The Sun. — 1845-07-15 (London, England)

ABD -EL-KADER have caused to them—tht French Government has been taught, by this time, tht price which must be paid for indulging in the luxury o' military aggression. Still, as we have before intimated, all these things being now matter of history, the facts of which are far beyond the reach of argument, as they art physically incapable of recal, we should have abstained from recurring to them. A new and aggravated critn( against humanity, against policy, against civilization. has, however, been recently committed by a French officer commanding a detached force of the army in Algeria. ur der circumstances that call for special denunciation. Let us say, however, that the French press has expressed its indignation, its astonishment and disgust, in terms which are most honourable to the writers. They have vindicated the common sympathies of our nature, whilst pro testing against the dishonour which so inconceivable an atrocity on the part of a French officer has cast upon the French name. They require that a searching inquiry shall be instituted into the facts, and that the party who may be proved to have been guilty of authorising so execrable a massacre shall be subjected to severe punishment. They are naturally and honourably solicitous that the name of France shall not be sullied by the infamy of an individual, or the national character for generosity and courage be compromised by an outrage detestable alike for its cowardice and its cruelty. We do but bare justice to our Parisian Contemporaries in declaring that we have never met with a more eloquent, genuine, or dignified exposition of sentiments becoming the organs of public opinion in a great nation than those which have been elicited, in their columns, by the statements which havt reached their capital of this Hun-like sacrifice to the demon of extirpation. It is in a spirit of the most perfect good-will and respect for these emotions, and for those whe are actuated by them, that we would guard ourselves against the supposition of imputing to the French people those deficiencies of moral principle, or those culpable delinquencies of personal conduct to which we may have occasion to allude. Our purpose is to contribute our feeble appeal to the French nation to set itself right with the civilised world, with all Christendom, by decreeing a most signal punishment not only against the monster criminal who shall be proved and declared to have been the guilty mover of this dreadful sacrifice, but also against the monster system—namely, that of her military Algerian occupation—under which only could he have ventured on such an outrage, or French soldiers been found to be the willing instruments of its commission.  We believe that the voice of the French nation will continue to insist on a signal exposition of this execrable infamy, and we hope that PELISSIEI will be brought home immediately from Algeria, and put on a fair but searching trial. If he be innocent, he will no doubt be able to fix the blame on the guilty parties. If he be guilty, the mute but intelligible voices of the more than 600 murdered Arabs cry out for the doom of retributive justice on his head.  The intelligence which appeared in part of our impression yesterday, from New Zealand, is of a most distressing character, not so much on account of the lives already lost, which all sincerely deplore, as the dismal prospects which this collision holds out for that fine colony. It is admitted on all hands that never was any settlement made by Englishmen so favonr•d by climate, soil,and locality. It is within a few weeks' sail of British colonies in Van Diemen's Land and New Holland, increasing every day in wealth, population, and importance to the mother country; it is capable of producing all the necessaries as well as the luxuries of life, and from its comparative short distance from populous islands in the Chinese seas might in time become a great mart of commerce. All these bright prospects are blighted for the present, because we fear this unfortunate collision will only make the natives more hostile, and render peaceable occupation next to impossible. Much, however, may be done by wise and conciliatory measures on the part of the Colonial Government and the Legislature. Lord STANLEY has now a fine field for the display of his abilities as Colonial Minister ; but should he not improve the opportunity, and still adhere to the