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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1457, 17 October 1872, Page 3

The European Mail, August 9, says:

—The discovery of Dr Livingstone, by Mr Stanley of the New York Herald, has occupied considerable attention. Some of the despatches were thought lo be so foreign to the great traveller's style that suspicion was aroused as to their authenticity. It was reported that Kiepert, the great Berlin Geographer, had declared that the narrative ot Dr Livingstone brought by Mr Stanley was full of geographical impossibilities. The matter, however, has since been set at rest by a letter from Earl Granville, in which he not only declares the despatches to be genuine, but oompli meats the young traveller on the pluck and energy he displayed in carrying out his enterprise. It appears that the diary of Dr Livingstone, forwarded to Lningslono, now in Ireland, will in no case bo published unless intelligence of the great explorer's death readies England. The diary was sealed by the doctor himself, with instruc.ions to this effect. A protectionist association, the members of which call themselves the " Revivers of Biitish Industry," endeavored recently it seems to establish a correspondence vith Mr John Bright. The "Revivers" were extinguished by Mr Bright in the following letter, addressed to the head of the association :—" Rochdale, July 17, 1872.—Sir,— I know nothing of the association of which you assume to be the president: but if you cot reel 1y represent its members, I think their ideas or notions must be in complete chaos—in a muddle, if you v ? ili allow me to use the expression. I confess that I cannot understand you, and I feel certain that you would not comprehend anything that I could write to you. That the repeal of ihe corn laws opened new supplies of food from vlrich more than 10,000,000 of our population are now fed, all previously existing supplies remaining undiminished, is considered a national calamity by yourself and by your association. This i* a strange thing to be said or believed among sane men. [ cannot think that a body of men holding such an opinion can tend to any good.—l am, respectfully, John Bright." Russia has now, thoroughlv organized and under Government patronage and «J per vision, 15,000 public schools—a g'and token of progress. The Ballarat Star unkindly says : ' Some time j»go, the two councils laid heads together and made a wooden bridge across the Yarrowee." The first locomotive used in England, nearly forty years ago, now stands on a pedestal at the Darlington railway fetation. Earthquakes occurred in Iceland Jjmultaneonsly with the recent erup wm of Mount Vesuvius.