The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-12 00:00:00

THIS EVENING.

There will be acted the Military Spebtacle, The FALL of SEBAS-
TOPOL !
With the WONDERS OF THE CIRCLE ;
Mr. J. 11. Cooke's FLIGHT OF THE BRIDGES, and other
entertainments.

liox-olice open from Eleven till Fonr. Stage Sl:wager, Mr. W.
1"71;% Eqartrian Director, IV. tun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

T DAY—Morn. 6 min. aft. 3—Evening 22 min. aft. 3
T )-NoltßOW—Morn.4 L min.aft. 3—Evening 4 min. aft. 0

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 11.
THERMOMETER, IX THE SHAME.

53 highest since, noon yesterlsy.
51 -lnwost this morning and during the night.
51. —thii day at noon.
131 R 0 T.l T 1 1' , 30'29.
WIND, S.W.—Light, with fine sunshiny weather.

NOVEMBER 12.
57—Iiighost since noon yesterday.
49 -lowest this morning and during the night.
51 -nis day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.26.
Wm.—S. to S.S.E.—Light, with dull, murky weather.

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1855.

The halcyon dream of a lifetime has at length
been realised in these later days—in our own for-
tunate generation. England and France, united
together by tho bonds of a solid and sacred alli-
anY, are fighting, as all the world knows, nowa-
days, under their blended banners, the holy Battle
of Liberty and Civilisation. Their Sovereigns,
by a happy conjunction of names—TICTORIA. and
NAPOLEON. Their common foe, the great enemy
of European enlighten/neut. The proximate cause
of the struggle, the defence of a weak and friendly
State, outraged at once by the assailmont of its
rights and the invasion of its territories, by the
insolent aggression of a barbaric empire, whose
pride has, during and a century
a half, been
perpetually trembling as it were—a sTord-of
Dimoci.E3 over the nations of Christendom. It
is something worth living for to be enabled to look
back,
as-we may now, from the November of 1855,
to the period of those terrible and stormy wars
by which thepresent century was inaugurated. To
remember the seominglyimplacable hatred by vvhich
the two greatest nations of the world were then j
animated in regard to each other—and to contrast
that bitter animosity with the cordial brotherhood
through which their interests. are now known to
be identical. "It is thirty-five years',
said the
French Ambassador, M. le Comte DE PEB.osinedNoyn,
on Friday, speaking to the citizens of London,
under the roof of their ancient Guildhall—" It ie
thirty-five
years since the great Emperor NAPO-
LEON expressed his regret at being unable to
con-
quer
the prejudices of the tiro peoples,oand at not
being able to gain the friendship of England.
' What great things,' he exclaimed, we could do
together " Thos© "great things," as Monsieur
1)5 PEastoNr added, aro now actually being ao.,
colnplished. Yes—Waterloo has at length in-
deed been l'seen avencied. The deplorable blunder of
the miscalled Holy Alliance has at length indeed
been expiated. The prejudices of the two peoples
have at length •
.ir.deed been vanquished.
dream of the The day-
g'"iolls exile of St. Helena has
at last been rea •
I's". England and France
are united in the same holy cause, fighting no
longer face to face, but side by side,
their blood and wandering their shedding
g treasures toge-
ther in the sacred championship of European Fred.
don], and modern Civilisation.

Let it be remembered, now, that all this was no
-) mere idle aspiration with the conqueror of ma•
ren(Yo and Austerlitz. Let it not be forgotten, at the
prat Lilo al eat lookiog backd
ispk4sionitely t,

reco-ra,s of history, that as the thrice-elected ruler
of Vrance—thrice elected, strangely enough, as
h'al Imperial successor was to be some fifty years
afterwards---NAPOLEON strove, more than once,
osrsonally, by certain memorable efforts at con-
ciliation, to effect in his time that very alli-
ance which in ours has, thanks be to GOD, at
length been happily accomplished. Recollect !
—immediately the suffrages of the French people
•had consecrated the daring act of the 18th-
19th, BRUMAIRE, nominating NAPOLEON BONA-
PARTE the Chief of the Consulate, he, as
First Consul, wrote with his own band to King
GEORGE 111. that famous letter dated the 26th of
December, 1799, in which he urged upon the
Monarch the advantage as well as the glory of
an instant and permanent pacification. Recollect,
too—how five years afterwards, when he had just
been raised to the supreme dignity a q Emperor,
elevated on the shield of the popular suffrage,
anointed by the hands of the Pontiff, and
crowned with the crown of CHARLEMAGNE, NA-
POLEON, again with his own hand, addressed a
second and more urgent letter to King GEORGE
M.—the celebrated letter dated the 27th of Ja-
nuary, 1805—in which, while " conjuring" the
English Sovereign not to refuse " the happiness
of giving peace to the world," the Imperial Hero
wrote with so much grandeur and dignity,
" Though Peace is the wish of my heart, yet
War has never been adverse to my glory." Re-
member, moreover for these things should
not be altogether forgotten—that to neither of
these memorable letters of NAPOLEON was any
answer ever vouchsafed by the Sovereign to
whom they were addressed : any more than was

there an answer of any kind returned to the other
historic epistle, penned by the same hand, on
the 14th of July, 1815, and addressed to the
Prince Regent, from on board the Bellerophon.
Howbeit, all these things are, nowadays, essen-
tially of the Past, as we can at length afford to
remember, without only poignant regrets, regard-
ing them as calamities altogether irreparable—
rather let us say, in these wiser and happier
times, with sentiments of gratitude to the dispen-
sations of an overruling PROVIDENCE.
For already, as we have remarked—Waterloo
has been most nobly and magnanimously
avenged by France—the so-called Holy Alli-
ance has been most nobly and magnanimously
expiated by England. The two great peo-
ples are united at last in a solemn, sacred,
and solid alliance. The day-dream of the Gleat NA
POLEON is a day=dream now no longer. It is a
reality—an actual event, which, thanks he to
GOD, has in our own times been accomplished. It
is no longer—" What great things we could do "
—but " What great things we are doing to-
gether 1" The Exile of St. Helena, even in his
ashes, is an exile no longer—reposing as his heroic
dust has done, for these fifteen years past, upon
the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French
people, whom he loved so well : the ancient ani-
mosities of France and England buried with
him, as our present Prime Minister nobly
desired they might be, as far back as the
May of 1840, upon the occasion of the Em-
peror NAPOLEON'S second and more memorable
sepulture. England and France becoming more
recently, in the fullness of time, Allies so true
and intimate that, as the French Ambassador ob-
served on Friday evening, in the Guildhall of
London, "No human power can any more sepa-
rate them !" His Excellency adding, in conclu-
sion, " And when we bear in mind that the union
of our two countries, the one supreme in mari-
time affairs, the other in military, constitutes the
greatest power that has ever existed, we may await
in complete security the issue of this War." The
issue of this gigantic and memorable War, which
the despicable peacemongers of to .day are
vilifying as so deplorably iniquitous and so no-