16 MARCH 1867, Page 3

There is some hope that Dr. Livingstone is not really

dead, or at least that the Johanna natives who said he was killed are not to be trusted. Sir Roderick Murchison, in a letter read at the Geographical Society on Monday, stated that as these Johanna men had brought no token from Dr. Livingstone's corpse,—which they saw buried, according to their own account,—their evidence was extremely doubtful. If they had been disgusted with the journey, or intimidated by the ferocious tribes on the borders of Lake Nyassa, and agreed to abandon their chief, they would all agree to tell the same story to account for their desertion of him. At all events there is a hope.