The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-12 00:00:00

FRENCH AFRICA.

The Toulonna is of the 4thinstant brings intelligence from
Algiers of the 29th ult. The Abbe Suchet, who had been.
sent by the Bishop to negotiate with the Arabs an exchange
of prisoners, and of whom no account had been received
since his departure, returned to Algier on the 28th. The
Arabs continued to commit all sorts of atrocities in the
immediate vicinity of Algiers. On the 23d the hay belonging
to Marshal Clauzel was burned on his farm of Baba-Ali, and
eight mowers were carried away by the Arabs. Whilst the
French were engaged in destroying Tekedempt, Abd-el-
Kader, with his regular troops, had marched for Ain.Maidi.
The sultan of the country, the brave Tedjini, summoned him
to retire from Lis dominions. The Emir replied that he was
determined, either by fair means or by force, to reduce him
to subjection. A battle ensued, in which the calalry of Ted-
jini was said to have completely routed the regular battalions of
the Emir, killing 'between 800 and 1,000, and taking the rest
of them prisoners. General Bagaguay d'Hilliers again took
the field on the 22d,• and was operating on the 27th in the
neighbourhood of Milianah. The military hospitals of Algiers
were encumbered with sick, and no less than 500 had been of
late embarked monthly for Mahon and Toulon. A report pre-
vailed in Algiers that a civil Government would shortly supers
sedc the military yoke
_.which hitherto paralyzed the develop..
anent of the resources of the colony, and that M. tie ilemusat,
former Minister a the Interior in the Thiers Administration,
who has made his peace with M. Guizot, as to be appointed
civil Governor.

The Brasier steamer was to have sailed for Tunis on the
Bth, with the new Vice-Consul of France in the regency on
board. Fraakee, according to that journal, has now in the
11Iediterranean a naval force of nineteen sail of the line, of
which three are three-deckers, six frigates, a great number of
corvettes and brigs, and about thirty steamers. The flotilla
of brigs,.'which the Toulonnais announced was fitting out for
the Brazils station, was intended for the coast of Texas, where,
in consequence of the difficulties which have arisen between the
Piesident of the Republic and the Minister of France, Al. de
Szligny, the presence of some French vessels of war was re-
quired.
The Courrier des Etats Unis gives the following further
account of the affair of the ship Charles :
Where the eaptala of the steamer went on board the
.Charles

Ihe found the ship entirely abandoned. On a table in one o
the cabins were ft* porter-bottles; nearly empty, and the froth
of the beer *as still fresh: All {he baggage of the passengers,
their clothes, &C., had disappeared. great quantity of blood
Was found all aboilt the •4sSel and on the hulwarki of the ship,
thiit some One; after h.Sing dreadfiilly wounded Most
have been throwa Into theses. Theie eirctinistitneeg ldt dont t
that a crime of the most horrible nature had been Cemniltted od
board the Charles. After having carefully inspected all parts of the
vessel, the captain of the steamer continued cruising about for five
or six honri, horder, if possible, to disco pr Ihelong- boat of the
Charles, and about ten miles Off he fell in With a jolly-boat
which appeared to have belonged to that ship. There %tts
dog in it belonging to one of the passengers, but nothing else
was found. The animal did not seem to have been long aban-
doned, for when he was given some water he did not drink
with 'Mich aridity; The Vrelich Consul at New Orleans has
given a list of passengers by the Charles; who had taken out
passports in his office, but it appears certain that there were
several passengers who had not done so. There were among
the male passengers one Spaniard and five French, and there
.was a French lady, of Bordeaux, on board, Madame Veuve
Petit, with her two daughteri."
AtidititS.--4 fatal mistake df one of the outposts of Mos-
taganem has cost us the life of a brave officer the Captain of
one of the companies of foot chasseurs ; four soldiers were else/
killed, and eight others were wounded. Th:s lamentable accident
happened in the following manner. Our Smelas were returning
from a sortie;accompaniedbyadetachment of the ehasseurs, when
the soldiers of the battalion on guard, unaccustomed to distin-
guish our all:ed Arabs from the enemy, fired upon the party as it
approached. The Smiles immediately dispersed, leaving the
chasseurs, who were in the rear, exposed to the bullets of their
comrades. Between the 19th and 21st about 80 head ofcattle,
belonging to allied Moors and Arabs, were stolen by the. Kaby-
les, from the environs of the Maison Caree and driven off
in the direction of Bassauta. On the 23d a quantity
of hay, belonging to Marshal Causer, at Balba Ali, was set
on fh.o by the Arabs, who also captured SiX Europeans and
two Kabyles, employed in mowing. On the pith fires Were
seen at three other pints of the plain."
It appears rfotli the aecount of the affairs of the Bank of
Frantse, published iii the- Minitel& in virtue of the law of June
30, 1840, that the bakitee ihdet of tbii establishment, on the
31st Jane. 1841, amounted to 487,379,133 f. The state of the
accounts during the second quarter of 1841 was as follows
average amount of specie in hand, 226,856,500 f. ; average
of discounts, advances, and loans, 136,630,000 f. ; aver-
age amount of current accounts of the branch hanks,
1H,958,00011% 1 average df the circulation, 326,727,500 francs;
and average of the different detoutliS etirredti 156077,000 fr.;
the operations realised during the same quarter were, for dis-
counts, advances, and lons, 246,060,000 fr. ; accounts (qtr.
teat, 2,050,787,000 fr. ; for those of the Treasury, 189,361,000
fr. ; and the amount of the general busine.is of the whole esta-
blishment, 2,505,015.0(10 fr. The result of the operations of
the bank for the first half-year of 1341, is 5,152,436 fr.
BOURSE—Yams, THURSDAY, JULY 9.

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