The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-11 00:00:00

SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

Winter has seldom been accompanied in its ap-
proach by so many considerations of absorbing inte-
rest as those which have now descended almost simul-
taneously upon the thoughts of Englishmen. In Lon- ,
don especially, the throng of events has latterly
become matter of anxiety as well as of observation.
Even the civic festivities, whieh annually take ,
Place on the 9,th of November, were compelled for ii
once to be neglected, and GoG and MAGOG were
compelled on Tuesday to watch the twilight stealing
over the bare pavements of the banquetting-room at
Guildhall, instead of over the boards laden with
turtle and pine-apple, in honour of the inauguration
of the Chief Magistrate. The Woods and Forests
seem almost to have betr,ken themselves en masse
for a while to St. Paul's Cathedral. The old Chelsea
pensioners are awakened from their customary
quietude, and the chief apartments of this hospital
are already fitted up for the 13 ing in state of
the greatest soldier in England. The most
immediate object of importance, in fact, to the people
of the metropolis at this juncture, iF, as might have
been expected, the preparations making for the pub-
lic obsequies of the late illustrious Duke of I,VELLING-
TON. Scarcely any one amongst us has leisure just
now for more than a passing thought of sympathy
for the misfortune which has befallen the United
Sates in the demise of the most eminent and gifted
of American citizens. For we remember that if
WEBSTER is missed in Washington, WELLINGTON iS
b• us as bitterly missed in Westminster. It can
oily be after we have evidenced our respect for the
memory of this distinguished personage, by the per-
formance of solemn funereal ceremonies under the
dcme of the metropolitan cathedral, that we shall find
orrselves enabled to appreciate the momentous cha-
racter of the events which are at the present crisis im-
pmding both internal and externally, in one direction
for the weal or woe of the United Kingdom, in another
for the welfare or misery of Christendom.

Scarcely will the minister of religion have thrown
dust, as an emblem of mortality, upon the coffin of
the victor of WATErmoo, when the descendant of the
defeated of Waterloo will have been solemnly raised
upon the national buckler of France, by the name,
with the glory, and in the pomp of the Third
EMPEROR NAPOLEON. Contrasting the two inci-
dent!;,
as they may reasonably be contrasted, from
the circumstance of their occurring within the limits
of this memorable month of November, we cannot
but be at once impressed with the full weight of their
significance. They illustrate anew the truthfulness
of that grand old apophthegm, that " Man proposes,
but God disposes." They serve to remind us how
entirely the deeds of Time are the fruits of Pro-
vidence. They indicate, with touching solemnity,
the import of that saying of the Hebrew Prophet,
that as clay is in the hands of the potter, so is the
creature in those of the Divinity. Under these
consideration,, it is impossible to regard without
emotion, the inscription upon the tomb of the old
Dug.; and the reply delivered by the new Emperor
to the Senbtus Consulturn only a few days before the
interment (t. WELLINGTON. That re ply was, as may
have been observed, pronounced in the same palace,
in the same apartment as that in which a similar
document was presented in 1804 to the Great Consul
NeroLtoN BONAPARTE. Remembering the coinci-
dence of those occasions so widely separated by time
from each other, the descendant of NAPOLEON spoke
thus to the assembled Senators—" When forty-eight
years since, in this same palace, in this same room,
and under analogous circumstances, the Senate came
to offer the crown to the chief of my family, the Em-
peror replied by these memorable words—' illy spirit
will no longer be with my posterity from the day
when it shall cease to merit the love and the confi-
dence of this great nation'—what now most affects
my heart is the thought that the spirit of the
Emperor is with inc—that his ideas guide me—that
his shade protects me, since by a solemn proceeding
you come in the name of the French people to prove
to me that I have merited the confidence of the
country. And little more than a week afterwards
the burial service was being solemnly chaunted over
the remains of ARTHUR, DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
At present it is scarcely possible fully to appreciate
the extraordinary singularity of such occurrences es
i these being ..amost simultaneous. Reflection is re-
! quired, indeetl, for their full and deliberate appre-
t hension.

A TOMB FOR HOOD.

(From Punch.)
Gars HOOD a tombstone ;—'tis not much to give

To one who stirr'd so oft our smiles and tears;
But %.N y a tomb to him whose lines will live,
His noblest monument, to after years?

