The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-20 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Sept. 20.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but a little
cloudy.

PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 19.—Arrived—Her Majesty's ship
Fox, from Woolwich. Sailed—Her Mojcsty's ship Supply,
for Woolwich.

DARTMOITTII, Sept. 18.—Wind W.N,W.—Arrived—
Sarah Brineley, from Bahia.

PLYMOUTH, Sept. 19.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Eliza-
beth, from Porto Rico—Bessie, from New York. Sailed—
George A skel, for Quebcc.
FALMOUTH, Sept, 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Tamisa,
from Havannah.

SWANSEA, Sept. 19.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—John Hol-
man, for Coquimbo. _ _ _

CARDIFF, Sept. 19.—Wind N.W.--Sailed—Coromandel,
for Shanghai—Germania, for St. Thomas—Ruth, fur Rio
Janeiro.

HoLYlialD, Sept. 10.—Wind Ws—Arrived—Majestic,
From Liverpool.

THE KABTLE AND THE ARAB.—The Arab is lithe
and slender in figure, and generally of au aquiline
cast of countenance; the K tbyle is squarely and sturdily
built, rather broad faced, and with a nose of the typo
which is described as " ordineire" on a French passport.
The normal state of the Arab is that of a wanderer and a
dweller in tents: he has no instinctive attachment to the
soil, and when he does take to a settled lice, it is as it were
under protest; contenting himself with an unsubstantial
and flimsy dwelling, and bestowing no more labour on the
ground than is required to raise him a scanty crop of barley.
The Kabyle, on the other hand, clings as tightly to his
rocks as a limpet.; he builds himself a comfortable, rub-
stantial house, with stone walls and a tiled roof, and changes
the rough mountain side into a rich garden. The Arab
hates labour and has few manufactures ; the Kabyle is
industrious, and a clever handicraftsman, especially in the
working of metals. The Arab lies freely and objeetlessly,
and pilfers for the love of pilfering ; his statement is value-
less, except as a means of arriving at the truth by a kind of
inductive process. The Kabyle, as a general rule, tells the
truth, and unless you are at enmity with him respects your
property' He will make a hard bargain with you, but,
once made, he will keep to it ; unlike the Arab, who, if you
leave him a loophole, will wriggle out through it. With
strangers there is a mixture of shyness and obsequiousness
in the Arab's behaviour ; while about the Kabyle there is
an unmistakable air of independence and self-reliance, as
if he did not much care what you thought about him, In
short, there is little or nothing of the Asiatic about the
K.abyle. Even his Mahomedanism is of an unoriental cast.
Though he does not deny the lawfulness of polygamy, ho
considers that on the whole a man ought to be content Nt.ith
one wife, and admits the woman to be a perfectly rational
being quite fit to be entrusted with her liberty, deserving
of social equality, and not born to do more than her fair
share of the work of the household. His form of govern-
ment is essentially democratic ; the Amin, who corresponds
generally to the sheikh among the Arabs, is elected by the
universal suffrage of his village. The Amins of all the vil-
lages of a tribe form its parliament ; and one of the num-
ber, elected by themselves, acts as the chief of the whole
tribe—the head magistrate in peace, and commander of
the forces in war. The tribes, again, bind themselves tege-
thor by a "soff," or league, offensive and defensive; ao
that, as General Daumas says, "politically speaking, the
Kabyle is a kind of savage Switzerland." It is to this
federal organisation of the tribes that he, as well as Jules
Gerard, traces the origin of the name, which in its Arabic
form of K'bail signifies nothing more than The Tribes.
Autumn Rambles in Nwth Africa. _
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coast by the National Lifeboat Institution was publicly
launched under the superintendence of Captain D. Robert-
son, R.N., its assistant inspector of lifeboats. The boat was
named on the occasion by Miss Susan Oxley of Rodcar, the
ceessley," the cost of the lifeboat having been liberally
presented to the: society by Messrs. Crossleys and Sons, of
Halifax, The boat has been sent to Redc.tr t o take the
place of an old boat which was completely worn out. Tho
new boat is on the institution's self-righting principle, is
built of mahogany, and is 33ft long by Sft wide, rowing 10
oars. She was conveyed to her station by the Great North-
ern and North Eastern ilailway Companies, with their
usual liberality, free of charge. The old boat now re-
placed was the oldest boat in the United Kingdom, having
been built in the year 18 )2. She was on the original
Greathead or North Country lirodel. She ha lat different
periods saved a large number of lives, and her crew had
unbounded confidence in her. Having been Landed dewa
from one generation to another autotgizt them, and raea2r
having met with any serious accident, they entertained a
great affection for her ; and altLough unfit to be again
afloat they have requested that she may rot, be broken up,
but that they may be allowed to care
,of her as a re-
Enininiscence of the past.