The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-01 00:00:00

THE POLICY OF THE EMPEROR NAPO-

LEON TOWARDS ENGLAND.

We are requested to publish the following im-
portant letter from the Emperor Napoleon to the
Ambassador of France, to which Lord John Rus-
sell last night referred in the House of Commons :

" ST. CLOUD, JULY 25, 1860.
" My dear Persigny,—Affairs appear to me to be
so complicated—thanks to the mistrust excited
everywhere since the war in Italy—that I write to
you in the hope that a conversation, in perfect
frankness, with Lord Palmerston will remedy the
existing evil. Lord Palmerston knows me, and
when I affirm a thing he will believe me. Welly
you can tell him from me, in the most explicit man.
ner, that since the peace of Villafranca I have had
but one thought, one object—to inaugurate a new
era of peace, and to live on the best terms with all
my neighbours, and especially with England. I
had renounced Savoy and Nice ; the extraordinary
additions to Piedmont alone caused me to re-
sume the desire to see re-united to France pro-
vinces essentially French. But it will be ob-
jected, ' You wish for peace, and you increase
immoderately the military forces of France.' I
deny the fact in every sense. My army and my
fleet have in them nothing of a threatening cha-
racter. My steam navy is even far from being
adequate to our requirements, and the number of
steamers does not nearly equal that of sailing ships
deemed necessary in the time of King Louis
Philippe. I have 400,000 men under arms ; but
deduct from this amount 60,000 in Algeria, 6,000
at Rome, 8,000 in China, 20,000 gendarmes, the
sick, and the new conscripts, and you will see—
what is the truth—that my regiments are of smaller
effective strength than during the preceding reign:
The only addition to the Army List has been made
by the creation of the Imperial Guard. Moreover
while wishing for peace, I desire also to organize
the forces of the country on the best possible foot-
ing, for, if foreigners have only seen the bright side
of the last war, I myself, close at hand, have wit-
nessed the defects, and I wish to remedy them.
Having said this much, I have, since Villafranca,
neither done, nor even thought, anything which
could alarm any one. When Lavalette started for
Constantinople, the instructions which I gave him
were confined to this—' Use every effort to main-
tain the status quo ; the interest of France is that
Turkey should live as long as possible.'
" Now, then, occur the massacres in Syria, and it
is asserted that I am very glad to find a new occa-
sion of making a little war, or of playing a new
part. Really, people give me credit for very little
common sense. If I instantly proposed an expedi-
tion, it was because my feelings were those of the
people which has put me at its head, and the in-
telligence from Syria transported me with indig-
nation. My first thought, nevertheless, was to
come to an understanding with England. What
other interest than that of humanity could induce
me to send troops into that country ? Could it be
that the possession of it would increase my strength ?
' Can I conceal from myself that Algeria, not-
' withstanding its future advantages, is a source
of weakness to France, which for 30 years has
' devoted to it the purest of its blood and its gold ? I
said it in 1852 at Bordeaux, and my opinion is still
the same—l have great conquests to make, but only
in France. Her interior organisation, her moral
development, the increase of her resources, have
' still immense progress to make. There a field
exists vast enough for my ambition and sufficient
to satisfy it.
" It was difficult for me to come to an under-

standing with England on the subject-of Central
Italy, because I was bound by the peace of Villa-
franca. As to Southern Italy, lam free from
engagements, and 1 a3lt no better than a concert
with England on this point, as on others ; but, in
Heaven's name, let the eminent men who are placed
at the head of the English Government lay aside
petty jealousies and unjust mistrusts.
"Let us understand one another in good faith,
like honest men as we are, and not like thieves who
desire to cheat each other.

"To sum up, this is my innermost thought. I
desire that Italy should obtain peace, no matter
how„ but without foreign intervention, and that
my troops should be tble to quit Rome without
compromising the security of the Pope. I could
very much wish not to be obliged to undertake
the Syrian expedition, and, in any case, not to
undertake it alone ; firstly, because it will be a great

expense, and secondly, because I fear that this in-

tervention may involve the Eastern question ; but,
on the other hand, 1 do not see how to resist
public opinion in my country, which will never
understand that we car leave unpunished, not only
the massacre of Christians, but the burning of our
consulates, the insult t) our flag, and the pillage
of the monasteries whbh were under our protec-

tion.
" I have told you all I think, without disguising
or omitting anything. Make what use you may
think advisable of my 'Ater.
"Believe in my sincere friendship.
" NAPOLEON."

TliE LETTER OF KING VICTOR
EMMANUEL TO GARIBALDI.

The following is sa'd to be a copy of the letter
recently addressed by King Victor Emmanuel to
General Garibaldi :

" General,—You kn)w that I did not approve of
your expedition, and that I was entirely foreign to
it, but to-day the verygrave circumstances in which
Italy is placed make it a duty to enter into direct
communication with 7ou.

" In the event of ;he King of Naples consent-
ing to evacuate the whole of Sicily, and voluntarily
abandoning all species of action, and formally
pledging himself to exercise no pressure whatsoever
upon the Sicilians, so that the latter may freely
pronounce their will, and choose the mode of go-
vernment which they may prefer, I believe it will
be wise in you to renounce altogether any further
enterpriseary
event,upon I expressly reserve my entire
the kingdom of Naples. In the
tr
liberty of action, and relieve myself of making any
contrary
comment to you in regard to your projects."

The Courrier de L2nzoges states that, three nights
ago, there was a sharp white frost at Bourges and the im-
mediate neighbourhood.

" The municipality of Paris," says the Siecle,
" has just purchased for 2,410,000 f. the theatre of the
Cirque Imperial, which is required to be demolished for
the Boulevard du Prince Eugene."

SNOW IN JULY.—A letter from a gentleman
travelling from Leeds to Scarborough, on Saturday bist,
says :—" When within 10 miles of the queen of English
watering places, I noticed what I suspect that respected
authority, the oldest inhabitant,' will pronounce unprece-
dented. Sec seal fields were white over with snow. There
was no mistake about it—it lay almost ankle deep in some
parts, the banks of the railway were covered, and, if the
driver had pulled up, the passengers might easily have
turned out end indulged to their hearts' content in snow-
balling each other."
'TIE full quota of the militia in
England and Wales is 82,631 men; the number of men
enrolled, 41,986; the number of men present at training
this year, 38,872; the number whose absence was accounted
for by illness, 503.
The undermentioned regiments have
not yet assembled for training :—Anglesea, Brecon, Ist
Derby, Glamorgan (two corps), Pembroke, Cardigan, Car-
marthen, Ist and 2d Durham, Merioneth, Perthshire, Car.
narvon, Denbigh, Flint, Montgomery, Itadnor.
TIIE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT TIIE HARROW
STATloN.—Patrick Leven, aged GO, a passenger by the St.
Albans train, who was severely injured through falling
between the wheels of the carriage and the platform at the
Harrow Station on the 23d inst., died on Monday at the
University College Hospital, from the effect of his wounds,
having declined to submit to amputation of, the laseerated
limb. This is another instance of a fatal accident occurring
through the reprehensible practice of passengers alighting
from railway carriages while the trains are in motion,