The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

DAILY WEA7HER TABLE.

TUESDAY, FEB. 8, 1853.
State of the wind and weather at each of the following
places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stationer
sre arranged in order of latitude.
HASTINGS—S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
FOLKESTONE—S.E., light breeze—overcast.
TUNBRIDGE—S., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
GREENWICH—CaIm—overcast.
SWINDON—S.W., strong breeze—cloudy.
LEIGHToN—S.W., calm—overcast.
YIRMOUTM—E. calm—overcast.
HOLTHEAD—N:W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, FEB. 8.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

40—highest since noon yesterday.
32—lowest this morning and during the night.
33—this day at neon.

BAROMETER, 29'23. •
WIND, S.E.—I ight breeze, and dull weather.

4
Zb •
411" "tAttAlt,
--'a -.44 '

LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1853.

LOINS NAPOLEON is reported to have said that
he represents a " defeat," and that " the memory
of Waterloo must be effaced." Well, he now re-
presents a victory, and the memory of Waterloo
is effaced. All the results of Waterloo, so far as
France is concerned, are gone, and gone probably
for ever. He whom Waterloo banished to the
Ocean Rock, rests in honour in a Parisian se-
pulchre. The dark and deep brand on the nation-
ality of the old BOURBON line, was soon exchanged
for the fainter one of the ORLEANS family, and
now every individual of the race forced back on
the nation by Waterloo is an exile from his native
soil. The supreme right of the people to root out
a hated legitimacy, and to plant in its stead a
convention, or a "parvenu Emperor," is recog-
nized either cordially or perforce ; and the most
explicit and degrading result of Waterloo is now
completely effaced ; the compulsory abdication of
NAPOLEON for himself and his descendants, is torn
to shreds, and contemptuously puffed in the faces
of the Holy Alliance, and the Courts which banded
together, and dared France to acknowledge
NAPOLEON as Emperor, are now in turn dared by
France to touch the nation who by popular
election have placed a NAPOLEON on the Throne.
Victory could scarcely be more complete, or
Waterloo more completely effaced. Not more
completely have crops and herbage o'ergrown all
traces of that dreadful day, than events, especi-
ally those of 1852, have covered from sight the
political consequences of the great battle. Louis
NAPOLEON may well- be content with his triumph.
To declare a war, and to gain, if fortune favoured
him, another battle, could add little, if anything,
to his success. To fight for the last victory in
that merely technical sense, is but fighting for the
last word. It is a game never ended, an Arab
blood-feud, or a paltry piece of obstinacy. NAPO-
LEON 1., had he been permitted to reign in se-
curity, would not have troubled himself to avenge
Leipsic, Moscow, or the Peninsula ; and NAPO-
LEON 111., enjoying the sincere acquiescence of the
English Government and people in his title, and
the compelled acquiescence of his haughty but
trembling absolutist neighbours on the Con-
tinent, can see, or ought to see, nothing
in Waterloo but a vanquished victory. Why,
then, should we not give the new EMPEROR,
as well as ourselves, credit for thinking thus ?
What we have stated is the merest common sense
and reason. We practically-minded Englishmen
should most certainly reason thus in his position,
and if a Frenchman naturally thinks more of
glory than an Englishman, yet so small is the
addition which a victory would bestow him of
that empty bauble, so much of it must be danger-
ousirsbared by his General, and so great must be
the risk of a tremendous reverse, that he really
must be the silliest as well as the most vain-
glorious of his nation to play with such odds.
And after all, between two nations equally brave,
the-loss or gain of a battle is not the loss or gain
of military glory. Skill m gunnery, muscular
strength, weight of cavalry horses, the success of
combinations, and the chances of war, have no-
thing to do with the soldier's point of honour.
Every real soldier feels all this for every van-
quiShed foe. Vainly did GEORGE W. endeavour
to elicit from the Duke of WELLINGTON an avowal
that the " British cavalry were the finest in the
world." His estimate of the vanquished, showed
that he was worthy to vanquish, and the effemi-
nate Monarch could only obtain the repeated
reply—" Sire, the French cavalry are excellent."
If, then, Louis NAPOLEON and the French may
justly look back with these feelings upon Waterloo,
what ample scope is there for the peaceful orations
of the Manchester orators ! The very sentiment
so elaborately illustrated by their greatest man,
that England owes an atonement to France for
intermeddling with her form of government, is
,Aself the soul of peace. France could not be in-
-1-.1._
P...4l:med to attack a penitent nation—a nation doing
--.1)4:u1 penance, too, to the amount of 28,000,000/.
‘innum ; and we believe, notwithstanding all
tas been said in reply to Mr. COBDEN'S let-
that we were the aggressors—that we were
essors on France to subvert her Government ;
that aristocratic dread of French ideas, and

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