The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-05 00:00:00

THE LATE SIR CHARLES NAPIER.

On the death-roll of our heroes, so lately augmented
with the names of Saltoun and Cockburn, must now be
inscribed that of Napier. His death took place in the
fulness of his years, and was therefore in the ordinary
course of nature ; but it has left a void in the national
regard which c mnot easily be filled, because it has
broken one of the remaining links that connected the
present generation with the most brilliant period of our
later history.
It is creditable to the people of this country that with
discerning gratitude they should have recognised in the
late Sir Charles Napier the man who stood next in the
hierarchy of honour to the Duke of Wellington. Over-
looking the great claims of some living officers, they
fixed on his marked individuality of character, his versa-
tility, and his rough soldier-like qualities, with a tena-
cious admiration, which was evinced also by more dis-
criminating minds in respect to his higher merits as a
commander and an administrator.

Sir Charles Napier lived to be the most distinguished
member of a family so eminent as to have called forth a
parliamentary tribute from a Minister who was usually
sparing of eulogy. In reverting to his career, we are
struck with the extraordinary contrasts in his character.
Personally brave even to heroic intrepidity, and seem-
ingly courting danger for the " rapture of the strife,"
his earlier military life in the Peninsula and elsewhere
discloses a series of acts of personal daring and endur-
ance for which we must seek a parallel in the deeds of
the fabulous heroes of romance. When, in later years,
he was removed to a sphere of action where different
qualities were demanded, Sir Charles Napier proved
that dashing bravery and daring intrepidity are not in-
compatible with the coolness and calculation of a mili-
tary chief. His career in Scinde stamped him as pos-
sessing a rare military genius. Every General-in-Chief
on a distant mission must be a dictator and a proconsul.
Sir Charles Napier was eminently qualified thus to con-
centrate in his sole person the various elements of
government. He could negotiate as well as conquer,
and adminis er the territory he conquered. Heroic
as he was in his personal bravery and passion for danger,
he was equally so in his justice and clemency to the
fallen enemy. He achieved by his civil rule a second
victory over those who had yielded to his military
prowess. Like Wellington, he was great in peace as
well as in war ; and it is difficult to say in which he
most excelled—as a soldier, a commander, a negotiator,
or an administrator.

Called from his retirement by the general voice to go
to India at a moment when our empire was threatened,
he arrived only to see his destined work accomplished
by others ; but there was much to be done in the reform
and reorganisation of the army of India ; and he set
himself to the task. He was a disciplinarian of the
right school, holding that duty and subordination level
all distinctions, and demanding from the officers the
same rigorous submission to rule that was exacted from
the privates. In his eye, too, bravery in the field equally
levelled distinctions ; and in his dispatches he did justice
to the valour and good conduct of the common soldier
as well as of his superior. His rigid regulations as to
matters of discipline, his resolute war against the luxu-
rious impediments of an Indian marching force, and his
plain, blunt reproof of the vices that had crept into the
service, recal in their spirit, if not in their language,
some of the memorable proceedings of Wellington in the
Peninsula. In his dispatches and general orders he
dashed at truth through conventional language, as in
the fight he dashed at the enemy through all impedi-
ments.

Sir Charles Napier was of an order of men necessary
to great states. It is often their fate not to be fully
appreciated by their contemporaries ; but it is well for
mankind that their memory should be cherished and
honoured. The fame of their deeds is the heritage of
posterity, who profit alike by the fruits of their valour
and wisdom, and by the emulation they inspire.—
PrdB.

CHURCH RATES AND CHURCHES IN ST. PANCRAS.-By
a return made to the House of Commons relating to
the churches in the parish of St. Pancras, it appears that
from the time of the establishment of the Church Trust
in the year 1816 to 1841, a period of twenty-five years,
tha sum of 183,3341. 19s. 2d. was raised in the parish
by church rates, and two new churches only were built
at the expense of the parish, and two by the Church
Building Commissioners. Since church rates have been
discontinued in the parish, a period of twelve years,
seven new churches have been built, including two re-
built and enlarged, which afford accommodation for
nearly 8,000 persons, and which has been effected by
voluntary contributions, aided by grants from Church
Building Societies, free of cost to the parish.
THE LIGHTERMENS STRIKE.—On Saturday a meet-
ing of master lightermen was held at the court of the
company to consider what steps should be pursued in
the present state of strike of the employed. A long
discussion ensued, but no definite course of action was
come to. Many of the principal lightermen are suffer-
ing; seriously from the turn out, particularly those whose
business is confined to the quays, as the trade is being
taken to other parts, where the men have not struck.
It is calculated that there are about 5,000 lightermen
and 1,000 apprentices engaged on the River between
Windsor and the Medway.
The office of Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Inver-
ness, vacant by the death of the Earl of Seafield, has
bean bestowed upon Lord Lovat. •

