390 Present Condition of Chile. [July, 
grounds. She may fairly point to the pefedtly pure, albeit 
somewhat dilatory, adtion of her courts of justice, the 
integrity of her administration, the general and willing 
obedience of her people to the law, and to the good sense 
of a community where men are content to busy themselves 
with their own concerns in preference to those of the State, 
and choose to live on the labour of their hands and brains 
rather than on the loaves and fishes of the public treasury. 
In these things Chile, adds Mr. Rumhold, stands nearly 
alone among South-American States, and accordingly should 
be classed apart from them. 
