The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-01 00:00:00

ALGER lA.
MASSACRE OF THREE HUNDRED FRENCH
PRISONERS BY THE ARABS.
MARSEILLES, MAY 27.—The France Algerienne, in
date of 23d May, has the following :
" The master of a small sailing vessel, which left
Djernmsa-Ghazaouat on the 9th inst., has announced to
us a horrible event—the massacre in the Beira of Abd-
el-Rader of all the French prisoners ! General de La-
moriciere immediately ordered the GI ts;eois steamer to
repair forthwith to Djemmai-Gbazaouat
with Colonel
Martimprey on board, to examine the merits of this
alarming report, to establish its authenticity, or other-
wise, and to collect all the particulars of this odious act
of barbarity, of the fact of which we would fain doubt,
but, alas! we fear it is but too true. The state of the sea
prevented for three days the execution of M. de Martim-
prey' mission; the GreAeois, however, arrived at length
this Light. From the report of M. de Martimprey, as
well as from all the reports collected relative to this fatal
event, it is clear that Abd-el-Kader ordered the mas-
sacre of our prisoners, and that this order has been
executed. We hasten- to state that up to the present
time this order has not extended to the officers, who
have escaped this horrible butchery. I will now sum-
marily relate the reasons which induced the Emir to
adopt so merciless a resolution.
" In the course of March last, Abel-Kader ordered
Bou Hamedi to transfer to Mustapha Ben Thami the
charge of the Deira, and to join him immediately with
the Beni Amers. Although noised about in the south,
as if it had been executed, the order never was, for the
Beni Amers and Bou Hamedi refused to depart. The
tribe, by the confession of the Kalifa himself, on the
contrary, began with Bouzianne Oulid Chaoui, negotia-
tions with a view to securing his assistance, in order to
separate themselves from the Deira. It was agreed
between them that tbe.Eeni Amers should not go beyond
Tasa, that 13.0 u Hamedi should act as mediator between
the tribe and the Emir, and that he should return to the
Deira as commander-in-chief of the same. Bon Hamedi
kept his word ; but the Beni Amer's breaking faith,
departed for the westward, heedless of the Kalifs, who,
dreading the consequences of his abortive intrigue, pro-
ceeded to rejoin Bouzianne Oulid Chaoui.
"It ensued from from these events, which occurred in
the latter end of April, that Mustapha Ben Thami, who
had remained alone amongst the Hackems, and some
emigrants from various tribes, and could not execute the
Emir's order, received from his brother-in-law instruc-
tions to transport to the southward all the people that
remained with him; whereupon he wrote to Abd-el-
Kader, that reduced as the Deira was to one-fourth of
its numbers, he would be unable to resist any attempt on
the part of the Moors to seize possession of the French
prisoners, the custody and maintenance of whom was
becoming daily more. difficult.
" Abd-el-Kader returned for answer the barbarous
order to put the prisoners to death, and that the exe-
cution of this order might be facilitated, the report was
spread in the Deira that the Mussulman prisoners had
been similarly treated in France. It is by such means
as these that the agitators stimulate the ignorant and
cruel hatred of the Arabs.
" There is not the least room to doubt the execution of
our unfortunate brothers in arms. We have seen the
corpses of several. A few, who escaped death, fled,
although pursued, and contrived to win the protection of
the Beni-Massem. This tribe has saved the life of one
of them, and promises to restore others to us, who are
already iu safety. I shall probably soon be able to send
you the particulars, alas! deplorable to read, of this ter-
rible massacre, executed by order of the Emir, in whom
our examples of philanthropy have as yet taken no
root.

