FRANCE.

The government has received dispatches from Marshal Bugeaud dated the 11th and 15th of August, three days before and on the eve itself of the Battle of Isly.

The Orénoque, which departed from Oran on the 21st, carried to Algiers the flags captured at the Battle of Isly; it departed from Algiers on the 23rd to bring back to Marseille Colonel Foy, aide-de-camp to the Marshal, President of the Council. This officer, having arrived at Marseille on the 25th, immediately set out for Paris, passing through Saint-Amand.

We shall publish our correspondence from Ceuta; our readers will find there confirmation of the news of the conclusion of our differences with Morocco. Not only has the Emperor satisfied our most just complaints, but he has even undertaken to indemnify Spain for the costs of the war. Here is the correspondence from Ceuta dated the 13th of August.

The Marshal writes on the 11th, from his bivouac near Lalla-Magrenia:

"I received this morning at half past six, by way of Djemma Ghazaouat, a dispatch from His Royal Highness the Prince of Joinville, dated the 6th of August. It informs me that on the morning of the same day, H.R.H., after having learned the result of M. Hay's mission, attacked Tangier; that eighty cannon pieces replied to his fire; that in the space of one hour the fire from the place was extinguished, the batteries dismantled, the pieces dismounted; that on our side we suffered a dozen men killed or wounded. H.R.H. was preparing to go attack Mogador.

"We have fortunately intelligence that confirms the rumours of peace in circulation. This intelligence, whose authenticity is beyond doubt, is of the highest importance. As of yesterday, our vice-consul in Tetuan addresses, by way of the Moroccan camp, a communication to the government of Ceuta. He states that the local authorities have received from the Emperor very reassuring orders to protect the subjects of all nations with whom negotiations are engaged; that he has signed peace with them, and has acceded to their claims, with the exception of France. In consequence, the vice-consul urges the commanding general of Ceuta to restore trade between that place and Tetuan. The commandant hastened to subscribe to this wish, and sent forth to Tetuan a small vessel with dispatches. We could not have hoped for more advantageous results from the negotiations undertaken with Morocco. Thanks to this arrangement, our flag is respected and national honour is preserved. Spanish dominion is extended along the African coast, our finances are indemnified for the costs of war, and all our positions on the littoral shall be put in good defensive order.

"This morning there arrived a spahis [irregular cavalryman] who claims to have traversed all the camps. These camps are, according to him, nine in number, stretched along the Isly, from Djerf-el-Akhdar to Coudiat-sidi-Abderrahman—that is to say, over a space of two leagues. Four of these camps would be composed of Moroccan troops or of makhzen [the Sultan's forces], a fifth would contain the house of the Emperor's son, his concubines, his baggage, his saddle horses, etc. That one, he says, is almost as large as our own. The four remaining camps are composed of contingents from the tribes.

"What has just been read is in some sort the preface to the battle, of which everyone awaits the detailed report with a vivid impatience that is well justified by the importance of the result already announced by telegraph.

"This determination of H.R.H. does him great honour. All of Europe will recognise our right to punish the Moroccans for their perfidious conduct and their repeated outrages.

"Meanwhile, the two preliminary reports of Marshal Bugeaud are of great interest. One will remark first of all this circumstance, that the Prince of Joinville opened his fire against Tangier only after having learned of the fruitless result of M. Hay's mission—a circumstance that had been denied or misrepresented by some London papers.

"Other Arabs, who have seen the camps from the neighbouring hills, say that there are only five camps, but that new ones arrive daily. They are estimated at some 40,000 men. The spahis claims to have seen nine pieces of cannon—six mountain pieces and three field pieces; there are also two mortars, making eleven pieces in all. Another camp is expected, brought by the Emperor's second son.

"I judged that we could not remain longer on the defensive without great dangers. The least of all is that the enemy strengthens itself daily. But what is chiefly to be feared is that, numerous as it is, it should make detachments on my flanks to go and stir up the country behind me.

"It is also to be dreaded that a longer period of waiting should cause to cease the good will of the tribes which form my convoys, whether from Hemcem or from Djemma-Ghazaouat.

"From a signal station that I have established upon an elevated knoll to the west of Lalla-Magrenia, one can perceive the Moroccan camp, which appears to be on the hills of the right bank of the Isly, at a distance of about two leagues behind Ouchda. It indicates forces considerable in number.

"Passing to the state of affairs on the frontier, to the threatening attitude of the Moroccans, to their provocations and to the daily increase of their forces, one sees that the patience and forbearance of Marshal Bugeaud have been great, in the face of hostilities so flagrant. No one should blame him for it, since by this conduct he has placed right and justice on the side of France, as also victory, when the measure of moderation had been filled to overflowing.

