The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-10 00:00:00

In one respect most of us must modify our views
looking at the total result. Two things especially
strike the reader, the absence of that increased
bitterness on the part of the North which had been
expected as a matter of course; and the absence
of anything like strong patristic feeling on the
part of the soldiers. If Fort Sumter created such a
stir in the North, it was presumed that Bull's Run
would bring down the North on the South almost
like the floods of Northern barbarians which deso-
lated the Roman Empire. But, if anything, the
reverse takes place. All who can shirk the conflict
seem inclined to do so. The men of a volunteer
regiment marched off, leaving their guns
on the ground the very morning of the
battle, because their three months' term
of service was up, and the Pennsylvanians
showed the same spirit. While, as we saw yes-
terday, at Harper's Ferry General PATTERSON was
hampered, and, perhaps, has, lost the place again,
because nineteen of his volunteer regiments had
determined to leave for home, their term of service
having expired. The truth is, the North has no
cry worth fighting for. We almost begin to hope
that a big Slavery Union will not be found stimulus
enough to bring the North to a hand-to-hand con-
flict with the South. What LINCOLN is now fight-
ing for, Europe certainly does not regard as worth
the blood of many citizens ; and it seems as if the
Yankees themselves had somewhat of the same
feeling. Let the battle be to wipe out the foul
stain of slavery from the flag of the Republic, and
Europe would applaud—and all the worth of the
Union would stand forth as patriots.

If the French EMPEROR is allowing 1861 to pass
away without either provoking diplomatic contro-
versy, or throwing down the gage of battle again
in defiance to one of the European Sovereignties—
his Imperial Majesty is at any rate keeping atten-
tion in his regard upon the alert, by coming into
personal communication with one or another of his
brother potentates. A crowned BERNADOTTE is
now his guest at the Tuileries. There he has
already entertained, among other august per-
sonages,7the Reigning British SOVEREIGN. He has
received a visit there before now from the young
King of PORTUGAL. He has shaken hands upon
the frontiers of the two countries with his
MAJESTY of Belgium. If he has not yet
greeted as a guest in his capital either of the Czars
of Russia who have been his contemporaries, either
NICHOLAS I. Or ALEXANDER 11., NAPOLEON 111.
has at least had the satisfaction of so doing by the
brother of the present autocrat, the Arch-Duke
CONSTANTINE. More than simply greeting in his
palaces the representative of the oldest dynasty in
Christen dom , King VICTOR EMMANUEL, the French
Emperor has enabled that Re Galantuomo to add first
of all Lombardy to his Sardinian territories, and
eventually has left the path open before him, so that
without the aid of France, rather, it should be said,
in spite of the manifest wishes and aspirations of
France, he should absorb the bulk of the great
Italian peninsula into his dominions, and to come
forth before the world by a grander title than was
ever dreamt of by his ambitious father, CHARLES
ALBERT as—King of Italy ! If NAPOLEON 111.
has succeeded so far in Elbowing his way
in—parvenu, as he has acknowledged himself
to be—among the crowned heads of Europe, he
has nevertheless once or twice had to submit to
rather glaring indignities. At Baden he
might
swagger it as he pleased among the German
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princelings—but previously don't w
how haughtily he was denied admittanceeall recollect
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sanctum sanctoruin, where the creme de la creme
of the claimants of the Right Divine met in
solemn conclave, unembarrassed by the presence
of a BONAP ART E ? He had his revenge afterwards,
however, by meeting face to face the young Kaiser,
FRANCIS JOSEP El, at that little green table at
Villafranca, across which the two Emperors, the
Conquered and the Conqueror, talked over the conse-
quences of Solferino upon the morrow of Solferino—
FRANCIS JOSEPH pulling the flowe-:s to pieces like
some bashful young maiden at a ball—Louis NAPO-
LEON coolly smoking his little paper cigaretto.
His Imperial MAJESTY is again endeavouring to
treat, and be treated, enfatnille, in this way. by the
European Sovereigns. There is the Swedish
Monarch, as we have said, now his guest:at the
Tuileries. Aparvenu, like himself, it is true, but
still a reigning Sovereign. A BERNADOTTO and 4