Waterloo. Colonel Mitchell, however, is by no means , ARRIVAL of PRINCE NAPOLEON.
original in the line which he has taken up, for years ago Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte arrived in Eng-
General Foy proved by somewhat similar arguments
land on the 26th ult., the day after his escape from Ham.
that the Duke of Wellington ought to have been beaten in
We learn that the Prince has written a letter to Sir R.
every battle that he fought. The Duke, however, seems Peel, and one to Count St. Aulaire, the French Am-
to care nothing for the criticisms of General' Foy bassador. We have been favoured with the copy of the
and Napoleon, were he alive, would, no doubt, care as latter, which we offer to our readers :
little for tree criticisms of Colonel Mitchell. In an era • (Translation.)
cle on French newspapers, the
.anaende honorable is made "TO MONSIEUR LE COMTE ST. AULAIRE.
to the French newspaper writers for an undiscriminating " London, May 29, 1846.
attack made upon them in the number of last month. " Monsieur le Comte,—l come frankly to declare to
The fact is, the French press is disgraced by the exist- the man who was the friend of my mother, that in
ence of certain scandalous newspapers in the same man- quitting my prison I have not been actuated by any idea
I
ner as the English press, but the Dejariiers, Beauvallons, of renewing against the French Government a war which
and Emile de Girandins, the conductors of the Presre and I has been disastrous to me, but only to be enabled to go
of the Epoque, are not to be confounded with the decent to my aged father.
portion of the press, such as
the Journal des
Debats, the " Previous to my taking this step, I made every effort
Constitutioned, the National? and the stecle, and the to obtain from the French Government the permission
Courrier Franfitis for instance. The article is well to go to Florence, and I offered every guarantee con-
worthy of perusal, as giving a fair and just account of sistent with my honour. But, finding that all my ap-
French newspapers and French newspaper writers. We plications had proved unsuccessful, I determined to have
have also a witty article on beggars, a well-wi itten cri- recourse to the lastexpedient, which the Duc de Nemours
ticism on British poets, and an admirably finished pen- and the Due de Guise adopted in similar circumstances,
and-ink picture of Mr. Shiel as an orator. Altogether under Henry IV.
this is an excellent number of Fraser. " I beg, Monsieur le Comte, that you will inform the
French Government of my peaceable intentions, and I
hope that such a spontaneous' assurance on my part will
shorten the captivity of my friends, who still remain in
prison. I am, &c.,
(Signed) "NAPOLEON LOUIS BONAPARTE."
To prove that the Prince had done everything that
laid in his power to obtain his liberty by way of ne-
gotiation, we give the copy of a letter he wrote to
Louis Philippe, and the answer he received to it :
(Translation.)
" Fortress of Ham, Jan. 14, 1846.
" Sire,—lt is with the deepest emotion I come to re-
quest of your Majesty, as a great favour, the permission
to quit Franee, were it only for a short time ; I who, for
the last five years, have found in the breathing of the
native air a large compensation to the torments of cap-
tivity. But my infirm and aged father stands in need of
my attentions. To obtain my liberty he has applied to
several persons known to be devoted to your Majesty ;
and I feel it a duty incumbent on myself to do anything
that lies in my power to attain that object.
" The Council of Ministers have deemed it to be
beyond their competence to accede to the request I have
made, of going to Florence, after taking the engagement
of giving myself up again as a prisoner as soon as the Go-
vernment would express that wish, I come, Sire, confi-
dently to make a call on the feelings of humanity of your
Majesty, and to 'reiterate my request, which I entrust to
your high and generous interference.
" Your Majesty will, I am confident, appreciate to its
true value a step which binds beforehand my gratitude,
and sensible of the lonely situation, in a foreign land, of
a man who, when on the throne, deserved the esteem of
all Europe, I hope your Majesty will comply with the
wishes of my father and my own.
" I beg your Majesty to accept the expression of my
deep respect.
" NAPOLEON LOUIS BONAPARTE."
To this letter M. Duchatel, the Minister of the Inte-
rior, answered, " that the request of the Prince could
not be complied with, because, to obtain the royal cle-
mency, it was necessary that the grace should be de-
served, and avowedly asked for."
Since that time, a great many highly influential per-
sons, both English and French, continued to take steps
for the setting at liberty of the Prince, but to no pur-
pose. It was only when all hopes had vanished, and
that the news concerning the health of his father became
more alarming, that the Prince determined to have re-
course to the only means left to him.

BURFOAD'S PANORAMA OF TILE
BATTLE OF SOBRAON.

