The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-15 00:00:00

TBE SUN, LONDON, THUROAY- EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1863:

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

handed the bag of stolen wool to Vickers, who started off to
Rosemary-lane, where there are so many receivers of stolen
property. Mr. Prestige lost sight of Vickers in the lane,
and immediately returned to the van, of which Gooch
was in charge. Vickers soon returned with the bag
empty. Mr. Prestige took it from him, and called the
uolice to arrest both men. Gooch was taken on the spot.
Vickers eluded the Search made after him until Tuesday
last when he was taken into custody by Uriah Haserly, a
police-constable of the H division. He (Mr. C. Young)
should now make out a complete case against him, and
asked the magistrate to commit the prisoner for trial.
Several witnesses were called by Mr. Young, who clearly
made out the case against Vickers. It was also proved that
19 bales and three bags of wool were put into Messrs.
Seaward's van on the 13th of August in good order, and
that the bag when seized by Mr. Prestige contained frag-
ments of wool.

The prisoner, who conducted himself in a most impuden
manner, and frequently contradicted and abused the wit.
news, said he was quite innocent.
Mr. Partridge committed the prisoner for trial.

The Livingston Expedition,

In a letter to Sir R. Murchison, dated " Murchi-
son Cataracts (on the Shire), April 25," Dr. Living-
ston says—" With sorrow I have to communicate
the sad intelligence that Mr. Richard Thornton
died on the 21st current. He performed a most
fatiguing journey from this to Tette and back again,
and that seemed to use up all his strength, for,
thereafter, he could make no exertion without pain-
ful exhaustion. His object was to connect his
bearings of the hills at Tette (on the Zambesi) with
the mountains here. I knew nothing of his re-
solution till after he had left. Ho had resolved to
go home after he had examined Zamba and
the Melanje range, but on the 11th ho was
troubled with diarrhoea, which ran on to dysentery
and fever. We hoped to the last that his youth and
unimpaired constitution would carry him through,
as he had suffered comparatively little from fever,
but we were disappointee. An insidious delirium
prevented us learning aught of his last wishes. All
his papers, &c., were at once sealed up, and are sent
home to his brother at Bradford. He is buried
about 500 yards from the foot of the first cataract,
and on the right bank of the Shire." After allud-
ing to the depopulation of the valley, and the pro
bability of his being obliged to take to pieces the
steamer, and screw her together, with the view of a
sale,Dr. Livingstonthus concludes :—" Dr. Kirk and
Mr. Charles Livingston now go home. The scene of
desolation around us reacts on my health badly."—
In a letter to the limes, Sir R. Murchison says
Earnestly hoping that the great South African
explorer may now come home to his motherless
cbildren and numerous friends, and not expose his'
valuable life to further risks, I must, in justice to
the memory of young Richard Thornton, say a few
words upon his labours, in anticipation of what may
result from the publication of the papers he has left '
behind him. Educated in the Royal School of Mines,
and greatly distinguished by the professors under
whom he studied, he was much attracted by the ex-
ploits of Dr. Livingston, and, having volunteered to
go out as the geologist and topographer of the second
expedition of my eminent friend, I had no hesitation
in recommending him for that purpose. After
making plans and sketching maps of the banks of
the Zambesi, illustrated by geological observations
and sections, he quitted the Livingston expedition,
and repaired eventually to Zanzibar, with a view
cf extending his surveys in equatorial Africa. There
he fortunately met with the energetic Hanoverian
traveller, the Baron C. von der Decken, with whom
be passed into the mainland, and ascended theflanks
of the lofty, snow-capped mountain Kilimanjara,
making maps of this equatorial region, accompa-
nied
by geological notes. At the close of that ad-
venture he wrote to me, unfolding the desire he
felt to traverse Africa from east to west, and thus
determine the true physical structure of the centre
and flanks of the southern map of the great conti-
nent. In the meantime, returning to his original
duties on the Zambesi, to correlate his observations
in the two eastern regions which he had examined,
he has fallen a victim to the treacherous climate,
which had previously carried off, in too rapid suc-
cession, the good Bishop Mackenzie and his arch-
deacon, as well as the exemplary and devoted wife
og Livtagston.''