The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-13 00:00:00

DILLON BROWNE, and Mr. VERNON SMITH, Sir
JAMES GRAHAM addressed the House in opposition to
the motion. Lord JOHN RUSSELL followed on the
other side.

After long speeches by Sir ROBERT PEEL and Mr.
SDEIL, Mr. WARD replb-d, and the House divided,
when Ministers had a majority of 95, the numbers
being 179 for the motion, and 274 against it.
The House then adjourned at Half past One o'Clock.

The Conservative dinner which took place last
night in Covent-garden Theatre was remarkable for
nothing so much as the canting and hypocritical cha-
racter of the various speeches of those of the party
who undertook to enlighten the meeting on the sub-
ject of their political duties. Mr. Alderman THOMP-
soN—once a rigid high Tory, now a latitudinarian
Conservative —presided, and, alluding to the absence
of Ministers, who, it would seem, had been specially
requested to attend, observed :—" He had hoped that
some of the members of her MAJESTY'S Government
would have been present to answer the question,
What good had the Conservative Association done to
the State? They had been most respectfully invited. He
knew not why they were not present, but he supposed
they had a good and a sufficient reason to give for such
an apparent slight to such an assembly of their friends.
However, at the same time he must say that the
Association was not formed for the support of any
particular Ministry. (Loud cheering.) It was
truly a Conservative Association, and no more.
Their festival was not held in honour of any Mi-
nistry. They were advocates of great public princi
ples." The allusion in the above passage to the
" apparent slight" put upon the Conservatives by the
refusal of any one member of the Government to
attend their dinner, is full of significance. The
truth, we suspect, is, that Ministers, one and all,
withheld their attendance because they did not think
it worth their while to show any particular respect or
deference to a party who, they well know, are left
wholly at their mercy, who dare not act contrary to
orders, and who are, in fact, the veriest slaves
of the Downing-street authorities. Why should
the "PEEL of PEELS''—as Sir JOHN lIOBHOUSE
once called him in the excess of his admiration—
why should the Premier or any of his colleagues take
the trouble to conciliate the Conservative party, when
they know that they have nothing to apprehend from
their open or concealed hostility; but that they must,
to a man, support them, no matter what public mea-
sures they may bring forward, or in what a labyrinth
of inconsistency their subserviency may involve them ?
It is evident that the Conservatives felt deeply the
"slight" put upon them by their Ministerial task-
masters, by the marked manner in which, immediately
afterwards, they cheered Mr. Alderman THIMPSON'S
swaggering allusion to their lofty sense of in-
dependence. " The Association was not formed
for the support of any particular Ministry ! "
It was not wedded to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S system of
policy—it was not bound to him by its horror of free
trade, and its detestation of the innovating Whigs,
and that fiendish institution, the Anti-Corn-law
League ;—oh no, nothing of the sort; the Associa-
tion was a strictly independent one, high-minded,
consistent, spirited, and patriotic ! Such may be
Alderman THOMPSON'S notions of the virtues of a
Society over which he so worthily presides, and of
which he is such an apt representative, but such are
not the notions entertained of the Conservatives by
the community at large. Not an unprejudiced man
in the country gives them the slightest credit
for consistency and independence; or regards them
in any other light than as the abject
tools and sycophants of Sir ROBERT PEEL.
The late divisions on the Factory question have quite
set at rest the question of Conservative manliness and
good faith, and show this amiable party in its true
colours. But if Conservatism—as the worthy Al-
derman would have the world believe—" was not
formed for the support of any particular Ministry,"
what becomes of the boast which the Premier made a
few years since in the House of Commons, to the
effect, that he himself was the founder of this new-
fangled, convenient political faith, and had built
up the party professing it, of course with a
view to the support of his own opinions ? As
to Alderman Tnompsores concluding remark, that the
Conservatives " were advocates of great public prin-
ciples," perhaps he will be considerate enough to en-
lighten us on the subject of the " great principles"
which are honoured by their advocacy. We know of
no " principle" to which they are wedded, unless
indeed it be the "great" one of monopoly; but firmly
believe that in their speeches as well as in their votes
they are influenced only by the basest sense of ex
pediency.

name of the Christian League, (firdetis Christian°, a
league composed of individuals of every nation, and
which is to be further increased in numbers by other
auxiliary Societies, all having the same object, viz., to
propagate amongst Italians, and especially Romans,
the principles of Christian liberty, or rather an insane in-
difference to all religion."

