The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-27 00:00:00

ELECTORAL STATISTICS.

Mr. BOUVERIE asked whether the statistics relative to
the electors of the United Kingdom were yet complete ?
Sir G. GREY replied that a little more time was yet re-
quired to complete them.

h SUN. _ I~;lrvi4Vist DON ;-"TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY (27, 1866.

in 12mo ; The Memoirs of Rochefoucault,' 1 vol, in 12mo ;
' The Recollections of Madame de Caylus,' 1 vol, in 12mo ;
The Bible of Cologne,' 1 vol, in 12mo; The Iliad,' 2
vols, in 12mo ; 'lasso, 2 vols, in 12mo ; Camoens, 3 vols,
in 12mo ; ' The 2Eneid,' 4 vols, in 12mo ; Milton, 3 vols, in
12mo. The last ex works are to be exchanged for aDe
Sacy Bible, in 12mo ; the Iliad,' in 12mO ; Tasso, in 12mo,
Italian and French ; Camoens, in 12mo ; ' 2Eneid,' prose,
in 12mo, and Milton, in prose, in 12mo. All to be of small
size. The Emperor will not have any works of poetry and
literature in 12mo. This size should be reserved only for
history and chronicles. The collection of Greek romances
is too large. Tho print of the Cologne Bible in not legible.
The lEneid,' and Milton are in verse, and his Majesty
desires to have prose translations. Eleven volumes of
Madame de Sevigne take up too much room; you must get
a collection of her letters of small size. All the others
above mentioned are rejected as useless. Here aro the
books which M. Barbeir will put in their places—Tacitus,
in French, in 12mo ; Gibbon, in 12mo ; Diodorus Siculus,
in 12mo ; the poem of Pitij, in 12mo ; and Gil Blas,' the
same. The 'Memoirs of De Raz' are printed on horribly
bad paper, and the printing is equally bad; they must be
exchanged for something better. Finally, the following
must be sent-1. Tacitus, in French ;2. Gibbon ;3. Dio-
dents Siculus ; 4. Memoirs of Do Retz ;' 5. A selection
of Madame de Sevigne's Letters;' 6. De Sacy Bible—
the whole six in 12mo. ; 7. The Iliad ;' 8..' Tho 2Eneid,'
in prose ; 9. Tasso, Italian and French ; 10. Camoens ;
11. Milton, in prose ; 12, a selection of Greek romances ;
13, Gil Blas;' and, 14, 'La Piti6,' a poem. All these
from the 7th to be of a small size."

Paruy, whose works were thus excluded from the
Emperor's library, was once dignified with the
name of the French Tibullus. He wrote a great
deal of amatory and irreligious poetry ; and his
Guerre des Dkux,in particular, was one of the most
impious and licentious productions of the time.
He was born in 1753 in the island of Bourbon, and
died in 1814. He had been intended for the
Church, and at one time his religious ardour was
such that he thought of embracing the Order of La
Trappe. This, however, soon passed away. He
entered the army, became captain of Dragoons,
and served as aide-de-camp to the Governor-
General of Pondicherry. Bertin, like Paruy, was
a native of the island of Bourbon, and was also
a captain of Cavalry. His elegies, Les Amours,
were at one time very popular. He died at 38 in
San Domingo, on his way to church to be married
to a young Creole. Napoleon writes to his brother
Jerome, King of Westphalia, then in command of
the 10th corps d'arnzee:— _

"Schenbrun, June 9.
"My Brother,—l have got your letter of the 4th inst.
I had already received letters from Stettin, from General
Liebort. There is nothing to show the intentions or the
strength of the English. To take the island of Rugen they
only need 1,200 men. All their forces are in Spain and
Portugal. They will do nothing, and they can do nothing
in Germany. lam far from opposing your plan of march-
ing one of my divisions into Hanover ; nor can I give you
any sort of instructions. You have from 3,000 to 4,000
men of your own troops, the King of Saxony as many, the
Dutch division has the same number,which makes 12,000 ;
I shall leave 18,000 at Hanau; total, 30,000. It is not by
disseminating them that any result can be gained. SOUR
is of little importance, and is already out of the question by
his retiring in the direction of Stralsund, and General Gre-
gor and the Danei will probably give a good account of
him. The Duke of Brunswick has not 800 men ; the for-
mer Elector of Cassel not 600. Before making a movement
you should see clear before you. It is because that I per-
ceive that you act too promptly, and before allowing the
plans of the enemy to be developed, that I have forbidden
my troops to quit Hanau. You will learn by experience
the difference between the rumours the enemy spread
abroad and the reality. 1 have never, during the 16 years
I have commanded, given a counter-order to a single regi-
ment, because I always wait till an affair is mature, and I
know it thoroughly before I manoeuvre. My troops shall
not quit Hanau before I know what they may have to do.
You suppose that a great English expedition has just
landed. How, then, can you wish a weak division of my
troops to get into the centre of Germany ? Exercise your
troops. Make yourself liked by means of economy, order,
and a sort of good-nature which is characteristic of the
Germans. Be less disquieted; you have nothing tet fear.
All this is but rumour."

