society of New Yor itfuny berg to add. that el a lithe re- gret In being in a manner compelled to speak dispar. agingly of the opinions of my predecessors. But the claim of discovering the sources of the Nile wax put, for- ward so positively, and withal so honestly, that some ex- Tanation is. neceiwary 1a similar claim. Poor peke’s great mistake was the pursult of ‘4 FOREGONE CONCLUSION, When he discovered Okara or Victoria Nyanza he at once leaped to the conclusion that therein lay the sources When he and Grant afterwards TAK SO-CALLED WHITE NILE, that comes out of it, would not account for the river of Exypt, but for devotion to the “foregone concluston’’ they would’have come West, here, into the trough of the Great Valley, and found this Lualaba, not ards broad, like thelr little white Nile, sand yards; and another, the united stream out of Lake Lincoln, ‘of equally gigantic Proportions. A DUTCH LADY REPLORER awakens m; sympathy more than Baker, who turned ‘when 700 miles short of the sources, or the second Egyp- tlan expedition that fell short of the same by # thousand miles. She proceeded with such wise foresight for both land and water exploration, and nobly persevered up the stream in her steamer in spite of the severest domestic affiiction—the loss of her two aunts by fever—and such indomitable pluck that, had she not been assured, honestly enough, nodoubt, by Speke and Grant, that they ieee ae in Okara the source she sought, she must inevitably, by boat or land, have REACHED THE HEAD WATERS, Tcannot conceive of her sopping short of Bangweolo Lake. We men say explanation was not ming her sex. Well, considering that more than sixteen hundred years have elapsed since the ancient travellers or traders came in here, and emperors, kings and philosophers all longed to know the fountains whence flowed the famous river, and longed in vain, explanation does not seem to have been yery becoming the other sex either. She came further up than the centuri: nothing more about her. Many and hearty thanks for your most kind services @bout the buffaloes. All came ‘afe to Zanzibar, but were entrusted to an ill-conditioned wretch of a Persian Arab, who literally killed them— drove reaching & Blood flow their nostrils, and the; Rengie . aie wished, Bong yds, to ave soseg hd ‘was pre }, and got mor grass an ‘water. It wasilike spending foney to buy the LIGHT OF HEAVEN breathe. But at Zanzibar they did not ‘ot no letters for years, save some three years old, at Uji}), in March, 1868, “Tdon’t know my affairs, if I have salary or not, assell was to give me £000 a year if I settled, and I don’t look like settling anywhere or anything but the sources of the Nile. The fapedition money refore not etait anxious eare Uae L strive to make & complete work of this exploration. ** * Imay say before I cigse that, had I known when Ww 4 ‘etter that i should kaye been called y 7 ad it before you this ovening Trhould have added a few words from another leitet brought me at the same time cnc Mr. Stanley. a ousand to eight in the air we know better. I have ind which eng cE iter ‘hic! lave been regding, ants anyembe, mafrcn 13, 1872, In ithe says:—This fetter will be handed you by Henry M. Stanley, Esq., travelling correspondent of the New YORK HERALD"’— (applause) —‘sent out by James Gerdon Bennett, jun. el 3) SE Seni ald your servant, and right nobly ne has fulfilled his task.” (Continued applause.) MR. LIVINGSTONE INTRODUCED. The CHAIRMAN said it now afforded him great pleasure to introduce to them Mr, John Living- stone, the brother of the great traveller, (Con- tinued applause.) SPEECH OF MR, LIVINGSTONE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—I am very sorry for the disappointment we have met with this evening in not having Mr. Stanley with us. A few minutes before I came here I saw him and he was quite indisposed and unable to come out; in fact, his medical attendants forbade him to come here to- night, but he hopes befere long to have the pleasure of meeting you all here, (Applause.) THE BANQUET. The CHAIRMAN said a number of the members of the society would give a banguet to Mr. stanley to-morrow (Wednesday), when they hoped he would be well enough to be present; but he could only say to those gentlemen who intended going to the banquet that they would proceed with It whether Mr. Stanley was there or not, as @ good dinner was not a thing to be abandoned. (Laughter.) AB it had been impossible to reach all the gentlemen of the eoclaty: in the limited time which they had had to make their arrangements in, if there was any gentleman of the society who desired to be present at the ban- quet and who had not been invited he could leave hig name with the secretary. The evening papers had an important despatch with respect to Dr. Livingstone, and being short he would read it. It was headed “Another Search for Dr. Livingstone,” and ran thus:— Loxpon, Noy. 