LATEST FOUEIGN NbY

FRANCE.
The Paris correspondent under date of the Ti,,
of yesterday (Sunday), says :—" The opini°u 0
many assuredl persons in Paris, and expressed, ,
lam , very confidently a the Austrial' and
Russian Embassies, that the Emperor of Rude
will raise no objection to the modifications luau,,
by the Porte in the Vienna note, is not thatwill
prevails among the Russians who have recently co
left their own country. A few days will Pr,°,,at
how far they are correct, but it is certain tu,lio
many of them receive the assurances of d'o•
evacuation of the Danubian provinces
oft
risive laughter. They are perhaps as iglicl.oo
as we all as yet are of the secret intentt_bt
of the Czar; but there is little reason to uti%
that they are a fair specimen of the great ratad°,
of their fellow-subjects. They not only do n0',,,t0
lieve that the evacuation will immediately to7o
place, but they look upon the Principalities.vl4
it inquest, and that conquest as a fait (14c19—,rir
which will not only be submitted to by the Guictio
ment whose empire it would di-member, but by ge
rest of Europe. This, it is true, is not the logil to
of the Russian diplomacy ; but it shows to wilLo
pitch the fanaticism of the Russian people has
excited. t 1
Several letters were received in Paris Yes-ewit
(Sunday) from various departments througlio
France, which are unanimous in anncluwillb the
the
price of wheat continues to decline in
markets. 10
The sailing and steam-ship Austerlitz, of
guns, arrived off Cherbourg on the 30th u1t.,... the
Mendacious placards, evidently written 11 the
purpose of exciting ill-will and hatred &gains of
traders, have been stuck up in the market
Rheims. f tbelf
A letter from Dieppe says, the residence °- 0 a
Majesties here does not appear to be drawing 011
close. The Municipal Council have unasilu% ta
adopted a proposition to offer a fête of two days
the Empress. It is proposed that on one otherd e
shall. be a ball at the Theatre, and on the oe
day and. night fête at the Bathing Roltive
nses. halvfeheearchmoaffjeersetyd to defray a
proprietors of that estallsoment and the Pr 0116
Companyexpetbirul°6eqs
the fête, it will be fixed for Sunday andllcondescends t4O clel
the 11th and 12th inst.

