Events, however, had some mi i fluence on the judgment and feelings of ■ his Royal Highness, and the will was ! cancelled. Now, every thing is left to the city of Geneva, but it is stated from several quarters that the Duke's will is to be contested. The late Duke was born in 1804, and j was the eldest son of Duke Frederick William. He succeeded his father under the guardianship of the Prioce Regent, afterwards George IV. of Great Britain, in 1815 ; and ascended the throne in 1823. On the breaking out of the riot in the city of Brunswick, Sept. Bth, 1830, Ihe was obliged to flee from the Duchy, and by a resolution passed by the German Diet, on Dec. 2nd, in the same year, he was declared "unfit to govern." Hia younger brother, William, the present Duke, succeeded him at the request of the Diet. The deceased Prince was well known in London, and a frequent resid ent in Paris. His private income waa believed to be above £200,000 a 'year. A BKITISH PILGRIMAGK. The painful absurdity of a British pil grimage to Paray-le-Monial is now being ! carried out. The pilgrims seem to con sist chiefly of three classes — Irish, priests, and an Jlite circle of noblemen and ladies. On the whole, the excursion, as far as modern surroundings would allow it, had the air of a mediaeval nobleman's family travelling incognito with their chaplains and vassals. There was a great gathering from various parts of England of the intending pilgrims at the pro-Cathedral, Kensington, on Monday evening. Some lof the pilgrims wore badges, the Sacred

largest Hindoo house in Zanzibar, which had been almost without exception em ployed by the English Consulate on simi lar work. Mr Stanley, Sir Bar tie believes, j employed the broker of the American Consul, and Sir Bartle doubts if their convoy would ever have reached Dr Livingstone without Mr Stanley's presence with it. Finally Sir Bartle Frere has no hesitation in stating his conviction that ( Dr Kirk is not in any way to blame for the delays which took place in expediting the stores to Dr Livingstone, an opinion | which is confirmed by Colonel Pelley, formerly Consul and Political Agent of Zanzibar, and as Sir Bartle considers, by Dr Livingstone's own letters. 