The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-06 00:00:00

THURSDAY

LOUIS NAPOLEON.

Tho Paris correspondent of an American paper
writes, " Louis Napoleon rises at seven i❑ the summer
and eight in the winter ; examines immediately
letters and documents of importance; arranges the
business of the day with his aids and orderlies;
sees his physician at nine o'clock; takes a turn in the
garden of the Elys6e; looks over the newspapers,
particularly the English; gives special audiences
from ten to eleven ; then breakfasts ; he
eats little. After breakfast ho takes his seat at the
Council of the Ministers, who asually assemble about
noon. He rides as often as possible, and fur about an
hour and a halt a day, on horseback or in a tilbury; on
his return he transacts business until the dinner hour,
six o'clock. He entertains at dinner, several times
during the week, a large number of French and
fnreigners- Hes evenings are allotted to the theatres
or the balls. He often labours in his cabinet or
private study, a considerable part of the night. His
physician has mentioned to me that he never saw
bim out of humour but once or twice, and then
his ;dissatisfaction was scarcely manifested. The
English stories of his ' flying into a rage' in dialogues
with Ministers are ludicrously contrasted with his cha-
racteristic self-control. His habitual discretion and
reserve in speech are such that there is no political
Hobbs could unlock him when his purpose is to bs close.
From time to time be talks over with the most intelli-
gent men abou him what he intends to write; he digests
his subject, and prepares his topics and composition
before he uses his pen at all. Suffer me to scribble
here an anecdote which I have not seen in print.
It has been related to me by a distinguished French
gentleman, Its from the officer in command on the
Place de la Concorde. On the 2d of December,
before daylight, two persons, muffled in cloaks, one
a tall man, the other of middle stature, appeared on that
place or square, and approa6hing one of the sentinels
near the obelisk, asked whether he had beard the sound
of a bugle?—the answer was in the negative; but soon
there came three distinct notes of a bugle from the
direction of the Tuileries. The smaller man said to the
other, 'Men cher, it is done; let us go.' They retreated
towards the Palace Elyt ea. The event was the arrest of
General Changarnier; the speaker, Louis Napoleon,
who had come forth the better to hear the concerted
signal."

BROMPTON HOSPITAL FOR CON-
SUMPTION.
A festival in celebration of the commencement:of
the east Wing of this rising charitable institutioa was
held on Wednesday, at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-
street, and was presided over by his Royal Highness the
Duko of Cambriae. Among the company present were
—Lord W. Paulet, the Earl of Donoughenore, Lord
Bateman, the Hon. O. Duncombe, the Hon. Captain
Fitzmaurice, Sir Thomas Gladstone, Sir James Lush-
ington, Sir Peter Pole, the Rev. Sir H. Foulis, and
the Rev. R. Montgomery. A report was read by the
honorary secretary, Mr. P. Rose, from which it appeared
that after a season of comparative adversity and gloom
the institution, during the past year, has been rapidly
recovering its ground and establishing itself in
public favour. The number of indoor patients
has been 474, of whom 316 have been dis-
charged cured or greatly benefited, 68 have died, and
90 still remain under treatment. The number of out-
door patients during the year has been 3,199, show-
ing an increase of 136. In advocating the claims of
the institution to public support, which be did with
commendable earnestness, his Royal Highness the
Chairman stated that the contemplated extension of
the hospital would afford accommodation for 230
patients, and to demonstrate the necessity for this
he stated that there were at present 133 applicants
on the list waiting for admission. His Royal Highness
made so successful an appeal to the benevolent feelings
of the assemblage, that the secretary was enabled,
during the evening, to announce a list of subscriptions
amounting altogether to 3,3181. The Messrs. Staples
supplied an excellent dinner on the occasion, and
the musical arrangements, which were under the di-
rection of Mr. Grattan Cooke, assisted by Miss
Rinsford and other vccalists, were unexceptionable.
Mr. Toole was toastmaster. Of all the hospi-
tals in London those devoted to the relief of con-
sumption are at present the most entitled to public sup-
port. That disease is the peculiar scourge of this coun-
try, yet, singularly enough, it is the least to which the
means of alleviation and the resources of benevolence
have been applied.

