The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-23 00:00:00

The same journal thus announces the " great fast "
of M. EYNARD'S payment of the bill to which he had
been induced to put his name :—" M. EYNARD paid
on Friday last the bill for 500,000 f., the amount of
the first half-year's interest on the Greek Debt, so
brutally exacted by Lord PALMERSTON." 4
This rage of the Presse is excessively amusing.
M. EYNARD, however, will suffer no loss. He is
doubtless guaranteed by the "best of republics," and
a little "hocus-pocus" in the Secret Service budget
of M. GUIZOT will speedily put all to rights. As we
observed on a former occasion, if M. GUIZOT will have
a Greek "whistle," he must pay for it.
The Moniteur publishes a royal ordinance, calling
into active service 60,000 recruits of the class of
18146, namely, 53,650 for the army, and 6,350 for the
navy.

The Journal des Debals publishes the following
official contradiction of the rumours of tha appearance
of a British fleet in the waters of Ancona :
" We have received letters from Ancona contra-
dicting the report of the arrival of a division of the
British-fleet at that port. Up to the 13th inst., not
only had no British vessel arrived in that port, but
there was not one in the Adriatic."

The same journal publishes the following defence of
the appointment of the Duke D'AUMALE to the
Governor-Generalship of Algeria. For the sake of
those who are placed under his government, we hope
that as a ruler he will realise the expectations of the
Journal des 'Mats.

"We shall commence by stating a fact which re-
sults from the ordinance itself nominating the new
Governor. The Duke d'Aumale prooceeds to Algiers
to undertake an employment suitable to his rank in
the army; there is no question whatever of a vice-
royalty. Another point which we maintain, and
which no one has contested, is that the nomination of
the Duke d'Aumale was anxiously called for by every
one in Algeria; it responds to the wishes of the
Arabs, it pleases the civil population, and gives satis-
faction to the army. In the eyes of the Arabs the
Duke d'Aumale is more than a Lieutenant- General,
he is a Prince. For us, Frenchmen of the 19th
century, sons of the Revolution and of Voltaire, a
Prince resembles any other man ; he only differs
in the constitutional prerogatives which public
interest attaches to the person of the So-
vereign and of his descendants. But the
Arabs are less advanced than we. With them the
prestige of ancient race, the almost religious respect
for those whom they call the elect of God, that kind
of worship which their imagination renders to the
hereditary Sovereign, as to a sort of divinity visible
on the earth—all these prejudices, so to speak, which
European civilization begins everywhere to treat only
as they deserve, time has maintained with the Arabs.
In their eyes, the Duke d'Aumale is the son of the
Sultan of the French. It is with them a title of great
value, without even taking into account the merit of
the individual. As a son of the King, if the Duke
d'Aumale only knew how to sit his horse, and had no
other talent than to bear with royal dignity all the
insignia of command, it would be much in the eyes
of the Arabs; but we must observe that the
Arabs have met the Duke elsewhere than on
parade ; they have seen him at the capture of Con-
stantina, and remember him at the surprise of the
Smala. The civil population of Algeria also re-
member how well the young son of our King go-
verned the province of Constantina for more than a
year, and this remembrance causes them to hail with
pleasure the nomination of the new Governor-General.
"The Duke d'Aumale has carried on war with success;
but he has shown himself not less fortunate in the
accomplishment of a perhaps more difficult task—he
has been a skilful, clear-sighted, and conscientious
administrator, full of respect for acquired rights,
erergetic but moderate in the organization of the
natives, and conciliating but firm towards the colonist.
We appeal on all these points to testimony the least to
be suspected of partiality—that of the Opposition
Deputies who visited the province of Constantina
during the government of the young Prince. The
nomination of the Duke d'Aumale has fully revealed
the views of the Government. The Prince is a
civil governor, but wearing the epaulettes of a
lieutenant-general. As a general, he will never
sacrifice to impolitic exigencies the necessary predo-
minance of the Government, which holds the sword
of the conqueror suspended over its conquest ; as a
prince, he will never, we hope, espouse the narrow
prejudices of that superannuated chivalry which
places all rights at the point of the sabre, and which
worships brute force. He will never deliver up either
his heart or his councils to the influences of that
esprit de corps which may be good in a regiment, but
which is for the chief of a great Government a sor-
rowful resource, and which would be for a Prince the
most unfortunate of inspirations. We cannot under-
stand that a French Prince should not be a warrior,
but we can perhaps less understand that he should not
be a citissen—that is to say, subject to the common
law, penetrated with the power of common right;
accessible to the defence of civil interest; loving
peace, because it opens a free space and a brilliant
perspective to all the conquests of intelligence; fond
of liberty, because it gives force to command and dig-
nity to obedience. It is in this light that we
comprehend the double destiny of a young
Prince. A Prince who should not feel the senti-
ment of his civil destiny would resemble the one-
armed god spoken of by the poet. He would want
the most useful instrument of his mission on this
earth. A Prince exclusively a soldier is not sufficient
to occupy one of the steps of the throne of France.
And Algeria is France. We do not fear that
these reflections will displease the army of Africa.
When that army, or at least an important part of it,
was on two occasions placed under the orders of the
Duke d'Aumale, it did not look at his age, but at his
military grade ; it did not count years, but services.
In seeing him, so young and so devoted, in seeing
united in him skilful practice and great experience,
the army understood that it saw something more in
him than an intelligent and brave young man. It
comprehended all that the force of education, the
authority of example, the respect of his rank and of
himself. the sentiment of a superior destiny, may add
to the real value of these incontestable qualities ; and
it is for these reasons that the army is attached to the
Duke d'Aumale ; it esteems him as a soldier, it con-
fides in him as a prince. To recapitulate what we
have said, every one in Algeria is pleased with the
nomination of the new Governor-General—the Arabs,
the civil population, and the army. On the African
coast of the Mediterranean all appears easy. It is on
this side that difficulties commence. For whom arc
they ? This is what remains for us to examine."
The Journal des 'Mats publishes a long communi-
cation from Morocco, confirming the account which
we published yesterday, of the destruction of the
Beni-Amers and the Hachems, as they were en-
deavouring to form a junction with ABD-EL-KADER,
by the forces of the Emperor of MOROCCO. After
detailing at great length the circumstances attending
the destruction of these tribes, the Debats proceeds to
consider the probable effects which these events may
produce on the fortunes of ABD-EL-KADER. It says—

