The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-28 00:00:00

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The prooeeding at tie meeting of 64ovatfreoga-
phical Society had on Monday were unusually arractiVe,
owing to the fact that an official report and a detailed '''-'
narrative of Mr. Young's expedition to Africa in search
bf Dr. Livingstone were presented to the members. The
whole credit of the search, as well as its successful issue,
must be ascribed to the intrepid warrant officer who
proposed, planned, and carried out the journey,
the results of which he has had the privilege
of personally presenting. From the first, be-
lieving that the statement of the Johanna men in
reference to the fate of Livingstone was not to be relied
on, they being notorious cc4ards and liars, Mr. Young
was unable to rest until he had tested the value of his
conviction. So thoroughly has he done this, that none but
those who refuse to accept any proof except that
of their own actual eyesight can yet hold the
opinion that Livingstone was murdered as al-
leged. It is now demonstrated bf,yond the shadow
of a doubt that the great explorer had safely passed
the spot where it was asserted his career had been
violently arrested by the assassin's hand. The story pro.
mulgated by the Johanna men was that the doctor was
killed and buried near the south-western course of Lake
Nyassa, which, with its sister Lake Shirwa, lies on
the east coast over against the Mozambique Channel.
To reach this point, therefore, by doing which ,
the troth or falsehood of the Johanna men's tale could be
at once established, Mr. Young and the little expedition
under his command set sail from Southampton, carrying
with them a steel boat, specially designed by the above-
named officer, on the Bth of June. The steel boat, which
has done such goodly service, was so constructed that with
the greatest ease it could be taken to pieces and
packed, either on board ship or carried across
country, and re-fitted when its services were re.
quired for navigation. Pursuing his way up the Zambesi,
a river which leads by the Shire to the Lake Nyassa, Mr.
Young reached Shupanga on the 2nd of August. At this
point a man less bold and determined might have paused
to consider the advisability of proceeding, for tidings were
rife of fierce wars that were raging up the country. The
only effect these stories had on him, however, was to cause
him somewhat to deviate from his proposed course by sailing
a little higher up the Zambesi from the Shire's mouth to
Senerr;--whieh place he,resehed on the 6th, having then
with him, in addition to the little band he had taken from
England, a boat's crew of 22 negroes, who contracted to
stick by him to the last, and who certainly did so, but in
a future period of the journey made themselves great
nuisances, being utterly useless when wanted. The
channel of the Shire, which may be called the
highway of the route, was entered by a cross
stream from Senna, and after a delay caused by
the absence of a sufficient wind, and a forced march of
ninety miles performed in the space of four days, Chibisa
was made on the 17th. Two days were given to inquiries
here, and friendly relations were established with the chief
of the tribe whose name has been given to the place. At
the moment the expedition arrived, rumours that the
Mavite and Mazite were in the vicinity, and in a warlike
attitude, spread terror amongst the Mukololo. This
unquiet condition of the country exposed Mr. Young to
some annoyance, an army of blacks, supposing him to be
an enemy, endeavouring to stay his course. This little
difficulty surmounted, by judicious conversation and the
promise of future presents, Mr. Young, leaving the
Ajavas behind him, reached Lake Nyassa, out of the
eastern bay of which runs the Shire. On the 6th of Sep-
tember two villages were found at this point, and here it
was that the scent became very strong. The Johannamen
had affirmed in the most determined manner that
at one of these villages—Marenga—Livingstone was
buried. Of his inquiries in the village of Maponda, on the
other side, the journal kept by the warrant officer con-
tains some most interesting and important particulars.
He had an interview with a native who had been employed
by the traveller to carry his goods at a date anterior to
that at which it was stated he was killed. Other natives
proved having seen Livingstone at the same time. -
Piece after piece of evidence was forthcoming to establish
the fact that a year before the arrival of the expedition he
had passed from Makata, after staying in the neighbour-
hood for three weeks, in perfect safety. One entry in Mr.
Young's diary is to the effect that a native 'not only
was able accurately to describe the doctor's own
appearance, . but also that of the dog which ac-
companied him. This dog, whose name was
Jitani, had a peculiarity of tail which was known to all
who had made his acquaintance. This the native spoke of,
describing- the animal as a " dog with two tails." To fur-
ther test the accuracy of his information, Mr. Young took
one of the men to the boat and showed him a " breech-
loader" and another gun. The man immediately stated that
the person of whom he spoke was possessed of similar articles.
A Prayer-book, with Livingstone's name, and a scarf, given
to an old woman, were produced for Mr. Young's inspec-
tion. He eso found amongst the natives some Seidlita
powders and other medicines, some of which he has
brought back with him. Added to all the above testi-
mony was the assurance of the chief at Marenga
that he had tidings of the traveller for a whole
month after he left in the northward path.
The Johanna men, it must be borne in mind, had
returned through the village after two days' march with
Livingstone. After spending twenty days in visiting the
vicinities of Lake Nyassa, Mr. Young left on the 20th
of September, assured that Livingstone had gone forward
northward on his journey in safety.

