The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY_ MORNING, JULY 15, 1845.

same continent, which, animated by far more ignoble
motives, instead of gradually eradicating from
its soil the moral Upas tree of slavery,
nurtures its poisonous growth with the blood,
and waters the guilty soil with the tears of African
victims, annually sacrified by scores of thousands to that
terrible object. We may be deceived by our own satis-
faction at the important confirmation which the inde-
pendence of Venezuela has thus received from Spain,
and the to-some-extent improved position she thereby
acquires among the family of Established States all over
the world. But it really appears to us, that the fact in-
volves, with the pendant of that Brazilian dilemma we
are about to notice, a great moral lesson to nations, that
with them, as with individuals, honesty is, in the etrictest
sense of the term, the best policy. For what is the false
position in which the shuffling, faithless, slave-trafficking
Ministry of Brazil have now placed that fine empire by
their disgraceful treason to the spirit of treaties executed
by them or their predecessors, for the suppression, in aid
of the generous efforts of Great Britain, of the
slave trade ? Brazil bound herself by a solemn compact
for a period of fifteen years to the sacred obligations of
prohibiting to her subjects, and to the utmost of her
power, suppressing all slave-trading under her flag. On
the 12th of March last formal notice was given to our
Government that this term would expire on the ensuing
day, and that it was not the intention of Brazil to renew
those articles in existing treaties with us which regarded
the putting down of slave-trading. After some treating,
however, it was agreed that the mixed Arglo-Brazilian
Commission should endure for six months more, to wind
up all pending cases of seizure and questions of condem-
nation for infractions of the expiring treaty that had oc-
curred down to such 13th of March, 1845. In the
meanwhile, for some years past, Brazil has been the dis-
grace of Christendom and of civilisation, by reason of
its systematic permission to the most wholesale and
barefaced violations of such treaties by its own
subjects. An annual average, on the lowest
scale, of about 50,000 negroes, represents the number of
wretched human beings kidnapped, captured, manacled,
and flung on board Brazilian slave ships ; and after en-
during all the horrors—the inevitable and revolting pol-
lutions which the cupidity of slave dealers only can ever
contemplate visiting—far less actually inflicting—on
sentient beings of our own species, perceptions, feelings,
organs, they have been landed at Rio,deJaneiro,oron the
neighbouring shores. Bow many more thousands—
scores of thousands—are annually des!royed in these
expeditions, in the man-hunts that secure the prey, in
the barbarous process of shipping them, in the mu: e
merciful wounding, starving, drowning, or the more bar-
barous over-crowding, suffocation, contagious fevers, de.
lirium, and despair, which release them from their
hideous existence before reaching their American desti-
nation—we will not now pause to consider. But here is
the dilemma in which the contumacy and perfidy of
Brazil are likely to place her. In 1827 she entered into a
formal, permanekt, and binding contract with our Go-
vernment, authorising each Power to treat the subjects
of the other, who should be convicted before competent
tribunals of either State of the crime of slave dealiag,
to be proceeded against and dealt with as pirates.
Brazil doggedly refuses to renew her anti slave-trading
engagements with us, so far as these form parts of other
treaties, having definitive limits and terms of duration.
From this compact of 1827 she cannot escape. Lord
ABERDEEN is now carrying through the House of Lords
a declaratory Bill to give effect to its terms and its
penalties. The Brazilian slave capitalists, including, as
we have said, many of their " magnates," will henceforth
find more peril than profit in their abominable slaving
speculations. For our own parts nothing would rejoice
us more than to see some of these infamous offenders
against the rights of man, the faith of treaties, the
honour of governments, and the laws of GOD, caught
abroad in the fact and among the evidences of their own
delinquencies, and afterwards proceeded against to the
extreme penalty of this most righteous law.

AMERICAN NEWS.

