STANLEY IN ENGLAND-QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS BATTLES.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2833, 14 March 1878, Page 2

STANLEY IN ENGLAND-QUES-TIONS ABOUT HIS BATTLES.

, The London Globe says:—The prompt denial given by Sir Rutherford Alceck to the rumor that the lioyal Geographical Society had engaged the Albert Hall for the' public reception of Mr Stanley on his return from Africa, and the statement made by the President of the Society that "no arrangements of any kind have

at present been entered into by the Society for receiving Mr Stanley," point to to the very widespread doubt which exists whether any fitting public welcome can be accorded to Mr Stanley while this stigma of unnecessary bloodshed attaches to his name.

According to his own letters, published in both the English and American newspapers, whose proprietors have supplied him with the funds for the purpose of hit travel and explorations, the greater part of the route of the rival of Cameron and Livingston* has-been stahiad^rittrblood. and the English flag has been used as a cloak, or as a t warrant* for acts of violence where hitherto—except in cases where the chastisement of the natives for acknowledged wrongs, hat been inflicted by lawful authority—it has been regarded as the symbol of law, peace, and order. After the first outburst of iaJj*. nation which greeted the "self-proclaimed outrages of which Mr Stanley stands hit own accuser; the English people hare, with a fine sense of honor, and a desire to judge'no man in his absence, allowed the question to remain in abeyance till the traveller should return and be able to meet the charges which, not they, bat he himself, preferred.' '• ■" ■ * —" ' The. acclamation with which the announcement of v his great. discovery in tracing the 'source of the Congo waa hailed, shows that the.public generally is wilting to admit his claim to be called an explorer of the first rank;"bat the glory with which his achievements have covered him are marred by. thercircumstances under which they were attained: and it is only fair to himself and onlj right to this country, whose name^tie/nu used so freely, and which it so readytodo him honor, to give him an opportunity of saying openly, and immediately on his return, whether the published letters from himself are accurate statements of occurrences that took place during his journey across Africa, or .whether they are sensational clap-trap, devised merely to satisfy a morbid taste which he believed would gloat with pleasure over tales of violence and bloodshed.