The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

men whose memories were among some of the most
precious of our national heir-looms—men who not
only adorned the age in which they lived, but had
rendered permanent blessings to the land, and whose
names the world would not willingly let die. To
allow the disturbance of a spot so hallowed, they
urged, could not but be regarded as an injury to the
nation. Individuals had bought graves and family
vaults in the ground under the impression that they
-.7.-....noriee permanent and immovable places of
sepulture. The Corporation, too, were evidently
under the impression that it could never be alienated,
and had at various times, especially in 1787, given
assurance that the ground should not be built on ;
and to allay apprehensions that had arisen that it
might be converted into other purposes, declared by
public advertisement that every part of the ground
should at all times hereafter remain as burial
ground, and be used for that purpose only.
In answer to Mr. Lowman Taylor,
One of the gentlemen attending to support the
petition said that they had been positively assured
that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had already
prepared plans for converting it into building
ground.

The petition was referred to the City Lands Cora
mittee.

Mr. H. L. Taylor and Mr. J. E. Saunders were
re-appointed to represent the Corporation of Lon-
don in the Metropolitan Board of Works, under
the provisions of the 18th and 19th Victoria.
A report was brought up from the Library Com-
mittee on the reference to reconsider the report re-
spacting a collection of manuscripts be'onging to
Edward Tyrrell, Eq., late Remembraucer, and re.
commending that the. same be not purchased.
The report was agreed to, and the court shortly
after adjourned.

The Proposed Siege Operations at Chatham,

CHATHAM, June 9.
The following details of the siege operations to
be carried on by the troops of the garrison of
Chatham on Saturday, in the presence of the Prince
of Wales and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, with other members of the royal family and
English and Foreig❑ Ministers, are offiAally an-
❑ounced, by t,:e sane ion of M4jor-General H.
Eyre, commanding the district, and Ccl. H. Har-
ness, C. 8., the director of military field works :-
1. The officers end men of the Royal Engineer
establishment will, in conjunction with the other
troops of the garrison, and with the assistance of
the captain superintendent of the royal dockyard,
end the naval means at his disposal, carry out the
concluding portion of a supposed series of siege
operations on the 11th inst. against the eastern or
lower end of Chatham Lines.
2. The siege works are considered to have been
advanced to the emtent seen upon the ground, and
preparation made for opening the place to assault
by mining the escarp and connterscarp between St.
Mary's harrier and the casemate barracks.
3. Against the assault the bisieged wre supposed
to have mods the fallowing diqoi:i.)rm :-
4. They have formed countermines, and lodged
charges of gunpowder uoder the Fs evict: Cavalier in
front of the demi-bastion, and under the head of the
lodgment on the glacis in front of the left face of
the Redan. They have constructed a boom across
St. Mary's Creek, in which they have also sunk
several torpedoes to destroy any boats which may
attempt to turn the'left of too lines; and as a fur-
ther security to this flank, they have formed a
stockade between the dirch of St, Mary's Hornwork
and the piece of water adjoining the military bath,

6. The operations will commence, the time being
supposed to be just before daylight, by a party ad-
vancing in a boat up St. Mary's Creek to attach a
charge of powder to the boom, which being effected
they will retire. Oa the explosions the assailants
will open fire upon the lines from the batteries and
advanced trenches, and also from the gunboats,
when the garrison will spring their mine under the
French Cavalier, and shortly after that under the
head of the lodgment.
6. After these explosions an armed party in boats
will advance up St. Mary's Creek, when the tor-
pedoes of the garrison will be fired in succession.
As soon as the party in the boats have effected a
landing, the breaching mines of the besiegers wil
be sprung. The general assault will then be given.l 7. On the left, a column, provided with ladders,
will escalade the lines at the re-entering angle of
the right face of the Redan. In the centre, a column,
also provided with ladders, will escalade at the
re-entering angle of thuleft face of that work. On
the right a column, beaded by a party of sappers,
provided with short ladders and entrenching tools,
will storm the breach made by the mines.
8. During the execution of these operations, and
while the assailing columns are cstablishiug them.
selves within the works, the party in the boats,
taking adventage of the confusion in the garrison
consequent upon the springing of the mines, Sec.,
will press in front of St. Mary's Hornwork, and,
turning its left flank, will breach by means of gun-
powder the stockade near the bathing pond.
9. The assaulting columns will then advance to
the attack of the works near Cumberland Bastion,
which may be considered as an entrenchment.
10. The left column, detaching a party through
the parade of the casemates, will pass between the
ramparts and the soldiers' casemate barracks to clear
the defenders from those works, and will then force
their way into Prince Freierick's Bastion, through
the postern, and over the right face of the work.
11. The centre column will advance between the
casemates and the right face of the Ravelin, and,
passing round its gorge, will effect an entrance
into the entrenchments through the curtain between
the Cumberland and Prince Frederick Bastions.
12. The right column will move over the ground
between the left face of the Ravelin and St. Mar's
Prison, to attack the front tormed by the Terracye
and Cumberland Bastions, by the curtain of which
the enter the inner lines.
13. The boat division will proceed by the road in
rear of St. Mary's Prison to the new guard room,
from whence they will advance and turn the left to
the Terrace Bastion by the Fieldwork Terrace, &c.
Lieut.-Colonel Lovell, C. 8., R.E., will be the
engineer officer directing the attack. Lieut.-Colonel
Browne, C. 8., R.E., will be the engineer officer
directing the defence.
The troops will assemble on Saturday, the 11th,
at 12.45 a,tn, on the different ponds grounds.

