The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-13 00:00:00

THE FRENCH NAVY.

Rear-Admiral Berard died at Toulon, on the 7th,
in his 56th year,.after a long illness.
Orders have been given for the Gomer steamer,
and the Heron and the Narval, to leave Toulon for
the Levant.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TlMES.—There is a limit to the powers, and even to
the ambition of man, which generally confines his atten-
tion to one thing at once, so that whatever minor affairs,
whatever distractions, or recreations, or subsidiary em-
ployment may occupy him for a while, he cannot be
really, to use an intelligible figuse, hunting two foxes at
once. Now there are two great objects which may very
naturally engage the attention of a man who, like Louis
Napoleon, finds himself in possession of all but absolute
power in a great and warlike nation. He may wish to
make that power quite absolute, hereditary, dignified
with sacred sanctions and high-sounding titles—in fact,
an empire; or he may surrender himself to the military
genius of his nation, and seek to extend its boundaries,
to repair its reverses, or to acquire for it international
supremacy. These are wholly distinct objects, and no
man of the smallest discretion who had not tho-
roughly mastered one would put his hand to the
other, unless, indeed, as was the case at the begin-
ning of this century, conquest should happen to be
the only way to empire. The President's reply to
the President of the Chamber of Commerce at Bor-
deaux admits of the simplest interpretation, and
may be almost considered sincere. Optat quieten: Tan-
talus. No man has so good reason to wish for peace
at this moment as Louis Napoleon. Peace brings him
an easy triumph through the provinces which he has
long claimed and never yet seen. Ile appears every-
where as the author of peace. That is the only victory
which can by any possible flattery bo ascribed to him.
War would bo a cloud on the fairest day that ever rose
on the dreams of selfishness. War would bring trouble,
reverses, expense, rivals, and risks of all kinds. But,
above all, " one thing sit once." Be Emperor first, and
conqueror in due time. Empire is actually offering
itself. It is possible that Louis XIV. and Napoleon
liked war for its own sake, and were ready to risk their
thrones for conquest and glory. There are men, too,
who like fighting as others like hunting, shooting, fish-
ing, and decoying. Bat Louis Napoleon's taste and
faculties are alike of the average order. He is seeking
empire, and apparently will grasp the glittering bauble
in a very few days. But " there is many a slip 'twist
the cup and the lip," and he does not want war. In
this sense there can be no doubt that the empire is
peace. It is peace so long as it can only be obtained by
peace, and so long as the only motive for vesting empire
in the man who asks for it is the memory and the
suffering of civil disorders. France has just passed
through, if indeed it has passed through, a terrible
crisis. Various " families of Ideologists," demo-
cratic, socialist, legitimist, and imperial, have
struggled for the mastery, and, as usually
happens in an old nation, the imperial has
hitherto carried the day. Soon or late the army con-
quers a street mob, and an emperor, the creation of an
army, reaps the harvest of a revolution. We know this
in England, and the great reason why Englishmen
won't have a democracy is, that beyond that democracy
they see a certain vieion of cold-blooded despotism. The
Parisian mob is not so prudent; and they have brought
about a state of things eo intolerably bad, that France
accepts a despotism as the lesser evil of the two. In
this conflict of " ideas" the Napoleonic have triumphed,
for the simple reason indicated by Louis Napoleon him-
self, that they are less of " ideas," and more an affair of
physical force, than the rival ideas. In a street row
the frightened do not run to a street orator for pro-
tection, or even to an archbishop, but to a policeman;
if the row becomes worse, they leave him for a soldier;
and so on till they find themselves behind camps and
fortifications. This is not a matter of moral prefe-
rence or deliberate choice, but of immediate necessity,
just as a man who is pursued by a bear will throw
himself into the sea, or, if his house is on fire, will
leap out of the window. France has jumped into
Louis Napoleon, and both are making the best of it;
indeed, they are quite right to do so. The act might
not be very glorious, and the refuge might not be much
more honourable than the meanest recesses to which the
pursued have sometimes betaken themselves; but the
only rule of these questions is necessity. Necessity
understands the proportion of the means to the end far
better than philosophy. In the fable the fox had a
thousand means of escape, and was afraid of no hounds.
The cat, on the contrary, confessed its terrors, for it had
only ono resource. The hounds came; the cat ran up a
tree, and the fox, after much turning and winding, was
run into and killed. French philosophy is the fox that
exhibited so much superfluous and unprofitable wisdom.
The common sense of the French nation at largo is the
cat that found a hole, no matter where, but it answered

