The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-27 00:00:00

town, the applauded ruler of France, while the ihen. -_
1 T King dies in exile at Claremont. There isteam instance
for Juvenal or Johnson, of the instability of human
greatness, the vanity of human wishes! Surely there ‘I
must be a melancholy moral borne from that death-bed
I even to the ears Of the winner in the game! Like the
legacy of Lady Jane Grey to her cruel cousin on the
throne—
Haud aliens putes homini quse obtingere possunt:
Sors hodierna mihi, cras erit ilia tibi. •
Such a moral is more than a mere warning borrowed
from the general chapter of accidents. Louis Napoleon
is now, to all eppea:ance, treading in the same path
which Louis Philippe has trodden before him. The same
experiments are before him; the same golden round
beckons him on, though he has not yet committed him-
self to the 1 erilous task of achieving it. It he has still
that confideece is his " star" which consoled him when
his fortunes might have seemed desperate, and consider"
himself bound to seek the altitude which common obser-
vation points at as almost within his grasp, it is difficylt
to see what greater advantages he has to rely on than
those which smiled on the outset of the Orleans dynasty,
and betrayed it to its ignominious exit; or what greater
elements of endurance he can expect to cluster round a
second empire than ,s ere at the command of the most
astute politician in Europe.
DAILY NEWS.—The man, Louis Philippe, expired
S estereley et Claremont. The King, Louis Philippe,
departed this line some time previous. The latter was a
great event; the shuffling oft the mere man's mortal coil
is but a small one. His friends, however. may make a.
huge funeral pile cf his private virtues, which were most
exemplary in the narrow circle of his friends and his de-
pendents. Therein, indeed, he kept a kind of preserve
of ail the virtues. But beyond the domain, beyond the
paling which immediately surrounded the vicinity of his
household, he allowed few of these virtues to stray.
And he can, perhaps, be best characterised as a politi-
cian, by saying that as such he was the direct eontrary
of what he was as a pere de forndle. There is no greater
proof, perhaps, of the profound unintelligence of our age,
than the worship which was paid to him as a politician.
Never did Oriental Brahmins build up for their idol a
greater or a blinder mass of adoration than the priests
of European politics, who lead and create opinion in all
its capitals, reared up for Louis Philippe. And yet
this great idol of the Liberal Conservatives, as they
call themselves, spent the eighteen years of his reign
astride the great country on which he weighed and
over which he swayed like a nightmare. Throughout
that time not one great or generous idea ever seemed
to have germed in his mind. Of domestic policy, be-
yond the cajolery or bribery of i deputy, he had none.
Of the condition, the wants, the economy, the ferment-
ing minds of his people, neither he nor the statesmen
who served him knew aught. He and they actually
lived and governed over a mass of volcanic matter in fu-
sion and ebullition, but covered over with certain layers
of social earth, fair and verdant to behold. These wor-
thies were delighted and contented with the appear-
ance of the surface, nor ever thdught to sound the
depth, to try tne temperature, or analyse the elements of
the lava below. Their sole anxiety was t I stop every
aperture, and stick their loin de rigueur in every
cranny. By this they merely accelerated the explo-
sion. And amidst the many phenomena of that cataa-
trophe there was none more portentous than the burst-
ing of that huge bubble, the kingcraft of Louis
Philippe. The fact is, the very essence and end of
government, the development, the foresight, insight,
and contentment of a people's wants were utterly
unknown to the Solomon of Loudon drawing-rooms and
Parisian saloons. He believed, with several other
great men by the bye, that policy meant diplomacy, and
nothing more. As much a legitimist at heart as
Charles 11. was a Roman Catholic, Louis Philippe felt
convinced that he had filched a throne, and how to keep
his balance there was his sole object. Of the soil beneath
him he knew little, as we said, and cared less. But of
the powers around him in Europe he was fully cogni-
sant, knew their weaknesses and their strength, their
prejudices, their follies, and their magnanimity, where it
existed. Amongst these he played, making use of
England in the first years of his reign, as the only Go-
vernment that could aid and favour his parvenu and in-
fant kingdom. As by degrees, however, he gained
strength, years of possession and prestige, then he flung
off the English crutch on which be leaned, and which
had actually served him as an instrument to subju-
gate Europe north and south of him, Belgium and
Spain, to his will. Thus armed with the very power
which we had provided for him, he flung himself into
the alliance of the absolutist powers, and was em-
boldened by his friendship with them to play England
and Spain, and his own relative, the young Queen of
Spain, one of the filthiest and basest tricks that ever
disgraced man or politician. England's disgust was
great, but of course inoperative. But that of France was
equally great. if not against the act, at least against him
also perpetrated it. And never was the power of re•
tributive justice shown more signally and awfully than
in the ruin of all concerned in the Spanish marriage from
the suicide of their negotiator Bresson to the dethrone-
ment and expulsion of Louis Philippe and his Ministers.
It is impossible to characterise the reign of the monarch
without bringing forward these its great facts, and with-
out expressing upon them a strong opinion. It is die.
tated by a sense of justice, not resentment. For the'
house of Orleans and its bead have long ceased to
excite any feelings of the kind. On the contrary, the
demeanour of the fallen dynasty, and of all its members,
has been irreproachable. It has been dignified, resigned,
betra) ing no captious humour, indulging in no recri-
mination, no vain boasts, no restless attempts or idle. in-
-1 trigues. The King ju,t deceased was even supposed to
recommend a postponement of the claims of the Orleans
to that of the legitimist heir. The Duchess of Orleans
would, however, lever consent to such a compromise;
and the decease of Louis Philippe is likely to have the
e iTect t f communicating more life and activity to the
Orleans party.