This passage speaks for itself. How melancholy
must be the conviction of inherent moral religious
weakness which is thus appalled at the notion of its
pretensions being tested by " principles of Christian
liberty," and which attempts to disparage the force
and authority of those principles by affecting to treat
them as amounting to an " insane indifference to all
religion !" What an invaluable text-book must this
production be to the Oxford emulators of this Sove-
reign Pontiff!

Madrid journals of the sth inst. have been received.
Some of them at length admit the deplorable state of
the finances, and the Herald() announces the following
scheme in the present desperate state of affairs :
" The creditors of the State have held a meeting, and ap-
pointed a Committee, which is to come to an understanding
with the Government, to represent such interests as may con-
sider themselves injured, and discuss the questions that have
been started. This Committee is, however, to take the ad-
vice of another, called the consulting Committee.' The
former consists of MM. Carriguiry, O'Shea, Campana, Murza,
and another capitalist. A proposal is talked of, the object
of which would be to decide the fate of the floating debt. rile
lenders would engage to advance 1,500,000,000, and receive
from the Government new coupons of Three per Cents., at
thirty, on condition, however, that should that paper obtain a
higher price at the Madrid Boiza, in the course of next
July, the payment would be made at the highest
rate. The Government would receive from the lenders 90
per cent. in Treasury bills, for their whole nominal value,
and ten per cent. in specie, and the latter would engage to
exchange the bills for new coupons, at a discount of ten per
cent. The tobacco revenue would be devoted to the payment
of the interest on the coupons, whether the tobacco be farmed
out, or the Government should again collect its revenue. In
the first case, it is proposed that the Company's notes be re-
ceived by the San Fernando bank, and, in the second, that
the delegates of that bank in the provinces be entrusted
with the collection of the revenue; should it not suffice, the
deficiency would be supplied out of the quicksilver produce.
As it is probable that this scheme will undergo modifica-
tions before it is carried into execution, we shall abstain from
discussing it."

The Three per Cents. were done at 271 for
cash, and 274 at 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at
20 for cash.

WAR BETWEEN FRANCE
AND MOROCCO.

Some of our Contemporaries have published a very
ong and lachrymose circular letter from his Holiness
he POPE, to all patriarchs, primates, archbishops, and
hishops, imploring each and every of his "venerable
brethren" to aid in the good work of putting down—
Bible Societies. These Societies the Holy Father
anathematises as among the most successful, and
therefore dangerous, of the " many attempts which
the enemies of Catholicism, under whatever denomi-
nation, are daily making, in our age, to seduce the
really faithful," &c. His Holiness reminds his bre-
thren that the Societies in question were " originally
instituted in England, arid have since been propagated
throughout the universe." Since Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
solemn exorcism of the Birmingham and London
currency heretics, who are for having the circulation
of money unrestrained by a gold standard of value at
an irrevocably fixed price per ounce—much in the
same way as our Low Churchmen and Dissenters are
for having the circulation of the Bible unfettered by
the arbitrary restraints of texts and comment—we
have witnessed no manifestation of alarm so whimsi-
cal or so earnest as that which pervades this pastoral
letter. Had it been less satisfactorily authenticated,
we should have really imagined that it must have
been originally addressed to the famous author of the
Puseyite tract, on the " concealment of doctrine" in
certain cases ; for it advocates the identical principles
contended for by the Tractarians, in treating of the
danger of putting the Sacred Scriptures indiscrimi-
nately into the bands of the laity. In short this pon-
tifical circular is a bull of excommunication fulmi-
nated against all Exeter Hall, and " the Society's
house in Earl-street, Blaclifriars ;" a voice of woe and
wailing raised against the dissemination of the Bible.
We cannot imagine a more emphatic or honourable
testimony to the objects and the results of their dis-
interested efforts who have devoted their energies,
their time, and their means, to the gratuitous comma-
' nice tion of the original law of GOD, and of the glorious
precepts and maxims of Christianity to the once be-
nighted nations or the world ; whose races—without
this sacred code of religious instruction, and moral
and social duty,—even the civilising influence of our
own communication and intercourse would not have
sufficed to rai-e from the depths of abject superstition
and debasement, to the contemplation and the worship
of the true GOD.
If, in these sacred Scriptures, there were not some
pervading, self-illustrating principle of truth ; some
elementary self-proving, ethics,—which taught and
accurately defined and distinguished between our re-
lative duties towards the DEITY and towards our fel-
low-creatures ; the ancient spirit of ecclesiastical en-
croachm-nt, of hierarchical despotism would surely
not be quite so sensitive, nor betray so much of
irritability in reference to a system that merely
supplies the text of that law, to which, even
the tyrannic jurisdiction that has been superinduced
upon it by fraudulent pretensions and subtle glosses,
and f ibricated testimonials, professes to be subject.
When a spiritual leader like the present POPE—a
man, to the simplicity and benevolence of whose
Personal character European travellers of all coun-
tries and persuasions have paid the tribute of re-
spect and regard—is betrayed into such vehement
terms as he employs against the venders of unmuti-
lated and. . uninterpreted Bibles and Testaments, as
those winch are scattered through this circular, we
may well imagine that there are some latent reasons
for his anger besides those which appear on the
face of his documentary reprobation. Thus, his
Holiness twits the Bible Societies with being
obnoxious to the complaints formerly made by
Saint JEROME, against intermeddling and un-
qualified teachers of the Word, in the primitive
ages of the Church :—" They pretend to popularise

