The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-21 00:00:00

ECOND EDITION.

Spanish officer echo had been despatched by his Govern-
ment to watch the operations of the French in Algiers,

staining a more detailed account of the Dahrah mas-
sacre, whereof he had been an eye-witness and writes,
we must say, as the apologist. It would seem that this
is one of the rare cases in which the first report of hor-
rible events falls very short of the reality, as
subsequently ascertained. The Editor of the Algerine-
Spanish journal, does not write one word of sym-
pathy, or even commentary on this fearful crime ;
yet had it not been for him, Europe and the civilized
world might have remained in utter ignorance of
its '4 rpetration. It now seems that the number
of victims thus baked alive must have ex
ceeded 1,000. Of these, no small proportion con-
sisted of women, and with these women perished
many an unoffending infant at its mother's breast.
The premeditation is attested, by the fact deposed
to by the Spanish officer, who writes that himself
and some companions, near the mouth of the cavern,
encountered some Kabyles, and found a means
of apprising them, as an inducement to them to sur-
render their arms and their horses, that the French
would burn them in their retreat if they held out,
and had already gathered such a quantity of brush-
wood for that purpose as loaded fifty-six mules.
The faggots are lighted, the smoke and the flame,
by no unaccountable agency we should have
thought, thuugh the Spaniard appears to consider it a
" singular" phenomenon, were carried into the interior
recesses of the vast cavern. The French soldiers heaped
up the faggots and renewed them incessantly, as " though
they were feeding an oven." PELISSIER had stated, it
seems, that it would have been productive of much "blood-
shed" to have attempted to drive them out at the point
of the bayonet, and so he resorted to the gentle and
humane means of terrible-suffocation I The details are so
appalling that they exceed the imaginations of the most
prurient inventors of didblerie in the most popular school
of modern French romance. That a Spanish Colonel
should write in a strain of disgusting coolness about
there being no remedy (!) for the necessity under which
the French officer found himself, to adopt this
method of exterminating the valiant Ouled Riahs,
does not surprise us. As little do we wonder at
the grateful complacency with which he speaks
of " two yataghans"—snatched from the cold grasp Of
murdered men, to s' horn no opportunity was afforded by
the destroyers for wielding them in fair and open battle—
" that have been presented to him by Colonel PELIS-
SIER, as souvenirs (! !) of this horrible affair." From
a compatriot and fellow-soldier of the A4NAs,
and CABRERAS, the MAROTOS, and the RODILS, we
need not marvel at such specimens of brutalised
insensibility ; or that the same individual should
have purchased a necklace which, with other
jewellery, he admits to have been torn and
violently wrenched, all blood-stained as they were, from
the mutilated and blackened corses of the Arab women,
by the uncontrollable rapacity of the French soldiers.
But that conduct so disgracefnl should have elicited
no stern rebuke—no emphatic denunciations—from
Marshal SOULT in the Chambers—no instant dis-
avowal and censure from his Royal Master—
these are matters on account of which we may
well be permitted to express our unfeigned as-
tonishment—our sincere regret. PELISSIER, the Spanish
officer tells us, feels but one uneasiness—as to his own
share in this inexpiable villainy. He dreads the ven-
geance of Divine retribution—the atonement to be ex-
acted by human law ? No ; he is proof against
all consequences of that kind ; but he trem-
bles under apprehensions of " the criticisms of the
journals." Of what nicely balanced elements of ruf-
fianism and coxcombry must the moral nature of such a
man be composed! But we venture to predict that the
iron Marshal and the French Government will yet find
themselves compelled to record, by some solemn public
act or declaration, their unqualified disavowal of such a
mode of conducting warfare, even against the chil-

dren of the Desert, and will abandon, on proof of
his guilt, the odious perpetrator of such an outrage
as has been committed in Dahrah against the human
race, to the execration of his fellow-men, and the
utmost penalty which the laws of his country will
inflict for so desperate an excess of cruelty. Such
a reparation will be due, not alone to the public opinion
and feeling of all Europe, but to the just and generous
resentment which the French nation must entertain
against the degenerate soldiers who have affixed, by bar-
barity so signal, such a great stigma on their reputation.

