The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-23 00:00:00

A VOICE FROM WALMER CASTLE.

♦ resting place, a resting place! my countrymen. I crave—
A resting place, a resting place I a quiet, holy grave.
Ohl lay me in my mother earth—my task, my task is done
Life's warfare is accomplished—the meed of glory won.

A resting place, a resting place ! 'twere greater kindness far,
To let the soldier share the peace no tumult more can mar.
The mockery of pomp in death, the holyday of woe,
Can never charm the dead, nor soothe what the living truly
know.

Aga resting place! not by the sandy shore,
`there estn
place,
moan round the mossy wall, and sullen billows
windsrm

roar;
But hr the sacred temple where the brave and righteous lie,
Enshrined in memory's grateful page, recorded with a sigh.
A resting place, a resting place! fond hearts that mourn me

true,
Are longing sad with pious tears my ashes to bedew;
Whose bleeding wounds refuse to heal till with the dm

sleep,
And o'er the consecrated spot the unrestrain'd may weep.
g place,me not the boon ;
A stThree
world must have itscares, regret must vanish soon.
Call not my memory back again, with pageant vain delay'd,
Nor make the honours paid too late an insult to my ahade.
A resting place, a resting place! my countrymen, I crave—
A resting place, a resting place ! a quiet, holy grave.
Oh! lay me in my mother earth—my task. my task is done ;
Life's warfare is accomplished—the mead of glory won.
busyin a resting place!—deny

RonEV CooMBEs.—A theatrical performance will
take place next Tlaur.eday, at the Richmond Theatre, for the
benefit of the veteran sculler, Robert Coombes, who, after
vanquishing all his rivals on the Thames, was at length
forced to yield to the supe,.or strength of his own pupil. It
is gratifying, however, to know that Cole and hie friends are
doing their utmost to render the proposed benefit a bumper.
EgoairroN Gitovms.—The itoyal Commissioners
have purchased that portion of the Harrington estate in Old
Brcmpton which, in a recent division, WOS allotted to the
trustees of the Baroness de Graffeni:ed Villars, namely, 47%.
acres, for the sum of 150,0001. The land i 9 subject to a charge
of 18!. a year for the alms-house inhabitants, and 11. per an-
num for:the Good Follows' Charity. This affords an instsnce
of the rise in the value of land here, and we could give others
even more striking. Some eight years since, the whole
estate, about 91 acres, was valued at 95,000,0001. by Mr R.
L. Jones.
ALLSOPP'S PALE ALES.—It will have been observed
from an advertisement which has appeared in our paper on
various occasions within the last eight days, that Mr. Henry
Allsopp, of the Brewery, Burton- c 1-Trent, has received a
second letter from the celebrated Justus Liebig, in reply to
attacks made on previous advertisements of Mr. Allsopp. In
this second letter the greatest chemist of the peesent day re-
peats, in the most explicit terms, all he had previously said in
favour of Mr AlLsopp's pale ales.—Morning Advertiser.
RE-OPENING OF PICCADILLY.—The whole of this
important line of road from Bond-street westward to Park-
lane, and ia an eastward direction from Duke-street, opposite
Burlington House to the Regent-circus, has been repaired and
re-opened for public traffic.
401tE RAILWAY PROJECTS.—Two new home rail-
way projects are announced, under the title of the " Strood,
Canterbury, and Dover Railway," and the " Staines and
Working Junction Railway."
EAST SURREY REGISTRATION.—SiT W. Riddell,
the revising barrister, held a court yesterday, at Kingston-
on-Thames, in order to revise the lists for the several pa-
rishes comprised within that district. Mr. Bartropp attended
asT agent
te Freehold Conservative ; Mr. Burgon and Mr.
James Land and Free Trade
amef representedor th
the
Society ; and Mr. Corner and Mr. Jeans attended on be-
half of the East Surrey Reform and Registration Society.
The claim of Mr. Cullenford, one of the new freeholders, was
considered. The claimant said that he had paid 30/ for his
allotment, and he had since laid cut more than 201. upon the
land, in draining and planting it with shrubs. He considered '
that it was worth at least 31 a year. The revising barrister
expressed an opinion that Mr. Cullenford had not made out
his case. It was true he had himself given an opinion that
the land would fetch Si per annum ; but taking into conside-
ration the price paid for it—only 30l—he felt that there mast
be considerable doubt whether it would produce that amount.
If Mr. Cullenford had called any respectable surveyor ac-
qnainied with the !neighbourhood, who would have pledged
hie professional credit for the fact, it would have been a dif-
ferent thing ; but in the absence of such evidence, he felt
compelled to decide that the qualification had not been es-
tablished. This decision governed a great many other cases,
and the names of all the persons having similar claims were
expunged from the list.
ROBBERY.--On Wednesday last, the " under boots"
at the White Hart Hotel, Birmingham, was sent with a
check for 731. 18s. on Moilliet & Sons, bankers, by a com-
mercial traveller, to get cashed for large notes, which he
changed into gold, and has decamped with it. The police
are using every exertion to apprehend him.
DESPERATE ATTACK UPON A KEEPER IN BEDLAM.
—A man, named Wheeler, who it will be remembered was
ordered so be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. for
cruelly murdering his mother, by cutting off her head with a
carving knife, on Thursday made a savage attack upon one
of the keepers in the institution. It appears that about
dinner time, Wheeler managed to gain access to a cup-
board, where the tailors' goose-irons are kept, and, taking
one of them, came behind Ilooper, the keeper. at7d a
tacked him in a most desperate manner, inffic ng
ma
very extensive cut on his head, and so disabling
in other parts of his ,person that doubts are entertained
P
e-
of his recovery. Immediately upon the other patients
the f
them rushed upon
coming aware of the attack, seve
knives and forks, to
Wheeler, whilst others locked up.
prevent him inflicting furtheri j
nerleg The alarm bell hay-
arrived, when Wheeler
hav-
ing been rung, further assistance
was secured and confined in an in d o
cause can bel 'a
-robber closet, to pre-
vent him doing any mischief to himse.f.
h th th Wh 1
tk, furt er an at ee.er
assigned for this brutal atac
to allow him to wear his own
had often importuned Hoop
er
dress, instead of that of the institution. The unfortunate man
was after the attack removed to the infirmary of the institu•
flop, where he remains in a Very procarivuo condition.