the holy pages, and render them intelligible Without
the aid of any interpreter, to persons of every condi-

tion—to the most loquacious woman, to the light-

headed old Muni, and to Me wordy caviller." The

POPE then cites the language of Saint PETER, in re-
ference to the Epistles of Saint PAUL, and the advice
of the former, the " Prince of the Apostles," to the

Church of his day, to beware lest " they be led away
by the error of the wicked, and so fall from their own
steadfastness."—(2 Peter, c. iii., v. 16.) He takes
credit to the Church of Rome, that it has, in all ages,
been careful to provide for the exposition of the Scrip-
tures to the people, by duly qualified and authorised
teachers ; and he appeals to the constitutions of the
Councils of Trent, Lateran (the fourth in 1215), and
Rome (in 1795, under BENEDICT XIII.) But
really, the excerpta collected by his Holiness, out of
the Acts of these Councils, do not appear to us much
to have assisted his case. Thus :

" In the first place, it is known that, by the decrees of
the Holy Council of Trent, bishops are enjoined to see
that the Holy Scrip ures and divine laws be more fre-
quently' taught in their dioceses."

We are at liberty, then, to infer that either the
Church, at this period, had not provided sufficient
means for the frequent teaching of the Holy Scrip-
tures to the people, or that, if provided, those means
had fallen into neglect, so long ago as the beginning
of the sixteenth century. And yet those means,
whatever they ss ere—and that teaching, whatever
its degree of efficiency—were improvements, ex-
tensions, upon the means and the teaching that had
previously existed. For (he adds)—
" It is known that, even exceeding the prescriptions of
the Council of Lateran (1215), the Counbil of Trent re-
commends that there should be in the several cathedral
churches and collegiates of the towns and cantons a sti-
pend provided for a doctor of divinity, and that none
should be appointed to that office but a man fully com-
petent to teach and expound the Holy Scriptures."
Now, the amount of Scriptural instruction, and the
provision of means to dispense it, thus exceeding the
prescriptions of the Lateran Council, still seem to has e
been miserably inadequate for their avowed objects.
No wonder that, as the letter proceeds, the indigna-
tion of the POPE waxes still hotter and fiercer, but
most especially against a certain new Christian League
now forming in the United States, which is thus
adverted to :