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TIMES.—It would would be difficult to find a more ex-
cellent example of statistical inquiry than that
exhibited in the Report of the Emigration Commis.
sioners for the last
year, just presented to Parlia-
ment. The Report preserves the same broad outlines
of popular movement shown in former years, but
there is a remarkable increase in the volume of
emigration, and the Commissioners have applied a
patient analysis to the discovery of its cause, Ala
though the conclusion of the Emigration Commis-
sioners is irrefragable that no larger proportion of
emigrants from the United Kingdom have sailed for
the United States in the past year than in preceding
years, yet the fact that the proportion should be so
large seems to require some explanation. Two-thirds
of our emigrants proceed to the United States. Out
'5,482,000 who have left the kiagdom during this
'c
:wry 3;303,000 have sailed for the American Re-
p lic, and the some proportion was shown last
year, when 146,813 sailed thither out of 223,758
oig
emigrants. Professor Goldwin Smith seems to dis-
cover in the circutastanee a tendency in the emigrant
to resort to a country emancipated from home con-
trol, but the fact admits of a simpler economic ex-
planation. The man who is driven to seek in other
leads the subsistence which the competition of his
fellows makes it difficult to obtain in this betakes
himself to the country which is at once most easy
of access and most richly furnished with the gifts
of nature. The necessary cost of passage to the
Australian colonies forces the poorer emigrant to
America, and his choice is confined to the States or
to one of the British Provinces. The rugged climate
of our own settlements is the principal influence
which deters him from emigrating to them, but it
is impossible to attribute the climate to the effects
of home legislation. As it is, the Canadians have
the mortification of seeing hardy labourers passing
through their country and disdaining to settle there.
Immigrants, not only from Britain, but from Ger-
many, Norway and Sweden, pass up the St. Lawrence
en route for the Western States. In 1862 no less than
5,289 immigrants from Norway and Sweden landed
in Canada, and not more than 40 of them are believed
to have remained there. Last year between 4,000
and 5,000 Germans and Norwegians passed through
in a similar manner. Few Englishmen are aware
of the extensive immigration of 0-olica into our
sugar-producing possessions of Maudtins, Guiana,
and the West Indies, nor of the rush of Chinese rote
Australia which frightened the colonists into the
adoption of prohibitive legislation. The influx of
Chinese seems, however, to he less dreaded than it
was, for the Legislature of Victoria has suspended
for two years the tax of £lO imposed on Chinese
entering the colony by sea, and of £4 on those
entering it by land. The disturbed state of China
may have had some occult influence in lessening
Chinese emigration, just as it seems certain that the
increased demand for Indian produce has checked
the migration of Coolies. The number of Coolies
who have sailed for the Mauritius and the West
Indite during the last year has been barely ten
thousand, a considerable falling off on the emigra-
tion of former years. The last year witnessed,
however, an entirely new phenomenon in the shape
of alter colonial migration among the West Indies
themselves. The island of Barbadoes has preserved
a reasonable amount of prosperity through all the
vicissitudes of West Indian fortune, because it was
so thickly populated with negroes that they must
work to live. But last spring the unfortunate
summer in 1862 produced considerable distress in
Barbadoes, and labourers began to emigrate to An-
tigua, St. Croix, and British Guiana, until the
planters became alarmed at the loss of their men.
The cessation of the distress and of the consequent
emigration soon allayed their fears, but it seemed
at one time that the migration of negroes might
be summarily prohibited. A similar alarm pre.
veiled in British Guiana by the report that the
Dutch planters of Surinam, having abolished
slavery, were enticing Coolies across the border.
One of the most satisfe.ctory facts brought to light
by the Emigration Commissioners is the success of
the legislation imposing regulations on emigrant
passenger ships, Never has the interference of the
Government been better justified by the results.
The small rate of mortality among the emigrants is
everywhere apparent, but it is perhaps been seen by
the returns of immigrants into Canada, Out of
13,485 persons sailing from Great Britain in steam-
ships only five persons died, and out of 1,746 in
sailing vessels but one,while out of 2,105 emigrants
from Germany 46 died on the passage, and six out
of 1,119 from Norway. These returns show that the
mortality in our emigrant ships has been reduced to
a minimum, and the same satisfactory result is ar-
rived at an inspection of statistics of Cootie emigra-
tion. The rigorous regulations to wieich the latter
has been subj, cted have converted it from what
seemed at first a thin disguise of the cruelest slavery
into a beneficent distribution of surplus labour, to
the advantage bath of planter and workman.
