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8. C E NEVA. CONTINUED FROM FIFTH PAGE. Uiere are two letters which give pronml for reflection. A QUESTION NEATLY ANSWERED. Sir A. Paget, the English Minister, In acknowledging th<> receipt ol a despatch from the Portuguese Minister of State, adds:? There Is, nevertheless, a point on which the governincut 01' llcr Majesty greatly desires to have iiuoVnialloli, unit on which the note ol Your Excellency nml the paper* whlrh It enclose* have not touched, anil that Is to know ?vhat laws or rule#, or what other means are at the dlsposition ot' the Portuguese government to hinder on It* territory act* which would he In violation to the laws of Portuguese neutrality, as laid down in the declarations of neutrality which Your Excellency has transmuted to me. And M. Oazal Ribelro replies as follows:? In reply it 1* ray duty to inform Your Excellency that the laws and the rules on this matter are those which were contained in my note ot the 2ith inst. or mentioned ill those document*, and the executive means in the case ofa violation ot neutrality are criminal procedures, the employment of force, complaints addressed t<> foreign governments, or oilier means calculated to meet the particular circumstances of the case. 1 believe this heartily. Where there is a will there Is a wav. The connsol is in error when he maintained that the? United States do not understand these laws commented upon so clearly by the writers cited, rod applied by their tribunals, Judges at least as I arlutkl v ?iu Mm /lnrfnunAiulino Intra nf l'llt/ll in 1 THE KXAMTUC OK 8WITZKKLANI). In regard to Switzerland we have drawn together in our justitleatory papers Home precious docu- j ments, which show the zeal ami the good will which this republic brings to the support of its neutrality in the midst of great European wars. I cite also the expfana'ion of the laws of Switzerland, given by the Federal Council in the Concini I case, to show that the counsel of Great Britain Is i mistaken altogether in his appreciation of those I laws, as well as In his appreciation of those of Italy and Brazil. ("Droit Public Suisse," torn. 1., p. i 46U.) , | Now, I appeal to the honorable arbitrators that ; they Judge and decide who it* right in regard to j these laws?Great Britain basirur its case on an \ equivocal word in a diplomatic despatch, or the United States basing Its case on the very text of j the laws and the commentaries of the best jurisconsults of l'rance, Italy, Spain, Portugal and . Brazil. 1 appeal further to the honorable arbitrators to j ray whether the institutions of England arc truly more constitutional than those of Italy, of Brazil and of Switzerland. According to the opinion of tiie counsel lor Great Britain, those countries do not possess any neutrality laws. Hut they observe the duties of neutrality, and they observe them without attracting suspicion to their constitution. Who, then, is in error in this mattery Is it England? or is it America v TllK l.AWS OF TIIK FNITF.O STATKP. The counsel for Great Kritaln devotes much space to the discussion of tne laws of the I'nited States. Less time will be necessary, 1 think, to reply to his arwiment. The counsel endeavors to prove that, the law of the United States, so far as this question is concerned, Is limited to the case of a war vessel. In support of that he cites the expressions of the third article of the law, which punishes with certain penalties "every person who within the frontiers of the United States equips and arms for war. or attempts to equip and arm for war, or wilfuliy takes part in the provisioning, equipment or armament lor war of any boat or vessel, ' with the purpose of employing that boat or vessel in the service of a foreiirn belligerent Power. Keating upon these expressions of the law, he believes that, In order to constitute this crime, it 1b necessary that the ship should have been united for war or that some one should have attempted to arm It for war. THE ltKAL MKANIN'fi OF TOE STATt'TK. Hut in jurisprudence this interpretation of the law In perfectly erroneous. It Is established in the United Htates that it Is not the character of t he preparations which constitutes the crime, but the intention which dominates the act. This doctrine la thus exhibited by Dana:? With regard to the preparation of ships within our jurisdiction Cornets of ulterior hostility, t!ic criterion that wc invoice is not the extent and the character of the preparations, but the intention which presides over the particular acts. It' a person accomplishes or attempts to accomplish an act leading on to these preparations with the intention that the ship may be employed for nets of hostility, tlmt prrsiii Is cnlpahio. widiont regard to the completion of the preparations or the point to which they may have been earned, and although his attempt may not have in any way advanced the completion ol those prep#rations. To lurnish materials ot which such use might lie made, and lo furnish thein with a knowledge, of the object tor which they might be used constitute an oO'ence. This is why it Is not necessary to show that the vessel was armed, or was up to a certain point, or up to no matter what epoch before or alter the crlminatorv ael, in a condition to commit arts of hostility. Wc have not raised points relative to the reunion of material*, which, taken alone, cannot serve lor acts of hostility, but which, taken together, constitute instruments ol hostility; for the Intention rovers every ia?e and furnishes the criterion of culpability. It matters little where the reunion may take place, in one place or ill another, if the acts committed on our territory make Sart of a plan in consequence of which a ship may be nsiiatchcu with the purpose of being employed as a cruiser. (Argument of the United States, pp. A DKCiSiON IN JOINT. These extracts from Dana arc authoritative in the matter. The true luteiprcUtion of the law has beeu established by a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court has determined "Uiat it is not necessary thai the vessel be armed, or lu a condition that permits it lo com- i unit hostilities at the moment of its deput rure from uic Luiitu nmurn, (I UIICM omivn > f*. i^uim >. Peters' Reports, vol. vl., p. 4-16. Vide Opinions, vol. Z, pp. 73W-741.) ANOTHER TELI.1N0 POINT. Such is the law as It. is understood ami practised la America, iloth counsel of the United States, Mr. Kvurts aud imsell, have administered justice, and we have a knowledge of this law so personal that we are also able to speak of it authoritatively. 1 ailirru that the interpretation of this law. as Riven by the counsel, Is absolutely contrary to the interpretation received in the I ni,ted Mates. 1 call attention to the expressions of the temporary law of l?:w, reported by myself to the Congress of the United Mates. That law permits the seizure "of every vessel or vehicle," armed or unarmed, when there are nnv circumstances which lead to the opinion that' tills vessel or vehicle" is destlued for military operations against a foreign State. (United states Statutes, vol. v., p. *213.) That law hud been framed according to the in- I tvpretstion of the permanent law. TUB PREVENTIVE POWElt 01 II1E PRESIDENT. It follows that all the scaffolding of criticism which the counsel constructs with reference to the preventive power of the President of the United States tumbles to the ground. He supposes that this power is limited to the case of a vessel armed lor war, because he supposes that the penal clauses have only that extent, lie is in (tri or on each point. The preventive power 01 the President applies to every case of the law, to "all the prohibitions and penalties of the law.'' And the law does not require that the vessel be arme I for war; il is enough that its owner has the intention of employing it in acts of hostility against a .State frieudly to the United States. The case of tielstou vs. Hoyt, cited by the counsel, touches only the manner of exercising the preventive powers