The New York herald., 1872-07-05
The British Press ON tho Livingstone
Search Expedition.

The British Press ON tho Livingstone
Search Expedition.
We publish in another part of the paper the
comments Of the British press on the success
of our Livingstone Search Expedition. Hav-
ing been furnished with the important news
which we published on Tuesday from Mr..
Stanley, the principal London journals
promptly acknowledged the value of this
intelligence and the service rendered by our
expedition in search of DR.. Livingstone. And
here let us contemplate for o moment the won-
derful effect of that agent of modern civiliza-
tion, the magnetic telegraph, in communicate
ing information from one part OF the globe
to another and under thousands of miles of
ocean. The very interesting and detailed account
of the meeting of Mr.. Stanley and Dr.. Living
stone, of Mr.. Stanley's perils and adventures,
and of the return of the HERALD explorer to
Unyanyembe to despatch the news, was tele-
graphed to us from London last Monday,
published on Tuesday, and republished and
commented on by the London newspapers on
Wednesday and yesterday. The magnetic
spark annihilates, comparatively, time and
with all the difficulties and tedious means of
travel and communication, we have received
this news, by the way Of Bombay, in little
more than three months, the latest date being
the 14th of March. Years had DR.. Livingstone
been in that unknown land without the means
of communicating home and years have ex-
ploring expeditions been searching for him or
e. :.~k.n n,,I xxystt ~,
almost as short a time as it takes to 60 to
India, we hear from the very spot where he
and our correspondent were in company with
each other.
The Morning Post says that the information
afforded by the New YORK HERALD to the Lon
don press of the discovery of Livingstone sur
passes everything in interest and is the great
est achievement of journalistic enterprise.
Every civilized State has been anxious for
years about the fate of the great explorer, and
now that has been ascertained by newspaper
enterprise. The Post remarks that, though
they have been accustomed to laugh on that
side of the Atlantic at the rage of Americans
for big things, they must express, with kindred
pride, their admiration for this wonderful un-
dertaking, conceived and carried to success
full issue by New York contemporary While
government hesitated and refused supplies for
an expedition, the proprietor of the HERALD
selected q gentleman fitted for the enter
prise, gave him carte blanche to draw
for expenditures and sent him to the
unknown regions of Africa to find Livingstone
or authentic information of his fate. All has
been completely successful. The Telegraph
says that it has listened with as much interest
to the outline of this story as to the daring of
vasco de Cana, the solitude and adventures
of Robinson Crusoe or the wonderful dis
coveries and romantic career of Marco Polo.
The mind delights to realize in imagination
the moment when the gallant and indefatiga-
BILE Stanley won his way to Ujiji, and that oil
must envy the American who proudly carried
the flag of the Stars and Stripes to succor the
lonely Briton. The Daily Ne,cs says that this
extraordinary narrative, which has just been
communicated by the New York HERALD, is
one of the most exciting stories civilization has
had since the startling truths Of Bruce were
made known. Stanley's narrative is of q
picturesque color, but the fact remains
that he found Livingstone, and not, as
Rawlingon conjectured, that Living
stone found him. It is not easy to ina
CINE an enterprise more full of toll and peril
than this of the strange journey of the lonely |
American, with a SMALL reluctant escort,
through traclxless wilds and tribes unknown.
1t is impossible not to admire the daring and
perseverance, and to admit that in the discovery
which crowned these there is nothing more he
roic in the history Of modern adventure. 1t
only wants the poet to render Stanley's first
sight of Livingstone as impressive as the
Spaniard's glimpse from the Pacific of the
peak of Darien. The Erening Standard re-
marks that the warmest acknowledgements of
England are due for the timely and valuable
intelligence brought by the HERALD CORE
spondent.
While some of the journals manifest feel
ing of regret and humiliation that this achieve
ment was not made by the British government
or by Englishmen, they all frankly accord the
merit due to those to whom it belongs. 1t is
gratifying to notice this liberal recognition
of the efforts of others in the cause
of humanity and to promote science.
That grand institution of France, the Acade-
my of Science, has been famous for the broad
and liberal spirit with which it has recognized
merit all over the world 1t never cares to ask
what the nationality of q man may BE-, and
only what he has done or what his merits are.
The press should be equally as cosmopolitan
and liberal in all matters pertaining to science
discoveries or whatever tends to promote
knowledge or the progress of the age To
reveal the hidden secrets of Equatorial Africa