"Yesterday a thousand horses came to reconnoitre us; they perhaps presumed that we had quit the vicinity of Lalla-Magrenia, because for four days I have moved my camp to the confluence of the Oued-el-Abbess and the Ouardefoa, in a wood where my troops are sheltered from the great heat of the sun. The enemy cavaliers traversed the camp I had left and skirmished for half an hour with 50 chasseurs who were observing them. It was they who began the fire, and the first shot they fired wounded a trumpeter.

"On the 13th of August, Marshal Bugeaud writes: For several days I have been informed, by the Arab tribes subject to us in the Sahel of Nedroma and the Upper Tafna, that the camp of the Emperor's son has been reinforcing itself daily. The absence of all communication with our friends at Ouchda, the volleys of artillery and musketry that we hear morning and evening in the enemy's camp, the braggadocious and presumptuous spirit that we know reigns in that camp—all announce to us hostile projects on a grand scale. It is not, you may be sure, to make us evacuate our post of Lalla-Magrenia that such preparations are made; the matter is nothing less, according to the camp's talk, than to take from us the greater part of Algeria; it is not even conceived that we could resist for a single instant.

"I judged that we could not remain longer on the defensive without great dangers. The least of all is that the enemy grows stronger every day. But what is chiefly to be feared is that, numerous as it is, it should make detachments on my flanks to go and raise the country behind me.

"It is also to be dreaded that a longer wait should cause to cease the good will of the tribes that form my convoys, whether from Hemcem or from Djemma-Ghazaouat.

"From a signal station that I have established on an elevated knoll to the west of Lalla-Magrenia, one can perceive the Moroccan camp, which appears to be on the hills of the right bank of the Isly, at a distance of about two leagues behind Ouchda. It indicates forces considerable in number.

"As to the state of things on the frontier, the menacing attitude of the Moroccans, their provocations and the daily growth of their forces—one sees that the patience and long-suffering of Marshal Bugeaud have been great, in the face of hostilities so glaring. No one should blame him, since by this conduct he has placed right and justice on the side of France, and victory also, when the measure of moderation had been filled to overflowing.

"Yesterday a thousand horses came to reconnoitre us; perhaps they supposed we had quit the neighbourhood of Lalla-Magrenia, because for four days I have moved my camp to the confluence of the Oued-el-Abbess and the Ouardefoa, in a wood where my troops are sheltered from the great heat of the sun. The enemy cavalry traversed the camp I had left and skirmished for half an hour with 50 chasseurs who were watching them. It was they who began the fire, and the first shot they fired wounded a trumpeter.

"It is thus beyond doubt that the Moroccans seriously desire war; they have assembled near Ouchda considerable forces, and they are expecting others.

"In this occurrence, and in the certain expectation of a great day, I thought it my duty to call to me General Bedeau; I reckon he will rejoin me the morning after tomorrow.

"The same day in the evening I shall make a movement forward.

"Since several days I was informed, by the Arab tribes subject to us in the Sahel of Nedroma and the Upper Tafna, that the camp of the Emperor's son was reinforcing itself every day. The absence of all communication with our friends at Ouchda, the salvoes of artillery and musketry that we hear morning and evening in the enemy camp, the braggadocious and presumptuous spirit that we know reigns in that camp—all announce to us hostile projects on a grand scale. It is not, be assured, to make us evacuate our post of Lalla-Magrenia that such preparations are made; it is nothing less, according to the camp's talk, than to take from us the greater part of Algeria; it is not even conceived that we could resist for a single instant.

"Having rallied M. General Bedeau yesterday, I determine to march forward this evening. I shall make three leagues across the plain until nightfall, simulating a grand foraging expedition. I shall halt there in marching order, and have my columns sleep for a few hours; and tomorrow, at early dawn, I shall arrive at the Isly, two leagues from the head of the enemy's camps.

"I shall halt there for an hour, if I find no enemy, to let the men and animals drink, and then I shall advance to attack if the enemy is still in the same place. If it should have retired towards its rear, it is probable that I should halt at Djerf-el-Akhdar to let the great heat pass, and that I should attack in the evening, or at the latest the next morning. I have about 8,500 infantrymen, 1,400 regular cavalry, 400 irregular cavalry, and 16 mouths of fire, of which 4 are field guns. It is with this small numerical force that we go to attack this multitude, which, according to all accounts, numbers 30,000 cavalry, 10,000 infantrymen, and 11 mouths of fire.

"But my army is full of confidence and ardour; it counts upon victory just as its general does. If we obtain it, it will be a new example that success is not always on the side of the big battalions, and one will no longer be authorised to say that war is but a game of chance.

"I believed that someone was aiming at the convoy that was coming to me from Nedroma. To protect it, I advanced three battalions on the hills of my right. The convoy arrived in the evening without having been attacked. Upon returning, the cavalry set fire to our houses, between Ouchda and Lalla-Magrenia.

