Feb. 13, 1858.] 
LIVINGSTONE FESTIVAL. 
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Sir R. Murchison. — Gentlemen, I now call on yon to drink 
to the health of “ H.R.H. the Prince Consort, H.R.H. the Prince of 
Wales, and the other members of the Royal Family.” ( Cheers .) 
Whenever it has been my lot to occupy the Chair at a public 
meeting, I have invariably spoken of the Royal Consort as a Prince 
who, loving and encouraging science, letters, and art, is continually 
striving to do practical good service, by diffusing education and 
knowledge through all classes of the community. ( Cheers .) 
And as teaching by example is more efficacious than a thousand 
precepts, we are grateful to him for having soon after Livingstone’s 
arrival in England conversed for some time with our great traveller 
in the presence of the younger members of the Royal Family ; and 
specially we applaud his conduct for so guiding the education of his 
children, that in addition to the instruction usually given to Royal 
personages, the Prince of Wales and his brother have been taught 
by Faraday ( loud cheers) and others, those great truths of Science 
upon the cultivation and diffusion of which, the present and future 
grandeur of the British Empire mainly depends. Let us then cor- 
dially drink to the health of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, 
the Prince of Wales, and the other members of the Royal Family. 
( Loud cheers.) 
Sir R. Murchison. — It gives me true satisfaction, Gentlemen, 
to see that the object of our meeting is supported by the Repre- 
sentatives of two Foreign Sovereigns who have just reached our 
shores, who come from northern countries which are connected 
with us by many natural ties, and to whose rulers and people I 
am bound in affection for kindnesses received during my explorations 
of Scandinavia. 
I allude to their Excellencies the Minister of the King of Sweden 
and Norway, Count Platen ; and the Minister of the King of Denmark, 
Admiral Van Dockum. ( Loud cheering.) 
The representative of another Sovereign, who by his acts has 
shown his hearty concurrence in this exploration of South Africa, is 
unfortunately prevented by illness from attending ; but that noble- 
man, the Count de Lavradio, with the enlarged views and right 
feeling which characterize the representative of the enlightened 
King of Portugal, has thus written to me : — 
“ I should have been happy to have profited by this good oppor- 
tunity to announce personally to the distinguished friends of Dr. 
Livingstone, that my august Sovereign no sooner learnt that Dr. 