26, 1872. A despatch from Cairo says the Khedive is about to send a force of 5,000 troops, under command of one ot the ‘American officers now serving in the Egyptian army, to aid Dr. Livingstone and search for thé source of the River Nile. He would now introduce Dr. Bellowes, who would make a few remarks, and then the meeting would adjourn, SPEECH BY DR. BELLOWS. Dr. BELLOWS, who was received with consider- able a) et said the only improvement which he could suggest to the chairman's remarks was that ry he oe) before listening to him, Still as they seemed determined that evening to Ree a remark which Timothy Titcomb had tely thrown before the public, that the Ameri- cans were the best-humored people in the world, he would like to take the opportunity of proving the truth of the observation by referring to the admirable attention which they had given on the occasion under such very exacting circumstances to a meeting made in honor of and to the honor of their absent guest, but which they had been kind enough to accept in so generous a spirit when those who had been there to present Mr, Stanley to them were prevented at the last moment from carrying out their desire. He thought the admirable equanimity which had prevailed evidenced the carefulness with which they had preconcealed the pain which was im their bosoms, and the patience with which they had listened to these addresses proved that they as Americans were the best- mannered people in the world. (Cheers.) He had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Stanley, like the other gentieman who had addressed them, and he as- sured them they did not know how much they had lost in not having had the chance of looking on the man who so recently stood face to face with Livingstone. They would see in him that resolution and that persisteney which had carried him through that critical trial; they would see in his face that Abyssinia and Africa had le{t their marks on himina very conspicuous mauner, and they would then have understood with what determina- tion and success he had carried out that-undertal ing. He fe pteeat in the American peo- ple that “hero warmth” to which they were sometimes disparaged by stupid people who did not like to see others who had done great things in this world recognized. He thought the enthusiasm which they were so willing to display on all such occasions, and for which they were sometimes re- proached in the old country ior receiving those whose works they had previously heard of, and that the ointment which they poured on their heads was creditable to the people, and it was better to be mistaken and OVERDO ADMIRATION and generosity towards strangers than it was with a coldness to be best | only what was to be done, and to take care they did not overpay them acent. (Applause.) , Great souls made great room fermen that were supposed to have great souls, and if little souls came in at the door it did not make the place less splendid or the heart that re- ceived them less noble. (Applause.) Now they all had @ natural curiosity to see Mr. Stanley—they desired to take hold of the hand that jast held that of the noble _ Livingstone, and they also wanted to honor the pluck that went after hiin and found him. It was not Airica that gave to Livingstone his importance; there was something better than the discovery of the source of the Nile, and that was the sense of devotion that Jay within his soul, Livingstone was greater than the source of the Nile, and what he had done to assist humanity was in itself worthy of all his efforts in all that he could do, But there was another thing, which was worth reflecting upon. Perhaps there was no other country in the world where any one but a body of savans, or men of sense, or men who had made special investigation into such matters, would have come together and heard so much about tie heart of Africa; but what was it in the American breast—that cosmopolitan nation, that nation made up of the kindred of every other nation and ofevery clime, that was made up by adoption from other countries—what was it that gave that breadth of sympathy to the American people? He rejoiced in the universality of the American people and in their desire to know what was going on wherever man was found. It was not of Asia nor Europe nor America; it was of the common soil of this common world, generally in- habited by the common image of God made out of the earth and blessed with His divine spirit, and man was heiddearer here than in any place oa the face of the world. Why was it that God kept that quarter of the world (Africa) shut up? He supposed it was for the same reason that Asia was so long shut up aiter it had once been opened; for the same reason that China and Corea were shut up. But these fol) would all have to be opened, and the gates of humanity and civilization could never be.closed until the vast world and all