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

DAILY NEWS.—The man, Louis Philippe, expired S estereley et Claremont. The King, Louis Philippe, departed this line 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. may make a. huge funeral pile cf 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 vicinity 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 eontrary of what he was as a pere de forndle. 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 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 i deputy, he had none. Of the condition, the wants, the economy, the fermenting 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 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 thdught to sound the depth, to try tne temperature, or analyse the elements of the lava below. Their sole anxiety was t I stop every aperture, and stick their loin de rigueur in every cranny. By this they merely accelerated the explosion. And amidst the many phenomena of that cataatrophe 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 utterly unknown to the Solomon of Loudon 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 fully 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 parvenu and infant kingdom. As by degrees, however, he gained strength, years of possession and prestige, then he flung off the English crutch on which be 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 that ever disgraced man or politician. England's disgust was great, but of course inoperative. But that of France was equally great. if not against the act, at least against him also perpetrated it. And never was the power of re• tributive justice shown more signally and awfully than in the ruin of all concerned in the Spanish marriage from the suicide of their negotiator Bresson to the dethronement 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 without expressing upon them a strong opinion. It is die. tated by a sense of justice, not resentment. For the' house of Orleans and its bead 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 been irreproachable. It has been dignified, resigned, betra) ing no captious humour, indulging in no recrimination, no vain boasts, no restless attempts or idle. in-1 trigues. The King ju,t deceased was even supposed to recommend a postponement of the claims of the Orleans to that of the legitimist heir. The Duchess of Orleans would, however, lever consent to such a compromise; and the decease of Louis Philippe is likely to have the e iTect t f communicating more life and activity to the Orleans party.