DOCK COMPANY IMPROVEMENTS.—We hear it is
inteLdcd by the Dock Company to construct a new railway
the entire length of the three docks. Ihe railway is to ccin-
mence at the goods railway station, cross the Humber-dock
Bridge in Wellington-street, and run on the town side of the
Humber Junction, and Old Docks, as far as the end of Low-
gate. The old-tashimed tram-roads now running by the
side of the docks are to be removed. This will be a very
great improvement, and will tend very much to reduce, if
not entirely to remove, the charges for " truckage" on goods
shipped and unshipped. By the new system goods coming
by railway for shipment can, without delay, inconvenience,
or expense, be dropped by the side of the vessels for which
they are intended, while, in like manner, the carriages on
their return can take up the goods delivered from shipboard
for transportation by railway. Another improvement also
designed by the Dock Compiny for facilitating the trade of
the port, is the application of hydraulic power to their large
crane, by which coals, &c., will be shipped with thrice the
rapidity now attained.—Hell Packet.

INTEMPERANCE AND SUICIDE.—On Sunday after-
noon, a party of labouring men and their wives, all more or
less intoxicated, were returning from Battersea, where they
had bear spending the afternoon, when, off the Houses of
Parliament., a Mrs. Shadbrook, residing in Queen's Head-
pksage, Charles-street, Drury-lane, who had conceived that
an improper intimacy had taken place between a female of
the party and her husband, in a frenzy of jealousy suddenly
threw herself overboard. Mr. Shadbrook, though unable to
swim, leaped in to save his wife ; the unfortunate woman,
however, who was very drunk, was not seen to rise again,
and her husband was with difficulty dragged into the boat.
The body was not recovered.

SOTER'S MAGIC STOVE.—La Patrie tells a story
of a dispute between an English traveller and a douanier
respecting the admissibility of M. Soyer's magic stove. The
douanier contended that it was hardware prohibited by law.
The Englishman assured hint it was his kitchen, and seeing
the custom-house officers looking rather incredulous, he
quietly fixed the stove, lighted a brass lamp, produced
from a kind of book one or two raw cotelettes ready egged
and breaded, threw them into a microscopic fryingpan, and
served them up in about a minute, to the great astonishment
of the spectato-s. The eouanier was not proof against this
demonstration, and the stove was allowed to pass.
POOLE, AUG. 26.—The embezzlement or the late
actuary of the Poole Savings Bank, Joseph Barter Bloom-
field, deceased, is supposed by some to extend to 5,0001. or
6,0001. Mr. Tidd Pratt was here on Saturday, and a Go-
vernment accountant is to be employed, in conjunction with
an accountant in this neighbourhood, to examine into the
affairs of the bank. The loss will be, it is supposed, to the
depositors ss. in the pound.
Ma. ANDERsoN, M.P. FOR ORKNEY AND Suer-
LAND, AND HIS CoNsTrruENTs.—This gentleman is making
a tour of visits to the Islands of which he is the representa-
tive, with the view of tendering explanations of his lublic
conduct in Parliament during the past session. On the 14th
instant he arrived at Stromness and addressed a numerous
meeting in a long speech, which was received with great
satisfaction by the electors. The following were the con-
cluding observations of the Hon. Member with respect to
local grievances to which his constituents were exposed.
The first was that of "scat,"—the exemption from rates on
the Crown and earldom property—the check to improvement
formed by the Crown lands—inequality of road-money as-
sessments, &c., respecting which he had pressed incessantly
upon the Government the necessity of inquiry, and he be-
lieved he might say, that in a-short time a Commissioner
would be sent by Government to make inquiry into those
matters on the spot, when it would be competent to every
one who had any repreceutation to make in reference to
them, to do so direct to the Commissioner. - (Applause.)
The second object, and certainly not the least, was the im-
provement of the postal communication, by means of a
steam- packet across the Pentland Firth. To obtain this he
had used every possible exertion, and having latterly in-
duced the General Shipowners' Society of London and the
committee of Lloyds to take up the question, as one concern•
ing the shipping interest at large, the Government had, at
last, taken the matter into serious, consideration. Having
ascertained that Captain Ottei, of her Majesty's ship Comer,
had been directed to make a report upon Scrabster pier, and
the practicability of stationing a steamer there for carrying
the Orkney mails, he (Mr. Anderson) proceeded to Thurso on
his way north, and had then met Captain Otter, had had a
conference with him on the subject; and had ascertained
that this officer had reported most favourably for the object
iu view; and he therefore hoped that it would not now be
long before they would see this important object carried
into effect.—(Great applause.) A vote of thanks to the
Hoe. Member was unanimously ad:ipted, and he on the fol.--
lowing day departed for Kirkwall in furtherance of his
mission.

BIRTHDAY OF THE PRINCE CONSORT .--WINDSOR,
MONDAT.—This being the anniversary of the birth of the
Prince Consort, when his Royal Highness enters upon hie
32d year, the bells have been rung and salutes tired as usual.
A public di, ner to celebrate the auspicious event took place
in the afternoon, at the Castle Hotel William Hanson, lisq.,
the mayor, in the chair), which was attended by a numerous
party, con,isting cf the principal inhabitants of the town
and neighbourhood. In the evenirg the houses of many of
the tradesmen of his Royal Highness were brilliantly illu-
minated.

THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPII.—The wires for this
important work are now in readiness, and are safely on board
the steam-ship Goliath, now lying in Dover harbour. On
the drum on which the wire is to be laid there is already $
considerable quantity coiled; and on the deck there is an
ample reserve to be used when wanted. It i 3 said that ope.
rations are to commence at the next neap tide, should the
weather permit.

We are sorry to say that the potato disease has
made its appearance in the neighbourhood of Llangollen...
.North Wake Gazette.