The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-27 00:00:00

EVENING,

acquitted the captain of c:iminal recklesine,R. The
number of deaths caused by the explosion is 32. On
the day before the packet sailed the Reindeer took
fire at the Bristol landing, and burnt to the water's
edge. No livr2s were lost. The fire is supposed to
have originated from some bedding, that had been
saturated with oil, producing spontaneous com-
bustion.

Judge Harris has decided the Rensselaer rent case
, against the general's family. The paper title of Van
Rensselaer to the manor of Rensselaerwyck is held
to be illegal and void ; as to lands which have been
occupied for forty years under title from Van Rensse-
laer possession is a bar against the claim of the State,
but in respect to unoccupied lands of the manor of
Van Rensselaer has no title.
The schooner Bonita from Vera Cruz brings papers
to the 21st, two days later. A
specie bean, con-
sisting of ten waggons, arrived at Vera Cruz from
the city of Mexico on the 14th ult. This was the
conducta which bad been detained at Puebla fora
week on account of the revolutionary movements in
that part of the country.
Everything was quiet at Vera Cruz when the
Bonita sailed, and business was quite dull.
Le Union of the 2ht Bays that General Echcgavay
had left Jalapa at the head of these forces to attack
Rebolledo in Naolinco, but nothing had been heard
of the reault of the expedition. General Uraga had
arrived at Puebla at the head of a thousand men and
eight pieces of artillery, and it was rumoured that he
was about to march on Orieiba. The position of this
officer is looked upon as very auspicious, and hisin-
tentions are unknown.
Government forces have left San Miguel, Jalos,
Tepatitlan, and other localities to jaha Governor
Portillo at Lagos. ,
.The official organ in the city of Mexico, the Con-
stdutionnel, declares that the rumour is totally false
that the Government has
opened negotiations with
the American Minister, the object of which was to
release the United States, on
dollars, from the obligations entailed on them by
the eleventh article of the treaty of Guadalupe Hi-
dalgo, to protect the Mexican frontiers from Indian
invasion. payment of 6,000,000