of the law, and it in 110 way effects those powers themselves. In the justificatory documents annexed to the counter case ol the United states may be found numerous examples of the exercise of this preventive power by the President. The fact of being armed or not is only one circumstance which weighs more or lc^-s heavily upon the real ques- i tlon?the question of the intention of the owner of the vessel. i n.ini STKK CA-KS. The counsel enumerates cases of various dates where adventurers have been sustained by the i American law. We have protested In our argument, and we per MBi in protesting against tne opportuneness ot uch argument*. Kngland is hemic tlie tribunal ! at < used of having failed to use duo diligent- in Obnerving the convebtioual rules 01 tlie Treat) of | \vashlngton. If America Matt laded or not in Im I duties of neutrality accoidn./ to tli<- common law 1* not the question submitted to tii<* tribunal. America replies at a proper tmu ami place lor her acts to those wiiom such acts ma.v have injured. The counsel has cltcil some fMiaets from the correspondence of oiltciuls of the t mted states having regard to legal questions which arise from time to time in the application of the law. These questions are, without doubt, analogous to que ;tiotiA which present themselves to iCuglaud. I'nloi tunatriv the American law. although anterior to the Kuglisli law, comes from a school oi |r < , Nation common to the i wo countries, which adds greatly to the labors * of jurisconsults and trli>unuls. We have discussed tIn s.- questions in our argument. But we are not aide 10 discuss in dciati ml these cases laboriously drawn together by the cotinscl, without a longer population than we desire to ask from the 1. Ibtinal. PAN A AUA1N. The capital question Is that ol the pew t? ol the President. This matter is elucidated oy Dana, lie nays An to the ppnnlti" and damact '> to inflict, thecnlpal ). p?rt|i>* lire llnhlf to fine unit linpri-onmcnt . n I the , . wl, its equipment and lurniuire, as well is .ill th? ni ne, rials luml lied lor lis equipment, are eliminated in u caw ut siiiuielon the Custom House oHIeial* tuny deiion \iism*|h, an,] |i iiiu.v 11.' required that tl'.e iiiUthii'iI parties turin-h security to aii'Wer that tiny will lint employ It tor nets o!' hostility, un.l the I're-lfltnt has the power to employ the army Mid tin; nay,\, or the militia an well us the civil ton es, to -eize the ships, or to cumin 1 culpable, ships, which ure not snli eet to seizure, to leave our port* It i< left to the discretion oT tlie Kxeeiitlvo to :utUe of what vessels the departure ouKhitoiie required.?Ainuricun Argument (p. X>a, . AN IhLt'fUTKATION. . A single example s.itbces to give an idea of the recognized exti nt of the power* of the President. hpftin caused to lie iobstructed ill the yards of New York thirty gnnboaU destined to be used gamut, the Insurant,* in the island of Cuba. 'i'licy were vessels unht for long voyages. They were not, armed and had onboard neither can noun nor any otlier engine of combat. War existed in law. If not in fact, Between Spain and Peru. The Peruvian Minister at -New York made a complaint with regard to these gunboats. lie did not pretend that they weie destined to operat.! against Peru, as it. was clear that, they conld not. pass around ''ape Horn. Hut he pretended that upplicd to the defence of the shores of Cuba. Th y would iree from that s Tvlce other vessels, whicu Id.Kht thus be able to attack Peru. JUi; President listened to tbesc rea-ons and or NEW Y< darned tne detenuon of thcue thirty vessels uniii Spain and Peru should have regulated their differences. This they did, thanks to the mediation ol the United States. JURISDICTION OF TUB TRIBUNAL. A question of diligence presents Itself with reference to any erroneous decree of a Court of Admiral ty? 1 propose, as a principle, that the government which undertakes judicial pursuit and which submits itsell without appeal to an erroneous decree, has not the right to cite that decree in order to excuse ulterior wrongs belonging to the same class of cases. That is, I believe, to tail doubly m the due diligence presented by the rules of tlite treaty. 1 abstain from discussing thai question. But I affirm that the erroneous decree does not | bind in unv way. That Is, indeed, evident. More, . I affirm further that the decree does not bind in 1 any way an international tribunal. This principle is enunciated and sufficiently dlsi cussed in Hi* "Institutes" of Hutherforth, an Kng lisli work of merit and authority. Whcaton and other authorities adopt the views I of Rutherfortn. This question has been raised by the English and I America* Commissioners appointed to law down the stipulations of what is called the Jay Treaty. | The following circumstance Is reported iu tlie ' memoirs of Mr. Trumbull, one of the secretaries of that Commission. It appears that, beinz In doubt. the Commissioners consulted ttie Karl of Loughi borough, then Lord Chancellor. He deckled that the Commissioners, in their characI tcr' of International tribunal, possessed a I complete jurisdiction and could revise the decrees of any municipal tribunal whatever, and to do justice to the government wronged m its interests or in those of its subjects. The Commissioners acted accordingly. 1 conceive that such Is the recognized jurisdiction in the ca.se of speclul claims, by nuincrotts international commissions, which have sat since then iu England and in America. CONCLrSION. I have Just treated some of the questions put by the counsel of Great Britain solely lor the sake of satisfying my conscience, i do not believe that tliey are of a nature to exercise a preponderating influence upon the minds of the arbitrators. The rules of the treaty are decisive iu all the questions raised by the United States, if these rules are the true expression of common law, as I am convinced, all is well; if they pass beyond the common law they constitute authoritatively the conventional law of the tribunal. It matters little what Is the interpretation of the municipal law of England. The interpretation of the law of the United States matters still less. The laws of the other States ??r Europe matter nothing. The conduct of the United states towards Spain or Mexico, or even towards (ireat Britain, is not here iu question. There is only one qucstiou to be decided? lias England failed, yes or no, in using the "due diligence" required by the Treaty of Washington? i The United States sustain here principles which I are, iu their opinion, of high importance lor all mar| itime peoples, and, above all. tor (ireat Britain, more | even than for the United States. We therefore await, with respect and submission, but also without inquietude, the judgment of this august tribunal. FRENCH INTERNATIONALS IN COUNCIL. The Society Under Another \it mo In France?President Tillers Looking After Iliti Interests?A French Spy in the Ranki-"Strikes" in Switzerland and Spain Successful. The spacious hall at No. 100 Prince street was filled with an enthusiastic throng of Frenchmen and more than the usual number of French women yesterday. They were, of course, all Internationals. Whether it was owing to the change of weather or important business on hand, certainly it was the best attended meeting that has been held for sgmc months. Communications from different, parts of flm a'nrlil wrti-n vonalrAil frntYi wlii/ih tliA fall si ?*:?*# ......v. ..v.