At 3 o'clock in the morning of the 7th of August
he writes to General Clarke, Minister of War, at
Paris, a long letter on the iValcheren expedition,
from which the following is an extract :
" If the English take the island of Walcheren, and con-
tinue the campaign either in France or in Holland, you
have a month before you to prepare. I cannot think they
have undertaken this expedition merely to get back to their
ships, and return home. But we must go on this principle,
that it will have no influence on my operations here. At
the interval I shall go there myself, but without taking a
man with me. In this sense everything must be organised
and decided. Yon may keep the three companies of Artil-
lery of the Guard, and the 24 guns that are at Strasburg.
In general, all that I have asked of you is useful to me,
though not indispensable . It is for you to distinguish what
you should send from what you should keep, if the English
expedition be serious. Ido not believe it will get reinforce-
ments ; and, indeed, where could the English find so many
troops. It appears that Lord Wellesley has entered Talavera
with 25,000 men. If this be true, the English, who must want
troops for this Spanish expedition, cannot have men enough
to take Walcheren and make a powerful diversion. I sup-
pose the King of Holland will have put himself in move-
ment, and formed his National Guards. He must have
from 6,000 to 7,000 men in hand."

The following is sent to General Clarke on getting
news of the battle of Talavera :

"Schonbrun, Aug. 25.

"You will find appended to this the report of General
Sebastiani, which the King of Spain sends me. As soon as
I receive that of the Duke of Vellevue (Marshal Victor)
whichihe announce: I will see whether it is proper to insert
it in the Moniteur. ou will also find by the report of the
English General Wellesley that we have lost 20 guns and
three colours. Express to the King (Joseph Bonaparte) my
astonishment, and to Marshal Jourdan my dissatisfaction
at their sending me their carmagnoles, and, instead of let-
ting me know the real state of affairs, presenting me with
schoolboys' essays. I want to know the truth. Who are
the gunners that abandoned their pieces, and which are tho
divisions of infantry that let them be taken ? Just hint to
the King that I see with pain how he has been telling the
soldiers that they are the victors ; tell him that he only
ruins the troops, that the fact is I have lost the battle of
Talavera; that nevertheless I want to have accurate intel-
ligence, to know the number of the killed and wounded,
the number of guns and colours lost ; that in Spain things
aro undertaken without due deliberation and without any
knowledge of war; that the day of battle matters are con-
ductcd without proper combination, without plans, with-
out decision. Send word to Sebastiani that the King has
sent me his report of the battle of Talavera; that I have
not found in it the tone of a soldier who gives an ac-
count of the situation of things, but only mere bombast ;
that I wish he had informed mo of the loss, and had given
precise details and true of what occurred, for he is bound to
tell me the truth for the good of my service. Tell both how
they neglect their duty to the Government by keeping
back things which we learn from the soldiers and officers
who write to their relatives, and force us to trust to the
accounts of the enemy."

He writes to Count de Champagny, Minister of
Foreign Affairs :
" Schonbrun, Sept. 21, 1809, 10 a.m.
" Monsieur de Champagny—The 20th has arrived. My
letter to the Emperor (Austria) is of the 15th.11 think that
to-morrow you shall know what to think of the disposition
of the Plenipotentiaries. As soon as I have the English
newspapers translated—l have them up to the 10th inst. I
shall send them to you. Yost must make the Austrian Ple-
nipotentiaries remark that the difference between what 1
write to the Emperor and what you put in the protocols, is
1,200,000 souls—that is to say, I demanded, in Bohemia
400,000 souls ; in Upper Austria and on the line, 800,000 ;
on the Italian frontier, 1,500,000 —maing a total of 2,700,000
souls. I no longer ask for more than 1,600,000. I therefore
cede more than a million, besides the renunciation of the
basis of the Uti possidetis. You know that what I want is
the circle of Villach, Carniola, and the line of the Save,
which I calculate only at 1,200,000 souls ; the enclaves about
Dresden 30,000; Salzburg, and a little to keep the enemy
distant from Passau, and which Icalculate at 400,000. The
Austrians have sent a courier to London, who arrived there
on the Ist. 'The English, as was foreseen, have an infinite
number of sick. You will see in the English newspapers
Gen. Wellesley's letters in which he tries to justify his ex-
pedition to Spain. M. do Metternich has told you that if
the Monarchy remained independent, the Emperor would
willingly give up his crown. If this be to know whether
the Monarchy would form part of the Confederation of the
Rhine, you may tell him--and the occasion will often offer
—that, if the Emperor wishes to abdicate in favour of the
Grand Duke of Wurzburg, I will give up the country,such
as it is, with its presentindependenco, and form an alliance
with him which will enable both of us to finish the affairs
of the Continent. As I have every confidence in the cha-
racter and good disposition of the Grand Duke of Wurz-
burg, I shall consider the repose of the world as secured
by that event. You may say that I put faith in the moral
character of the Emperor, but that he is without volition ;
that he is always of the opinion of the last who talks to
him ; and that those who will always have influence over
him are Balducci and Stadion. It is certain that this last
manner of arranging things would suit me well enough ;
if it cannot take effect, it is always well to speak of it as a
proof of the little interest we have in weakening the
Monarchy."

In a letter to the Emperor of Russia, compliment-
ing him on making peace with Sweden, and on ob-
taining all the advantages he desired, and informing
him that he (Napoleon) hoped soon to sign a peace
with Austria, he adds (Schonbrun, Oct. 10, 1809) :--
"I send to your Majesty the latest English newspapers.