" Many precise advices and documents teach us that
a vast number of sects in New York, in America, at
one of their meetings held on the 4th of June, la,t year,
have formed a new Association, which will take the

received this morning by the Minister of War, a skirmish
took place on our territory between the troops of Lieutenant-
! General Lamoriciere, and 1,400 or 1,500 cavalry of Abd-el-
j Bokhari, and 500 Arab cavalry, in front of Ouchda. Not-
withstanding this mad echaufirouree, which might reasonably
be attributed to one of those acts contrary to discipline, so
ordinary in similar services, but which, moreover, was rudely
chastised, we persist in believing that the regular troops,
under the command of El Guenaoni, will look twice before
they commence hostilities seriously. If, against our expec-
tation, the Emperor of Morocco was so badly advised as to
attack us, the good dispositions taken by General Lamori-
ciere, the co-operation of General Bedeau, who came from
Tlemcen to support him, and the presence of Marshal Bugeaud
upon the point of our frontier which is threatened, and where
he must be at the present moment, would not fail to cause
this Sovereign to repent of having yielded to the instigations
and threats of Abd-el-Kader.
"Lieutenant-General Lr moriciere, commanding the pro-
vince of Oran, to Marshal Bugeaud, Governor- General of
Algeria.
" At the Bivouac and near the Marabout of Lidi Aziz, the
30th of May, 1844.
" M. le Marechal—No answer has yet been returned by
the Morocco chieftain, Si Ali Ben Tajile el Geudoui to my
letter, of which I had the honour to send you a copy, with
the translation. Desiring to have news, I induced, on the
evening of the 25th, one of eur Arabs, a person worthy of
confidence, to pass the frontier, and to repair to some of his
emigrant relatives, whence he brought me the following
information :
" My letter, as I was already told, was sent to Fez, and M.
Genavoni had ordered every officer to attend to the orders of the
Emperor. llowever, this assemblage of 7,000 or 8,000 ca-
valry, and numerous infantry who received neither provi-
sions for themselves, nor barley for their horses, had, in a
few days raised the price of .every article of consumption at
Ouchda, and they had commenced ravaging the adjoining
fields of barley. A quarrel, of which I could not well dis-
cover the cause, occurred between the troops of the Emir
Abd-el-Kader to the amount, it was said, of 500 infantry and
300 cavalry, and the cavalry of the Caid des Alois Amdona.
There were killed and wounded on both sides. El Genaoui
was obliged to take horse with the Abd-el-Bokhari to se-
parate the combatants, and despairing of keeping together
any longer this hungry crowd, he dismissed the contingent of
the tribes on the 25th until after the harvest."
"'Phis intelligence, however good the source, required con-
firmation. If it were true I ought to have a proof of it by
some proceedings on the part of the tribes who had left us
for the last fifteen days. At length the Djalcalla sent me
two of their chiefs, who announced their fear to appear before
me in consequence of their unc,,rtain conduct, which alone pre-
vented the other tribes of Sahal and Nechronia, and the
chief of that town. I desired them to tell the Caid that the
time had come to declare himself a friend or an enemy, and
that I would go to meet him.
" On the morning of the 28th, all the works of the fort of
Alia Magina being in a sufficient state of forwardness, I en-
camped at Hamman Chika, on the Oned Monilah, and here
yesterday. I commenced at the same time to feed my ca-
valry with the barley of the emigrant tribe of Ouled 'Man-
sour. My approach caused all hesitation to cease. I re-
ceived, yesterday, the caids and chiefs of Nechronia and the
Djabolka. They announced to me the Souhalia for to-day.
They paid me the tribute in money, and the number of horses
that I had imposed on them, and I did not think it right to
require more from them under the difficult circumstances in
which they were placed. I had from them, besides, a con-
firmation of all I had before heard, and I therefore hesitate
not to write to you. The war appears to be adjourned, but
it is not yet peace.
" I have not yet received an answer from you to my letter
of the 10th, in which I first mentioned the hostile prepara-
tions of Morocco.
" I have no knowledge of the communications which ought
to have taken place between our Consul-General at Tangier
and the government of Muley Abderahman. The partial
attempts against our tribes have not ceased. In fine, I have
still before me a number of regular troops, so that war may
commence by simply assembling the tribes dismissed for the
present. These regular troops are, Abd el-Kader, with 500
infantry and 300 cavalry, at Guenfonda, not far from
Maassen Ceranossena ; el Kebibi, with 300 infantry and
600 cavalry; el Genaoui, the last arrived, with 400 men.
We perceive distinctly from this the Morocco camp, and its
extent is proportioned to the force assigned to it.
" In this situation, 1 do mot think it my duty- to depart
from the•precautions which I have commanded, and I main-
tain the same disposition of the troops.
" LAMORICIERE."
"Camp under Lall, Magruia, May 30,
" 10 o'clock in the evening.
" M. le Marchal—l had just concluded this morning the
report which you will find under the envelope which covers
the present, and I was about to send it off, when I was ap-
, prised that a line of cavalry showed themselves on the plain,
at about two leagues from us, and was marching towards the
camp. Half an hour afterwards the entire camp of the Mo-
rocco troops appeared distinctly with their colours at their
head on the borders of the Monilah, 200 sharpshooters took
the lead; the entire troops presented themselves in the order
of battle, ordinarily assumed by the Arab cavalry. I had
caused my troops to take their arms, to load the baggage,
and I was ready to act. At eleven o'clock the advanced
guard of their cavalry fired upon our main guard before a
word had been interchanged. We were attacked at two
leagues within our frontier, and at the expiration of some
minutes we were compelled to return the fire.
" I then began to descend towards the plain, driving before
me the enemy's cavalry. General Bedeau, with the Zouaves
and the Bth and 9th battalions of Orleans, held the right.
Colonel Roguet,:with the 10th battalion of Chasseurs, and two
battalions of his regiment, held the left and guarded the
convoy. Colonel Morris marched in column on the left with
five squadrons.