" The destruction of the Beni-Amers, and of the
Hachems, among the latter of whom he was born, and
by whom he was first proclaimed Emir and Sultan,
cannot fail to do him great injury, as showing his
want of power or his indifference to assist his par-
tizans. It also results that a violent animosity is
raised in Morocco against the Algerians who
follow Abd-el-Kader ; that the auxiliary tribes
of the Emir are in a permanent state of
insubordination against the Emperor, and that
in fine no tribe of Morocco would resolutely
fight for him, unless he was present with his own
forces to support them The eternal temporizations
of the Court of Morocco are much to be regretted.
After the terrible blow which has just been struck,
after the excitement which the massacre itself has
produced amongst the Morocco tribes, if the Emperor
had marched with his troops to Fez, and if the camp
of Taza had advanced towards the east, Abd-el-
Kader would have been perhaps comp -lled to fly into
the Desert, or to confine himself to inaccessible
places. But Abderrhaman, after leaving Morocco
with a part of his army, only advanced very slowly.
On arriving at Rabat he remained there several days,
employing his troops in subduing some Kabyle tribes,
who for many years had not paid their taxes. The
Emperor does not wish to leave disaffected tribes in
his rear, and has already reduced many of them.
When, therefore, he shall have completed this con-
quest, and shall have marched on Fez with his army,
and probably afterwards to Taza, we shall then see
whether Abd-el-Kader is in a condition to dispute
with the race of the Cherifs, the throne of Morocco,
or whether his game is not that of an audacious
adventurer."

Queen CHRISTINA and her husband, M. GUIZOT,
the Austrian and Persian Ambassadors, and several
other distinguished personages, were to leave Paris
for Compiegne yesterday,
It was reported in Paris, on Wednesday, that
NARVAEZ had arrived at his country residence, a few
miles from Paris. Queen CHRISTINA gives way to
ungovernable paroxysms of rage and fury in conse-
quence of the defeat of her intrigues in Spain. M.
GUIZOT, too, has occasionally exhibited symptoms of
intense excitement. King Louis PHILIPPE alone
preserves an outward appearance of calmness.
The Courrier Francais says--
"A report is current that, in order to get out of
the difficulties in which the affairs of La Plata are
involved, the Ministry has conceived a medius ter-
minus. The cause of the rupture of the late negotia-
tions was, as is well know\n, the pretensions of Roses
to the concession of the river Uruguay, and the other