The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-26 00:00:00

,‘ We understand that the immediate practical object
contemplated by the promoters of this movement is an
Educational Society, to be composed of the friends of a
national system, who will at once collect and disseminate
information calculated to improve and extend the present
means of education, and to pave the way for the effort of
the legislature, whenever public opinion shall have forced a
comprehensive measure from the Government. We are
convinced that such a society might, by making more
efficient the means already available for purposes of popular
instruction, confer a very great benefit upon this and the
neighbouring towns."

We see by the Cardiff Chronicle, that the Anniver-
sary of that great Welsh National Festival, the Cym-
rcigyddion, was held at Abergavenny on Wednesday
and Thursday last. As the object of this National
Festival—at which Welshman of all classes and par-
ties in politics meet together in good fellowship—is to
encourage the native music and literature of the coun-
try, it gives us pleasure to learn that it is yearly in-
creasing in popularity. The meeting of Thursday was
the best attended of any that has yet taken place.
Among the assembly was Mr. GUEST, who, at the
close of the proceedings, made some excellent obser-
vations on the propriety of giving every possible en-
couragement to modern And ancient Welsh Literature.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday contain no inte

gence of any interest from Africa, and nothing what
ever of a later date than the despatches announcing
the fall of Constantine. The KING has commanded
a statue of General DANIREMONT to be executed, in
order to have it placed in the National Gallery of
Versailles. The following sketch of his military career
and character is from the Journal de Paris of Tues-
day :

Governor Lieut.-General Count de Damremont has found
beneath the walls of Constantine, and at the entrance of the
breach of the conquered city, the death of a soldier, in his
33d year of military service. One of the children of that
military school which, ever since its first establishment, has
paid so glorious a tribute upon every field of battle, he
served through his inferior grades in the campaigns of the
empire, and distinguished himself in all. As aid-de-camp
to the Duke of Ragusa, in 1814, together with General
Fabvier, he was one of those who signed the Treaty of
Chevilly. The restoration found him Colonel, and gave
him, in 1830, the command of a brigade of the etpeditionary
army of Africa, under the orders of M. de Bourmont. He
obtained from the present Government the command of
the eighth territorial division ; and the firmness and modera-
tion, the calmness of temper, and presence of mind, which
were the characteristic traits of his character, maintained
order, and re-established tranquillity every time that anarchy
or counter-revolution attempted revolts in the south of
France.

When appointed, in 1836, to the Government of the
French possessions in the north of Africa, his conduct was
such as to make his administration generally esteemed, and
his character appreciated. As general en chef he fully de-
veloped those qualities which distinguished him as adminis-
trator, in the prudence of his measures, and his immovable
firmness. He was advancing to inscribe his name with
glory upon the annals of French history, when a Turkish
bullet arrived to terminate a life, which had been ever a
military one, by the death of a soldier. In the midst of the
general anxiety, and the fears which all those must feel
who have brothers, friends, or children in the French army
in Africa, the death of the general en chef is felt by
all as a public misfortune. It is, in fact, paying dearly, far
more dearly, than was thought, for the reparation of last
years disaster.
General Count Damremont may be considered as the
type of those officers, unfortunately so little known, who,
to bold, calm, and austere manners, unite a modest reserve
and a completely disinterested character—qualities too
often, eclipsed by noisy emptiness, and an exaggerated ex-
pression of devotion to their Prince. Characters of this
stamp, true models of soldiers, ought to prove that real mi-
litary excellence consists neither in ostentation of courage,
nor in over excess of zeal. Serious, modest, quietly ob-
serving, General Damremont, was always as he may have
last been seen in the high command he held. The mode-
ration of his feelings and opinions rendered the execution
of his military duties easy to him, under whatever circum-
stances these duties placed him. Among all, of whatever
political opinion, of whatever rank in the army, he had sin-
cere and grateful friends. His loss will be severely felt ;
and even if the death of a general thus buried in his tri-
umph were not to be deplored, we ought, at least, to ren.
der homage to a life so well passed, so gloriously termi-
nated.

. A 'le Dcum was celebrated at the Church of Ver-
sailles on Tuesday, to return thanks for the recent vic-
tory in Africa. All the Members of the Royal Fa-
mily at present in Fiance accompanied the KING and
QUEEN. Most of the Great Officers of State were in
attendance on their Majesties.
The following article from the Courrier Francais,
accounts for the coolness of M. de BA RA NTE's recep-
tion at the Court of St. Petersburg. It will, perhaps,
be remembered that when M. de BA RAN TE announced
to the EMPEROR the marriage cf the Duke of OR-
LEANS with the Princess HELEN of MECKLENBURG,
his IMPERIAL MAJESTY was reported to have an-
swered, " Very well, M. de BA RA NTE, Russia will
give a Princess to the Duke de BoRDEAux." To
this the French Ambassador answered, that he re-
quested to be informed whether his MAJESTY made
such a communication to him in a Ministerial or indi-
vidual capacity ? The EMPEROR replied, "In either,
or both ; as you please." The Courrier Francais
is of opinion that NICHOLAS is not influenced by the
marriages of the ORLEANS family, but by an irrecon-
cileable hatred of the Monarchy of July. We hold
a different opinion. It is not the Revolution of
July, but the growing power of France, and the recent
liberal policy of the KING, that alarms the EMPEROR.
While the Court remained in opnositien to the country
—while France remained distracted with reports and
fears of plots and conspiracies—while the law officers
found work for the police, the guillotine and the gal-
leys—and while the Royal family had its alliances
spurned by the branches of one of the oldest Imperial
houses in Europe, NICHOLAS was the dear friend of
LOUIS PHILIPPE. But the King of the FRENCH
discovered the madness of his own career—he cooled
in his attachment to Carlism—and conceded to the

nation the right of its omnipotence. The heir-ap-
parent to the French throne advocated a liberal policy
in his interviews with the Russian Plenipotentiary,
and the Protestant Courts of Germany offered to pro.
vide consorts for the Princes of the House of Orleans
—thus indirectly acknowledging their conviction of the
stability of a dynasty resting on the new order of things.
Hence, in our opinion, the sudden outburst of hosti-
lity on the part of the CZAR. The following is the
article to which we are referring:—
" The Legitimatise journals aro too precipitate in
announcing, the approaching marriage of the Duke de Bor-
deaux and the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia. It is true
that in August last there were some communications on