Time was—
"ln our young days, when George the Third was King,"
that Panoramas of Battles were all the rage, and the
Battles of ViVoria and Waterloo and Algiers were all
exhibiting at one and the same time. In 1817, however,
(Panorama loquitur)
"A change came o'er the spirit of my dream,"
and fields (not tented) and cities (not beseiged) have
formed the staple commodity of public pictorial exhibi-
tions. Diorama, from the beginning a F.A.S., intruded
with its peaceful modern antiques in that year on the
domain of Panorama, and even Panorama from that
period eschewed all blood-colours, such as scarlet,
and consuming its own smoke, like a civilised de-
nizen of a civilised community, became to all out •
ward appearance a member of the Peace Society.
The spirit of glory in Panorama was scotched,
not killed, and the dispatches of Sir Hugh Gough
and Sir Henry Hardinge, detailing the glorious vic-
tory of Sobraon, awakened Panorama from its peaceful
dreams, and behold we have a glorious Panorama of
the old school—the Panorama of the Battle of Sobraon.
When we say a Panorama of the old school—the phrase
must be taken cum granis, for this is in reality a vast
improvement upon the Battle Panoramas of the old
school. They were mere representations of a
melee of men in splendid uniforms, arranged
in all sorts of impossible positions, and falling
about in all manner of inconceivable attitudes. As
to scenery and background, the artist troubled him-
self little about such matters, for he kept up such a
furious cannonade, and enveloped the whole affair in
such clouds of smoke that there was actually "no need
for such vanities." Mr. Burford, however, has
not acted on this plan. He has taken his-
view of the - battle just at one point of
time, namely, when the British, having silenced the
Seikh batteries, bad forced their way into the entrench-
ments, were driving the flying enemy into the river, con-
sequently there is very little smoke to cloud the prospect,
and as the view is supposed to be taken from an eminence
within the Seikh entrenchment, we have the background
beautifully painted by Mr. Burford, on the one side
the distant country from which the British are advan-
cing, and on the other the river Sutlej, with the towns
and villages of the Punjaub in the distance. The
British army is represented as advancing into the entrench-
ments, and driving the Seikhs in a hand-to-hand com-
bat across the river. In one part we have vividly repre-
sented the fall of the lamented Sir Robert Dick, who is
in the act of cheering on his men as he is struck by a
grape-shot, and in the opposite portion the flight of the
Seikhs across the bridge and the ford, exposed to the de-
structive fire of the British artillery. The picturesque
costumes of the Siekh troops have afforded Mr. Selena
an admirable opportunity for showineb: his powers of
colouring, of which he has most judiciously availed
himself. The whole picture is instinct with life, and
altogether it is the most stirring and interesting patio
rama that has ken exhibited of late years.

THE ACCOUCHEMENT OF HER

MAJESTY.

The following bulletin of Queen's health was issued
morning:—

"Buckingham Palace, June 1, 1846,
" Nine o'clock A.m.
" The Queen and the infant Princess continue well.
(Signed)

" JAMES CLARK, M.D.
" CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
" ROBERT FERGUSON M.D.
"Her Majesty's recovery is so far advanced that no more
bulletins will be issued."

COURT CIRCULAR.
No bulletin of the Queen's health was issued either
yesterday or on Saturday, owing to the very favourable
state of her Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, the'Ladies and Gentlemen of
the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine
service yesterday morning in the private chapel, Buck-
ingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay
officiated.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester called
-esterday at Buckingham Palace, to inquire after the
iealth of the Queen.
_ __

