The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

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,ogical Table of the Bonaparte Family.
Efi m nThgha Wilson. •
Nothing could be better timed than the interest-
.n;l\r genealogical table here
given of the' imperial
family founded by the great apoleon. It cannot,
naturally enough, but conintand the- attention of
the more curious and intelligent at this time, so
soon after the restoration of the Einpire in the
person of the third Napoleon, iminediate/y on filo
eve of his Majesty's marriage with Eugenie, and
so brief an interval before their united coro-
nati• Beginning with Charles Marie Bona-
parte and his wife Letitia née 11-a-mOlino the
table records the names of their eight ea-Ohre/I,
Joseph, -Napoleon,. Lucien, Eliza, Louis, Pau-
line, Caroline, and Jerome—now the sole sur-
vivor. From these branch off -the different
descendants. Joseph's two daught:ers—One only
still living, married to her cousin, the , Prince
di Canino. Napoleon's only son—dead. Lucien's
eleven children and their offspring. Eliza's two
children. Louis's three children—all princes, the
third, the only survivor, being now the Emperor
Napoleon 111. Pauline having no offspring—
Caroline four—and Jerome three, of whom only -
two are now surviving, namely, the Princess Demi-
doff, and:tin liefr_to the Etn.piriz (6414liadmatia_of his_ .
father the ex-King) Prince Napoleon. The Canina
Family, numbering nine children in all, are enu-
merated as the offspring of the marriage of Lucien's
eldest son and Joseph's eldest daughter. Lucien's
second daughter (Christina Egypta) is mentioned as
having married Lord Dudley Stuart, and Lucien's
*third daughter (Letitia) as having married the
Right Hon. Thomas Wyse, now the British Minis-
ter at Athens. In the record of the result of this
marriage, under the head of the Bonaparte-Wyse
Family, we notice the only blunder in this genea-
logical table of the Imperial house of Napoleon.
It is an important blunder, however, and one that
the publisher, Mr. Effingham Wilson, ought to see
rectified (if only in simple justice) in the event
of any republication. The mistake is simply this :
that five children are given as the offspring of the
marriage of Lucien Bonaparte's daughter, Letitia,
with the Right Hon. Thomas Wyse—the only
children by that marriage being, in fact, two,
namely, Alfred Napoleon Bohaparte and William
Bonaparte—the other three, Marie, Adeline, and
Louis, having no right or title to the name of
Wyse • the eldest of them having been born, in
truth, long.after their mother had been divorced
from her husband. The rectification of this error
we commend to the attention of Mr. Wilson the
publisher. In one corner of the Genealogical
Table •there have been appropriately introduced
the names of the six children of the brother of the
Queen Hortense (mother of the present Emperor),
the Prince Eugene Beauharn.ais.

Portrait of Lord Palmerston. Paul and Dominic
Colnaghi.
Every one of the admirers of Lord Palmerston,
those at least among them who can afford to pur-
chase so splendid an engraving, will regard with
some degree of thankfulness the skill displayed by
the practised graver of Samuel Cousins in copying
the •portrait of that eminent statesman from the
original painting by John Partridge. That noble
work of art; it will be remembered, was produced
under remarkable and rather uncommon circum-
stances circumstances in the highest degree
honourable to all the parties associated with each
other in the transaction, but peculiarly in regard
to the illustrious Minister of State whose linea-
ments are therein represented. It cannot be for-
Totten that the portrait was taken for a number of
independent members of the House of Commons,
to be presented by them to the Viscountess Pal-
merston, as the most graceful mark of the
feelings entertained by the donors towards her
distinguished husband—feelings which on the occa-
•ion of the actual presentation were declared by
Colonel Freestun, ,t,he. s lokesman of the Coin-
higlicst admiration. -Theie is, consequently, a
peculiar interest associated with this among all the
various likenesses ever published or the Noble Lord,
her Majesty's principal Secretary of State (it almost
seems like a mistake to write it) for the Dow De-
partment. The incident to which the plate owes
its existence, is of itself a sufficient evidence of the
genius and achievements of the statesman, and of
their full and cordial appreciation by some of the
most intelligent of his contemporaries. That inci-
dent marked the homage, remember, of no mere
"party following," but of a group of members whose
political position proved them, to be in every
respect 'thoroughly independent. It was an ad-
mirable choice the selection of Mr. Partridge
as the artist—a fact sufficiently proved by the really
extraordinary merit of the production. All the
accessories in the picture are naturally and grace-
fully introduced from the marble bust of Canning
in the back-ground to the blue books littered on
the carpet. The Noble Lord, dressed in evening
costume, with a star and-ribband, is standing near
a table in his library—the table being appropriately
covered with despatches and other official docu-
ments. The resemblance is something surprisingly
good--giving with all imaginable accuracy, not only
the comeliness of feature, but the intellectual ex-
pression and dignified bearing of the statesman.

