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 i,s geological formation makes
it " dry" as well as " nigh." Ps 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 80,000/.,
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 any
popularity that they would gain among a certain class
of readers. The language of the Constitutionnel 18
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 will to
the Duke, but as a consolation to wounded national
pride that it was used. The Constitutionne/ says :
" The most competent judges have admitted that the
dispositions of Napoleon meet have infallibly succeeded,
that victory was on our side until the arrival of the
Prussians, and that the Duke of Wellington had com-
mitted an enormous fault in placing his army in 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 force 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 Cui-
rassiers 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 ono of his generals,
who said to hint, 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 fall 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.
L has been justly remarked, that in the numerous dis-
patches which he published, and which form twelve
enormous volumes, the word glory never occurs. His
only dominant passion was love of his country. His
conduct and his character msy 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 ) ears
in the destinies of the world, the eminent place which he
occupied in the councils of the Crown in England, and
the great authortty which he exercised over his party
in Parliament, have made this personage one of the most
remarkable of our time. Thu news of his death will
produce a profound sensation in Europe."
The Patrie is an exception to the good feeling
manifested by the other Ministerial journals. In
closing its biographical sketch of the Dule 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 have 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 Mont-Saint-Jean, with the
honour of Frauce, had risen more full of life and more
popular than ever."

The article in the Siede 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
Wellingtun'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 abcut Paris with five cockades in his
hat, as the tTloniteur of those days relates; and the cos-
tnopolitism 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 Dibats gives a short biography of the Duke
without comment. The Assemblie National, the
Union, and the Univers merely give the telegraphic
dispatch announcing the death.
The Government has received the following tele-
graphic dispatches :
" B airges, Sept. 14, 11 o'clock at night.
ill,uiraTihneatPed.rince proceeded on foot from the Archiepis-
caofptearlwPaarldasceintton_tthnee ballatthe Prefecture, in the midst
of a Population in enthusiasm. Upwards of 1,500 per-
sonsat i ones "aslleped in the rooms. The Prince descended
gardens of the hotel, which were
foot to the Palace,he
ing the alleys nhearrived en the terrace command-
Seraucourt,7 he was saluted by the accla-
mations
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accompanied by the same enthusiasm.
"Nevers, Sept. 15, 3 o'clock F.M.
amidst the thunder of cannon
at the station at half-past tw6,
The Prefect presented to
mayors from all the communes of themay department. Cries
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tiloPh°frelidmnNiceaeary:itoijoornnsf aatitnlhEiGdeouard and troops of the line. Upwards of
10 000 workmen, boatmen of the N'ivre, fl 'eters of
wood from Clemency, miners, and others, as well as nun
from the national forges of the navy, and from the iron
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works of Imphy and Fourchambault, were collected on
the place, and greeted the Prince with repeated cries of
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departments. From the windows the ladies threw down
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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?'

" Qaarter-past five.

" The filinz-off continues, The cort.orations and
masses of workmen are passing with cries of Vise
l'Empereur 1'"

" Forty minutes past nine.
‘‘ The Prince President has been everywhere (minted