DR. LIVINGSTONE

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVII, Issue 1380, 5 March 1861, Page 3

DR. LIVINGSTONE

The following letter has been leceived by the Bishop of Ovfoid fioin Dr Livingstone — "Senna, Apiil 7 "My Loid Bishop,— By a lettei fiom the Bishop of South Africa I lately learned with gieat satisfaction that a beginning had been made of a gieat woik foi the inteiioi of this countiy. 1 am extiemelj glad and thankful to hear that the Univeisitips intend to send forth, as m the olden tune, missionines to &cek to win to the faith of Chiist the heathen of Afnea. TJie Bishop's letter was found among some fiaginents of .a lost mailbag which floated some seven miles west of the spot where they weie launched, and I piesume to think that a letter from your Loidship on a subject m -nlnch you take such a special inteiest may be among the things which have penshed. "By my letter respecting the opening made into the Highland Lake region fiom the Shne you will have seen that simultaneously withyoui prajeiful movement at home om steps have been dneoted to a field winch piesents a really glonous pio&pecfc for the mission. By the Shne you get easily past the unfiieudly bolder tubes, and then the ndge which uses on the east to a height of 8,000 feet affords vanations of climate withm a few miles of each otliei The legion bathed by the lakes is pie-emmently a cotton-pioducmg one, and, as far as wo can learn fiom Burton and Speke, the people possess the same conipaiatne mildness of disposition as I obseived geneially pievaihng away from the seaconst. There aie difficulties, no doubt, — an unreduced language, and people quite ignorant of the motives of missionaues, with all the evils of its being the slave-maiket. But youi University men aie believed to posse&s genuine English pluck, and will, no doubt, rejoice to pieach Chust'b Gospel bejond othei men's lme of things Viewing the field m all its beanngs, it seems woithy of the Umveisitie3 and of the English Chuieli, and bcaiing in mind and heait Him who promised, "Lo ' I am with you alway, even unto the end of the woild," theie is not the shadow of a doubt but that hoi mission will become a double blessing — to oiu own ovei ciowded home population and to the victims, of slaveiy and the slave trade throughout the woild Let the Church of England only enter upon this gieat woik with a will, and nations and tubes will bless her to the latest generations The late Dr. Phillips, of the Cape, told mo that missionaries always did most good by doing things in their own w ay. lam fully convinced that youi way of sending a Bi&hop with youi mission is an admirable one The field is all youi own. I think that the Chinch is called upon to put foith her best cneigies, and endeavour to repiy somewhat the wrongs we ha\o done to Afuca "'lhe Fiench have a stiong desuo to enter before us. A Senor Cnu, the gieit agent of Fiench emigiation from tins coast, lately letunicd fiom Bom bouwith a sug.u mill and coffee (Joining machine, sugai caucs of supcuor quality, and coflec seed, and t\\ o Fienclimen to woik the machines J2oth, how over, boon pen&hed ot level The Poituguesc hate us and our objects, p^ l tl \ because of om religion, but clntlij because Me sunpicss vhe slave tinde They des.ie the French to come and establish tie r authoiity o\oi the slaves. At ltas>ent Portuguese slave lule is mild, because the slave

can so easily flee to independent tribes. If the French slave system were established here, slave-hunting would go on till the country was depopulated. Even for the incipient plantation of Cruz there is slave-hunting among the very people we lately visited at Sheiba and Negassa. The mission will require a Bteamer drawing about 8 feet to serve as a home till preparations are made. Having lost my despatches, I do not know whether Government will give me another ; it would be at the service of the mission. I send home Mr. Eae, our engineer, to superintend a Becond for the lakes. This we shall build whether we get one from the Government or not. It is to be made capable of being unscrewed and carried past the cataracts. It will give security to settlers, without firing a shot, and will promote the extinction of the slave trade by lawful commerce moie than several ships on the ocean. My brother, Mr. Charles Livingstone, will take charge of trade for a time. " I rejoice that Miss Coutts has come nobly forwar.l and aided the Bishop to establish an institution for the sons of chiefs — sony it w.is not in existence when I was with Sechele lam going up to the Makololo country to return my native friends home. "Affectionately yours, "D. Livingstone."