The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-10 00:00:00

RAILWAYS IN ALGERIA.

by the Minister of War on the
The Moniteur publishes a report addressed to
the j
to the advantages which must
eEctmor throerformation of railways in Algeria :
mode of communication to
rapidao;:uAefftreor:llthuaditng
agricultural and other undertakings iu the colony,
the Minister proposes to his Majesty to sanction
the construction of-Ist, a line running parallel
to the sea uniting the chief towns of the three
provinces, and serving the principal loealites--
to the east, between Algiers and Constantina, pass-
ing near Aumale and Setif ; to the west, between
Algiers and Oran, passing near Blidah, Amorab,
Oleansville, ht. Denis-du-Sig, and Ste. Barbe ; and
2d, lines,starting from the principal ports and joining
the above line so as to place Bona and Philipville in
communication with Constantina, Bougia with het if,
Tenez with Orleansville, and Mostaganem and Arzew
with Relizane. The parts of the country to the S. of
the main trunk line would communicate with it by
means of the roads already formed by the army.
The report goes on to state that, from the statistical
details which have be in collected, there are three
lines on which the transport of merchandise and
passengers would be sufficient to secure success to
the undertaking-Ist, between Algiers, Blidah, and
Amourah, the great Arab markets of the
plain
2d, betwen Constantina and
oft be serevhientgiff ;
Philipville, now the most frequented commercial
transit ; and 3b
d, etween Ora
and St. Denis of
the Sig, a section which would serve to convey the
rich productions of the plains of the Sig, the
Tlelat, and the Eghris. These three lines the Mi-
nister proposes to have conceded to private com-
panies on conditions to be hereafter determined.
The report also recommends that, in addition to
uneMployed at his disposal, they shall be
these three lines, when the governor shall have
in forming embankments and other
troops
s for the great sections which are to be
arth employedwo rk
hereafter placed in connection with the railways
now in contemplation, and would thus prepare for
the ulterior execution of a general system of rail-
ways in Algeria.
The report is followed by a decree carrying out the
above suggestions.

SE A3IEN'
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OFF GREENWICH.

The ordinary quarterly meeting of the court of this
admirable society was held yesterday, at the offices in
King William-street, City ; but there being only 14
members present, and the deed requiring 15 to consti-
tute a court, the meeting stood adjourned. The super.
intendent's quarterly report of patients admitted from
the lst of Jan. to the 31st of March, 1857 (which would
have been presented to the court in-the usual course),
gives the following statement :
From her Majesty's ships .................. 3
British and foreign merchant ships 425
51
On board Ist January

On board sick
Convalei cent
Fit for duty ... ; .......................
Discharged since lat of January

Number on the registry book 77,742

Oat-patients from Ist January to 31st March ... 340

THE IRON TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, April 9.—The se-
cond quarterly meeting of the ironmasters of this dis-
trict was held in the Town-hall here to-day. The nature
of the business was much the same as at Wolverhamp-
ton on Wednesday. The trade prices were reported
firm, with a steady business doing.