The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, July 1.
Yesterday the Emperor received the members of

the Monetary Coliference, who thanked his Majesty
for having placed Prince Napoleon at their head.
In the afternoon, at 2.30 p.m., the Emperor re-
ceived the Lord Mayor and some of the Aldermen
of the City of London. The Lord Mayor read an
address, in which he referred to the late attempted
assassination, and also congratulated his Majesty on
the success of the Exhibition. In reply to the ad-
dress, which was written in English, the Emperor
thanked the Lord Mayor and the other members of
the deputation in the same language for the cordial
step they had taken, and the hearty sentiments
they had expressed.
The Grand Duchess Marie of Russia has arrived
at Trouville, where she purposes passing three
weeks.

Prince Humbert occupied the Emperor's box at

the Gymnase the night before last to witness the
performance 'of " Les Dees de Madame Aubray.'
Prince Mustapha Pacha has returned from his
visit to Switzerland. On the day of his arrival
he went to visit his brother, the Viceroy of
Ef.4YPt•
Prince Humbert entertained a number of distin-
guished guests at dinner on Thursday, at the Italian
Embassy ; among them were the Princess Mathilde,
Marshals Niel and Caurobert, General Molard, M.
Rouher, &c.

A thunderstorm, attended with calamitous results,
broke a few days back over the mountain of Tar-
nave in the Ardeche. The lightning killed instan-
taneously a shepherd and 203 sheep.
The Roumain Government has appointed M.
Winterhalter its diplomatic agent in France in place
of M. Balatelrano, resigned.
The Portuguese Cortes were closed on Thursday.
All the Government bills brought in during the
session, the principal of which was that relating to
the Code, were adopted by the Chambers.
A letter from Suez of the 12th says :—" The
return of the pilgrims from' Mecca by way of
this port is now almost entirely terminated.
Between the 27th of April and the 6th of June
the steamers of the Egyptian Azizich Company
conveyed 6,877 of those passengers ; 890 have
also arrived by land, and the great caravan
of the holy Carpet, consisting of 3,500 pilgrims,
and which is arriving by stages, is also ex-
pected. The mortality has been insignificant,
notwithstanding the crowding of the vessels
and the exhaustion of the travellers ; no death took
place on the Azizich Company's boats during the
passage from Djeddah to Suez. Sunstroke, dy-
sentery, and fatigue made some victims among the
pilgrims of the caravan, but there is no need for
astonishment at this fact when the length of the
journey and the state of misery of the fatalist tra-
vellers, crossing torrid deserts without tents or other
shelter and almost without hread and water, are taken
into consideration. The pilgrims by way of sea were,
•n their arrival, subjected to a quarantine of obser-
vation for five days at a few miles from Suez.
Notwithstanding the orders which had been given
for providing them with food, their number was
so great and the means of transport from the
town so insufficient that they were without water
for two days ; tents had been sent to shelter them
from the deadly rays of the sun, but in addition to
the difficulty of providing room for so numerous a
colony in the midst of the Desert many neglected to
take the precautions rendered necessary by the cli-
mate of the country, to which the Circassians, Anti-
tolians, and Montenegrins were not accustomed.
Ten of them thus lost their lives. In fine, every
one admits that the mortality among the pilgrims
of the caravans was much inferior to that of pre-

ceding years."
The latest news from China reports the arrival at
llong Kong, on the 9th May, of the Colorado.
The Chinese Government has prohibited the print-
ing of newspapers with movable characters. It is
intended to open branch post-offices at the Treaty
Ports. The Japanese Government has given notice
that it is prepared to open the ports of Yedo, Osaka,
Hiogo, and another (the name of which is not
mentioned), on the Ist of January next.
BOURSE, June 29, Two o'clock.—ln spite of
little business doing, and a decline in other securi-
ties, French Threes have advanced 7ic., the quo-
tation being 69fr. 20c., whereas Italian Fives have
declined 20c., at 52fr. 45c. ; Credit Foncier shares
sfr., at 1,455 f. ; Credit Mobilier Ifr. 25c., at 373 fr.
75c. ; Spanish Mobilier Gfr. 25e., at 250 fr. ;
Comptoir d'Escompte 3fr. 75c., at 775 fr. ; Im-
mobiliere 2fr. 50c., at 173 fr. 75e. ; and Trans-
atlantic sfr., at 397 fr. 50c. Railway shares are
likewise weaker, with slightly lower quotations.
Austrian have declined sfr., at 475 fr., and Lom-
bard 3fr. 75c., at 391 fr. The two telegrams from
London come each with a fall of

Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :-
4i. per Cents 99 Bank Shares 3220 --
Do. end month — Italian Loan .52 30
3 per Cents. 69 25 Do. end month 52 25
De. end month 69 17f Mexican Loan l6 50
Credit Mobilier ... 376 25 Do. Bonds 132 50
Do. end month ... 375 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier — Home Debt
Do. end month 1457 50 • Deferred
BALL WAYS.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern l2lO
Lyons and Mediterranean BB6 25
Southern 573 75

Western 560
Eastern
Sardinian . —
Austrian
Lombard 391 25
North of Spain 9B 75
Saragosi a lO7 50
R4)111:111..

Sliockiug Suicide.
INQUEST THIS DAY.
This morning, Mr. William Carter, the coroner
for East Surrey, held an inquiry at Horsemonger-
lane, Borough, respecting the suicide of Mary Eliza-
beth itowbotham, aged 47 years, the wife of a pro-
fessional vocalist well known in London. The
evidence given went to show that the de-
ceased had for many years resided in the
above-mentioned locality, but, on account of
her in ten )perate habits was separated from
her husband, and afterwards carried on a newspaper
and stationery business, but the greater part of the
profits from v.hich, as well as the money alloWed by
Tier husband, she spent to procure drink. She had
for some time been in a very desponding state of
mind, and on the 17th inst. swallowed a quantity
of oxalic acid. She was conveyed to the above
gaol, where she remained until she expired from the
effects of the poison. The jury returned a verdict
that the deceased destroyed her own life by taking
oxalic acid, being at the time in a state of unsound
mind, produced by excessive drinking of ardent
spirits.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE WORKS OF THE MID-
LAICD BAILWAT. —On Friday an inquest was held at the
University College Hospital on the body of Thomas
Lawton, aged 37 years, who was killed instantaneously
at the Kentish Town Works of the Midland Railway, by
the giving way of a crano at which ho was working. A
verdict of Accidental Death was returned.

" The hopes raised by the news which we pub-
on !he 15th of May of th: rumoured safety
of Dr. Livingstone have speedily been dispelled,
and there can no longer be any doubt that
he was killed by a savage of the Mafito tribe. The
narrative of the Sepoy belonging to the Marine
Battalion (21st Native Infantry) who formed one of
the doctor's escort, and who arrived from Zanzibar
in the Gazelle on the 14th of May, turns out to be
altogether inaccurate; and, substantially, the tale
told by Moosa is proved correct.
" The Nadir Shah, a vessel of war belonging to
the Sultan of Zanzibar, at present used as a trader,
reached Bombay on the 15th of May in cargo ; and
from information we obtained on board we are en-
abled to give a more detailed account of the circum-
stances in connection with the melancholy story of
the doctor's fate than bas yet been published. The
Nadir Shah left Zanzibar on the forenoon of the
28th of March, so that the news she brings is
nearly a month later than that brought by the
Gazelle, and three days later than the last despatch
received from Zanzibar by the Bombay Govern-
meut..

