The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-20 00:00:00

history of France. The Restoration attempted no-
thing of the kind, and we look in vain to England
for any similar nomination since 1688. We have ss en
on both sides of the Channel military commands both
by sea and by land given to princes, but this is the
first example of a Prince taking a direct part in the
Government. Let it be here remarked, that there is
no question in the present case of commanding an
expedition decided on and ordered by a responsible
Minister to execute the decisions of another ; it is to
direct at a distance of 200 leagues from France the
destinies of a colony as large as a kingdom , it re-
gards a position in which it will be constantly neces-
sary to take the initiative in questions of the most
grave and varied character, both civil, administrative,
and military. It is, therefore, a real ministerial de-
partment; and what would appear to us a dangerous
innovation at Paris does not seem to us less perilous at
Algiers. Constitutional questions do not change their
character by a change of place. Will the responsibility
be real and efficacious when it is a Prince who is
invested with these delicate functions ? SVc cannot
dissemble the fact that we have doubts on the subject.
It has been frequently sai 1 that Marshal Bugeaud
held the Ministry in check; two lines in the Moniteur
however, were sufficient to put an end to the conflict;
the rejection of some of the Marshal's plans was
enough to indace him to retire. We fear that there
will be some difficulty in objecting to plans proposed
by a Prince, and that in case of any dispute arising
there would not be found many Ministers who would
be disposed to exact an ordonnance of recal. There
is, therefore, a grave constitutional question to be
examined ; there is at the same time a question of
opportuneness. There is no one but must be aware
of the precarious situation in which our African
colony is just now placed. Algeria has not yet
recovered from the financial crisis which compro-
mised the coloOzation which had been commenced,
and military.affairs take an alarming turn. Consi-
derable, reinfosOements are demanded; an intervention
in Morblehp-Mlears necessary to the officers who are
on the, spot,,,, ;Difficulties of
.every kind then attend
the 44ftt.betife young Governor-General. We can-
not preVeiri ourselves feeling a lively anxiety for the
distinguished young Prince, who, since he left college
sik years 'Since, has already known how to acquire
some atle-to:public esteem, and who is now prema-
turely ief forth to meet most formidable difficulties.
jt,Wßl:he necessary for him, at the age of Pitt, to
display those qualities of the head and of the heart
`which
in, a few years destroyed the existence of that
most extraordinary man, or to compromise the good re-
nown which he might have acquired by rendering, on
a less extensive sphere of action, useful services to his
country."
The Presse considers this nomination a fault
which will not put an end to existing difficulties, and
will create new ones, while the National gives ut-
terance to the opinions of the Republican party in
the following terms :
" The dynasty has then accomplished one of its
most fondly cherished enterprises. One of its mem-
bers is placed on a throne, raised at the expense of
France. Between the title of Governor-General and

that of Viceroy there is but a step, and truly we do
not see why they should not at a bound have cleared
the small space which separates the two dignities. As
Governor or as Viceroy, the Duke d'Aumale will
not less reign sovereign over French Africa; the dif-
ference will only exist in the ticket affixed to the
parcel. This useless piece of hypocrisy might as well
have been spared, and things have at once been
called by their proper name. Since this unfortunate
Algeria has been submitted to our domination it has
been the object of experiments of all kinds ; at first a
purely military regime was tried—then it was the
time of civil intendants and conflicts of authority—
and then the regime of the sabre was returned to,
and Marshal Clauzel carried on, for good or
for evil, his work of conquering, which was
continued obscurely by General Damremont,
and without much eclat by Marshal Valee. A
new plan was attempted under the reign of M. Bu-
geaud ; a complete civil administration was installed
in Algeria, and the duties of each clearly pointed out.
No*, after two years of wretched hesitation, the
colony is gratified by a new organization, and the plan
of a totally responsible governor is tried. If Algeria
supports all these experiments in anima viii, it must
be allowed that it possesses a rude temperament. If
Marshal Bugeaud was a pacha, what will the Duke
d'Aumale be ? If the Ministry was obliged to hum-
ble itself before the hero of Kabylia, will it not com-
pletely disappear) before a Prince ? That is indubi-
table and necessary. And what independence will
the Chamber assume towards a member of the family
of Louis Philippe? Suppose the Duke d'Aumale
should present a new edition of the project of military
colonization, which failed in the hands of Marshal
Bugeaud, is it to be imagined that there will be found
in that Parliamentary assembly, so devotedly dynastic,
a majority who would dare to refuse to his Royal
Highness what it would not grant to its predecessor ?
But all this does not require demonstration, and may
as well be put down as simple axioms ; for the con-
sequences of the nomination of the Duke d'Aumale,
as far as regards responsibility, are mere clear than
the sun at noonday."
The new Governor. General will find his office no
sinecure. The French Government has, it is said,
received information of the continued and triumphant
-
progress of ABD•EL-KADEIt in Morocco, which it
keeps a secret, as far as possible, from the French
public. The National says—
" General Bedeau has positively sent by telegraph
to the Ministry the news of the entry of Abd-el-
Kader into the town of Taza, in Morocco, at the
head of 1,500 regular cavalry, 1,000 infantry, and
about 2,000 horsemen of the goum. In transmitting
to the Government the announcement of this fact, the
Governor-General ad interim has solicited authority
to interfere immediately between the Emir and the
Emperor. Measures are already taken to secure the
tranquillity of the interior of Algeria. Troops are
concentrated on the principal points, and the batta-
lions which had been detached in different parts to

