The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1669.

well in these his first performances, that he was
moved to a far more eventful stage, the
Spanish Peninsula. There he shewed himself
as brave as the " golden lion," Lord COMBER-
MERE himself. He got well wounded at
Talavera, and well rewarded afterwards. He was
placed in command on occasions requiring special
courage, and he amply justified the confidence
reposed in him. After the peace of 1815 there was
little for him to do in the way of foreign war. He
was entrusted with the far less agreeable duty of
keeping the peace at home. lie was stationed in the
South of Ireland during the excitement which at
last became so formidable that even the Duke of
WELLINGTON quailed before it, and granted
hated emancipation to the Roman Catholics rather
than incur the certain alternative of civil war.
GOUGH, who had seen service in three continents,
was now to take a command in the fourth.
He went to India, headed the force sent
against Canton, and obtained a victory so com-
plete that he was publicly thanked in Parliament,
and was rewarded with a baronetcy. Then came the
great struggle with the bravest race in India. Never
had England a more gallant foe than she found
in the Sikh. The Sikh had the true British
quality of not knowing when he was beaten.
He rallied again and again after each defeat. The
battle of Moodke was followed by Ferozeshah, and
that by Sobraon, which was so decisive that the
enemy laid down their arms, and accepted our terms
of peace at Lahore. Sir HUGH GOUGH was created a
baron for this success. But he was to rise to higher
honours, for his work was not yet over. After a
short breathing space, the Sikhs rallied, and took the
field again. Then were fought the battles of
Ramnuggur, Chillianwallah, bloody and indecisive,
to be followed by the still more bloody battle of
Gooj erat. Inis, now e er, wilts avow., v. IL
bound to be ; for the country was crying out
at GOUGH'S butcher's bills. The Sikhs were
thoroughly mastered; GOUGH was made a viscount,
and received a • grant of £2,000 a year from Parlia-
ment for three generations, and a like sum from the
East India Company. From that date his
Lighting days were over. He had already nearly
attained the ordinary limit of human life. He was
to survive for twenty years, and during that time he
received numerous honours. He died a nona-
genarian.

AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER BY M. DE

LAMARTINE.

The following letter, addressed sixteen years ago
by M. de Iftmartine to the Author of " Aletheia,"
having reference to a poem in that work entitled
Lamartine in February," possesses an especial inte-
rest at this moment by reason of M. de Lamartine's
allusion to his tomb, and to the light in which he
was desirous of being regarded by posterity :

g, Paris, 7 Avril, 1853.

" Monsieur,—Un beureux hasard place sous mes yeux
adjourbui seulement les magnifiques strophes d'Aletheia, daus
lesquelles YOU& avez encadre mon nom.

" Combien je regrette de no les avoir pas connues plutot,
et do vous avoir laiss6 croire ainsi que je manquais ou d'ad-
miration ou de reconnaissance ! Je ne manque ni de l'un ni
de l'autre en vous lisant, et je m'empresse do reparer autant
qu'il est en moi le tort du hasard.
"Aucun tableau des ev6a6ruents de 1848 ne me place eu
scene devant la Posterit6 avec plus de favour, et sous no
jour plus respleadissant, c'est le jour de la Prdventior, et de
la Poesie, mail la Poesie que j'ai taut aitnie me devait un
Leger retour. Elle me le ply° largement par yes mains.

"Je garde ces beaux yore commo une inscription un jour
It mon tombeau.

"Si vows venez k Paris, songez que vous y trouverez un
anal. "ALPHONSE DE LAMA►tTINE.

"Rue de lljniversit6, 80."
[Translation.]

" Paris, April 7, 1853.

" Sir,—A happy chance places, only to-day, under my
eyes the magnificent strophes of Aletheia,' in which you
have enshrined my name.
" How much I regret that I did not know them sooner,
and that I have allowed you to believe me wanting either
in admiration or in gratitude. I am wanting in neither
when I read you, and I hasten to repair as much as pos-
sible the neglect occaFdoned by accident.
" No picture of the events of 1848 places me in view of
Posterity under a more favourable aspect, or in a light
more resplendent. It is the light of Partiality and of
Poetry. But Poetry, whom I have loved so much, owed
me some slight return. She pays me largely by your
hands.

