The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Gazette de France, referring to the intelli-
gence communicated from Madrid that the fines
imposed on the press for some years are to be re-
turned, observes :—This is certainly the first time
that a decree of amnesty for the press has received
a retrospective interpretation so broad and so Jibe•
ral. We most sincerely congratulate our Spanish
contemporaries on the fact. For a retrograde
Ministry, assailed by the Siècle and the Opinion
Nationale, it really is not amiss. We do not ask
for the reimbursement of our own fines or to be in-
demnified for our imprisonments, alas! We are
unwilling to bear so hard on the public Treasury.
But till we can get something better, the annulment
of our warnings would give us great plemure.
BOURSE, Sept. 26.—The market shows a slight
improvement on Saturday. Threes, for the Account,
are now at 65fr. 95c., and Mobilier at I,C2ofr.
Railway Market quiet, but pretty firm. The mar
ket closed as follows :

It per Cents. 92 70 i Italian Loan 67 60
Do. end Do. end month 67 60

3 per Cents
Do. end month 65 90
Credit Mailier..., 1013 75
Do. end month 1015
Bank Shares 3'9 ►
Credit F oncier ....1220
Roman

Ditto Threes..,,
New Mexican -
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes -
Elome Debt
Deferred

RA IL

'A.TB.
Cash. Account.
890 , . 890
986 25 .. 986 25
921 25 .. 923 75
630 .. ......
522 50 .. __.

Orleans
Northern ....
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian ..
Austrian
Lon,b?rd
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Bareelonr, 206 25

.OIIA••••

502 50 .. 500 --
318 75 -
+lB 75 .. 450 -
533 75 .. 535 -
400 - .. 398 75

AUSTRIA.

The Press of Vienna, speaking of the convention
between France and Italy, says:--" The with-
drawal of the French troops from Rome within a
delay of two years would be a fact of secondary
importance if the Cabinet of the Tuileries persisted
in following the track of its past and present
policy. Has France in view to maintain the tern
poral power of the Pope ? She need only leave at
Civita cchia a small body of troops and a squad.
ron which could in a moment go to the assistance
of the Papacy if menaced. No one imagines in
Paris that Victor Emmanuel can have Rome against
the will of France, either by main force or through
the stratagem of a revolution organised at Rome.
France will morally occupy the Papal capital as
long as she chooses, and she may therefore dispense
with doing so militarily. If the witbdraw_l of the
troops were affected rapidly, and were to be fol-
lowed by a Sludielin invasion, the clerical party,
which is very powerful in France, would render
the Government responsible for the destruction of
the Papacy, and regard Victor Emmanuel as the
instrument used in effecting that act. But, the
French garrison having once quitted, and the
Papal Government still maintaining itself for a
certain time, a popular rising might overthrow it
from one day to another. We have not the
slightest doubt as to the intention of the Empe-
ror Napoleon to preserve Rome to the Pope, but
only on conditions which will be scarcely refused
to him. From this time Fiance is mistress in
Rome. When Baron de Leh returns there he will
only have to comment on that fact with as many
details as he will think proper,"

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ALGERIA.

The Courier de 1 Algerie publishes the following
observations on the new organisation of the colony :
The military government of Algeria is now
completely organised. Marshal de MacMahon,
who left France rather earlier than was originally
intended, has brought with him only his aides-de-
camp and orderly officers ; he will soon be followed
by a division of 10,000 or 12,000 men, now prepar-
ing for embarkation. The Algiers journals contain
an official communication announcing further defec-
tions of the tribes. In consequence of a false report
that the chief of the insurrection, Si-Mohammed
Ould Hemzi, was cowing
to the Hodna, certain
fractions of the Ouled-Madhi assumed a doubtful
attitude, and at last, on Sept. 8, commenced actual
hostilities against the column of observation eta.
tioned in the circle of Bou9ada, but they were re-
pulsed with considerable loss. This last fact shows
how ready the Arabs are to revolt, and how easily
they are misled by false news and the marco lyres
of intriguers who work on their antipathies of race.
They have been for some time past under the im-
pression that France was getting discouraged, and
had begun to meditate the evacuation of Algeria ;
these repeated revolts have no other cause. The
Arabs however soon retire when they find them-
selves in presence of a serious force, and though in.
trepid, they immediately fall back on their doctrine
of fatalism. 'lt was written,' they say. The
zffoniteur has announced the nomination of General
Desvaux, commander of 'the province of Constantine
to the function of deputy governor of Algeria, in
the place of General de Martimprey. This appoint.
went will be received with great favour in Africa,
for General Devaux Enjoys a
high reputation for
administrative capacity, and has made himself very
popular by the encouragement he has given to the
boring of artesian wells in the Sahara, and also by
his zealous efforts to promote pacification and civili-
sation in the oases. As a contrast to Gen. Desvaux
there is glen. Deligny, commandant of the subdivi.
eion of Oran,
who, instead of zealously promoting
ameliorations, energetically opposed, in the Council-
General, the projects of irrigation, and looked with
disfavour on the extension of European colonisation.
Gen. Delignay is about to return to France on
account of ill health, and his departure will not
be regretted by the colonists except for its cause.
Another general of the Army of Africa, General
Leoert, commandant of the subdivision of Milianah,
is, however, very popular in his command; for he
is not only a guod soldier but a man of science,
and devotes his leisure to works of public utility.
He is a member of the Acclimatisation Society, and
-has succeeded in restocking with fish the waters
courses in the environs of Milianah by means of
artificial fecundation. On his return in July from
his expedition to the South all the colonists of the
towns through
which he passed assembled and gave
him an enthusiastic reception. Indeed, it is the
services rendered to
of
fbtsht to civilisationw a rwhichHow littleg i ve theremma
icos
st
the most brilliant victories after the first shouts
of joy have passed away. Whereas, on the contrary,
the conquests won from barbarism and ignorance
are lasting, and their fame increases with time in-
stead of decreasing. The pursuit of this durable
glory will be the object of the new Governor,.
General; he will not find the colony and France
ungrateful,"