Buenos Ayres newspapers to the Ist May have been
received. They dwell with much animation on the result
of the battle of India Muerta. Ina dispatch from the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Buenos Ayrean forces, General
JUSTO J. DE URQUISA, the loss of the Monte Videans is
stated to be 1,000 killed and about 500 prisoners. The action
began at seven o'clock in the morning, and the General says

" that two hours were more than sufficient for the com-
plete destruction of the ruthless unitarians." RIVERA
had not yet been overtaken, though pursued by the
victorious army with great perseverance. It is ob-
served of him, in a postscript, that " the pardejon"
fled from the field with about 200 savages, but that,
the pursuit being so determined and close, he was left
with only eight, with whom he proceeded towards
Mariscola, in the direction of the Paso de las Piedras
de Cebollati. Some intercepted correspondence which
had passed between RIVERA and his agents is given in the
Gaceta Mercantil. It relates principally to the financial
position of the Monte Videan General, which appears to
have been very desperate.
These papers arrived by a private vessel.

Madrid journals, of the 13th, have arrived. The
Gazette contains two royal decrees—one on the organ-
iz Ition of the Council of State, the other the long-
expected decree restraining the liberty of the press. It
is dated Barcelona, July 6, and signed by the QUEEN.
countersigned by the Minister of the Interior, Pupa()
JOSE PIDAL, and consists of 26 articles. The substance
of it is that the offences of the press are no longer to be tried
by a jury, but by a tribunal composed of six judges, a

majority of at least four of whom will be required for the
condemnation of the offender. The decree is preceded
by a long report to the QUEEN, signed MM. NARVAEZ,

•MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, MAYANS, MON, AMMER°,
and PEDRO JOSE PIDAL. The question of the
QUEEN'S marriage appears at present to engross
the attention of Spanish politicans. The Infante

Don HENRY, second son of. Don PR ANctsco DE PAULA
seems at present to be the favourite candidate for her
MAJESTY'S hand.

El Heraldo announces that a " brigade of operations,"
consisting of the San Fernando regiment, three hundred
horse of the Baylen regiment, and a battery of artillery,
is forming at Madrid, for the purpose of promptly
moving wherever circumstanct,s may require its pre
sence. This flying corps has been organised in conse-
quence of the commotion in Catalonia.
By recent letters from Catalonia it appears that the

mass of the inhabitants of the towns and villages near
Barcelona remained entirely strangers to the move-
ment, and in several localities, particularly in the
neighbourh6od of Igualada, a great number of pea-
sants joined the troops against the insurgents. An
ex-colonel, named AGUIRRE, who had already figured
i❑ the pronunciamientos of Catalonia, aided by his son,
a lieutenant on the retired list of the regiment
of San Fernando, had succeeded in assembling
ander his orders upwards of 400 volunteer's, all armed,
but the activity of the Captain-General did not permit
him to organise a serious resistance. It is stated that the
colonel, finding himself abandoned by his partisans
voluntarily surrendered to the authorities of the country.
The troops, in spite of the offers of every kind which
were made by the instigators of the revolt, resisted se
duction ; some were suprised and disarmed, but not one
would take part with the insurgents.
A letter from Barcelona of the 13th inst. announces
that the QUEEN and Court would return by sea to
Valencia, and proceed thence direct to Madrid. It was
stated on the Paris Bourse on Saturday that, on the
contrary, her MAJESTY would leave on the 14th inst.
for Esparaguera.

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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1845.