His Royal highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back on Saturday, attended by the Equerry in Waiting,
the Hon. Captain Gordon.
The inquiries after her Majesty's health, by the No-
bility and Gentry, were very numerous both yesterday
and Saturday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, and
the Princess Royal, took an airing in the pleasure-
grounds of Buckingham Palace on Saturday.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the
Princess Alice rode out in an open carriage on Satur-
day, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. The
Royal Family took their usual airings yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left town
on Saturday morning, for her residence, Frogmore
House, Windsor, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce.
Her Royal Highness proceeded in the afternoon to
Bushy House, Bushy-park, and visited her Majesty, the
Queen Dowager. The Royal Duchess returned to
Clarence House, St. James's, in the evening.
The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service
yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Mr. EdmOnd
Mildmay was in Waiting on his Royal Highness.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, Baron
ICnesebeck, and Mr. E. Mildmay, honoured the Italian
Opera with their presence on Saturday evening.
Mr. Kilgour and Mr. Cunynghame had an interview
with Mr. Secretary Gladstone, on Saturday, at the Co-
lonial-office.
The Portuguese Minister transacted business at the
Foreign-office on Saturday.
The Metropolitan Railway Termini Commissioners
had a meeting on Saturday, at the office in Whitehall-
place. There were present—Viscount Canning, the
Earl of Dalhousie, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, the
Lord Mayor, and Sir Frederick Smith.
The Chairman of the Excise had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday.
Dispatches from the Governors of New South Wales
and Gibraltar were received oa Saturday at the Colo-
nial-office.
The Duke of Wellington has left town for Strath-
fieldsaye.
Sir R. Peel left town on Saturday for Drayton
Manor, Staffordshire.
Sir Edward and Lady Morrison had a dinner party on
Saturday at their residence in Great Stanhope-street.
The Duke of Rutland and Lords Ingestre and G.
Paulet attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel
Royal, St. James's.
The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and
the sermon was preached by the Rov. Dr. Goddard.
At the daily service the prayers were read by the Rev.
Dr. Sleath, the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore, and
the communion service by the Bishop of London. The
sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Jelf.
Among the nobility present were the Duke and
Duchess of Beaufort; Ladies Wilton, St. Germans, So-
merset, and Ernest Bruce; Lords Bessborough, Gosford,
St. Germans, Ebrington, Cantalupc, Canterbury, and
Ernest Bruce.
The Rev. Dr. Hook will preach the sermon on Sunday
next in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.

REV. DR. WOLFF AND GENERAL

JOCHMUS.

Constantinople, March 16, 1846.
Sir,—Amongst other absurdities and fabrications in
the book on your fool's errand. to Bukhara (for such
must be called your expedition, after you had full means
of ascertaining both in Constantinople or in Teheren that
Colonel Stoddart and Captain Cunolly were, unfortu-
nately both dead), I am told that you have stated, that I
am a Jew by descent or religion.
If I were in Christian Europe I should certainly good-
humouredly smile at your opinion, or accept, without
personal inconvenience, your pretended extension of Mr.
D'israeli's theory in " Coningsby," on the Hebrew origin
of such great and distinguished men as Count d'Arnim,
Count Cancrin, Marshals Soult and Messena, M. Mendi-
zabel, and others; but in the East the question is dif-
ferent, for there the condition of the Hebrew implies still
an inferiority of race and caste.

I am no religious fanatic; on the contrary, I duly pay
an equal outward respect to all creeds; but I merely will
not be represented as belonging to a nation which in
some countries is still kept in an unjust state of civil and
social inferiority. I have therefore been obliged to stop
the circulation of foolish and false reports, by taking
here publicly a measure of a very serious nature; and I
now most positively demand that you shall publicly
retract your above assertion.
It is superflous to reason with you on another fabrica-
tion, that I (a Ferick Pasha of the Ottoman armies)
should have seriously offered you to march, with the as-
sistance of the British Government, against the holy city
of Bukhara, in order, probably, that you might play a
Peter the Hermit. •

Your character of half buffoon and half hypocrite is
too well established as that this statement should require
any grave contradiction.

- (Signed) A. JOCHMUS, Lieut.• General.
To. Dr. J. Wolff.

ANS WE i-t.

West Port, near Langport, Somersetshire,
2d May, 1846.
Sir,—l received a few days ago a letter purporting to
have been written by you, but which, I confess, I suspect
to be a forgery, for it is impossible that a gentleman,
and one who holds the high rank of Lieutenant-General
and of Ferick Pasha, should ever dream of offering an
insult to a clergyman who is incapacitated by his pro-
fession from resenting it.
You must be aware that such an act would be con-
sidered derogatory not only in a British officer, but even
(in the present advance towards civilisation) in a
Turkish officer ; more especially as I have spoken in my
work with the greatest respect of your person on ac-
count of your bravery in Syria, Spain, and Greece.
Should, however, the letter be yours, I am quite wil-
ling to publish it, with my answer, in the newspapers,
as well as in my fourth edition, and I will also acknow-
ledge that I was perfectly misled by your outward
appearance and accent in considering you one of the
chosen people of God, one of the blessed sons of Abra-
ham, one of the sons of Gideon and Samson, whose
politeness and gentleness are proverbial.
Until I have the honour of receiving an answer to this
letter, I sign myself, your Excellency's humble servant,
JOS. WOLFF.