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THE YORKSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. -In the 'West
Riding, out of a total enrolled force of 6,512, the effectives
number 5,436 ; in the North Riding 1,684 were enrolled,
and 1,292 are effectives ; and in the East Riding 627 are
effectives in a total of 885.

Lord Westbury has been asked to take his seat
at the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, where the
arrears of cases are very considerable. His lordship
is to arrive in London on the 3rd of February for that
purpose.

The council of the Aeronautical Society have
decided upon holding an exhibition in London of objects
connected with aeronautical science, in the month of June.
Arrangements have been made for the exhibition to be held
at the Crystal Palace.

By the last China mail Mr. Whompoa, the
hospitable Chinese merchant at Singapore, sent £5O to the
Royal Naval Scripture Readers' Society. This is the third
donation of a like amount bestowed by this kind-hearted
and charitable Chinaman on royal naval associations.
We have to record the death of Caroline Eliza-
beth, wife of Mr. H. Hussey Vivian, M.P., who died on
Saturday last, at Park Worn, after a lingering illness.
The lamented lady, who was in her 36th year, was the
only daughter of Sir Montague J. Cholmeley, Bart., M.P.
Mr. A. M. Skinner, Q.C., judge of the Wolver-
hampton County Court, lately remarked, in the course of
the hearing of a case, that the working classes had driven
the trade from the country by their strikes. He shud-
dered to think of the trade of Old England being given to
foreigners.

The first attempt to desecrate churchyards by
the erection of memorial crosses in honour of the men
executed at Manchester has been promptly put down by
the Irish constabulary. A cross was put up in the
graveyard of Rathowen by, as the Weekly News states,
the Roman Catholic inhabitants ; but it was immediately
pulled down and cut to pieces by a constable, while an
officer and some members of the force stood by to protect
him.
The magistrates of Limerick have fined a sub-
constable £4 for making a false arrest ofa respectable
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farmer, on the pretence that he was a suspicious character.
The sub-inspector in charge of the police party pressed
prosecution, feeling it his duty to punish the man who
allegedha dacted
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all the period that extraordinary power have been en-
trusted to them, and great temptations offered to indulge
personal feelings if they eutertailied them.

FRAUDS IN BANKRUPTCY. —The wholesale City
tea-dealers have instituted a prosecution, under the Bank-
ruptcy Act of 1861, against certain "recent bankrupts who
have been obtaining goods to a large amount, no less than
£2.000, fradulently. The 221st of the Act makes it an
offence for any trader within three months of the filing of
his petition to have obtained any goods upon credit, other-
wise than in the bona fide transactions of his regular trade
or business. The two persons accused, Messrs. Hannah
and Patterson, have, it is alleged, carried on a systematic
scheme of fraud in contravention of this clause. The case
has been partly heard at the Mansion House, and the pri-
soners remanded.

A ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP ON FEMALE ATTIRE.
—The Rev. Dr. Goss, Romah Catholic Bishop of Liver-
pool, has followed the example set by his Holiness the
Pope in censuring the extravagant style of attire ad opted
by the fair sex of the present day. Ladies, said the
bishop, were accustomed to have a large ball stuck on the
backs of their heads, formed of the hair of deceased per-
sons generally. Now, " dead hair" did not preserve its
colour, and one had only to look at the first lady they met
to detect the difference between the real and the sham
article. His own attention was first called to the abomi-
nations by noticing the difference of colour they exhibited;
but such was the fondness of the ladies for these shams
that he could quite believe the account he had read in a
French paper (while travelling from Vichy to Paris) of a
French lady who flew into a violent rage when a man,
seeing her chignon had been set in a flame by a spark from
a railway engine, had torn it off her head, and eon.
si4e_rAClY exkulguallcd the combustible mass of false hair.