A communication which appeared in the Madrid
Ileraldo (a journal published at 111giers), compels us to
recur to the atrocity committed by order of
Colonel Prmssxrat, commanding a detachment of the
Ftench corps in Algeria, in the massacre of a whole
Arab tribe, within the grotto of Freckeb, in the
Dahrah—a district of the Atlas range. A Contem-
porary (the Morning Chronicle) very justly remarks
on the limited and transient influence which the personal
character and firmne..s of the King of the FRENCH exer-
.ciel over the inherent tendencies of certain command-
ing offic,ra in his military and naval service to indulge
atuitous insolence in one quarter and
y in another. " No sooner," ears the
do these generals and admirals re-
) their commands, than this control is thrown
lot merely military control, but even, we
repeat,
ofininion ideas of justice and humanity. The hor-
rible catastra The which has just shocked England and
Europe is proof of this. A French Commander takes
and stifles ar whole Arab tribe, comprising 800 souls, in
a cavern, which they have inhabited from time imme-
morial ,—a tribo which, we are told, has never sub.
mistv,) to the French, And which might, consequently,
ei m the rights and the deference due to open
and noura.
bl f es " The lieraldo publishes quite
.
ourCoktemporary remarks, and as if

The Gazetfe of the 14th publishes dispatches from
General NARVAEZ of the 9th and 10th from Barcelona.
The drawing for the conscription had been concluded,
there without disturbance. CONCHA. had entered Tar-
ragona at six o'clock on the morning of the 9th. The
insurgents had fled from the place. In Sabadell the
number killed was 40, and 60 made prisoners. Of the
troops an officer was killed and six soldiers wounded,
with two horses. Many young men had returned to
the town, and more were expected, if they were sure of

pardon.
El Heraldo states that Cortese was to have proceeded
on the 10th to Igualada, to put down the revolt ; and
force was to be sent to Villafranca for the same purpose.

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It was intended to give a grand serenade on the even-
ing of the 14th to Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA in honour
of the birthday of his son Don HENRY.
The Three per Cents. were done at 28 for Cash, and
28 9d -2136 at 60 days ; 25,400,000 done. Fives, 24 for
the ; about 1,000,000. Vales Non consolidated,
94 cash. Passives, 6i cash; 1,000,000 done.

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lees-like calculation of its being an
Q amuse its readers, a letter from h

e have received the Paris papers of Friday and Sa-
turday. On Friday the session of 1845 was brought to
a close, the Chamber of Peers having adopted the re-
maining Bills on the order of the day, includinz, amongst
others, the Tours to Nantes and Paris to Strasbourg
Railroad Bill, and the Budget of Receipts. The Royal
ordinance will be read on Monday, formally declaring
00 union to be at an eud. AL '-Cane has left Paris,

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAI EVENING, JULY 21, 1845.