To Lieutenant• General Jochmus,
Pasha of the Ottoman Empire, &e., &c.

IVYATT'S COLOSSAL STATUE OF

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
Mr. Wyatt's colossal equestrian statue of the Duke of
Wellington, after somewhat like ten years' incessant
labour, is at length arrived at completion, and, pullies,
ropes, levers, and other mechanical appliances permiting,
will, in a few days, be raised upon its pedestal at the
top of the triumphal gateway at Constitution-hill. Some
idea of the arduous nature of the work which has yet
to be done, however, may be gathered from the fa .t,
that the horse and its rider have consumed between forty
and fifty tons of metal, and that Messrs. Grissel and
Peto's contract for removing and fixing them amounts to
2,0001. The inauguration of this statue may fairly, and
doubtless will, be looked upon as a national event. The
Iron Duke is a man whom Britain must ever be proud
to call her own—a man for all time, and far above the
littleness of party.
We had yesterday the pleasure of inspecting this
gigantic work at the artists' studio at Paddington ; but
to say that we came away in a condition to give a cri-
tical account of it as a work of art would be preposterous.
As well might the men of Lilliput pretend to take in the
contour of their illustrious visitor Gulliver, as well the
traveller in the east describe a coup (Twit of a pyramid
viewed from its base, as see that of the effigy of the hero
of Waterloo peering up in amaze from beneath his
hors's belly-band. Such are its dimensions that a man
on horseback may ride between the horse's legs. We
descended by a ladder into its capacious stomach, and
there found a goodly compartment, in which some fifty
men might be packed away, and in which, we are cre-
dibly informed, thirteen adventurous guests have actually
dined. The head, and a very fine one, is six feet in
length, a datum upon which the connoisseurs in► horse-
flesh may judge of the other proportions of the enor-
mous quadruped. The horse is "standing at ease "on
its four legs, and the Duke is also in an attitude of re-
pose, with the exception of the right hand, which is ex-
tended, holding a telescope, as in the act of giving the
word of command on the field of battle. As we said be-
fore, it would be premature to hazard an opinion as to
the general effect of this statue when elevated in the
position to which it is destined, but our impression is a
favourable one, and we shall look forward to its public
appearance with interest.

Lord William Clinton, son of the Duke of Newcastle,
who has been for some time attached to the British embassy
at Vienna, has been appointed first Attaché at Constanti-
nople, in the room of Lord Napier, whose promotion to other
functions was announced in the Gazette of Friday.
Lord and Lady John Russell will leave town either
to-day or to-morrow for Wimbledon, near to which place his
Lordship has taken a residence.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has consented to
accept the office of Patroness to the
according to her accus-
tomed Deaf and Dumb
Institution, Red Lion-square, and,ccus-
tomed liberality, has presented
the funds with
451.
FREscH SHAWLS.—It having been
French goods
represented to
the Board of Customs that an importer of
had recently imported into this country, free of duty,
a
go
at
quantity of woollen shawls, with a fringe, the Commissioners
the port
have made the officers of the several departments
of London and at the various outports and places throughout
them
ern
the kingdom, acquainted with the same, with directions to
under the resolutions and the officers under their control and supervision
take care that articles of this description be charged with
last, directing the
the duty legally dtiuoensthe:feotnh,eviHz.,outesen poefr
Cceonmt.maodns,vatoran,
trans-
mitted to them •
to, now free an order issued by the Board in March
a.ntnifeactures are, by the resolutions re-
ferredd
to these woollen
effect. Woollen
hfringe, thvrefore, which was at-
same to be immediately carried into
rendered them liable to thes rls, destroyed the privilege and
duty named. This decision is of
aonfdthtihed importers of F
importance to the trade
s escription.
R.:_eoncah
and
other foreign manufacturees
TIM LONDON btlhaeu.ltsit F 0.77: IVIANcuEsrE
-train will
bafetedrisllplaotnedhaeyd
nett,
the station of the mixed
mail
fori 13irming-
'nthe morn-
ing,
isrnaabckuest
ham and London, at a quarter past six eo'clocke
mingham Railway, London 'road, Ilianchnteh:ster, and Bir-
ing, arriving in London about one o'clock, which
the same time that the morning mail train no
London, starting from the Victoria station at four
morning, and going round by Newton and Warrington.
There will be a similar train frcm Liverpool, starting at six*
in the morning, and join; that from Manchester at Crewe,
whence they will form a joint mail train southward. There
are numerous and important alterations contemplated at the
Post-office, and which are also intended to commence on
Monday next, if the requisite preparations can be completed
in time. We believe that the London mails will arrive here
a little earlier than at present,—Manckester Guardian of I
4tUrdfty. • •• • - .. ..

