The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-16 00:00:00

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 15—Three Brothers, from Gettenburg
Walpas (picked up, abandoned at sea); Ann, from Dantsic.
Arrived, Sept. 16—Almuth Catharina, from Memel;
Concordia, from Guernsey; Maria, from Aalborg; Chris-
tiana, from Guernsey ; Maid of Athens, from Rigs.
Sailed—Belgium (steamer), for Ostend.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Anchored—Mary Scott, from London, for Sydney;
of Newcastle, from the north, for the west.
Passed—Unrivalled, from London, for Shanghai ;
from London, for Boston.

KENSAL GREEN.—On our Way to the chapel,
disturbed neither by the constant whizzing past of
trains on the divers lines adjacent, nor by the incessant
"Crack, crack," from the riflemen at practice on Wormwood
Scales, Mr. Dawe informs me that the cemetery is vested
is a joint-stock company of proprietors, that it has been in
existence for more than thirty years, and that from fifty to
sixty thousand persons are interred herein. This he con-
siders a low estimate, as there are some eighteen thousand
graves, and an average of three or four bodies in each.
How many burials does he consider the rule per week ?
Perhaps seven a day in summer, and eight in winter;
he has known as many as twelve in one winter's day, but
that was exceptional. No, this cemetery never inters
on Sundays. It used to do so formerly, but it has given up
the practice for years; the Roman Catholic one adjoining it
to the west does, and also, he believes, the one at Willesden ;
and if I should ever attend the chapel of Lock Hospital, and
hear of, or see, irreverent burial processions passing on the
road, perhaps I will remember that they
are not. coming
here, but to one of the two grounds adjacent. What is the
size of the cemetery ? Well, between seventy and eighty
acres. Forty. seven acres are et present in actual use, but
thirty additional acres have been recently consecrated, the
party wall having just been taken down ; and workmen
are now employed in making roads and laying out the
ground. A portion of the original forty-seven acres is
unconsecrated and appropriated to dissenters. This por-
tion has its separate chapel and catacombs ; and a dis•
seating minister, provided by the company, attends the
funerals therein. Any other minister preferred by the friends
of the deceased is permitted to officiate, and if desired, the
body may be consigned to earth without any ceremony.
Perhaps I have read in the papers of the Indian princess
brought here the other day, and whose remains some
of her Sikh servants wished to have burnt ? Well,
this was a case in point. The coffin was placed in the
Dissenter's catacomb, and, though a speech was de•
livered which Mr. Dawe, though not speaking the Sikh
tongue, believes to have been on the virtues of the de-
ceased, the burial is described in the company's registry
book by the words "no ceremony." It was a large funeral
with many carriages. No, not the largest he had seen, per-
haps one of them ; but then he had only been here a few
months, and it is in place of the superintendent, who is
away, that he is acting as my guide. The most numerously-
attended interment coming under his own observation, was
that of the secretary to the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation; and the next that of Sir Cresswell Cresswell who
lies under the plain slab before us. There has not been
time to procure a monument, explains Mr. Dawe, but you
will be interested to learn, sir, that the poor gentleman
came up here and selected that bit of ground for himself,
not ten days before he met with the accident from the effects
of which he died.--Diekens's " All the Year-Round."
THE POLICE, AND MONEY TAKEN FROM PRI-
soNERS.—A somewhat singular case, which excited
much interest, was heard yesterday at the Woolwich
County Court, before Mr. J. Pitt Taylor, judge. It ap-
pears that about a month since Corporal Samuel Morris,
of the Woolwich division Royal Marine Light Infantry,
lost a purse containing £22. chiefly in notes, and subse-
quently suspicion fell upon two privates of the corps
named Showell and Sergeant, who were charged with
the illegal possession of the money, and when appre-
hended a sum of £l3 Ss. was found in their possession.
The prisoners were examined on more than one
occasion before Mr. Traill, at the 'Woolwich Police Court
and although it was proved that they had changed notes ill
London shortly after the corporal's loss, the magistrate
considered that the evidence was insufficient for a convic-
tion, and discharged the prisoners, but refused to make any
order as to the appropriation of the £l3 Bs., which had
been taken from them and remained in the hands of In-
spector James Linville, of the R division. The amount was
demanded of the inspector by Corporal Morris as being a
portion of the money he had lost, and it was ultimately
agreed to refer the matter to the decision of the County
Court. Yesterday the defendant, Inspeotor Linville, ap-
peared at the suit of Corporal Morris, who sued the de-
fendant for the £l3 Bs., alleged to be illegally detained.
The two marines who had been discharged from custody
were also in court ; and his honour, after hearing the facts
of the case, nonsuited the plaintiff, on the grounds that he
had no title to the money after the men in whose posses-
sion it was found had been discharged by the magistrate,
and as it had not been proved that the cash was part of the
change of the lost notes. Inspector Linville expressed a
strong desire to get rid of the responsibility by handing the
money to the proper owner ; and the parties then proceeded
to the police-court, when the presiding magistrate--Mr.
Traill—again declined to make any order, and ultimately
the matter was settled out of court, by the two marines
consenting to receive £1 each, the remainder of the money
being given to Corporal Morris, who is doubtless the right-
ful owner.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT LLANDAFF.—A fatal
accident occurred at RadY r Quarry, about smile from
Llandaff and four from Cardiff, on Monday afternoon, by
which three men have lost their lives, and eight sustained
injuries of a serious character. This quarry belongs to the
Taff 'Vale Railway Company, and has been worked by them
for the last three years, the stone from it being used in the
construction of the docks at Penrith. It is on the side of
the Penarth Railway at Radyr, and is a kind of ravine
with scaffolding on each side; the stone rises to the height of
about 30 feet, and along and across the ravine scaffolding
is fixed, with travelling cranes for the raising of stone.
There are three of these cranes in use, and connected
with each is a small locomotive steam-engine. One of these
cranes was at work on Monday, about the centre of the quarry,
and underneath near to it a number of men were employed
in getting stone ready for the crane to raise, which places it
within the trucks ready to receive it. The tnen employed at
the bottom of the quarry were about 30 feet below the tra-
velling crane, which ran on a "runner" about 34 feet long,
the shortest in the works. The crane Was in the act of rais-
ing a stone about a lon and a half in weight, when a portion
of the runner snapped at a place in which there was a knot
in the wood, and where an iron bolt had been fixed. The
consequence was that the crane, tender, and engine, with a
good part of the woodwork of the framing, fell with a crash,
burying three of the men beneath in its ruins, ininiodivoly
after the accident the works were entirely stopped. The
inquest will be held to-day.
A brilliant meteor was observed some days back
at Setif, in Algeria. It was travelling in a northerly direc-
tion when it suddenly burst into thousands of sparks like a
rocket, and disappeared.

ELOPEMENT IN " Ilion LIFE."--It is not every
day that one will read the startling intelligence of
of a prince having eloped with a menial, nor is it generally
known that this town produces two resident queens, but
truth it is that between night and morning of the 4th inst.,
Prince William, third son of her august
Gipsy Majesty, did
elope in the direction of Lamberton Toll, Coldstream, with
another man's wife l and although it was known to the
bridegroom that kind inquiries would be made after them
by the executors of the law, still, with that sang froid
audacity peculiar to the tribe, he !gala returned to tbis
town last Saturday night, and within an hour sold off his
whole stud of horses and carriages and left for Newcastle.
—Berwick. _Advertiser.

The cottage of the "Dairyman's Daughter," at
Arreton, in the Isle of Wight, celebrated through the Rev.
Legh Aiehrancl'a writipgsa is advertised for sale.