PortraitA n of Ri c
unpretendingh a r
aCnodbdie:it
s,
ollimerrespAecctksermann.
meritori-
ous, lithographic portrait of the honourable gentle-
man, the member for the West Riding of York-
shire, has recently been published by Mr. Acker-
mann. Drawn on stone by J. H. Lynch, the like-
ness has been' taken by the artist from one of
Mayall's most successful daguerreotypes. We
have said that the portrait, strictly as a portrait,
is, to our thinking, only "in some respects," meri-
torious. It does not seem to us to have done full
justice to the original. The features are true to
the life, but wo miss the character, or, as it is
called so very absurdly because so very vaguely,
the expression of the countenance.

The Wellington Shield. Provart.

We almost despair of ever finishincr with these
tributes to the late Duke of Wellington—now
engravings, now verses, now biographies. There
is "no end of them," to express the fact in the
vernacular. Here, as about the latest that has
fallen under our notice, is a series of engravings—.
making quite a little portfolio of themselves—
representing the central figures, and the sur-
rounding ten compartments of the famous Wel-
lington Shield, designed by the late Thomas
Stothard, R.A., and presented to his departed grace
by the merchants and bankers of the metropolis.
Altogether, there are seven plates in the collection,
one of them portraying in a cluster round the Iron
Duke, some of his most distinguished General, such
as Hill, Picton, Lynedoeh, and Anglesea. The sub-
jects of the ten groups surrounding this central one
are—" The Battle of Assaye—the Battle of Vimiero
—the Passage of the Douro—the Lines of Torres
Vedras---the Storming of Badajoz—the Battle of
Salamanca—the .Battle of Vittoria—the Battle of
the Pyrenees—Entrance into Toulouso—the Con-
ferring of the Dukedom." The engravings which
have been made from these subjects are, it must be
confessed, somewhat rough, but it may be added
also that they are occasionally vigorous.

CONSTERNATION IN THE TUILERIES.—We understand,
from good authority, that very great consternation has
been produced within the last fortnight in the Tuileries,
in consequence of a large bundle of letters, of great
State importance, having been abstracted from one of
the private apartments of the Emperor. Among these
letters are no fewer than eighty which, we are assured,
very seriously compromise the characters of some of the
most distinguished public men in France, and develop
political and private intrigues on the part of persons
never suspected of anything at variance with the strictest
honour, which will astonish France and Europe, should
the letters so stolen ever see the light. In the mean-
time, so great is the anxiety of the Emperor to recover
outa t
Secretary tle seat
a at
them that an offer of a reward of 260,000 francs has
been made for their restoration.—Morning Advertiser.
FIRE AT WlLTair ABBEy.--A fire broke
of the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P.,
War, shortly after eight o'clock on Sunday morning.
Very judiciously no one was permitted within the abbey
gates unless those who could render good service. No
sooner was the circumstance known in Salisbury than
many tradesmen took conveyances, and repaired thither
to offer their service—in fact, hundreds of others started
on foot. By half-past ten the fire was got under, and a
number of those who had assisted, or had attended for
that purpose, were regaling themselves in front of the
entrance to the abbey. It appears that the front library
chimney, which is partly composed of timber, ignited.
The loss of property will not be great.