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settle the Fishery difficulty.
W }SCclI GReOuS.
Spectator, September 8tH
\ message strangely characteristic of
tn Est arrived on Thursday from M0roc-
60. it had been rumoured that the
Sultan, indignant ut the treachery of some
mountain tribes who had mastered his
troops under plcteuca of yielding to them,
had given their district to fire and sword,
slain their men, sod their children, burned
their houses, aud handed owe: their women
to his savage soldiers. The story was
denied, ana was readily diSbelieved, as too
barbarouS for modern times; but it is now
affirmed not only that it is true, but that
the Sultan has ordered ii letter containing
a full account Of his barbarities to be read
III every mosque. No European is likely
to have invented that statement, and we
see no reason for doubting its truth. 1t is
exactly what an ASidtic Prince excited by
treachery would DO, and, in fact, always
does do If he is away from European super
vision. 1t is not twelve years since the
much worse massacre of ButUk, which was
unproyoked, and was ordered by a Turk of
the very aeWe>t "civiliSttion". In 1850 it
was the regular custom in Burmah, when Il
noble was executed for treason TO pound
his children mp in mortarS. "Eulighten-
ment' spreads, but the virtues, more espe-
cialIy the quality Of mercy, are still almost
confined to Europe and its settlements.
The correspondents of the Times states.
we believe truly, that the moving cause of
the present Italian bitterness against
France is Il belief that the French Govern
ment intends to annex Tripoli. Certainly
they are certifying the border, collecting
troops, and advancing their frontier, posi-
bly, under some secret permission from
COnStantinOple. The Italians consider the
neutrality of Trip0li essential to their safe.
ty, and, moreover hope for that province
as their share of North Africa; and they
intend to resist the establishment of a
French prOtectOrate, We find it difficult
to believe that the French. statesmen,
knowing the extreme dislike of a great
party among their own people, including
the whole. Army, to any further locking up
of soldiers in Africa, would attempt such
an expedition. They might, if they were
ready for war, threaten it, i'll order to draw
a menace from Italy which would rouse
their people; but they are not ready. Half
the effort, If they really desire more Afri-
can territory, would give them Morocco.
The Standard of Thursday gives a most
vivid and CHASTITY account from its Japan
correspondent, of the volcanic eruption
of July 10th in the mountain BaudaiSan,
only about a hundred and fifty miles from
YOkOhama,-a mountain long celebrated
for its hotspringS, which like the hot springs
of New Zealand, generally Indicate volca-
mic activity. The eruption began at about
s O'Clock in the morning, and lasted in full
violence only about two hours; yet the
death and destruction dealt out in that
time seem to have been severe beyond
almost all record. "a dense black pillar
rose with an appalling noise, like a
thousand rolls of thunder in one, from the
apex of the mountain (Which is a little
under 5000 fl. in heisht), the sky becom-
ing black as night, the ground undulating
like the sea, and then red-hOt ashes,
showers Of stones and Of sulphur, volumes
OF boiling water, came rushing down; huge