"Dr. Livingstone took his departure from Zan-
zibar in March, 1866, and was conveyed in her
Majesty's ship Penguin to Pinganeh, at the mouth
of the Rovuma river. The expedition consisted of
Dr. Livingstone and 35 men, 10 of whom were
natives of Johanna, one of the Comoro Islands, 13
Africans, and 12 sepoys of the Bombay Marine
Battalion. It was thought by Dr. Livingtone that
these Africans would be of kervice to him on his
journey into the interior. The Africans were

formerly slaves, who had been liberated and edu-
cated in the Bombay Presidency. There was no
other European in the party except the doctor him-
self. The beasts taken were—six camels, four
buffaloes, from Bombay, five asses, and two
mules, and among the baggage there were forage,
gunpowder, &c. The Penguin started from Zan-
zibar on the 19th of March, 1866, and the men in
the doctor's train and the beas:s were taken from
Zanzibar in a large dhow, which was towed by the
Penguin. In three days the Penguin arrived off
the Ruvuma river, but, owing to the strong current
the dhow could not be got into the mouth of the
stream. The expedition then made for Miukindany
Bay, about 30 miles northward of Cape Delgoa,
where Dr. Livingstone and his party were success-
fully landed
.on the 28th of March.

" The-Johanna men, who had been engaged for
the doctor's service by Mr. Sundley, the English
Consul at Johanna, were considered preferable for
the service to Zanzibar men. On the march into
the interior the Sepoys seem to have suffered much,
and Dr. Livingstone thought it necessary to leave
them on the rout4to enable them to return to Zanzibar.
In returning they had but little to eat, and ran great
risk. of starving. One by one, all the Sepoys fell
ill, and the sickness that attacked the havildar was
fatal, as he died of dysentery. None of the 12
Sepoys who started with the doctor reached Ny-

assa, and those who survived returned to Zanzibar
iii August or September. lu October last the
Johanna men made their appearance in Zanzibar,
and presented themselves before Dr. Seward, the
British Consul, when for the first time the intelli-

gence was received of the disaster which had be-
fallen Dr. Livingstone. From the accounts of
these Johanna men it would seem that the ex-
pedition reached Lake Nyassa in safety and
crossed the lake. They pushed on westward,

and in the course of some time reached Goo-
many, a fishing village on a river. This would appear
to have been on the second or third week in August
last. The people of Goomany warned Dr. Living-

stone that the Mafites, a wandering predatory tribe,
were out on a plundering expedition, and that it
would not be safe to continue the journey. But the
dangers thus presented to view were not sufficient
to deter a man who had braved so many before; and,
treating the warnings as but of slight moment, he
crossed the river in canoes the next morning, with
his baggage and train of followers, in safety. Pre-
viously to this time the whole of the baggage animals
had perished on the journey from the want of water ;

and• on reaching the further side of the river
the baggage had to be carried by the doctor's men,

Being a fast walker, Dr. Livingstone kept some dis-
tance in advance of the baggage-encumbered men ;
and Moosa only, or Moosa, and a few others of the
party, kept up with him. The march had continued

some distance when Dr. Livingstone saw three armed
men ahead, and thereupon he called out to Moosa,
" The Mafites are out, after all," or some such words
as those ; and these seem to have been the last he
uttered. The three Mafites were armed with bows
and arrows and other weapons, and they imme-
diately commenced hostilities. Evidently the men
must have closed on the doctor, when, finding
matters desperate, he drew his revolver and
shot two of his assailants, but while thus dispos-
ing of the two the third managed to get behind
Dr. Livingstone, and with one blow from an
axe clove in his head. The wound was mortal, but
the assassin quickly met his own doom, for a bullet
from Moosa's musket passed through his body, and
the murderer fell dead beside his victim. Moosa
states that the doctor died instantly, and that find-
ing the Mafites were out he ran back to the baggage
party and told them that their master had been
killed. The baggage was hastily abandoned, and
the Johanna men, Moosa, and the rest of the party
sought safety by a hasty flight, which, according
to Moosa's story, they continued until sunset, when
they reached a secure hiding-place in the jungle.
They held a. consultation, and it is alleged that
Moosa prevailed on them to go back and look
after the body of their late master, and that on
'regaining the place where the murder had been per-
petrated they found Dr. Livingtone's body lying
there. The doctor's watch had been carried away,
together with his clothes, the only article that re-
mained on the body being the trousers. Moosa and
the men who had accompanied him scratched' a
hole in the ground just deep enough to bury the
body in, and there left in a far remote and un-
known spot the remains of the self-denying and
noble man who, all too soon for his country and for
the cause of civilisation, but nos too soon for him
to have earned an enduring fame, found his end
at the hand of an ignoble savage. The corpses
of the three Mafites were lying on the spot where
they had fallen ; but no attention was paid to them
by Moosa, who on searching could find no memento
of his late master to bring with him to Zanzibar.
In making their way to the coast great hardships