its inhabitants were able to be conned and under- stood by all those under the planets. Africa had still her great contribution to make to humanity; she was one of THOSE GRRAT COLONIES who were to be kept in reserve, probably, brought out at the last moment, like some general in reserve. It might be that Africa had contribu- tions in her bosom to make for the apy use of humanity ; perhaps had connected with her history characteristics which in the end might prove essen- tial to the one out of that impartial form of humanity which had been represented in the civilization of the world hitherto, And if there was a place in the world that cught to have an interest in Africa, a place which had been the bone and ainew of the principal wealth to another country, aud conceded at the same time the op- portunity of doing the principal wrong ever com- Initted against a most innocent set of conscripts, it was America, What were we going to do to show that we were not jorgetful of these two or three millions of people of whom we had had the nse, and whose lives Dad been the road to our wealth and to the wealth of this country? (Applause.) ‘That wan @ question which he lest them to consider, The meeting then separated. -readers of the NEW YORK HERALD, MR. STANLEY'S BOOK. Opinions of t! Soy jh Press—Criticism and Commendations—S: Mr. Stanley’s book is eliciting a good deal of attention in England, all the leading journals hav- ing articles upon his journey into Central Africa and its results. All the points bearing upon the expedition are thoroughly discussed, and, wherever Englishmen are concerned, discussed adversely to Stanley. One of the most noticeabie of these dis- cussions is the opinion of the London Times in re- gard to STANLEY AND DR, KIRK, The Times says :— Mr. Stanley set to work at once to organize his expedition for the interior, Of every detail of his arrangements he gives an excellent and graphic account, but we are sorry to say that he begins immediately te spoil his book with most unworthy personalities, He seems from the very first to have taken a most unaccountable dislike to Dr. Kirk, though Dr. Kirk, from Mr. Stanley's own evi- dence, was extremely kind to him. It must be borne in mind that Mr. Stanley Kans the object of his expedition secret; that his whole aim at Zanzi- bar was to mbie it, and that when, at an even- ing party at the Consulate, he did inquire about Livingstone, he did so “carelessly,” in a manner studiously intended to prevent the British Consul from sup} ing for a moment that the question was prompt oy Saything more than mere passing curiosity. Mr. niey did his best, for commercial reasons, to throw dust in Dr. Kirk’s and everybody else’s eyes, and he has noright whatever to com- lain because seme of it blew back into his own. AS it was, Dr. Kirk, Mr. Stanley admits, effered him all assistance and treated him with perfect courtesy, and with a friendliness and hospitality which seem even excessive when we recoliect that Dr. Kirk was an English government official of high stand- ing and the pi nape European at Zanzibar, and that Mr. Stanley st to him in the light of an inquisi- tire ‘Ameriean newspaper correspondent in search of nothing but ‘copy,’ and anxious only to ‘‘inter- view” the British Consul for the benefit of the The misunder- standings and unpleasantness which afterwards came to all arose from this first false start. Had Mr, Stanley taken Dr. Kirk into his confidence the Royal Geographical Society would probably have deferred Lieutenant Dawson's ill-fated expe- dition, or would at least have instructed him what to do in the event of the American caravan reliev- ing Dr. Livingstone. All this is extremely un- leche and we are only too glad to turn from it and praise the business-like and indomitable Pertti * obins which Mr, Stanley organized his ex- STANLEY'S MEETING WITH LIVINGSTONE, London News, after quoting Stanley's account amg onden. i of his meeting with Dr. Livingstone, saysi— the. met fa tt Of the talk of the two men wh were at the end of the world, Mr. Stanley gives an extended and most interesting account, After some time had been spent in pleasant intercourse, while the discoverer rested aiter his journey and the discovered got the news of the great world from which he had so long been missed, they set out together to explore the northern end of the lake. Coasting along it, they proceeded to its most northern extremity, Where it was supposed by some that the Rusizl River ran out of it on its way to the Albert Nyanza andthe Nile. Captain Speke had concluded that the universal testimony of the nati that the Rusizi was an influent proved it to be an efflu- ent; and, on the strength of its being an eMuent, some geographers had declared the Tanganyika to be the southermost reservoir of the Nile. But the Rusizi flows into the lake, and not out of it, and its connection with the Nile is 80 