We regret to record the death of Sir H. M.
Stanley, the well-known African explorer, which took place in London on Tuesday. Sir Henry Stanley's first great exploit was the discovery of Livingstone, a work which he undertook on behalf of the New York Herald. His next venture was an African expedition for the New York Herald and the Daily Telegraph. That finished, he helped the ring of the Belgians to found the Congo Free State. His final work was the relief of Emin Pasha in Equatorial Africa- This was his greatest work of travel, adventure, and discovery. The later years of his life were spent in England. He entered Parliament in 1895 as a London Unionist Member, but be made no great impression on the House. Though there have been greater and more scientific explorers than Stanley, he was probably the most efficient " all-round " discoverer of our epoch. He had a wonderful faculty for pushing on and getting through, and he will be remembered as a man who did some of the hardest work in opening up the Dark Continent. He was born a Welshman, became an American, and then returned to his British allegiance.
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