The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-26 00:00:00

DR. LIVINGSTOIVE.

The following is the text of the letter (dated August 31,
1869) received by the Bombay Government from Dr. Kirk,
aolitical agent at Zanzibar, relating to the supposed
arrival of Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji :
" Sir,—l have the honour to report for the information
)f the Right Honourable the Governor in Council
that an Arab caravan arrived here two days ago from
the interior bearing a letter from Syud Majid's agent at
Unayayembe, in the country of Anyamwezi, addressed to
his brother at Zanzibar, in a P.S. to which the arrival of
Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji is mentioned. I forward a copy
of this extract in translation. I am informed that the
native messenger who saw Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji was
one month on the way to Anyayembe, and that therefore
this information is at least a few months old. I under-
Amid that a caravan is expected on the coast in about a
month, when we may possibly receive further news of the
goat explorer. The road between the coast and Ujiji is
9t present open and safe even to small bodies of men. I
have the honour, &c., J. KIRK, Political Agent and H.M's
Consul, Zanzibar."
"(Translation.)

"Postscript.—Be good enough when the slave returns to
send a box of brandy similar to that which came for the
white man, one of which was broken on the way, so that
none remained. And he (the white man) has reached Ujiji
ind may pass this way and on his coming we will give it to
'dm. Do not neglect this.
Dated 4th Rabin-el-Awul 1286 (June 12, 1869)."

ANOTHER LETTER FROM MR. GL ADSTONE
ON TEE FENIAN PRISONERS.

Another letter from Mr. Gladstone on the Fenian pri-
soners is published. It is addressed to Mr. Isaac Butt,
4.C., dated "Haworth, Chester, October 23rd, 1869," signed
W. E. Gladstone," and runs as follows :—" I have
;he honour to acknowledge the receipt of an ad-
iress adopted at a great meeting of the citizens of
Dublin and others' on the 10th current, which ex-
sresses a strong desire for the release of the persons
still cohfined in Ireland on account of political offences.
With respect to the general purpose of the address
I have respectfully to refer you to a letter addressed by me'
m the 18th to the representatives of a meeting called with
similar object at Limerick. I think it my duty, how-
over, to notice a portion cf the address in a special manner,
which refers to a publication of mine, in the year 1851,
with regard to the political prisoners in the kingdom of
Naples, and which constitutes a particular and personal
appeal. It is desired that I should bring to the considera-
tion of the lately-pending Irish question 'the same strong
sense of justice which has induced me to raise my voice on
behalf of the political prisoners of other lands' I should
be sorry, indeed, to suppose myself capable of advising,
Jr desiring, that a severer measure of justice
•hould be applied to my misguided, yet, I hope, not
irrecoverable, fellow-countrymen than I was led to ask
on behalf of any persons suffering elsewhere. Permit
me, however, to observe that, saving the fact that in
each case the persons concerned were within prison walls,
in no particular can the two cases be said to correspond.
In due course of justice, as fixed by the law of the land,
the Fenian priscners received a free and open trial, under
a lawful government; and they were found guilty by
juries of their fellow-countrymen. The prisoners in the
kingdom of Naples were arrested and imprisoned without
One legal process, wore in a vast proportion not tried at
till, and, when they were tried, were tried largely by
exceptional, not regular, tribunals. When they were
condemned they were condemned not by the free verdict
of a popular body, but by serdences of judges dependent on
the Government for their bread; on a Government, more-
over, of which the title rested on a flagrant breach of the
most solemn oaths, and of the written legal constitution of
the country. The acquaintance, sir, which you possess
with Italian history and affairs, in addition to your many
other distinctions, renders me glad to have the opportunity
of addressing to you this reference to the facts."

Admiral Farragut, of the American navy, is lying
dangerously ill at Chicago. The admiral played a conspi-
cuous part in the great civil war.

A. CAUTIOUS LOVER.-44 When I courted her,"
said Spreadweasel, " I took lawyer's advice, and signed
every letter to my love, Yours, without prejudice—
D. J.'"

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE AT BATII.--It is
gated that this disease has made its appearance in Bath
and the neighbouring districts. At the county magistrates'
qffice, on Saturday, Mr, Superintendent Morgan reported
that from information he had received ho went that day,
accompanied by Mr. Broad, veterinary surgeon, to a farm
at Twerton, in the occupation of Mr. Schackell, where he
found five cows out of sixteen suffering from the disease.
He had also examined the stock of Mr. Kelston, of Wester',
the whole of whose cows, fourteen in numner, were affected
by it. The bench directed the superintendent to see at
once that the regulations of the Act relating thereto were
stringently enforced in each case.

THE FENIAN PRISONERS.—On Sunday afternoon
a demonstration was hold on Newcastle-on-Tyne Town-
moor, for the purpose of petitioning the Houses of Parlia-
ment for the release of persons who were confined for
complicity in the late Fenian conspiracy. The meetingcon-
sisted mainly of Irish labourers employed in the iron ship-
building yards and factories in the district; and there
were about 10,000 persons present. The chair was occupied
by Mr. 13. Bl'Anulty. Mr. Charles Larkin, surgeon, Mr.
James 'Watson, and Mr. Kelly, Englishmen, took part in
the proceedings ; but the principal speakers were Irish-
men. The tone of the speeches was moderate, anti the
petitions were agreed to. Ey the direction of the Mayor
there wore no policemen on the Moor, and the proceedings
were extremely orderly and well conducted.
DISSATISFACTION AMONGST IRISII SCIIOO
deputatiin cf national schoolmasters waited
upon the Chief :.'eci.et,ary fo-.• Ireland, at Dublin, cn Satur-
day, with a statement of grievances which they desire
to have redressed. A memorial set for th the subjects
of complaint. First, they are inadequately paid. Their
salaries were previously augmented by the pupils'
fees, but since the decrease in the population of
the country, those contingent emoluments have
fallen off, while the price of the necessaries of
life has greatly increased. They have not the power of
enforcing the payment of fees from the pupils, so that the
receipts from this source are the more precarious. They

also protest against the threatened application to Ireland
of the system of payment by results, which they contend
would be fatal to their interests. Several of the teachers
who formed the deputation addressed the Chief Secretary,
and enlarged upon the hardships to which they were
exposed. Mr. Fortescue informed them that their state-
umt should receive the host consideration.