far disproved. The voyage on the Tanganyika occupied twenty- eight days, and during that time some three hun- dred miles had been traversed. They got back on the 13th December, and, having spent Christmas together, started down the lake to Urimba, just one degree of latitude below Ujiji, as a more con- venient point from which to begin the return journey, From Urimva _ Dr. ivingstone ac- companied Mr. Stanley to Unyanyembe on the re- turn journey, where Dr. Livingstone took possession of his stores, and where, in the maddie of last March, they parted after four months’ pleasant inter- coursé—Mr, Stauley to find his way to the coast and home, bringing Dr. Livingstone’s sealed jour- nal and despatches with him; Dr. Livingstone himself to return to the lake and make his tramp all round it so as to fill up with certainties the blanks in that conjectured map of the Nile sources, whice makes them lie ina chain of lakes far west of Lake Tanganyika. ORGANIZATION OF THE EXPEDITION. The London Zelegraph, speaking of the organiza- tion of the expedition, says:— . Mr. Stanley’s book may be pronounced thor- oughly interesting and valuable. His feat was so successful in its results, and was besides so ad- mirgbly well managed in every detail, that it must stand out in all time coming as exceptional in the records of African travel. Lessons of organization might easily be taught to the leaders of expeditions of greater magnitude by the accounts of Mr. Stanley’s difficulties and of the method in which they were surmounted. $7 ‘MR, STANLEY'S STORY, ‘The London Post says:— In this deeply interesting volume Mr. Stanley tells his own story. He has much to relate. He has traversed some of the most stupendous scenes of nature; he has sojourned among strange na- tions; he has seen mankind under a variety of con ditions more or less different from those which revail elsewhere. On all these points it may well e supposed that he has an inexhaustible fund of description and anecdote to develop into a contin- uous narrative, and his book shows that he is neither a careless observer nor a dull writer. Above all, he is beyond question the discoverer of Dr. Livingstone. The merit which attaches to the execution of the task entrusted to him by the noble disinterestedness of Mr. Bennett has been differently viewed by different individuals, and in some quarters it has been almost rudely denied to him. Before leaving our shores, however, Mr. Stanley had the satisfaction of receiving some- thing like a unanimous and cordial recognition of the value of his services to geographical science, and the award to him of the Gold Medal of the Geographical Soctety for the present year must be held to conclude all question in dispute on this head. The very circumstance, however, that a tribute of this kind should ever have been with- held from him, or only grudgingly allowed, affords all the greater reason for welcoming the book in which he chronicles his doings. STANLEY'S STRENGTH AND SOLACE. The London Standard has the following :— Dr. Kirk seems to have expressed his opinion that either Dr. Livingstone was dead—in which case Mr. Stanley’s quest would be useless—or that he did not wish to be found out—in which case it would be impertinent and intrusive, ‘I felt very much depressed,” says Mr. Stanley, “at this, and would willingly have resigned my commission; but then the order was, ‘Go and find Livingstone.’ ” This oracular edict seems to have sustained Mr, Stanley through all his dificulties and dangers, his illnesses and his anxieties. However lonely he might feel, however worn with disease and doubt, there still floated before him the banner of the New YORK HERALD, blazoned with this epi; ph, and the vision supplied him with strength, ana solace, and counsel, from the day when he com- menced the organization of his expedition at Zan- zibar to the eventiul moment when, gravely lifting his helmet from his head, he uttered those memor- able words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume.” WOMAN SUFFRAGE REINFORCEMENTS, Terre Haute Organizing a Female Suf- frage Association. TERBE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 26, 1872, A large meeting of the leading citizens of all parties was held here this evening for the purpose of organizing a Woman’s Suffrage Association. A permanent organization was effected, with Major 0. J. Smith, president; Judge Scott, Mrs. H. D, Scott wile of Senator Scott; Mrs. B, Booth, mother of the Governor of California, vice presidents, The movement is very strong here, and includes many 01 the best and most influential citizens, WHERE ARE THE DIVIDENDS? PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 26, 1872, A committee of the City Council met to-day to inquire into the cause of the non-payment of divi- dends by the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, which is leased