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

Reported Death of Dr. Livingsto-e.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,-With profound grief, which I am sure will
be shared in by the nation at large, I transmit to
you the following letter from Dr. Kirk, the former
companion of Livingstone, and now Vice-Consul at
Zanzibar, addressed to the assistant secretary of the
Royal Geographical Society.
If the detailed accounts which are on the way to
myself should arrive before Monday they will be
communicated to the society on the evening of that
day.
It appeared that my lamented friend had crossed
the Lake Nyanza to its western side, and was there
attacked by the same treacherous people, the
Mazite, a branch of the Caffre race, described by
him in his last book of travels: It may he well to..
state that the nine Johanna men who escaped, au
d
on whose evidence alone we at present have to rely,
are natives of the Comoro Islands.
If this cruel intelligence should be substantiated,
the civilised world will mourn the loss of as noble
and lion-hearted an explorer as ever
sir, your obedient servant,
RODERICK I. MURCHISON.
Royal Geographical Society, 15, Whitehall-place'

" Zanzibar, Dec. 26, 1866.
cc My dear Bates,—l have written fully to Sir
Roderick three weeks ago, via the Cape of Good
Hope and St. Helena, again via Mauritius and
Suez, with all information we yet have got regard"
ing poor Livingstone.
" As I am going to Kilwa and Mikindany for
few days to see if anything is there known of the
sad story, and to seek for any letters which WI
have been sent by Dr. Livingtone before crossing
Lake Nyassa, I write a note to you that may go by
any ship passing here while lam absent. On th°
sth of December nine Johanna men of the part?'
which accompanied Dr. Livingstone came to Zanzi-
bar, reporting that on the west coast of NYa's'e3'
some time between the end of July and September'
they were suddenly attacked by a band of Alallte'
and that Dr. Livingstone, with half his party, Were
murdered. Those who returned escaped, as °ill
say, through being behind and unseen, and they all
deposed to having helped to bury the dead body of
their leader the same evening. Although in the
details and in other things the accounts of the voions
men differ, they all agree that they saw the bodYt
and that it had one wound, that of an axe, on the
back of the neck. One man saw the fatal blow given
.
" The attack was sudden, and Dr. Livingstone
had time to overpower those who faced 11°11'
and was struggling to re-load when cut down fr°ll.lll
behind. I fear the story is true, and that we shall
never know more of its details. Full state:4lolo
have gone home, but this may reach Aden by 1111
American vessel during my
absence.
" You will see, if this arrives first, that we have
sad news for the society on the remain'
yours, " J. KIRK."

M NtY MARKET

v.IFIERCIA

A. NI,

TWBLYE O'CLOCK.

The directors of the Bank of England at their
meeting this day have made no change in their
terms for discount. Notwithstanding the confi-
dence felt in the present Government the unsettled
state of affairs naturally deters monetary and com-
mercial enterprise.
At the Bank of England there were no gold ope-
rations of importance yesterday afternoon.
The Hermann, from New York, has brought
£45,000 in specie for England, and a small amount
for Bremen.

Biddings for £300,000 in bills on India took place
yesterday at the Bank of England. The minimum
price was fixed at ls. Hid. in Calcutta and M :dras,
and is. tl4d. on Bombay. Nu tender of import-
ance was received at these prices.
Mr. Thomas •Gaskell, jun., an underwriter at
Lloyd's, has forwarded circulars to his creditors
intimating his inability to meet his engagements,
and stating that he has placed his affairs in the
bands of Messrs. Brown, Son, and Hays, accoun-
tants.

We understand that a contract was signed yester-
day by Mr. Cyrus W. Field, acting on behalf of
the New York, Newfoundland, and London Tele-
graph Co., with the Telegraph Construction and
Maintenance Co. for a submarine cable between
Placentia, Newfoundland, and Sydney (Nova
Scotia). The line will be laid in the early part of
the summer. Mr. Field, having effected this very
satisfactory arrangement in the interests of Atlantic
telegraphy will leave for New York in the Great
Eastern on the 20th of March.

From the inactivity which has characterised the
Stock Exchange generally during the past week, the
American market has not been exempt. The absence
of business both on home and Continental account
has caused quotations of United States Government
Securities to sympathise entirely with prices received
by telegraph from New York. Since our last the
quotation for 5.20 Bonds has improved oue-half per
cent., closing 731 and 73j.. The difference between
this issue and that of 1865 is now about one and a
half per cent. For railroad shares the demand has
been very limited—lllinois Central are last quoted
77 to being a slight improvement, while Eries
have declined to 364 to 364.

