The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-04-14 00:00:00

.fforeign Intelligence.

TIT! A Irrearnlan ExrcDmon. —Advises resolved
from Abyssinia anneuive that Sir Robert Napier
oompirl Lot on the 21st March, and espeeted to orris.
bet no llasdala on the 2n4 Inst. Re was wahine remlY
in storm the rlam. ICms Theodore, with the captives,
26 gun.. and 5,000 musketeers, was at ltagd.la, prepared
for a siege.

IA TIGER Slonr.—The following tiger story lies
arrived from India. Colonel Alexander Begot, swan-
pealed by Lord Down.. wound•-d • tigress in a jungle
near N..gode, on Feb. 28 ; the animal took refuge in a
nollah, whither they followed her up. and es Colonel
Begot was preparing for a second shot, she sprang upon
I him and seised him by the:leg, knocking over Lord
Down. and • shikarrie by whom they were sooompenied.
A Goorkab espoy inimedietaly shot the Barium deed,
and thus saved Colonel likuot's life. The tioloners
wounds were not serious. and he is rapidly recovering.
Lord Doerrie's clothes were torn by the tigrees's Maws,
and he was seriously braised by her charge.
Ssierrr Or Dz. LIVINOITOWIL —Litton have been
removed by Sir Roderick Murchison whieh plus beyond
a doubt the fact that the reportei assassination of Dr.
Livingstone is • fable without foundation. Dr. Kirk,
the consul at Zanzibar, bas received volonsinons dis-
patch.. from him, and has forwarded to London eon,
mnnication. from Dr. Livinottone dated from the
'Sours of the Nile," SOD mile' beyond the spot at
which Dr. Living.timor was reported to have been
murdered. The advice. received (tom another source
make mention Mu of his stworefol progress in his
further journey, and it is believed that Dr. Livingstone
Is now on his voyage home. Dr. Kirk's letter la dated
Zusibar. Feb. 4, and in it he announces the arrival
'of the Arab messenger, Bunduki, Mien. expected, who
haa brought with him the dispatches from the doctor.
Dr. Kirk's letter will be read before the Royal
Geographical Society at their next meeting on the 27th
'inst., before which time it is hoped the dispatches them.
selves will have reached England. The information now
tangoed oonapistaly confirms the account of the mate
taken by Dr. Livingstone round the southern end of
Lake Nyama, whieb was brought borne by the Living.
stone Sunda Expedition. It appears that our great
traveller prsoseded northwards at a long distance to
the west of the lake, and in Nouse of time arrived at
Lobisa, formerly • thickly inhabited town, bat now
almost deserted. In these elevated land., 00•1111011 with
humid forests and destitute of game, the party suffered
mita from hunger : but on appionicbing the southern
extremity of Lake Tanganyika they reached Mtuka, in
the Wembei country, where there wee abundance of
utile and food, and where they recovered their strength,
It was here that Livingetone met with the trading
I unmans from Zanzibar, and deliverod the letters to
; Bendoki, who has had them 12 months in his pouerion.
I Reliable information has also been rearived at Zanzibar
• of tbe arrival of Livingstone at 17jiji, half way along the
Lake Tanganyika, where it is satisfactory to know
erovhdons, stores, and letters sent from England and
Zanzibar have long been wafting for him.