The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-11 00:00:00

TILE EMPI;I2OI2 NAPOLEON.

The Tablet receives from a correspondent a new theory
as to the health of the Emperor. The Imperial rheumatism
and local affection, it says, " have been compli-
cated by a disturbance of the nervous system, connected
with his Majesty's long-continued idea of his own
destiny, and giving rise to a temporary prostration of
strength. The Emperor has said more than once that no
attack, whether of open foe or secret conspirator, could
harm him before his mission was accomplished. His mis-
sion was to save Trance from the Republicans and to lead
her through Imperial autocracy to liberty under the con-
stitutional dynasty of the Napoleons. The reforms just
adopted appear to be the end, or at least the beginning of
the end, of this mission ; and to a nervons temperament,
coupled with an habitual tendency towards peculiar
fatalism, the coincidence of a painful indisposition with the
Apparent accomplishment of the destined mission,' may
possibly have been as dangerous as our informant has
heard."

THE DARTMOOR ORDNANCE COMMITTEE

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An evening contemporary, without affecting any superior
knowledge, anticipates the report of the Dartmoor
Ordnance Committee. "As yet nothing has leaked out
as to its contents, though it is to be presented next week;
but those who have watched the experiments, and
who subsequently have attentively considered the re-
sults, cannot fail to arrive at the very conclusions
that probably will close the report. The shrap-
nel-shell, although it has certain disadvantages, and
is comparatively expensive, has proved itself a
very formidable projectile at troops in a skirmishing or
extended order, and it is probable, therefore, that the
committee will recommend its partial adoption." Our
contemporary would welcome a recommendation of this
kind, provided that segm ent-shels formed the
larger proportion of the ammunition carried in the
limber-boxes. Thus, a proportion of two shrap-
nel to three segment would probably meet all
the requirements of service : the former to be used exclu-
sively with time-fuses, the latter with concussion-fuses
alone. With regard to the field-service-fuses, there can
hardly be any difference of opinion. The metal time-
fuse, known as the E pattern, must sooner or later be
withdrawn from the service to give place to
Boxer's wood time-fuse ; nobody therefore need be
astonished if the committee report in this sense. With
reference to the concussion-fuses, it must be adelitted that
they are by no means all that could be desired, and the
committee might safely recommend their withdrawal,
provided there is any likelihood of a substitute being found.
Although not strictly within their province we may
expect some allusion to the great superiority of
the 12-pounder gun over the 9-pounder. The
latter forms the armament of the Horse Artillery
at present ; and although we by no means wish to reduce
the mobility of that useful branch of the service, we demur
to the continued employment of a gun so vastly inferior to
one from which it only differs by two cwt. If the com-
mittee, therefore, should recommend the substitution of
12-pounders for 9-pounders, we shall not pity the Horse
Brigade.

In one of the rcorns of the Birmingham Odd Fel-
lows' Hall some workmen ripping up the floor found on
Thursday the skeleton of a child wrapped in a newspaper
fated 1857, and supposed to have been hid for 12 years.

No less than six inquests were held on Thursday in
Bristol. Four of the deceased persons were drowned, one
hanged himself, and one died from the effects of burning.
There was another body awaiting the coroner, but the in-
quest, owing to the want of time, had to be deferred.

An application was made to Mr. Baron Clcasby
yesterday in the matter of the Duke of Newcastle, with the
object of removing from his grace's mansion, in Carlton-
house-terrace, the man in possession, at the instance of the
executing creditor. The case was adjourned.

A special telegram from Philadelphia gives a
few details of the heavy gale which occurred at Boston on
Wednosdsy evening. The Colosseum was partially de-
stroyed, several buildings injured, and steeples blown
down. One man was killed. The loss is estimated
at $1,000,000.

The Law limes says the recent extension of
the municipal franchise to single women duly qualified
will make very consideralle additions to the burgess list
in the boroughs. In one borough of 17,000 inhabitants an
addition of 300 is anticipated, and in another no less than
750.

It has been placed beyond doubt by dirtct ex-
peliment in the persons of three enterprising pathologists,
M.M. Hartwig, Villain, and Mann, that milk from a
cow affected with " foot and mouth disease," con-
taminates the human subject, and will even produce an
eruption like that which appears on the animal.

