The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-20 00:00:00

in the war of the Peninsula. Reading this, werl
may we now exclaim in 1857, in the presence of
the Anglo-French alliance, that for Englishmen
hardly less than for Frenchmen, Waterloo has at
last, indeed, been gloriously avenged ! The cork-
tinental wars for a time consummated—Europe
having her sword at length sheathed—Napoleon
conquered, banished, dead, 'buried in his island-
prison of St. Helena only to be disinterred after
the lapse of another generation, to the end that ho
migtit be ultimately borne htmewards and yet
more ,olemnly sepultured—how in the lull that fol-
lowed that great Storm, how, after that, fared Na-
pier, the young Colonel of the Peninsula f A terse
synopais of his life may (in answer to that suggestive
query) be thus readily compacted together :—Hav-
iug served upon the lonian staff for about a twelve-
month, Charles Napier, in 1824, was appointed
Lieutenant-Governor of 'Cephalonia. Fifteen years
afterward-, in 1839, he was intrusted With the CODA'
mand of the Northern Military District of England.
So that he who more than forty yeas previously
had taken a subordinate, but still responsiNe part
in the extinction of 'he Irish Rebelliun, was now
called upon to take a conspicuous and most respon-
sible part in the military governa,uce of Eng-
land during the suppreision of Vie Chartist lusur-
rect:on ! Accomplishing his sha-e, however, hap-
pily in the last mentioned achievement in the Cause
of
.Order by moral force rather thaa by physical
violence. Shortly afterwards, iu 1841, he was ap-
p doted to the command of the Anglo-Indian army,
stationed in the Bombay Presidency. And in trie
year afterwards, in 1842, was despatchedby the then
Governor-General, the Earl of Ellenborough, to
Scinde—where he was entrusted with the difficuli
task of keeping open the jeopar, I ised co annunications
between Generals English, Nott, and Pollock, at
that time advancing into Affgha.nistm. To say
that in this enterprise Sir Charles Napier had to
contend against an enormous disproportion of dif-
ficulties were to say nothing. How enormous
rh se difficulties were may be most strikingly illus-
trated by the simple record of his achievements—
the achiewments by which they were utterly dis-
sipated. Those achievements we may truly cresg-.
nate, in one word, magnificent: They in-
cluded among them the famous battle of Meeanee,
that memorable victory in which, with merely
2,600 men, Sir Charles Napier defeated and routed
an army of 35,000 Beloochees ! They were
crowned by the yet more memorable tri-.

umph won by him soon afterwards at Hyde-,
rabad—a triumph by which-the power of the Ameers
of Scinde was at a single blow shattered to frag-
ments as by a thunderbolt. Nominated almost im-
mediately Governor of the new province, the victo-
rious General soon showed no less capacity than
daring and energy as an Administrator. He caused
canals to be dug, he turned the commerce of Scinde
into entirely novel channels, he awakened in a
surprisingly short time the dormant industry of the
population. He abolished with a stroke of the pen
—slavery, the suttee, and the execrable practice of
infanticide Dreaded first of all by the natives
as a bearer of the Sword of War, Sir Charles
Napier, as the bearer of the Sword of Justice., was
very soon regarded by the vanquished race
with love and veneration. The story of his
heroic Conquest has been told by his brother,
the annalist of our wars in the Peninsula—as also.
the no less notable narrative of his wise and mode-
rate Government. The subsequent events in our
hero's life are yet more vividly tnau those of 1842-
43 in the popular recollection. They are so,•be-
cause in a historic! point of view they are but as
incidents of yesterday. Everybody remembers well we
the anxiety, we may almost call it the actual panic,
awakened amongst us here at home by the first dis-
astrous intelligence of the Sikh campaign of 1849.
We have none of us forgotten how the people then,
as it were with one voice, fixed upon the Hero of
Scinde as their destined Deliverer I How the Iron
Duke him.elf emphatically endorsed the popular
mandate by replying, when asked to mention three
names among any of 'hose he might recommend
for the command at that apparent crisia to her Ma-
jesty's Government—" Sir Charles Napier—Sir
Charles Napier—Sir Charles Napier !" And finally,
how, in obedience to the instinct of the nation,
and in answer to the deliberate recommendadou
of the Duke of Wellington, the Government did
send Sir Charles Napier to assume the command of
our army in Hindostan at a crisis fraught, to all
appearance, 'with enormous difficulty, and with all
but overwhelming responsibility. When he arrived
in the Punjaub the war was over, as every body
equally well remembers. But, as every body does
notremember as it ought to berememberedin simple.
justice and out of the commonest motives of gra-
titude, Sir Charles Napier signalised the com-
paratively brief interval of his last command
over an English army, by vindicating in a re- _
roarkable manner his character as a military
reformer—a military reformer daring and enlight-
ened ! In the winter of 1850-1851, he resigned
that command. And in 1852, to the grief of all
who knew him, and amidst the unavailing regrets
of every patriotic citizen of the empire, having a
heart uninfluenced by passion, and a judgment un-
warped by prejudice—he died, as we have said, at
his estate of Oaklands, near Portsmouth. Peace
to his manes. Honour to his memory. To that
memory he himself has secured an unfailing s se
petuation. His career will be cherished in the popu-
lar recollection because he made it a part of the
national story. His achievements will be borne iu
mind, because, without exaggeration, they are, in
truth, among the greatest and the noblest of the
valiant deeds of Englishmen. To point the moral
of this memorable life, to adorn the tale of these

heroic actions, it is well that Charles Napier's bro-
ther of ail men should have assumed the office Of
. . _ .