DEATH OF THOMAS BUNBURY, ESQ M.P.—We
have to record the demise of Mr. Bunbury, M.P. for the
county of Carlow, who expired on the 28th of May, at his
temporary residence in the neighbourhood of the metropolis.
The deceased, who was 71 years of age, was returned at the
last election in 1841, on Tory principles, after a sharp
struggle with Mr. Daniel O'Connell, jun., and Mr. Yates, of
Lancashire.

SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. ALDERMAN PEASE.—Wee
have this week to record the death of Thom
as Benson
rupflartnrer
ilson Pease,
Esq., one of the aldermen of this borough, the senior
in the eminent firm of Pease, Heaton, and Co.,
chants, Park-lane, and uncle to Mr. '
W. Aldam, jun , Onmeeof
our representatives in Parliament. The awful event occurred
suddenly and unexpectedly ; for though Mr. Pease had at-
tained the age of sixty-three, he appeared, up to the last
moment that he was seen alive, to be in a good state of health.
We understand that he attended a meeting of one of the
committees of the Town Council, and subsequently dined
with his son• in-law, Mr. Ford, solicitor, in Park-place,
on Saturday afternoon, after which he went home
to his own house at Chapeltown, and retired to bed
abort ten o'clock at night, apparently as well as usual.
On the following morning, one of his servants, at twenty
tim room, of asking nminutes past seven o'clock, went into his room, as was his
custom, to take him some water for shaving. Mr. Pease
it
oio seems. was in the habit, when his servant went into
the
g not what
making ikakiiiindgo feiathme
either
morning ng
theseit was,
inquiriesor what
i
Si t m
w ,
was; ,
;
said-3' the servant, as he was about to leave the room,
Its twenty minutes past seven, sir." Receiving no
louder tone tlianrte the the same words twice more in a
efirst time. Still getting no reply, he
went up to the bedside,
and finding that his master did not
breathe, and that hevas cold, he alarmed the rest of the
household ; and Mr. i
immediately sent for, anTivs", surgeon, of Chapeltown, was
was promptly in attendance. As
soon as he arrived he pronounced Mr. Pease to be dead, and
said that he had probablybeen so for about four hours. The
bedclothes were not ruffled or
i2or displaced in the least, and
there is no dnubt that the c ,
hange from life to death took
Am *yam 01, olightv
qt litniggl9,---Leed4lnteatienCer,

