The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-18 00:00:00

THERMOMETER.

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Saturday like the recent loyal manifestations
in Normandy, as an evidence that our
Gallic allies are very well satisfied with their pre-
sent position—prosperous at home and powerful
abroad. If we, enjoying privileges that are denied
to them, are magnanimously anxious that they and
all the world should be as well off as ourselves, we
must content ourselves with a quiet aspiration that

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the good time may ultimately arrive. The present
NAPOLEON has evidenced so much discretion

in understanding his position, and so much discr:

mination in carrying out its requirements, that we
are fain to hope he will himself be the first to

recognise when the pear is ripe, and accord to his
admiring people the liberal privileges which are as
yet denied to them. We may feel assured that,
when that day does arrive, as we confidently believe
that it will, the fete NAPOLEON will lose none of its
magnificence, but, if possible, its celebration will
be more unanimous and more sincere.

The English emigrant desirous of seeking a new
home has plenty of places to choose from. North,
south, east, or west he may go, where his own lan-
guage is spoken and his own countrymen have pre-
ceded him. The other side of the Atlantic appears,
however, to possess especial attractions, as the large
numbers who have even lately entered the motLy
population of the once United States bear witness.
The vast extent and well known fertility of the
country, the old familiar tongue, and the professedly
free institutions all combine to induce the settler,
who is perhaps saying good-bye to old England
with considerable reluctance, to take up his abode
in the American dominions. The same continent,
however, offers great advantages in another part,
and the intending emigrant would do wisely to
Pause and consider before he enrols himself among
the discontented subjects of President LINCOLN.
Re may find further north a territory which offers
him the means of fortune without the tyranny and
anarchy which would soon disgust him with life in
New yet,
or 'Washington. The recent discoveries
of gold in the Hudson's Bay territories will no doubt
give a wonae _
rial stimulus to the tide of emigration,
and when ()tee f,
fully supplied to means of communication are
sere will no longer be room to com-
plain of the
has been known of the population. It
gold existed in nth for soma time that
e" territories, but from
its having been eon"
near the Rocky mounts the Saskatchewan River
had been washed down it was supposed that it
rebm the„
would consequently onlymountains, and
the rivers. Fortunately this 'una the beds of
have been mistaken and
it
is
toJeeture proves to
,
ow
exist in more accessible districts,
°ld has been
ascertained to
s
found at Fort Ellice on the Assinibonie and also on
branches of the Qu'Appelle River. 119 these
unite and run into the Red River, and have :rear"
o con"
nection with the range of the Rocky Mountains,
it
is evident that the gold is distributed thronehent
the country, and the seeker will not have to make
his way a ross the great plains to reach the fe.
c:

voured spot. Should this country prove to possess
the universal wealth which some years since turned
the attention of the world to its neighbour Cali-

fornia, it will rapidly rise in importance. Its vas

extent will supply enough gold to enrich a hun-
dred generations, and when once the means of traffic
and communication are fairly open a new northern
nation will be added to the noble list of British

Colonies. As yet, however, it is but in its infancy,

and it is not likely to advance the faster from having

been put in subjection to a company. Oar previous

experience has taught us to look with some

suspicion on the government of companies. The
East India Charter, spite of its list of "councillors

and heroes whose names shall live for aye," left us
ua selti4factory legacy; tlic old Radeou's Thy Cam-

Sun,

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1863.

Every succeeding year the 15th of August re-
vives anew the enthusiasm of the French people,
gratifies the Parisians with a brilliant holiday, and
throughout the whole of the French dominions
celebrates at once a festival of religious fervour and
military glory. It is the fête day of NAPOLEON 111
because the birthday of NAPOLEON THE GREAT.
Upon the 15th of August, 1769, when the regal
BOEBONS, unconscious of their coming doom, held
supreme sway in Paris, the infant son of a Corsican
lawyer, first saw the light. And that Birthday,
through after ages, when he himself had perished in
exile, and his career had apparently proved a failure,
is celebrated year after year by enthusiastic mil-
lions, with a fervour and excitement accorded to
none besides. The intensity of the sentiment is
partly due to the exuberant nature of the French
people, partly to the glorious memory of that first
NAPOLEON—a memory more deeply engraved upon
the popular heart by the pathos of his great mis-
fortunes—and partly, we may feel assured, the
brilliancy of the NAPOLEON fete is due to the
present bearer of that momentous name, the actual
possessor of that onerous inheritance. The posi-
tion of the EMPEROR, assuming such a name and
standing in such a place, provoked a contrast that
would have been dangerous to any ordinary man.
That it has been otherwise to him, that he has been
able to maintain an independent and personal
dignity in the midst of the glorious souvenirs of
the first Empire is a sufficient attestation of his
individual ability. In the enthusiasm of Saturday
last he must take his own share. We may feel
assured that no remembrance of former prosperity
would suffice to call forth a national festivity
among a discontented or disappointed people.
Public rejoicings are not made to order, and we
may very safely regard the Parisian gaiety o