"Thus, no more doubt—the Moroccans seriously desire war; they have assembled near Ouchda considerable forces, and expect others.

"In this juncture, and in the certain expectation of a great day, I thought it my duty to call to me M. General Bedeau; I count upon his rejoining me the morning after tomorrow.

"I shall have the honour to write to you again immediately after the engagement.

"P.S. I have the honour to send you a sketch representing the order of march and of combat that I thought it proper to adopt against the Moroccan troops, whose greatest strength is in cavalry. It was in this order that I fought on the 5th of July."

At the moment when the English Methodists are taking with such warmth the part of their co-religionist M. Pritchard, it is not without interest to know how M. Pritchard himself, during the time of his dominion in Tahiti, treated French Catholic missionaries. This is what one may see in the passage, which a journal cites this morning, from a letter of the Archbishop of Chalcedon [Monseigneur Francfort Chateaubriand—unclear]; we think it right to reproduce this curious document.

"Since 1825, the Holy See had requested of the house of Picpus three missionaries for the Sandwich Islands. They departed in the month of November 1826, and arrived at the Sandwich Islands in the month of August 1827. The government had no part in this undertaking. Where then is the French introduction of the missionaries into the Sandwich Islands? Our three missionaries were received with benevolence by the natives; the young King always regarded them with a favourable eye; but the Methodist minister Bingham, whom the Protestants themselves have proclaimed several times in public writings [text continues but becomes unclear in the source]..."

Our subjected tribes were not to suppose that the French corps dreaded the Moroccans, already beaten three times in their three aggressions; but the loyalty of these tribes could cool; the enemy could attempt a sortie to go and stir them up behind us. One will like this word of the Marshal's, when, speaking of the dangers there would be in remaining longer on the defensive, he says that the least of all lies in the daily increase of the number of enemies. He saw and seized the precise moment when action was required; his previsions, the calculation of his movements, and the plan he expounds are those of a general as skilful as experienced, whose view is clear, whose mind is positive, and whose resolution vigorous. He follows and knows how to put into practice the great lessons of the immortal Egyptian campaign, in a country where war presents itself to him under the same aspect.

POLITIQUE ET NOUVELLES DIVERSES

M. le comte Duchâtel reprend la signature de son département. (Montmorency.) M. le ministre des finances et M. le ministre du commerce sont de retour à Paris.

Par ordonnance du Roi en date du 26 de ce mois, le 3e collège électoral du département du Puy-de-Dôme est convoqué à Riom, pour le 21 septembre prochain, à l'effet d'élire un député, par suite de la nomination de M. Pagès aux fonctions de premier président de la Cour royale de Riom.

La Compagnie des avoués près le tribunal civil de première instance du département de la Seine a procédé aujourd'hui au renouvellement partiel de sa chambre de discipline. MM. Guidou, Castaignet, Dequevauyilter et Poussier ont été nommés en remplacement de MM. Glaàdaz, Collette, Dyvrande et Gamard, membres sortans.

M. Mangin-d'Oins, ancien député de Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), est mort hier à Paris, après une longue et douloureuse maladie.

Les exercices des écoles particulières des légions de la garde nationale du département de la Seine ont été suivis cette année avec beaucoup de zèle, et viennent de finir. L'école normale d'instruction et de manœuvres, instituée sous le haut patronage du lieutenant-général commandant supérieur et sous la direction de M. le colonel Bitfeldt, a terminé ses travaux ce matin, au Champ-de-Mars, avec sept bataillons, par des évolutions de ligne et un second exercice à feu.

Le zèle des officiers des légions, la réputation déjà ancienne, et surtout le dévouement des chefs instructeurs, ont rendu l'école normale encore plus nombreuse que les années précédentes.

Tant d'efforts soutenus, une instruction forte, transmise par les différens chefs de bataillon à tous les élèves, ont porté leurs fruits et les manœuvres ont été exécutées ce matin avec un ensemble et une précision remarquables. Chefs et élèves se sont ensuite trouvés réunis dans le banquet annuel, qui a eu lieu au foyer de l'Opéra. Au nombre des invités on remarquait M. le commandant de la place de Paris, et MM. les colonels des 71e de ligne, 2e et 17e légers, qui, après avoir prêté à l'école le concours le plus empressé comme le plus précieux, sont venus témoigner par leur présence au banquet de l'union et des sympathies qui existent entre la garde nationale et l'armée.

Divers toasts avaient été arrêtés par la commission du banquet. Ceux portés par le général Carbonel, chef de l'état-major général, sur le Roi et la famille royale; et par M. le commandant Rousset, de la 1ère légion de Paris, sur les armées de terre et de mer, et aux princes qui s'illustrent avec tant de bienveillance, de courage, leur succès et à leur gloire, ont été accueillis par le plus vif enthousiasme.