- v??, n mv.i . ..c IU11UII Ills was pleuuetl:? . Tito French International* or Ktiliimorc are giving Hherally of their funds to aid the "striker*" in the north or France, audit is their present wish iliul all Internationals will tin likew tso. The Internationars of France arc to be known hereafter | by another name, as under the present laws of that country severe penalties will he inflicted on those who will bo Itmnd at an International meeting There liushnen recently a federal council organized in Pari*, to be known as the "Ccrcte de I/l'uiou Syndicate." The principles upon which the society is haseil nil tend to the promotion of Rood feeling among Its member* and in , their dealings with the outside world. The interests ol the employers are regarded by its members equally with their own. and holli parties have air reed to m tile. all disputes that may arise bv the decision ot a delegation to lie appointed when occasion may demand such, five delegates to lie | appointed by the employers and five by the employes, ' the decision of which to ho final. Nearly all the trades I societies in Paris have agreed to send delegates to the "Cerele" or "Council." It is the purpose of the society1 to establish schools, gymnasiums, Ac., lor the children of tlie working people, where they may learn as well as aintiso themselves. In facf.lt seems that there arrtsome Julius" in Krance as well as tlermany, as Hie sociciy U , somewhat similar to the ticrman Turu-Vereln. | A report troin Switzerland elicited a similar state of I affairs there as regards Internationalism, a society on the same basis as that of France having heeu organized there. I The trades people have been quite successful in their " strikes" and demands, as mostly all of them are now working ten hours, instead ot twelve, and receiving the same pay as formerly. I In Malaga, Spain, nineteen corporations or trades soclelies have coine out victorious iu their struggle lor less hours of work. I There is considerable trouble and suffering among the miners in the north of Francc, growing out ot the recent " strikes.'' A report f rom them goes to prove that in a conflict with the soldiers and the "strikers ' there has been several ot the latter wounded and two hundred taKen prisoners. It was decided at. the meeting to make an appeal to the International to contribute towards tlie relief ot those families who are now deprived ot those w ho gave tlieiu Ufl'Hll. The following sarcastic proclamation in io be issue.t to nil the sections. It conveys the same sense sis Thiers' eoiiimojid to the Army Department at the outbreak of the ' strike'' "Soldier*, put your knnp-ticks on your backs. Your tent* nrnfoldid aud iniiiiltlcui is reaitv* do forward; the remi Idle gives you the order. Sons of workiufftnen, g<> and : shoot down your brothers, your lathers, friends, whose crlni" l < that they huiiibly ask for a 11 increase of wages I and nor to work fur merely nothing.', in order that tlicy j niu\ enrich President Thiers, 'who In the principal owner of the mines.' Fauhriijiict (a nii'knanie of 'I niersi informs tin' soldiersVon are merely a brigade, but If ' necessary one hundred thousand men will toHow you to kill those socialist republicans. A rumor has been* going i the rounds of the International Circles thnt Louis Napoleon was the originator ot the said 'strike' and that he gave a I a rue sum ot money towards it" There has been i|ttite an excitement amouK the Freto h Internationals, from New York to St. Loyis. about the discovery of a "spy" in their ranks. It appears that some mouths anil, for Mime private reasons, there was suspicion cast on one of its members as being in league with the French government, and at heart an enemy to Interna tionallsin. Detectiveism was hrougi.t int'i play, and, ntlcr a few weeks, sufficient evidence was received to prove that lie was us stated. The conseiiuenee Is that the luternatiou.iis have his career published til their different pupers, describing his height, aire ami general appearance. Certainly to them he is a "French Spy." It was autumn-ed that arrangements have lieen made to publish their So iuli'lr dally instead of weekly on and after the 1st of September. It is their purpose to use their endeavors to make it a popular paper with the French people, and ruti it with much the same energy as the American papers. | "KENO" IN NEWARK, T!ie Poller lie new Their Hn ids On the t.'n uil>lei>?,\ "Crib" "Pnilfd" Willi Pilleen Persons. The police of Newark have recovered from the check driven them by the friends of certain persom arrest I'd last wint. r and have rcunwotl their warfare on the gambling dens of the city. On Saturday nia;lit a squad of thirteen ofTkera and chief t.lasby made a descent on a place kept in the tipper part ol r.'-t M.iiK't street by oae William liallei>hull and 1 i unk Met.'onniek. the noted lawbreaker, who has already been In tlie state 1'ris.in. Ml the p<-i sotis In tlie place, fifteen in number, together wiih kei:o and other gambling tool", wore captured and i "mor >l to the n lioa-e. The II-t of sir e>ts nude is an follow : William Hatlervl|nll. I'laiiK Mcrorroiok. II. .1. Matches. Oco.gr liuekley, ,la oi> c. Pavton. I'atrlek < oanlvan. William < lark. Jacob M. (!u ;"1n. Itlchard Warriiarlc- Moekwdl. W:ilunn Whacktnan, K. I?. Wilson, William Thorn . John r. Ha.nies, Benjamin Sullvrlarid. \:i but a tew were liberated on bail. Che latter wan fixed in each c-is? at iv<i, the principals being required to give ?i.noo rich, a feu sp. tit the night in the Nation hon-e, but yr <tenluy morning their friends came to lime and gave the necessary bonds for tiielr liberation. The affair creaf d considerable of a sen-atlon. a few shots arc said to have been fired. ' lit no blood npilled. The authorities ay they arc "going for the gambler* thlf time, rare/' Itw said that 'tit* dlagi'acefm viola* Ion of law is e\tcD" vely practised by not a 1 lew citizens of Newark, who are regarded by the outside world a? moral light* and guides and examples for the youth of the community. THE RESULT OF A TRIP TO COKEY ISLAND Thomas .lonnv. of 351 First avenue, went on a tiip to roney Inland yesterday and while bathing got into a qqarrel with some unknown individual* i atiout a woman. On the return trip Mr. Jenny's j mercurial acquaintances, who had in the meantime tilled themselves with bad rum, "ought him j out and demanded an apology, which he refused to I give. on tins tliev attacked lurri with soda water bottles and dial's ad be.n liiiu Bevon-ly , on the head and'arms. On the injiued man raising | an alarm his assailants Hi d and could not be found i on a search belli* insiltuied. jriinv. on tiie ari iVal ol the boat at New ^urk, was taken loih< Ninth precinct station house, where his wounds, which consist of lour serious ai>ra>,oas on lh.* - ,i,)> ami a cut on the left wrist, were <li ci|, SUICIDE IN TRENTON. j An rngltKhman named Marshall Simpson, twenlymne years of a?c, jumped Into the lidaware I'.ivei at Trenton yesterday and was drowned, d< spite all effor':1 to lesciie him. The body was soon after Wil lis recovered. An imjnest. was held and the I jurv returned a verdict that deceased cuiii" io hln death wiiiie laboring under mental aberration. % ">RK HERALD, MONDAY. LIVINGSTONE. ? Additional Com incuts of the Foreign Press on the Herald Livingstone Expedition. - ? THE SECRETS OF THE NILE. A Land hinting to the Adventuresome and Enterorisinsr* JT C TEE BELLES OF INTERIOR AFRICA. Livingstone Something More Than a Lost Geographer. THE SLAVE TRADE ON THE COAST. The following arc additional extracts from the foreign press on the result of the IIkkalu Livingstone expedition:? [From the Christian World, an English newspaper.] Some or our scientific un?l literary men have : been acting a very small part with rospect to the ' discovery of Dr. Livingstone by Mr. Stanley, the corj respondent of the New Yokk Her alp. From the l first they were apparently annoyed at finding that, that notable feat should have been accomplished by one outside of their charmed circle, and especially that the honor should have fall en upon an American. Even parties connected with our Royal fleographiI cal Society must needs express their doubts, forgetful of the fact that their Search Expedition has played a most ignoble part, and that, the sooner they square accounts with the public In that matter the better for I he reputation of all concerned. The authenticity of Dr. Livingstone's letters was ilrst called In question, and then Insinuations were thrown ont as to whether the great, traveller had been ever reached. The defamatory proccss had attained such dimensions