- Marshal SOULT has called into active service an additional
force of thirty-five thousand men, and a Royal ordinance to that effect- has been published in the Moniteur. This has given rise to much conjecture; and it has been surmised, that an army of observation. is to be at once despatched to the Pyrenees. But France, it is reasonable to suppose, would require no additional levies to enable; her to take that step : she must at all times have an immense dis- posable force out of her regular army of 400,000 men. The Times probably is right in considering the avowed reasons for this measure to be the real ones,—namely,' the expediency of supplying the vacancies to be created by the anticipated discharge of the class of conscripts who have served since 1825, and by the delivery of furloughs to other parts of the the present time, it would be strange indeed if vernment should neglect to keep up their-military
to the same point of efficiency at which it has been during the last few years.
The Ex-Dey of Algiers has been carrying on intrigues with the exiled branch of the Bourbons, and it is believed with some of the Continental powers, in order to disturb the French in their possession of Algiers. He has kept up an active correspondence with his adherents in Africa, and with the Beys of Tunis, Tripoli, and Constantine ; and to his proceedings the continued hostility of the tribes in the neighbourhood of Algiers is attributed. It has been ascertained that he has lately purchased an Austrian vessel of heavy tonnage, and a quantity of arms, with which he no doubt intended to make a descent on the African coast; but the French Envoy at Leghorn gave information to his Government of all his intentions, and a brig of war was sent to watch him. He has since sailed for Alexandria, being duly warned of his danger by his Bourbon friends.
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