The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-02 00:00:00

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sion of smothered insteeree,ti
_—now of the • .1141:
--- now of the Vendeane, and now of ' 2nephew
tine.le;" and to Marshal Souls the feint; looked
iTi ali other men. In the iesurrectiee e h h and
. June the Alcr.,ta.! had •!:v•r:y(bitig is GL. „, and
sufficien'. rcitly to the doubts; wereopenly
expressed of his hones;, seas the fact that h' estood
est the King.liloun,asatt')tuhnadte‘tliaitiele—Kthinagz, "irladtliteheeveCabinet
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serious insurrection, they elould abandon Paris! But,
his plan be justified: and, perhaps, the counter plan, to
rurround Paris with forts, was not wiser. In whatever
ho did he managed to be successful; and his Govere-
meat, in his own department, was confessedly popular.
The responsibility of the general policy of the Cabinet
he shared in more than an indirect degree. Some of his
colleagues would have desired a war for Poland or for
Italy; be strenuously resisted all the republican uppoals
for French intervention, and whether wisely or nut. tor
Europe, with prosperous eonsequeeces for Louis Phi-
lippe. A Marshal of the Empire could alone have sus-
tained the odium of an Fea;lish alliance, whack meant
peace, end the King fully apprefd:,tcd the service. It
does not appear that the Marshil end his c ,Ileugues
worked well together. The Marshal and M. Gala it were
enemies; and for " doctrinaire s" generally, ai M. Guizot
and his sect began to be e,i!e(l, the Marshal had
a profound contempt. Ga a question of appointing
governor of Algeria, there was a split ,in the Cabinet; M.
GuizA and M. Tillers caballed against the Marsh,ll and
the Marsha! retired—the grounds being purely personal
between himself and his colleagues. The tall of Marsha
Soult was the occasion of serious corzplications and diffi-
culties, but be would not re-connect himself with those
w
however, he kept up intimete relations; sect by the King,,
who
o had
dd insulted i:nd defied hire. With M. Thicrs,
anlrfefgaidiyy
consulted. At
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was
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Ministry of the Ilth of Octcber (1834), he did not join
the Cabinet formed by M. Mole, and until 1837 he was
inactive. It was in the period from 1834 to 1837 that
Louis Philippe succeeded in establishing that system of
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ancient enemy, wherever he appeared,
cheers. At the coronation his figure wasSecondi in
interest; and in the precession his carriage, blue
body, in the shape of a gondola, with silver usould7
was grander than that of any English peer. The mouldings"
of Wellington appeared at public places with him, and
though malapropos public instructors sneered about
Toulouse, and even went so far in detraction as to gum.
mon Colonel Napier into a manly remonstrance and
reminder of the pillar at Corunna,"the public were mad
with joy at the auspicious conjunction of the two heroes.
From London, where military reviews, balls, and public
dinners had ceaselessly invited him, the Marshal moved
into the provinces ; and his journey to Birmingham, to
Liverpool, and to Manchester was a long ovation. At
Liverpool he was entertained by the corporation; Wil-
liam Rethbone, an originator of peace societies, being
Mayor and host : and at the dinner a fellow guest was
the Sir Charles Napier who has since annexed Sinde to
the British dominions. Excepting Kossuth, who has
gone over the same ground, no foreigner has ever been
so received in England.
We next come to 1841. The Ministry of M. Mole fell.
The Minis ter, and the press, and the Chamber were at war,
and, to avoid the storm, the King sacrificed a faithfal ser-
ntMinistry
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of formed, r mane
ad,
M. Thiess,
inconsequence of
vthaeAnew
dissensions of d
no longer act together, Marshal Soult was called to the
Presidency of the Council. But this was not brought
about without difficulty. While the King was without a
ministry—or rather without a Ministry of repute enough
to meet the crisis—there came an insurrection: the re-
volt of May 12. The Provisional Cabinet was swept
away; and the King and society found a man in whoa
they could confide in Marshal Soult. While President
of the Council he underwent th© storm excited by the
" Syrian question," and secured an intense unpopularity
by his honourable anxiety to keep faith with Lord Pal-
merston. His Ministry was not long-lived. M. Guisot
entered power, and the results constitute the news of
yesterday.
Since that time Marshal Sent, enfeebled by age, bat
still intellectually vigorous, lived in retirement, in the
enjoyment of boundless fame and ample fortuno.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
BIRMINGHAM, WOLVEREIAMPTON, AND
STOUR VALLEY.