" After the catastrophe the Deira was completely dis-
banded. Many of the tents have gone over to the Beni-
Massem and to the westward. Mustapha Ben Thami,
with eight or nine Douars, turned his steps towards the
south, and has encamped on the Oued Kscub, whence he
will proceed to join the Emir, via Aiounsidi-Melouck,
where he (the Emir) has been seen.
" All accounts agree in stating that all the remains of
the Deira, including the aunt of Abd-el-Kader, has pro-
ceeded to the westward, and is by this time far away
from our frontier. The Beni-Anvers have pitched their
tents between Fez and Mequinez. An old Spahis met,
at three days' march from the latter town, El Berkem.
This change of route has been induced by the fear with
which General Cavaignac's column, at Lalla-Maghrina
must have inspired the Emir, as well as the danger to
which the Deira was exposed from the Moorish tribes.
"This dispersion of the Deira, its state of weakness
and poverty, and the difficult task to which the Emir
will have to restore it, if he ever should do so, form so
much excellent news, over which we might be permitted
to rejoice, if they were not connected with that of the
tragical end of unheard-of sufferings of our brave fel-
lows who had fallen into the hands of the Emir. This
disaster will throw the army into mourning, and the
whole African population."
The following is from the Courier de Marseille :
" I have bad news to give you. The steamer from
Oran reports the massacre of our prisoners in the power
of Abd-el-Kader, three hundred in number, among whom
are comprised MM. Cognard, Larages, Thonas, officers
superiors ; Doctor Cabasse ; all of whom supported
their misfortunes with the greatest fortitude, and enabled
and encouraged by the force of their example the re-
mainder of our unfortunate soldiers, captured in our
various encounters with the Arabs, to do the same. It
would appear that the tribes who were encharged with
the custody of our prisoners were divided in sentiments :
one party was in favour of preserving their lives, and the
other not. Unhappily the latter party were in the
majority, and the poor soldiers were butchered. After
this let the Paris papers praise the clemency of the
Emir."

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY" EVENING, JUNE 1, 1846.

had been made the victims. Other persons, similarly
victimised in the neighbourhood, are expected to come
forward to-morrow. Upon the different cheques being
presented at Neville, Reid, and Co.'s there were " no
effects;" "J. U. Wyndham" being unknown to the
persons in London upon whom his draught was drawn,
and deposited at the Windsor Bank. Mr. Dotesio, when
he presented his two cheques, and was informed that they
were not worth the value of the paper they were written
upon, very naturally inquired if the bank had any re-
ference as to the respectability of Mr. " Wyndham" be-
fore the clerks intrusted him with a cheque-book. The
reply was that all they knew about him was that he
paid in a cheque drawn upon a London banker, and that
they had just received advice that it had been disho-
noured. It is to be hoped that the circumstances we
have rehtted will act as a caution for the future to
country bankers, who, it is to be desired, for the sake of
the trading community, will not intrust a perfect stranger
with a blank cheque-book, without any reference or
guarantee as to his respectability, and who, at the same
time, may chance not to have (as in this instance) one
single penny in their hands to his credit.
ThiS Mr. " Wyndham " is described to be about 5
feet 8 or 9 inches in height, wearing glasses, and also an
eyeglass suspended by a stout silken cord, apparently
not more than 30 or 32 years of age, and of dark com-
plexion, with dark whiskers combed back. lie wore a
dark olive frock-coat, and had with him a carpet bag,
which he took away with him from the Royal Hotel
when he left.

