The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-06 00:00:00

WAR.

The general effective laud force consisted on the Ist o
October only of 387,519 mtn and 84,306 horses. If cir,
cumstances present no obstacle this effective force wil
be brought within the budgetary limits of 1852, which
reduce it to 377,130 men and 83,455 horses. Nu fresh
supplementary credit will be necessary for 1851. The
credits granted by the budget of 1851 have allowed to
be organized this year 231 new brigades of gendarmrie.
The creation of 230 more will take place in 1852,
and the increase of expenditure which will accrue from this
source will be more than compensated by the reductions
operated in the effective force of other arms. Several
bills concerning the organization of the skeletons of re-
giments, recruiting, and the pensions to be granted to
non-commissioned officers and privates, have been fur
some time past submitted to the consideration of the
Legislative Assembly. The army waits for their adop-
tion with justifi,:ble impatience. We hope that it will
not be long ere they are discussed and voted by the As-
' semi:Ay.
You are aware of the importance of the military
operations of last spring in the eastern portion of Ka-
bylia, and the success a hieh, duriog 80 days' march,
crowned the briliant valour of our troops, under the
command of a General whom my cot:fidence had called
to ,he Ministry of War. The subjugation of the
tribes of the Djidj, lit circle, the pacification of
the valley of Loued Sahel, the extension of the oil trade,
supplied by the Kabyles, such are the happy results of
this campaign. Ot 1,145 tribes prov.-d to 'List in Al-
geria. 1,100 have acktio%ledg, d the sovereignty of
France, anti tnose which still withdraw themselves from
it are the most poor and distantly located.
The army, atter having vanquished the Arabs, ap-
plied itself to civilize them, by modifying their social
habits. Thus under the inspiration of our officers has
been seen to spring up all that could reveal a well-
established abate of progress ; edifices, numerous
houses, extensive plantations, new staples of agricul-
ture, dams and bridges across rivers, caravanserais on
the roads of communication, the organization of public
schools, and the healing art introduced among a people
decimated by sickness. Although fanatic passions
have not yet been entirely disarmed, there is forming
among the Arabs a wise party, capable of appreciating
their veritable interest, and ready to second our efforts.
The recent passing of several enactments specially re-
ferring to Algeria has powerfully contributed to assist
the work of colonisation. The law of the 16th
of June, 1851, on the constitution of property--
that of the 11th of January, regulating commercial
transactions—that of the 4th of August, esta-
blishing a bank of discount, circulation, and deposit—
lastly, the decree of April 26, introducing amend-
ments, shown by experience to be necessary, have faci-
litated the concessions of land. In conclusion, although
the general situation of Algeria is far from being
alarming, it has, nevertheless, become complicated in
certain points, such as the valley of Lebdon, on account
of the attempted insurrection of Bou-Bargla,the province
of Algiers, on account of the religious agitation; and
the frontier of Morocco, on account of the excitement
among the savage and warlike tribes by which it is
occupied.

NAVY.
Confined within the limits of a sufficiently restricted
Budget, our navy has nevertheless shown itself able to
protect our subjects on every point of the globe. Several
important decrees, rendered necessary by the progress
which has been made in every department of the naval
service during the last 25 years, by certain difficulties of
application, or by the expediency of certain measures of
economy, have successively regulated the service on
board vessels of the fleet; the pay of officers and other
persons employed in the navy in various capacities; the
fitting up of vessels of the fleet according to an invariable
rule. Other internal arrangements have simplified and
centralised the naval accounts, and provided more effectu-
ally still than formerly for the preservation of the precious
contents of our arsenals. Works of considerable magnitude
are in progress of execution. The construction of season-
ing tanks in the ports of Cherbourg, Rochefort, and Tou-
lon, for which the National Assembly has granted a special
credit of 938,000 f., is being carefully executed. Next
year will bring about the termination of those useful
works, so long desired, and which will put an end to the
losses we yearly experience in our timber stores. The
dredging of the harbour of Toulon continues to be
succesatully carried on, and already all the vessels
of our evolutionary squadron are anchored where
formerly ships of interior tonnage could barely
venture. At Cherbourg, Fort Bayard, Port Vendres,
and Marseilles, the works are proceeding with equal
activity. But these ameliorations, obtained at the cost
of so many efforts, would remain sterile, and our naval
power would nut occupy a position in the world worthy
of France, if she bad not the means, under all emergencies,
of recruiting men already broken to the hard profession
of a seaman. The most important of these is, as you know,
the system of inscription combined with the navel invalid
fund. All that could tend to render this work of Col-
bert more fruitful has been under the serious con-
sideration of the Admiralty in the form of a Bill. Al-
ready the last law promulgated on the premiums for the
sea fisheries promises new and fruitful results. A. Bill
relative to the regulation of the coast fisheries—that first
school of our sailors—was submitted to the Assembly a
few days before its prorogation. This law will be a real
benefit to the coast population.
The situation of our colonies is more satisfactory than
last year; they all enjoy complete tranquillity, which,
indeed, since the emancipation, has never experienced
any serious disturbance except in the instance of Guade-
loupe. At the same time that it strives to inspire into
our newly enfranchised populations confidence in their
condition of freedom, and the love of labour which must
ever result from it, the Government combats and pur-
sues with energy all attempts to propagate michievous
doctrines.

The distribution of the indemnity regulated by a de-
cree of November 24, 1849, is now everywhere com-
pleted. A law of the 30th of July, 1850, hastened the
advantages arising from this measure, by deciding that
the certificates of liquidation, delivered to the respec-
tive claimants, should be immediately exchanged at the
Treasury for coupons de rentes. The inscriptions which
have at present been delivered represent a mass of about
two million of rentes—that is to say, a third of the total
indemnity.
The colonial banks, organized by the law of the 11th
of July last, are in a position to bring forth those fruits
which are expected of them. The internal administra-
tion of the colonies, ttheisrh
organization, legislative
in and
harmonyfinancial con-
stitution, called o
the principles established by the Constitution. A Bill,