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tion for it brought to us from quarters of the earth
the most unexpected, in a manner the most strik-
ingly and surprisingly incidental.' The very Afri-
can traveller to whom we have made reference, our
illustrious fellow-countryman—Dr LITIN G STONE—

pets comes--the Indian Forces Bill—and the ever- 1
lasting Mr. HORSMAN is told he may go
on till Christmas if he likes, but Lord
PALMERSTON means to carry it, and forthwith.
the exacerbated tongue of the member for Stroud
cools and is quiet. Next, because he will show who
is master when his opponents want to force from
his side a colleague with whom he has little sym-
pathy, he simply says—" You shall not, I will
send you to the country first." And the House of
Commons, by a majority, considerable for a party
struggle of this session, refuses to pluck the for-
bidden fruit.
The debate itself was carried. on with consider-
able spirit. The principal speakers all made some
good points, bnt most certainly the arguments on
each side were so well put that nothing but some
extraneous motive could have induced the house to
reverse its usual policy by refusing to give fair
time to the large and important trade which feared
a grievance. The main argument, it seems to us,
stands quite unshaken—the prohibition of the
export of French rags, or heavy duties on them, is
a bounty to the French manufacturer, and a tax
on ours, after all that Mr. GLADSTONE'S ingenuity
could urge to the contrary. If, as he endeavoured
to make out, ours is a cheap rag market, why don't
Frenchmen come here, while, it seems, they only
ask our woollen rags for manure ? Why also are
Frenchmen so determined to retain the prohibition ;
that it is pretended even their absolute EMPEROR
cannot repeal it? Plainly Mr. GLADSTONE is under
some illusion on this point, and is afraid to allow
time and facts to dispel it. As to the treaty, what
can we do when two such men as Sir HUGH
CAIRNS and Sir R. BETHELL, the certain future
Lord Chancellors of the kingdom, differ so ably ?
'What can humbler reasoners add ? The fact, how-
ever, that the EMPEROR does not press the treaty '
on this point, is both creditable to his sense of
decency, and also cuts that ground from under Mr.
GLADSTONE'S feet. The latter, indeed, has cut the
ground from under his own feet by maintaining a
differential duty on English hops, which in regard
to the treaty are placed in the same position as
paper. But paper was Mr. GLADSTONE'S hobby.
Hops were not.
For ourselves we have every reason to be satis-
fied. We must be gainers, if there be anything to
gain ; but we have been honestly desirous to advo-
cate what we believe to be simple justice, and also
thoroughly consistent with Free-trade principles.
Nor can we think it any advantage to those prin-
ciples to strain them as Mr. GLADSTONE has just
done. -We do riot doubt that things will, at much
sacrifice, however, soon readjust themselves. Raw
material will rise in France. English capital, in-
deed, will go abroad and raise its price, and the level
will be found. And if there really was any danger
to the Ministry, we must confess we should be sorry
to see Lord PALMERSTON and Lord J. RUSSELL dis-
placed till Italian liberties are fully consolidated.
Their policy south of the Alps has al ways com-
manded our most cordial support. Lord PALMER-
STON was wise in adverting to it on Monday at a
meeting called to talk of customs duties. The
Liberals present sacrificed the latter for the sake of
he fernaer.

L AT E S

has he not in this wise shown us (to very general
amazement) that, in Central Africa, in the province
of Angola—there exists a primitive race, tempe-
rate, healthful, industrious, in fact in the enjoy-
ment of almost arcadian happiness P Again—has
there not come to us yet more recently, quite as

incidentally, and be it added also quite as reliably,
evidence of a no less surprising kind in regard to
the happy social condition of the far off people of
Greenland—evidence brought to light thus inci-
dentally and reliably by that very Colonel SHAFF •

NER, to whom we alluded yesterday in the course
of our remarks upon the geography of the
North Atlantic Telegraph ? Those who are

ignorant as to the state of things in Greenland
will do well to ponder awhile over the illustrative
facts thus brought to light by Colonel SHAFFNER,
and submitted by him as recently as last month to
the Councils of the British Association. " The in-
habitants," writes that northern traveller, " are
Danes and Esquimaux. The Julianahaab District
is the most southern in Greenland, and has about
2,600 Esquimaux. They are all civilised, and
mostly members of the Lutheran Church.
There are a few Moravians. The children
are baptised and at fourteen years old con-
firmed. They have churches and schools, and
they preach, sing, and pray. In the principal
churches they have organs and some fine paint-
ings. " The town of Julianahaab," he adds, " has
about 300 inhabitants. The people received my
visit last autumn with much joy, and illuminated
the town. The Governor received me at the land-
ing, and told me, ' Welcome, welcome, to Green-
land !' He invited Mrs. SHAFFNER to take his
arm and escorted her to his residence. The houses
were stone and frame, and covered with slate. It
is not cold enough for double windows. They
had cows and sheep. The Esquimaux lived
in stone huts covered with earth, fully as com-
fortable as many log cabins that I have lived in
when in the western • forests of America." Then
observe what follows :—" The Esquimaux are
honest and good hearted. They never steal unless
on the verge of starvation. The men treat their
wives well. The children are never whipped. Peace,
love, and domestic happiness, seem to be more
common to them than the more civilised races."
No wonder, he says in conclusion, " It will not
be difficult to have a telegraph line maintained in
Greenland with the aid of such people." Surely
we should 610 well now, and then to look a little
beyond our coastline. England might do worse
(in regard to some of the above italicised particu-
lars) than take a leaf or two out of the social code
of Greenland!

been suppressed.

been arrested.

