The French Government is preparing an expedition to their African
colony ; which is surrounded by such active and trouble- some enemies, as to render it a very expensive and profitless ac- quisition. Accounts from Toulon to the 25th of August state, that all the workmen in the arsenals were in full employment; and that a fleet carrying four thousand men, with artillery and horses, would be despatched to Oran forthwith.
The King of France, attended by two of his sons, but by none of his Ministers, arrived at Cherbourg on Sunday last. The fol- lowing extract of a letter in Galignani's Messenger of Tuesday last, shows how he was received.
g, On his Majesty reaching the confines of the town, a royal salute was fired by the whole of the ships of the navy, consisting of between twelve and fifteen frigates, brigs, and sloops, joined by all the forts and by every vessel in. the har- bour and roads ; when to this was added the acclamations of the immense mul- titude, all joining as with one voice, the effect was grand beyond deseription. At four o'clock, his Majesty alighted at the residence of the Maritime Prefect, He immediately received all the authorities, both civil and military. Addresses were delivered ; and among them, that by M. Bricqueville, as Colonel of the National Guards, was peculiarly impressive, and marked by its warm expres- sions of the devotion to the elective monarchy of July. 'The answers of the King were fraught with that dignity and felicity of phraseology which never fails his Majesty on any occasion. The weather 111151 not been favourable, and the wind continues to blow a g,?1,.. One r•F th • yachts ran on Or back, but was soon after got off without • dams.; ,Ir a whaler front ee broke frOm her moorings and Went ash', e His Majesty, after receiving tiie authorities, was waited upon by- Lord Durham, Lord Yarborough, Lord Ellenborongh, Lord Exmouth, Admiral Lord Colville, a son of Admiral Cod- rington, and other Englishmen of distinction. Lord Durham visited the Minister of Marine ; to whom, it is said, he declared, that the King of England had expressly commissioned him and Lord Yarborough to come to Cherbourg to compliment his Majesty, Louis Philip, on the occasion. The Queen has not yet arrived, but is every moment looked for. The whole town is brilliantly illuminated ; and a dense crowd is collected under the windows of the King, repeating shouts of ' Vive le Roi Vive In Famille Royale!' " The poor besotted Carlists declare that Louts PHILIP re- ceives all these tokens of popular affection in consequence of the belief that he is only a lieutenant of HENRY the Fifth—the miraculously-born child, who is destined before long to restore the golden age to France.