It is stated that the London and Colonial Com-
pany (Limited) being in a state of difficulty it has
been arranged to place it in liquidation, and -Mr.
Theodore B. Jones, the accountant, and Mr. J.
Spong, the late manager, will carry out the arrange-
ment with the authority of the Court of Chancery.
This company was established in 1859, and took
over the business of Mr. Robert Tooth and other
parties connected with the Australian trade. The
depreciation in Australian assets and the depression
in general trade will account for these embarrass-
ments. According to the " Joint-stock Companies'
Directory" for 1867 the capital is £360,000, of
which £200,000 is paid up. The last dividend was
declared at the rate of 12i per cent. per annum.
Ths last week's Railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1867. 1866.
Great Western ... 67,598 67,500
North Western ... ... _110,369 106,484
South Western ... 22,217
.22,141
Brighton ..• ... 18,804 16,346
Midland ••• ••• ... 51,531 41,433
Beath Eastern ... ... 21,175 19,147
Great Northern ... •.• ... 36,597 33,438
Lancashire and Yorkshire... 43,597 41,070
Bristol and Exeter... ... 6,128 5,823
,
North Eastern ... ••• *** 70,141 66,472
Manehester,.Sheffield,
32,229 31,560 and Lincoln ... 20,5, 91 19,62 r
Great Eastern ... ••• •••
London, Chatham, and Doter ... 8,777 8,030
Glasgow and South-Western ... 9,707 10,100,,
Great Southern and Western, Ireland 8,548 8,022
Metropolitan • • ••• ••• ••• 4,291 3,760
Midland and Great Western, Ireland 5,261 5,010
North
British ... 24,549 23,457
The returns, when compared with those of the
corresponding period of last year, are in most
instances of a favourable character. On the Great
Western there is an increase of £9B ; on the North-
Western of £3,885 ; on the South-Western of
; on the Brighton of £2,458 ; on the Midland
of £3,098 ; on the South-Eastern of £2,028; on the
Great Northern 0f'13,159; on the Lancashire and.
Yorkshire of 1:2,527 ; on the Bristol and Exeter of
305; on the North Eastern of £3,964; on the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln of £964 ; on
the Great Eastern of £669 ; on the London, Chat-
ham, and Dover of £747 ; on the Great Southern
and Western of Ireland of £526 ; on the Metropo-
litan of £3l; on the Midland and Great Western of
Ireland of £257 ; and on the North British of
At a meeting held to-day of the East India Land
Credit Company the report presented by the direc-
tors stated that the net profits of the company
amounted to £12,826 Is. 10d., making, wish
£2,118 53. 3d. carried forward from last account,
£14,944 75. Id. The shareholders will be prepared
to learn that, consequent on the severe crisis here
and in the East, the realisation of certain assets
of this company will be attended with loss; but,
after a most careful estimate, the directors are glad
to be able to assure the shareholders that such loss
will not exceed £22,000, against which they have
the balance at credit of profit and loss of £14,944
78. ld. above mentioned. After mature considera-
tion the directors have determined to postpone
the division of profits for the present, and trust in
their desire thus to strengthen the position of the
company they will receive the concurrence of the
shareholders. In submitting this report the direc-
tors have the satisfaction of informing the share-
holders that during the past exceptional year this
company has, without any sacrifice of its property,
met all engagements, and, by prudently narrowing
all liabilities, has entered upon no business that
can in any way render necessary a call upon the
Shareholders. The reduction of liability on the
uncalled capital continues to have the attention of
your Board, and they hope in a short time to lay
before you a scheme for the reconstruction of the
company. In the meantime the directors would
remind the shareholders, that as the total debt of
the
Company is limited to the payment of the de-
natures and deposits as they fall due, amounting
`o leas than one-third of the paid-up capital,
their liability is at present virtually nominal.

