The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-06 00:00:00

rING, SEP TEMBER 6, 1847.

.I?arc, and taken up and echoed back through vari9us
luarters of the town, roused all classes of people in a
2oment. From every window in the place heads were
p rotruded, and a thousand voices desired to be informed
' anything was the matter; for though they put the
i( lea from them, few bad lain down that night altogether
f tee from uneasiness ; and now the bugle's warninA•
r tote seemed to speak to them of an enemy at the
g it es. Anxious, therefore, and shrill were the voices
w inich demanded to be informed of the cause of the
it e terruption to thsir repose. But there was little need
to answer them in words: the bugle call was soon
foll !owed by the rolling of drums and the screaming of
bat :pipes. By and bye regiments were seen, by the dim
ligl it of the stars, to muster in park, square, street, and
gale y—horses neighed—guns rumbled over the causeways
--d rivers shouted—and over all was heard, from time to
Una e, the short quick word of command, which soldiers
beet love to hear, and obey with the greatest promptitude.
Th, t reserve, in short, was getting under arms, each
brig ,ado at its appointed alarm-post; and by and bye, one
of tar another, as they were ready, they marched off in
th oe direction of the forest of Soignies."

Although in the opening chapters Mr.Gleig confesses

twat " the Duke, in paint of numbers, was superior
his adversary" (see page 69), he says, at page 161,
tl Ist the Duke had at Waterloo a grand total of 67,655
n ten, while the French had a total of 71,947 men.
I lazlitt gives a very different calculation. Napoleon
h ad 59,000 men, while Wellington had 90,000, the
titer being increased to 150,000 on the arrival of
Blucher—being more than two to one. Mr. Gleig
m arvels that Napoleon had not " cast his life into
ti to same venture" with his soldiers at Waterloo,

fi irgetting that he threw himself off his horse,
vord in hand, at the close of the fight, and was
of )1y dragged away by his suite. At page 171 the
reverend historian observes of the massacre that was
going on—" the practice was beautiful !" The story
is oleverly but partially told. To ourselves the
citerical character of the narrator makes the book most
distasteful.

THE FRENCH POST AN]) THE
WEELKY DISPATCH.
(From the National.)
A few days ago the Constitutionnel, which is the
organ of M. Thiers, late Prime Minister of France,
INcorded its complaints against the Post-office with
regard to the stoppage of certain Belgian and English
papers, amongst the latter of which was the Dispatch.
Thereupon M. Dejean addressed to the editor of the
,Constitutionnel a letter, in which the following passage
occurs :—" It is true, that for some years the Go-
vernment has ordered the Custom-house and Post-
office authorities to seize two little English news-
papers, Punch and the Weekly Dispatch. In doing
so, the Government was not afraid of injuring the
important transactions of merchants and bankers, as
the Constitutionnel supposes, by suppressing those
two journals, which contain nothing but caricatures
or humourous articles ; the bankers and merchants of
London would not suffer on their side by the sup-
pression of Figaro and Charivari."
The National (of the day following, after alluding
to the assertion that Punch and the Dispatch contain
onlycaricatures and humourous writing, thus proceeds :
" If the accuracy of M. Dejean's other assertions
resemble this one, we shall know in future what value
to attach to his explanations. We will inform the
Director-General of the Post-office, who does not
seem to suspect the fact, that there is no such thing as
a caricature in the Weekly Dispatch : it is a most
intelligent weekly newspaper, circulating largely
amongst the English people, and printing, at the
lowest figure, 55,000 copies. This journal contains a
summary of the politics, commercial transactions, and
literature of the week. It maintains a private cor-
respondent in Paris, and is intimately acquainted with
continental proceedings. It criticises, often with the
most remarkable sagacity, the manufacturing and
commercial operations of England; and the most
serious subjects of political life are treated of every
Sunday in its columns with a firmness and an ardour
totally uncharacterised by jocularity.. Our English
neighbours will be profoundly astonished to learn
that a high French functionary confounds a news-
paper of this kind with the ever burlesque, and most
frequently, witty conceptions of Punch. We have
for several years subscribed to the Weekly Dispatch,
and we receive it pretty regularly every Monday.
The Director-General has so many errors to repair in
his detestable administration, that he is really too
generous to impute to himself a fault of which he is
not guilty."