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Home

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spencer

Hertford
Bute

fired upon the crew, at the same time uttering the most
discordant yells. The crew, seeing no chance of combat-
ing them, havinfs no arms, were obliged to leave the ship
from the forecastle as the pirates boarded by the gangway
and stern, and were extremely fortunate in escaping un-
hurt, as they were fired upon by the pirates as they
were rowing away from the chip. Mr. Newnham
came on board our ship with four bands on tho
morning of the Bth instant, and, having received our
sailing orders, parted from the buoy, and made
sail with a fine breeze after the pirates, passing
Ceuta and Tetuan, and keeping in shore as close as
possible, so as to overha the beach well, and, after
sailing about 200 miles, we came to a spot where we
fancied we saw the wreck, but, being dusk, we could not
make it out, and therefore we stood off, and intended to
tack and stand in again at midnight ; but in the morn-
ing we found that we had drifted with the current 12
miles to leeward. A boat with a fisherman came on
board, and gave us some information. He said the bay
was full of pirates, and that the brig was near where
we had supposed her, and a complete wreck ; that most
of the men who had boarded her had been driven on
shore in their boats, and several drowned. We then
made sail for Melilah, the settlement, and were visited
by the governor, who told us where the spot was, and
also that they would be sure to fire upon us if we went
up the bay. We then got under sail, and, after passing
round a point, and being close in shore, we saw some
oabnuotdatfisorfeardnalg we seo,me of the natives, who raised a shout,
inan
d returnw e w
efired t
two
032m-pioletms 32-pounder,
lower
t down,
wereow n,
the people shouting all along the coast,
and firing.
neh
We shortened sail, and let go ourhtore,and got out
the boats, and ran down the
coast,a
lowing and shouting for about a mile, people fol-
when thanstooadt
in shore. One of the chiefs beckoned to
the,
the same time waving a white flag. On our rowing
ashore, the chief gave his musket to one of his followers,
and came downinto the water, and shook hands with the
captain, at the same time waving his men back ; and, after
talking with the captain as well as he could, the boats
returned, and we impatiently waited for the morrow.
At daylight next morning we got out the cutter and gigs,
and being manned and armed pulled down and saw the
wreck, and, on returning, the First Lieutenant in the
cutter was shot at and wounded in the thigh. The
hands on board very soon got the ship under weigh, and
at seven o'clock ran down to meet the boats, and about
twelve o'clock came in sight of a small bay where we saw
the wreck lying. We shortened sail, let go the anchor,
got a kedge with a spring aft to bring our broadside on,
and the boats out, pinnace, cutter, and gigs ; the pirates
firing at us all the time. We now fired a 32-pounder
over them, to see if they would return it. They con-
tinued firing. We then began to fire in right good
earnest, and sent 32-pounders among them in prime
style, upon which they soon began to retire. A landing
party, consisting of nineteen marines and fifteen blue
jackets, with a working party, was then sent to collect
things from the wreck, or what was left of it. The men
rowed cheering from the ship for the shore, but as they
neared it they were fired upon by the natives, who were
lying hid among the rocks. Our men soon drove them
away by a constant firing, which was kept up for
four hours ; thus they kept the fellows at bay.
They were very daring, and some who had
expended their ammunition came down with
stones, which they threw with astonishing force. They
kept increasing, coming from the mountains in all direc-
tions, and, as nothing more could be done, and the work-
ing party had secured everything which was serviceable,
our men were ordered to retire, which they did gra-
dually, down to the beach. As they were retiring the
pirates came out of their biding-places with a yell and
made a run at us, but as they came on we fired volleys
at them, which threw them into confusion, and we re-
treated to our boats. It was now our loss was the
greatest, as the pirates thronged the beach and kept
firing at us as we pulled from the shore, and, as we
were stowed so thick, they killed one and wounded two
in the boats. We made sail, but were obliged to put in
at Almeira, on the Spanish coast. Our killed and
wounded are as follows :—Mr. Boys, midshipman,
killed ; First Lieutenant, Mr. Sanderson, wounded ;
Sergeant Gillon, Royal Marines, shot through the arm ;
James Cottle, leg amputated since ; John Davis, George
Thompson, J. M'Braith, George Perkins, and William
Love), Royal Marines, wounded. Our captain had a
very narrow escape. He was in the midst of the fire,
encouraging and cheering the men, when two bullets
went through his hat, and one caught the heel of his
boot, while a stone, grazed his lip. Many others had
similar escapes. • One marine's cap was completely
riddled with bullets. The loss of the pirates Is esti-
mated at 50 killed and as many or more wounded. The
barrels of their guns measure six feet, and carry an im-
mense distance. We captured one of them and also a
dagger that measured 18 inches in length, and is a mos
formidable weapon."

CORN IMPORTATION BILL.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 28.
MAJORITY PRESENT, 138.

Lord Chancellor
DIMES.
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Buccleuch
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MARQUISES.
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Earl Belhaven paired (for the Bill) with the Earl of Lauderdale
:against it).

CARLOTTA GRISL—The pet par excellence of the
ballet, Carlotta Grisi, makes her first appearance on Wed..
nesday, at Drury-lane, in the ballett of Paquita. The
French papers give the most flattering accounts of the ap-
pearance of the fair Carlotta in this ballet, at the Grand
Opera on Monday night. It was the last time of its per-
formance previous to the departure of Carlotta Grisi for
England, and nothing could exceed the enthusiasm which
she excited among the audience. The ballet itself is superb.
There is a ball. scene, tho•magnificence of which, we under-
stand, transcends even the glories of Gustavus or Lestocq. It is
got up in even more magnificent style at Drury-lane than at
the Grand Opera in Paris, and it will no doubt prove one
of the greitteet bite VIA DRIA bee yet igge,