Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-03 00:00:00

NUMEROUS OUTBREAK OF FANATICISM.

The followirg letter, dated the 25th of August,
has been received from Algiers :
On Saturday last, about half- past four in the afternoon,
the quarter of Itg:ers comprised between Medea-street
and Lyle-street was the scene of a most tragic occur-
rence.
A native, twenty years of age, named Soliman Ben
Mohamed, a journeyman, born in the Bouzareah, rushed
out of Craue-street, where he resided, and, armed with
an ironshod stick, a perfect and most formidable club,
attacked every Israelite, man, woman, and child, whom
he met on his way.
It was the Sabbath day, and at the hour when Jewish
wives and daughters, decked out in their richest attire,
stand in front of their houses. At them alone, and the
men of their race, Soliman aimed his blows, paying no
attention (which is remarkable) to the Spanish or French
wives and daughters that inhabit this very populous
quarter.
Running onwards like a raging'madman, he struck with
his club a man named David Nouehi, a dealer in cattle,
who, receiving a blow on the head, was conveyed to the
city hospital, where he shortly after expired. The Arab
next wounded six married or single Jewish women more
or less severely, of whom one has died this afternoon.
Imagine the terror and confusion resulting from such a
scene• The Jews, who witnessed it, cried out "Bola!
Bon !" but did not interfere, and let matters take their
course. A. resolute fellow was wanted to disarm this
homecidal madman. Fortunately there was such a
courageous individual, a Maltese, who mastered him and
handed him over to the police.
. . . . _

So ituan was in a state of furious intoxication, from
having drunk the unreduced absinthe and smoked kif, the
use of which is prohibited by the police regulations.

GUN ACCTDENTS PItnvENTXD.—The lanantable and
fatal accident to Mr. Platt, the liberal member for Old-
ham, is ore of those occurrences with which the shooting
season is but too often ushered io. Tuesday, no
doubt, witnessed the debut of many a youthful sportsman,
who, amid his zeal for the d struction or partridges, would
do well to remember the loss of life which has recently
taken place. 'flirt constant observance of one or two very
simple rules would be sufficient to prevent tbis class of
accidents. The first and most obvious is never to carry the
gun with the muzzle pointed, net merely at, but in the
riirecion of any human being. The second is, that all
parties in the field should walk as much in a line as
possible, carrying their guns either on the shoulder or
under the arm, not swinging across it, as is too ,commonly
rive, thereby bringing the trigger into dangerous proxi-
mity with the coat or waistcoat buttons. Ia the next
place, the hammer should always be at half-cock, except
at the ve•y moment when the game is expected to rise.
I t the act of firing, the your•g sportsmau should always
remember that he must never sheet at a bird unless the
cast is perfectly clear ; and in loading, that he must avoid
hanging over the muzzle of his gun, and hever allow his
hand or lingers to cover it. Simple and obvious as these
precautions' appelr, it is astonishing what a number of
even experienced perms neglect them—dangling their
eun as they valk with the trigger at full cock, and the
muzzles covering their dearest friend dead within a dozen
paces ; leaning over their barrels as they load, and firing
recklessly when birds rise, whether anyone is in the way
or not. It may possibly be of some use at this period of
the year to fix our readers' minds upon the point. On so
trite and common-seeee a subject nothing very new can be
said. To repeat and enforce universally aelieewledged
truths is all we can pretend to. Press.