VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXX, Issue 5114, 13 January 1874, Page 3

VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

Thk monthly inspection of tlio Auckland Royal < '.nalry Tioop took place yesterday afternoon, iu the Domaiu. In tho absence of Major Cooper, Sergeant Wamhouie acted 13 inspecting ollicur Ihoio was a good attendance, and tho men went tlnough their dull in a very satisfactory manner. Tho Sir (Joorga Uroy, Killo Unmade, and Engineer Cadets were mspictid List ni^ht by S< rgeant-Mjjor Jlanliin, and Scr^emb W.nnbouso. 'IlietiO jr.nthuil snldh i s nntst(ifd v ty Blionp, ,mkI wiit tluou^li tho VtMioiH evolutions m a highly trcditaolo manner. ! ho vw> kly dull fif tho lioyul Company, undei tho comnifMid of Ciptain Jiurn •, \\,n held yts'eidiy pvoni«i.; at fcho Uitll 4licd. 'J \" »o w is ;i moderate attendance. Serjt tnt Wainliow-e oontinneH to drill tho n'ivv oompmy (>f Volunteer Engineer Militia. Macli d.ty tho man «ire improving groatly in. their dull, and will shortly bo leaving for their new quarters.

]>K \TJE OF ABD EL K \DKIi 7 in death of this great Arab Him it.uu oi cuii m.; at the present tun'* ic< alls the d.i> s ol French efforts at recent colonization, mid the many wars and cost of the establishment by Fnwue of what has never been anything else than a nrhtary colony — Algeria, whore the uulotttiniite ]3azaine mid other French manhiils gamed certain fame and some unenviable notoriety. Abd-el-Iuider, who was tho son of a Marabout chief, was born about 18u7. When the French expedition in Charlc3 the Twelfth's time went against Algiers, Abd-el Kader, though joung, was elected chief by some ot the tribes who hoped that from the vigour of mind and bndy he displayed, he would be able to deliver the countiy from anarc-liy. He was soon after proclaimed Knur of M«i p a efirn, the pro\ inue where he was born. He deel ired a religious war against the French, who concluded with him a treaty, winch constituted him sovereign of the province of Oian, with a right ot the monopoly of the commerce of the entire country, similar to that exercised by Mehemet All m Eg) pt. Being de8iious of extending his dominions, he soon became embroiled with the French, and for more than ten yeai she waged war against them, until he was defeated, December 23, 18J.?, by Marshal Eugeaud, to whom lie capitulated on the faith of a promise that he should be allowed to retire to vUexandna or to St. Jean d'Acre. Instead, howcver.oHulfilliug this promise, tho French authori'ies imprisoned him in tho Castle of Pail, whence he was transferred, in ISIS, to thufc of Amboise near Blois. Horn ho remained until after tho proclamation of the Empire in LS52, when ho was released by the Emperor, Louis Napoleon, having sworn upon the Koran not to oppose the French rule in Africa. Abd-el-Kader not only kept Jus word, but treated with great kindness and consideration the Christian population of the East at the time of the Syrian massacres in 18(jO, for w Inch service he received a decoration from the Emperor of the French. Ho took up Ins residence at Boursa (or Broussa) in Turkey, the ancient 1'ruaa, and on Us destruction by an earthquake, February 2o, 1S.32, obtained pei mission from the French Governmeut, from which he received a pension, to remove lirst to Const \nlinople, and then to Damascus. In ISO.? he \isited Egypt, inspected the works ot the Sue/ Canal, and made the pilgrimage to Mecca.