• Two o'CLocx.
-NO particular change has taken place in the dis-
count market since the adjournment of the Bank
mart.
Penianism, trades' unions, and the inclement state
Of the weather have added to the previous heaviness
Of
the Stock Exchange markets. There is no dimi-
nution in the number of investments, but specula-
c)ja have effected sales, which have further reduced
t"he Price of Consols another per cent. ; they are,
erefore now 904 for money, and 90i 91 for the
"Nun.
American Securities are flat. United States 5-20
1%d% having receded to 731 ; and Erie shares
4) tO 35i 36.
h atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
Are declined 1, to 30 31, and the Consolidated
°Pgage Bonds have advanced I, to 234 241.
°,ruign Stocks have remained very dull. Spanish
e have declined k, to 24 ; Certificates 11,
141
the cit 1 and Turkish 5 per Cents. +, to 301 ;
the ilia❑ Loan Scrip is steady at 1i dis.; while
'4lissian Loan Scrip has receded to 2f prem.
trA very moderate amount of business has been
ae-"aacted in the Railway Share Market, and in
veral instances depression has prevailed. Great
re'jerll, North-Western, and Midland have each
bonded 4, Brighton and London, Chatham, and
Ivhic. -r, each, and. Lancashire and Yorkshire
his
ove e alanchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln have im-
and d
Tt Metropolitan and South-Eastern each 1,
Great "Western 1.
rer,u,,rh
eForeign and Colonial lines remain in limited
1.44 eBt at about previous quotations, Great
of Illbourg being marked 101 1:; Grand Trunk
106,4eada, 201 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 1054
and East Indian, 104 104.
eta, a Shares are dull, but with a few exceptions
ho previous
previous values. London and County,
~.ver, have declined to 551 56, ex dividend ;
16', union of London to 45 ; Alliance are marked
fj. and Union of Australia, 47+.
441541 L noun 114(1 Fiance Shares coupinue very

inactive, and the few bargains reported have been
without material alteration in prices. Hudson's
Bay Company are marked 15-1- 16 ; Imperial Land
Company of Marseilles, 10i dis. ; Credit Foncier
of England, 2k 3 ; and National Discount Com-
pany, 12k.

MINING MARKET.

THURSDAY, Two o'Clock.

To-day there has been a very quiet market, and
the shares chiefly dealt in have b.•een North Crofty,
Great Vor, Prince of Wales, Seton, and Chiverton
Moor Annexed are the current quotations :

earn Camborne, —s —s ; Chiverton Moor, 81 ; Chon-
tales Gold, 21 21; Clifford Amalgamate, 7' 71 ; Cooks'
Kitchen, —.—; Drakewells, —s —s; East Basset, 21. 23 ;
-East - Caradon, 5 51; East Cara Brea, ;: East Lovell,
10 11.; East Russell, 2121 ; East iWheal Grenville, 22; ;
Great Laxey, —; Groat North Downs, 4i 1 ; Great
Retallack, —— ; Great South Tolgus, —s —d —s ;
Great Wheal Vor, 19 20 ; Marke Valley, 4 4f; North
Croft), 51 i; North Roskear, 81 9 ; North ' Treskerby,
1121; Prince of Wales, 52s 6(1 55s0d; Prosper United, 3# 4 ;
Redmoor, —s —s; South Condurrow, —s —d; South
Grenville, s d ; South Herodsfoot, ——; Tincroft,
121 131 ; West Caradon, ; West Chiverton, 58 60 ;
West Seton, —; West Drakewells, —s —s ; Wheal
Basset, —; Wheal Buller, ; Wheal Chiverton,
7 71 ; Wheal Grenville —; Wheal Seton, 105 110.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 oer Cent. Console;
Do. Account, April 10 9ok 1
3 per Cent. Reduced BBl
'low 3 por Cent BBl
New 21. per Cent. Jan. 1894 72
Do. 5 per Ceut. Jan. 1873
tunuitios, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprillBBs — -
Do (Red Sea Telegraph),
3 Aug.,Vt., March. I 4'+l Ct., June.
xchequer. Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per O. 12 pin
Do £5OO _ 17 - -

Do £lOO & .£2OO
Bank of England Steck, 6.1 per
Cents -
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES:
Inman Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874...
Do. Account.
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 lO7
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN F I7NDS—ONE VOLOOK.
lrgentine Republic, 6 per Cent
tustrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859
Irazilian 5 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
_ Do. 1863

Do. 5 per Cent, 1865 —
Do Account 73
Do. £lOO Bonds —
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Da 2 .per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Ciatian 6 per Cent —
Do. 4i. per Cent 7oi
00. 6 per Cent A —
Do. ~ B —
Do. „ 1867
Do. „ Scrip, £2O paid l± i die
anombiau, 6 per Cent.
'Juba,, 6 per Cent.
9anish 3 per Cent, 1825 —
D 3. 5 per Cent., 1864 _
)anunian Principalitiep,
.7 per Cant
Ectiador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
00., Piovisional Land Warrant —
___ .

