16 MAY 1868, Page 2

The eldest son of the Church has had to decide

whether he would support a Marshal or an Archbishop, and of course he has thrown his sword into the soldier's scale. Monseigneur de la Vigerie, Archbishop of Algiers, desired to snap up the starving Arab children, and make them into Christiana & in Mortara. Marshal M'Mahon roughly told the priest to mind his own business. He knew that an attempt to proselytize would light up the fires of insurrection from the sea to the Atlas. Marshal Niel, of Solferino, has now struck iu to support his comrade of Magenta ; and the Archbishop has gone to France, perhaps to plead a hopeless cause, or by excuses recover his ground at Court.