The ordinary session of the Swiss Diet was opened at
Zurich on the 7th inst. The whole of the foreign
Ministers, with the exception of the POPZ'S Nuncio, were
present. The following address was delivered by M.
FURRER, the I'resident

" You recollect, Gentlemen, that the majority of the Cab :•
nets which maintain diplomatical relations with Switzerland,
have, on the occasion of the disturbances that occurred in
March last, and of the armed aggression against a confede
rated State, manifested lively apprehensions, some by
friendly exhortations, and others by more serious
representations upon the consequences that might
possibly accrue from those events. If our country
has, on the one hand, a right to expect from
the justice of friendly Powers that no impedi-
ment should be opposed to the spontaneous and independent
development of its external relations ; on the other hand, we
can only claim that right, as far as we are concerned, when
we conscientiously and scrupulously observe the precepts of
international law, and tolerate the existence of no element
calculated to compromise tranquillity or friendly intercourse
with other states. We may, nevertheless, derive confi-
dence from our serious determination to repress anarchical
movements, end from our possessing, notwithstanding the
great agitation excited by so many conflicting elements, the
necessary power of energetically preventing the recurrence of
acts of that nature. We may consequently hope that
oetween the
understanding will continue to subsist unaltered l good
Confederation and the foreign Powers, and and the cheering
proof of it in the presence of their wo:,,fly representatives at
the solemnity of this day."

We have intelltCnce from Madrid and Barcelona to the
6th inst. That from the capital is without interest, but from
Barcelona and several districts of Catalonia we have accounts
of serious disturbances, caused by the determination of the
Government to extend the conscription to that province
Several persons had been killed, and fears were entertained
that the spirit of resistance might extend to other districts.
The subjoined is an abridged account of these unfortunate
events :—" The Government transmitted to Captain-General
CONCILt orders to have the recruitment lists drawn this year
at Barcelona, as in the rest of Spain. On the day appointed
for the drawing opposition was manifested In several
points at the same time, in the neighbourhood of Barcelona,
at Molins- de-Rey, San Andres, Sabadell, Tarassa, Bada-
lona, Esparraguera, Colders, and San Felice de Renon. At
Badalona the lists were burnt, and two agents of public safety
killed; at Tarassa the Alcade was assassinated; at San
Andres the inhabitants dispersed the authorities with musket
shots; at Molins- de-Rey the people stopped the post,
the public diligences, and the couriers. This little town
being situated at four leagues from Barcelona, in the high
road to Madrid by Saragossa, all communications are for the
moment interrupted. At Sabadell, only five leagues from
Barcelona, the Ultra-Progressiste, profitting by the popular
irritation, had already endeavoured to instal a central junta,
in the name of EStARTERO, and formed a body of two
thousand armed men. This news having been transmitted
rapidly to Barcelona, the Captain-General set bat the same
day at the head of a column of infs.
sup-
ported by some pieces of .7.try and cavalry,
driven from Sabadell,
and several eannrr.l. The insurgents were
7.:(n a lose of twenty-five killed,
them prisoners, The General pursued
Tarassa, and they are hoW dying through
the mountains. At Ilatetiona, where the two Queens
and soitie of tht Ministers still are, tranquillity had not
been ttttbled. It now appears certain that the QuEr.br will
'visit the Basque provinces. The Court is to set out for Sara-
gossa on the 18th. It is to be at Pampeluna on the 25th,
for the anniversary of the Queen-Mother's fite, and thence
will proceed to Bilboa. The President of the Council and the
Minister of Foreign Affairs will accompany the two Queens
to that place.

The Paris papers are much occupied with the de-
plorable crime committed by a French officer (Colonel
PELISSIER) and a party of soldiers at a place called
Dahara, in Algeria. It appears that this Colonel PEus-
SIElt was engaged in pursuing th;Ottied-Riths it Kabyl
tribe who have never Leen subdued, because the country
they inhabit eentains immense caverns,---real labyrinths
—whercelh it would he tiovntight madness to lead
assailint &mpg. The Ouled-Riahs, seeing that they
were closely pursued, hastened to theft hallittial refuges.
This happened on the forei3oon of the 18th of June.
After surrounding the grottos, sortie ftwinas *ere made
up, which were kindled and !Aided at the entrance of the
grottos. After this demonstration, which was madein order
to let those people know that they would all tit suffocated
in their caverns, the Colonel ordered letters to be flung
to them, in wbieh they were told that their lies would
be spared arid libtrty festored if they surrendered their
AtalS and h3rses. They first refused, and subse-
quently replied that they would comply with the de-
mand, if the French army previously withdrew to a dis-
tance. This condition was rejected ; and, after various
attempts to subdue the fugitives, burning faggots were
thrown into the cavern, and, according to some accounts,
eight hundred men, women and children, perished.
The following description of the awful scene on the 20th
is given by the Refonee :—" On the morning of that day
there remained but a mass of half consumed ashes, and
nothing mote *is to be heard. We determined on
ienteribg the grotto. How can we describe the shocking
aspect it presented ? The cattle, rendered furious,
them—the men and 11"')ten rushing
g
suffocated and gored. We
~c,rtoluslthtitelf
drat
atr. oiounedscicitipeembeing
had to walk twenty steps over the bodies of the dead
and dying. A thousand human beings were heaped up
in this channel without an outlet. At the bottottt of it
were bodies stanzling up with their faces sticking to the
fissures that they might breathe. About seventy who
had survived expired the moment they were brought
into the open air ; others were killed by the
fragments of rocks the heat had detached. A
large number had received yataghan cuts, and bore
the marks of deep wounds. A terrible struggle
had, no doubt, taken place in the cavern, in that
profound darkness. Already have nearly six hundred
dead bodies been extracted from the grotto ; there are
many more which it has been impossible to get at. Eight
hundred men, women, and children, have perished. The
whole tribe of the Nabs is extitrOnated.' With one or

