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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBING A. CHILD.—A DARING THIEF.—John Brown,
a determined-looking fellow, who has several aliases, and is
well known to the police; was charged with stealing a silk
umbrella, of the value of 205., the propertyof Mr. Thomas
Mumford, of 6, Arden-street, Little Windmill-street, under
the following circumstances :
Thomas Mumford, a little boy nine years of age, said he
was going home the previous evening, with the umbrella
under his arm, when the prisoner came up and asked him
the way to some street. He told him he did not know, when
he said " You're a fool," and seized the umbrella and ran
away. Witness called " Stop thief," and ran after him,
and somebody stopped him. The umbrella was not quite
!tew, but was worth 20s.
Prisoner-20s. I why, he says it is not new.

George Peart, of 10, Richmond-street, Newport-street,
said he saw the little boy running after the prisoner, calling
at the time " Stop thief I" The prisoner had at the time
a silk umbrella under his arm. lie pursued him, and saw
him, after running a short diStance, return without it, not
having the timbiella with him. It had a white handle.

Prisoner—Oh, yes, you were told that by the father of
the child.

The prisoner, in a very surly manner, ha%ing pleaded
guilty,

Mr. Beadon said it was an exceedingly bad case—robbing
a little child in the street—and was one the law required to
be punished with great severity, that it might deter others
from doing a similar thing.
Committed for six months, with hard labour.

THE LIVI.N-GSTON'E PXPEPITIOAT:

(Front the Cope A rgus of Nov.. 20.)
Last week letters were received here from Dr.
Livingtone and other members of the exploring
expedition to the Zambezi River. The news they
contain of the progress of the expedition is alike
important and interesting. They had reached Tete,
where a supply of coals for the steam-launch was
obtained, the first ever taken out of the earth in
that country. Dr. Livingstone's Makololo friends,
whom he had left at Tete previous to going to
England, were found to be still there awaiting his
return. A letter received by Governor Sir George
Grey from the reverend doctor contains some inte-
resting details relative to these matters. Sir G.
Grey, we may mention, has availed himself of every
opportunity to assist the expeditionists, and his
kindness is gratefully acknowledged by Dr. Living-
stone, who afterwards proceeds to say :
" I shall commence, without preface, in the middle
of things, by saying that I have just come down
from Tete to the mouth of the river (Kongone) and
will start in a day or two for the same point. The
gentlemen there (at Tete), through the influence
of Major Lecard, at once acceded to my proposi-
tion to get nie some coals, and in three or four days
we were furnished with a ton and a half, the very
first ever dug in this country. The engineer
pronounces them to be of a very good kind, though
being from the surface, where, in the bank of
the Muatize, they have been exposed to the action
of air and floods for ages. Mr. Thornton, the geolo-
gist, thinks equally well of them. They contain
very little sulphur. I could not ascend the river (Re-
vulene) into which the Muatize flows, to load at the
seam itself, as there were only a few inches of
water at a bar across its confluence with the Zam-
bezi, but large canoes brought them down. At other
times of the year we could have sailed up in this
launch, which draws 2ft. Gin., with the greatest
ease. There is no end of the finest (specular) iron
ore ; so with coal (of which many- seams or parts of
an immense seam crop out) and
,iron.; surely some-
thing will yet be done in Africa. This was the first
thing of the steamer kind ever seen at Tete, and we
were visited with as much interest as is the Levia-
than. Foremost among our visitors were my
Makololo companions. They grasped my hands
and arms convulsively, and lullilooed for joy.. About
30 of them have died from small-pox, and six were
killed by a rebel chief, who, in defiance of Portu-
guese authority, holds a stockade at the confluence
of the Luenya. This grieves them and me more
than anything. The excuse is he did it in a fit of
drunkenness. There were three such rebels, half-
caste Portuguese of Goa, who defied the Portuguese.
One, who had a stockade at the mouth of the Shire,
has just now been conquered by the Governor
of Killimane. The war has been against us,
though we have gone from one side to the other,
without molestation, as friends of both, or rather
as English, for it is the English name that was
our passport. I came one night to a party
after dark, and created an alarm, but that was
quelled when I called out Mglze.' The river
is now nearly at its lowest ; and, unlike the muddy
rivers of the west, it may be styled one of sand;
there is very little mud comparatively. Be-
low Lunata it is spread out to from one mile to
three in width, with many islands. In the wide
parts I experienced considerable difficulty, and
especially in one part called Shigogo ; but when
we approached Lupata, where all the river is in
one body, our difficulties end. At Kelira Basa we
shall have another obstacle to surmount. It is
described as a number of rocks jutting out of the
stream, and narrowing the channel, which is deep
and tortuous. There is no waterfall, but we shall
go and examine it carefully as soon as we get.
up ; and, this being low water, we shall be able to
give a clear idea of the whole. If we could travel
as geographers do, with the legs of a pair of com-
passes, we might have been there long ago. At
present we are taking up our luggage from stage to
stage, and having been deceived by a false report
on the engine of this vessel it is rather slow work.
It consumes an enormous quantity of fuel, and
half our time, when we have no coals, is spent in
woodcutting. This, however, led to our discover-
ing that lignum vitae abounds, and there is also
ebony, and teak, or African oak ; but we cannot
bet say how much. The canoes pass us and look
ack at the ' Asthmatic,' as I call her now. The
vessel herself is all very well, though drawing
much more than was predicted; but, the engine
turns out a wretched piece of gingerbread when
worked on wood alone. From the information I

formerly received from the Portuguese, "I believe
that the river could be navigated during only six
or nine months in the year, but it is now not far
from its lowest, and I begin to think that a vessel
drawing only two feet might run the whole
year ; but this we shall be able to decide next
month. It begins to rise again in that fol-
lowing The Portuguese
ought to do something in the lighthouse way,
and if they would only be at the expense of a few
piles at three places all obstructions from shallow-
ness of water would vanish. Taking the river as a
whole, there is no lack of water—witness the
reports of Captains Gordon and Bedingfield ; and,
though it is now eight or nine feet lower, it has
still much the same appearance, and always makes
me won* how our easy-chair geographers could
imagine it all to come out of a great interior sandy
desert.' When it spreads out into several channels

a few piles driven in at the part above where the
water takes the swing into a shallow one would in
one flood effect what is now done by snags,—
create a deep channel. A few piles would widen
the Kongone canal in one year."
He suggests that some sort of beacon should be
erected at the mouth of the Kongone, to prevent
persons being misled and going into the Luabo
instead. It appears that when the Pearl first
entered the river the steam launch Ma-Robert was
immediately put together although the day was
Sunday ; and this circumstance has been censured
by some persons who were ignorant of the motives
which led to it. But the best reply to such
criticism is given by Dr. Livingstone himself, who
in the concluding portion of the letter above
alluded to, says :
"When I came in among mangrove swamps
. . . . I pushed on the work with all haste to
get out of the Delta. People, I hear, blame me for
this; but they would have blamed me much more
had I lost nearly all the expedition. . . We take
quinine daily, and the short illnesses we had have
partaken more of the character of common colds than
fever. Here, in the mangrove swamps, two of our
number, who are now better, had, in addition, a
dry skin for some hours. But with quinine and
care I see no obstacle to passengers going up to
Tete from that disease, and there begins the healthy
country. Yet it is not to be trusted either ; irre-
gularities must be avoided."
It is stated, that Capt. Bedingfield, R.N., who
accompanied the expedition as surveyor, has re-
signed, and is to withdraw from the expedition.