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LIVINGSTONE FESTIVAL. 
[Feb. 13, 1858. 
The gallery was filled with ladies, among whom were the Countess 
Grey and Miss Copley, the Countess of Carnarvon, Mrs. Ashley, 
Mrs. Warre and Mrs. Henry Warre, Miss Burdett Coutts and Mrs. 
Brown, Lady Back, Lady Franklin, Mrs. Baines, Miss Cracroft, 
Mrs. Dundas, Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Greene, Mrs. Portlock, Mrs. and 
Miss Wrottesley, Mrs. Owen, Mrs. and Miss Trotter, Mrs. Letts, Mrs. 
Bovet, Mrs. Findlay and the Misses Brown, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Beding- 
feld, Mrs. White, Mrs. McWilliam and Miss Cooke, Mrs. Woodifield, 
Mrs. Le Breton, Mrs. Finnis, Mrs. Twyford, Mrs. Livingstone, &c. 
Each Toast was given with all the honours, and the band of the 
Grenadier Guards played suitable and chiefly Scottish airs. 
The Duke of Sutherland also sent his Highland Piper to enliven 
the festival in honour of a countryman. 
Grace was said before dinner by the Bishop of St. David’s, and 
after dinner by the Bishop of Oxford. 
The Toasts and Speeches were as follows : — 
Sir Roderick Murchison. — As a loyal subject of Her Majesty, I 
rise to propose the health of our beloved Sovereign. ( Loud cheers.) 
Reigning over many a distant land, and engaging as She does 
the affection and devotion of all her subjects, whether in the 
remotest of her Colonies or in these Islands, our gracious Queen has, 
through the wide spread beneficence of her rule, gained a new title , 
which must, I am sure, be most dear to her heart, and which specially 
connects Her Majesty with the object of this meeting ; for Living- 
stone has told us that Victoria is known throughout the now protected 
races of South Africa, as the Queen of the people who love the Black 
Man. ( Loud cheers.) 
And as a striking proof of Her Majesty’s desire to extend the bless- 
ings of Religion, Civilization, and Commerce to the great interior 
of South Africa, She has appointed our dear friend to be her Consul 
at those Portuguese Settlements from which he can successfully and 
efficiently carry out his noble mission. ( Great cheering.) 
Let me now add, Gentlemen, apiece of information which in these 
days of rapid diffusion of intelligence is unknown to you ; — nay even 
to the great J oumal of Printing House Square, and which will, I 
know, give unbounded pleasure to you all. Her Majesty, with that 
good taste and right feeling which is peculiarly her own, and which 
has ever characterized her private as well as public conduct, has 
selected this very day of our farewell festival to grant an interview 
to Livingstone and kindly to wish him God speed ! 
“ The Queen, God bless her.” 
( Enthusiastic cheers.) 
