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

town, the applauded ruler of France, while the then
King dies in exile at Claremont. There is an instance
for Juvenal or Johnson, of the instability of human
greatness, the vanity of human wishes! Surely there
must be a melancholy moral borne from that death-bed
even to the ears of the winner in the game! Liko the
legacy of Lady Jane Grey to her cruel cousin on the
throne—
Haud aliens putea homini vie obtingere possunt:
Sorg hodierna mihi, cras ern ills tibi.
Such a moral is more than a mere warning borrowed
from the general chapter of accidents. Louis Napoleon
is now, to all appearance, treading in the same path
which Louis Philippe has trodden before him. The same
experiments are before him; the same golden rcund
beckons him on, though be has not yet committed him-
self to the perilous task of- achieving it. It he has still
that confidence in his " star" which consoled him when
his fortunes might have seemed desperate, mid considers
himself bound to seek the altitude which common obser-
vation points at as almost within his grasp, it is difficult
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 be can expect to cluster round a
second empire than were at the command of the most
astute politician in Europe.
DAILY NEWS.—The man, Louis Philippe, expired
yesterday at Claremont. The King, Louie Philippe,
departed this life some time previous. The latter was a
great event; the shuffling oil the mere man's mortal coil
is but a small one. His friends, however, may make a
huge funeral pile r f his private virtues, which were most
exemplary in the narrow circle of his friends and his de-
pendents. Therein, inched, he kept a kind of preserve
of ad the virtu, s. 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 contrary
of what he was as a pore de foinille. 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 fur their idol a
greater or a blinder mass of adoration than the priests
of European politics, who lead and create opinion its 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 gertned in his mind. Of domestic policy, be-
yond the cajolery or bribery of a 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 end 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 thought to sound the
depth, to try the temperature, or anal) se the elements of
the lave below. Their sole anxiety was t t stop every
aperture, and stick their loix de ristueur in every
cranny. By this they merely accelerated the explo-
sion. And amidst the many phenomena of that catas-
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 London 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 fally 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 cf possession and prestige, then he flung
off the English crutch on which he 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, nut of course inoperative. But that of France was
equally great, if not against the act, at least against him
who perpetrated it. And never was the power of re-
tributive justice shown more signally and awfully than
iu 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 dies
tated by a sense of justice, not resentment. For the
house of Orleans and its head 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 bt en irreproachable. It has been dignified, resigned,
betra}ieg no captious humour, indulging in no recri-
mination, no vain boasts, no restless attempts or idle in-
trigues. The King just deceased was even supposed to
recommend a postpoie meet of the claims of the Orleans
to that of the legitimist heir. The Duchess of Orleans
would, however, rover consent to tuch a compromise;
and the decease of Louis Philippe is likely to have the
e ffect (.1 communicating more life and activity to the
Orleans party. _

DOCK COMPANY IMPROYEMENT:I.—WO hear it it
intended by the Dock Company to construct a new railway
the entire length of the three ducks. '!he railway is to com-
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-fashioned tram-roads now running by the
side of the docks are to be removed. This will be a very
great improvement, and wilt tend very much to reduce, if
not entirely to remove, the charges for " truckage' on goods
:hipped 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 Company 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.—Hull 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 been spending the afternoon, when, eff the Houses of
Parliament, a Mr 3. Shadbrook, residing in Queen's Head-
passage, 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.

SOT ER'S MAGIC STOVE.—La Patrie tells a story
of a dispute between an English traveller and a douanier
respecting the admissibility of M. Soyer'a 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 spectators. The douanier was not proof against this
demonstration, and the stove was allowed to pass.
POOLE, AUG. 26.—The embezzlement of the late
actuary of the Poole Savings Bank, Joseph Barter Bloom-
field, deceased, is supposed by some to extend to 5,0001. or
6,000/. Mr. Tuld 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.
MR. ANDERSON, M.P. FOR ORKNEY' AND SHET-
LAND, •ND Ms CONSTITUENTS. —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 r üblic
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 representation to make in reterence 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 Otter, of her Majesty's ship Comet,
had been directed to make a report upon Scrabster pier, and
the practicability of stationing a steamer there for carrying
the Orkney mails, be (Mr. Anderson) proceeded to Thurso on
his way north, and had then met Captain Otter, had had a
couference with him on the subject; and had ascertained
that this officer had reported most favourably for the object
in 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
Hon. Member was unanimously adopted, and he on the fol-
lowing day departed for Kirkwall in furtherance of his
mission.

BIRTIIDAY OF THE PRINCE CONSORT .—WINDSOR,
DloNpar.—This being the anniversary of the birth of the
Prince Consort, when his Royal Highness enters upon his
32d year, the bells have been rung and salutes tired as usual.
A public dicer to celebrate the auspicious event took place
in the afternoon, at the Castle Hotel ( William Hanson, Esq.,
the mayor, in the chair), which was attended by a numerous
party, consisting of the principal inhabitants of the town
and neighbourhood. In the evening the houses of malty of
the tradesmen of his Royal Highness were brilliantly.
THE SUBMARINE TELECRAPIL—The wires for this
important work are now in readiness, and are safely on board
the steam-ship Goliath, now lying in Dover harbour.- Oa
the drum on which the wire is to be laid there is already a
considerable quantity coiled; and on the deck there is an
ample reserve to be used when wanted. It is 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 Leightiourbood of LlatloUtgory
klforth Wales Gazette.