The difficulties of France in consequence of the subjugation of
Tunis are becoming grave. A new leader, a Marabout or Dervish, called Bon Amema, has called the tribes to arms in Algeria, and has ravaged Oran, deluding the French troops, killing the settlers, including 1,700 Spaniards, and calling on his countrymen to make an end of white rule. He has assist- ance from the half-independent tribes in Morocco, and can retreat across the border at will. In Tunis, the tribes round
Sphax require the presence of an ironclad, and possibly of a division ; while in Tripoli the gatherings round the camps ordered by the Sultan are so formidable that M. St. Hilaire has addressed a menacing Note to the Porte, which has greatly irritated Constantinople. At the same time, the Italians avowedly only desist from meetings against France because "the hour is not yet," and the Spanish Government has sent in a formal demand for reparation for its subjects massacred in Oran, and expelled by the Arabs from the province. We have elsewhere stated the course which it is more than possible the French Government may pursue, and which is, briefly, to share North Africa with Italy and Spain. In the latter country, the excitement caused by the pitiable condition of the expelled refugees is rising very high.
