The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-26 00:00:00

ROME.

ROME, May 23.

Count Caserta, brother to the ex-King of Naples,
is to marry Princess Caroline, daughter to Count
Trapani. The marriage will be celebrated by the
Pope at the Vatican on the Bth of June next. Count
and Countess Girgenti, arrived here from Madrid,
will leave in a few days for Vienna and Paris.

FRANCE.

PARIS, May 25 (Evening).

The Etendard of this evening says :—" M.
Rouher, who had been rather seriously indisposed
during the past week, is now perfectly convalescent,
and will return to Paris at the end of the present
week."

PARIS, May 2G.

The Monileur de l' Armee publishes a report from
Marshal Niel to the Emperor, dated the 20th inst.,
confirming the excellence of the chwepot rifle, and

stating that its incomparable qualities assure to it the
first rank among the arms of war now employed.

The report adds that the whole of the French
infantry are now armed with the Chassepot. The
manufacture is actively carried on ; the mean daily
number turned out last week was 1,600.

BREST, May 26.
The Transatlantic Company's mail steamer Ville
de Paris, which left New York on the 16th inst.,
arrived here last night. She brings 350 passengers,
$1,400,000, and a full cargo.

The Paris correspondent of the Times thus re-
views the dispute between the Archbishop and the
Governor-General :
The Archbishop of Algiers seems to be ambitious
of treading in the footsteps of the celebrated mis-
sionary Las Casas, who laboured so long and so
much for the Indian populations oppressed by their
Spanish masters, and who undertook to do by
peaceful means alone what had been done by vio-
lence in othe-r quarters, but on condition that no
military force shoul,l be allowed to interfere with
his movements. Like Las Casas, too, the Arch-
bishop complains of being thwarted in his benevo-
lent efforts by the authorities of Algiers, and he
now returns to Europe to appeal to the Emperor
in person against the military rulers of the colony.
I have in a previous letter alluded to the differences
that have arisen between Mgr. Lavigerie and the
Governor-General of Algeria on the subject of the
Arab tribes under French domination, and, as it is
one that will be sure to excite attention, it may not
be out of place to say a few words more about it.
It appears that towards the middle of December
last, during the ceremony of blessing a newly-im-
ported ploughing machine, and after the Arch-
bishop had returned thanks to the Governor-
General, the officials, and the colonists in general
for the good that had been already done, he added
these words :—" I ask for Algeria larger and more
complete commercial, agricultural, civil, and reli-
gious liberties. I ask for you (the colonists) the
spirit of initiation, and of free personal association
for all generous enterprises." These words, say
the friends of the prelate, roused the enthusiasm
of the colonists, whose thoughts and wishes he had
faithfully interpreted ; but they were far from
making the same impression on the military autho-
rities, who had been always accustomed to consider
themselves alone capable of doing any good in
Algeria. When the Archbishop, some time after-
wards, disclosed in all its horrors the extent of the
famine which swept away the population by thou-
sands, his statement presented a remarkable con-
trast to the official reports of the local authorities,
such as they were made known to the public ; and
as these authorities had possessed for so many
years the exclusive direction of the native popu-
lation, they were held to a great extent responsi-
ble for the present deplorable state of things. It
appears that the colonists corroborated the truth
of the prelate's disclosures, and the of
the Bureaux Arabes, which was the consequence
of them, had long been known in Algeria before
it was known here. It is undeniable that the
Archbishop, aided by his clergy, the Sisters of
Charity, and the Trappists established in certain
parts of the colony, laboured zealously to mitigate
the horrors of the famine and the typhus which
accompanied it. One of his acts was to take
under his protection 1,400 Arab children of tender
age, whose parents had perished, and who, but
for him and those with him, would have also

miserably perished. The Governor-General, CoNV-
ever, insisted upon taking them out of the asylum
where they had been placed, and distributing them
among the native tribes, on the ground that the
Archbishop might bring up these children as
Christians and French. It was with a view to
prevent this measure from being carried out that
the Archbishop determined to come to Paris and
appeal to the Emperor for succour against his
Viceroy. The reasons alleged by the friends of
Marshal MacMahon for his conduct are the evils
that would be sure to ensue among the Mussulman
population from attempts at proselytism ; but the
Archbishop has already declared that not only do
he and his clergy repudiate all notion of constraint,
direct or indirect, and in any form whatever, but
that he does not even ask for the liberty of publicly
preaching the Gospel, because he does not think
the proper time for it has arrived. What he does
ask for, he says, is " the liberty of devotedness
and charity, hoping thus to gain the affection and
the confidence of the natives, and by those means
to enlighten them by degreos." He merely asks
to be allowed to found, at his own cost, charitable
institutions, asylums, &c., but even these only
among the tribes who ask for them, or who may
accept them when offered. The opposition made
to these foundations does not, of course, arise from
any preference of the Governor-General for the
Mussulman religion ; it arises rather from the
jealousy of any contact between Europeans and
the natives which would be a check on the absolute
authority of the BureauxArabes. The colonists have
frequently protested against the existing system
of these Bureaux, and demanded measures
_more
in accordance with their own requirements ; but
their demands have been hitherto without effect ;
and the Governor-General has recently in the
Senate made common cause with the Bureaux.
When Prince Napoleon was, some few years ago,
made Minister for Algeria, he endeavoured to in-
troduce liberal reforms in the administration of the
colony, but had to give way before the opposition
raised against him. I have already observed that
the Archbishop disavows all idea of forced con-
versions ; he declares that his instructions to his
clergy are in conformity with these principles ; it
is affirmed that not a single instance of religious
proselytism in opposition to those instructions can
be cited. Properly speaking, then, the question is
not one of religious proselytism.

A writer in the Presse, DI. Riaux, observes
The truth is there exists in Algeria, in the Go-
vernment regions, a bigoted camarilla who want to
maintain absolute power, of which the native
system of tenures serves as a basis. This
camarilla want, as the means of obtaining their
object, the crystallization of the Arab society, and
they would rather see the native races utterly dis-
appear than lose their hold over them. The sup-
porters of the system which pretends to regenerate
the Arab people by keeping them in deplorable
habits of filth, indolence, and selfishness, in the
communism of property and in polygamy, are
culpable for not recognizing now, after such long
experience, the radical impotence of their attempts,
and the necessity of having recourse to other mea-
sures. It is constantly revealed by a permanent
hostility to the introduction of the European ele-
ment in the military territory. They now charge
this element with the negative results in which all
their attempts have ended, and now that these
results can no longer be denied those who support
that system persist in prohibiting the presence of
the Arabs in the schools of our priests and in the
farms of our colonists."
The Union says :—" Nearly fifty French prelates
have written to the Archbishop of Algeria to give
their adhesion to the line of conduct followed by
his Grace in his difference with the Governor-
General of the colony."
BOURSE, May 25.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
41 per Cent. ...... 99 90 Bank Shares
End of month... It&P.an Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 69 55 Dlexican Loan ... 21 25
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 279 75 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncior Home Debt —
End of month— Deferred —

RAILWAYS.

Cash
Orleans ... 870
Northern
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Southern..... 586
Western
Eastern . ,
Sardinian •
Austrian
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The newspapers are teeming with references to econo-
my in tea by co-operation. llorninan and C'o. have for 30
years co• operated through Agents to supply toa on more
advantageous terms than by the ordinary channel; their tea
reaches the consumer in the same pure state as it leaves the
growers as it is secured in rackets,