his biographer. Nobly is that brother acquitting
himself of the duties devolving upon him from that
self-imposed responsibility. So appropriately and h 0
judiciously is he doing this that we look forward

with eager satisfactionto the prospective completion
by two more volumes, of a work which, in the first
and second, gives all the promi!•e of a masterpiece.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON. April 20.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W.;
moderate breeze and fine.

PLYMOUTH, April 18.--Wind S.W.—Arrived--Star of
the Nortb, from London, for Bombay, with loss of top.
mast, &c. Sailed—Coral Queen, Cape of Good Hope ;
Speculation, Quebec; Margaret Ann, ditto; Gem, New-
foundland.

DARTMOUTH, April 19.--Wind S.W. —Arrived—Pach a,
from Rio Janeiro.

BELFAST, April 17.--Arrived--Warder, from Demo.
rara.

CLYDE—Sailed—Alert, for Monte Video.
OFF SHOREHAM, April 19.—Wind S. S. E.—Charles
Henry, from Antwerp for Brazils.
POOLE, April 18,—The Peseverance, of this port, makes
water, having been on shore.
CARDIFF, April 18.—Wind S.—Sailed—Krimpe, for
Batavia. . _

ABERDEEN, April 18.—The City of Quebec, hence to
Quebec, with passengers, is aground, but expected off
without damage.
DROGHEDA, April 18.—The Woodstock, from Swansea
to Liverpool, was run into off the Skinces by the Faille,
from Liverpool to New York, and sunk soon afterwards
crew saved.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning.

Wind W.

Arrived—Express, from Halifax ; Duero, screw steamer,
Corunna ; Annoben, Santander; J. V. Maria. Amster.
daru ; Felicity, Jamaica; Otter, Gibraltar; Otterbura,
Amsterdam.
Put back —Meander, screw steamer, and Govran Bahry,
Turkish frigate, screw, both with machinery damaged.
QUEENSTOWN, April 18.

Wind S.
Arrived—Avon. from Ibrail ; Chscoforde, Malaga.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITIS.I TEIEGRAPR.)
GRAVESEND. Monday, 9.42 a.m.
—Bravo, from Stettin ; Carolinda,
Wind calm; tide high water; very fine.
, Princess Victoria, Terceira ; Lady Rena,
Taragona ; -Young How, Harlingen.
Cherbourg A rrived •
A 13
ri
l 19.
Arrived, April 20. —Gerinda, from Bandholm ; •Collie',
Emden ; Eugenie, Nantes.

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DEAL, Monday, 9.20 A.M.
Wind N.W., light and fine.
Passed in tow—Canopus, from Mauritius, for London..
Passed—Ossian, screw steamer, from westward, foe
London : Douglas, London, Manillp. ; Rapid, London,
Bahia.
Passed, April 18—Barrels, from Shields, for Port hon.

Anchored—Eliza Moore, from London, for Lima; Lana•
field, London, San Sebastian ; W. G. Malcolm, London,
Bombay.

The Queen has signified her pleasure of appointing
the Rev. C. J. P. Eyre, Rector of Bury St.
Edmunds, to succeed to the Rectory of Marylebono, on
the elevation of the Ron. and Rev. J. T. Pelham to the
See of Norwich.

THE BHAERFBRE CLUB DINNER.—Mr. Payne Col lee
will preside at the Sbakspere Club dinner this year at
Stratford ; and the meeting will probably receive from
the trustees of the fund provided by Mr.. John Shakes
peare some account of their services and their projects.
—Ath,enceum.
FUNERAL OF A FRENCH EXILE.--Yesterday morning
the mortal remains of M.' Rouged, an eminent Fretelt
exile, were conveyed to their last resting-place at the
Tower Hamlets Cemetery, amid the regret of his triende
and the sympathy of his fellow-exiles. The fur:veal
started from the residence of the deceased in Charlotte.
street, Blackfriars•road, and as soon as the coffin was
placed in the hearse and the widow and immediate
friends in the mourning coach, the foreign exiles, to the
number of about 2,000, formed in procession, and fol-
lowed, carrying flags, bearing various republican device.,
and encircled with crape fringed with silver. As the
procession proceeded it was joined by great number., so
that by the time it arrived at the cemetery it could not
have numbered less than 10,000 individuals, and ex-
tended
upwards of a mile in length. After the coffin
was lowered into the grave M. W. Pyat, Flandier, and
Lunis Blanc, and others, ilelivered the-funeral orations.
At the end of the ceremony the vast assemblage retired.
The whole proceedings were conducted with the greatest
decorum. . •