The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-17 00:00:00

mate, and indispensable authority of Parliament.

Madrid journals of the Bth have been received. Sixty of
the Royal Halberdiers had left the capital for Vittoria. The
Frince FRANCESCO DE PAULA was about to proceed to St.
Sebastian, and it was understood that four of the Ministers
would join the Court at Saragossa, and then accompany her
MAJESTY to the Basque provinces. According to accounts
from Barcelona, General CONCHA left that place on the Bth
with 2,000 men and 18 pieces of artillery, for Sobadell, which
he attacked, killing 25 of the insurgents, and taking a great
many prisoners. The next morning he entered Tarrosa.
Owing to the vigorous measures adopted by the General, it
was believed the resistance to the conseription would soon be
put clown. The Tiempo, a Madrid journal, publishes a protest
against the abdication of Don CARLON signed by 58 Spanish
Royalists. The document is dated Paris, the 3d June. The
Eco del Commercio had been seized by the police.
MADRID BOURSE, JULY B.—The Funds continue to de-
cline, and the Three per Cents. are quoted at 273 for cash,
aid 281% at 60 days, but the prices were somewhat higher
at the close of the market. Five per Cents. at 20% cash.
Coupons 26 at 60 days. Exchange on England, 373/4.

The Paris papers bring no news of importance. A meeting
of the professors of the College of France was held on Monday,
to take into consideration a communication from the Minister
of Public Instruction, relative to the lectures of Mes'>sis.
MICHELET and QUINET. The assembly consisted of twenty-
four members, and, after some discussion, a resolution was
proposed by M. DE BEAUMONT, declaring that the assembly
accepted the declaration of Messrs. QUINET and MICHELE;
that it had not been their intention to go beyond the limits
of their programme, and that none of the professors wished to
act otherwise, which was carried by a majority of 17 to 7-
Messrs. QUI:CET and MICHELET voted in the minority. We
have accounts of the proceedings of the Swiss Diet
now sitting at Zurich, up to the 11th instant. On
that day a warm discussion took place. A Deputy of
one of what are called the Ultramontane cantons having
proposed that the federal camp ordered for 1846 should not
take place, and his motion being warmly supported by the
cantons of the same principles, especially Uri and Lucerne, it
was resisted by the Deputies of the Liberal cantons with
great energy, and was defeated by a majority of 12 states
and 2 half-states against 7 states and a half-state. No ad-
ditional particulars relative to the Massacre at Dahara had
been received from Algiers. The France contains the.follow-
ing just observations on the dreadful catastrophe

"For the last two days the public mind has been is a state of
excitement. Fresh accounts from Africa are looked for with
painful anxiety, in order to form a correct opinion on the frightful
burning of human bodies announced by the Akbar, and unfortu.
nately attributed to a colonel of the French army, How is it that
no dispatch, no official communication has yet been received to

quiet the alarmed minds of the public P It will be with difficulty
admitted, that in spite of the accusatory reserve of Marshal Soult
in the Chamber of Peers, the Minister has received no information
on the subject. The silence of the Cabinet is thus construed in a
more unfavourable light than if it had frankly avowed the truth.
The butchery thus attributed to our soldiers and to our officers
must be something very enormous to induce such an obsti-
nate silence on the subject. Such would naturally be the
opinion of the country, justly tenacious of its honour, and
such, in fact, it is. For our own part, in the absence of
more ample information, we must confess that the act of
barbarity attributed to Colonel Pellissier appears to us in-
correctly represented. Before trifling with the honour and dignity
of those who represent our name and power in a foreign land, we
wish for certain information and irrefragable proofs. It is not on a

simple report, more or less plausible, that a superior officer should
be accused of massacre and barbarity, unexampled perhaps in the
military acts of modern Europe. If the recital should turn out to
be incorrect, how bitterly should we have to reproach ourselves ?
If, on the contrary, the fact be proved, we loudly declare that there
are no expressions severe enough to stigmatise its authors. France
is responsible in the eyes of neighbouring nations, and before them

she will have to answer for the acts and conduct of her army.
However this affair may turn out, it ought to afford the Govern.
ment an energetic motive for seriously occupying itself on the sub.
ject of the army in Africa. It is, unfortunately, well known
that the habits acquired in an obstinate warfare in a
country far removed from home have given our soldiers
instincts dangerous to our dignity as a civilised power. They
are ne longer enemies which our sedentary regiments have
now before them, they are wild beasts which they amuse them-
selves by hunting. Eye-witnesses have gone so far as to relate
that to some officers of our army in Africa a raszia is ne longer
any more than a pitiless sport, where the French, always vic-
torious, treat the conquered as neither more nor less than a prey.
The Government, the Chambers, and the public should, for the
interest of humanity and of our national honour, seriously exa-
mine rate these assertions. Such a spirit should not be tolerated
in an army which represents the most noble and the most oivilisod
nation in the world. This system of cold•blooded barbarism will
not only be disastrous for France, as far as her policy and her
object of colonisation is concerned, but it will also tend to throw an
odious stigma on the French name. The Government cannot re.
main indifferent to the deplorable tendencies we have named. It
will be odious to think that after having made an appeal to reli-
gious faith in this newly acquired land, after having established
there that Christian Church, the basis of which is love towards
men, the work of civilisation should be destroyed by acts worthy
only of the armed bands of the middle ages."
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