that the heads of the Foreign Office and the son of Dr. Livingstone had to be appealed to by Mr. Stanley, seeing that he was reported to hove bronght letters to them from the Doctor. Lord Granville stated that he had Inquired into ' lie matter, and found that Mr. Hammond, t he Under Secretary of the Foreign Office, and Mr. Wylde, of the Consular and Slave Trade Department, had received despatches rrom Dr. Livingstone, and that, tliev had not the slightest doubt as to the genuineness of these papers, which were published on Tuesday last. Mr. Oswell Livingstone also bore testimony to having received, through Mr. Stanley, the diary of his father, duly signed and sealed, with written instruction!) on ttie outside: mid it nniiem-ti that a packet of letters, thirteen In all, principally addressed to members of the Livingstone family, were received at Hamilton, Scotland, on the 2d lust. They are all in the Doctor's handwriting, but the contents arc strictly private, l>y the explorer's own desire. Mr. Livingstone said he had not the slightest doubt that the .journal is his lather's, and that this is the case witli the letters Mr. Stanley lias brought. As was only to be expected from the generous nature of our Foreign Secretary, Lord (Jranvlllo took occasion to pay a well-merited compliment to the able and adventurous American. When in Paris last week Mr. Stanley was entertained at h grand banquet by the American residents. Mr. Washburne, the American Minister, presided, and addresses * suitable to the occasion were made, lu responding to the toast of his health, Mr. Stanley Mia that It was to the generosity of the young proprietor of the New York Herald, Mr. fiordon Hennett, that applause was chiefly due. It was he who seift a telegram to Madrid, saying he believed Livingstone was still living, and that lie ought to be found, t "Here," he add'ed, "is Cl.ooo: when it is spent take another thousand, and then another, and another still. Don't keep a strict account, but lind Livingstone." lie also described his interview with Dr. Kirk, the Kngllsh Consul at Zanzibar. He spoke In very severe terms ol Dr. Kirk. That gentleman had afforded Dr. Llving>-tone no succor whatever, and had spoken, when he saw him at Zair/lbar. in a discouraging and indifferent tone about tho prospect of Hading him. Mr. Charles Austin, nn English newspaper correspondent, deprecated this hasty censure of Dr. Kirk. Mr. Stanley reached London on the 2d inst., and has been quite lionized since his arrival. He has received numerous lnvl- , tatlons fiom our most eminent men, and Lady , Franklin has Invited him to visit her. He has , brought home with him an African boy or ten yeurs | of age, who has become a favorite with the ladies. . Mr. Stanley is described as a low-sized, thick-set. \ miiiK'iuokiiiK man. mr 11. iiHwimrsuii tuiu uerr Klepert, a Herltn geographer of eminence. have ! published letters impugning the statements as1 cnbeil to l>r. Livingstone in liis second ktter about tiie Nile and the watershed or Central Africa, as 1 containing geographical blunders. A short time will, we have no doubt, set at rest all difficulties in tins respect. [From the Court Journal, August :t.| Now other mcu than savnna are brought into contact with the Xile-dlseovering business, tlicy are beginning to la lie off Its halo. "Ex. Nile nihil Jit'' is perhaps, however, too Imsty a decision* We, for our part, should look at it in this ligiit. There Is no difficulty in travelling iu Africa, and finding one's way about, even alone and without i resources: that is clear. On tho other hand, there ! Is a great deal to be cot by the enterprising. Ivory ; is not more ditlleuU to obtain than rotten old wood, ; We shall think uothing, therefore" of the enterprise i of our young men of t,be day who are sighing for an I opening to obtuiu wealth to crown their wishes, ] anil whot with a few thousands, could call ] the girls of their hearts tlu-ir own, if thev I do not. if only provided with half a hundred each, club together in company ami win the wealth | di Africa. Africa max be to many a new India, it I must lie a lolly life also. Livingstone thinks so, j and for those who have no such love ties af home I liis rhapsody about the belles will betiuito exciting. Here is a portrait of Ca/.emite's queen, Moarl a Ngombe by name:?''Would be esteemed a real j beauty either in Loudon. Paris or .New York, and I yet slie iiad a smull hole through the cartilage, near | the tip of her title slightly auuiliue nose. Hut she . j had nnl\ filed one side of tlie two front ot i her superb snow-white teeth: and then what i I a laugh she had! Let those who wish to know go and see her carried to lier farm j in her pony phaeton, which is a sort of throne fastened i>n two very long poles, an I carried bj , twelve stalwart citizens." I!v all means do go. gen- \ tleineii, and don't let MViiiffslonu i njoy the whole ol the interior ol Africa to himself, if we inad half a government it would see a grand c Ira nee nml lit out an expedition in the name or humanity to stop tlie infamous trattle in slaves with which he is "so : justly incensed and bitterly laments." Why tlie in- j terior of Airica would be a little thing for such Vu- 1 . tumii tourists as we have, and the Alpine ( lub iiiikIh, if it intended to -tcp thither, instead ol up and down a lug mountain, do Knylaud some real and lasting service. |From the London (dolte, Auz'.i.'t l.j Cnnlnlnl li >1 lii.l.lon ? , I , <..! Ci .t l-.iv tin.ll. tlmiul I(?(.', the African pI.ivi1 trade. is not at an end. Itbaa ooljiMflcd Its eltmltl from WM to cast, j from tlnlnea to /an/.i ar. What is more, our diplomat I'- relation" with tl: > Sultan of /?n:<:ihar tiro of such a nature at t > have Midori all I hat our punboats and <-rui- - haw elicited elsewhere. Dr. Livingston" hi>?. with .ill tli" fioquamv of detail, laid before th ti c !:< : rm- wlii i t ;r thecaravans of Ma*tern Vfrlca In c unnetltiou with the once pro- i verldal "Mid lif: I'.i- .1 r." arid ve recently had all opp"rt unity of urn win;; attention to the laet that the Siillan of the t- traders Is willing to forego his | treaty ad* rits f a temporary annual income , of ahoiit five thou-and po ;ntH a >'ear. The money , , sacrifice l." * < -lijfl't. and tlie tinal -up pre sal on of th" clave trad appai -nt!;. -o c cy. that the Queen's speech cont -ined no more welcome words than those which promised elect nal dealing with the matt'T. It I a ?-as? in widen ignorance oi facts ih t only i -- " e\<:um.' lor inaction, and, thanks to Dr. Livih/M'.ii", our excuse ;or inaction exist-ii ' ill' c. ii |? ',1 eclj po- ilile to t.e niiStaken in connecting fld? -udden promise ol action oil th<" part oi ttif < aiutiet, \vnm tlie despatches hroiiKhl lo lii" l or ,in onici- |>> Mr. Stanley. It may l?e undignified on I lie pari of the fru tilers of a messair" from the <,'ro\Mi to yeknowled^e their oh- ! ligations to tlie exertions of a journalist. Hut i journalists th"ius'dves diould icon* e.vpli 'iti.v grateful. ?nd not, like at leant on>- of our eont 'iiipoiarles, a old all mention oi the man who has put us in a position to do our duty. Mr. (iladstone's f'aWnet cannot have been alive to tl < i-lrenmihU' C- or we should not have had to w.iit tti?