the purpose. Louis Napoleon, however, has no sooner
heralded his triumph and his title to empire, than he
distrusts his own " peace." The idea must he sus-
tained. Brilliant as was the achievement of the 2d of
December, it was hardly sufficient for the founda-
tion of an eternal dynasty. A thousand years
hence Napoleon the Hundredth will hardly rest
the claims of his dynasty on the massacre of the Boule-
vards in 1851, or even the provincial tour of 1852. Long
ere that day comes something else will be required to
sustain the flagging loyalty 01 the people, now so anxious
to escape from the stigma and perils of citizenship.
That something cannot be supplied by public buildings,
by lengthening doe streets, by rebuilding cathedrals, by
enlarging the circle of fortified towns, or by scraping
the outside and painting the inside of the Tuileries.
Architecture, upholstery, and the stage management of
an Imperial progress through well-prepared cities, can
only satisfy one phase of the national mind, and that
phase is but a short one. Louis admits the difficulty,
and glances at the conquests still in store for him, when
he has effected a sate return to the capital and tri-
umphed over the scruples of the Senate. He will still
have to conciliate factions, and to throw into the great
current of public opinion the eddies and back
currents that now diminish and impede it. Ho
will have to reclaim and elevate a depressed
population. He will hare to enter on a vast
amount of material undertakings, railways, canals, roads,
ports, packets, and other utilities, in which France has
hitherto permitted herself to be beaten by this country.
But there are voids that cannot be filled up by mere
matter, and there are cravings that rise about works of
undoubted usefulness. An army of half-a-million of
men will contain a large proportion of lofty and restless
spirits whose daily study and hourly meditation is on
the wars of the Republic, and the career of Napoleon
and,his Marshals, all of whom were once men like them-
selves. Their field, their taletit's; their hopes are in war.
—A lecture was delivered last evening
_
The morality, the necessity, and the utility of war are
to them matters of utter indifference. All that they ask WATERLOO.
I,sx3dltemas Morris, late sergeant of the 2d
is to bu led against a foe. As far as they are concerned, on this now doubly interesting subject, at the Commercial
it is the duty of the Government to designate the capital
ientthis memorable engagement,
Foot.
to be occupied, or the fortress to be taken, and it is their battalion of the
taken an activegiawrtentuof As the lecturer had
place to do it. If there is to be no fighting they are Rail, Chelsea,
himselrfio
taus- scenes and Lid
deprived of their due, far.i
an.
The
incidents of the day were described
and if they are nut allowed ,chithvaa vigour and truthfulness
an opportunity of studied narrative of a mere histo lectthnerecrogoalvaenda
promotion, plunder, or prize-
money, they are disappointed Socialists, neglected in the sketch of the field of Waterloo, showingr
organization of labour. In the long list of public works the two armies at the commencemento
the
teheexhactttreositeone o f'
enumerated by the President there is not ono that plainedh the mode of attack, and detailed the progress of the
would employ a musket or a sabre, unless indeed to keep fight through all its eventful stages. The impetuous but in-
the labourers at their posts, or to collect the new taxes effectual charge of Cuirassiers on British squares - the attack
this expenditure might entail. It may reasonably be
0., thleugsermhont—the'conflict of heavy cavalry—the taking
apprehended, therefore, that after a few years of inces- t
death ofiPril; nine
an'd
partial success of the enemy— the
sent excavation, shipbuilding, bousebuilding,. end. taxhae-
British artilienr
n—the slaughter of the imperial guards by the
Lion, the half million soldiers, backed poh sea; b I b
what -t Ire toy tdo, sanguinary dr3a'na, aan dt
o the
its variousei
ose eventsw.,were
enYhteircehdconn dounctweditthhisa
sympathy of the people, may
as'' is for the rest of . spirit which could belong to none but an eye-witness of the
and why work is not found for themwaitfor an opportunitv scene. The audience, which was both numerous and respect-
the people. True, the willable, testified their interest and approval of the narrative by
beound in some one ' t''
but an opportunity will soono repeated plaudits. The lecturer, Mr. Morris, is also, we fin-
which are sure t
those petty misunderstandings
get and o occur
derstand, an author, and has recently published a small
every now and tnen between
which
thegjealous work, entitled " Recollections of Military Service," which
Powers. The ardour with whit. French nation abounds with stirring detail and interesting anecdote,—
can enter into a race, whether for an Emperor /Whine Journal, Saturday, Oct. 9.
or a Republic, for Ppeaceceor DEATH war, is singularly ,
FROM llvnlioruonta.—A most nnslanebolv
exemplified to•day in the proclamation of the Em- circumstance occurred at the tollgate near Black-hill on
pits by the Mayor of (tyres! In this blasphemous Wednesday last. Abcut six or seven weeks ego Mrs.
document Louis Napoleon receives all the worship that Newton, who keeps the toll-gate, had her little grand-
degenerate Rome lavished on its V
..esacs, and still more, daughter, a child five years of age,. who was playing at her
inasmuch as the titles, the attributers, and the very work door, bit by a hound-dog belongingi
bours, wlicti was in a rabid state. t was. followed as far as
of the Saviour are all infamously parodied to describe
Louis Napoleon's services to France, and the obligations Annfield Plain by a number of men,
on
it who destroyed it, but
not before it had
facebitten several dogs way. The child
, under which be has aid it. No one can read this paper,which bled profusely. Med•
' the language of which is too abominable to be quoted , cal
ls
aid bitten
wa Isla the
obtained, and
andp'the child's face healed, no unl--
more than once in these columns, without a painful con- , pleasant symptoms occurring until Sunday, the 26th ult.,
viction of the excesses to which passion or interest will when the child complained of her head ; through the course
hurry our neighbours. Whether turning out and hunt- of Monday she was thought to be a little better, but at night
ing down a Constitutional sovereign, or cringing to an she grew worse, Oa Tuesday two medical gentlemen at-
unconstitutional despot, or fighting an army in the tended her, and continued to do so until her death, which
streets, or clamouring fur the conquest of a continent, took place the following evening in great agony. An inquest
or fur the supremacy of an ocean, they are stili the same ' was held on Frida,y last on the body by Mr. Favell, when
' 'the verdict was,,, ' Died from hydrophobia, brought on from
ever running into extremes, '
returning perhaps at last to the bite of adog. —.lVciecastk Chronicle.
their senses, but only when they have reaped the bitter
preliminary steps Are being taken for th© eatabli6h..
fruits of their Wily, and, unfortunately itifiioted on '
wilt of 1 ttQO public libUtrY ill Mitryllbgas.

