The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-25
Further Foreign intelligence.
PER STEAMER NIAGARA

IRELAND.--The Lord Lieutenant has made
another excursion in the North.
The Irish Tenant League had revived their
public meetings, with gathering in the Lee.
ture hall of the Mechanics Institute. This was
intended to be the first of series of meetings
to test the state Of feeling. in Dublin upon the
tenant-right question; but, Judging from the in
terest eyinced in the proceedings, that feeling
stands at a very low ebb indeed at present.
DUBLIN, June 3.--The Poor-Lnw Commits.
sioners have authorized an advance of G2,00C
from the rate in aid Of the fund to the Kirush
Union, to aid in defraying the expenses Of pau.
per emigration
Her Majesty's birthday was celebrated with
various popular rejoicings on the Queens Is
land, at Belfast. At Cork there was field day
of the troops in that garrison, in tho newly
formed public park.
There was sale of property under the en-.
numbered estates court, at Cork, on. Monday
the estate sold was that OF Robert Warren
the lots disposed of during the day realized
E4,3S5.
AT the half-yearly meeting Of the general
mining company of Ireland, held yesterday, q
dividend of 10 per cent. for the half year wa.
declared, the chairman observing that there had
been also a similar dividend for the preceding
half year, making a total of 35 per cent. of the
dividends paid out Of the profits since l848
He was happy to add that they had also &C
quired some good property in that period. They
were now employing 300 persons, and were in
curing no debts or liabilities.
| BATTLES WITH THE KABYLEs IN ALGIERs-
TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER. - The African war
writes Paris correspondent has opened wit.
severe loss and dreadful carnage. In the ad
/ IF Aa o. c;v md ofr mn
on Djije!l Colonel Arnaud is admitted to have
sacrificed more soldiers than were lost by Mar
shall Bugeaud in his two expeditions against
the great tribes of the Kabyes, and in all The
campaigns Of l845 in Gran and Algers. Two
companies of the 10th fell into an ambush, anG
lost two hundred men, with five officers. The
whole number killed is stated at three hundred
On the next day after their bloody encounter
the troops had to march between grisly per
spectve of heads of their slain comrades, which
their ferocious enemies had stuck on poles dur
ring the night, to dsmay them in their harrasseG
march. Terrible, on the other hand, has beer
the retaliation. On the 18th, twelve villages
were burned; on the 10Th, thirty. When it j.
remembered that these Kabyles are not mao
tribes of Bedouins, but hardy Independent
mountaineers, who are addicted to agriculture
the destruction of their settlements rouses
strong feeling of compassion.
The Moniteur Of June I'd, publishes the off
cial note Of the casualties in the recent affair
with the Kabyles, up to the latest date, 2Ist ult
Officers: killed 8; wounded %. Non-commis
stoned officers and soldiers killed 80; wounded
BOT. These losses are to be distributed ovel
seven days of fighting. Of the enemy 400 were
killed from the 18th to the Is, between Thilah
and Djjelli; 500 were killed in the battles Of
the 18th and Goth. The number of wounded
has not been ascertained.