' two exceptions the Paris press express the utmost inclig- I MONEY and COMM tt RCM L NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
nation at such barbarities. Ample particulars respect-
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 11,000
ing it will be found in another part of The Sun. The I
ito 12.000 hales. ircledine; 6,000 on speculation. The market
ilfon;feer publishes royal ordone,,,ees el r..)1..ti g.Z., th• e 1 w;!, --‘,T,-!--/ ,:-. - , , ,•...^c. -..,,rc -..c!! sopported. ....'z^turc:ay
lsieaSptporeekheEJ;crhange.
General Buchet, M. Jays, the Marquis de Purtes, Vis-
following individuals members of the House of Peers : -
to the crops, as th- ____.... entertained will F',7,,P:t
...., enntinned prevco.ene -.l.llreairy showers, it
was
T there rheo areli'laYs' serious o U
. nas in many itstentleN already done considerable in-
M. Annison Duperron. It was understood that the -;,,,.. jury, ,
count Lemercier, Baron Angosse, M. de Montepin, and ,-, ~.:.- •
As ttrtilol'reiv is St. Swithin's day, the holders of
rogation of the Chambers would take plac, on munticy, , min have exhibited much firmness at Mark-lane this morn-
the 21st inst. ing. But upon this latter point more ample details will be
found in the usual column of The Sun. There is every
On Saturday the Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 30c. ; reason to expect that the grain markets will yet be higher
the New Loan at 83f. 85e.; the Five per Cents. at in consequence of the shortness of the stocks on the continent.
121 f. 35c.; Orleans Bailroad Shares, 1,150 f. ; Rotten, At the same time, from private information we are enabled
1,025 E; Vierzon, 747 f. 50c.; Havre, MK 25c. ; Avignon, to state that throughout France, Germany, and Prussia, the
970 f. ; Basle, 2481. 75c. ; Belgian Two-and a Half per most favourable expectations are entettaltieci with respect
Cents., 5934 ; Spanish Actives, 374 ; Ditto, Three per to the produce of the forthcoming harvest. With respect
Cents., 3734 ; Ditto, Passives, 6%; Ditto, Old Deferred, 154. to the potatoe ereps, we beileve they are likely to be most
The following are the quotations for the new lines :- plentiful, a circumstance which, as far as the poorer classes
Orleans and Bordeaux, 170 f. premium ; Boulogne, 115 - are concerned, is one of immense importance. The farmers
ditto; Troyes and Moni-ereau, 10f.; Paris and Lyons (La- throughout the country are holding back, where they can,
ffitte), 20f. ; ditto (Calon), par ; ditto (Ganneron), 5f 50e.; all the wheats they have, in the firm expectation that mar-
Northern Line (Laffitte), 321. 505. • ditto (Rosamel), 81- kets must rule higher here before the operations of the field
50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 10f; ditto can be commenced.
(Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 3f. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques There are late accounts from New Zealand to-day, much
Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 121. 50c ; later in point of date than those previous obtained. We
ditto (Talabot), 30f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), do not hear that anything of importance is communicated
5f.; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par.; ditto, in the advices as to commercial affairs, which are repre-
and Cette (Espeleta), 4f. 50c.; Creil and St. Quentin, par ; rented as being of an unfavourable character. There ia a re-
Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 10f. ; Dijon and Mulhouse, port of a dreadful conflict at New Zealand, and property de-
par; Dieppe and Fecamp, 28f. 75c.
stroyed to the extent of 40,000/. ; in short
of the British Go-
, that the Bay
9601.; of Islands had ceased to exist as a colony
MARSEILLES, JULY 8.-Marseilles and Avignon,
Boulogne, 620 f. ; Orleans and Bordea ,
5311. 25c. ; ditto ux, 675; Vierzon
740 f. ; Avignon and Lyons (Talab , rernment. It may be in our power to obtain information of ot)
(Sebastiani), 510 f.; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 502 f, an accurate nature when the letters have been delivered.
50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Espeleta), 502 f. 50c.; Toulon, The English Stock Market continues in a fluctuating state,
497 f. 50c.
and sales continue to be made. Consols are 99 to 983/4 for
Transfer and Time. The premium on Exchequer-bills has
Lvoxs, JULY 8.-Avignon and Marseilles, 965 f., end of been 565. to 555., being also lower. This is a heavy week
July ; Paris and Orleans, 1,150 E, ditto; Paris and Rouen, in the Stock Exchange, this being settling day in Shares,
1,025 f, ditto ; Orleans and Vierzon, 735 f, ditto ; Orleans to-morrow in Foreign Stocks, and Friday in Consols, so that
and Bordeaux, 650 f., ditto.; Boulonge, 601 f, ditto. a good deal of money will change hands, and prices will be
affected by this cause. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. have been 102% to %, and the Three per Cents. 994
to N. Bank Stock has been 2101/i to 211%. Long An-
nuities are 11 7-16.
As to the Foreign Investments they are extremely heavy
and quite neglected. Spanish Five per Cents. have fallen
to 26 and 25%, and the Three per Cents. to 36% %, the
Account being decidedly against the Bulls, who, where obsti-
nate, must have been severe losers. Buenos Ayres Stock
has been 461. Belgian Four-and -a- Half per Cents. have
been at 994.
Shares are generally very well supported to-day.
ONE CLOSINO
PRICES OF B/tITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock ... 211% 210% 2101,4
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 987/8 99 9834 983
New 314 per Cents. lO2l/061% 10214
Long Annuities toexoire Jan. 1860 11 7-16 11 7-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
Bank Stock for Account 210%. 210%
Consols for Opening 99 98% 9834
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/, 1%1 56 55 pm
m. 56 . 54
Ditto 5001. .
5 - p
Ditto Small ... 59
- pm. 57

