The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-13 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY.—Morning, 11b. 9m.—Afternoon, 11h. 44m.
To..MORIZOW.-Morning, h. 6m.—Afternoon, 12h. 6m.

THE WEATHER,.—SrN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 13, 1861,
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
4.5-7.ighest since noon yesterday.
3.s—lowest this morning and during the night.
38—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.60 ; a sudden fall of a quarter of an
inch—more storms brewing.
WIND—North-Easterly; fresh and cold, with dirty,
rainy weather.

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THS U N .

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 1861

Have monarchs the sentiments common to
hu manity—•if so, the Emperor of FRANCE must feel
a deeper pang than he would like to acknowledge.
Nothing is more universal than the regret felt by
every generous mind for any hasty or unkind con-
duct when it learns that the injured individual lives
no more. Not only do we blame ourselves, but almost
forget that there was provocation on the other side
—we would fain recal the dead and express our
regret for what we hardly thought of while he
lived. Did the Emperor of the FRENCH feel
anything of this kind, when he heard of
the death of the young King of PORTUGAL. A
youthful monarch who, if rot remarkable for high
capacity, was, at least, remarkable for good faith,
such as would be worth an empire in the case of
Austria, and who has accepted, and honestly carried

out, the constitutional Government he found in his

country, not overthrown it with bloodshed and per-
jury. A monarch who, in a small kingdom, was,
at least, displaying the quiet virtues which allowed
his country gradually to improve its position, and
who, had his life been spared, would probably have
seen it taking its proper place among the nations.
Yet he was early schooled in painful affliction—
deprived in youth of his mother, and after a twelve-
month of his Queen, Enrope generally sympathised
with the amiable and youthful Prince. One man
alone offered him the most heart-cutting and cruel
insults a Sovereign can receive from another—that
of treating him as a wrongdoer, and compelling even
pecuniary satisfaction, by virtue of superior force
alone, when the young KING knew that he had
acted not only rightly, but nobly. The dark deed
of NAPOLEON HI. in reference to the affair of the
Charles and Georges, was of the same character,
though life was not touched, as the murder of the
Due D'ENGHIEN ; it was another illustration of the
utter insensibility of the NAPOLEONS to moral prin-
ciples. Solely in the interest of French kidnappers,
the Frenchman who had the physical power, and
because he could employ brute force, refused to the
Ring of PORTUGAL the plainest justice and the
rights of sovereignty. The cause of the Emperor—
sla.Nre-catching—and the means he employed, bully-
ing a weaker
Sovere alike bad and dis-
graceful •; and now that ign, were
S •
overeign has gone whither
we all, and NAPOLEON
himself, must soon follow
him. England advised, indeed
to a bullying Monarch, just its we
ndeed, Portugal to yield
yielded to a bullying Republic, for pea
have so often
peace sake; but
it is one of the many acts which have created in
English minds the impression that we have to do
across the water with a man so utterly Unprin-
cipled, that our only safety lies in our ability to
destroy his navy.
The KING'S history is, indeed, a brief one, but it
is an
unsullied one. That is more than can be said
al compeers. He found his
of many of his royal
(
country, financially at least, in a bad condition ;
•
things have much improved since , he was always
on the side of improvement, and we can only
hope that his brother, the Duke of OPORTO, who
succeeds him, will carry out yet more vigorously
the course on which the late King had entered.
May he escape the club and pistols of Imperial
France!

It is quite a new thing that the speech of a Queen
of SPAIN should either excite much attention, or
be, on reasonable grounds, of a very cheerful cast.
Civil war, effete and exche worthless Monarchs, an empty
quer, and a half brigand army, have been
what chiefly met o
can't say yet, that ur eyes south of Pyrenees. We
they have changed all that,"