" I preserve these beautiful verses as an inscription one
day for my tomb.

` If you come to Paris, remember that you will there
find a friend. " ALPHONSE DE LAIIARTINE.

" Rue de I'Universit4, 80."

LATEST INTELL [GEN CE

(RE U^'ER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

WASHINGTON, March 3.

Congress finally passed General Schenck's Bill
substantially as it was
passed by the House of Re-
presentatives.

The State Legislatures of Missouri, Nevada, and
West Virginia ratified the Negro Suffrage Amend-
ment.

QUEENSTOWN, March 4.

The National Steamship Company's steamer
England, from New York, arrived here at 9 a.m.
to-day. She landed Passengers and proceeded for
Liverpool. All well.

LIVERPOOL, March 4.

The Inman steamer City of New York, from
New York, on the 20th ult., arrived here to-day.
The storm prevented her calling at Queenstown.

JAPAN.

(Via Brindisi.)
YOKOHAMA, Jan. 13.

An engagement has taken place between 600
Southern (Mikados) troor_ s and 900 Northerners.
The former suffered a complete defeat, and fled
in confusion.

The German ship Cornelia has been lost. The
crew was rescued by Japanese.

CHINA.
HONG KONG, Jan. 26.

Mr. Hart announces that the Chinese Govern.
meet intends to appropriate all the tonnage dues,
averaging 300,000 taels annually, towards improv-
ing the navigable waters of the country.
Nicholson's dock has been completed at Shanghai.
An unsuccessful attempt has been made to rob
the powder magazine.

JAN. 28.

The force sent to punish the inhabitants of the
villages near Swatow for the outrage on the crew
of H.M.S. Grasshopper comprised H.M.S. Icarus,
Rinaldo, and three gunboats, under the command
of Commodore Oliver Jones.

INDIA.

CALCUTTA, March 2.

Sir Richard Temple will iutroduce the Indian
Budget on the 7th, or at the latest on the nth of
March.

THE ADMIRALTY.---In consequence of the aboli-
tion of the office of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy
as a separate department, the Secretary of the Admiralty
directs that tenders for articles, formerly sent to that de-
partment at Somerset-house, be iu future addressed to the
Controller of the Navy, Admiralty, Whitehall.
LADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.—
Prevention of Weakness. —Whenever circumstances pro-
duce impure blood, lessen the force, or in any way disar-
range the balance of the circulation, s agnation takes
place in the lungs, and consumption or other formidable
symptoms discover themselves. Let Holloway's remedies
be tried on the firet feeling of debility, or on the first an-
noyance of a dry
hacking cough. After the chest, both
before and behind, has been fomented with warm brine,
and the skin has been dried with a towel, the ointment
should be well rubbed twice a day upon the chest and be-
tween the shoulders, and the pills should be taken in alter-
native doses to purify the blond and cleanse the system,
without weakening it, or rousing or s oravating nervous
irritation. .

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS,

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, March 3.
M. Emile 011ivier's book has not met with a very
favourable reception. It is not likely to gain the verdict
for which it was written ; it is not likely to improve the
position of its author. An Apologia of this kind seldom
does answer the purpose:for which it is designed, and there
is small probability of an exception to the general
rule in the case of a man who at present occupies
no political position, except the unenviable one of
forming a party by himself. I believe M. 011ivier is rather

