The Sultan of Morocco has undoubtedly met with veryserious military
difficulties in his attempt to crush the Kabyle insur- rection, though he seems to have taken a considerable army into the field for that pm-pose. His cousin was massacred and the force with him destroyed the moment the Sultan's back was turned, and though the Sultan inflicted a great revenge, he does not find the task he is about an easy one. The Spanish correspondents, no doubt, exaggerate his difficulties in their accounts of the proceedings, for Spain is as anxious to get a good footing in Morocco as France is to get a good footing in Tunis. But that the Sultan of Morocco is in diffi- culties, and that the Kabyles are about as easy to crush effectually as a flat piece of india-rubber, seems as clear as the Sultan's determination to crush them.
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