The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-07 00:00:00

LOUIS NAPOLEON.

The Paris correspondent of an American paper
writes, " Louis Napoleon rises at seven in the summer
and eight in the winter ; examines immediately
letters a documents of importance; arranges the
business 3f 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 he takes his seat at the
Council of the Ministers, who asually assemble about
noon. He rides as often as possible, and for about an
hour and a half 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
foreigners. His 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
him out of humour but once or twice, and then
his dissatisfaction was scarcely manifested. The
English stories of 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 be close.
From time to time he talks over with the most intelli-
gent men about 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, as 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 approaching one of the sentinels
near the obelisk, asked whether he had heard 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, 'Mon cher, it is done; let us go.' They retreated
towards the Palace Elyiee. The event was the arrest of
General Changarnier; the speaker, Louis Napoleon,
who had come forth the better to hear the concerted

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BROMPTON HOSPITAL FOR CON-
SUMPTION.

A festival in celebration of the commencement of
the east wing of this rising charitable institution was
held on Wednesday, at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-
street, and was presided over by his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge. Among the company present were
—Lord W. Paulet, the Earl of Donoughmore, Lord
Bateman, the Hon. O. Duncombe, the Hon. Captain
Fitzmaurice, Sir Thomas Gladstone, Sir James Lush-
ington, Sir Peter Pole, the Rev. Sir H. Foulia, 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 daring the year has been 3,199, show-
ing an increase of 136. In advocating the claims of
the institution to public support, which he 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
Ransford and other vocalists, were unexceptionable.
11r. 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.