The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-19 00:00:00

FR0.51 THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 17.
Earl Russell, her Majesty's .Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, has received from her Majesty's Con-
sul-General at Algiers a copy of the Illoniteur Algcric,
of the sth instant, in which is inserted the following cir-
cular letter from the Governor-General of Algeria to the
prefects of departments, relative to the abolition of pass-
ports between Algeria and Marseilles, and along the coast
of Algeria :
POLICE ADMINISTRATIVE.—PASSEPORTS.
Mesures de tohlranee a l'eoburd des Voyageurs. Instructions
Compl6mentaires.
His Excellency the Governor-General has addressed the
following Circular to the Prefects of the Algeijne Depart-.
ments
Algiers, April 2, 1862.
M. le Prefet,—ln nay circular of the 6th of March last, I
acquainted you with the measures of tolerance which had
been concerted by his Excellency the Minister of the In-
terior and myself, regarding travellers going from France
to Algeria, and vice versa.
The carrying out of these measures has caused some
doubts to arise which I shall dispel in answering the dif-
ferent questions which have been addressed to me.
First question :—As regards travellers going from Algeria
to France, can only those who land at Marseilles dispense
with passports ?
Marseilles is at present the only port of France where
there exists a regular service for the transport of travellers
from the metropolis to Algeria, and therefore that port alone
has been mentioned, But it is self-evident that the measure
will apply successively to the other ports of France, where
transport services of a similar kind will, in time, be estab-
lished.
Second question:--As regards travellers going from
France to Algeria, does the measure apply to all our coun-
trymen without distinction ?
Doubtless; and, in order to impress on the Algerian
authorities the extent of the measures of which it is com-
posed, I think it right to recapitulate the terms of the
Circular on the same subject, addressed, on the 15th of
March last, by the Minister of the interior to the Prefecs.ts
of France :
" The formality of the passport will no longer be obliga-
tory on travellers from France to Algeria, as regards—
' Ist. Our countrymen.
"2d. Foreign subjects who aro by reciprocity authorised
to enter France without passports.
" 3d. Foreigners of all countries already domiciled in the
interior of the empire.
" 4th. Lastly, foreign emigrants, who, provided with
regular letters of colonisation, delivered in the name of the
Governor-General of Algeria, would wish to visit,our pos-
sessions in Africa at their own expense."
Third question :—As regards French subjects coming
from Algeria, would dispensing with a passport no longer
apply to them if they had to continue their journey into
the interior ?
Obligation to carry a passport, not having been sup-
pressed in regard to those French subjects travelling in the
interior of th Empire, the measure could not have the
effect of bestowing, upon the Algerian French, an immu-
nity which their countrymen of the metropolis do not
enjoy. It would therefore be prudent on the part of those
who would have to travel in the interior of the Empire, to
provide themselves with passports before their departure,
to avoid the trouble which the necessity of their procuring
them at Marseilles might occasion.
Fourth question :—ls the passport always obligatory for
French subjects and foreigners travelling on the coast of
Algeria and into the interior of the country.
My circular of the 6th of March last did not give any ex-
planations on this subject, because it only treated of mea-
sures concerted with the Minister of the Interior; but,
since the question has been made to me, I do not hestate to
answer it, in accordance in the spirit of tolerance which
dictated the first measures. In fact, I see no plausible rea-
son why a formality should be demanded from those travel-
ling on the shores or in the interior of the colony, from
which they would be freed from, on entering France.
I have decided, in consequence, that a passport will no
longer be necessary in travelling from one port to the other
of the coast of Algeria, or in the interior of the country, as
regards those travellers to whom my measures of tolerance,
which form the subject of my instructions of the 6th of
March last, and of the circular from the Ministers of the
Interior of the 15th of the same month, apply. Besides, it
must be well understood, that the suppression of the pass-
port, in certain cases, in nowise does away with the surveil-
lance over travellers, on the arrival and departure of steam-
boats, on the coast and in the interior of the colony. The
toleration granted to those who travel for the purpose of
affairs of science or of pleasure, could not be extended to
vagrants and vagabonds, to fugitives from justice, and to
dangerous persons, of whatever kind they may be.
Therefore, M. le Prefet, in the interest of public security,
and in accoriance with the laws and rules of police, tra-
vellers may always be required by the agents of the autho-
rities to make good their origin and their identity, and to
produce, in default of regular passports, family papers,
trust-worthy documents, or any other testimony, the worth
and truthfulness of which should be carefully verified.—
Accept, &c.
The Governor-General of Algeria
Marshal PELISSIER, Duke of Malakoff.

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