RUSSIA AND TURIK.E.
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The Times' correspondent, under date elesi;
tinople, Aug. 22, writes :—Within the last.festot°
two the Turkish Government issued a 'moths feet
be communicated to the representative °L.,etehor
Powers, in which it states its reasons for nto is 0
of the last project of a note. This man
if tl
yet one of the mysterie of diploma* ifesto,js
pi kis is said to be as follows :—The llittess",
signed by Redscbid Pasha, and begins hY e" tea '
the regret of the Sultan that the note PreVectost
the Porte should have been deemed unottl the hele
With regard to this last project, although e
be bss,'
of the Sublime Porte has been taken as " vot
yet " certain superfluous paragraphs ille°ll3t; of Pr,
t
with the sacred rights of the Governraen
Majesty having been introduced, he Silifiee,
Porte finds herself again under the Paiefn4.
sity of making observations on this subjecy'd
The Porte expresses herself sensible of altosill'
ful for, the great efforts that have b: en matte shoot
bringing this question to an amicable to blicre hf
and is therefore greatly ,pained to he2,At:d
hesitate in the course of action illw—tof'`.s
the four Powers, " But the Governlnell,fitaellf,
Majesty the Sultan, which had in the cewetestir
meat of the affair been declared alone c°lll
judge of questions relative to its rights and
pendence, having unfortunately rot been e. 5 coy
on the redaction? of this new project' 1
tat
quently placed in a difficult position. rOVof
It may be retorted that the Russian G° rite of
also has not been consulted on the prel33;-thos'',,ti
this project, but the rights spoken of re
et
the Sublime Porte, and it is the Suini- 's
It I all
which must sign the note in question. iieir svo
then to the great Powers to judge in t'-ohlt"
known equity if it be just to treat ou thin'
onl
two parties as on an equality. the les
(The first of the points objected to 11 -_tte
is that clause which says—"Si a toute
tbi,
Empereurs," &c.) holy
That the Emperors of Russia should sr,hrc.4.
solicitude in the welfare of the Greek ''fbisCri
quite natural, but it would seem frota,reVL),
graph that the privileges of the Greek till Stl";.ot
been solely maintained by the Emperor coopety
which is contrary to fact ; were it so the the
would certainly have a right to -meddle of ,De
question. As it is, no one in the sers'Actire°4'
august Imperial Ottoman family would ifeno
capable of writing wordswhich would tend t°ott,iiir
the glory of those institutions which the o-
Emperors have founded by the spouts pit
pulses of their personal generosity and the'
Afli
or
clemency. :01
The second point objected to is that Phis t'64
relating to the treaty of Kainardji. 011 VI lc 11
it is remarked—" In strengthening bee t'eb
the religious identity already existingoe
c
a great community of the subjects 0". togi
lime Porte and a foreign Power and thusercisililo
the Government of Russia motives for °nit! I)eetr
w
right of surveillance in such matters, nia°
divide as it were the sovereign rights if beer
danger the independence of the EiliPl,Vof
ever the aim is but to obtain a renew The $(l
gagements of the treaty of Kainardji, the
Porte can do that by a separate lit critif!!
Imperial Government therefore thill'sbs ra P
greatest importance that the paragreP4 tioi
to the treaties should be supPregssworet,r,o °.;
maintained, that the promises °' lies eler
which the treaty contains, and the (cliin a
etlee
the religious privilege should be separatebe at
05,
and explicit manner, that it mai ~oestif
understood that they are two separate 'ijectLs 001
The third point objected to iu the Prtlle
which speaks of a participation of tber
Church in the privileges accorded to c). (V,"
tiau Churches. On this point rtt,e
that the Porte will always VOliril
to the Greeks all the advatit.get-helcill
other communities enjoy. "It 15,,0rt0 "pot'd
fluous to add, that the Sublime loyelv:00
justifie'l if she cannot admit the elliPtiveat',l
expressions so equivocal as those of c() Jof
special rights dispositions partieulieloss
of a large community of so many, 111,1, 113,,fte
subjects who profess the Greek rte' nte pig
festo ends by declaring that if the 11:t 011. e, o,ll',
by the Porte is accepted, or if that lia'be A; ph,
ceives certain modifications, it send AY"
signed by the Porte, which will ale°,l;tion
bassador to St. Petersburgh, con }'"4
rr4
provinces are first evacuated. • raj el)e:es
The manifesto ends by the follownl too 00,
—" Le Gouvernement de la S•P' 3tes Inoce.101:
une garantie solide de la part des hall tote A 0
contre toute ingerence l'avenir, et ntes
tion de temps en temps des princiPa t
than
davie et Wallachie." leax to
From Vienna, he 31st, sre„ wasit ti°
Turkish Ambassador, Aug.'Ariff, Ellen of te; pe:0;
the Russian Ambassaor in the courtestriloav
The meeting is considered the il°3 los ka, of
of the termination of the difficll
A otictif
Russia and Turkey. ve-
tio
It is stated that in Servia 1131 K not
drip, .00
pd
public feeling prevails, and there is n
fear of disturbances. Sae° gi'lool/
A traveller has been arrested at,..ejitioll fo
papers and pamphlets exciting been
Prince Alexander and the Sultan ha „ 1914
upon him. Al;" eore'J
ODESSA' a pri°oo,
kan de s,r
Business in our markets is bris illy Oll
still looking up. Corn is continll` large
for Italy and France, and there are
prilflf"e+
the 11.0 1,
of grain from Ghourka.
The Augsburg Gazette states thaton:nsteliti,go
tion of the Austrian Internuncio at foreign t, toy,
the Porte has consented to permit the nigh is $1)
arriving in the Bosphorus during the
as far as Serajewo, near Bujukdere, 0
0 ioty
tared from storms. 7th ultillit
Ipet
A letter from Smyrna, of the -- id does
is said
etb
Augsburg Gazette, says if PAO Ft!?
united fleet is to leave for this P°''' to 1" er, tY
enter the Dardanelles. In additional dAllgio
wind, which exposes it to continTkoss. of 00
vessels have been attacked by tsiu, nthe'cotold
English fleet two captains and fleet the 441,
have already died. In the French
r is octopi
sailors only have suffered. Watoen Satil,ritt*3°
the provisions are not good. the
Austrian squadron is to leave for
Syria and Egypt."
1.141/
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FAILURE IN IRELAND.—The extensive_f De .Y.,07-0!
J. and J. Alexander, corn merchantta"ve stotro'r4o,
stores were lately destroyed by fire,
30,0001' cep
' ment. Its liabilities are estimate
North Acne to°;,ol'
LIVERPOOL —The British and Nor so 1
departure rtsuteraemhesnhciell foNrißaOasrtao'uLoannSgatc.:rni I/get:ray.; bC
of
t° tTethulsusaslpmaasislesn. passengers and a full carc,"
01,1;rit:it;ctr:
The estates of the late Earl be brow
Sir• co' tri
the county of Salop, are about to
CoUPA rto r
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL ()vie iosti
t
of Blackwall, has recently receivedforhe
two new iron screw steam-shipg
Oriental Company, each of illobtr%onsat'b
severally named the Assay, art

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