The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-11 00:00:00

the contumelies of. the jealous, with the aspersions of
the anarchical, or, it may be, and too frequently has
been, with the dungeon, and the rack, and the
scaffold of the tyrannous. With the poet again, the
ineffable joys of his sensibility are mostly allied with
those concomitants of imagination—poverty and phy-
sical suffering—his body wrung by the torments of
disease or by the horrible anticipations of some in-
curable calamity, his soul agonized by those mani-
fold and multiform grievances which are the children
of penury. With the public benefactor, moreover,
the exultation of success is clouded by the practical
forgetfulness of all but posterity. Neromion de-
ceived at Waterloo, CESAR stabbed at the base of
POMPEY'S pillar, are the most memorable instances
of the vicissitudes befalling great conquerors. TELL
tortured by GESLEIt, BoNNIVARD confined at Chilon,
are the most terrible examples of the miseries
awaiting every brilliant exhibition of patriotism.
MILTON oppressed with blindness, Orwav stran-
gled in the crisis of inanition, are the
evidences of poetical misfortune, such as are
the least likely, amidst all the records of intellect, to
be overlooked or forgotten. Deeply and profoundly
are we grieved to add to this melancholy catalogue
the name of Lieutenant WAGuouN, as affording a
token of the ordinary return made by the world at
large to its most illustrious benefactors.

When the biography of this very remarkable man
comes to be written, it will be seen how noble were
his efforts to advance the interests of his brother men,
how effectual were his exertions to forward the cause
of civilization, and how unutterably base and paltry
was the recognition of his great services by the com-
munity whose prosperity he had principally advanced.
Having exhausted his fortune, having squandered
the bloom and ripeness of his years upon a scheme
calculated to benefit Europe, and Asia, and more
especially England, beyond all our capabilities of
estimation—he was, at the moment when his
splendid projects had arrived at their final
realization, abandoned to anxieties and difficulties,
the mere recollection of which should excite senti-
ments of remorse in the bosoms of the multitude.
It is a reflection disgraceful to the country, and more
particularly to the Company, that this eminent
Englishman had drawn only one quarter's instalment
of a miserably smell pension when he departed from an
existence fraught to him with so much bodily
pain, and so many pecuniary misfortunes. Gifted at
first with a frame as robust as his mind was clear,
and as his faculties were inventive, Lieutenant
Waononx undermined the vigour of his constitu-
tion by the toils of his self-imposed enterprise,
and found in the ingratitude of those whom
he had served the most conspicuously, the means of
filling the hours of his highest achievements with the
lowliest and most harrowing of regrets. To our-
-selves the chief cause for sorrow in this matter at the
present moment—now that the woes of his latter days
have terminated, now that we may say of him as
KENT says of LNAIt—
" After life's fitful fever he sleeps well"—
to us, we say, that the chief cause for sorrow in his
premature dissolution, is the knowledge that his
widow is left entirely without provision. He
who has opened the broadest and noblest
channel ever opened for the ebb and flow
of commerce has been compelled to leave the world
without resigning into the hands of his beloved relict
the petty produce of his life of heroic achievements.
Justice, nay, we should say, the commonest feelings
of gratitude require that this crying wrong should
not be permitted to exist even so long as the grave
of the departed benefactor of England and Europe
yawns for the reception of his ashes. Let the word
be spoken, let the decree be written by the Company
and by the Government, which shall, by a tardy re-
cognition of great services, appease the manes of the
deceased. Until this be done we shall continue
clamorous.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paria papers of yesterday.

Lord BROUGHAM left Cannes on the 51 for Paris

The Marquis of NORMANBT had an interview with
the PRESIDENT of the Republic on Tuesday, which
lasted two hours.

The receipts of the Orleans and Bordeaux Railroad
for the month of December last amount to 294,139 f,
being an increase of 29,5ii1f. as compared with the
month of December, 1845.

It was rumoured in Paris that a new treaty had
been concluded between the French Republic and the
Emperor of RUSSIA.
M. GUSTAVE DE BEAU-110NT arrived in Paris from
Vienna, on Wednesday.
Dispatches have bean received from General
BARAGUAT D'HILLUIRS. The Cardinals have refused
to accede to his proposition for leaving a garrison of
12,000 men in Rome. They desire that Rome should
be garrisoned by the Austrians.

GIIISOT read a paper at the Academy, on j
Tuesday, on the restoration of the Stuarts. There
was a large attandanoe of Legitimatists.
The Bourse was dull to-day, and the price of
public securities declined. The Five per Cents.
opened at 94f. 10c., rose to 94f. 25c.; and fell
subsequently to 93f. 75c., at which they closed, being
a decline of 65 centimes on the price of yesterday.
The Three per Cents., closed at 57f. 40c. ; Orleans
Railroad Shares, 825 f.; Rouen, 5861. 25c.; Havre,
2421. 50c.; Great Northern, 463 f. 75c.; Avignon,
2201. ; Vierzon, 3431. 75c ; Paris and Strasburgh,
3611. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 273 f. 75c.
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