Do Deferred
Xgyptian 7 per Cent —
Do. Second Issue —
Do. £lOO Bonds i B2f
Do. Do. 1864 —
Do. .£lOO Bonds B3l
Do Government Railway Debentures Bof 1
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do. Account
D r. Coupons
Do. Account
G tmeinala 5 per Cent. —
It ilian 5 per e'er t 1865
Do, Account
Do. Maremmana Railway —
M ,xicar. 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Dn. ' 1864 - --
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
Vlontevidean C per Gent. .. •••
Aoorish Imperial 5 per Cent
Now Granada l2l

Do 3 per Cen
Do. Deferrad

Do Land v(arrants (Hectares)
Pe -avian 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account 65 i
Op 44 per Cent., 1865
Do 44 per Cent. (Uri6arren)
Do 44 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 185?,'ii, '7, '9,'60,'2,':i 41(
aussian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 874
D 044 per Cont. 1850
Do 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 pm Cent. 1859 —
Do G per Cent. 1802
Do. 5 per Cent 1864 —
D ~ Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid BB}
Do. do. £25 paid 24 pin
'ardiuian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cent -
Do Account
Do New Deferred _
Do. Account -
Passive Do —
Do Account —
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —

35}

De Account •
S wedish 4 per Ceut. —
Do. 41 per Cent. 1864
~.

Do. S-ciip, £6O paid
Curkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do. Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account 561 I
Do £lOO Bonds s7f 7 8 7
Do 6 per Cent.,1863
Do 5 per Cent., 1865
Do. Account
V-nezuela 3 per Cent.
Do. Account
Do. 6 per Cent., 1862
6 per Cent, 1:864
Ditto 11 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.

Dutch •i!,. per Ositt. Ex. 12 Guil,. - —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... —
French Relates, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 2M. —
Italia)_ 3 per Clint. 1831, Ex. 251. —
Do. Account 531
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 9Ol 1
Do. Account 9Ol 1

DEBRETT'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE FOR 1867
are improvements (as usual) upon the best of their
predecessors. And they are so after more than one
whole century's existence. They are beautifully
printed, as usual, and with an eye (as usual) to
the utmost accuracy both of fact and of typo-
graphy. The heraldic emblazonments are de-
rived in every instance originally from Heralds'
College in Doctors' Commons, but they have
beyond that in the majority of instances received supple-
mentary revision under the hands of the chiefs of the
families referred to in the various biographies. One im-
mense improvement peculiar to the present edition of De-
brett, this new issue of it for 1867, as compared even with the
best of all its predecessors, the edition for 1866, is the addition
of the Family Names of the Peers in their alphabetical
order. Tho facilities thereby supplied for instant refereucei
almost, one is tempted to say, all but just perfected. Sup.,
plemented again to each Peer's biography is the biography
alse;of his immediate predecessor. There-is a biographical
notice too attached to the name of each member of the
House of Convocation. Added to all which ,there is now
included in this advanced and revised and all but perfected
edition of Debrett's Peerage-what has thus, 'for the first
time, been given in any peerage whatever—the addresses
of the Sons and Daughters of Peers. Particular interest,
again, is imparted to the second of the two volumes
under notice, by its embracing within it memoirs
of the new members of the House of Commons,
as well *as of the new additions to the roll of
Baronets and Knights. As the handiest, cheapest, most
correct, impartial, and independent of all the Guides to the
Lords and Commons, as well as to all the Baronets and
Knights of the United Kingdom, Debrett always secures,
what it has for so many years eminently well deserved -
the welcome due to an old and trusty favourite, a ready and
reliable remembrancer.

PENNY PART MlMC—What Next ?—is actually
just now being issued from the .Press in Weekly
Numbers, under the title of " Davidson's Choral
Cyclopedia." What we have yet seen of the Serial is ad-
mirably well done—the music being arranged throughout
by James Brabham, and the words taken either directly
from Holy Writ or from such writers as Dr. Watts and Sir
John Bowring. As a Collection of Part Music for Singing-
Classes, Schools, Families, and Congregations, it cannot
possibly prove otherwise than most acceptable.

PRIVATE THEATRICALS.—Last night the " Tyro
Thespians" gave a performance at their very prettily-
arranged theatre in Southampton-row. The piece se-
lected was the excellent burlesque of "Kenilworth," which
was given with a dash and spirit that elicited the greatest
applause. The part of the Earl of Leicester was capitally
sustained by Miss F. Price, the Duke of Sussex found a
very captivating representative in Miss Stanyon, and Sir
Walter Raleigh was smartly hit off by Miss B. Price. Queen
Bess, by Mr. A. Spilling, was a capital bit of burlesque-
acting, and Miss Coleman, as Amy Robsart, was excellent
and telling. Miss Gibbs, as Janet, gave her part with effect;
Mr. T. Price, as Tresillian, acted with his usual ability, and
Wayland Smith and Varney were each well sustained by
Mr. Stanyon and Mr. R. Hall. From first to last the piece
went off with the greatest éclat, and at the fall of the cur-
tain the applause.of.a" very largo audienci) was 9tips*-
tin, The dresses were superb,