The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-22 00:00:00

The French expedition has at last effected a land-
ing on the coast of Algiers, as will be seen by the
telegraphic despatch below, which, by an accident,
did not reach us in time for our yesterday's impres-
sion. About the cause, of this accident our readers
will of course feel less interest than onrselves, but
we owe it to them to state that it did not arise from
any negligence on our parts or any want of vigilance
on the part of our Paris correspondent. We had
made every necessary arrangement for obtaining the
earliest intelligence of the events of the expedition,
• and our agent failed yesterday only because, with
the dei.ign of accomplishing more certainly our
wishes, he venturer! upon a new line of road instead
of adhering to the beaten track of communication.
The telegraphic despatch is of course very brief in
its information, but it states enough to show that
the French enterprise has been crowned with what
we may consider a decided e success in the first
instaure.• The fleet reached the coast of Algiers
on the 13th instant,- and by ten o'clock on
the morning of the 14th, all the troops had
disembarked. - This arrival -without the ave-
rage of disasters to be. apprehended in a naval
expedition to the coast of Africa, and without any
of that resistance which may be (expected on a
hostile shore, is equivalent to a separate victory.—
The failure of the several greet armaments hitherto
directed against this Barbary- Power, has been more
attributable to the difficulty of landing the invading
ferce.,—to their ignorance of the ground when they
• had landed,—to their losses at sea, or by tempests,—
end to the consequent want of due support from the
convoying fieen—than to the strength of the Alge-
rine fortifications, or the resistance of the Algerine
troops. This element of uncertainty the French
expedition has happily surmounted. Though its
passage has been tedious, there is no ground for be-
lieving that it has been -disastrous; and the dis-
embarkation of the largest and best disciplined
force that ever •in modern times has reached
the coast of Africa, may be expected to form a
new era in the history of African invasions.—
The naval and military commanders of the expedi-
tion, acting no doubt on the best information tvith
respect to the state of the enemy's defence, and the
nature of the coast, effected the landing of the
troops in rt-small bay or roadstead called Sidi Fer-
rueh, about ten or twelve miles_ to the west of
Algiers, on the other side of a promontory or cape,
• the eastern exposure of which forms one side of the
large semicircular bay in which the capital is built.
The fleet is said to have • found safe anchorage in
the road of Sidi Fcrruch, and the army to have oc-
cupied the heights in front of the peninsula of
which we have spoken. From Turrets Chien, the
bead-quarters of General Bourtnont, there are two
roads to Algiers, one leading across the penin-
-stile, and the other going round by the coast.
It o ill require some time to get the artillery,
the camp-equipage, the provisions, and equip-
ments for the troops, on shore, but after that the
march to Algiers cannot occupy above a day or
.two ; so that, by the next arrival, we may hear of
a battle, a surrender, or the commencement of a
siege. Whatever may be the result of this celebrated
expedition, its rapid preparation, its complete equip-
ment, and great force, must give Europe a high. idea
of the naval and military resources of France, and of
the activity of the Frerch warlike departments. In
'wising again 'at the accounts given of the arma-
ment when on the eve of sailing, we find that it con-
sisted of 68 ships of war, (including 12 sail of the
line, -and 20 frigates,) and that its land force
amounted to 37,577 men and 4,000 horse. The first
division left Toulon on the 25th of May; on the
29:h it reeched. the coast of Africa. On the 30th
and the following day it was driven back to Palma,
•in the island of Majorca, where the whole fleet had
rendezvoused by the 7th inst., and on the 14th the
whole army had disembarked within a few leagues
of the nest of pirate* which it was sent to destroy
Ti e French Ministry tried to make as much of their
success as possible, by having it announced at the
. Opera, like victories in the times of Napoleon; hut
• the intelligence seems to have produced no effect on
the Stock Exchange, tnd probably will be equally
pa welless in the electoral colleges.— 7'inzes.
The discus,ion on the subject of the reduction of
the Sugar Ditties exhibited in a manner not to be
mistaken the failure of the plan of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer. The first division on the Reso-
hitions of, Mr. Charles Grant, mored by way of
Amendment, to reduce the duties on all sugars to
twenty shillings, gave Ministers a majority of only
182 to 144. This (lid not augur well. But when
the Chancellor of the Exchequer's own Resolutions
were put to the vote, he had a majority of only 161
o-to 144, that is, only 17 in a House of 305 Mem-
bers. This is a sentence of condemnation. In the
commencement of the debate Mr.Htiskisson opposed
the plan in a speech of considerable length, charac-
terised by great severity of animadversion. When
the plan was first announced, Mr. Heskisson stated
that the old colonies, which were the most distressed,
would derive little or no benefit from the reduction
the duty on low-priced sugars, as the coarse
etigars were raised in our new colonies. Last eight
he repeated the objection. " The Resolution (he
observed) of my Slight Honourable Friend pro-
fesses to relieve
,the distressed colonists of the
Wt st Indies ; but that distress, from peculiar circum-
staeces,prevails to an infinitely greater extent by com-
parison in the old colonies than the new; and the
reselution, therefore, by endeavouring to extend the
le of the coarser sugar, produced by the new
celekkies, tends, of course, to exaggerate the dis-
tress, to perpetuate the burthens, and to increase
Ole difficulties of all the old colonies, where relief is
known to be most required.—(Hear, hear.")--If
the sugar raised in our colonies greatly exceeds the
home demand, and comes into competition on the
Continent with the. sugars of Brazil, Cuba, &c.,
• raised at a cost beneath that at which they can be
raised in our colonies, as the price of the exported
sugar determines the price in the home market, the
cultivation in our colonies must be a losing business,
till one of these things happen—either such an
increased consumption of sugar in this country as
shall render it equal to the supply, or such a diminu-
tion of production as shall bring it to the level of
the consumption, or such an increase in the cost of
production in the foreign colonies as shall raise
the price in the continental market. We fear
the balance must be restored by the diminished pro-
duction of our own colonies. In the mean time,
While there is an excess of production in our colt,-
ides, it certainly does appear that any change which
shall create an additional consumption of the sugars
of.the new colonies, will tend to exempt the latter
from their share of the Injury of over-production.—
If we could, however, suppose that the difference of
the duty would so much extend the consumption of
sugar, as to render it equal to the supply, the case
would be altered; but the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer himself can hardly believe in such an increase
of consumption. Mr. Huskiason contended that it
would be impossible for the Chancellor to check
that fraud and colluSion to which they held out so
great a temptation, and that the result would be, in
many cases, to force the Government to becOme the
purchasers of all sugars in the market. He observed
also, that as the plan would lower the price of all
'the higher descriptions of sugars, while it could not
possibly raise the price of the lower, we should in
future have to pay a drawback on the sugar ex-
ported, not on a duty of 275., but on a duty of 21s:
He stated a variety of other objections to the plan,
and contended that it would be much- more advis-
able to adopt the sysiteM recommended last year by
Charles Grant, and at once reduce the duty on
all sugars of every description from 275. to 205.,
which wouldgive relief t.o all the colonies, the old
as well as the new, while there would be no diffi-
culty in carrying it into execution. The most biter'
Fart "of Mr. Iluskiseon's speech was the chqtges
which he brought against Ministers of proposing

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