by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The city owns about one-third of the stock, and the allegation is that the Pennsylvania Railroad is applying the earnings to improvements instead of declaring dividends. The road has not paid any dividends since its construction, although it is charged that of late years it could well aviord to do so, Aconference is to be had with the city di- rectors of the road on the subject. THE EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN RAILROAD, BaNGor, Me., Nov, 26, 1872. At a meeting of the stockholders of the European and North American Ratlroad here to-day the amendments made to the articles of consolidation by the stockholders of the Western Extension were adopted. The consolidation is now complete, and will take effect December 1. ‘The two Boards of Directors will mect here on Wednesday next ior reorganization and the election of President and Vice President, The resignation of Gidcon Mayo as a director was accepted, PROFESSOR WATSON'S NEW PLANET, Derrors, Mich., Nov, 26, 1872. Professor Watson, of the Aun Arbor Observatory, reports the discovery, last night, of a new planet in the constellation of Taurus. Its right ascension 1s 65 degreess 26 minutes; declination, 19 degrees 34 minutes north, It shines like a star of the tenth magnitude, Its motion is nearly varallel with the Equaton | SENATOR SUMNER. Return ef Hon. Charles Sumner from His European Four. _———+—_—_ HE INTERVIEWS THIERS AND GAMBETTA, —_—_ Message to the American People from the Chief of the French Nation. —__+—__—. “LA FRANCE EST TRANQUILLE.” Senator Sumner’s Views on General Grant, Horace Greeley, John Bright and the Boston Fire. Yesterday morning the revenue steamboat Mo- cassin was sent down the bay to meet the steamer Baltic from Liverpool, and on which it was re- ported the Hon. Charles Sumner was a passenger. At nine o’clock the incoming vessel was met off Staten Island, and the Senator was taken on board the smaller craft and carried to Whitehall, where he took a carriage and drove up to the Brevoort House. Here he found Congressman Hooper and family awaiting to welcome him home after his brief European tour, he having left the United States on the 3d of last September. During the afternoon a visit was paid to the Sen- ator by a HERALD reporter, who found Mr. Sumner seated in his bedroom with Mr. Hooper, and look- ing the personification of good health. The follow- ing conversation then eusued as to French and home politics, Mr. Summer’s visits to various celeb- rities while abroad, the Boston fire and other kin- dred subjects :— REPORTER—What do you think of the stability of the French Republic, may I ask, Mr, Sumner? Mr. SumNER—I think that President Thiers is the right man in the right place. When I left him lately in Paris I said to him, “What word shall I carry back to the American people as to the Repub- lic?” M, Thiers promptly said, “LA FRANCE EST TRANQUILLE.’? In repeated conversations with him I found that he possessed singularly moderate views and talked like a statesman. Formerly, as you know, he was in favor of monarchical government; but he now willingly accepts the new order of things, believ- ing it to be the only practical course for France to adopt, ReporteR—I suppose you conversed with the leaders of the principal factions on the same sub- ject? Mr. SuMNER—Certainly, I had long conversa- tions with Gambetta, the Count of Paris, Duke of Aumale, Edmond About, the celebrated writer; Laboulaye, also several leading legitimists, and, in fact, during the four weeks I was in Paris I studied as attentively as I could the diverse public opinions, and from all these sources I came to the opinion Thave arrived at with reference to the stability of the French Republic. I read in the HERALD that the majority of the Right is willing to accept Presi- dent Thiers’ resignation should it be offered, and in such case General Changarnier is to be appointed President; but I sincerely hope that no such thing will take place, for I am a profound believer in the efiicacy of M. Thiers’ rule. REPORTER—The idea prevails here gencrally that France is on the eve of anarchy, and that no government can rest firmly seated in that country on account of the fickleness of her people. THE FRENCH BECOMING MORE SERIOUS. Mr. SuMNER—I differ from that view, and I firmly believe, from my late experience in that country, that the people are becoming more serious. They have enough to make them serious at the present moment; the pressure of a forcign army on their soil, the payment of those milliards to the Prus- sians, and, many other things too numerous to mention. Politics, as we, phrase it here, undoubt- edly run Li in France at the present moment, but anarchy is not impending, believe me. DELIGHTED WITH PRESIDENT THU: Iwas charmed with Presiaent Thiers. The dig- nity of his conversation and the charm of his man- ners led me to look upon