The abolition of the slave-trade by King Mtesa, chief of Waganda, near Lake Victoria Nyanza, is one of the most recent fruits of the agitation.  The services of Mr. Mackay, a countryman of Livingstone’s, and an agent of the Church Missionary Society, contributed mainly to this remarkable result.

Such facts show that not only has the slave-trade become illegal in some of the separate states of Africa, but that an active spirit has been roused against it, which, if duly directed, may yet achieve much more.  The trade, however, breeds a reckless spirit, which cares little for treaties or enactments, and is ready to continue the traffic as a smuggling business after it has been declared illegal.  In the Nyassa district, from which to a large extent it has disappeared, it is by no means suppressed.  It is quite conceivable that it may revive after the temporary alarm of the dealers has subsided.  The remissness, and even the connivance, of the Portuguese authorities has been a great hindrance to its abolition.  All who desire to carry out the noble object of Livingstone’s life will therefore do well to urge her Majesty’s Ministers, members of Parliament, and all who have influence, to renewed and unremitting efforts toward the complete and final abolition of the traffic throughout the whole of Africa.  To this consummation the honor of Great Britain is conspicuously pledged, and it is one to which statesmen of all parties have usually been proud to contribute.

If we pass from the slave-trade to the promotion of lawful commerce, we find the influence of Livingstone hardly less apparent in not a few undertakings recently begun.  Animated by the memory of his four months’ fellowship with Livingstone, Mr. Stanley has undertaken the exploration of the Congo or Livingstone River, because it was a work that Livingstone desired to be done.  With a body of Kroomen and others he is now at work making a road from near Banza Noki to Stanley Pool.  He takes a steamer in sections to be put together above the Falls, and with it he intends to explore and to open to commerce the numerous great navigable tributaries of the Livingstone River.  Mr. Stanley has already established steam communication between the French station near the mouth of the Congo and his own station near Banza Noki or Embomma.  The “Livingstone Central African Company, Limited,” with Mr. James Stevenson, of Glasgow, as chairman, has constructed a road along the Murchison Rapids, thus making the original route of Livingstone available between Quilimane and the Nyassa district, and is doing much more to advance Christian civilization.  France, Belgium, Germany, and Italy have all been active in promoting commercial schemes.  A magnificent proposal has been made, under French auspices, for a railway across the Soudan.  There is a proposal from Manchester to connect the great lakes with the sea by a railway from the coast opposite Zanzibar.  Another scheme is for a railway from the Zambesi to