of man, the supremacy of the English Government. Trek-
kititp or emigration further into the interior of. Africa, will
again, no doubt, be resorted to, and we shall have, by and
bye, a considerable European colony in the neighbourhood of
our own settlements, "the Portuguese at Delagoa Lie
being ready to receive the Dutch. It is, indeed, unfortunate
that, for the sake of all parties, the Boers could not have been
made good subjects, having every opportunity already of
being prosperous ones.
The Consul market has been rather heavy to-day, the
price for the Account having been given at 99%. For the
first transfer to-morrow, a single quotation was given to-day,
which was about 14 per cent. below the value of Saturday.
The Reduced Three per Cents. have advanced to 99%. India
Stock has been quoted at 275, and the Small Exchequer Bills
at 588. 595. premium.
Maim Bonds have advanced to 1011, Russian to I 181,,
and the Spanish Three per Cents. at 37% 4. In the other
Foreign Bonds the fluctuations have been very trifling to-day.
The general tone of the Railway Share Market is that of
firmness. The London and York Shares are in request this
morning under the expectation that the preamble will be
proved. The Foreign S_hivarset from s
receivedare inst steady
the v
y requlst es te Indies,
.
progress pores,ess in Monument-yard. The sale-room, when
Mr. now
heeling entered the rostrum, at eleven o'clock, was
cisroA salew in
edeetlos roguffocation, by all sorts of ready buyers, from the
rich west- end fruiterer- to the perambulating dealer. Thes,
sales of pines are now attracting a considerable degree of in
terest in the City.
nitt.TISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 991/..5‘
9
N 3
epwer394enpt.erCcoennsto. AlsAnnnnus 99 % 9ties
102%%
India Stock 275
India Bonds 1,0001 7l
Ditto under 1.0001 69
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 11,4 d.
1,0001.
500/. ..
Ditto Small —
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent . 1001/2 1011
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. 374
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —'
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent llB%
Spanish Bonds, 5 perCent,1840
Ditto Deferreu
Ditto 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account.
Belgian 4% per Cent 9914
Dutch 21/2 per Cents
Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 99%
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 135 134% 136 to 134
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Holyhead
Churnet Valley
Coventry and Leicester
t'irect Northern ... ......... .. 2% 2% 3... to 234
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% 8 to
Dublin and Galway 2% 3%4... to
Eastern Counties
Do. New 4/. 16s 6% to 7
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .. 761
Great South and W. (Irish)... 10
Ditto Extension
Great North of England .. ... .100 230
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fareham, Portms. 2% 3l/s to 2%
Lancaster and Carlisle... 2O ...... 481/ lo 49
London and Birmingham ...100 245
Ditto Thirds .......
London and Blackwall 16% lO%. to
London and Brighton 50
London and Croydon... 13/. 15s. 9d 22% %... to 23
London and South Western.. 411 B2
Ditto New . 2%
London and York._ ..... 2% 4%%... to 5%
Lynn and Ely
Manches.ei and Leeds 76 .....
Ditto Quarters
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Ditto Quarters
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 22s
Midland 100
Ditto New 2 30% to 29%
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo 149
Midld. Great Western (Irish) 2%
Newcastle & Darlington .i unc. 25 ...• • . 58
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick
North British
Ditto New l.. 74 to
Northern and Eastern
North Staffordshire
Norwich and Brandon lO ....
Ditto, New 1
Oxford and Worcester 2l/ 7% to
Perth and Inverness
Portsmouth Direct
Preston and Wyre
RichmondandWestEndJunc. .1
Rugby. Worcester. and Tring 1
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 4
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 47% to
Ditto New, No. 1 8
Ditto New, N 0.2 7 .. ... 17344... to
South Wales
Welch Midland 2% 3l/s ...... to
York and North Midland ... 50
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Ditto Selby
Ditto, Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Dendre Valley
East Indian
Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Jamaica Junction
Do. South Midland Junction 1
Louvain and Jemeppe ..... -.. 4
Namur and Liege... ..... . ...... 4
Orleans and Vierzon - - to
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 4
Over Yssel 413 s 4d o9s to
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte) ... 2
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 2%% to
Paris and Rouen .
Paris& Strasburg(Gannern's) 2 .......
Do. (Compe de L'Est)
Royal:North of Spain
Sambre and Meuse
4 /0 /4 ••• to

