The Sun. — 1863-09-09 (London, England)

GENERAL NI‘CLELLAN.  Each of the great European armies offers a wellcharacterised type of officer, beneath which type individual peculiarities of manner, language, and even constitution, in some sort disappear. An English officer does not resemble an Austrian officer ; a French officer differs from a Russian officer. M'Clellan reminds you of the type of the French Artillery officer. The reason is, that he was educated at West Point school, which is a mixture of the French Military and Polytechnic schools. The student of West Point speaks foreign languages, principally French. In respect to literature, science, and military art, he has been nursed in the worship of the great European models. Consequently he is a stranger to that narrow patriotism, that national exclusiveness, which concentrates all the ideas, studies, and admiration of tL,e Americans upcn America. The study of pure science and mathematics has inspired him with a taste for theoretical speculations which is shared by few of his countrymen. He is polite, discreet, reserved. He has acquired the art of appearing modest, and of obtaining respect by unpretending manners. He is able to conform to the habits and customs of the strangers with whom he comes in contest, and he practises every rule of the most scrupulous urbanity with a certain dash of republican pride which is wanting neither in charm nor in dignity. This class of men, so different from the Yankees, does not seem to have hitherto obtained, in the direction of public affairs, a share proportionate to the merit, the knowledge, and the conscientious integrity which distinguish the majority of its members.  Suicide on the Railway at Wandsworth.  _..._ An inquest was held on Monday evening at the Union Workhouse (Wandsworth and Clapham Union), Wandsworth, before W. Carter, Esq., coroner for the eastern division of Surrey, on the body of Daniel Lane, a bricklayer's labourer, who met his death on Saturday morning under very extraordinary circumstances. James Saunders, the driver of an engine on the Brighton and South Coast line, stated that on Saturday last, about 10.50 a.m., he left London for Victoria with a train which was to stop at all the stations. They stopped at Balham, and were to have stopped at New Wandsworth. Half a mile before reaching that station witness had shut off the steam with a view of stopping there, when he saw a man (deceased) standing beside the fence, near the Patriotic Fund School. When the train was within eight or ten yards of him he stepped between the metals with his back towards the approaching train, which was then proceeding at a rate of between 25 and 30 miles an hour. Witness whistled for the breaks to be put on the carriages, and he himself put the engine break on. The man appeared to be watching the approach of the train. He was overtaken almost instantaneously, but the train could not be stopped until it had proceeded nearly 500 yards. Witness ing at once went to the front, and g on to the lamp-iron, which found deceased han had caught him at the back of the neck and entered ton he base oof the s, kull. His toes had been dragging g the tor theu n Care , The body was taken down and committed of the plate-layers, and witness proceeded with the train. From his manner, witness was sure that the deceased meant to destroy himself. Evidence was then given to show that the unfortunate man had been suffering in his head. The jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased had destroyed himself while in a state of temporary. insanity," and, in reply to the Coroner, the jury declared that the engine-driver and other railway officials were entirely free from blame,