" The firing became extremely warm on the right in front
of the Zonaves, and before the Bth battalion of Chasseurs.
We had before us from 1,200 to 1,400 cavalry of the Abd-el-
Bokari, and 500 or 600 Arab cavalry. The enemy's cavalry
engaged in considerable numbers between our column of the
right and the wall of rocks, which form the side of the valley
whence we descended. I purposely suffered them to prolong
the engagement. During three quarters of an hour the Mo-
roCco cavalry sustained afire which cost them a large num-
ber of men and horses. Several times they reached the sharp-
shooters of the Zouaves, and one of them crossed through
them to attack the Captain Adjutant-Major of Chasseurs, who
was wounded.

It will be seen from the subjoined dispatches that war
has actually commenced between Morocco and France,
According to the report of General Lamoriciere to Mar-.
shal Bugeaud, the troops of the Emperor, or rather
those of a Chief who owes him allegiance, began the
attack on the 30th of May; the French troops, who had
been on their guard for some days, watching the move•
ments of the Arabs, immediately acted on the offensive,
descended into a plain near the supposed frontier be-
tween Algiers and Fez, and, after some sharp fighting,
put the enemy completely to rout. The French suffered
very little loss, having only twenty-five men wounded,
two of them severely, while 300 of the Moorish ca-
valry were cut to pieces, and the remainder, amount.
ing to about 1,700 cavalry, under the chief Abd-el-
Bokari, took to flight. It appears to have been a rash
and ill- concerted attack on the part of the Moors. They
had no infantry—they dashed with wild enthusiasm into
the middle of the French, and being purposely encou-
raged by Lamoriciere to advance till the proper moment
for attacking them had arrived, a large portion of them
were separated from the main body and annihilated. It
is evident that these irregular and barbarous
troops have no chance whatever with disciplined
so'diers, commanded by skilful generals, and that
unless the Emperor makes satisfaction for this unex-
pected assault, and 3 ields to the French Government,
both Tangiers and Mogador will soon be in the hands
of the French. The Government of France are making
every preparation for such a purpose. According to a Tou-
lon journal the affairs of Morocco are drawing the attention
of the King and his Ministers. The Tonlonuaise states
that " several regiments of the line, besides the 36th,
are to be immediately embarked for Algeria. A great
commotion is observable in the ports and roads. The
steam frigate AstnotlL, detached from the evolutionary
squadron, the Labrador, Orenoque, the steam corvette
Cuvier, and other ships of war, are being prepared for
sea. Vice-Admiral Parseval, who arrived at Toulon
yesterday in the A5m00.6..?, with his lady, has gone on
board the Souverain, to make choice of men to complete
the crews of the ships belonging to the evolutionary In the Chamber of Deputies on Monday a discussion
squadron, and which is about to proceed shortly to the took place on the improvement of the harbours of Bor-
coasts of Morocco." And the Moniteur of Tuesday con- deaux and Havre, when 3,500,000 francs were voted for
tains the following announcement :—" The King, on theformer, 16,922,000francsfor the latter, and 2,500,000
the
proposition of the Minister of Marine, has just decided francs for lighthouses.
that the Prince de Joinville is to hoist his flag in one of On Tuesday the French Funds underwent consider-
the ships of the line of the squadron of evolutions, and
to proceed in her, accompanied by a steam-frigate, two able fluctuations, and at the close of business the Three
per Cents. were quoted at 82f. 45c., and the Fives at
smaller steamers, and several light vessels, to cruise off Pot' 20c.
the eastern coast of the State of Morocco. His Royal The following are additional extracts from the papers :
Highness will leave very soon for Toulon, to assume the "The subjoined declaration has been signed by 167 Mem-
command of the naval division which is to act under his hers of the Chamber of Deputies :—' The undersigned declare
orders." Never was there a more mad attempt than this and affirm that they are neither directors nor members, named
on the part of this petty chieftain, who assumes the title trefioiriteent(tileed,69ifi
atnhlebaend m iitiiiisattratti ocny
li enfei at
11:eYr rlamilrdotuslhaatrep,resnenort
of Emperor. He has no adequate means to cope with the have sent in tenders, nor furnished funds for the execution- or
