The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-07 00:00:00

REPORTED DEATH OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.

The araistant secretary of the Royal (teo,graphical
Society ILA received the following letter limo Dr. Kirk,
the former companion of Dr. Livingstone, and now vice-
consul at Zanzibar:

"Zanzibar, Dec. 26, 11466.

" My dear Bates,—l have written fully to Sir Ro-
derick three weeks ago, via the Cape of Good Hope and
St. Helena, again via Mauritius and Suez, with all
inform►tion we yet have got regarding poor Livingstone.
As I am going to Kilwa and Blikindany for a few days to
see if anything is there known of the sad story, and to
seek for any letters which may have been sent by Dr.
Livingstone before crossing Lake Nyassa, I write a note to
you that may go by any ship passing here while I am
absent. Oa the sth of December nine Johanna
men of the party which accompanied Dr. Livingstone
came to Zanzibar, reporting that on the we'd of Nyasa%
some time between the end of July and September.
they were suddenly attacked by a band of Mazite, and
that Dr. Livingstone, with half his party, were mur-
dered. Those who returned escaped, as they say.
through being behind and unseen, and they all depose
to having helped to bury the dead body of their leader
the seine evening. Although in the details and in
other things the accounts of the various men ditfer,they all
agree that they saw the body, and that it land one wound.
that of an axe on the back of the neck. One man saw the
fatal blow given. The attack was sudden, anal Dr. Living.
stone had time to overpower those who faced him, and
was struggling to re-load when cut down from behind. I
fear the story is true, and that we shall never know more
of its details. Full statements have gone home, but this
may mach Men by an American vessel during any ab-
sence. You will see, it this arrives firm, that we have
sad news for the society on the way.—l remain, yours,

"J. Kim,"

The Blazite are a branch of the Catf cc race who were de•
scribed by Dr. Livingstone in his last boot. of travels.
The nine Johanna men who escaped, and ue who,e
deuce alone we at present have to rely, are natl.:3 of the
Comoro Islands.

THE BISHOP AND CLERGYMEN OF
MANCHESTER ON RimiLls.ll.

At a meeting of the clergy of the ancient parish
of Manchester, held in the Mayor'■ Parlour, January 7,
a memorial to the Toni Bishop of the 4liocr,e against the
practice of excessive ritualism leas unanimously iiilopteil,
and its completion anul presentation were entrustol to a
commitke. The bishops reply is now puimlishcd. It
follows

" MauMeth Hall, Manchester, Fel, 2::. 1,4;7.
" Reverend and dear brethren—l must apolii4ise fur the
delay which has taken place in acknowledging your memo-
rial. My own health and my engagements plead the
excuse. I was also desirous to .iseertaiii the espression of
opinion which I had reason to sums.... might lie made by
the bishops in convocation in the province of I 'anterhury.
With that opinion. " that no altenition (non the long-
sanctioned and usual ritual ought to In made in
our churches until the sanction of the bidiop of tho
diocese has been obtained tlieryinitiC I heartily and
entirely concur. But I consider the bishop of the diocese
as under the obligation, in all cases, to grant the utmost
liberty of interpretation which lie can conscientiously
allow, and not to substitute his own individual tastes or
predilections as an arbitrary rule of right. The statement
of your feelings as regards the ritualistic developments
which have, so unhappily, been manifested in sem°
portions of our church calls for an iissurance of my full
concurrence and sympathy in the alarm and pain w ith
which you have witnessed a revisal of ss alike
alien to what we believe to be the Leaelling of oar
church and its sole rule of faith I lily ripture. I
acknowledge with deep gratitude to I:A that little of
this serious error hit, been sunered to appear in this
lio-
cese. A revival of antiquuteil and 1. ing•ilisti -is I eel eiiii adds,
more closely verging on those practices tending to mate-
rialise the blessed sacraments. against which our ancestors
so firmly and sucoesafully protested at the Reformation, is
every way to be deprecated. Faith is by tl,••u rind, led
less pure and genuine, epirittial 41.iilerl into
material, and the pure aspinitious, whirl, shooed ascend to
God alone, lowered to the level of the thing, of earth.
The difference is doubtless a wide riiii• ls•tivis n the
omission of things the disvaitinuance of alien has boon
tacitly permitted by long usage. and the intiodoetion er
revival of novelties savouring of anti ,retest:, rividencies.
But a strict and literal observance of the roll echo au f•ar
ae practicable, in undoubtedly to he i.ll in pre-
ference to the indulgence of private tastes or iiidgments as
to the expediency of alterations or a giving way to disused
and obsolete practices calculated to impair thi• single
purity purity of the established formularies of catholic s..riptiiral
worship. In the full trust that Alioight:. God sill
maintain this truth, and the fervent prayer that we ?owl
be guided and strengthened in our united ...leas., to
vindicate soil diffuse it. I sin, meet end awl .r brethren,
your faithful friend and brother

a. r. NA?. 111:-TLIC
" To the Itevesesal Canon E. Birch, and others."