The Paris papers of Thursday are still busy with comments
on Algerian affairs; and they contain another letter from Marshal Bugeaud, disclaiming the publication of his notorious note to the Prefect of the Dordogne.
The Epoque mentions, that the Abbe Creusat, Rector of Mascara, has set out for Abd-el-Ka.der's camp, to convert the awful Emir to Christianity. So far from applauding the mission, the Ministerial journal regards it as dangerous to M. Creusat personally, and liable to equivocal appearances of negotiation, which may compromise France.
The France Algerienne relates a striking trait of heroism in the defence of the marabout of Sidi Abrahim by the remnant of Colonel Montagnac's men- " A remarkable episode is related of the resistance of the heroes of the marabout of Sidi-lbrahim. Abd-el-fader, wearied with their resistance and their refusal to surrender, sent to them one of the prisoners that he had made, Captain Dnter- tie, Of the Eighth Chassenrs with an express mission to induce them to surren- der, on pain, in the case of refusal, of losing his own head. This officer went up to the marabout, and cried out to the besieged, notwithstanding the injunctions and menaces of Abd-el-Kader, 'I exhort you not to lay down your arms. Let na all die, if it be necessary, to the last man: The Emir kept his word, for the Cap- tain was decapitated."
The Athens correspondent of the Morning Post, writing on the 30th of September, makes much of the pretended conspiracy to assassinate the King, Coletti, and Grivas. The paper that first mentioned the plot, edited by a ruffian adherent of Coletti, made an equivocal allusion to somebody Waiting in the Ionian Islands; which is taken to imply that the assassina- tion was sanctioned by England, and intended to clear the throne of Greece for Prince George of Cambridge A whaling-ship has reached the United States having on board an English family named Florence, escaped from Wangaroa, in New Zealand; and bearing a report that, " with the exception of Auckland, the capital of New Zealand, the Natives had completely routed the European colonists, Mid obtained possession of the island." There is no date of this supposed touting of the settlers ; but Wangaroa is near the Bay of Islands, and the tale appears to be nothing more than a new version of the attack on Kororarika, enormously magnified in the circuitous route by Which it has come round to us again.
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