hardly treated, but it is unquestionable that the Impe-
rialists know him no more, whilst he is distrusted by all
shades of the Opposition. But though the book is not
likely to do its author much good, it is very interesting.
M. Emile 011ivier, one of the deputies for the city of Paris,
managed to persuade the Dec de Morny and Count
Walewski that large and liberal reforms were essential to
the stability of the empire. These deceased statesmen acted
as middlemen, and M. 011ivier was brought in contact with
the Emperor, who accepted his advice. But, unfortu-
nately for his project, Ti!. 011ivier would not become a
Minister, and his large arid liberal measure of reform was
lost. M. Rouher was chosen by the Emperor as his repre-
sentative in the negotiations, and the result was that
the radical changes in contemplation were burked. Ti!.
Rouher could not tolerate a system of reform which
would hand the Emperor over to other influence. Instead
of crowning the edifice, N. Rouher so ordered matters that
only a few miserable alterations were made, leaving
the spirit of despotism and personal government precisely
where it was. M. Rouher's ascendancy grew, and M.
011ivier was thrown out of the contest. The Opposition
papers here deliver a tolerably unanimous verdict. M.
011ivier was defeated, and the cause of liberty lost, because
he had such intense self-consciousness as to believe he was
the prime mover of everything. Whilst he imagined that he
had the ascendancy over men's minds he was being duped.
He left his party in order to secure reform with the help
of Imperialists. He failed, and is now alone.
The principal item in the book is a letter by Napoleon
wilieu Lltrun..tuch 11,,ht opo x 1,1,....1.aLaeGer, awl
altogether a most interesting epistle. Speaking of the
time of the proposed reforms, his Majesty says : "Believe
me that what impedes me is neither uncertainty nor a
vain infatuation concerning my prerogatives, but the fear
of depriving myself of the means of re-establishing
in this country, so troubled by different passions,
that moral order which is the essential basis of liberty.
What makes me uneasy on the subject of the law on the
press is not to find the force which shall repress, but the
manner of defining a law on infractions which merit
repression. The most dangerous articles may escape all
condemnation, whilst insignificant ones may fall under
the penalty of the law. Here has always been the diffi-
culty. Nevertheless, to strike the imagination by decisive
measures, I would wish at one stroke to establish what
has been called the crowning of the edifice ; I should like to
do this and never undo the work, for a settlement is neces-
sary to me and to the country. I must mark out resolutely
the goal that I desire to reach without having the appear.
ance of being forced, year by year, to make successive
concessions, for one always falls, as said M. Guizot, on the
side one leans, and I wish to march straight and firmly,
without oscillating, now to the right, now to the left."
This 'is frank, clear, and instructive. Few persons
perusing this letter can have any doubt as to the secret
desires of the Imperial writer. It shews clearly the
great difficulties by which he is beset. But it also
shews that if he were convinced of his security he would not
hesitate to make a change which should establish a definite
form of Government to outlast his time. The Emperor
cannot but look to the future. He cannot but see the
great probability of his responsible system of Government
being upset when left to the charge of his wife and son.
He wishes to crown the edifice, and consolidate his power,
but he fears that it cannot be done. Most men, having
two evils before them, choose the least. Is the Emperor
sure that, in refusing freedom, lie is choosing the least?
Reform might be dange: ou,s ; the present system must
explode sometime.

The Corps L6gislatif has again had the City of Paris
finances under consideration. The issue has been that the
contract with the Crddit Foncier, which was attacked
and condemned, even by M. Rouher himself, has been
passed intact. No amendment has been made. There
are some things which they do not manage better in
France.

Queen Isabella has left the Pavillon de Rohan, and
taken up her residence at her house in the Avenue du Roi
de Rome, Champs Elys4es.

A tremendous storm has raged all over the coast of France
during the last day or two. At Bayonne and Havre the
tempest has been most disastrous.
A divorce case, which may serve to illustrate the state
of morality in France, hq.s; just been tried at Marseilles.
A merchant had but one child, which died. Being toad of
children, and finding his affection likely to waste its
sweetness on the desert air, he addressed himself to his
wife's femme de ehambre, who very speedily favoured him
with three olive branches. It was represented
that they were the children of an individual con-
nected with the firm, and the merchant's wife,
quite unaware of the truth, treated them with
great kindness. At length, on the death of the
mother, the merchant, anxious to let his illegitimate off-
spring share his immense fortune, revealed the secret to
his wife. She, however, was deeply hurt, retired from his
home, and has obtained a judicial separation. The odd
part.of the story is that the lady should so quietly have
permitted a servant to rear and bring up three children in
her house. The merchant possesses an annual income of
£BO,OOO.

THE WEATHER TABLE-THIS DAY.