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—Hu Majesty's ship Supply,
for Woolwich.

DARTMOUTH, Sept. 18.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—
Sarah Brinsley, from Bahia.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 19.--Wind N.W.—Arrived—Eliza-
beth, from Porto Rico—Bessie, from New York. Sailed—
George Askel, for Quebec.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Tamisa,
from Havannah.

SWANSEA, Sept. 19.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—John Hol-
man, for Coquimba.
CARDIFF, Sept. 19.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Coromandel,
for Shanghai—Germania, for St. Thomas—Ruth, for Rio
Janeiro.

HOLYHEAD, Sept. 19.—Wind W.—Arrived—Majestic,
from Liverpool.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 10 —Fiery Cross, from Fuo-Chow-Foo—
Perila, from Jamaica—Zenobia, from Cronstadt— Swift and
Ruby, from Riga—Auguata,frum Dantsic-11 M.S. Supply
from Malta.

MULL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed, Sept. 19—Belted Will, ship, from China—Bertha,
schooner, from Pomeroon—J atnaioa, bark, from Sulina—
William and Mary, from Oporto—all for London—Sisters,
of Goole, and Ellen Morricc—both from the North, for the
West—Zenobie, from Shields, for Swanea.
Siiled—Nearly all the outward bound.
Put Back—Arab Steed, for Hongkong; sustained da-
mage.

BERLIN, Sept. 17.—Letters from Warsaw state
on good authority that there will be published im a
few days very important decrees relative to Puland.
Among other things, they will relate to the founda-
tion of universities and the abolition of corporal
punishment. An Imperial rescript addressed to
Gen. de Berg will appear at the same time in the
Warsaw Journal.

THE KABYLE AND THE ARAB.—The Arab is lithe
and slender in figure, and generally of an aquiline
cast of countenance; the Kabyle is squarely and sturdily
built, rather broad-faced, and with a nose of the typo
which is described as " ordinairo" 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 life, 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, sub-
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 Kab3 le is
industrious, and a clover handicraftsman, especially in the
working of metals. The Arab lies freely and objectlessly,
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
Kabyle. Even his Mahomedanism is of ea unoriental cast.
Though he does not deny the lawfulness of polygamy, ho
considers that on the whule a man ought to be content with
one wife, and admits the woman to bo 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 Amine 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 toge-
ther by a "soff," or league, offensive and defensive; so
that, as General Deurnas says,
" poliaeally speaking, the
Kabyle is a kind of savage Switz3rland." its to this
federal organisation of the tribes that he, ss
well as Jules
which in its Arabic
fGoremrarodf,
K'bailtraces stihgenoffireigsinnootfhtihneg nmarree,
than The Tribes.--
Aretunzn Rambles in "Cola Africa,
REDcAu. NEw LIFEBOiT.—A few days ago the
new lifeboat stationed at Redcar on the Yorksiire
the National Lifeboat Institution was publicly
launchedcoastby the
under the fear erintendence of Captain D. Robert-
son, R.N., its assistant inspector of lifeboate. The boat was
named on the occasion by Miss Susan Oxley of Itedear, th e
46 Crossley," 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 Hteicer to take the
place of an uld boat which was completely worn out. The
new boat is un the institution's self-righting principle, is
built of mahogany, and is 33ft long by bit wide, rowing 10
oars, She was conveyed to her station by th Great North-
ern and North Eastern hallway Companies, with their
usual liberality, free of charge. The old beat now re-
placed was the oldest boat in the United Kingdom, having
been built in the year 18')2. She was on tie° original
Greathead or North Country moat]. She ha lat tuff:gent
periods saved a large number of lives, and her crew h-td
unbounded confidence in her. Having been Landed down
from one generation to acother amongst' them, and. never
having met with any serious accident, 'they entertamed.a
great affection for her ; and enough unfit to ,be again
afloat they have requested that she may put be broken up,
but that they may be allewed to teiee care eel her as a re-
teininiecenee of the peat.