26 JUNE 1830, Page 6

The elections, in twenty of the French departments, have been

postponed, by an ordonnance dated the 18th instant. The Col- leges of Arrondissements are to meet on the 12th July, those of the Departments on the 29th of the same month. The ostensible object of the postponement is to give time for the adjudication of the claims of electors in the Royal Courts, which could not take place by the date at first assigned for the meeting of the colleges. The conduct of the Royal Courts hitherto has been above all praise. They have gone to their difficult task of judging of the electors' claims with an impartiality and a zeal and a diligence that challenge universal approbation. The Court of Paris,. which transacts the judicial business of seven departments, be- tween the 9th and 20th instant, has heard and decided no fewer than 857 cases, in 658 of whibh it has decided for the electors, in opposition to the judgment of the Prefect. The Liberal papers deprecate the delay consequent on the Royal ordonnance, and contend that it has been issued with a view to take advantage of the splendour which the reduction of Algiers, an event that is daily expected, may be supposed to throw round the Ministry. But, looking to the number of appeals in one Court, we do not see that such a theory is required to account for the King's reso- lution, although the expected consequence may flow from its being adopted. There is a curious story of a plan by which the names of the electors at the different elections were proposed to be ascertained, notwithstanding the security which the ballot may be supposed to give. The plan was to mark the slips of paper on which the names of the candidates are written, in such a way that the mark should not be perceptible to the voter, thouah it was to the scruti- neers. The trick was found out, and has tended only to injure the party it was meant to serve. M. DE PEYRONNET has issued a rescript new-modelling the Council of Commerce, partly to show his zeal for the welfare of the country, but more, it is supposed, to render the Council sub- servient to the Government. Its numbers are to be reduced, and the two Chambers are in future to be joined, though, under the name of Committees, they will still sit in different apartments, and manage each its own department of business. The expedition to Algiers landed, in the bay of Sidi al Ferruch, on the 14th instant. The landing was effected with ease, and without any serious opposition on the part of the enemy. The latter were driven from the heights, having previously abandoned the ' fort of Torretta Chika; and the fort was taken possession of by the invaders, together with nine guns and two mortars. Their head- quarters were still there when the last accounts were received. The distance from the bay to Algiers is about fifteen miles. Com- paratively speaking, no loss has been sustained either in the passage from Palma, which the fleet left on the 10th, nor in the landing. Two bullock-boats lost, and two seamen and one officer wounded, are the only casualties reported by Admiral DUPERRE ; and twenty rank and file constitute the loss of the military in the landing and subsequent skirmish. Private letters describe the Arab cavalry as having assembled on the occasion of the landing in considerable numbers, but as having fled-at the first discharge of the French guns. A telegraphic despatch to Paris, which reached London this • morning, states that several skirmishes had taken place with the Arabs, but adds no particulars. The French were fortifying. the peninsula of Sidi al Ferruch, in order to form a point d'apput for the army in its further operations.