- arrival of Mr. Stanley before public. . ri .e i conltl M relieved by an ortl'lil a iu? tl tooui disgraceful relations with the .suit .n of /.ati/abar. (From (he pari* Correspondent of the Swiss Timet.) i As I do not ah a re the social views or M. A. Duma* j find or M. Du Bourg, who v tinMin it is to kill, I | cannot adhere f'? the murd to .s spirit, of that aril- ' e.le entitled In one of our p i>;i? organs "The Political Value of African Dlscove Tin- writer thinks ! that tlx explorations of Dr. Livingstone and his : i seardi liy Mr. II. Htanl' f i aunot have a great re I suit; t:ia? a more correct Knowieuge of African i AUGUST 26, 1872.?TRIPL] p^opmph v an<l of the splendid additions brought tijr African discovery will not enrich any nation nor cKiiize any tribe, nor bring that wealth of land and nun one whit nearer to the world alone which could use them well. He concludes, therefore, that It is conquest by bayonets and bullets, not exploration, which the Valley of the Nile requires. This is a very serious assertion in the age we live in. Such a conquest, doubtless, would prove elfectual as a means of utilization, but socially and politically the right of a civilized nation to carry firebrand and steel, unprovoked, to the heart of an unknown country is very questionable. The sword in lviltzed hands accomplishes the same work as other weapons do in tlie hands of the savage?namely, slaughter. Admitting that In the course of time the natives of Central Africa may have to combat a thousand or so of our countrymen, "English ruffians and Arab savages," as our contemporary proposes, can Christians feel that this is civilizing 1 Experience out of Africa has taught us that hate, distrust, revenge in hideous form cannot be purged from the soil watered by a father's, brother's or husband's blood. Generations must ilin Ant t\n lwith wirlou nn* fivill/'ititin #?i?n Ito thn result of such a conquest. If wc turn from some Imaginary scene of bloodshed taking place l>etweeu Britons and Africans near the sourcon of the Nile to consider the more civilizing example shown by Dr. Livingstone at present, a doubt will BOt exlBt concerning the immense social value of his explorations. He is not only a sage, a man of book lore, he ia the living apostle of the very civilization which finds its way to the conscience of human beings, be they ever so unenlightened. There is that in the mild nndaunted gaze of a man gifted with a superior soul which'softens even savages. The "great" white man Is already a figure among the men around him. He is tearless, he Is trustlul, he Is Inindefatigable, forbearing; all these qualities described by Mr. Stanley us having been observed by him In Dr. Livingstone are those of a clvlllzer. We can luncv, from the Insight given us into so grand a character, what his grief would be If he foresaw that the high road his scientific search is opening to European und American enterprise Is doomed to be st rewn with the victims of a remorseless carnage. Could not this immense discovery be turned to prove the power and might of the white man's moral superiority? Could not an army of peaceful crusaders be sent forth instead of an army of "rufllans?" could not their leaders be a legion of selfforgetful, earnest, determined men all sworn not. to strike but In personal defence, not to burn, or shed blood unnecessarily? If indeed "Indian officers by the dozen are slowly dying In England of disappointment and ennuiwhose services could be turned to account, more Is the shame; but, on the other hand, there are lu England aspiring and noble youths tired with the desire to tight and die for "the good-' of their fellow men. Huoh is the army that should curry civilization all down the Nile from Alexandria to the Equator. Hut, this Is not all yet. The article alluded to, of which the writer Iiuh failed to mark that the political value of every nation is rooted in its social excellence, calls the story of the meeting of Mr. II. Stanley with Dr.-Llvingstone bizarre. He considers It so, probably, because it Is so very novel; because so much greatness and simplicity are the striking features of Mr. H. Stanley's narrative, or perhaps also because the whole affair, from the time of the young American's interview with Mr. Bennett, Junior, to that of the shake-hands with Dr. Livingstone at Ulljl, was conducted without any of the forms to which our moss-grown minds are accustomed. If strange is the English of bizarre, the term is correct; but If odd is the idea meant I think the definition, though French, very inapplicable indeed; neither do I see anything comic in this other llgure, that of the newspaper correspondent, who, lu the regular exercise of his prolession, moved neither by pity, nor by love of knowledge, nor by desire of adventure, but by an order from Mr. Bennett, coolly plunges into an unknown continent to search lor a lost geographer, and after months of sufferings such as only African travellers endure, attains below the Equator an object desired by all mankind, to be repaid by the publication of a despatch to the Nkw Voiik 11ekai.d. The paragraph greatly diminishes the merit of all named theicin. Dr. Llvingstono is surely something more than a lost geographer, Mr. Bennett something more than a master giving orders; while Mr. H. Stanley deserves a very different appreciation to that which is usually applied to a class of people who receive salaries for tho purpose of making others laugh. There can be nothing comic connected with the heurt.reiiillnar scenes Mr. Htnnlev must have irone through, or in his twenty-three attacks of the moat malignant fever, or in his daily suspense, in his hope delayed and hair-breadth escapes; neither is it possible to conceive that one who endured so much could he uumoved by a nobler aim than that of seudlug a despatch from Zanzibar to his employer. Could a man he inaccessible to pity, who, the further ho plunged into Atrlcari deserts found his bodily sufferings increase, and a great endless vista of unknown trials even stretching out in his pursuit of a man like Dr. Livingstone, when lie iiniored what was coming next, whether the object or his search was murdered? whether he would not soon share the same fate? Stia if in mental blindness we persist in only seeing in Mr. Stanley a clear-brained, cold-hearted reporter, one who docs not value human life so much as a telegram, we shall still have to admit that, considering his moral incapacity, lie accomplished in the simple performance of his charge a very gigantic feat, that of penetrating 1,000 miles of unknown countrv. This fact would alone show Mr. (Stanley to be, if nothing more, one that his nation may be proud of. because he did his duty regardless uf personal danger. [From the Edinburgh Courant, August 10.] The great Livingstone-Stanley question is, thero can be no doubt, at last fairly cleared up and settled. The plucky and indefatigable correspondent of the New Yokk Hkrald has discovered our gallant countryman, who in the cause of humanity and science has separated himself from England, from Europe, from civilization itself, for a period or more than six years. Even so it is?the Expedition instituted by an American newspaper ha3 achieved a signal success where the Search expedition which we ourselves attempted has ended In humiliating failure. Mr. Stanley has contrived to Hud l)r. Livingstone, because from the first he acted In a manner the very reverse, at each possible polut, of that in which the countrymen of Livingstone acteil; because he took measures prompt, practical und streuuoas, while we deliberated; becausc he had no potty jealousies of self-seeking rivalry against which to contend, no obstacles of divided counsels uid distracted deliberations thrown iu his path. We have no wish unduly to censure the policy or the proceedings of the Royal Geographical society. It certainly beoms strange that geographic cal science should enkindle iu the breasts of its votaries sentiments of ignoble suspicion and mutual ili will, which ought to have no place among the session of the sawnis, and that a new river, a new mountain, a new lake, n new island, has no sooner been discovered by one of their number than the attempt is' made to <:isrredit t lie revolution in a hundred utivvorthv ways, scientific zeal is on thin/ and sectional jealousy another, and what, we wan ; at Saville row Is more of t lie lormer and less ol the latter. Hut our complaint is not now with tlio <icogtaphlc.il Society. To the honor of that body be it mentioned that in in inbers did c<iulp an expedition, after a certain fashion, to lliui and even, it need tie. to rescue l?r. Livingstone. It is true that the search was organized on principles ridiculously inadequate to the end iu view, and that the method of its conduct from the earliest moment wa- Mich as to render failure and fut>ro, humauly speaking, certain and Inevitable. Mill the Geographical So icty made th eilort. put forth some little show of exertion, and herein they may claim to bo considered immensely superior to the government which swovod at tue time, anil which, unfortunately, Mill continues to sway our national destinies. Had Mr. Gladstone been In the : llghli'St degree willing or able to understand the feeling of the people li" would not for a moment have hesitated to .