We have received New York papers to the 30th ul

being eight days later than those brought by tie
Rochester.

It would appear from these papers, that the appoint-
ment of Mr. M‘Lane, as ambassador to England, is ap-
proved of by all parties. The organs of the Whigs and
of the Loco-focos speak alike favourably of him as an
honest and clever man, and one unconnected with any
political party.

The Commissioners appointed by America and Great
Britain to run the boundary line between Canada and the
States are still busily engaged in their labours.
The funeral of General Jackson took place on the 24th
June, and on that day, throughout all the cities of the
Union, funeral processions took place in honour of the
d. e

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. CLOSING.
Brazilian Bonds
—91 N
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 — 89
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent 461/2 461/2
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela — 17%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ......
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account ..... ... ..--
Ditto, Passive
Ditto Deferred
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account —361 m
Belgian 41/2 per Cent.
Dutch, 21/2 par Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific —
PRICES 991
RAILWAY SHARES or PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and 31/s
Portrush l% l% I 7/8
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 1331/2 1331/2
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 20
Bristol and Exeter
Do. New ...
Bristol and Gloucester 3O ....
Caledonian
..... 10501 lo','
Cambridge and Lincoln 11/2...... 51/4
Chester and Holyhead... 10
Churnet Valley ......... 2
Cornwall
Dendre Valley .... ..... .. 2 ...... 1%
Direct Northern
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 21,4 7% VA
Dublin and Galway._ .. 21
Dundalk & Enniskillen 21/2 314
Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 211/4%
Ditto New 41. 16s. 7l/2
Eastern Union l5 .. ...
Ditto Extension .
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 —
Ditto New 14 Shares... 21/2 Bl/2
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 21/2 21,4
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great North of Scotland 254 2%
Great North of England..loo
Ditto New 5
Ditto New. -. 2

OVE
O'CLOCK.

