The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-17 00:00:00

LONDON,

for the common is a table land about 100 feet above
the railway level, and its geological formation makes
it " dry" as well as " high." Its elevation will have
the advantage, too, of excluding the Necropolis from
the view of railway passengers, as the line runs
through the company's land in a deep cutting,
so that the burial-ground rises far out of view. The
vast area on which the primary operations will be
commenced possesses many advantages, one of which
is its great salubrity. Another is that, like a pa-
norama, it commands a series of extensive and pictu-
resque views. A third, that its distance from Lon-
don renders it most unlikely that, at any time, how-
ever remote, it can be built up to. And, a fourth,
and not the least important, is the fact that, including
the expense of railway transit, even the burial of
paupers will be less expensive at Woking than it now
is in a metropolitan burial-ground. The design is
that each parish, each district, or each religious com-
munity, shall have its own distinctive place of sepul-
ture, and that, instead of presently expending
money in the purchase of separate burial-
grounds, which would involve the parishes in debt,
and lead to the increase of local taxation, the pay-
ments to the Necropolis Association shall be made by
contract, according as the interments take place. This
saving of expense is a very striking feature, and one
which must particularly recommend the undertaking
to the parochial authorities. A primary outlay of
1,000,0001., and an annual expenditure of 80,0001.,
will be saved to the parishes by their contracting with
the Necropolis Association for the interment of their
dead. To the living will be the comfort of knowing
that the national burial-ground cannot, at any future
time, or under any circumstances, be liable to
the desecration which is so constantly taking
place in intramural places of interment,
where the black mould, saturated with the decayed and
decaying mortality of centuries, is constantly carted
off to make room for modern " improvements."
Henceforth, at the Woking Necropolis, the rights of
mortality will be respected. The parishes of the west
and south of the metropolis will probably be glad to
avail themselves of the advantages offered by this new
Cemetery. Those of the north and east may have
their wants provided for elsewhere. But the area at
Woking—consisting of an extent of 2,000 acres, three
miles in length by half a mile in breadth—is suffi-
cient to contain all the dead of the metropolis for
centuries to come.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
Some of them contain long biographical notices of
the Duke of WELLINGTON, and annex to them com-
ments. It is with satisfaction we see that, with one
exception, the Ministerial journals speak of the illus-
trious deceased in terms which show that they have
more regard for truth and propriety than for 0119
popularity that they would gain among a certain class
of readers. The language of the Constitutionnel 19
more than fair, it is even complimentary. This
journal, indeed, pretends that the victory of Water-
loo throws no lustre upon the military -talent of the
Duke, and that it was the result of good fortune
arising from an error of judgment ; but this depre-
ciation .
will excite only a smile, and the language
which follows shows that it was with no ill to
the Duke, but as a consolation to wounded national
pride that it was used. The Constitutionnel says:—
" The most competent judges have admitted that the
dispositions of Napoleon must have infallibly succeeded,
that victory was on our side until the arrival of the
Prusaians, and that the Duke of Wellington had com-
mitted an enormous fault in placing his armyin such a
position that it could not retreat. Let us, however, be
just to every one. The fault of Lord Wellington power-
fully served his cause. In placing his soldiers in such a
manner that they must either conquer or be de-
stroyed, he gave additional farce to that justly. re-
nowned solidity of the English troops. He himself set
them an example of determination carried to the length
of heroism, and of obstinacy which became a military
quality. Six hundred officers fell around him, and
10,000 soldiers perished before his eyes. The Cul-
ratsiers of Kellerman, the old Guard, under Ney,
fell on the immovable squares, and his regiments dis-
appeared one after the other, crushed beneath the
avalanche of men and horses. Lord Wellington on
horseback, behind the English lines, in the midst of a
terrific fire, his countenance calm and serene, though
with an air of sadness, replied to one of his generals,
who said to him, But if you should be struck, tell us
what is your plan.' My plan. he replied, 'consists in
dying here unto the last man. Lord Wellington was
an English general in the full acceptation of the word,
cool, calm, methodical, without enthusiasm, but without
any false brilliancy, sure of himself, confident in his
soldiers, and always firm both in good and bad fortune.
It has been justly remarked, that in the numerous dis-
patches which he published, and which form twelve
enormous volumes, filo word glory wryer occurs. His
only dominant passion was love of his country. His
conduct and his character may be summed up in a word—
he was a Pitt on horseback."

