31 JANUARY 1874, Page 3

The report of Dr. Livingstone's death, which reached England on

Monday, appears to be now credited even by his son. It came from the Acting Consul-General at Zanzibar, and was sent to him by Lieutenant Cameron, of the relief expedition, from Unyanyembe, in a letter dated the 20th October last. The statement is that Livingstone died of dysentery, after a fortnight's illness, shortly after leaving Lake Bombe for the eastward; and that his death was due to dysentery, caused by walking through a marsh, sometimes for hours at a time up to his waist in water. Ten of his ninety followers had died from the like cause, and the rest were marching for Unyan- yembe, where Lieutenant Cameron was. Livingstone's body was, it is said, embalmed in salt, and might be expected at Zanzibar in February. It has been remarked on this that it is not very easy to see why Lieutenant Cameron was " pushing on," as he says, to I3jiji," if he really was convinced that Livingstone's body was on its way to him, and it is difficult to know how it could have taken him three months to transmit the intelligence he had received from Unyanyembe to Zanzibar. Still, the hope that the death of Livingstone is again a false rumour, seems to

be very slender this time, and if we have lost him, as we fear we have, we have certainly lost a man of a disinterestedness and force of character such as this country has only produced once or twice in a century, though we may have some reason to regret that a character so remarkable was not adorned and interpreted by an intellect of more than average solidity and power.