The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-05 00:00:00

THE HEALTH OF NAPOLEON,

All uncertainty as to the state of the health of
Napoleon seeme to be removed. It has often been
asserted that the Emperor was the victim of a deep-
seated malady, which defied the skill of his medical
attendant, and as often contradicted. It is no
difficult matter to understand the motive which
prompted the concealment of his actual
condition, and now that it appears only too
true that he is, and has long been
suffering from a painful and exhausting internal
malady, his worst enemy cannot but admire the
absolute heroism and disregard of self he has
exhibited in placing himself at the head of the armies
of France. The attempts which. his friends made to
dissuade him from taking the field were futile. It
was actually thought by some that the excitement
of the campaign might operate beneficially
upon him. No wonder that, prostrated
bodily and mentally, the Emperor's move-
ments during the war have been eccentric and

CORN IN 1870. '
The Saturday Review takes a survey of the position
and prospects of the corn trade this year, and
The Spectator thinks that the Empire has resolved remarks that it never was more difficult to make a
.o die hard. It must be the last straw on the pile of satisfactory estimate of thereturn of the grain crops.
Not only has there been great variation in the produce
calamity for the Emperor to reflect that his dynasty
would have. had an excellent chance if he "had not
of different soils but the same soils in different positions
launched this boomerang thunderbolt, which has
have given very different results. Generally speak-
big, the crops on heavy soils have been good,
struck back with such fatal force on his own throne !" while on light lands they have been poor.
The worst of it is that he has committed this terrible As to the quantity of importations •to be expected
blunder when there was no need for action at all. we must consider three elements : whether an ade-
It is strange that the Empire should have borne such quate supply exists in the great producing countries;
disgrace and failure without vanishing altogether. whether any other country will compete for the
Had the Emperor not taken the Hohenzollern candi- supplies, a.id whether the prices are high. enough to
dature so much to heart, he might now be reigning in induce -the first to sell us their Supplies, or low enough
perfect safety, and is not this alone enough to make ' to make them withhold them in the hope of a fur-
of the Emperor a maniac of remorse. One reason
tker advance. As for the question of the quality of
why the empire still lingers is that it has taken the foreign supplies, it is hardly likely America will
have so much to spare as last year, while Russia
heart out of all other forms of Government, even
while it has not been a success itself. Whatever else will send us more, owing to the extension of her

THE EMPIRE DYING HARD.

" A Borderer on the New Forest" writes to the
Times to point out how greatly the public are in-
terested in asserting the claims of the New Forest
as a vast unenclosed tract of land. Recent events
have enhanced the importance of its preservation, for
this forest embraces an extent of 63,000 acres, or
little short of 100 square miles, and it affords
the only available training grounds in England where
regulars, Militia, or Volunteers can be encamped and
manoeuvred in large bodies over an extensive and
broken country, and affords all the conditions
necessary for the instruction of troops. He trusts in
the interests of the public at large that if possible
the New Forest, the finest forest in the kingdom,
may be preserved to us and our children. So far as
he has had an opportunity of judging, he thinks that
an enclosure is not necessary, and that the interests
of the Crown may be perfectly well carried on on a
fair system with the commoners without an En-
closure Act.