THE REPORTED LOSS OF THE
CANTON, OF HULL.
The Aberdeen Herald, a few days since, contained
a report that the Canton emigrant vessel had been
lost, together with all on board to the number of 300
souls. The wreck of the vessel is confirmed by the
Hull Packet, but the loss of life bas been considerably
exaggerated, as will be found from the account sub-
joined, which we copy from the last-named journal :
" TOTAL LOSS OF A HULL SHIP AND OF HER PAS-
SENGERS AND CREw.-A most melancholy occur-
rence took place on the 22d ult., which has plunged
several families in this town and neighbourhood into
the deepest distress. The ship Canton, of this port,
commanded by Captain Tonge, sailed on the 14th
ult., for St. John's, New Brunswick, containing 18
hands and two passengers, all of whom perished only
eight days after their departure. The circumstances
of this melancholy occurrence are detailed in the fol-
lowing letter from the agent to Lloyd's, at Rispond, to
the owners of the vessel :
" Gentlemen,—l am sorry to inform you that
the ship Canton, of Hull, in a terrific gale of wind
from N.N.W , on the morning of Sabbath, the 22d
inst. (yesterday), was totally lost on Far-out-Head,
about five miles east of Cape Wrath, and, lamentable
to say, all on board perished. She was seen at day-
light driven in amongst the fearful sunk rocks of the
Head, and so far as can learn from some people
looking on at a distance, in a few minutes after striking
broke up, and nothing could be seen but fragments
of the wreck. From the nature of the place, where
she drove amongst innumerable out-lying rocks, no
art of man, were such at hand, could have possibly
rendered any assistance in saving any human being
on board. Fifteen bodies are now found, some of
which were decently interred to-day in the church-
yard of Durners, and the others will be to-morrow,
as soon as coffins are got ready. I was on the spot
about two hours after the misfortune, with every
necessary assistance, but I regret to say, so great
was the devastation, that little or nothing could be
saved. (Signed) "JAMES ANDERSON,
Agent to Lloyd's, Rispond, Loch Erriboll,
by Golspie, Aug. 23, 1847.
" To the Owners of the Canton, Hull."

It is confidently stated that the Earl of Dundonald
will be unanimously elected one of the representative
Peers for Scotland. The Scottish nobility in thus acting
will be doing themselves far greater honour than the
Noble Earl.

DEATH OF VISCOUNT KENMURE.—We regret to
have to announce the death of the Right Honourable
Adam Gordon Viscount Kenmure and Lord of Lochin-
var, Baronet of Scotland and Nova Scotia, which took
place at Kenmure Castle, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright,
on the morning of the lit inst. His Lordship was born
9th January, 1792, and married in 1843, Mary Anne,
daughter of the late James Wildey, Esq. Having died
without issue, his Lordship is succeeded in the family
estates by his sister the Honourable Louisa, relict of
Charles Bellamy, Esq., H.E 1.C.5., who now, in conse-
quence of the death of her brother, in terms of the
entail, assumes the name and arms of Gordon of Ken-
mure and Lochinvar. Whether the title, in consequence
of the death of the late Viscount, becomes extinct or
not, is, we believe, altogether undetermined.
ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
—An accident of a serious nature, though happily unat-
tended with any loss of life, occurred on the Great West-
ern Railway on Sunday morning. The first mixed class
down train, which lett Paddington at half-past six, had
made its usual stoppage at the Ealing station, and was
proceeding on its course, when within about half a mile
two of the closed boxes, attached towards the hinder
part of the train, got off the rails, and were dragged on
to the other line. The place where it occurred was at
one of the switches, or turning points, though the imme-
diate cause of the occurrence is reported to have been
owing to one of the wheels having caught fire. The
train not having long before started from Ealing, it was
proceeding but at a slow rate, otherwise the accident
must have been attended with a frightful result. As
may be imagined, however, the greatest consternation
was produced among the passengers in the crowded
carriages by the almost sudden stoppage of the train,
nearly all of whom instantly alighted. An express was
immediately sent up the line, and aid was at once dis-
patched down for the removal of the boxes which had
been torn off the line ; but, owing to the occurrence,
the train was delayed at all the intermediate stations
along the line, where it produced the utmost alarm for
nearly two hours. Several of the officials at Padding-
ton arrived at the spot, and we hear that a searching
inquiry will be instituted into the origin of the accident;
but at present we are not aware of any blame being
attached to any party.
CONSTRUCTION AND POSITION Or BEDSTEADS—A
French surgeon states, that by fitting bedsteads with
glass feet, and isolating them about 18 inches from the
wall of the apartment, he has cured the patients sleeping
on them of many nervous affections. Suspicions are be-
ginning to arise, too, that oar well-being may be affected
by sleeping parallel to, or at right angles with, the line
of the terrestrial magnetic current. The house in w', ieh
we live has a considerable influence on our sensations
sometimes little suspected.— The Butlder.
MILL•WALL IRON-WORKS, POPLAR.--On Thursday
the workmen attached to this establishment gave an en-
tertainment to their foreman, Mr. Andrew Inglis, he
being about to leave his employment there. lie was, in
the course of the evening, presented with a beautiful
gold watch with appendages (value thirty guineas), as a
town of the esteem in which he was held, for his impar-
tial and respectful demeanour towards his fellow- work-
men, during the time he bad been among them.
WATER CONVEYED PER RAILWAY. Trains of
water, conveyed in engine-tenders, are now running up
the Midland Railway from Derby to Leicester, in con-
sequence of the shortness of the supply at the latter
station.—Nottingham Journal