were experienced by Moosa and the other survivors
of the party, who were in such a starving condition
that they had to live upon the berries they could
gather by the way
until they fell in with an Arab
caravan, which entertained them kindly. They
were . thus enabled to reach Keelwah, in the
territory of the Sultan of Zanzibar. They were
here provided with clothes and necessaries and
-cut on to Zanzibar, at which place they reported
all the circumstances to‘Dr. Seward, by whom they
were closely examined. Dr. Kirk, of Zanzibar, an
old asso:liate, of Livingstone, also questioned them
carefully, and found that their statement of the
country through which they alleged they had passed
correctly answered to the leading features of the
wilds through which Dr. Livingstone had intended
to track his way.
"The Johanna men were taken to Johanna, and
carefully interrogated by the Sultan or Rajah, as
well as by Mr. Sundley, and there answers tallied
with Moosa's narrative. The Johanna men asked
Mr. Sundley to pay them .the nine months' wages
due to them for their services with the expedition,
and, as they were entitled to what they demanded,
the money was paid to them. Some of the men
who went away with the expedition, and who were
not accounted for as having died, were still missing.
" On the 26th of December Dr. Seward left
Zanzibar in Ur Majesty's ship Wasp, and proceeded
to Keelwah, but he was unable to obtain any fresh
information or to gather additional details."

* Including New Zealand Bonde, £500,000

lII.—An Account showing the Revenue and other
Receipts of the Quarter ended Juno 30, 1867, the appli-
cation of the same, and the Charge of the Consolidated
Fund for the said Quarter, together with the surplus or
deficiency upon such charge :
Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Con-
solidated Fund, for the Quarter ended
Match 31, 1867, viz. :
Great Britain .
Ireland

1524,636

S 2 t,4 6
Income received, as shown in Account I 17,781,9:5
Amount received in repayment of Advances for
Public Works, &c.
Ditto for New Courts of Justice

Balance, being the Deficiency on June 30, 1867,
upon the charge of the Consolidated Fund
in Great Britain, to meet the Dividends,
and other charges, payable in the Quarter
to Sept. 30,1867

Deficiency of the Income of the Cansolidated
Fund in Great Britain in the Quarter to
March 31, 1867, for the charge (I the Con-
sul dated Fund in Great Britain for that
Quarter (as shoun in the prec ding ac-
count)
Less ani,unt of charge for the said
Quarter catce led

528,339
t,OOO

£ 9,252;70

1,092,916

.£2 1,315,78 G

673: (*3

Amount applied out of the Income to Supply Ser -
vices
Amount Advanced for New courts of Justice
Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter
ended June 3", 1837, viz. :
Interest of the Permanent
Debt ...e6,(Y 8,327
Terminable Debt
Principal of Exchequer Bills 43,500
Interest of Exchequer Bills 68,930 .
Interest of Deficiency Bills - -
The Civil List
Other Charges on Consoli-
dated Fund 427,75:
Advances forPublicWorks,&c. 382,167
Sinking Fund

F,29J,074

Surplus Balance in Ireland beyond the charge of
the Consolidated Fund In Ireland for the
Quarter ended June 34, 1807 . .

911,281

£20,30,786

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.

On Saturday the first and second-class cutter races of
this club were sailed, accompanied by the Queen of the
Thames, Captain Cook, chartered by the club, and, as
usual, well provisioned by Mr. Dorling ; the Petrel steamer,
of the Woolwich Company, and a number of gentlemen's
yachts, including Lord Milton's screw, Night Thought,
Nettle, Annie, Mariner, and others. Th entries were as
follow: