The Sun. — 1850-08-27 (London, England)

DAILY NEWS.—The man, Louis Philippe, expired yesterdey at Claremont. The King, Louis departed this life 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. way make a huge funeral pile if his private virtues, which were most exemplary in the narrow circle of his friends and his dependents. Therein, indeed, he kept a kind of preserve of ail the virtues. But beyond the domain, beyond the paling which immediately surrounded the vicinisy of his household, he allowed few of these virtues to stray. And he can, perhaps, be best characterised as a politician, by saying that as such he was the direct contrary of what he was as a pere de famille. There is no greater px.ef, 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, beyond the cajolery or bribery of a deputy, he had note. Of the condition, the wants, the economy, the fermenting minds of hit; 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 fusion and ebullition, but covered over with certain layers of social earth, fair and verdant to behold. These worthies were delighted and contented with the appearance of the surface, nor ever thought to sound the depth, to try the temperature, or analyse the elements of the lava below. Their sole anxiety was t r stop every aperture, and stick their lois de rigueur in every cranny. By this they merely accelerated the explosion. And amidst the many phenomena of that catastrophe there was none more portentous than the bursting 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 utasrly 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 bow 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 frilly cognisant, 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 Government that could aid and favour his par vcnu and infant kingdom. As by degrees, however, be gained strength, years of possession and prestige, then he flung off the English crutch on which ho leaned, and which had actually served him as an instrument to subjugate 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 emboldened 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 teat ever disgraced man or politician. England's di?guat was great, but 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 retributive justice shown more signally and awfully than in the ruin of all concerned in the Spanish marriage from the suicide of it eir negotiator Bresson to the dethronement and expulsion at Louis Philippe and his Ministers. It is impossible to characterise the reign of the monarch without bringing forward these its greet facts, and without expressing upon them a strong opinion. It is dictated by a sense of justice, not re(enttnent. 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 b( en irreproachet le. It has been dignified, resigned, bstra)ing no captious humour, indulging in no recrimination, no vain boasts, no restless attempts or idle intripes. The King jut cire,ased was even supposed to recommend a post pont IM lit of the claims of the Orleans to that of the legitimist heir. The Duchess of Orleans would, however, r ever cone' nt to such a compromis. ; and the decease of Louis Plithppe is likely to have the ffect if communicating wore life and activity to the Orleaus party.  DOCK CoMPANT IitiraoVEMENTS.—We bar it is intended by the Dock Company to construct a new railway the entire length of the three docks. Ihe railway is to cc mmence at the goods railway station, cross the Humber-dock Bridge in Wellington-street, and run on the town side of the  HuacrJunction, and Old bucks, as far as the end of Low gate. The old-tashi ined tram-roads now runningby 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, t.'e carriages on their return can take up the goods delivered from shipboard for transportation by railway. Another improvement also  designed by the Dock Conipany 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.—Null Packet.