The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-02 00:00:00

STATUE OF NAPOLEON I,

A letter from Paris say::--
" In a day or two the Emperor Napoleon will dis-
appear from the eminence on which he has long
stood with a firm footing which nothing has till
now disturbed. I allude to no living potentate, but
to the statue of Napoleon 1., which is about to come
down from the pillar on the Place Vendome. The
scaffolding, which is now completed, rests on the
gallery on which visitors stand who wish to have a
view of Paris and ils environs. The total elevation
of the pillar is 135 ft. The statue itself, which is lift.
or 12ft. high, is now almost entirely concealed from
view by the hoarding which surrounds it. For
some days all that one could catch a glimpse of was
the face and cocked hat. Persons passing the Rue
de la Pais or the Rue Castigleone, attracted by the
operations, stand and look on, apparently amazed
at the unceremonious manner of the workmen,
either astride on the shoulders or fastening pes
round the legs of the statue, while every precaution
is taken against the Emperor falling suddenly from
his pedestal to the ground.
As I have already mentioned, the idea of re-
moving the statue which represents Napoleon in
military costume, and in its place putting one which
would recall, not the great captain, but the founder
of a dynasty, is not a new
on©,
a .
present Sovereign immediately
vtely e
a It occurred to the
!ter the coup d'etat.
The column of tiae
Place
every-
body knows, made of the Russian and Austrian
cannon taken at thesaftbattle of Austerlitz, and the
h
bas-reliefs of the
~ spirally ascending to the
capital, display in chronological order the principai
actions of the army fromr, its departure from Bou-
logne to that battle.onth he costume which the com-
mander wore ose occasions was, one would
suppose, most appropriatet. for a monument which,
unlike those of the triumphal arch at the top of the
Champs Elysees, allegorical. figures;
and both the taste' andihthyeepeoelicy of:ubstitut:lfigthea
Roman Emperor may be doubted. he. mass h
French people have ever associated him with t o
little cocked hat and the gray redingote. It is in
this costume by which he is known to them. For
one print or statuette you see of Napoleon in his
robes, with the sceptre iu one hand and the globe
in the other, you see a thousand in the simple mili-
tary dress. On foot or on horseback, in bronze or
in marble, or in humble plaster,—wherever he is
represented, in the salon, in the wineshop, or in the
clurumiere, it is the same. I doubt whether the
French peasantry or the French trooper would re-
cogniso him in any other form. They know him
and remember him more by his military deeds than
by anything else. They are more familiar with
the great soldier who won Lodi, Arcola,
Marengo,
Austerlitz. and Ulm, then with the Pm fonntler of
a dynasty."'

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocK.

RUSSIA.

HAMBURG, Oct. 31.—Than Invalide Busse pub-
lishes an Imperial order taat no resignations of
either officers in the army or civil functionaries
shalt be accepted. The same, journal states that the
triba of the Abadsekbs (Western Caucasus) have
just made their submission to the Russians.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

A court-martial assembled on Thursday on board the
,inoflitahrnoaze, for the purpose of trying Jas.
Franklin, A.B
Capt. R.. Lambert, fore screwh. steam frigate Liverpool, 39,
August, at Leith, desertedaving on or about the 3d day of
Rob and a
rotnt
Pit.h e
ifrompo.osm matnhdes soafi d
Lieut.ship ship,
12th Sept. disobeyed thesh
g u n corporal,s whisenhtserieonz:s
hiosroodue
er
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pleadedto ho l holy
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man and Peter Daine,
stunt deck between two
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hbeei being
was
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mile prisoner having pleaded
gy to the first charge, an
of
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that the second charge had bzeirith.
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saebrov,luiver
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out
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to 18 months' imprisonment
expiration to be dismissed her 11Ia
chief engineer
prisoner
guilty, ship from
court-martial was held on Mr. Geo.
of her Majesty's ship Liverpool, for having,
be dis-
service, been absent without 11
from
placed at
the 22d to the 29th of Sept., 1863. T
guilty, and the Court determined that
missed from her Majesty's ship Liverpool, and übld
the bottom of the list of chief engineers in here
14a.lesty,8
navy.

The following appointments were made on Friday at the
Admiralty :—Commander E. J. Pollard, to the Royalist
Commander H. Hawkes, to be an Inspecting Commander
of the Coastguard, vice E. Scott, deceased ; John Fisher,
surgeon, to the Royalist; John F. Wray, acting assistant-.
surgeon, to the Royalist ; and James Campbell, supernume..
rary in the Asia, promoted to first class assistant-engineer.
The following appointments were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty :—Henry B. Akaster, master, to the Resis-
tance ; James E. Storton, assist.-paymaster, in charge to the
Landrail ; F. 0. L. Patch, assistant-paymaster, to the
Aboukir; Charles J. Pawsey, assist-clerk, to the Phaeton;
H. B. Fabian, engineer, to the Royalist ; Frederick W.
Sutton, engineer, to the Indus as supernumerary; and
William E. Grigg and John Anderson, assist.-engineer, to
the Royalist.