At the annual general scesion for the county of
Lancaster on Thursday, it was stated th .t during the past
year, whilst the increase in the :.dult crime of the country has
ben, 9 per cent., the increase in the county of Lancaster has
been 29 per cent. And, with regard to juvenile crime,
whilst the increase elsewhere has been -1•6 per cent., in that
county it has been 20.7 per cent.
The death is announced of Admiral Sir Robert
Lambert Baynes, K.C.B. He was born in 1796, entered the
navy in 1810, became captain in 1828, and subsequently be-
came vice• admiral and admiral. At the battle of Navarino,
in 1827, he greatly distinguished himself. He was mnde
K.C.B. in 1860, and was a knight of the Order of the
Redeemer of Greece. Admiral Baynes was married, in 1846,
to the Hon. Frances Denman, daughter of the first Baron
Denman.

On Thursday, at the Swansea Police-court, Mr.
Stirk applied for a warrantfor the apprehension, on a charge of
embezzlement, of Joseph Lewis Smith, cashier, at Swansea,
to Messrs. Ind, Coope and Co., brewers, of Burton-on-Trent.
proved that the accused had received sums amounting to
£3O during the month of July, which sum ho had not
entered in the cash book till the 13th of August, when
wax taxed with the irregularity. Mr. J. J. Close deposed to
the facts, and a warrant was issued, but it is believed th
Smith has left the country.

ANTIQUITY OF PINS. —Anotlia• illusion of these
later times has just been dissipated. The moderns
rancied they had invented pins, which, it appears,
were known and very well made more than 3,000 years
ago. The proof is that twenty-five of them have
just been placed in the Louvre, Muse Charles X.,
in a glass case before the door of the ceramic collec-
tion of Napoleon 111. They were found by M.
Blariette in the subterranean vaults of Thebes. —Ent?
A cte.

BLUE-BOOKS AND RED-BOOKS. Whatever may
be asserted to the contrary, the Austrian Red-books are
cot an imitation of the English Blue-books ; they are only
a parody of them. They have a closer affinity to our
Yellow-books and the Italian Green-books, injenious col-
lections of despatches often selected ad hoc and always
presented to the public with the view of producing a
special effect; less intended to elucidate facts than to
exercise a certain influence on public opinion ; not pub-
lished to reveal the truth, but to darken and falsify it.
The English Blue-book, on the contrary, is a complete
repertory of diplomatic documents ; it is essentially " a
book of truth." If speech has been given to man to con-
ceal his thoughts, it may be said that Yellow and Red-
books have been invented to express the contrary of
what their editors believe. In this point of view, if they
offer Governments certain advantages, they are accom-
panied by serious inconveniences, and the most grave
is that of rendering a Cabinet responsible for what it
publishes as well as for what it suppresses. Count Beust
must have often felt this danger. How often has he been
asked, "Why do you openly display this and carefully
hide that document? Is that frankness, is that honesty?
And since you make a choice, why do you select precisely
the papers most capable of wounding, if you have no in.
tention of doing mischief ?n—Revue Contonvoraine.
A London contemporary publishes a ridiculous
letter, written by a soldier, late a private of a Dragoon
regiment, from New York to his old captain, which it
heads, " Our American Cousins." Perhaps the editor
will explain what the connection is between a drunken
English Dragoon and our American Cousins ; but perhaps
the man says, who sold his shirts, as fast as they were
issued to him, for drink, is not only to the Army and ..Vary
Gazette graphic, but reliable. He got employment in the
Tribune's office as a compositor, and he tells his Cap-
tain that Horace Greeley is the editor and proprietor
\Ve would not tell Horace Greeley about the English
Dragoon were it not that he announces an intention to
proceed to California, carrying, as lie boasts, a good
trails in his hands.
"Captain," says this lively corres-
pondent, " this country is clean played out ;" indeed well
it might be, if his words were true that mils; s yon whipped
o it your revolve and shot your man on the first symp-
tom of a quarrel you ar sore to b shot yourself. Indeed
it is represented by the British Dragoon that our Ameri-
can C011i;113 in New York proeeeil dawn the trvets with
a revolver in each hand, blazing away as they go, and the
surprise is that any of them are left; though it is not supris-
log that all left are majors, colonels, and the like. He was
introduced as a British soldier, and to the question of rank
and regiment answered—" Major, in the hilt Light Dra-
goons." We would argue from this that he had served in
the 13th Hussars; but lie could not see why he should
not dub himself Majo: as well as a crowd of those he was
going to meet the night he wrote. What.3ver might be the
smount of his valour, he shows discretion, for he closed
with the observation, " but I never lend them a cent."
The letter is decidedly more amusing than instructive.

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