-mbo ly that feeling in action. Had Mr. Lowe been iiMe to liok at the matter through any other medium than that 01 the petty )in mill es of an ignoble parsimony he would at once have seen that the occasion was one on which government might, bv a financial expenditure comparatively small, win for it->elf a moral return incalculably great, and Immeasurably raise Itself In t*ie popular leeiing. The institution of a Llvlngt >nc Search Kxpedition by government would have then bwn not merely a politic but in the long run :i iiNMuetlv eeimoinliMil measure: and such a government more patriotic or less niton sighted Hum our own would sit once have recognized it to lie. While titer'' necessary mingles with our congr.itulntlons to Mr. Stanley on the triumphantly *ueei>Ksfnl issue ol' lit* i|tit st a keen sentiment or national humiliation, thorn- congratulations are not on that account one lota the less hincere. America has falrl.v beaten Kngland, and while It, Is not unnatural tltal we should have preferred to have the \lctory for ourselves, we can accord the fullest measure of udnilratioti for the finalities l?y which the representative <if America. Mr. Htarlley, has won that victory. The despatches to the Foreign Office, which we have already published, must l>e considered as absolutely coiillrmatory or the authenticity of Mr. Stanley's narrative and Dr. Livingstone's previous letters to the Kkw York ili-.kat.nln all their essential leaturrs. They thus contain very little that is now m w to us. We have several vividly painted details of the difficulties and the dangers which have perpetually heset Livingstone, and the general drift of the discoveries which ho lias a" jet made Is indicated more clearly and circumstantially than it h?* been btlon. And here we may remark tlnit we now know all or LIvlngstone that we are likely to know till the object of Ids search Is Anally fulfilled?till he ha* traced the Nile from its cradlo to its dcboitohemrnt Into the Mediterranean, and has not improbably joined forces wall sir Samuel Baker. There are, it is true, papers to be read at the forthcoming meeting of the Hritlsh Association at llrlghton. But these, however rich In scicntilic value, will add little to our store or popular information. Aiuidthelntcnai.lv interest B SHEET. ' log particulars In which Livingstone's despatches to the Porelgn Office, extending over a period of two years, abound, there aro two great facta which staud out with overwhelming Importance. In the first place, the Doctor has evidently discovered that to the west of Lake Tanganyika there is a third great line of drainage, consisting of hnge lukes, whose existence had been previously denied, connected by mighty rivers of which no one had ever dreamed. In the sccond pface, as regards the supreme and central object of Livingstone's Investigations, the great historical stream of Kgypt, as full of mystery as the very Sphinx which fiowus upon ita banks, what Livingstone has done is scientifically to disprove the conjectures and the fancied discoveries of the race of explorers who had preceded him?of Hpeke and (Jrant and Baker and others. "Hi/potheat'n non ltri/jov wrote Bacon; and this prime rule of scientific research it is which, in the opinion of Livingstone, Speke violated. He did not verify his geographical inductions at every step, and consequently he placed the sources of a Nile at a spot where it is now shown they could not by any possibility rise. Strange it seems?almost like a satire upon human Knowledge and progress?that a geographer more ancient than Baker, and of a period more venerable than Speke?none other than Ptolemy himself?should turn out to be much more nearly right In the position which he assigned to the earliest fountains of the Nile than any of the race of satvintn which have-succeeded him. The error of Speke and Grant and Baker was that they thought they had discovered the runabitUi Will in a vast congeries of lakes, whereas "no great river has a lacustrine origin.'' The mountains, writes Livingstone, where the watershed of the Nile Is, are probably what Ptolemy, for reasons unkuown, called the Mountains of the Moon. "Prom their bases," he udds, "I find that the springs of the Nile do unquestionably arise. This 1b Just what Ptolemy put down, and Is true geography. We I UIUDV aLV/cpl LUC luuutllllia j ttllfl UUUUHY IJUL Philistines will reject the mountains, though we cannot conjecture tho reason for the same." It in the circumstantial verification or the conclusion which Livingstone has thus arrived at on the subject of the birth of the Nile, which bus remained lor him the last of his labors to rullll. it Is too much to sav that Livingstone has as yet actually traced the Nile to its first springs; it is not too much to say that lie is upon a track which will almost inevitably lead him to them. Upon the other points, supreme as their interest is, contained in these last despatches of Livingstone, wc must forbear to dwell. Passing by tne particulars which he gives us on the subject 01 the slave trade and the cannibalistic tribes of Central Africa, it iB impossible not to be profoundly impressed by the story which the Doctor has to tell us of the innate treachery of the natives, of his repeated desertion by them, and, above all, by the systematic mismanagement of the supplies with Which he was provided, and the despatch ol the attendants who were sent to his assistance. sometimes these supplies fulled to couie at all; sometimes when tlicy did come they were not what he wanted. Natives were sent to hliu instead of freemen, and the natives were not good. When shall we next hour of Livingstone f lie has already come within lso miles ol the historical Nile, and it is not liltelv that he will be able to perform the remainder of his long and toilsome Journey within a year from the present time. As we have hinted above, it is far from unlikely that when a new batch of communications arrives from Livingstone he wdl already have passed into Egypt proper, and have met with Baker Paclm. Then we shall know much on which wo can only now vaguely speculate. And tho speculation, which the discoveries and communications already made by Dr. Livingstone suggest, opens up a vista of magnificent possibilities, and even probabilities, irom Which Imagination recoils dizzy. The civilization of the great African Continent, the solution of the great African mystery, the extinction of anthropophagy, the abolition of the slave trade, the connection of two seas by a railway rignt through the heart of the Libyan Desert?there is no reason why another generation should not see such and all of these things. For such a consummation posterity will be indebted to Livingstone; but Livingstone, to complete his great task, has need of more supplies and more State help, and that is our immediate moral, which the natiou and the government should take to heart. [Prom the Paris American Register.] The success of Mr. Stanley, correspondent of the New York Herald, in his search for Doctor Livingstone, has brought ont some curious facts regarding the previous English expeditions, and more particularly that fitted out by the Geographical Society, at the expense of the Kritish public, which' was put under the churge of Lieutenant Dawson. First, we are told by Dr. Livingstone himself that (he stores sent to him from England were long left at Zanzibar, and finally sent on in charge of Arab traders, slavedealers and thieves, who proceeded to appropriate the goods the moment they were beyond the reach of civilization. Desolte this