, ..,
Great Western BO 909
Ditto, Fifths 2O
Elarwich
Hull and Selby SO
London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d. 91;
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d 224.4%
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d Bll% ......... .
Do. New
London and York ...... •.. 2%
London and Windsor -... 1
Londonderry& Coleraine 21,t; 3%
Londonderry and Ennis-
•
killen
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham l% 24
Manchester and Leeds... 76
Do. Quarters 2 %34
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock 22s.
lidland .. 100 193
. Do. New
Midland, I3irm., Derby...loo 149 ... ......... ...
Midland Great Western
( Irish)
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction
Do. New Brandling... 10 ...... 38
Newastle and Berwick 1% 1944.. ...
Newark and Sheffield .. 1% 2% .. ...
North British
Do. New
North Kent
North Staffordshire 22s. ...... 2_,li
Norwich and Brandon... 10 ...... 20%
Do., New ... ..... ..... 1 ... ,15'
Oxford and Worcester... 2% ...... 6•4 7
Itichmondand West End

Junction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
South Devon
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d —
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
South Wales 21,4 ...... Trent Valley and Holy-
...... .........
head Junction
Welch Midland
Wilts. Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
Yarmouth and Norwich 2O ...... 29
York and Carlisle 234... .. 3N
`rock and North Midland 50 ...... ' - . ........
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 . .... ...........
Do. Extension
... 221/2... ..........
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and A miens 6 ..... 10i/t1
Dijon and Mulhouse ... 2 ...... ..._
..
.....
Great North. of France

(Laffittes)
Dn. do. (Rommel's) 2 ... 2.
Jamaica Junction ll/2 5 .....
Do. Sodth Micllnd. Junc. 1
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . 5 ............ ...
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Bordeaux... 4
Over Yssel . 4133 4d — ...............
Paris & Lyons, Laflitte's ~
Paris and Rouen ..
Royal North of Spain ... 2
...... •
.•
Sambre and Meuse ~... 4
West Flanders 2
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London & Westminster 20
Union of Australia

211,(
2%

44
195
30%
50

2534
47%
17
81/,
5%

5!4
29

3
1131/2%
5314
21%

]OI
2

274
26

COURT CIRCUL
The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horseback yes.
terday, atended by the Hon. Miss Dawson, Colonel Bowles,
and Colonel Bouverie.
Her loyal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her
Majesty yesterday, Her Royal Highness also visited the Queen
of the Belgians at Buckingham Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Royal, and the Princes. Alice, were taken an airing yesterday,
accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. His Royal
Highness Prince Alfred was taken an airing yesterday, in the
gardens of Buckingham Palace.
Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians visited
their Royal Highnesses the Duke an I Duchess of Cambridge
yesterday at Cambridge House, and the Duchess of Gloucester,
at Gloucester House. The King of the Belgians also paid
visits to his Royal Highness Prince George, at his residence
its St. James's Palace, and his Serene Highness Prince Ed-
*gird of Saxe Weimar at Marlborough House.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback
yesterday, attended by Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting.
The Queen had a dinner yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.
The company included their Majesties the King and Queen of
the Belgians, the French Ambassador, the Belgian Minister
and Madame Van de Weyer, the Marquis of Granby, the
Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess Cowper, Lord and
Lady Stanley, the Count and Countess de Flahault, Lord
Lyttelton, Baroness d'Hooghvorst, Sir Robert and Lady
Gardiner, and Major de Moerkerke.
The band of the Grenadier Guards attended during dinner,
and performed the following pieces, under the direction of
Mr. Schott :
Overture, " Les deux aveugles"—Mehul.
Polka, " Madelinen"—Swaboda.
SCeila, Preghierra e aria, " Alla pace degle detti" Giura-
mento)—Mercadante.
Waltz, " May I3lumen"—Herzog Max.
Galop, " Ca.valerie"—Kuhner.

The following company had the honour of receiving invita-
tions for the evening i—Sami Pacha and his interpreter; the
Countess of Mort°, and Lady Ellen Dc.aglas, Viscount and
Viscountess Canning, Viscount Jocelyn, Sir Henry Wheatley,
and Sir Edward Cust.