him almost as a moderao giant among men. I need not allude to his intelli- ace. In some respects he was more agreeable jaan I could have supposed. Tatiude to dogmatic op sions which it might be supposed are incidental to a man of his learning and views, but I found him open to conviction and laying down no laws em- phatically without appeal. Revorter—I gather from your remarks that you are very sanguine as to the future of France. Mr. SumNeER—Yes, I have great contldence in France’s brilliant tuture, for her people are very intelligent and hard-working, and cannot fail to achieve success with astab.e and good govern- ment, and I believe that no nation possesses reca- erating powers more strongly than she does. People who talk superficially say it is a Republic without a Republic; but that is absurd. The press in France is also doing good service, and I consider it conducted in a Si/ scholarly and able manner. Among its most able productions I place in the first rank the Journal des Débats. The greatest and most enlightened spirits in France are fre- quent contributors to the daily press, and great good arises therefrom, MR. SUMNER INTERVIEWS GAMBETTA, At this stage of the conversation Mr. Hooper re- marked—‘“Some of the papers gave avery curious version of your interview with Gambetta.” Mr, SuMNeER—There was nobody present with us buta French gentleman. Perhaps Mr. Gamvetia may have given an account of it to the correspond- ent of the Lotdon Daily News, What 1 am now going to tell Ton is the principal subject of our de- bate, Lalluded to the fatal expression used by Henry LV. in the last decade of tne sixteenth cen- tury, when besieging Paris at the lead of the Huge- not ie viz., “Paris is worth a mass.” The city offered to capitulate if Henry would change his faith and become a Catholic, and those overtures were accepted by htm with the laconic observation just mentioned, that Parisis wortha mass! France accordingly remained Catholic, ana her history would not have been what it is had those words remained unspoken. Mr. Gambetta, in replying to this, stated that his greatest anxiety was not as to the stability of the present form ol goy- ernment, but proceeded from the clergy and the op- position of the Ultramontane party. Senator Sumner related the conversation textually in French as it took place, with ready facitity, showing his well- grounded knowledge of that language. MR. SUMNER VISITS JOHN BRIGHT. In England I went to visit Mr. John Bright, at | Rochdale, and we talked together for ten iong hours over international and other matters. We had no company, and it was to me a most agreea- ble interchange of ideas. The next morning he told me he had slept well and liad not suffered any ill effects. been so shattered of late years as to him to withdraw from the Cabinet. To recruit, he has become a great salmon fisher and walker, At I mention this because his health has | compel | } and upright conduct. 3 half that sum is nearer the amount. While in England I was urged to remain till Christmas, but I wanted to take my seat in Congress next Monday; and if I had remained away the fire a! Boston would heve haunted me, ‘the EI pers, against their general habit, published a lon despatch from Boston, giving the streets destroy and the names of the residents, To show you how the matter was exaggerated, I heard of a steam¢ ship leaving Queenstown on which were many Bostonians, and as the ship left the harbor a de spatch was read to them, “Boston in ashes !"? THE PERILS UF LONDON FROM FIRE, Ihave talked with many intelligent Londonersg who agree with me that immense conflagrations are possible there, for the houses are packed a: close as herrings for immense distances from the Strand and Fleet street away up to Holborn. told people there that Boston contained a number of granite buildings and they crumble away with the heat long before brick, and instance the cornices of the Post Office, which fell off by th: action of the flames. I believe it is a lesson to all cities to have the best possible fire apparatus ob tainable and a good supply of men and horses, The reporter then thanked Mr, Sumner for big courtesy and bade him good afternoon. THE GREAT DIAMOND FRAUDS. a How Clarence King’s Survey Penctrated and Bursts the California Bubbie—Na Diamonds in the Specified Localitie Except Those Placed There by Trick< sters and Swindlers. SAN FRANOISCO, Nov. 26, 1872, A meeting of the directors of the San Francisc@’ and New York Commercial and Mining Company, was held yesterday atternoon to receive reporta from the Geological Survey sent out under Clarence King, and consisting of Mr. King, D. D. Colton, Sur4, veyor Bost and Mr. Frey. Voluminous reports from the Survey were reccived, denouncing tha whole pretended discovery as a gigantic frand« The trustees at once adopted a resolution to tha efect that the fraud be at once and fully exposed, in