work on the roads have rejoined their garrisons. The
division of Oran has been reinforced, and a part of

that of Algiers is ready to be carried at a moment's
notice to the western frontier. Everything is, there-
fore, prepared for entering Morocco, and General
Bedeau demands immediate intervention. Our
statesmen, however, are so well aware of
their own weakness that they tremble at
the idea of a conflict, in which England would
not, perhaps, long delay to interfere. To intervene
in Morocco, to pass for a second time the frontier of
our African possessions, is quite a diplomatic ques •
tion, and who knows whether Lord Palmerston
would now permit what Lord Aberdeen authorised
with such a bad grace in 1844 ? Our Ministers, then,
tremble at the sole mention of the names of Abd-el-

Kader and of his rival. The dispatch of General
Bedeau has therefore been received with visible ill-
humour. The solution of the question is postponed,
according to the custom of cowards. Poor creatures!
It was not enough that they should have from Italy,
from Switzerland, from Spain, and at home so many
threatening and formidable affairs, but a mischievous
Marabout must come and add to the unfortunate em-
barrassment of our governors by an audacious coup de
tile. Events, however, will conquer the hesitations of
M. Guizot and of his worthy colleagues. We shall
be led on to intervene, in spite of their repugnance,
and by the force of circumstances alone. Indecision
is, therefore, useless, and we shall, by adopting such
a course, be under the necessity of pursuing the Emir
into the very heart of Morocco, instead of crushing
him in the neighbourhood of our frontier, as we
might now easily do."

It is said that the Marquis of NORMA.NBY not only
communicated to M. GUIZOT on Thursday a dispatch
from Lord PALMERSTON to Lord PONSONDY, the
British Ambassador at Vienna, declaring that Great
Britain would suffer no attack upon the indepen-
dence of Italy, but that he renewed the protest of
England against the continued occupation of Algeria
by France. This renewal of the protest was pro-
bably preparatory to a declaration against any French
intervention in Morocco. The National, which is
generally well informed in foreign affairs, gives the
following as the substance of the note presented by
the Marquis of NORMANDY, on Austrian affairs :

"If we are correctly informed the Marquis of
Normanby handed to M. Guizot on Thursday a
diplomatic note from his Government relative to the
affairs of Italy. It appears that England declares in
her quality of a constitutional power that she cannot
admit the intervention of Austria with the indepen-
dent states of Italy. Europe is interested in pre-
venting one first-rate power from pressing on a vast
confederated territory. The Austrian possessions are
limited by treaty, and it would be a consent to a
compromising extent of power to admit the right of
the Cabinet of Vienna to make use of an
armed force in order to retain under her üb-
jection sovereign states whose internal constitu-
tion has been modified by the course of
events. The objection of that which was done in
Portugal by England herself naturally presents itself
to the mind. The British Cabinet, however, replies
to that objection by pretending that the three Powers
bound by precedents interfered solely to terminate a
civil war, and that nothing similar exists either at
Modena or Lucca or in Tuscany, or in the Roman
States, but that, on the contrary, a perfect conformity
of sentiment exists between the Government and the
population ; and that if in one of the smallest states,
as in Lucca, the chief of the Government appeared
to be opposed to the wishes of his subjects, there is
nothing in his conduct which c authorise an
appeal to foreign force. Englandfaithful to the
.
ideas which had at another period
course of conduct been cherished in
France, and which had induced the
pursued by those two Powers with respect to Spain
and Portugal, considers it to be her duty to cause