The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-07 00:00:00

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE
LONDO N PRESS.

Tho Constitutionne? of Sunday rejoices at the change
of sentiment which it discovers in the leading articles of
the London papers; and states that the latter "have be-
come more just towards France, and more grateful to
the Emperor' than was the case some' time ago. That
journal thus expresses itself .
" We take note with sincere satisfaction of the protes-
tations of friendship which the serious and elevated por-
tion of the English press is now pleased to offer to the
French Government. We will not inquire wbether it is
not to the unexpected appearance of the Russian circular
that the actual attitude of the London journals is to be
attributes. Should this be the case the document of
Pitoce Gortschakoff will have had a result which t'ier-
tainly had not been anticipated or desired ; it will have
contributed to draw nearer in the face of eventualities the-
moral and material alliance of two great nations and of
two powerful courts, which, unitad, mao serve, without
danger for themselves, the cause of humanity and of civi-
lisation over the whole globe. But it would be both un-
just and narrow-sighted on the part of the English press
not to acknowledge the immense cervices which the
Tmperial Government has been able to render since
its establishment to the cause of European order, and
to the general peace. We will merely add that an
alliance such as that which France and England formed
during the Eastern crisis derives its strength especially
from its disinterestedness, and that nether of those two
powers can dream of employing this union in any man-
ner calculated to serve ifs own especir I -rests. The
high position to which the Emperor has raised France int
the councils of Europe gives to us the right, and im-
poses on us the duty, of elevating our voice in all foreign
coui;,s, of maintaining on all points of the globe our in-
terests and the security of ore countr”men, and finally,
of preventing the occurrence of anything likely to trouble
the general peace. But France knows how to exercise
her right and to fulfil her duties with se, much wisdom
and moderation that not an act nor a word calculated
to compromise the security of the West is to be ferred
on her part."

AIVOTIIER CASPAR HAUSER STORY;

A letter in the AllgemeineZeitung tells a most roman•
tic story of a girl who was found in November, 1853,
wandering about near the village of Weiskirchen, in the t%
Banat, almost in a savage state, unable 'to speak intel-
ligibly, though she was full grown. The girl has been 1(
carefully educated since that time, by Friedrich Eck,
the teacher to whom she was confided by the municipal
authorities of Offenbach. She is now able to give some
account of herself, and the result has been• published by
Herr Eck in a pamphlet just printed at Frankfort.
What can be collected from her is that before she was 5
years old she was seized end carried away from her
mother, who lived, according to her description, in a
large house, like a castle, with three towers, and pro- '
bably situated somewhere in Hungary. For some 15 '
or 16 years afterwards the lived in a place under •,
ground, in the midst of a forest, where she was tended .
by an old woman called Bertha, and a man named
Eleazar used to bring food and clothes for both of them.
About seven years after her arrival there, a little baby,
two or three months old, named Adolf, was brought to
the subterranean dwelling, and remained there from that •
time. No instruction was given to .either of the children, ,
but they were kindly treated. In October, 1853, their
foster-mother Bertha took the girl out of the cavern, put
her into a carriage drawn by two horses, and conveyed , '
her to the place where she was abandoned, near Aschaf-
fenburg, whence she wandered about ti ttil she was found
by the country people. The little boy- was left behind
in the underground abode. Such is Vie story which
Herr Eck has been able to gather from the girl's broken
recollections. The Austrian Government .has directed
all possible researches to be made by the local authori-
ties to c!ear up this mysterious affair,

The departures from the Port of London for thtl Aus-
tralian colonies during the past week have compris 12
vessels-5 to Port Philip, 2to Adelaide, 2to -.New
Zealand, 1 to Portland-bay, 1 to Sydney, and 1 to
Hobart Town, with an ag4regata capacity of 7,009
tons. The rates of freight still exhibit great flatness.
FLOODS IN THE TEES.—The heavy rams which have
recei,tly fallen have caused heavy floods in the Tees dur-
ing the past week. On Sunday week great quantities of
wheat, &-., came down the river at Stockton, and
amongst other things an entire stock of corn, on the top
of which a man was observed sitting.
LADY GRANVILLE'S LOSS AT THE CORONATION.—•
The Moscow correspondent of Le Nord gives the fol-
lowing curious story —" On the day of the coronation
and at the moment when the cortege was entering the
ICrem!in, a rnagnifloent pearl necklace worn by Lady
Granville broke, and the pearls, each of which was of
great value, were scattered at her feet. Her ladyship
did not evince the slightest emotion at the'circumstance,
but proceeded on her way, leaving behind her the rem-
nants of an ornament which would be a fortune to any
one less wealthy than the 'al.), of the English Ambas-
sador."

AN ANTI-VEGETARIAN VIRGIN.—One of our north-
country pitmen, who had turned vegetarian, went a-
courting to a plucky lass in the colliery village, and
"popped the question." "06," said she, "go along
with you ! Do you think I'm going to be flesh of your
flesh, and you ' living on cabbages ? Get a vegetable
.narrow, man ; I'm not an animal of your sort. And
off she bounced—leaving him, like Lord Ullin, "lament-
Gateshead Observer.
'THE FATAL CASE OF PRACTICAL 'TOEING. Joseph
Franci,, the man remanded last week, as reported in
The Sun, was hraught up again on Saturday before the
county magistrates sitting at Bath, on a charge of
having killed Thomas Burridge, a labourer with whom
he was at work at Charterhouse Hinton, a village about
four miles from that city, by throwing a barley-fork at
him. He was committed to take his trial at the next
a,sizos on a charge of manslaughter. The coroner's jury
returned a similar yordiot. /
ECLIPSE OF THE MOoN.—There will be a nearly total
eclipse of the moon on Monday next, the 13th inst. It
will commence at 21 minutes past 9 p.m , and end at 27
minutes past midnight. It will be visible at Greenwich.
PRESENTS FOR QUEEN VICTORIA.—A. letter dated
Siam, July 13, says, " the British ship China is loading
here with presents for the Qaeen of England from the
King of Siam. Amongst them is an elephant of a re-
markable colour, and which will, ne doubt, on iti arrival
in England, cause some little excitement."
THE GREAT BELL or WESTMINSTER.--WEST HARTLE.
POOL, &Imlay, Oct. 5 —The schooner Wave, hioncrief
master, of wiapiach, which was chartered for the con-
veyance of the great boll for the Westminster clock to
London, was taken out of Mr. Pile's graving duck on
Tuesday last. Having taken on board the remaining
portion of her cargo—consisting of pig iron and coke—
the Wave sailed this evening for her destination, where
she may be expected in the course of the ensuing week.
A OVRINKLE ABOUT THE AGE OF HonsFs.—A few
days ago we met a gentleman from Alabama, who gave
ns a piece' of information in regard to ascertaining the
ago Gf a horse, after he or she has passed the ninth
year, which was new to iv, and will be, we are sure,
to most of our readers. It is this :—After the horse is
nine yours old, a er nkle comes on ti.e eyelid at the
upp'r corner of the lower lid, and every year thereafter
lie has one well defined wrinkle for each ye •r of his age
over nine. If, for instance, a hors© bus three wrinkles,
he is twelve; if fiur, he is thirteen. Add the number
d wrinkles to nine, and you will always get it. So
says the gentleman ; and he is confident it will never
fail. As a good many poop', have horses over Linl, it is
easily tried. If true, the horse dentist must give up his
trade,--,Southern Plantee.