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY 21.—Wind N.N.E., light breeze and cloudy.
DEAL, JULY 19.—Wind N. to N.N.E., light ; P.M. N.E. moderate.
—Arrd. Sir W. Scott, New York for Hamburgh ; New York, ditto
for Bremen ; Whim, Richebucto; Nicholson, Pugwash for Hull ;
Europe, Quebec; Asia, ditto. 20. Sir Isaac Newton, Matzer, New
York for Hambnrgh ; Numa, ditto for Bremen. , 19. Sid. Frederick
Huth, Tobo, Cape of Good Hope ; Margaret, Leadbitter, Honduras.
Arrd. from the River and sailed, Angelina, Goldsmith, Sydney, New
South Wales ; Eleanor, M'Farlane, ditto ; Guiana, Kreeft, St. Mary's,
Gambia. 20. Castle Eden, Baker, Sydney, New South Wales, and
Singapore ; Troja, Eldrige, Calcutta ; Arabia, Hawes, Columbia ;
Malabar, Parr, Bombay ; Lame, Wilson, ditto ; ]Beres, Norte, Africa ;
Aflance, Wilson, Algoa Bay ; Calebanjas, Whittle, Honduras ; Medi-
ator, Chadwick, New York ; Jane, Brown, Sgueney, Lord Lyndoch,
Faremouth, Bermuda; Mary, Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 20:—Wind E., fresh.-19, Sld. Tory, Rowe, Cape
of Good Hope. 20. Spermaceti, Moon, Quebec.
Fax.morru, JULY 20.—Arrd. Cornwall, Withers, Bombay, sailed
Cape of Good Hope March 28 ; Ellengowan, Duncan, Port Re-
publicalne. Off Port, 16th, Pallas, Jackson, Saguenay. 18th, Dru
Ramsay,
Cape
.fuJeob Quebec.
Goodh fle" ho N. 8.0
Broder, Kubert, Surinam. 19th, Melchior, Buenos Ayres; William,
Machon, Laguna, for St. Petersburg!' ; Montreal, Quebec ; Alert
barque, Santa Cruz, for Copenhagen.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 20.—Wind E.S.E. light.—Arrd. Minstrel Boy,
Lima. Ski. Arethusa, Coral, Monte 'Video ; Charles Kerr, Hart,
Belize; Caledonia, Brander, Deccan; Philadelphi, Alhambra, Wilson,
Boston ; Charlotte Moody, Yarmouth, N.S. ; Cambria steamer,
Halifax ; Queen, Leary, Quebec; Countess of Mulgrave, Kelly, ditto ;
Eeronia, Henzell, ditto; Universe, Dunn, ditto; Edin, King, Hong-
for Rotterdam ;
Kong ; Jolly Robin, Beverly, Calcutta; Lancaster, Simmons, Phila-
delphiaon
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York ; Barstablo, Hall, Boston. Ott port, Montezuma, New York.
Mariner, New York, for Bremen.
BRIDPORT, JULY
JERSEY,
JULYjuLY 2107..--181N.STidnA•drrSEullita,olerate.—Sid. 19th, African Queen.
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—Arrd. Lady of the Lake, Jamieson, Mobile ; Adam
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Crrr, Scott, New York ; Cremona, 1.
-.ox, Barbadoes and Newfound-
land ; Susan, Wishart, Hayti; Janet, Fraser, and Barbara. Purdon, Quebec ; Gradens, Boland, Newfoundimd ; Five Sisters, Ritchie,
Tobago ; Douglas, Brewster, St. John's, New Brunswick. 19th, John
Knox, Sinclair, Hallam, Bird Island. 81d. 18th, Saracen, Hawkins,
New York ; William Pym, Stephenson, St. John's, New Brunswick ;
Latiglais, Newfoundland. 19th, Zebuion, Jopp, Newfoundland.
GALWAY, JULY 18.—S1d. Orgo, Cronn, St. John's, Newfoundland..
PRESTON.—Arrd. previous to July 15, Rambler, Africa; Royalist,
Quebec.
LANCASTER.—Acrd. previous to July
Ebor, Masson, ditto. 18, Chieftain, Payne, Quebec ;
MARYPORT, JULY 19.—Wind E.—Arrd. William Fell. M`Ferrar,
Quebec. Sid. Dykes, Bell, Quebec.
DUBLIN, JULY 18.—Wind S.S. b.—And. 17th, James Fagan, Casey,
Quebec. 19th, Friendship, Potts, Saldanah Bay. Sld. Thomas
Dempsey, Davies, Trinidad.
WEXFORD, JULY 16.—Arrd. Rifleman. Heell, Quebec.
CORK, JULY 18.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Harriet, Williams, Newfound-
land. Ski. 17th, Minerva, Foley, St. John's. 18th, Eliza Jane,
Putfand, Quebec.
BELFAST, JULY 17.—Arrd. Araminta, Rogers, St. John's, New
Brunswick. Sid. 16th, Lord Althorp, Brack, Mirarnichl.