order that the public may be protected; als that no more stock be issued or transferred, and, fee say corporation be dissolved as soon as prace cable. The public are warned against any farther tran« sactions on the faith of the alleged discoveries. All the stock thus far sold is still heid by W. C, Ralé ston, at the Bank of California, and the original in- corporators Will assume the entire loss from th@ operation of the company. The report of Clarence King gives the operatiot of nis surveys in detail, In the Me a fi: Table Rock diamonds and able Wwe e found ox the surfdée ahd fir the crevices, but in every in’ stance ofa “find” there was evidence that the sol had been tampered with. In crevices where there were no traces of the work of man no evidence of the existence of precious stones was discovered. Some diamonds were found In what was evidentiy! artificial holes, Hy The conclusion arrived at by Mr. King is that thi gems found were in positions where they would have been deposited by the hand of man, and that none exist where, if thetr occurrence had bee: genuine, the inevitable laws of nature would hay placed them, Final! he asserts that the repute diamond tields have been “salted,” or scattered over with stones, for the Barneee of deceiving honest or unskilled searchers. The reports of the other explorers corroborate that of Mr. King. fi The Bulletin some time since published a partial exposé of the operations of Arnold, the man wha sold the ‘discovery’ to the Hariending Compan, for $150,000, Itis said that the directors at th time of this publication became satisfied of tha fraud, but obtained the reports mentioned to satz isfy any doubts upon the subject, and to detect, t possible. the originators of the swindle, With this view the stou! heen held hack u. neg oe of the reports from all quarters could be tested. WEATHER REPORT. PORES OSOION agen: OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, VWasHneton, D. C., Noy. 27—1 A. M. Synopsis yor the Past Twenty-four Hours, The barometer has rapidly risen in the Northe west and thence to the Lower Missouri and Lower Ohio Valleys, with northwesterly winds, clearing and very cold weather on the Lakes, and thence ta the Ohio Valley southerly to westerly winds and clear weather prevail; in the Gulf and South Atlantic States light northerly to westerly winds, clearing and clear weather: in New England and the Middle States northerly to westerly wds and ciearing weather, but occasional light snow avd Trains yet continue in the former. Probabitities. For the Northwest and Upper Lakes, and thence’ to Arkansas, Tennessee and the Alleghanies, clear, cold weather, with northwesterly winds and high barometer; in the Gulf and South Atlantic States northwesterly winds and generally clear weather ¢ in New England and the Middie States increasing pressures and northwesterly winds, with clearing, and clear weather, Warning signals remain at Duluth, Milwaukee, Chicago and Grand Haven. War DEPARTMENT, } The Weather in This City Yesterday. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com< parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Phare macy, HERALD Building:— bait 1872, 1871, 1871, te 4 42 3:30 P. M 56 oT 40 6PM 25 40 9 P.M 34 36 12 P.M 35 m8 rage perature yesterday Average temperature for corresp last year... OBITUARY. sanabenntige Robert J. Dillon. Robert J. Dillon, a well-known «nd much ree spected citizen of New York, died at bis residence, No. 100 Fifth avenue, yesterday morning. He was taken from life by general physical debility, caused, more imtmediately by paralysis of the brain, this attack being in itself axgravated toa fatal issue, if not induced primarily, by disease of the eyes and the cerebral irritation which frequentiy ensucs from suddenly disordered eyesight. Robert J, Dillon was born in New York. He was sixty-one years of age at the moment of iis decease, Gregory Dillon, lis father, emigrated to America from Ireland. Mere he devoted much of his time, and with great success, in ameliorat- ing the condition of emigrants on and atter landing and was @ main personal power in the founding of the Irish Emi- grant Society, which was finally incorpo- rated by law. His son, Robert J. Dillon, received an excellent education. He studied law, and was in due time admitted to the Bar, becoming almost immediately noted for his professional zeal His character was appreci- ated by his fellow citizéns. He was at one period of his life a very activ mocratic politician, and filled the office of Corporation Counsel two terms— the last session of Parliament he filied his seat but | for a couple of hours, but he told me he intended | to resume it, if his health permitted, at the coming | director of tie Irish Emigrant Society, session, and to enter into the pohtical arena once more. | also had the pleasure of dining with Earl Granyiile the night before I leit England. I