Dr. Livingstone's body arrived at Suez this day week, so
that it will only just reach England within the year after his death. He died on the 4th of May, 1873, and the last entry he made in his diary was on the 27th April. There can, of course, be no doubt that a public burial in Westminster Abbey will be accorded to the remains of this wonderfully heroic, bold, and persevering, though, alas ! somewhat inarticulate traveller ; but Mr. Disraeli, with that official dubiousness which he sometimes seems to cultivate, as if ostentatious hesitation would command the con- fidence of the British taxpayer, declined to pledge himself on Tuesday night, in answer to the Recorder of London, that the Government should pay the slight expense of a public funeral. There would be something so inconsequent in bringing the body back to Zanzibar at the public expense, and then declining to inter it at the public expense, that we cannot but suppose Mr. Disraeli's hesitation to have been due simply to official precedent and dignity. A Government might as well change its mind between the third reading of a Bill and the assent of the Crown, as bring the great African traveller's body to England and then stop short of a public buriaL
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