PLAIN SPEAKING.
Mr labouchero is a very plain speakor, and can go straight to the point. His opinon of Stanley's work may well be pondered over, ITe truly remarks •■— "That Stanley is a man of vast energy, great courngo, and undauntod pereeverancel do not for n moment question. Bo wero Cortez and Fizraro. But I very much doubt whether the marches of Stanley through Africa have bonefited humanity m goneral or Africanhumanbeingßinpartioular.Qeographi cally, he has discovered a new pond, and seen a new mountain. Cvi bono ? A pond is a depression, a mountain an elevation, and whether there aro more or less depressions or elevations m Africa than we hereto fore supposed is an exceedingly unimport and matter. Ho has brought back Emm and a number of the people who were with EmiD. A great many of Hmin's people died during the process of bringing them back, whilst Emm himself, ob soon aB he was brought baok, walked through a window and injured his skull. During Stanley's marches, many Africans were laid hold of, and made to carry burdens, with the result that they died of fatigue ; many men (dwarfs and others) who objected to his traversing their villages were shot, and many of their buildings were burnt. Civilisation' has not yet presented to the inhabitants of Central Africa m a very alluring aspect, and they are not likely to en slave or to eat each other loss m conse quenco of their glimpse of it. One cannot help asking why this wnste of energy, why all this shooting and burning, and why the Afri cans could not have been left alone ?"

PETTY WORRIES.
