The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-24 00:00:00

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IIER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, OCt. 22.
The Queen and royal family drove out as usual.
The Duke of Buckingham had the honour of din-
ing with her Majesty and the royal family.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Colonel
Keppel, and suite honoured the performances at the
Theatre Royal, Adelphi, last evening with their presence.
The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-
Colonel Keppel, visited the Guards' Industrial Home
and Institute yesterday.
His Excellency Count de Vistahermosa has left
the Spanish Legation for Paris.
The Duke of Norfolk has left Paris on a to'ir in
G ermany.

The Marchioness (Dowager) Townshend and
Lady Audrey Townshend have arrived in Paris from
a tour of the German Spas.
The Earl and Countess of Derby intend to leave
Knowsley for their residence in St. James's-square
on the 4th of the ensuing month.
The Earl and Countess of Dudley have arrived
in Paris from the noble earl's shooting-box at Black
Mount, N.B.

The Earl and Countess of Warwick and family
arrived at their residence in the Stable-yard, St.
James's, on Tuesday evening, from Warwick Castle.
The Countess (Dowager) of Lichfield has arrived
at her residence in Hill-street, from Paris.
Viscountess Palmerston, accompanied by Vie-
countess Jocelyn and Hon. Miss Jocelyn and Vis-
count and Viscountess Sudley, arrived at her resi-
dence in Park-lane yesterday, from Brockett
Herts.

Lady Georgina Willoughby de Broke has ar-
rived at the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner.

Lady Frances Gordon and Miss Gordon have
returned to town from a tour on the Continent.

We have to announce the death of Lady Georgina
Mary Louisa Oakley, who died on the 20th inst.
Her ladyship was the eldest daughter of Henry
George, second earl of Ducie, by his wife, the Hon.
Elizabeth Dutton, eldest daughter of Lord Sher-
borne. Her ladyship was born July 18, 1831, and
married, Jan. 29, 1856, the Rev Charles E. Oakley,
rector of Wickwar, Gloucestershire.

The Right Hon. Sir William Hutt, M.P., and
Lady Hutt have left Grosvenor-square for Paris.
The Right Hon. Edward Horsman, M.P., and
Mrs. Horsman left Glenfeshie, Kingusie, on Satur-
day, for Lochinch, near Stranraer, on a visit to the
Earl of Stair.

Sir Edwin Landseer is at present in Ross-shire,
the guest of Mr. J. E. Coleman, at Lochluichart
Lodge. Tho veteran artist is still well and active,
and is enjoying his favourite sport of deerstalking
with considerable success.

THE FATE OF DR. LITTLYGSTONE.

The following is the full text of the letter written
by Mr. J. S. Moffat respecting his brother-in-law,
Dr. Livingstone :

" Claremont, Sept. 17, 1867.
" Sirs,—People are incessantly asking me whether
I have not given up all hope respecting Dr. Living-
stone. There appears to me no necessity for us to
make up our minds on the subject at present. 1
put off writing to you until we should hear once
more from England, and as no further intelligence
about Dr. Livingstone has been received I shall say
once for all what appears to me to be the state of
the case.

" All the evidence to the effect that Dr. Living-
stone was murdered by the Mazite comes through
one channel, namely, the Johanna men, with Moussa
at their head. Two or three different accounts
have been given by these men, and no one ac-
count is reconcilable with the others. I will not
occupy space or time by going into details, but
any one may satisfy himself on this point.
" Reports have been received through other
channels, not corroborating, but absolutely contra-
dicting, the account given by the Johanna men.
Arab traders have come from the immediate vicinity
of the spot where the murder is alleged to have oc-
curred, and yet have not heard of an event which
could not have failed to cause a good deal of excite-
ment through an extended region. A message has
been sent to the Sultan of Zanzibar by a chief
inland that Livingstone had passed his territories
alive and well at a point beyond the scene of the
supposed murder.

" What has become of the Africans who were
with Livingstone ? He started from the coast with
three sorts of people. The sepoys soon came back,
unable to bear the hardships of the climate and
journey. The Johanna men came back with the
story which has made so much noise in the world ;
but where aro the negroes, of whom there were nine
or ten, who had been sent with Livingstone, and
the sepoys from Bombay ? It is not said that they
were killed. What has become of them ?

" Great stress is laid on Dr. Kirk's opinion.
Granted. No man is better qualified to judge. But
has he made up his mind ? He wrote at the first
blush of the affair, and said he feared it was true.
A month later he wrote and said it was not well to
go spreading reports and putting things in the
papers. We had better wait for more evidence. I
am not aware that he has expressed himself very
decidedly since then.

" Thecontinued silence of Dr. Livingstone is said
to look bad. How long has he been silent ? Not
much more than 12 months. He was silent longer
than that when he crossed the continent further
south at a narrower place. I myself have been 12
months without communication with the civilised
world, though I have never been in such secluded
regions as those to which Livingstone was directing
his course when the Johanna men say he was
killed. If Livingstone is off the caravan routes
which lead to the coast near Zanzibar, he is not
likely to find any one to carry his letters. If, as I
think quite possible, the negroes are still with him,
having got so far, he would not bo likely to return,
but would continue his journey, and I should not
be in the least surprised if he turned up in some
most unexpected quarter. _ _ .

" Probably the Johanna mon, like their neigh-
bours on the Continent, can tell most circumstantial
lies. My father has been killed and buried, too,
before now, with all the necessary formalities; and
so have I, on a smaller scale.
" My own belief is that when the Johanna men
found that Livingstone was going into a region too
remote for their taste, they did what many servants,
black and white, have done before them—took to
their heels somo fine night when the explorer was
asleep, and made the best of their way back to
Zauzibar.—l am, &c.,

" JOHN SMITH MOFFAT."