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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 161, 10 December 1872, Page 7

Stanley and Livingstone. The Boston Advertiser's special from New York, discussing the question “ Did Stanley fiild Livingstone?” says:—“ The opinion rapidly increases that the whole ati'air is a hoax. Important revelations concerning this matter are promised in a day or two by several persons who know Stanley, and were familiar with his plans at the time of the expedition to Abyssinia and previous to his departure for Zanzibar. Several scientific gentlemen discussed the subject, and the opinion was that Stanley’s story is false; A comparison of Livingstone’s letter to Bennett with the private letter of Stanley shows a wonderful similarity of handwriting, and several experts pronounce them identical. The discrepancies already pointed out are to be followed by others. The letter to Livingstone’s brother in Canada has been sent ior, and pages from it will be compared with private letters known to be from Stanley’s hand. A private letter from a member of the Royal Geographical Society of London says corroborating proofs are daily increasing that Stanley went into Africa as far as Unyanyemhe, where he learned of Livingstone’s death, and obi anted his diary and several other articles belonging to him. Knowing it to be a greater feit to lind Livingstone alive, lie ci included to make up the story and fabricate letters to corroborate his own statements. His denunciation of Dr Kirk is considered part of a plan to break the force of the latter’s exposure of Stanley’s fraud, and his remarks about the s'ave-trnde arc intended to divert attention. The lett-r says the English savans are nearly unanimous in regarding Stanley’s story with distrust, and believe that he has imnosed upon the Herald, and through it upon the whole world i”