The intelligence from abroad is extremely scanty—a portion of it
seems to have been frozen by the way. An armament, naval and military, is said to be fitting out at Toulon, for • Algiers. The differ- ences between the Dey and the French Government\ can be allowed to remain unadjusted no longer. Private letters from Paris state, that the French Minister of Marine has required, under an injunction of secrecy, the commanders of squadrons and ships, to furnish him with returns of the names of their officers, their talents, acquirements, and dispositions towards Government. The order is reported to have given offbnce to some of the captains and commanders, who do not choose to become, as they term it, spies. We should have thought the inferior officers more likely to complain of the requisition than any of the class to whom it was addressed.
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