The Pays says—
" The name of the Duke of Wellington was Euro-
pean. The vast events in which he was mixed up, the
immense part which he played during many long years
in the destinies of the world, the eminent place which he
occupied in the councils of the Crown in England, and
the great authority which he exercised over his party
in Parliament, have made this personage one of the most
remarkable of our time. The news of his death will
produce a profound sensation in Europe."
The Patric is an exception to the good feeling
manifested by the other Ministerial journals. In
closing its biographical sketch of the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON, it says—
" The Duke of Wellington died full of days, over-
whelmed with honours, with pensions and sinecures;
but in descending into the tomb, he must havo carried
with him the painful certainty that the undertaking
to which he devoted his rare faculties was dead;
and that the liberty for which he had refused to
draw the sword had triumphed everywhere, in his own
country, first of all, and in the rest of the world after-
wards ; and, to complete his disappointment, that the
great name of Napoleon, which he had believed buried
for ever under the pyramid of ^font-Saint•Jean, with the
honour of France, had risen more full of life and more
popular than ever."
The article in the Siecle is by no means ungene-
rous. We extract as follows :

" We have not the pretension to appreciate, in a few
hasty lines, such an occupied existence. We confine our-
selves for to-day to noticing the differences which exist in
the spirit and therelations of the two nations, between the
present time and that at which enthusiastic England sa-
luted the more than doubtful conqueror of Waterloo.
The ardent rivalities, the hatreds of centuries, have be-
come appeased. France and England have realised im-
mense progress in all the branches of human activity.
The Duke of Wellington- was, during the first period of
his life, the last representative of the fatal animosities
which so long armed one against the other, the
two powerful nations whose accord is now neces-
sary to the march of civilisation. The sword—it is
to be hoped at least—has for ever been sheathed. The
fields of battle, on which France and England have so
fiercely contended, have become transformed, and the
pacific conflicts of manufactures and commerce have suc-
ceeded to sanguinary contests. In our eyes the Duke of
Wellington's best title to glory is, that he understood in
the latter years of his life this striking transformation,
and identified himself with the spirit of the century.
We will make no other reflections in the presence of
the tomb in which the old general is about to descend.
In 1815 he went about Paris with five cockades in his
hat, as the Moniteur of those days relates; and the cos-
mopolitism which he then displayed had a signification
which no doubt he did not divine, but which had a pro-
phetic character. The union of nations, whose symbols
he wore, tends every day to become a truth."
The Debats gives a short biography of the Duke
without comment. The Assembles National, the
Union, and the Univers merely give the telegraphic
dispatch announcing the death.
The Government has received the following tele-
graphic dispatches :
" Bourges, Sept. 14, 11 o'clock at night.
" The Prince proceeded on foot from the Archiepis-
copal Palace to the ball at the Prefecture, in the midst
lo3erteuterl' thb:
of a population in enthusiasm. Upwards of 1,500 per-
sona were assembled in the rooms. The Prince descended
gardensafterwards into the of the hotel, which were
illuminated. When he arrived en the terrace command-
ing the alleys Seraucourt, he was saluted by the accla-
mations of an immense crowd. Cries of Vivo l'Em-
p returned on
i
th© town s resplendent with illuminations."
Tbyhe the same Prince
" Nevers, Set. 15, 3 o'clock r M.
"The Prince arrived at the station at half-past two,
thunder of cannon and the ringing of bells.
The Prefect presented
mayors from all
the
eted to him 300 mayors and deputy-
of • Vivo Napoleonle'°ra, ;uses of the department. Cries
the Prince from the l'Enapereur!' accompanied
Prince, in an open station
to the cathedral. The
of mayors and their carriage,deputiswasnreceded by the body
soldiers of the Empire. The astrefollowed by 500 old
the National Guard and troops of the line.
liweere lined with
10,000 workmen, boatmen of the Niaver.e Upwardsfloaters of
wood from Clemency, miners, and others, of
as well as men
from the national forges of the navy, and from the iron
works of Imphy and Fourchambault, were collectedon
the place, and greeted the Prince with repeated cries of
Vive l'Empereurr At the cathedral, the Prince was
received by the Bishop, at the head of an immense num-
ber of ecclesiastics, come from ail the parishes of the
departments. From the windows the ladies threw down
flowers on the Prince. The enthusiasm is indescribable.
It is calculated that upwards of 40,000 persons have
come and joined the 16,000 inhabitants of Nevers, which
is literally blocked up."
ig Quarter-past five.

" The filing-off continues. Tho couorations and
masses of workmen are passing with cries of Vive
l'EcepEreurr "
" Forty minutes past nine.
" The Prince President has been everywhere saluted