The Commonwealth. — 1867-04-13 (London, England)

THE FATE OF DR. LIVIICGSTONE. 1 The Seeretary of the Admiralty- fortvarded thd-i following for publication : " Commodore Hillyar, in aletter dated et Bombay, the 13th of March last, reporte that r ty'hp Wasp had returned to Zanzibar, fl .;!na, WI Mr. Seward, her Majesty's Acting Poiiticlitetic:,.nt at Zanzibar, and states that the information whien that °inner had be:An able to obtain respecting the repogted death of Dr. Livingstone wite 'chiefly of a' confifinatory nature:"  Admiralty-, April 5, 1867. The Times of India of the 'l3th of Mareh statesibat thb intelligence received from Zarzibar row leaves no' &MIA of the death of Dr. Li fingstonte Testatemert orariArab, named Moose, one of the ;0'.7C1,1 traveller's most trusty followers, who, with a few others of the expedition, returned to the East African Coast in DeceMber, confirrds thee nethet their leader Wag '1 murdered. It wodld appear that Pe. Livingstone had ordsisbd Lake'NyaisSi abbet the ire:ldle 'of Svtetnber, last, and-had advanoed a few staged beyond its western shores, when he encountered a horde of savages of the Ms.fite tribe. He vfas marohint, as, usual, ahead oi ITEIPTI4rI,-havin—g *nine bilirbetsorial atTeiidaritiPriii-cipally boys from Nassielr, immediately 1-hind himThe' sivagee aro- said to have set upon them without au Provocation, and with very little_ warniu Dr. Livingston-6'e men - fired; and before-- 4e. emelt' of - theit mneketa had cleared away their leader had fallen beneath the stroke of a battle•axe, and his men speedily shared the same fate. Moose, who witnessed the encounter and the death-blovrof his maater fro rd behind a neighbouring tree; immediately retreated,'and, meeting the, rest of the party, they fled into the deepforest, and eventually made tteir way back to Lake Nyassa, whence they returned to the coast with a caravan. When the news of Dr. Livingstone's sad death reached Zinzibar, the Engliih Mid other European Corrsuls lowered their flags, an example' which was followed by all the ships in thelarbour, as well as by the &Han. It may be worth while to remark,that Dr., Livingstone himself had a strong presentiment that he would never return from the expedition whiohlaat terminated thus , disarstrously; and this presettiraent he freqtrently ' expressed to the officers of her Majesty's ship Penguin, who were the last Europeans he saw before starting for the interior.  We find the following in the Times of India, of March 14—a day later than the one above quoted : We are very 'glad to learn, frOM laternewis received froin ZAnzibar,stbat therd hi a possibility of the apparently oircatnetential aeommt of Dr. Livingstone's death, as-garrated by his follower Bloom, and published in our issue of yesterday, turning out to be incorrect. It appears that Dr. Seaward; the Acting 'Political Agent all Zirizibar, on hearing the, repOtt that Dr. Livingstone had' been reurdered; ma eld inquiries amen g the- traders of Keelwa lioingeo(Qailoa) who hadjtiet crossed from Nyzesa; and from what they knew, or perhaps from tlrir knowing nothing of the reported death of the traveller, that gentleman is inclined to entertain' the Opinion that the story'of Moosn'and his conipaiiione' was merely tiuMped up to aotonnt .for their desertioniof their master. In the absence of all the details promised, bythe next mail, we are sorry that we cannot attach great weight to Dr. Seaward's i opinion; but it is entficiont, n the meantime, to keep alive the hope that Dr. Livingstone may yet return to give. to thg world his-valuable discoveries, and to reap the reward of his philaLthropie labours. The following is Dr. Seaward's letter to the Bombay Government :  "To 'rim