A FEW GOOD THINGS.
You look," said an Irishman to a pale, haggard
smoker, " as if you had got out of your grave to light
your cigar, and couldn't find your way back again."
Mr. Barnum, in a recent temperance address, said
that he would give more for a drunkard who succeeded
in business, as a public curiosity, than for anything he
ever exhibited.
The less; wit a man has, the less he knows ho wants it.
Said one gentleman cf honour to another, " If you
, I shall post you in the papers."
don'tG o aaccheepatza"ysaid
a ltheengeo
other, " I had rather fill a dozen
papers than one coffin."
Philosophers say that shutting the eyes makes the
sense cf hearing more acute. A wag suggests that this
accounts for the many closed eyes that are seen in our
churches every Sunday,
A man who married Miss Take, after having courted
Miss Lloyd, was told by a friend that it was reported
he was married to Miss Lloyd. "It was a Miss Take,
I assure you. he replied.
A young gentleman being pressed very hard in com-
pany to sing, even after he had solemnly assured them
ho could not, observed they intended to make a butt of
him. "No, my good sir," said Colman, "we only want
to get a stave out of you."
The New York Herald says it don't believe in the
water-cure, and gives as a reason: " There is Mr.
(naming a noted Political editor), he has been lying in
his damp sheet for twenty years, and he's worse now
than ever."
A friend in South America writes that he is now
spending a month with a farmer who owns a thousand
miles of pasture, and a patch of corn larger than Scot-
land, while he has got so many cattle, that ho has to
boil the fodder for them in a volcano.
The Romans placed the hearth next in sacredness to
the altar. They were always ready to do battle pro aris
et focis; " but imagine yourself'," says Dr. 0. W. Holmes,
" rushing to battle for a hot air furnace, or making a
desperate stand with your hack against a stove pipe!"
,
There have been various definitions of " a gentleman,'
but the prettiest and most poetic is that given recently by
a fair American. " A gentleman," says she, " is a human
being, combining a woman's tenderness with a man's
courage."
A gentleman, it is said, had a board put up on a part
of his land, on which was written, " I will give this field
to any one who is really contented ;" and when an ap-,,
plicant came, he always said—" Are you contented ?
Th© general reply was, "I am." " Then," rejoined
the gentleman, " what do you want with my field?"

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—NEwspArERS FOR BEL-
Glum, FORWARDED VIA FRANcE.—flenceforward no postage
will be chargeable in this country upon newspapers addressed
to Belgium "via France," and a postage of one halfpenny
only will be chargeable on the delivery of newspapers from
Belgium, arriving by the:same route. Newspapers for Belgium
intended to be forwarded in the closed mails through France,
must be specially addressed " via France," or " via Calais.
CONSUMPTION OF COLE RAILWATS.—The in-
creased consumption of coke, and consequently of coal, from
which it is made, since the introduction of the railway sys-
tem, is truly remarkable, and still is not to be wondered at
when we take into consideration the thousands of miles of
iron way which girdle the land, the hundreds of locomotives
continually roaring and belching forth steam, and the number
of passengers and quantity of merchandise daily conveyed
hundreds of miles to their destination. From a trade circular
recently received, we find that in one house alone in New-
castle-on-Tyne, that of Messrs. Straker and Love, the trade
has more than doubled in the past three years ; their fort-
nightly pay-bills, wages, &c., amount to upwards of 40,0001.
per annum, and they pay in railway dues, for carriage of
coke, upwards of 60,000/. a year. Their make of coke is
upwards of 200,000 tons per annum, and they expect to raise
from their collieries this year about 500,000 tons of coals.
These coals are principally from the Brancepeth and Bitch-
burn Collieries, in the Auckland district of Durham, are
known generally as a productive gas coal, and the coke pro-
duced from it is highly appreciated for railway purposes, free
from sulphur, and of high evaporative power, leaving no
clinker on the fire bars, and the boiler tubes remaining unin-
jured.—arining Journal.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.--The an-
nual meeting of this society was held yesterday at Exeter
Hall; Lord Shaftesbury in the chair. The meeting was nu-
merously and influentially attended. The report stated that
" the entire receipts of the year, ending March 31, 1852,
amount to 108,4491. 03. 103., being au increase of 5,11 e/.
18s. 2d. on those of last year. The receipts applicable to
the general purposes of the society have amounted to 56,683/.
Id., including 34,100/. 19s. free contribntions from auxi-
liary societies. The amount received for Bibles and Testa-
ments is 51,7651. 121. 9d. The issues of the society for thu
year are as follows :—From the depOt at home, 805,181;
from depots abroad, 349,461; total, 1,154,642' being an
increase of 17,025 over those of last year. The total issues
of the society now amount to 25,402,309 copies. The ex-
penditure during the y
past year has amounted to 103,930/.
9s. 10d. The societ is under engagements to the ex-
tent of 52,3414 2s. 7d." On the motion of the Bishop
of Winchester, and seconded by the Chevalier Bunsen,
the report was unanimously received. Other resolutions
having been passed in connexion with the objects of the so-
ciety, the meeting separated, after a vote of thanks to the
Noble Chairman.
BREAD STUFFS.—The stuff which Mes9rs. Young
and Fitzroy Kelly have been talking, that no more bread is
consumed in England now than before the repeal of the cQui.
lan—Punch,