GERMANY.
The Frankfort Journal gives the following from
Aative to the arrival of the Sing of

Stuttgardt relatt.
Hanover, on his visit of mediation to the K.
tng of
Wirternberg •
.' What the plenipotentiaries of the Berlin Conference,
now °toiled, what the different Ministers, could not effect,
the Xing of Hanover has undertaken. His Majesty has
,arrived here to endeavour to prevent a total break up of
tho Zollverein, and to mediate between the Cabinets of
the Coalition States and Berlin. We are assured on
good authority that this princely and patriotic effect
will, as far as Wirtemberg is concerned, succeed. At
the same time.wo hear that those who have entertained
the apprehaneson or the hope that Hanover would try to
withdraw from the treaty of September will, according
to expressions that have fallen from his Majesty, be nn•
deceived. His Majesty has declared distinctly that
Hanover will adhere to the treaty with Prussia."

Rear-Admiral of the Blue, Fairfax Moresby, C. 8., to be
Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain Norwich Duff to be Rear-Admiral on the Re-
served Half-pay List.
Captain Sir Charles Christopher Parker. Bart., to be
Rear-Admiral on the Reserved Half-pay List.
Captain John Edward Walcott, to be Rear-Admiral on
the Reserved Half. pay List.
Captain the Right Honourable Frederick, Earl Spencer,
K.G. and C. 8., to he Rear-Admiral on the Reserved
Half-pay List.
Captain James Hanway Plumridge to be Rear-Admiral
of the Blue,
The following Captains on the Retired List have also
been promoted to be Retired Rear-Adarrals on the
terms proposed in the London Gazette of Ist September,
1846, without increase ot pay :
Captain Thomas Ladd Peake.
Captain William Hendry.
Commission by her Majesty.
Royal Carnarvonshire Militia—Peunant Athelwold
Iremonger, Eacle (late Captain in her Majesty's 56th
Regiment), to be Adjutant.
Commission b tho Lord Lieutenant of Glamorganshire.
Charles Croyfts Williams, Esq., to be Deputy Lieute-
nant, Sept, I.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk.
Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Kat., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Oct. 6.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
The Hon. William Walter Legge, commonly called
Viscount Lewisham, to be Deputy Lieutenant; the Hon.
Arthur Wrottosley, to be Deputy Lieutenant; Samuel
Pole Shawe, Esq , to be Deputy Lieutenant, Oct. 9.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.
Robert Jones Adeane, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Edward Ball, Esq., M P., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Alexander Cotton, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
John Edward Fordhara, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant; Major Charles Hall to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Edward Hicks, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Joseph
Marshall, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; George On-
slow Newton, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Christo-
pher Robert Pemberton, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Joseph Sidney Tnorp, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Robert Gregory Wale, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Henry Woodruff, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Biscoe
Hill Wortham, Eeq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Aug 23;
Stanlake Ricketts Batson, Esq., to be Deputy Lieute-
nant; Lloyd Salisbury Baxcnd ale, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant; Tnomas Bowker, Esq., to be Deputy Lica-
tenant; James Cropley, Eeq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
John Dobede, E.q., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Rowland
Morris Fawcett, Esq . to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Thomas John Ficklin, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Frederick Daniel Fryer, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
John Dunn Gardner, Esq , to be Deputy Lieutenant;
William Goddard Jackson, Esq., to be Deputy Lieute-
nant; Henry Martin, Faq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Richard Simpson, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Charles Smith, E,q., to be Deputy Lieutenant; John
Taylor, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; John Vipan,
Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Sept. 21.