Her Maje.ty's Private Band was in attendance in the
evening.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left her residence, Bushy
House, Bushy Park, yesterday, accompanied by the Duchess
Ida of Saxe :Veimar, for the purpose of witnessing the naval
review, off Spithead, this day.
The Attorney-General and the Attorney General for Ire-
land had interviews with Sir R. Peel and Sir J. Graham yes-
terilay.
M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and the Right
Hon. H. Lytton 3ulwer, transacted business yesterday at the
Foreign-office.
Mr. M. Gibson, M.P., and the Town Clerk of Manchester,

TRA_GEDI AT DA-
ITARA, IN ALGIERS
The following rteeount of one of the roost herrid
ever committed is copied from the Akbar of tho 5.h
inst., a French journal, published at Algiers:—
" There has just occurred in the Dahara one of those terrible
events which deeply anct those who witness them, even
when convinced of their frightful necessity, and when they are
justified in declaring that everything possible was done to
prevent the catastrophe. It is known that the corps com-
manded by Colonels Nlissier, St. Arnaud and da l'Acnirault,
have been carrying on combined operations in the west. Col.
Polisher was; bill in pur-uing the Ouled Riahs, who have
never yet submitted, as they live in immense caverns where it
would be madness for the troops to enter. On the 18th of
June, finding themselves closely pursired, the Ouled Riahs flew
to their usual place of refuge. After having surrounded the
caverns, some faggots were lighted and thrown by the French
troops before the entrance. Atter this demonstration, which
Iwas made to convince the Arabs that the French had the
power, if they pleased, of suffocating them in their hiding-
place, the Colonel threw in letters offering to them life and
liberty if they would surrender their arms and their horses.
At first they refused, but subsequently they replied that
they would consent if the French troops would withdraw
This condition was considered inadmissible, and more burning
faggots were thrown. A great tumult now arose, and it war
known afterwards that it arose from a discussion as to whether
there should be a surrender or not. The party opposed to a
surrender carried their point, and a few of the minority made
their escape. Colonel Pelissier, wishing to spare the lives of
those who remained in the cavern, sent some Arabs to them to
exhort them to surrender. They refused, and some semen,
who did not partake of the savage fanaticism of the majority,
attempted to fly, but their husbands and relations fired upon
them, to prevent their escape from the martyrdom which they
had themselves resolved to suffer. Colonel Pelissier then sus-
pended the throwing of the burning (egg{ te, and sent a French
officer to hold a parley with the Ouled Riahs, but his messenger
was received with a discharge of fire-arms, and could not per-
form his mission. This state of things continued till the night
of the 19th, when, losing all patience, and no longer having a
hope of otherwise subduing these fanatics, who formed a perpetual
nucleus of revolt in the country, the fire was renewed and ren-
dered intense. During this time the cries of the unhappy
wretches, who were being suffocated, were dreadful, and then
nothing was heard but the crackling of the faggots. This
silence spoke volumes. The troops entered and found 500 dead
bodies. Absut 150, who still breathed, were brought into the
fresh air, but a portion of them died afterwards.
The affair was thus animadverted upon in the French
Chamber of Peers on the 11th
Prince de la Moskowa said that the Akbar of Algiers con-
tained a recital of an affair which was really of such a revolting
character as to be scarcely credible; it was without precedent
in the annals of their military history. Colonel POlissier had
rendered himself guilty of an act which nothing could excuse,
which it was repugnant to them to record, and that with regard
to unfortunate Arabs whom they had conquered. He could isot
contain his indignation when reading the rep art in question,
and he protested, as an officer of the army—
A Voice—You are here as a Peer of Prance.
Prince de la Moskowa—He was aware of that, but he was
also a member of the army, and in this affair its honour and
dignity were concerned. That of the Government was also
implicated, for it partook of the responsibility.—( Murmurs. )
This was no question of razzia or reprisals, but a frightful act,
on a defenceless and vanquished enemy. He would, therefore,
ask what the conduct of the Government would be if the re-
port should turn out to be correct. As such an act leid no
need of commentary, he should simply read to the Chamber
the narration of the event as given by the Akbar. The Noble
Peer read the account already given in the Messenger, and
concluded with these words :—" I have nothing to add to such
a recital; the facts speak of themselves, and demand no advo-
cacy from me."--( Sensation. )
The President of the Council—The reports that have ar-
rived at the office of the Minister of War are so contradictory,
that I have considered it my duty to demand fresh information
before giving any opinion. We know nothing of the matter
but from what has been published by the public journals, and
we acknowledge that we are most anxious to receive prompt
intelligence on the subject. The Governor of Algeria has been
written to and as soon as we shall have been better informed,
I shall hasten to give the Chamber all the details it may require.
As to the act itself, the Government disapproves of it most
strongly.—( Hear, hear. )
Count De Alontalembert declared that such an act, from the
horror which it inspired, merited something besides mere dis-
approbation.---( Hear, hear.) What effect would it not produce
in England and other countries?--( Hear, hear.)
The President of the Ccuncil—Since the word disapprobation
