The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-11-19
From The N. 7. Miro
E'Ise Foreign News,

BY the late steam ships, is doubtless fraught
with more interest aud Importance than any we
have received for long tine. The present
will be a conspicuous era in the history of Eu-
rope, for it is so full of stirring interest, and it
obounds with so many events bearing upon its
moral, political, and physical condition, that the
page in which they stand recorded, will be read
with mingled feelings of wonder, admiration and
disgust.
| Alter the comparative quietude which has
marked the passing away of 30 many years, the
exctements of the present time are felt with a
keener sensIbility, and the spectacle now cxhi.
biting in the great theatre of Europe, strikes one
! with the more astonshment from its extraordina-
| ry novelty. The present generation has 'heard
of battles,' and of famine and massacres.' but
they are to them only like the fables in their
school books; and the mind can n3w scarcely be.
Ilieve in their reality, though evidences are fur.
nished of the painful truth.
The conduct of Nicholas of Russia, in carry
ing out his religious prosecutions in Poland is so
inhuman, so demoniacal, that the heart shrnks
from its contemplation. We read a short time
Isince, that number of poor harmless nuns, in a
convent at Minsk, who preferred thcr own form
of religion to that which the Emperor had cho.
sen for them, were subiectedto to series of bar
baritiea even to the receiving of fifty lashes ev-
cry Friday, and that only three survived the cru
el treatment--We now read that one expired I'M
der the Both blow of the knout; but as everything
must be performed that is ordered in Russia, the
romaning twenty lashes were inflicted on the
dead bodyn And this is done at the will of one
man in the nineteenth century! The ages of
barbarism could hardly find parallel Otrocity.
The subject of the French in Algiers is now
assuming an important characer-the reverses
of fortune experienced by the French army have
wheted the appetite for revenge, and brave
people full of desperate courage, and indomitable
Fenergy, struggling for their country and their
homes, are, if possible, to be crushed, if power
and strength can effect it. The krab, who will
never be conquered, while an arm retains strength
/ to wiold spear, or his limbs to bestrde cour-
ser, overreaches his enemy by stratagem,- lures
them into his power and slays them. This is in
revenge for the dreadful massacre of their coun-
trymen al Dahra, who were brrtaily smothered
in cave. And France is indignant at the afro
city! and Abd-elKader, the soul Of these cease
less rebellions, as they are termed, must be forth
with destroyed, in order TO secure the paclica-
fton of Algiers. And how does France propose
to do this2 Why, by making war upon Morocco,
because the Emperor has not sent him out of his
dominions, which is about as difficult TO do, as
the French will find it TO destroy him. FAbd-el-
Kader,' says an English paper, SIS beyond and
Iabove all influences by which he has been sur
rounded With mind equal to the exigencies
Iof his condition, he has been, aud is still, upheld
by those powers Of the human breast which bind
men to the land of their birth, which induce
them to retaliate injuries, which lead them to
hate an invader, and teach them TO abhor the en-
emies Of their religion. Abd-eI-Kades is the
champion of his faith against the infde, and the
Header of his countrymen against the INVADER
He is the Tell and the Hoter of his time. AT
once saint and general, he holds the two
strongest chords that thrill in the bosoms of his
followers; and until every drop of Arab blood has
been spilled upon the sands of the desert, Al
lgers will remalnunconquered.'
England, too, has her domestic troubles--the
railway mania will probably result in disastrous
consequences-the comparative failure of the
harvest, and the widely extended disease of the
potato crop, hold out distressing prospects for the
poor; and this calamity will extend its influence
problble even across the Atlantic where wealth
is, there will be supply--there will be corn in
Egypt so long as she has money to pay for it,nnd
thus through the ramifications of commerce the
effect will, directly or indirectly, ultimately find
its way here.
But we dislike to indulge in gloomy specula-
tons, sufficient for the day is tho evil thereof,
and though It's wise, If possible, 10 provide fo
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