New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-22

Crimss, he sisht eertSnly pat It 10 much worss
uses II will BE- splendid ineeatve and reward
to genius, If il Be really Left cpea to fair comps0
t'n. This Sir Benjamin Hall intimsted 10 Psras-
nent it was the purpose Of the Government to 10
-desens having been invited from four artists bps
none submitted that were deemed suitable 10 the
object. We hope that Loudsn may obtain by tais
mortusry windall one statue that is not an e7esors
to the native and . mockery to tie stranger.
But il ia surely an odd time to be erecting moaa-
ments in honor Of the conqueror Of Waterloo. II
the Duke OF Wellington had been asked ten years
ago what il was that he had to show for the wealth
and honors heaped upon him, he would have said it
was the overthrow of the Napoeonc dynasty and
the rehabilitation of the House OF Bourbon ia
France. and the settlement OF Europe under the
old leeitimaoies 1t was for the Peninsular War
and Waterloo that he had been raised through
every degree of British honor up to the highest
rank q subject could possess. His fortune was
founded on the ruins of that of Napoleon Bonapsrte
the one had increased as the other bad decreased
and his ducal cOronet was fashioned from the
shattered fragments Of the Imperial crown. II 1t
were not good thing to have put down the upstart
Corsican and his dynasty, the English nation had
given the Duke great deal of solid pudding as
well as empty praise for nothing. That was what
he was enriched and ennobled and almost sdored
for doing. 1t should have been something worth
doing and that something should have been well
done to deserve this magnfcence of gratitude.
The Duke lived long enough to see the volcano
he lad helped to cap in 1915 in eruption once MORE
and its speedy extipgushmeDt again He saw
Louis Napoleon belched up, BY its Violence, fcom
Leicester square to the Tuilleries. But he was
spared from witnessing the entente eordia betweea
the granddaughter Of George III. and the nephew
Of the terrible usurper. He died without the
sight of their brotherly and sisterly embrscings,
of bis enrolment among the most illustriOus Knights
of the Garter of their interchange of vists Of the
iluminatiors and savos of artillery in bis honor,
and of the bell-ringngs to welcome the advent OF
his heir In the very same paper in which we have
found the particulars above relsted about the pro-
pesed statue we il stated ''that Prince Albert
Twill visit Paris in June to represent the English
"Court at the baptism Of the Imperial Prince"
What would the Duke have said had he been told,
when he heard Of the death of Napoleon at 81.
Helena, thstin five and thirtyyears consort ofthe
Queen Of England would be Fastening 10 Paris to
swell the pomp of the christening of the son Of bis
nephew In the presence Of such anomalies what
change in the face of affairs in Europe need be de-
spairedof' Stranger things than this can scarcely
happen in all the vagaries and caprces Of the blind
hu,sy, Fortune.
This however, was but q small part of the evil
to come from which Wellington was taken away.
He was sleeping under the dome of St. Paus, before
the army he had commanded were fighting, under bis
old companions in arms in the days of the Pennsa.
la and Waterloo, side by side with French legioas
marching beneath the eagles of the Napoleonic
Empire. He did not know how tens of thousands
of brave men were moved down by the Commis-
sariat, more deadly than the enemy; aud how, in
spite of the pluck Of the officers and the bull dog
intrepidity of the men, all the prizes Of victory
were carried of by the rival Frenchmen. Ho did
not witness how the prestige of England as
military power was damaged; bow the nephew Of
Napoleon engaged her in the Russian war; how he
directed its operations; how he monopolized it's
glories how he dictated the peace which rounded
Il. He did not survive 10 behold the Nephew con-
rolling the destinies of Europe with even moro
imperial hand than the Uncle. II he had, would
he not have thought that the battle Of Waterloo
was fought in vain, and that the whole Anti.Nspo-
leonic war was gigantic blunderi What had he
brought to pass by all his victOries' Might he not
as well have remained Mr.. Arthur Wellesley all big
life for all the permanent results of bis campaigns
to the British Empire or its fame 1t looks so
now, it must be owned. One would think it q time
rather for regrettng past OblatiOns than for devsns
fresh ones. But that is the affair Of tho British
nation, and not ours. Only, we hope they will $50
TO it that they get really good statue for their
money.