New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-04-19
FROM OUR FOREIGN FILES.
GREAT BRITAIN.

THE JAMAICA MURDERs-LETTER FROM MRS GofpoN'
In reply TO numerous ISLANDERS, Mrs Gordon has
addressed the following letter TO TIC Times;
SIR Your report of the recent proceedings at Market
touching the character my late husband Nv Gordon
did not wish to become his indicator feeling assured
that time wonld do him JUSTICE but am urged by many
friends whose entreaes can no longer resist 10 protest
against those assertions us utterly false ana canmous
AZ the widow of q who was wrongtuly put 10
DEATH ask ~ your hands the insertion on ths potest
from me and would request me aGdon hs shsrac
ter signed by persons whose reputation ior integrity h
I'm a dispatch from Mr. Eyre TO Mr.. Carlwell. dated
Kingshouse, January 1896 TO he found IN tue Be Qoh
ON tic Jamaica disturbances, entitled Papers ald pc
fore the Royal Commission of Inquiry by Governor Eyre
the following paragraph appears AZ PaeG @
1T is also well known out here ,that MT uOIdoh WE
universally regarded bad man in every sense OF the
word Reported 20 be grossly immoral and an adulcel'
crte-suCh are the terms applied 10 the late g. W. COR
don. and believe abundant PROOF might pe addueed o.
{" The undersigned, having resided in the island many
years aud having had very considerable OF
knowing and forming an estimate of the late Mt GOruos
character al his various relations do hereby protest
against the foregoing eFatons M made Mr. ana
declare them 20 be utterly without Foundation slgheg
James Philippe SEN Baptist missionary, jamaica WIZ
Robert Osborn; James Bell; Alexander Fiddes res
Edinburgh Andrew Lyon. Common Councilman OF the
savanaia.Mar; James scott M.R.Cs., England; Abra.
ham Pinto, merchant; NJ Ramos merchant; Robert
Gordon priest of the Church OF England Head Master oil
wolmer's Grammar School, Kingston
One OF my greatest consultations In my present state OF
.
and Of the thorough uprghtness OF his character ana
tlat day these VIII be fully established oo,,
/ am, Sir, yours obedionty, NJ 1olho"'
WGtfOrd, Hcris, April6
THE PATE OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.
The Times Of India Of March - states that the ihte
gence received Zanzibar leaves no doubt 81 the
death Of Dr. Livingstone. The statement OF an Arab
named Moosa OF the hcroctrvees most irdsty io
lowers who with few Others Of the expedition, returned
10 the East African in December confirms the news
that their leader was murdered II would appear That
Or Livingstone had crossed Lake Nyassa about the mid
die " September last aud had advanced few stages
beyond its western shores when he Encountered hcFdt
OF savages of the Matte tribe lie marching az usual
ahead OF his party having nine or ten personal attthu
ants principally boys from Nassck Immediately behind
him The sayagcs said 10 have set upon them without
any aud with very little warning Or Living
stones men fired and before the smoke Of their muskes
had cleared away their leader had fallen beneath the
stroke Of batteaIe, and his men speedily shared the
same fate MOOsa who witnessed the encounter and the
deahblOw Of his master from behind neighboung ir9c
Immediately retTeated, and meeting the rest oi the
party, they fed into the deep forest and eventually
made their way back 10 Lake hyAssa. Nh - ~
turned 10 the coast with "a When the news OF
DR. vnestones sad death reached Zanzibar the English
ample which was followed all the shps in the hnrbor
as well by the Sultan II may he worth while 10 re
mark that Dr. Livingstone himself had strong present.
ment that he would return from the expedition
which has terminated thus disastrousy and fhe pre-
sentiment he frequently expressed 20 the officers OF Her
Maiesys ship Penguin who the last Europeans he
before starting fOT the interior.