Cambridgeshire Militia—George Cole, Esq., Assist-
ant Surgeon, to be Surgeon, vice Eaton, retired, Sept. 28.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant ot Cumberland.
George Head Head, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant,
Sept. 1.
Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia—William
Henry Sharpe Sharpe, Gent., to serve as Adjutant, with
the rank of Captain, Sept. 30 ; John Harris, Esq., to be
Captain, ait. 6; John Stuart Cogan, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant; James Lamb, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Sept. 18.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
Thomas Cleaves, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Ed-
ward John Beckett Marriott, Esq, to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant; Theodore Howard Gallon, Esq.. to be Deputy
Lieutenant; Joseph Yorke, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant; Edmund Anthony Harley Lechmere, Etq., to
be Deputy Lieutenant; James Palmer Woodward, Esq,
to be Deputy Lieutenant; Walter Chamberlain Hem-
ming, Eel., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Joseph Bennitt,
Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Henry Homfray, Esq.,
to be Deputy-Lieutenant: John Deakin Onley, Esq., to
be Deputy Lieutenant; Martin Ricketts, Eeq., to be De-
puty Lieutenant, Sept. 27.
Royal Worcestershire Militia—Henry Handley
Elrington, Ezq., to be Captain, vice Wheeley, resigned;
George Ruddle, Esq , to be Captain, vice Martin, re-
signed, Sept. 14.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire.
Royal Flintshire Militia.—Arthur Willoughby Crewe
Read, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Simon, who
retires.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire.
Robert Andrews, Esq.. to be Deputy Lieutenant; John
Thomas Welshman AspinalL, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant, Oct. 8.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Richard Pudsey Dawson, Esq., to be Captain, vice
Shaw, retired, Oct. 1.
2d Regiment—George Willian Gunning, Esq., to be
Captain, Oct. 6.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the Eest Riding
of Yorkshire.
Henry Janson, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Corrigan,
retired, Sept. 25 ; William Hall Wilkinson, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Inman, resigned, Sept. 27.
This Article is substituted for the one which appeared
in the Gazette of Friday last.]
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant ot ktatlandshire.
Rutland Militia—Alexander Doria, Esq., to be First
Lieutenant, Oct. 4.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottingham.
Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghanashiro Rs.gi.
moot of Militia—Mandeld Parkyne, Esq., to be Captain
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—William
Tumour Graeville, Esq. (late Captain in her Majesty's
48th Regimen ,), to be Captain, vice Gore, resigned,
Oct. 7; John Annah Ambrose, Esq. (late of her Ma-
jesty's 22d Regiment), to be Csplaiu, vice Stone, re-
signed, Oct. 8; Ensign William Burden Brombead to be
Lieutenant, vice Edward Berry Oclebar West, deceased,
Sept. 20.
Commissions by the Lord-L;eutcnant of Surrey.
Ist Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militias—To be
Majors—tieorge Evelyn, late Captain Rifle Brigade,
vice Badgen, deceased; Thomas Henry Clarke Terry,
late 15th Hussars.
To be Captains—George Dennistoun Scott, late Cap-
tain Dragoon Guards, vice Lyater, deceased; Edward
Hugh Lsycester Penrhyn, vice Macdonald, superseded;
Clifford Henry, vice Long, resigned.
To be Lieutenants—Charles S. Benon, vice C. Frend,
resigned ; James Le Geyt Daniell, vice Beyfield, super-
seded ; Benjamin Cohen, vice J. Freud.
To be Surgeon—Richard Hassell, M.D., vice Cock.
2nd Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia.—To be
Major—John William Gooch Spicer, late Cap.ain 9th
Lancers, vice Payne. deceased.
To be Captains—Evelyn Latimer Parrett, late Cap-
tain 85th King's Ltght Infantry, vice Lord Cranley,
promoted; John Henry Ellis Ridley, late Captain 60th
Rifles, vice Barnes, resigned; George Best, vice Bankes,
resigned; William Richard Barnes , late Captain 27th
Bengal Infantry, vice Mangles, resigned; Alexander
Marshall, vice Grove, deceased; Henry Weston.
To be Lieutenant—Joseph Dingwall, vice Blatch,
resigned.

REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.
The Lords Commis,tioners of her Majesty's Treasury
having certifiei to the Commissioners for the Reduction
of the National Debt, in purguanee of the Act, 10th
Geo. 4th, c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and IF eland,
beyond the actual expenditure thereof for the year
ended the sth day of July, 1852, amounted to the sum
of one million seven hundred and forty-five thousand
four hundred and forty-two pounds sixteen shillings and
and four pence;
The Commissionera for the Reduction of the National
Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of four hundred
and thirty-six thousand three hundred and sixty pounds
fourteen shillings and one penny, being one-fourth part
of the said surplus of one million seven hundred and
forty-five thousand four hundred and forty-two pounds
sixteen shillings and fourpenco, will be applied under the
provisions of the said Act, between the 12th day of
October, 1852, and the sth day of January, 1853, to the
following purposes, viz.:—
To bo applied to the purchase of Stock £436,360 14
Add Interest receivable on account of
Donations and Bequests, to be ap-
plicd to the purchase of Stock

2,330 0 6

£438,740 14 7

National Debt-office, Oct. 7, 1852.
A. Y. SPEARMAN, Comptroller-General.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

George Morton, coal merchant, Great Scotlandlard.
John Hick, corn merchant, Wakefield.
BANKRUPTS.
.William Wellington and Robert Butterfield, lacemen,
Ktng'a-road, Brighton, to surrender Oct. 21, at one, and
Nov: 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell,
official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings, Moorgate-
street;
Reid, Longford, and Marsden, Friday-street,
Cheapside.

Richard Tamsett, builder, Woolwich, Oct. 22, at one,
and Nov. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Hodson
and Sparrow, Bucklerahury.
George Gardner, ironmonger, Woolwich, Kent, Oct.
26, and Nov. 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook. court, Basinshall-
street ; Llnklaters, Sise-lane, Bucklershury.
John Brimacombe, wine and spirit merchant, Fel-
moutb, Oct. 26, at one, and Nov. 23, at eleven, at the
Exeter District Court. Hirtard, official assignee, Exeter;
Taylor and Collisson, Great James-street, Bedford-row;
Laidman, Exeter.
aler in watches,at one, hardware
andrdw Nov.arotind
18, at
goods,lsaa Isaac
col db: Oct.
Exeter District Cidoußrtr.oadll. s
etreernamt, London;official
cloven,assig ne, at the Exeter; d ,
owner, Liverpool, Oct. 22 and
Bird, official assignee, Liverpool;
Cheshire, Oct.
Nov. 12, at eleven, at the LiverpoolreroberDtoins,trLioitveCropuorotl..
22 at twelve, et the
S:nmdulNi Lovanlg2,ford, ironmonger, Hyde,
District
BirnsighCourt.nLcam Neild,
Lee,
official
Manchester.. Manchester;
Hodgson,
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
T. Henderson, Cottage. place, Brompton.
1?. A. Simpson, master nalriner, Euston-square.
11. J. Preston, attorney-at-law, Maida-vale, Paddington,
A. E. Lhoyd, attorney-at-law, Toistlegrove, Brompton.
J. Blain, draper, Deverell• street, Dover-road.
J. Nisbet, Carpenter, Greeu-street, Bethnal-green.
3. L. Lawton, Bread-street, Cheapside.
B. N. Hardy, Chichester-place, King',-cross, Middlesex.
H. Elliott, steward, Bath-street, City road.
L. Brackenhury, Deputy-Assistant-Commissary- Gene-
e
ral, Russell-street, Kinit'd-road, Ch lsea.
J. Lessiter, cheese dealer, Whitley, Ilelksham, Wiltshire.
D. Jones, Bootle, Liverpool.

Bigg, Salford, Lancashire.
E. Cookson, Salford, Lancashire.
r ark, Liverpool.
Goodwin, butcher, Tortoth,