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.—It
has been officially notified that the nomination of candidates
for the newly-created seat for South Lancashire is to take
place on Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock, at Newton-in-
Mackerfield. The polling, it is understo4 will be on the
following Saturday.
THE LATE DUKE OF BEDFORD.—The will and
two codicils of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, K.G., were
proved in Her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 31st of
July, by the executors, his son, the present Duke of Bed-
ford ; Lord Foley, Mr. Charles Romilly, and Mr. George
Russell. The personalty was sworn under £600,000.
The will extends over 530 folios, and it and the codicils
I bear date May 7, 1861, and are all attested by the same
witnesses, being the Rev. S. F. Cumberlege, incumbent of
Woburn, and Mr. R. du Cane, of Gray's-inn. His Grace's
son, the present Duke, in addition to the family estates, has
bequeathed to him by hig late father all the property not
otherwise disposed of by will, and is appointed residuary
legatee. With a view to increase the rent-roll of the family
estates the late Duke has further directed that the yearly
sum of £5,000 is to be set apart to accumulate for the
period of 21 years. His Grace has devised to his brother,
Earl Russell, for life, the Irish estates left to the testator
by the late Earl Ludlow, which, on the Earl's decease, are
to descend to Earl Russell's eldest son and his issue, but
subject to annuities to the Earl's daughters. His Grace
has also bequeathed to Earl Russell a life interest in £15,000
with power of disposition to his children; and to the Coun-
tess
Russell is left a legacy of £1,000; and there are be-
quests to all the other members of his Grace's family. The
late duke has most munificently considered every person
employed by him throughout his large establishment by
granting handsome annuities and liberal legacies. There
is also a legacy of £l,OOO given to the Bedford General In-
firmary. Plush- ated London Am. s..
BARON FITZHARDINGE.—It will have been seen
by our Parliamentary report of the 7th inst. that the title
conferred upon Admiral Sir Maurice Frederick Fitzhar-
dinge Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle, is that of " Baron Fitz-
hardinge, of the city and county of the city of Bristol." A
more appropriate title could scarcely have been selected, for
the first of his ancestors who set foot in England was Har-
dinge, son of the King of Denmark, who came to England
with William the Conqueror. Hardinge lived in Bristol,
and the walls of his house still stand in "Baldwin-street,"
which was so named by Ilardinge after the Conqueror's
brother, Baldwin, Earl of Flanders. In the reign of
King Stephen, Robert Fitzhardinge, the son of Har-
dinge, began to build the monastery of St. Augustine,
which is now Bristol Cathedral. He completed it in the
reign of King Henry 11. Over the cathedral gate there is
this inscription :—"DominusHenricus Secundus et Robertus
filius Hardingi, filii Regis Dacire primi Fundatores hujus
Monasterii extiterunt." To this Robert Fitzhardinge
King Henry 11. afterwards granted Berkeley Castle by
Royal charter, and Maurice, his son, was first of the race
who assumed the name of "Berkeley." Robert Fitzhardinge
was buried in Bristol Cathedral, where his tomb still re-
mains. It bears this inscription :—" The monument of
Robert Fitzhardinge, Lord of Berkeley, descended from the
Kings of Denmark, and Eva, his wife, by whom he had
five sons and two daughters ; Maurice, his eldest son, was
the first of this family that took the name of Berkeley.
ThisßobertFitzhardinge laid the foundation of this church
and monastery of St. Augustine in the year 1140, the fifth
of King Stephen, dedicated and endowed it in 1148. He
died in the year 1170, in the 17th of King Henry 11. This
monument was repaired A.D. 1742. From the said Robert
Fitzhardinge, Lord of Berkeley, Augustus, the present Earl
(1742), is the two-and-twentieth in descent."

PUBLIC TESTIMONIALS AND STATUES.—The num-
ber of public statues and testimonials, either proposed or in
progress at the present moment, to the memory of public
men recently deceased is more remarkable than at any other
period. Among those in progress tc commemorate the ser-
vices of distinguished statesmen may be mentioned one to
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executed by Baron I`,larochetti, to be placed opposite Palace-
yard. Another statue, in addition to the one at the Euston
station, is about to be erected to George Stephenson at
Newcastle, and one is talked of to the late Mr. J. Locke.
Sir Charles Barry, the architect of the Houses of Parlia-
ment is to have an etNgy in Westminster Abbey. An archi-
tects' travelling fund is to be established in honour of the
late Mr. Pugin. In the religious world two commemora-
tive monuments have just been inaugurated to Dr. Iv,,atts
and James Montgomery, and another is to be dedicated to
Bunyan. Sir Hugh Myddleton, the projector of the
wealthy New River Company, and who is said to have died
in penury, is to have a drinking fountain erected to his
memory at Islington. Dr. Baily, the late physician to the
Court, is also to have a statue. Among the most recently
proposed testimonials, apart from statues, are those to the
night lion, Milner Gibson and Ur, Draidwood.