appears insufficient, I have no hesitation in declaring that I
deplore the act that has been alluded to.—( Hear. )
The subjoined are extracts from the Paris papers de-
nouncing the cruelty of Colonel Pelissier
COURRIER FRANCAIS.—See what has just happened
in Algeria. Colonel Pilissier, commanding an expeditinnary
column in the Dahara, and pursuing the tribe of the Ouled
Riah, found no other means of reducing them than to burn or
stifle five hundred Arabs, men, women, and children, who had
taken refuge in a cavern. This atrocity, committed in cold
blood, and without necessity, will cause every man to thrill with
indignation; and, for the honour of France, it is our most
imperative duty to brand it with reprobation, in the name of
the army, in the name of the nation, in the name of the
Government itself, which cannot without shame approve of an
a-t praised in one of Marshal Bugeaud's journals ! An act
worthy la the Spanish adventurers of the sixteenth century,
conquering the New World ; worthy of the buccaneers of
the worst description ; but unworthy of the noble and
holy France of the nineteenth century, who combats
heroically on the field of battle, but does not massacre
her conquered enemies ; who wages war with the sword,
and not with faggots ; who, in fine, is a soldier, and
not a fire-raiser ! France, we answer for it, will stigmatise
with unanimous reprobation a monstrous act like this ; such as
one may read of in the annals of savage tribes, and of Man-
drin's bands; such, that in reading the account in a bulletin
of the army which prepares, under the national colours, to carry
civilisation into Africa, we remain mournfully astonished and
afflicted, and are obliged to ask if France civilises or barbarises
in Algeria? We have said that this atrocity was committed in
cold blood, and without necessity. Yes, in cold blood, for the
roasting, which is the proper name for this feat of arms, lasted
from the morning of June 18 to one o'clock of the night of the
19th, and the operation was performed leisurely, with inter-
missions calculated to watch the effect of the punishment on the
victims. Yes, without necessity, for if Colonel Pelissier had
waited four-and-twenty hours longer, those unfortunates, with-
out food and without water, would have surrendered at dis-
cretion ; but fire seemed more expeditious.
PR ESSE.—It is fortunate that cruelties, which nothing can
justify, have been thus speedily protested against from the tri-
bune. This was necessary for our honour, and for the future
as regards the occupation of Algeria. It cannot be supposed
that such proceedings are calculated to bring about the pacifica-
tion of that country. It is, on the contrary, thus thst war is
rendered eternal and abominable. Let us not preach about
peace, concord, and submission; after scenes so horrible as those
which have passed in the caverns of the Dahara."
NATION AL.—lt is impossible for the people of France to
read with sang-froid the account of the atrocious hecatomb of
human beings of which the AI bar has recited to us the fright-
ful details. We are convinced that in spite of the panting and
feverish impatience of its last hours, if the Chamber of De-
puties were to be re-a,.emblad it would loudly prwest against a
mode of warfare which must make all civilised Europe hold us
in horror and contempt. There have been found Peers who, too,
express the same feelings, and the Prince de la Moskowa has
questioned the Minister of War on the subject. The Marshal,
seeing the impression produced by the simple reading of the
narration, at once acknowledged that he had not received any
kut contradictory reports, and said that the Government dis-
approved ef the deed, and finding that the word disapproved
was too feeble, added—deplores it 1 Yes, but the Minister can
de better than deplore; he ought as much as in his power to
prevent such deeds, he ought to show by a just severity that the
Government of France, in whosever hands it may be placed, can-
not become an accomplice in acts of gross barbarity.
COMMERCE.—We still hope that the statement in the
.4kbar is false. We hope this for the honour of the French
army, and for the reputation of an officer of merit. We are
certainly not among those who expect that the war against the
Arabs should be carried on without killing them, and that our
corps should be victualled in the field without taking from the
enemy his harvest and other provisions, or that the conquest of
Algeria should be obtained by a display of philanthropy and
tenderness. Although a razzia may be called an act of vio-
lence, it is unquestionable that the Arabs themselves have
driven us to it by using it against us. Let it be called an
abuse of power ; but it is practised on both sides with equal
chances, and the Arabs are made to comprehend this when
they themselves suffer from their own example. But if we
follow in this war exceptional acts, provoked by an enemy who
is himself an exception, this cannot be carried so far as to
authorise cold and deliberate cruelty in a case where patience
and the ordinary stratagems of war would be sufficient. It
would be useless to say that sush an event as this is without
precedent, and can never again occur. We believe it, and
our guarantee is the public cry, which brands and condemns it.
The Debats merely gives a notice of what occurred in the
Chamber, repeating the langunge ef Marshal Soult, and stat-
ing that it was received with unanimous applause by the assem-
bly. The Constitutionnel has a very short notice of the affair.
It spy§ that the word desapprouverait pronounced by Marshal
Soult on the part of a Ministry which had disavowed an Admi-
ral for baying performed his duty produced so painful an im.
presston on the Chamber, that the Marshal felt it necessary to
add that he would not, if the fact should be confirmed, content
himself with disapproving, but would also deplore it.

