The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-24

IRELAnD.-The Lord Lieutenant has made
another excursion ia the North.
The Irish Tenant League had revived their
public meetings, with gathering ia 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 evinced in the proceedings, that feeling
stands at very low ebb indeed at present.
DUBLIN, June 3.-The Poor-Law Commits
soners have authorized an advance of t., 600
from the rate in aid of the fund to the Kilrush
Union, to aid in detraying the expenses of pau
per emigration.
Her Majesty's birthday was celebrated with
various popular rejoicngs on the Queens Is
land, at Belfast AT Cork there was field day
of the troops in that garrison, in the newly
formed public park.
There was sale Of property under the en-
numbered estates court at Cork, on Monday I;
the estate sold was that of Robert Warren
the lots disposed Of during the day realized
G4,385.
AT the half-yeary meeting of the general
mining company OF Ireland held yesterday, a
dividend Of 10 per cent for the half year was
declared, the chairman observing that there had
been also similar dividend for the preceding
half year. making total of 35 per cent. OF the
dividends paid out of the profits since 1913.
He was happy to add that they had also nc
quired some good property in that period. They
were now employing 800 persons, and were in
curing no debts or liabilities.
BATH Es WITH The KABYLEs IN ALGIERs--
TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER. - The African war,
(writes Paris correspondent has opened with
severe loss and dreadful carnage. In the add
vance Of column five or six thousand strong,
on Djijeili, 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 Kabyles, and in all the
campaigns of l845 in Gran and Algers. Two
companies of the 10th fell into an ambush, and
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 a grisly per-
spective Of heads of their slain comrades, which
their ferocious enemies had stuck on poles dur
ring the night,t dismay them in their harrassed
march. Terrible, on the other hand. has been
the retaliation. On the 10Th, twelve villages
were burned; on the 10th, thirty. When it is
remembered that these Kabyles are not mad
tribes Of Bedouins, but hardy independent
mountaineers, who are addicted TO agriculture.
the destruction of their settlements rouses a
strong feeling of con passion.
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 2lst ult:
Officers killed 8; wounded 90. Non-commis-
stoned officers and soldiers: killed 80; wounded
307. These losses are to be distributed over
seven days of fighting. OF the enemy 400 were
killed from the 18th to the ID. between Thilah
and Djijelli; 500 were killed in the battles OF
the 18th and goth. The number of wounded
has not been ascertained.