The Sun. — 1845-11-06 (London, England)

NELSON—to that sublime genius, and that undaunted spirit, which pursued the naval power of the most victorious enemy we had ever coped with, over every sea, to every shore of the habitable world in which the standard-of France was successively unfurled, in flight 8r in aggression, and broke and triumphed over all its might and all its valiant resistance ; —to him whose crowning victory rescued this mighty kingdom from becoming a mere province of that universal empire, which, but fur this overthrow of the combined fleets of France and Spain, the stupendous ambition of NAPOLEON would have achieved and established.  But these are not times when either the aspect of our foreign relations, er the relative power and state of preparation in which foreign powers are maintaining their forces—especially their maritime service—will tolerate any longer any indignity to the memory of that great man, whose renowned name alone will'yet act as a spirit-stirring spell, a trumpettongued inspiration to the navy of Great Britain, under all circumstances and in every exigency. The common sailors will rush into action, whenever the fatal necessity for action shall arrive, with the indelible name of "Nelson " engraven on their memory, as the undaunted and affectionate commander who led their fathers and their brothers into every engagement with the assured confidence of victory, and the irresistible determination to distinguish themselves. The young officer and the veteran commander will be animated by the same impulses, heightened by reminiscences of the tenacious ;generosity with which this illustrious Chieftain—far from coldly discouraging the just demands of his brothers in arms for distinctions in proportion to his own rewards— warmly, importunately, fervently pressed, even to his own prejudice and the incurring official rebuke, on the reluctant attention of Lords of the Admiralty, Prime Ministers, and even the SOVEREIGN, the ample rewards and honours due to those whom his heroic affection always designated as forming, with himself, "a band of brothers." Let this signal reflection on the national gratitude, on its sense of true glory, its sense even of its own political interests, be instantly effaced, we say, by the completion of the "Nelson" memorial. And since Chancellors of the Exchequer, and First Lords and First Commissioners seem inaccessible to anything like kindred emotions of sympathy in that feeling which first prompted, among private or professional "individuals," its erection, let all the great communities of the kingdom repair the evil by furnishing the supplies vainly demanded of the Government. The spirited little town of Greenwich, dignified as the locality of the noblest home and retirement which public gratitude. has .yet provided in this country for our decayed sailors, has set an admirable example, that may be instantly and efficiently followed by every other town in Great Britain. It has originated a penny subscription among its 14,000 inhabitants. A penny subscription among the millions of our large marts of manufacturing, and even agricultural and commercial industry, would realise ample funds for the completion of this monument and the erection of another, which, in point of grandeur, extent, utility, and beauty, might put to shame all that the Legislature has yet decreed er the Executive erected, .to So honour to the greatest hero of all naval story !  has taken place between Baron DE BOURQUENEY, the French Ambassador at Constantinople, and the Ottoman Porte, relative to the murder of a French Missionary in the Lebanon. Some English correspondents from that quarter had stated, that the French Consul at Bey-rout had demanded that the person chiefly implicated in the death of the priest should be put to death without trial—a demand not at all likely to be made by the representative of a Constitutional Government. The account given in the Constitutionnel is very different-we are inclined to think more near the truth. "We shall give," says that paper, " the following extract of a letter from Father FRANCOIS DE PLOUGHE, prefect of the Cupucins of Syria, written on the 10th of last June, in which are de • tails of the death of Father