Par ordonnance du Roi, en date de Neuilly, le 26 août, l'intérim du département de l'intérieur, confié au ministre secrétaire d'État de l'instruction publique par une ordonnance du 3 août, cesse à partir du 26, et M. le [text appears truncated].

Various news items from across France and Europe:

From Limay, Seine-et-Oise, 26 August: On Sunday, 25 August, the sub-prefect of Mantes, M. Deplanques, surrounded by local authorities, clergy, and the national guard, laid the foundation stone of the long-awaited bridge of Limay amid the acclamations of an immense crowd. The sub-prefect, in a speech expressing regret at the absence of M. Aubernon, prefect of Seine-et-Oise, and paying tribute to the devotion and talent of M. Engineer Gigot, author of the bridge project, recalled that since 1765, when the illustrious Peyronnet designed the bridge of Mantes, the utility of that at Limay was recognized. He noted that successive governments had all recoiled before the expense that its construction would occasion. But at last, said the sub-prefect in concluding, this long-desired bridge shall be owed by our grateful populations to the government of July, to the King of the French. Cries of 'Vive le Roi!' repeated a thousand times with enthusiasm greeted this warm address. M. Engineer Gigot then traced the history of the project. M. the cure of Mantes worthily closed this ceremony, blessing the works and pronouncing a touching and edifying discourse on the benefits of science and genius united with religion. A banquet offered by M. Engineer Gigot, and a ball given by the town of Mantes, joyfully concluded this fine day whose attendants will long retain the memory.

From Bamberg, Bavaria, 21 August: The railway from our town to Bamberg, on the different sections of which work has been proceeding simultaneously for some time, has just been completed. Yesterday trials were made, which proved entirely successful. The length of this railway is nine and a half German miles, forming somewhat more than twenty French leagues. It will be inaugurated on the 28th of this month, for the festival of the King of Bavaria [King Louis I of Bavaria].

From Cologne, Prussia, 24 August: Monday evening, after the arrival of the last train from the Bonn railway, when all passengers had left the station, employees, visiting as usual all the carriages of this train, found on the roof of one of the coaches a basket with a cover, fastened only by means of a small piece of string. They opened this basket, and to their great astonishment found a newly-born male child asleep within, who, awakened by the movement of the basket, cried out. Searches made to discover the person who had left this child in the carriage being without result, the railway direction generously took charge of having him raised.

From Madrid, 19 August: Last night, at midnight, a police commissioner, accompanied by his agents, presented himself at the offices of the newspaper Espectador. The purpose of this search was to arrest M. Iglesias, former editor of this journal, who, it is said, has taken refuge in Paris, and M. Serrano, former director of the same paper. The most minute searches were made without success. Police agents stood sentinel even in the Café des Deux-Frères, which was supposed to have secret communications with the Espectador offices.

From Marseille: The princes of the family of Méhemet-Ali have taken possession, at the Hôtel d'Orient, upon their departure from quarantine, of apartments that had been prepared for them. These young princes have already visited some of the establishments of our city, whose members of the house Pastré are doing the honours; they have been the object, on the part of our population, of curiosity full of good will and cordiality. Their dress is simple; they wear the frock-coat and the fez of Turkish officers; a rich scimitar is attached to their belt. The son of Méhemet-Ali and that of Ibrahim-Pasha will remain a few more days at Marseille; they will be preceded to Paris by their fellow-students who are to leave our city this morning.

From Toulouse: The important works being executed on the Saint-Maur canal, having been interrupted by bad weather, the closure of this canal, which was to cease on 29 August, will continue until the 5th of September.

Various judicial and administrative notices: Appointments of presidents and secretaries to various agricultural and commercial councils in departments including Aisne, Drôme, Eure-et-Loire, Gironde, Haute-Saône, and Saône-et-Loire. These officials include M. Odilon Barrot (president of the Aisne council), M. Decazes, peer of France and grand referee of the Chamber of Peers (president of Gironde council), and others.

Mme the Duchess of Orléans has sent to M. Daniel, engraver, a magnificent ruby pin set with diamonds, in testimony of her satisfaction for the chronological medal of the Kings of France, which he dedicated to the Count of Paris.

M. Jules Janin has revised and entirely retouched his charming novel Le Chemin de Traverse [The Path of Crossing]. He has made of it, in a manner, a new work, which is being published in instalments by MM. Michel Lévy frères.

From Harfleur, 25 August: This morning, around seven o'clock, in the midst of a heavy downpour, a hailstone whose weight could be estimated at one and a half kilograms fell from the electric cloud before the house of M. Dubois, deputy. A woman passing nearly was crushed by it. Among the fragments gathered on the square, some were larger than a fist.