It is an old saying enough that one half of the
world little knows how the other half lives. It is
a saying, too, that is most frequently applied to
the mutual ignorance of each other's existence ob-
servable in St. Giles's and St. James's, in Belgravia
and Alsatia, in the " gilded saloons" of the Court
end of the town and the swarming dens of the
back slums and rookeries of Whitechapel. All
this is painfully true, of course, but it is only half
the truth. The darkest holes and corners of Tom-
all-alone's have had light thrown into them of late
years from various directions—by the genius of a
great writer of fiction lik9 CHARLES DICKENS,
by the bull's-eye of the policeman's lantern,
by the official investigations instituted by our sani-
tary commissioners and by the ex-official researches
conducted, from time to time, with affecting ear-
nestness by such true-hearted, and large-hearted,
and pure-hearted philanthropists as the Earl of
SHAFTESBURY. Yet, after all, as we have said, this
is only half the truth. We have thus obtained, in
abundance, an accumulation of appalling evidence
as to the fact that Lord MACAULAY spoke not (or
rather wrote not) at random when referring to a
nameless throng of miserable fellow-mortals and
brother citizens of us all who are to be accurately
described only as " heathens in the midst of Chris-
tianity, and savages in the midst of civilization !"
Who has forgotten Jo in DICKENS'S Bleak House?
Who has yet lost a recollection of BECK, that other
crossing-sweeper previously described by Sir
BULWER LITTON in his terrible romance of
Lucretia ? Has any reader of DISRAELI'S Sybil
either quite dropped a remembrance of those two
deplorable " cadgers" stretched after nightfall on
the grass of one of the west end parks, com-
paring notes there as to the delicacy of the
flavour of cat's-meat ? Our principal novelists
have especially directed their energies towards
the more and more vivid enforcement of the
truths thrust upon our recognition by these terrible
social revelations. Still, while all this good work
has been in progress among the more generous
labourers in politics, in science, and especially in
literature—we have only been getting (we must
repeat) thus at half the truth. We have been
" realising" the Evil—by way of securing a
powerful incentive to our benevolence. We have
been overlooking the Good—that might neverthe-
less have acted benignly as an encouragement.
Besides which, we have all the while been looking
peculiarly and almost exclusively to ourselves. We
have been scrutinising almost alone our own condi-
tion as a people—scarcely ever contrasting itfor good
or for evil, with the social condition elsewhere
observable beyond the boundaries of our dominion.
There has been a great deal too much said in the
way of derision of anything like a trans-oceanic
philanthropy. Yet in itself is there nothing so
very ludicrous, after all, in the Christian charity
that disdains not to look even beyond the distant
horizon to the squalor and wretchedness, the
ignorance and depravity infesting the remote
African regions of a Boorioboolagah. Say
whether there is, or whether there is
not, noble-minded, brave-hearted DAVID LIVING-
STONE! Upon the evidence adduceable from the
words penned by that one daring African traveller
let the conclusion arrived at by the impartial in-
quirer be based. It will then be clearly understood
that humanity by necessity has no limit whatever—
no limit whether of clime, or creed, or race, or

THE SUN, LONDON- , TUESDAY EVENING, AITGITS f ISM

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The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, AUG. 7.

The Moniteur publishes a decree allowing the
importation of wool through any customs station

in France.
The Moniteur also announced the arrival and
enthusiastic reception of the Emperor at the Catnp
of Chalons.

GENEVA, AUG. 7.

The Federal Council has received a note from the
Swedish Government dated 18th July, reiterating the
intentions of Sweden to support the claims of
Switzerland, at the conference on the affairs of

Savoy.
The annual federal fete has taken place at
Geneva. Officers from all parts of Switzerland to
the number of 1,200, assembled on the occasion,
under the presidency of General Dufour. The
enthusiasm was general.

PALERMO, AUG. 4.

The ladies of Palermo are very active in supply-
ing the hospitals of Melazzo with lint, linen, and
medicine.

Large numbers of volunteers continue to arrive.

NAPLES, AUG. 5.

All efforts to conclude an armistice with Gari-
baldi having failed, preparations are being made to
repulse any attempt at invasion. Improvements
are being actively introduced in the royal army and

navy.
Commander Capecelaco has been appointed direc
tor of the Ministry of Marine.

The renewal of the personnel of the different ad-
ministrative departments is nearly completed.
The office of private secretary to the King has

The Camarilla has been replaced by persons re-
commended by the ministers.
The King has visited the headquarters of the
National Guard.

MARSEILLES, AUGUST 6,

According to advices from Naples, 300 soldiers
who were on the point of joining Garibaldi had

The Minister of War had withdrawn the troops
from the Abruzzi, in order to concentrate the
principal part of the army round Naples.
Troops have left for Syria. The Finisterre left
Toulon yesterday. The Borysthene, with half a
battalion of ChabseuTs, left Marseilles to-day. The
sth Regiment of the line has arrived here.

BELGRADE, AUGUST 6,

Serious disturbances took place yesterday even-
ing between Servians, Turks, and Bosnian sailors.
Some Servians were wounded, and some Turks
were killed or wounded.
The garrison remained quiet.