experience. a second lot of iroods was entrusted to men of known bad character?men who had been signalled again and again as rascals who could not be trusted with a farthing. We need not say that this caravan met with the fate of the former. During a period of three years Dr. Livingstone not only received no relief, bnt none of the many letters sent to him through Dr. Kirk, British Consul at Zanzibar, readied the wearied but stout-hearted explorer. When Mr. Stanley was at Ujiji nine packets of letters sent to him from the Kuroucan agent of his journal, Dr. Hosmer, were safely forwarded to him through the American Consul at Zanzibar, It makes no sort of difference whether these nine packets of letters went by niue different caravans or only Ave, for the Tact is none the less striking that Mr. Stanley received that number in the comparatively short space ?f lour months, while Dr. Livingstone was three years without receiving a single line from home. The secret of this matter would have long remained concealed had Stanley tailed in his gallant attempt, but his success has brought out some interesting and some contemptible facts. We now know that we must look to Dr. Kirk for an explanation of his conduct, and that gentleman has been summoned to answer before the bar of public opinion. Home Of our readers may remember the hints ol this which we gave in our first articles, for even at that time it seemed clear to us, from l)r. Kirk's complete indifference to Mr. Stanley, and from the sneering, unjust, untruthful reports sent home liv him, that he had no heart in the work, and it was a matter of indifference to him whetner or not supplies or letters ever reached the courageous explorer. As he himself remarked, in the presence of Mr. Stanley and the American lng, positively nothing, but us u British oilicial lie was bound to ilo hl? duty." Those are not the exact words, perhaps, hnt we challenge a denial that this is the meaning, the strict sense, of Ills remarks. In no way cap we account Tor such apathy, to call it by no worse name, except on the ground of jealousy, and that such Is the opinion of l)r. Livingstone himself is evident from many canlions and gentlemanly remarks in his letters to Mr. Junes Gordon Bennett. Dr. UrttptoM is too kind-hearted a man to make charges against any one, but upon tl;e bare facts the public has already made them for him, and Dr. Kirk can now explain j his conduct if It be possible to do so. If not, he will be a disgraced man in the e.ves of the world. The secret history of the last English expedition is scarcely less curious or disgraceful, Mr. Charles : New, for many years a Methodist missionary In Africa, hu U8l written a long letter to the* Timet lull or details and insinuations. Wc do not know the merits oi this quarrel, nor do we care a straw who is right or who is wrong; the bate facts are sutBcieni (or onr purpose, when the Geographical Hoclot v called lor public subS'-rlptloiiH to send an expedition la search of Dr. Livtacatooe the money was Immediately forthcoming. The generous British public was ready to give any sum for this purpose. The government gave the weight of its approval, and not only sent money to the great evplorcr, but put the agents of the government at i lie disposition of'the society In so far 1 as they could aid his work. Thus, Lieutenant Maw-oii, with Lieutenant llenn second in command. started out with the aid of the British people, the Geographical Society, Hie government, and with the liest wishes of the civilized world. At tli.it or rod only Americans, and those who know the lie I VOIIS "lliri'v or our r:i re anil I tin Indomitable spirit they bring to tiny undertaking, believed in the hucccm of Mr. Stanley. But, starting out under such ?j>i. ruii'i auspices, and with everything in its favor, the new expedition soon eatne to grief. Krotn t.lio very outset petty Jealousies arose and susplelons which made everybody miserable. Mr. New was invited to Join the expedition as an interpreter and because of his experience. which made nim Invaluable to men of no little sell-reliance us those In command of the expedition, bnt before Joining he was required to ?i>rri a nnper sarins that he would obey the chief, after inm the second In command, that he would keep in his place, that he would not try to rob Lieutenant Dawson of tlx* honors he was about to win and that he would publish not hint; until Dawson had issued his hook, and, doubtless, won the itonors of knighthood. The whole expedition, It seems, down to the last donkey, was hound in this way not to try to rob tl.e two leaders of their honors. This was counting the chickens belore they were hatched; I bnt It seems that each member had some arro'rp pi'nate. Lieutenant. Dawson might he carried off by fever; to provide for that, .event Lieutenant lienn had a special clause put in the contract, hi cu.-e Ilenn fell, New provided for his succession, and meantime the caravan formed slowly, and the I season passed before It got under way. After months ot waiting, when all wan ready to start lor I the expect'd honors, some ol Stanley"* men came j In to buy provl -ions, saying that their muster Had hern foV.r months exploring with Dr. LivingI stone, ami was now returning. Instead 01 pushing i>ui boldly and promptly as an^ Amcrlc.ni would have done, Lieutenant Dqwson th<Mig.it lie would go home. Lieutenant llenn thuuuiiMi would goon, but finally backed out. Mr New war going to take charge, hut as Lieutenant lb tin < ould not make tip his mind whether lie would yield his rights, the missionary grew shakv. Iti their despair, In the midst of their quarrels. young Livingstone declared that he would go on aloue t ici.ny these provisions to his lather ir no one would go with him, and tills hold attitude so hocked the leaders of the party that they speedily met In council with Dr. Kirk and resolved that something must be done. It wasat that time that Stanley came in. tipsslr. the caravan not yet en rwilo, '1 he uc.\l inornluk after his arrival lie begun to pur chase supplies for the Doctor, and before the '2npllsh expedition had arranged their private quarrels a second Herald caravan, laden with everything that Dr. Livingstone might require, was put. under way, again passing the English caravan In Its camp. What the fate of the latter may be is more than we can say. Finding his father well supplied through the munlllrouce of Mr. James Oordon Bennett young Livlngstono has returned, and Dr. Kirk can now make another present to the Arabs If he please*, with very small prejudice to Dr. Living- ! stone. There are mauy suggestions which we might make in connection with this subject, but we cannot afford the space. In future we would recommend the Geographical Society to choose an American Tor the command or their expeditions. ? in the first place, he will he free from Jealousy. He will bind no man to obey him by a written contract, out he will make his subordinates ob?*v or turn them adrift. Once the line is mupped out In I his mind there will be no hesitation about the mat- i ter, and there will be no scandalous private quar- ! rels and squabbles like those which have mark <1 t the course of Baker Pasha and Lieutenant Dawson. [From the Panama Star and Herald, August 3.] j The success of the agent sent out by the New York Hkkald In finding Dr. Livingstone In the cen- 1 trc of Africa is one of the most astounding events ! of the day, and oue that challenges the world's admiration. That the proprietor of a newspaper had ; the means, the will anil the energy, with the confl- t deuce In the men that served him to cull one of them (Mr. Stanley) and merely say to him, "Go and find Dr. Livingstone; spare no expense, and report for the Herald what you have done," was putting the ways of this world, In America at least, in a novel and striking light. Mr. Stanley, nothing loth and without the least hesitation, obeyed the orders of his chief and set his lace towards the sources of the Nile by way of Ujljl. After a fight with the King of Mirambo, and got led into a scrape by the cowardice and cruelty of tho Arabs, he at last reached UJlji by a roundabout route, and entered the latter place with such of his expedition as disease and desertion had left him, carrying the American nag and tiring guns. Dr. Livingstone was seen as a frail old white man in the midst of a crowd of wondering "niggers." The sight of that flag, seen lor the first time since creation, so far in tho interior of Africa, must have surprised the Doctor as much as the wondering natives. The moment, as the liondon Daily IVews says. Is one tor the poet an?