The opening of this important line of railway com-
munication, from this town through the iron districts
of South Staffordshire to Wolverhampton, was announced
to take place on Monday morning, but the public were
again doomed to disappointment, and some hundreds of
persons subjected to great inconvenience.
It is impossible, under the citcumxtances, and amidst
so much controversy, to say with accuracy with whom
the blame otiginates; hut as far as we have been in-
formed upon the subject the tests arc as follow :—The
war which has so long been waged between the Shrews-
bury and Birmingham and London and North-Western
Companies is notorious. In the Stour Valley line.
which is now leased to tho North-Western, the Shrews-
bury Company has an interest, as shareholders,
amounting to one-fourth, and, according to the terms
of the Act authorising the lease, possesses running
powers over the line to and from Wclverhampton to
Birmingham, provided they do not lease the Shrews-
bury line to or amalgamate themselves with the Great
Western or any oteer opposing railway company.
Should they do so, the agreement which is sanctioned
by Act of Parliament, so far as relates to running
pewers, is void. The Shrewsbury and Birmingham and
Chester and Shrewsbury Railways have lately agreed
to amalgamate with the Great Western in opposition to
the London and North-Western, and it is now contended
by the latter company that this amalgamation at once
excludes the Shrewsbury and Birmingham from the
Stour Valley line. On the other hand, the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham people contend that an agreement to
amalgamate, though under the seals of the several com-
panies, does not amount to an amalgamation, and that
their running powers on the Stour Valley line are still
in force. These, we understand, are the main points in
dispute.
So soon, therefore, as the London and North-Western
Company declared their intention of opening the Stour
Valley this morning, the Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Company announced their intention to assert their right,
and if necessary by force, to run their own independent
trains on the line. The danger of opposing companies
running independent trains on the borne railway need
not bo dwelt upon. However, the determination of the
Shrewsbury Company was apparently irrevocable, and
early this morning a placard was posiod upon the
walls of Birmingham, and we believe along the whole
line of the Stour Valley Railway (an announcement of
which appears in our advertising columns).
The notice was served upon Mr. Nickol yesterday
(Sunday) afternoon, when the officers of the North-
Western Company proceeded to Wolverhampton to
watch the proceedings of the Shrewsbury people. It
was ascertained that all was prepared for carrying into
effect the threats used, and having satisfied themselves
upon this point, they returned to Birmingham this morn-
ing. While these measures had been taken the North-
Western had dispatched engines to Wolverhampton, two
of which were placed upon the line in that neighbour-
hood in the course of yesterday or to-day, one being
placed on each line of rails.
first passenger train ought to have left Birmingham, a
at half-past seven o'clock, when the
This morning,
special engine started with Mr. Stewart, Mr. Carter,
solicitor, Mr. Morgan, secretary ,to the Stour Valley,
Mr. Robinson, manager of the London and North-
Western at Birmingham, and Mr. Norris, &c., to Wol-
verhampton. Several of the company's police were also
conveyed to the station in that town. On their arrival
they found all quiet. Shortly afterwards, however, an
official placard appeared from the Shrewsbury party an-
nouncing that, to " prevent mistakes," the Shrewsbury
passenger trains would, notwithstanding the postpone-
over the Stour Valley line.
ment of the opening, run through to Birmingham
UPolit this the Lon-
don and North-Western agents applied to the
mayor of the town, and claimed his interference
on the ground cf an apprehended breach of the
peace; especially as the representative of the Shrews-
bury party had formally notified to them that, if OW
the Stour Valley, the Shrewsbury Company did not remove the engines stationed on the line of
do it for them:' The Mayor accordingly
came to the
scene of action forthwith, with the chief "would
y theft Shproews-
oe
and a sufficient force. After a short
bury party moved their and
oinctapropgerty of both
derrtla es along the
' station (which it appearsersgittne j
Company, and finding
property of the Stour v
of the North-Western engine,
Companies) to that part
there the impediment _f)afllehlayee line which is the sole
with its frontinghead
the station, they drove the en-
gine against wt as merely to make the buffers
The it so
touch.Londony and North-Western engine de-
and after a scene of much excitement
(at least t,l
clined to recede.
n and
peoplea being assembled on the station),
the parties
magistrates of wilful detention.
A lengthened examination took place, the only case
gone into being the charge of the Shrewsbury party
00w0i
each preferred against the
other charges before the thdrew,
against the engineer of the North-Western Company;
and this at length the magistrates dismissed.
It was understood that the matter is to be brought it
once before the Court of Char-e.,ry, where the respective
rights of the contending patties must of course be settled.

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