Site HENRY POTTINGER.—It is the intention °rale
Corporation of the City of London, at their next Court of Common
Council, to be holden on Thursday, topresent the freedom of the City
in a box, of the value of one hundred guineas, to Major-General
Sir Henry Pottinger, Hart., G.C.8., in testimony of the estimation
entertained by the Corporation in common with their fellow-citizens,
in regard to his important cervices in negotiating a treaty of peace
and commerce with the Chinese empire.
A YOUNG LADY DROWNED AT WORTIIING.-011
Friday afternoon a fatal and melancholy accident occurred to a
young lady named Eaton, who was residing with her friends at No.
13, Steyne, Worthing. About three o'clock two of the Misses
Eaton engaged a pleasure-boat for a sail on the water, of a man
named Taylor, who went out to sea with them, taking a boy to
assist him. At the time the boat pushed off there was a stiff
breeze, anti the sea was rather rough. About three quarters of a
mile from shore, a sudden squall capsized the boat, and the whole
of the party were immersed in the water, but the whole of them
succeeded in clinging to the boat, which shortly afterwards righted,
but none of them were able to regain their seats. The accident
was observed by numbers from the shore, and fortunately at the
time the accident happened /Mr. Reynolds, who was out with his
boat, was not more than a quarter of a mile off. He immediately
bore down to the parties in peril, and arrived in time to rescue one
of the ladies, the boatman, and a boy, but, melancholy to relate, the
other young lady was unable to maintain her hold, and perished in
the waves. The surviving lady was about twenty-one years of
age, and she was taken, in an exhausted state, to the baths. The
Misses Eaton were about to leave Worthing on the following day
for London, the carriage and horses having been sent on. It is a
sigular fact that a small lap dog, which the young ladies had taken
on board with them, succeeded in getting on the boat on its right-
ing, and was taken offsafe. Na Warne is attached to the boatman.
The body has not yet been found.
DEATH- OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF THE
ISLE OF MAN.—Major General Ready, Lieutenant Governor of
the Isle of Man, died on Thursday last. He had long been troubled
wish an incurable complaint, and was at death's door, when, it is
said, his dissolution was accelerated by a mistake in the Adminis.
tration of his medicine—ono preparation, in a moment of haste,
having been given instead of another. The deceased was appointed
to the office in which he died in 1833 or 1834, by the Administra-
tion of the day. He had seen a good deal of service. He was in
Canada with the late Duke of Richmond, with whom he was a
great favourite. The Gallant General married a daughter of Sir
John Tabin, art eminent Liverpool merchant and ship owner, by
whom he had two or three children. A coroner's jury having in.
quired into the cause of Major General Ready's death, returned a
verdict of Accidental Death.