was unable to see Mr. Gladstone, a8 he was out of town. While at Paris I visited nearly all the picture gale leries and libraries, I found them much as [ had leit them on my last visit; but the destruction of the library at the Louvre by the Communists is an irreparable loss, OF THE TWO REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES for President he pre‘erred Greeley. REPORTER—I suppose you will still carry the war into Africa when you take your seat in Congress * Mr. SUMNER (pausing)—I shall go to Congress with the firm intention to try and do my duty there, as Ihave always tried to do. As to the late Presidential contest, it was a struggle between two republicans, and I preferred Greeiey. RePorTeR—It was alleged, Senator, on some sides that you somewhat forsook Mr. Greeley by leaving in the midst of the campaign, and one of & our Grant papers remarked about it, jokingly, that. “iriend aiter iriend departs; who hath not lost a friend Mr. SUMNER (With UM er sake him for my prostrated hi forget all excitements, and | am happy to state that sinee Py departure I have gradually been gaining health and force, and have reduced some bad symptoms from which I have hitherto suffered. By perverse fortune, my old doctor, Mr.Brown Se- quad, whom I went to call upon directly upon my arrival herve, has left for France. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM, REPORTER—What do you think of the question of civil service reform which is being so extensively discussed ? Mr. SUMNER—I have a great idea we ought todo something and in earnest. I have found maw, thoughtful peopie abroad who consider our civil service as very defective, and they consider that the dependence of ail oficehoiders upon one ap- pointing power at Washington, whith causes a change at each Presidential election, a very unde- sirable state of affairs. In England, when a change of Ministry takes place, changes are made, bat the evil is not nearly so great as in this country, TUE BOSTON FIRE. RerorTER—It is reported, Senator, that you have lost $10,000 worth of property in Boston, was obliged to for- th's sake and to Mr. SuMNER—On my arrival at the hotel that was the first question | put to my friend My, Hooper, but be tells me that from 1852 to 1856--during the Mayoralty terms of Jacob Westervelt and Fernando Wood. He carried out the duties of the position in a conscientious | and upright manner, and was always noted for his honesty of purpose and his resolution in maintain- ing its principles. He was at an early moment in the history of the institution elected trustee and and was aigo chosen counsel and Vice President of the Emt- vings Institution, both of which associa- tions are very much indebted to his faithful ser- vices for their present flattering position before the public. Mr. Dillon was a member of the original Central Park Commission. He was one of the most ardent supporters of the idea of establish- log a grand park from iis Mees Bhat inception, and labored earnestly during the Legislative session of 1856 for the passage of the bill creating the Central Park Commission, Mr. Dillon was one of the com- missioners named in the bill, and the frst meeting of the Board was held at his omce, April 3u, 1857, He continued to hold the oMfce of Commissioner for several years, and toox an active part in build- ing up the Park, and to his suggestion ts due the construction of many of the most delightful parta of the Park. He was a patron of the fine arts, also, and @ munificent one, and his mansion, now vacant by death, is adorned with many fine works ‘of the masters, ancient and modern. After a short period of retirement, and when the “Ring” waa broken last Fall, and Messrs. Sweeny and Hilton resigned their positions, Mr. Dillon again wok an active part in all matters relating to the improve- ment o1 Central Park. He was preparing to under- take atrip to Europe last July for the benetit of his health when he was stricken with the malady which has terminated @ very useful life, Marquis of Londonderry. The Right Honorable Frederick William Rober¥ Stewart, K. P. P. C., died, as we are informed by cable from London, yesterday. He was sixty-seven years of age. Mis lordship was the eldest son of Charles William, third Marquis of Londonderry, by his first wife, Lady Katherine, daughter of John, third Eari of Darnty. Lord Londonderry was born. in the year 1805, He succeeded to the pee in the year 1864, In the year 1846 he married Lad, Elizabeth Frances, eldest daughter of the thir Farl of Roden, the lady at the time of the anion being widow of Richard, sixth Viscount Powers- court. The Marquis of Londonderry was educated at Eaton and Christ Church, Oxiord. He satin the House of Lords as Lord Stewart, @ peer of the United Kingdom. He represented the county Down, Ireland, m the imperial Parliament in the years 1820-52, Ile was colonel of the county Dowa militia.