The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-05 00:00:00

DR. LIVINGSTONE.

In a letter, dated January 18, addressed to Sir Edward
Sabine, President of the Royal Society, by Sir Thomas
Maclear, Astroonmer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope,
occurs the following passsagc :—" I am very anxious for
news of Dr. Livingstone. The last was from Ujiji, dated
in May. Ujiji is seated near the north-east border of
Lake Tanganyika. He had been robbed of the supplies
forwarded to him irom Zanzibar ; and the chief
of the place refused the assistance he needed,
or to permit letters from him to be conveyed
to Zanzibar. He had written some forty letters
while slowly recovering from illness, which he wished
to forward. Some of these, no doubt, were records
of astronomical observations made at particular localities.
He attributed the hostility of the people to their suspicion
that he would expose their slave dealings. His old friend,
Dr, Kirk, who is acting political agent at Zanzibar, will
make every possible effort to relieve him ; but, unfortu-
nately the influence of the authorities at Zanzibar does
not reach the remote position of Uiiii. A thoup,....

_ .
Small-pox continues io be excessively fatal in
Paris, 79 deaths having occurred from that disease last week,
and 83 in the week preoeding.

We learn (says the Lancet) that foot-and-mouth
disease has lately broken out in its most virulent form in
Dovcn, and that a flock of 500 sheep, besides numerous bul-
locks, are at present suffering from this contagious disorder.

A. despatch from Munich states that by a royal
decree the Bavarian Parliament has been prorogued until
the 12th of April. This adjourinnent is intended to expe-
dite the solution of the Ministerial Crisis.

The Belfast Whig has information from the best
authority tliat the Government have it in contemplation to
amend the causes relating to the county cess in Ireland,
especially with reference to the question of laud taken from
the tenants for the purpose of making roads.

The Lord Chancellor has reported that the rights
of Edward Henry Churchill Crofton, Baron Crofton, and of
Robort Edward King, Earl of Kingston, Viscount Lorton,
t...) vote at the election of Beilesentativo Peers for Ireland,
btv, been e,tabli.he Ito his satisfnctien.

THE CASE OF. CAPTAIN lIAMILTO.N.—A. letter
from Captain B. Hamilton to the Secretary of State for
India in reference to the inadequate retiring compensation
awarded him as captain of the late Indian navy has been
published. The gallant officer complains in the first in-
stance that no notice has been taken of the letters on the
subject addressed by him to the Duke of Argyle. He
now says that finding himself unjustly treated, he went to
the actuary of an insurance office, and had the compensa-
tion due to him calculated on- the principle of a
life assurance. The award was that he was entitled
to his guaranteed pen,ion of £360 per annum, and
£l,OOO for the lose of his full pay. Captain Hamilton
says the Act of Parliament, Vie. 21 and 22, guarantees
the Indian naval officers their pay, pensions, and privi-
leges. The Indian naval code, he contends, proves his
pay to be £240, and his pension £l7O more than the
junior commissioners. Finally, he demands to be com-
pensated by the fixed rules according to his rank or length
of service, and that the same justice should be meted out
to him as to any officer of the late Indian Navy junior t?
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