French by land, much less by sea ; the whole coast, from working of those lines ; in short, that they have. no financial
Ceuta to Mogador will be blockaded, and probably in twelve int,ejicislte,
reportdirect of the
thitlcelir(cocnt,i
mini
tthose o
on
n thedert,Tkotunf s.:
s and Nantes
months the finest part of the country, that lying between Railroad Bill has been distributed among the members of the
the sea and the lofty range of the Atlas mountains, Chamber of Deputies. The report approves of the credit of
will be overrun by the French. Louis Philippe, will 28,800,000 f. demanded by the Government, and recommends
thus avenge the death of the Spanish Consul. As to i th,e, tienec!.oiantiemeitxteeecuotifortthoef ti; 1, taer
itsn eaansdu r
Strasburg.
railroad on
the real cause of this war, we have as yet no means of Monday heard M. Hainguerlot and several delegates. The
judging accurately. General Lamoriciere says he was that
tieleaci'etpintelpheHec
former adduced arguments to show that
attacked within two leagues of his frontier. Possibly saLsote tn laid is ther(
before
stthe Committee advantageous t thatc couldc
h onditions which the
the Arabs will say that he had passed the boundary, and Company had proposed to the Government.
they were therefore justified in repelling the invaders. " The Courrier Francois mentions a report that o_ni
__the dis-
They ought, however, to have counted the cost first. ttriebtiloanoof time
1 I yseLes;setsh earndaeldtles lvmeonnft
gtrlai ensxblaiiibmtloctrs of
From all accounts the authority of the Morocco chief is the building where aerticles haveg been exhibited."
exceedingly weak over many of the tribes nominally THE BOURSE—TUESDAY, JUNE 11.
under his dominion. Some of theseare actually at war with First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
each other, while the country is threatened with a French Five per Cents l2l 8.5 •. 122 15 .• 121 75 .• 122 15
Four per Cents...." 108 20 ••108 20 ..108 20 .. 108 20
French invasion, and the total population probably does ' Three per Cents.— 82 35 .• 82 40 •• 82 35 .. 82 40
not exceed six millions. Looking at the affair alto- Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll3s ..1135 • • 1135 ::15160:g
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Belgian Bank.so?o(
660
are it is of a very serious character. If the French
are the aggressors, a fact which is more than probable, i Belgian Fives,lB4o —••
they will not be satisfied with any ordinary professions spantsh AT chtri eve: ...... . : . . .
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of regret and submission. The designs of Marshal Bu- Passive 5l .• 51 •• ~,,5,1 •
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geaud will be supported by the whole of the French Neapolitan— Threes
..... . .. 99 80 .. 99 90
•• 1041 •• 99 80 •• 99}90
nation, and the penalty inflicted will be a sum which the Roman •• 104} .. 1041 •• 104
RAILNBVS,Y SH0
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..
850
.. Barbarian Emperor cannot raise and he must, therefore, 850
pay in territory. The Courrier Francais, in these words, IS'terCsaierllme:,lll:n..:•.:: ..... .... 360 .. 360 ..••
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50 :: m
but expresses, we fear, the wish of the French people:---- Rouen •. • • b.. 11•••• . :::: :: :: :: g' .Z ..
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935 (g..
"We have in fact arrived at the period of a crusade, in Rouen
sto Havre:: .......: :.. R 55 .... 725
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the name of civilisation, against African Islamism ;we Strasburg to. . liale• —" • • 23; .. 235 .. 225 .. 235
• have given the signal, by our conquest in Algeria, and Aviguenito Marseilles.. .. 740 .. 740 720 .. 726 25
RAILWAY SHARES FOR 15T11 JUNE.
the impulse will be followed up. The day for Morocco st. Germain
has at length arrived. This western region of the land Versailles, 11.11:::••••••• •• •• 355 .. 36 :: 355
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their turn to receive the baptism of regeneration, after i
having first felt the weight of Christian arms." t TIIE KING OF SAXONY.—His Majesty the King of
The Messager publishes dispatches from General La- I
evening.ourin theg
ing paragraphs:-1 A Deputation of brandy
ISlaaNyomn
moriciere. His dispatches are introduced b the follow- Th.catrewi
with
hispresence of
y merchants, including. Messrs.
Saxony
r hask
e t
signified his intention "
Burner, C, Wild, and Clark, had an i
"As may be seen by annexed correspondence from Africa,
' 1 i 1 'Roberturrie reel yesterday, in Downing street.
uterview with
thisho n

