19 JULY 1845, Page 13

We see by the Paris papers of Thursday, that, on

Wednesday, Marshal Soult, rebuked by M. De Boissy for severity to the army in Algiers, took occasion to palliate the abominable massacre at Dahra : it would, he said, have been atrocious in Europe; but such things are necessary in Africa; and the exterminated tribe had committed cruelties on French soldiers. The French papers loudly renew their indignant protests on this extenuation of the atrocity.