The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
DEFEAT AND RETREAT OF THE FRENCH ARMY SENT AGAINST
THE BEY OF CONSTANTINE.
IC. would seem from all the official and non-official accounts
which reach us, that the French army, and the French colony
at Algiers. are both in a very sad way.
The French army, which had left Algiers to mak on
e war the
Bey of Constantine, has been defeated and compelled to re-
treat. Not only h the the tribes which had submitted to the
French, and befriended them, been attacked and defeated, cut
to pieces and destroyed. with their wives and their properties,
during the absence of the French arm •, by the Arabs who ap-
proached Algiers,—bat. besides the los of these friendly tribes,
and the destruction of the lives and properties of the French
colonists, the .reet French army marching with Marshal. Clan-
eel and the Duke of Nemours at its head, was at the-date of
the last dispatche in full retreat upon Bona. The first intima-
tion we receiveds of this event was contained in the Paris Sun,

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

The gigantic balloon will ascend from Paris. It is with
great pleasure we announce this gratifying fact. The enter-
prising spirit of the gentlemen more immediately interested
deserves the encouragement they will now command; ail it is
worthy the cause of scientific research that this balloon of
balloons should bear our countrymen from the continental
capital under the illustrious sanction of His Royal Highness
the Duke of Orleans. The prince viewed this vast aeronautic
machine from the Hotel de Ville on Tuesday, and yesterday
Mr. Gye was honoured with a communication from General
Bernard, the Minister at War, to the effect that in consequence
of the recommendation of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Orleans, government accorded him the free use of the infantry
barracks in the Faubourg Poissoniere, for the purpose of his
ascent. The day of ascent and price of tickets have not yet
been fixed.
A serious quarrel has taken place between Messrs. Rothschild
and the government of Madrid, on occasion of the damage done
to the mines of Almaden, nearly destroyed by the last expedi-
tion of Gomez. After many conferences without result, with
the ambassador of Spain at-Paris, who had not special advice
to negociate as to this matter, and after a vain demand of re-
ference to arbitration desired by the bankers, the eldest brother
of the Rothschild family has decided on proceeding to Madrid,
to require indemnity, and his departure for that capital is daily
ex pected.
The'BeHan and Dutch papers bring melancholy accounts of
the destruCtion occasioned by the hurricane on all parts of the
coast. Prince Alexander, son of the Prince of Orange, was
seriously hurt by the falling of a tree, but has since recovered.
The Court of Hanover went into mourning for Charles X. on
the 28th ult., for four weeks. The Court of Bavaria has also
gone into mourning for three weeks from the 29th ult.
Several journals have recently asserted that the Emperor
Nicholas had-betrayed signs of insanity; and, if the reports of
travelle'rs may he credited, the statement is not altogether with-
out foundation.—French paper.
The marriage of King Otho with the Princess of Oldenburg
was celebrated at Oldenburg on the 22d.
A letter from Carlsruhe states that a credit had been opened
for Prince Poligrrac at a large banking house there.
Frit-.Ncti PAckET STATION.—The statements in the English
journals of the intended removal of the French post-office
packet station, from Dover to Ramsgate, are unfounded ; no
such change being in contemplation by the government.—

Galigrani. -
The French journals mention that Count -Mole was engaged
in negociating a marriage between the Duke of Orleans and the
Princess Soseptino Frederika Louisa of Bavaria; but Le
Siecle supposes that this project must he renonnced, because of
foreign influence inimical t,) the Orleans family.