"I seized the opportunity, when the battle was most warm,
,o send forward my left two squadrons of Chasseurs under
the orders of Commander Peronny. This charge, supported
by other squadrons, separated the mass of the enemy's cavalry
into two, and drove near 200 of them between the rocks and
the line of our sharpshooters. The greater number of them
were sabred ; 30, at least, remained on the field. Three
standards were captured. The rest fled in the greatest dis-
order towards Ouchda. Thirty horses, with their harness,
remained in the hands of our Chasseurs and sharpshooters.
In a word, we saw on the ground, as well before the Zouaves
as where the charge was made, 50 men, and from 20 to 25
horses killed. More than 20 killed and a number of wounded
were removed before our eyes. The Black Cavalry showed
itself on this its first appearance much more enterprising than
we were accustomed to find the Arab Zouaves We had, on
our side, 25 wounded (two will mast probably not recover),
two horses killed and six wounded. After two hours' repose
on the Monilah I came here to bivouac this evening in
oriler to renew my provisions.
"General Bedean afforded me on this occasion all the as-
sistance I might have expected from my previous know-
ledge of him. All the troops engaged conducted themselves
as might have been expected from soldiers tried in various
campaigns.
" Such has teen the issue of that unexpected gathering.
sias is the cause of this sudden
morning.
Nothing which I wrote this morning has been contradicted.
All appearances yesterday afternoon were, if not for absolute
suspension of arms. Neverthe-
less, peace,
reos,me s,
n,TI ate following,
v leastr
ass a batte
as
cfor
te.
attacked
a according
e h
csrt of
to two prisoners who escaped
s
change :—A person allied
this
to the Imperial family, and named
Sidi-el-3iamonn Ben Client', arrived this morning with a
contingent of 500 Berberes, sent from Fez by the son of
Muley Abderahman ton:. form part of the troop of observation
assembled before us. Sidi-el. Mancona, excited by an ardent
fanaticism, declared that he wished at least to seeclosely the
Christian camp, and marched forward notwithstanding the
opposition andobseryations of D'-el-Guenaoni, who, although
lie objected, according to the Emperor's orders, dared not
give an absolute refusal to a Prince of the Imperial family.
" The want of discipline of the Berberes and the fanaticism
of the negro troops become more and more exalted in our
presence, and the battle was fought. Whatever may be the
construction put upon this recital, war exists in fact. For-
tune will demonstrate to what degree it will be carried. It
is not doubtful but that Abd-el-Bader will endeavour to
profit by it. I write this night to all the commanders of
columns. I shall have the honour to address vona new re-
port as soon as any fact of importance shallrequire it.

"LAMORICIERE."