POST.—A further suspension of hostilities for a
period of fourteen days gives some hopes of a preli-
minary arrangement being arrived at by the Con.
ferenee within that period. Wo confess, however,
that unless the German Powers consent to abate
their protections we have but little expectation of
' seeing peace issue from the present negotiations.
The prospect which most encourrgcs us in a san-
guine view is our trust that England may at last
take up the position which, in our opinion, she
should have assum( d at first, and that, abandoning
anxious enunciations of opinions and wishes, this
country may now speak with a firm resolve. It is
well known that w have made every sacrifice,
even to the destruction of the Treaty of 1852. We
have ourselves proposed the dismemberment of
Denmark, and have suggested that Holstein and
Lauenburg, and the southern part of Schleswig,
should be given over to Germany. We have drawn
the lira of demarcation at the Schlei and the Dane-
wirke. This proposal, injurious as it is to Den-
mark and unpleasing to ourselves, should at any
rate satisfy the cravings of the Germans, while it
should content all demands founded upon the for-
tune of war. Bat there is only one way to secure its
acceptance and to ensure peace, and that is, to be re-
solute in carrying out the plan we slave fixed upon.
If we waver once more, a e shall assuredly see war
renewed, and ultimately find ourselves, however
unwillingly, involved in it. We must take a stand
somewhere. We must either place our back against
a wall, or retreat till we stumble into a ditch. It
is idle to talk of the small importance of a belt of
territory 20 miles wide. It is this very argument,
this very underrating of demands, that has brought
us to this pass. Thus we countenanced the execu-
tion in Holstein. Thus we undertook to obtain the
revocation of the constitution. Thus we allowed
the invasion of Schleswig. Thus we shrank from
opposing aggression in Jutland. This receding
policy, this manner of shirking a dog or withdraw-
ing the hand from a cat, only provokes the certain
scratch or bite. We have had much time for reflec-
tion; we have heard and read and seen all that can
be said, written, or done on both sides, and we have
arrived at our conclusion. We have laid down the
line of the Schlei—let us enforce it. The Danes,
however bitter their disappointment, accept it; we
have, then, only to induce the Germans to accede to
our proposal. Let us consider what prospect we
have of this. On the one hand, we have reason and
equity to back our arguments ; on the other, we
have the military prospects of renewed war. First,
reason suggests that the Germans ought to be satis-
fied with obtainirg far more then they required
when they first began their aggression, for then
there was no question of depriving Denmark of
provinces, but only of insisting on a change of con-
stitution which she had imposed upon her German
subjects ; and equity would seem to imply that,
after a victorious campaign for the cause of nation-
ality, it should be required that, in addition to Ger-
mans supposed to be freed from a common yoke,
Danes, in their turn, should be subjected to the like
anomalous fate. Secondly, as to the military aspect
which the qnestion would assume in the event of the
renewal of hostilities, the Germans would do well to
remember that their present position in the penin-
sula cannot by any means be considered as either
pleasant or safe. They would infallibly be com-
pelled to retire at once to Holstein if a combined
Danish, Swedish, and English army occupied the
islands either of Yuen or Alsen with a numerous
fleet. The German forces would be thus outflanked,
and would of necessity have to retreat to the Eider.
The Allies might thus, merely by this demonstra-
tion, repossess themselves of the Danewirke with-
out striking a biow, and then negotiations mightbegin again on more equal though on different
terms. We have nothing to be afraid of in such a
war, if, unfortunately, we are forced into it; and
we are anxious that the German Powers should un-
derstand that we estimate the position of affairs at
its true value. Our extreme unwillingness to en-
gage in hostilities with a kindled race leads them
erroneously to suppose that we are utterly averse
from war under all circumstances. The Americans
were for a longr time under this delusion, until the
affsir of the Trent taught them a new lesson; and,
when they saw that we Were not prepared to sub-
mit to insult, they at once gave way, It is our
earnest desire that our German cousins should in
their turn appreciate more really both the forbear-
ance and the pugnacious disposition of this coun-
try. A Ministry may make great efforts for peace,
may allow much foreign interference, and even con-
vulsion, for the sake of prospective tranquillity in
Pttrlianient and in Europe, but they must not be
driven too hard ; and if the Plenipotentiaries of
the Fatherland are not empowered to sign the pre-
liminaries of a pacification within the next fore
night, we shall infallibly "drift," as in the Crimean
war, till our ironclads are in Danish waters and
our Guards in the islands. If such a situation of
affairs were brought about we should have the as.
sistance of some, and the countenance of most, of