The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-05 00:00:00

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

The following letter has been addressed by the
Emperor of the French to Sir F. B. Head :

" Palace of the Tuileries, March 1.
"My dear Sir Francis,—l thank you for having collected
together, in order to send them direct to me, the different
articles which you have had inserted in the English jour.
nals, for you thus give me an opportunity of expressing to
you all my gratitude for the sentiments which you have not
feared to utteras a spontaneous manifestation in my favour. I
have seen in them, and I am much touched by it, a new
proof that my old friends in England have not forgotten
me, and that they know how much I always preserve for
the English people the esteem and the sympathy which
I felt during my exile in tho midst of them. Even,
in writing to you to-day I detect myself in recol-
lecting as a happy time the epoch when, proscribed,
I saw you in England. It is that in changing one's destiny
one only :changes one's joys and sorrows. Formerly the
afflictions of exile alone appeared to me ; to-day I see
plainly the cares of power, and one of the greatest of them
around me is, without doubt, to find oneself misunderstood,
and misjudged by those whom one values the most, and
with whom one desires to live upon good terms (vivre en
bonne intelligence.)
" Thus (atnet) I consider it very natural that the parties
whom it has been my duty to oppose and to repress should
bear me ill-will, and should seek the means to injure me;
but that the English, of whom I have always been the
most devoted and the most faithful ally, should attack me
incessantly in the journals in the most unworthy and
the most unjust manner, is what I cannot comprehend; for,
in truth (de bonne foi), I cannot discover any interest they
can have in exciting the public mind against France.
If, in my own country, I chose to act in this manner, it
would:be impossible for me after wards to restrain the passions
which I should have let loose (ddchaindes).
" I have always entertained a great admiration for the
liberties of the English people; but I regret deeply that
liberty, like all good things, should also have its excesses.
Why is it that, instead of making truth known, it uses
every effort to obscure it ? Why is it that, instead of en-
couraging and developing generous sentiments, it propa-
gates mistrust and hatred?
" I am happy, then, among all these mancouvres of false-
hood (mensonge) to have found a defender, who, guided by
the sole love of truth, has not hesitated energetically to
oppose to them his loyal and disinterested voice.
" Believe me, my dear Sir Francis,
"In my sentiments of friendship,
"Sir Francis Head, Croydon. "NAPOLEON."

PASSENGERS PROM INDIA AND CIIINA.—The fol-
lowing is a list of the passengers by the Peninsular and
Oriental steamship. Indus, Captain J. Weeks, which left
Malta on the 25th ult. with the heavy mails from the East
Indies and China, and is expected at Southampton on Sun-
day :—From Calcutta—Colonel Grant, Cornet Inglis, Mrs.
Paton, two children, and servant; Mr. Schmidt, Mr. Pent,
Mr. Cowie, Mr. Lethbridge, two Misses Lervaine, two
Misses Ronald, Mrs. Dodd, two children, and two servants;
Capt. Newton, Capt. Butler, Mr. Boanner, two children,
and servant ; Mrs. Faddy and two children ; Mr. and Mrs.
Behrends, child, and servant; Lieut. Wimberley, Captain
Marcon, Mrs. Sterney and child, Mr. Clark, Mr. Gardner,
Mr. Scott, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Hutchison, Mr. G. Benwell,
Mr. R. Blandford, Mr. T Montgomery. From Madras—
Lieut. Goddinghame, Lieut. Irwin and four children, Mr.
Lewin's servant, Capt. Brady, Capt. Campbell, Mr. Bey-
hardt. From Galle--The Ron. Lieut. P. Trench. From
Hongkong—Major Percival, Mr. Crockett, Mr. Thornhill,
and T. Rumble. From Singapore—Mr. Kingdom.
APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—The following gentle-
men passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday,
March 3 :—Frederick Charles Carver, RGyston ; James
Watson, Loughborough; Augustus Newman, Oxford;
George Cardell, St. Colmnb ; Jeremiah Moulton Donne,
Castle Carey, Somerset ; David Davies, Aberdare ; Thomas
Linnington Ash, Straton, Cornwall ; James Finegan,
Liverpool; Joseph Hiles Wright, Evesham, Worcester-
shire ; Robert Walker Goddard. The following gentle-
men also on the same day passed their first examination :
Thomas Charles Kirby, Bodicole, Oxfordshire; David
Kennard, Laxnbourne ; John Alfred Illingworth, Mainder,
Newport, Monmouth.
It is understood that the Stock Exchange Cony.
mittee are now engaged upon a thorough revision of the
rules relating to the appointment of settling days for the
shares of public companies, and to their quotations in the
official list. The object of the committee is to place their
requirements in these cases clearly on record.