% the painter, and Is as impressive for futurity aa > when Balboa caught tho first sight of the Pacltia Ocean, or any other similar event of heroic enterprise and discovery. The feellnirs of the two men are mora casv to imagine than describe. The whole of Mr. Stanley's adventurous Journey till he sighted Livingstone Is lit Its details as Interesting; as anv ordinary book of travels. The newspaper is* certainly assuming a position in the world far more reaching than even the pulpit. With the printlutc press as its altar, It has the whole world who can read it for a congregation. Barbarous kingdoms and savage tribes have ulready learned from the pictures of themselves in the Illustrated Lonlon Nnos that their doings arc known and commented on far away, and thus their potentates are restrained from outrages by pride for their reputation if not by a higher motive. The natives along the mysterious head waters of ancient Nile have seen the Stars and Stripes, and will not forget them. Dr. Livingstone, who, in doubtless dreams, saw aid coming to . him m the shape of the Geographical Society, and his English friends found his dreams unexpectedly realised by Mr. Stanley and the New York Herald's expedition. Nay, Mr. Stanley found the supply of goods sent to him (rora England through the English Consulate at Zanzibar, had nearly all been robbed by the carriers of it, and had not yet reached him. The American mode of puttlug an idea into execution Is certainly characteristic, compared with this, if you waut a tiling done, do it yourself or see it Is done. Why would we expect, savages, whose highest virtue and idea of duty is to rob, to carry safely a bale of goods entrusted to them for a dollar say, when nothing hinders them lrom taking the whole bale tor their own use? The details or Mr. Stanley's extraordinary expedition are given at length in the New York Heralt? of the 16th of July last, to which we regret to havtt to refer our readers as beinsr too long for our space. A nntino nf thA f1(aAnv?HAa nf hi- Mvinnratnnrk during liis long absence we give in the present issue. RACING AT LONQ BRANCH. On Thursday next two great races will be run.at Long Branch tor pursps amounting to $3,500. The first race will be fonr mile heats, and the second a steeple chase. We understand that there will be at least hair a dozen or more horses In the tour-mile heat race, comprising Mr. Sanford's bay colt Monarchist, by Lexington, dam Mildred; Mr. Coffee's brown mare Morlacchl, by Lexington, dam Banner; Mr. Bannatyne's chestnut horse Milesian, by Mickey Free, dam Cornelian; Babcodc's chestnut ireldtng Doctor, by Second Albion, dam by O'Meara, and probably one or two others whose entries are on the way. The steeple chase will have eight or nine eutrics, and this must necessarily be an interesting event, as the jumps at Monmouth Park arc more difficult than at any other place in the country. Thursday will be a gala day at Monmouth Park. _____ HORSE NOTES, ? ? Among the celebrities of the road the Fleetwood Stables are well represented by J. B. Ayre's I8?i hand team of bays, Bully Briggs and William Van Cott, which can stop a 2:4S clip. Mr. O. Seaman's pair of bay mares, 15J{ hands; one by Rllly Denton and the mate by Manhattan, which can trot in 2:50. Mr. E. A. William's pair of champion trotting mares; nlco steppers. Mr. E. D. Slater's pair, sorrel gelding Fleetwood and bay marc Dover Girl, which can trot fast and are driven to a new top wagon of the latest pattern and design, making a natty turnout. Charles Wood's bay liorse fJermaine; a very nice roadster. Mr. Joun Rickard's black horse Black Ink, who can trot well. Mr. Samuel Nowell's brown mare, from the East. I>r. Lee's pretty trotting marc, by Hiram Drew, who is rapid. Mr. J. C. Howe's original Ice Boy, a very rapid sorrel horse. Mr. House's pair bay geldings. Dexter hus become a periect road horse and neither shies nor Jumps at any alarming object he meets. It is not necessary to say that he can bent anything be comes in contact with. Mr. Morton drives a very speedy gray mare of messenger strain of blood, who can step a 2:40 clip; also a bay gelding, by Coneklln's American Star, which is fast and of good style. (Jcin'ral Buford, of Woodford county, Kentucky, recently sold his chestnut colt, by Alexander's Ab dallah, dam unknown, for $3,000. The Embry trotting horse, until recently owned in Kentncky, Is now owned by a gentleman living in Augusta, (<a. it is said he has refused $2u,03tf for him. The three-year old colt Silent Friend was sold by Mr. William Joining to Erastus Corning, during the Saratoga meeting, for $0,000, and $2,000 extrii should he win the Dixie stakes at Baltimore, tillent Friend was bred by M. It. Grnts, Woodford county, Ky., and is by Imp, Australian, dam Snringbrook, by Lexington out. of Emnaiau, by Mambiino, son of American Eclipse. Mr. C. J. Alloway, of Montreal. Canada, lias purchased ol I!. 1'. McGrath his three year-old bay co.t Jolu l>oe, by Lexington, dam Lucy Fowler. Ttie colt Oeorge Wilkes, by Asteroid, dam Emma Wright, was recently sold by T. (1. Moore, to Mi. 1 >. J. Burinatvne, for $000. Mr. /.eb Ward lias sold to Mf. Samuel Lewis, of Canada, Ills three-year-old bay filly I'yntluuua, by , Tlpperary, dam by Imp. Hooton^for #050. | Mr. John M. Clay has sold Sirfvlvor to Mr. John 1 Chumberlln. Price paid not staled. The Society of Agriculture and Horticulture ot I Westchester County offer nine purses to be troiteii for at their ensuing meeting, amounting in the ag . crr.'i/nle to I:.o. Entries to close Sentenibor 1 ?. j " Mr. Joint I'. Dawson. ol Curniel, Putnam county 1 N. V., has bocotnc the purchaser of the celebrated / trotter White Fawn, one of the handsomest trot tltiff horses In the country. At o sule or the trotting hordes, owned hv the late A. K. Noble, which took place at Anderson's stables tin' 16th Inst., the iolloWing prices were realized:? For a black trotting mare Marv. raised in Ruck" county, Pa., l.v, hands I ugh. lo years old, Hired by j Greene's Bashaw; has record of 2:11 at I'mon S Conne, Lon? Island, and trotted two miles in &:22?*21& Dapple prrav horse. 1S\ hands high, s years old, by General Knox, dam Drew .Mare, raised at Watorville. Me.: can trot In 2:4o to wagon? Sorrel gelding, Hlcke.y, lo.'j hands nigh, 10 years old, raised in Virginia: won u race ut Fleetwood In 1H71 in 2:a8, the sixth heat?>875. Sorrel inare, Alice Huntington, IS!* hands high, s years old, sired by Champion, dam a thoroughbred Hnrkaway mare, trotted in prlvuto in 2:a0?4? fl.223. Brown gelding, David Bonner, 15U' hands high, 9' years old. raised in Kentucky; trotted at Prospect. ! Park, October 11, I87t?: beat Fanny Fern, Ixidy I Kintly, Jennie, Grace Bertram, Flora and Knlgma hi | 2:31asWJj and 2:31making flr?t one-halt j tulle of last heal In l:io; December 0, 1871, at Fleetwood, match $fioo, against l.ady Wellen, distanced her in 2:34, first, heat?$1,27& DOUBLE SHAVE.~ At the Tombs Police Court yesterday Judge Dow? ling committed John Cain on a charge of having , stolen a valine, which contained wearing apparel I of the value of f:io and t wo silver watches, one of I them worth |2o and the other $10, the property of i Francis Campbell, who belongs to the Interior of | the State. Campbell was getting shaved Ut a j barber's shop and laid the valise In a comer In i ho > snloop. bill when the tonsorial operation was over It was found that the valise was gone. The Judgf " | sent Campbell to the House of Detention,