To which I answer, that in times to come—
Times of more equal lots and gentler laws—
The workers may not seek, in vain, his tomb
Who pleaded, once, so movingly their cause.
If marble mark tie soldier's, stateman's grave,
F monuments adorn his place of sleep
Whose hand struck off the fetters from the slave,
And his who sou4ht out woe in dungeon's deep,
Did he not fight for Toil's sad sons and daughters?
wss he not potent to arrest the slaughters
Was not his voice loud for the worker's right ?
Of Capital and Labour's desperate fight ?
Ohl mothers, think of his melodious pity
Over the victim of the Bridge of Sighs—
Oh! Almoners of the o'er- crowded city,
Think of the shirt-ratker's heart-piercing cries
You, too, whose lighter hearts turned from such themes,
Who sought his pa
page tor smiles and not for tears,
Think of his wit, how Pure and bright its gleams,
blocking the sadness of his later years :
Aad say, if Hoop should mou'der into dust
Without a stone to mark his place of rest—
Whose fiercest scorn ne'er sought a mark unjust,
Whose sharpest wit-shaft ne'er pained living breast?

ifONUMEIN'T TO THE LATE THOMAS

11067).

(Front the Sheied Independent)
We are glad to learn oast, a suoscription has been
iEbf
coa
rrrsl
se raoerfce
Carlisle
Conetery, to the memory of Thomas Hoof. Amongst
arc—the Duke of Devonshire, Lord
a monument in Kensal- green
Dike, M.p.: Mr. Macaulay, M.P., Mr. Disraeli, Dr.
and Ellesmere, Sir James
Charles INl.h.a, Douglas Jerrold, Westland Marston,
Riz a Cook, Miss Mittoro, and &hers. It is, we believe,
ch,fly owing to the powerful and touching appeals to
the public Intide by Ellza C00k...a poetess whom Hood
himself would have la, en proud it c.:11 a sister—that this
movem, nt bas proved so far successful. Miss Cook acts
as treasurer to the fund, but we shell be happy to receive
ct:hera: mu
g : unh
bac' et
tied':
subscriptions and forward them to that lady. The quiet
and unostentatious manner in Wlich 2601 have been
already subscribed, is a great honor, to the fair projector
and her co-operators. Hood
.was a
great poet and a
good man, and the lady who is dietting this record to
his worth is doing a womanly and
toble act. Among
the local subscribers are—Mr. Ald, Turton, Mr. Ald.
Matthews, Jos. and W. Tutor, Ese,rs., Arline Ward,
Esq., C. H. and W. Waring, E
'qrs.;of Haworth Hall,
Rotherham.
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thisansaid
FreeiliC.rsdentCatavthaengarenadt
Hall yesterday.
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meeting at Freemasons
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drawn from the documents which have be
public.—Horning Advertiser. beet as yet made
REPRESENTATION or A EnNonoN.,m,
Thomas Norris, of Sutton Courtney, near Abin '''''' John
consequence of the vacancy in the represen-i,,,don, who, in
borough, by the demise of General Caulfeild, h tion of the
the electors on the Liberal interest, has resigneasi addressed
Lord Norreys, the late member for the county on favour of
His lordship attended a meeting of the constitue f Oxford.
day, and explained his opinion on the importani on Toed.
day,
to engage the attention of Parliament. His
lordshipquions
resolved, in the event of his being elected, to vile
is
extension of the suffrage. At present there i te for an
candidate. sno other
-14 w BURIAL GROUND FOR MARYLEgon, y
es
terday forenoon, pursuant to requisition from the ratepayers,
°
a special vestry of the parish of St. waryletlne was
held in the Court-house, Marvlebone-lane, for the
pur-
pose of determining whether a burial ground should lie
pro-
vided for the parish under the provisions of the It etl
6
tic. cap. 82, intituled " An Act to amend the Laws concern-
ing the Burial of the Dead in the Metropolis." m
--r. Church-
warden Stephens occupied the chair, and the attendanc, was
very large. Mr. C. George moved a resolution in favour of
adopting g the new act, and D. Russell seconded the motion.
Several gentlemen having addressed the meeting, the reoia-
tion was adopted.
DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH A POLICEMAN AT
KILBrRN.— Yesterday morni-g, between three and four
o'clock, as Police-constable Alfred Critle, 239 S, was going
his rounds in X ilburn-lane, he met with two well-known
characters, whom he accosted, when words arose. One of his
antagonists drew a knife, and the unfortunate man was
stabbed in the side of the head ; he, however, succeeded in
raising an alarm, when some of his brother officers came to
his assistance.