fiction, and it continued to be so regarded till Mr. Livingston positively determined. its existence and geographical position. He has since made four visits to the lake country, and has found it richly supplied with fine rivers, all of them flowing from the north-coming, therefore, direct from that terra incognita, which has been the aim of so many philanthropic schemes and so many disastrous enterprises. Some of these rivers he found to terminate in the lake, and one of them to hold an easterly course, and communicate, as he ascertained, with the Zambese, or Cuama, a navigable river which falls into the Mozambique Channel. His last excursion occupied two years, and he terminated it by traversing the country to the north-west of the lake towards the Atlantic; and the latest accounts report him as having arrived in safety with a large convoy of natives at St. Paul di Loanda. He passed, however, through many perils, and among the rest had a midnight encounter with a lion. The two combatants were found on the field together, the lion dead and the traveller fortunately only stunned, but with his arm fractured, from the spring of the animal after he had received his mortal wound. In addition to all this, Mr. Livingston is a native of Lanarkshire. He was born in Hamilton, where his parents and family are now living-most respectable and worthy people. He received his medical education in Glasgow, and he ascribes, under Providence, his preservation for so many years among a race of barbarians, to the superstitious terror with which his knowledge of medicine inspired them. He would have preferred the degree of M.D., but that the laws of the University forbade his receiving without actual examination. He had carefully collected all the medicinal substances held in repute by the native tribes, and had them sent direct to Glasgow that our citizens might derive the first benefit from them. He had also sent us seeds and roots for our Botanical Garden, where there is at least one specimen of his flourishing, which the learned Professor of Botany has declared to be not only a new species, but a new genus of plants. It should be farther added, that Mr. Livingston received in 1850 an award of twentyfive guineas from the Geographical Society, being one-half of the royal grant for the encouragement of geographical discovery. "Dr. Buchanan further moved, that this degree be conferred free of all expense. He contended that the honour of the University was concerned in doing so; and, among other reasons assigned, he said that this degree differed from many of those which the University was in the habit of conferring. The latter were bestowed solely or chiefly to do honour to the individuals who received them; but the University would receive as great an honour as she conferred, when she bestowed this mark of her approbation on a man whose name would be remembered as long as the great lake and the noble rivers he has discovered, who was the worthy rival of Park and of Landers, and who had, perhaps, made the most important advance ever yet made towards the civilisation and the Christianisation of Africa. "This latter motion was also agreed to." DEPARTURE. Rev. Thomas Henderson, Mrs. Henderson, and three children, embarked in the "Cleopatra," for George Town, Demerara, Jan. 13th. NEW YEAR'S SACRAMENTAL OFFERING TO THE NECESSITOUS WIDOWS AND CHILDREN OF DECEASED MISSIONARIES, AND AGED MISSION. ARIES INCAPACITATED FROM LABOUR. THE Directors present their grateful acknowledgments to those pastors, officers, and members of the Christian Churches who have already given a kind and generous response to their recent Appeal on behalf of the widows and orphans of deceased Missionaries, and of aged Missionaries. The amount received has been liberal in proportion to the number of the Churches whose united contributions it comprises; and the Directors indulge the hope that many other Churches, both in the metropolis and throughout the country, that have been unavoidably prevented from making their sacramental offerings within the period first named, will gladly avail themselves of an extension of the time for testifying their sym pathy in an object so truly Christian. 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