The United States mail schooner Lucas arrived at
Charleston on the 9th, with
Havannah dates to the
2d inst. Yellow fever and cholera continued to rage
with great violence both on
shin board and in H -
vannah. Arrests were still being made of parties
supposed to be connected with the revolutionary
journal The Voice of the People, and the captain of
the Lucas was offered twenty
doubloons to bring off a
suspected individual, but he declined.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
the carcase—others of dividing
The lion is dead : some are thinking of burying
much that has emanated from th-e highestb authority
there appears to us great reason to content.. The
remains of the great Duke are to be°•
side with those of Nelson, in St interred side by
thespoil.
Paul's, and the
f
people are to exercise their honourable
solemnly ratifying the glory of the offieeo
dead at a public
funeral. It is not that our expressed
been acted upon, that we have any sentiments have
right(i to rejoice,
except inasmuch as we have share and expressed
_With
those sympathies common to the nation which have
prevailed in every quarter, from the lowest to the
highest. Our words have declared the instinct of
th
our countrymen. Our interest in e future cere-
monial will lie in a faithful record of its proceedings;
to tell the concluding event perspicuously and faith-
fully will be the sum of our credit. Recorded
honestly, the scene will speak beyond •
comment. It
is decided by the Queen that the funeral shall not
of
take place till after the meeting Parliament, that
rite, the two Houses may concur in the and sanction
it on behalf of the nation. For that,the Queen had
relaxed her privilege of decreeing funeral honours.
But the nation had outs:rippeci
the action
of its representatives, had sat • Parliament
for itself, and decreed with thein might of a
choral voice, with the power of an una •
Our senate will fulfil its office nobly,"nous acclaim.
men
as
willit always
does on such occasions. Our great
homage more illustrious by the words,en' which render
homage
will pay it. Lord John Russell, in his in t ey
speech
nothing
f
Stir-
ling, has already given us proof ; to
Sir James Graham and the Earl of Cesralylnot
at
g o
Car-
lisle. Else the pause seems but to introduceiae ana anti-
climax.ar-
Let, however, all things be done orderly, as
suits the dignity of a grave and reflective people,
whose well-considered and constitutional deeds are fit
to speak to the world now, and to all time in the
hereafter. Some persons are already'rrell while they ac-
quiesce in the public ceremony, qua ing with the
form. For ourselves we would have it full of " state
and ancientry ;" for this simple reason, that established
ceremonials have in themselves an unction, and escape
the criticism which fixes upon new devices.
Nothing
" theatrical" certainly, but all that can be accounted
historical. All forms need the help of association.
Let those who sit in the present Houses of Parliament
ask if all the glitter around them can recal
the authoritative majesty of the old plain oharrx-
hPrq, in which centuries of statesmen had fought
out the English destinies. All this i 3 matter of
taste, but to be decided by true taste, that the soul of
the pageant may not be unworthily end ineffectually
embodied. We have no hope of the skill which could
give us a new and striking device for the funeral of
Wellington. We could expect nothing more fortu-
nate than the results we see in the two unhappy new
houses, and therefore we are best content with re-
curring to the past, on a subject so entirely relating
to it. We turn to the present and the future. Lord
Hardinge is, it appears, to be appointed Commander-
in-Chief. On the whole, we are gratified with the
choice. It obviates, at least, that miserable insult to
the army that its highest offices are to be taken as the
perquisites of birth and rank, and that the hard-farers
and hard-fighters may think themselves honoured in
having the fortunate idlers put at the head of them.
To put down this insolent pretence, one which we
have paid for in blood, in honour, in security, as well
as in treasure, is a popular victory. It is true that
Lord Hardinge is a Conservative, but he is of the Peel
school. In accepting the Mastership of the Ordnance
from the Earl of Derby's Government, be expressly
retained his right to vote for the natural cheapness of
the people's food. Lord Derby's Government were
happy to accept him when they needed a man fit to plan
the national defences, with that protest against their pro-
tectionisms, although such admissions must, in them-
selves, be fatal to a party cause; and we are content
to accept this among the other high testimonies to
Lord Hardinge's worth, afforded by his many ser-
vices. We cannot doubt that he will imitate the ex-
ample of his predecessor, be in his office a soldier in
preference to all other characters, and no more sell
his honesty or the army's rights for party predilections
than he would so barter the people's loaf. We wish
that we could praise the other rumoured appoint-
ments. Lord Derby, perhaps, takes the wardenship
of the Cinque Ports as the Premier of the day, by
long-established usage. But Lord Derby does not
want the accommodations or the emoluments. He is
a rich man. We might tolerate the honorary office
for a man nobly poor, like Pitt ; we do not care to add
it to the riches of a mere aristocrat, who happens,
for a short time and on a false pretence, to be First
Lord of the Treasury. We would even rather that poor
Disraeli had it, if it might not be better bestowed in
a liberal Administration. The Master-Generalship of
the Ordnance is well deserved by Lord Fitzroy So-
merset. There is no doubt that all the affairs of the army
should ba under one head, and that the office should
he merged in that of the Commander-in-Chief; but
while that reform halts we are glad to see Lord Fitz-
roy Somerset in the post vacated by Lord Hardinge.
Lord Combermere, as an old oompauson in arms of the
Duke, succeeds him worthily in the Constableship of
the Tower. We may justly talk of abating that office
too, or at least of regulating its emoluments ; but we
will not be too thrifty while the old Paladins claim
such reversions, not probably to be too long enjoyed
by them. The Duke of Northumberland and the
Marquis of Londonderry, too, have as much right to
be knights of the Garter as any Tory gentlemen we
know of, and no doubt will pay their fees for the
illustration as ungrudgingly as any magnates in the
land. Neither will bring much additional honour to
the order, and the order, which is something to say,
will lose none by them. We wish we could conclude
as pleasantly. Why is Prince Albert to be colonel
of the Grenadier Guards, and the Duke of Cambridge
to have the same command in the Fusiliers? Why? We
maintain that the proof lies on the other side, and we ask
the question with a right to a full reply. These high
appointments would acknowledge the fame, repay the
services, and establish the fortunes of two of our
most meritorious soldiers. There are yet plenty of
old Peninsulars unprovided for, and while we protest
most indignantly against carpet officers, we do so
most effectually by opposing to their meretricious
claims the just demands of those who have shed their
blood, anent their youth and manhood, and broken
their constitutions in defence of the country. At
whose expense of this noble crew are Prince Albert
and the Duke of Cambridge content to be aggran-
dized ? By whose side are they willing to stand,
owning that their competitors have done infinitely
worthier service while they accept the unearned re-
wards ? We do not flinch from saying that the
entire army requires free circulation from the root
to the top ; that although some means may be taken by
instituting opportunities of fit education, to join the
aristocratic class to the army as officers, merit in the
ranks ought to aspire to the Comeaandership-in-Chief.
While the officering of the army is mainly a privilege
of caste, let us, as a matter of imperfect right, claim
full justice in the caste for its meritorious members.
We do not hear of Princes being made puisne judges
any more than chiefs or chancellors; the lawyers
wou'd not bear it. Neither would the public ; they
are unaccustomed to that wrong. Let the members
of the Royal Family be undeceived once:and for all.
They can shed no lustre on a profession till they have
first earned the glory they profess to impart. We
know that this is as new in evrtain clutters as it will