MANCE.
The exact results; of the French elections will not be krowil for
S onic, tinp, hut c:rnparative r....alts :Ir.! pretty N‘-ell ascer-
tained. aiready. Of 12,5 ikpitii's itrnitL:i.i by the Collt:gs of
Aricnitlissemt.uf, t are ;dread:- viected. Had it, not he,;ii for
he pont:lucid, lee Royill oedworinee, of the Colleges ef twenty Departments, the whole or these elections wc,u1.1 have b;en com-
pleetl. Of 198 members reiniiied, 115 are Opposition, 69
are and 1 is doubtful. The number of Deputies
elected by ihe Colleges Of Arrontlisseine:tt is' 258 ; 60
that remain, it is probable the Ministers v, ill not secure a, dozen in all. The Deputies chosen by the Colleges of Depart 01 nt are 172. In these Colleges, Government will have, as thee have had hitherto, a decided majority, though not perhaps to the thriller extent. Upon the whole, there is not the slightest prospect of a Miiiisterial majority in the Cliambers. The Liberal papers do not agree in their speculations on the probable determination of the French Minister under these cir- cumstaneee; but we cannot see how they can avoid resigning. If the King should dissolve the Chamber a second time, he would only get a worse than the one at present meeting, as it will be worse than that ‘vhich it succeeds. To say the King will not give Will,', is nonsense; he must give way, or perish in the struggle. It', in the present temper of the French nation, the question were put "King and no Charter, or Charter and no King," Cnan.LEs the Tenth would not get one vote from a hundred of his loving subjects. The news from Algiers is avourable. A despatch, dated from the
Camp at Sidi Ferrueln June 19111, states, that from the lath, the enemy had occupied a camp at Staoneli, a position between the pe- ninsula and ihe town, but which is uot laid down on fie; maps. On I lie I 7111 and I 8th, the Iltnaers of I he enemy Were COnSitlel'ilbl:," aug- mented by the junction of the contingeMs from C011stalltilla,
Oran, and tmd by reinforcements from Algiers. Their contiden,-;, it is not unreasonably supposed, had increased in con- sequence if I inactivity of the French for four days. On the morning ef the 111th, they zuhaneed in line en the French posi-
tion : and of the Turkish troops even penetrated to the en- 1 u':'!lcliiltYtIl ;het covered the brigades Clevet and Achard before they were ellec!sed. A charge with the Layenet by the division e nth sace,eded in driving back the contingents of Constantina and Oran ; and the whole of tlw French line advancing-, the enemy were def.infed with loss, and the camp which they had oc- cupied for the previous four days, with a quantity of provisions and a nunilier of camels, fell into the hands of the victors. The Froneh general bestows 1.igh commendation on the new artillery, which, notwithst audio.. the inequalities of the ground, was transported from place to play.: with great ease and rapidity. The Arabs, it is stated, in private letters, were found to be excelhut marksineti, and galled the French troops considerably, though the General speaks very lightly of their losses; three hundred men only ere acknowledged as wounded. The landing of the mat:riel an:i of the horses still continued. Many of the cavalry " officers were compelled, in the action of the lath, to fight on foot, from their horses not having landed. On the 20th, SiX thousand Arabs presented themselves to the outposts, to make their submission to the invaders ; and in the evening of the same day, another band advanced to the camp for the same purpose. They were dismissed with assurances of protection. The weather is on shore fine, the heats not greatr than at Paris during midsummer, and these tempered by a caneteat breeze during the day. Private letters, in describing the action the 1:th, represent it as much more serious, and the loss as considerably greater, than the Commander-in-Chief Admits. The Algerines are said to be pre-eminently brave, but altogether without discipline. Admiral DUPERRE, in a letter of the 17th, mentions that there had been violent squalls and thunder, with a heavy sea, the previous day, which had considerably interrupted the landing of the mah(riel. Four of the convoy ships lost. their rudders, but no serious damago was sustained. There are rumours in Paris of another severe en- g,a,,einent on the 21st, but no authentic particulars of any such action, if it really took place, reached the public.
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