The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-23 00:00:00

the vealed) by whose agency the deadly crime of this
on most cruel and gigantic of civil wars is safe eventu.
- ally to be avenged.
Another year has been run out in the maintenance
of the struggle against the, incursions of the North
by the Confederates. Another year ! In that simple
fact—the lapse of another year—lies the greatest
advantage gained to the cause of the Confederates !
For, as surely as another twelvemonth has thus been
traversed by the contending Governments without
bringing the ferocious contest in which they aro
engaged to a conclusion, or even, we will say, to
the faintest prospect of its proximate conclusion,
so surely aro the Federals brought nearer
and nearer to the inevitable bursting at
last of the financier bubble which is for them
the NADAR- Want by which they are sus-
tained and carried onward. It is fearful to
reflect, no doubt, that upon either side, upon the
side of the Federals no less than upon the side of
the Confederates, within this ghastly lapse of time
throughout which the civil contest has been main-
tained with such unparalleled ferocity, with such in-
creasing and increasing mutual hatred, sixty thou-
sand men have been violently swept from the face of
the earth, sixty thousand Federals, sixty thousand
Confederates. The solace to the South, in the
perpetual consciousness of the peril in which it
statds in being opposed by a power so vastly out-
numbering it—the solace to the South, in the re-
cognition eventually of this formidable dispropor-.
tion, is discoverable, however, in no way—in the
miserable or, fur that matter, the appalling fact
that the losses of the
belligerents in men are, thus
as nearly as may be equivalent. It is discernible
rather in the consideration of the still astound.
ing, the still all but incredible truth that
by this lengthening out their dreadful civil
war by their heroic resistance to Northern
invasion, the Confederates have caused the
Federals to add recklessly to their already
stupendous debt the gigantic sum of two
hundred millions sterling ! The mere lengthening
out, still further, of the time occupied by the war
must of itself, therefore, obviously forward the jute.
rests of the Confederates—[at a dead loss to them-
selves no doubt, bat still to the eventual vindica-
tion triumphantly of what is worth any conceivable
expenditure, their independence !]—must of itself,
we repeat, obviously forward thu interests of the
Confederates—if, no otherwise, by hastening on the
period when the financial crash, so long impending
over Washington, can no longer be averted.

A most shocking case has lately occurred in
Tottenham-conrt-road Chapel ground. It is a very
disgraceful thing to desecrate the bodies of the dead,
and it is very much to be regretted that in conse-
quence of the ground not being consecrated, the
case could not come under the cognisance of the
Ecclesiastical Court. It is well that it should be
generally known that the offence, even in this form,
is punishable by common law, but the powers
given to magistrates in such cases is far too limited.
Mr. COLLINS, chairman of the Sanitary Committee,
very truly remarked that all that could be done was
to inflict a penalty of ten pounds, and it is worthy
of notice that in this case referred to the fine ad-
judged was but half that sum. Five pounds is not
at'all an adequate sum to be awarded against such
as act. The affair was rendered the more unjus-
tifiable, from the fact that due notice was given at
the time of the sale that the parish would protest
against any building taking place on the spot, as
the ground was full of bodies. It seems, then, un-
accountably outrageous that the purchaser should
thu.s violate the pledges given, and break the com-
pact entered into at the time of the sale. Some
further particulars were furnished at the meeting
of the St. Pancras Vestry, in which it appeared
that the ground was crowded with the bodies of
those interred there. A former sexton deposed that
&ince he had ceased to be employed there the
" bodies were buried, not within two feet, but
within six inches of the surface.'' Of course this
rendered the proceedings all the worse, for it would
be totally impossible to make any alterations or
changes without disturbing a great many bodies.
The details of the transaction, as they were related
at the Marlborough Police-court, are perfectly re-
' volting, Mr. COOPER, the si)licitor to the Vestry
of St. Pancras, deposed that the human remains
were not separated from the earth and rubbish ;
they were dug up with spade and mattock, and
placed in a heap quite exposed to the view of
passers by. Some persons had gone about exhibit-
ing bones and skulls. In a civilised land, to say
nothing of a Christian country, it is fearful to think
such things can be tolerated, and for all this only a
fine of five pounds was inflicted. It is a pity that
the idle time which is so wasted in Parliament
during the session cannot be filled up by taking
such cases as these into consideration, and seeking
to devise some appropriate remedy, thus to put a
decided stop at once and for ever to the recurrence
of such scandalous proceedings, and to render it
nearly, if not totally, impossible for the repetition
of such an offence to occur. As one of the gentle-
men who attended the vestry declared, the police
law is a farce, for no one who was engaged in any
large building concerns would care for the penalty
of ten pounds or double that amount. It is very
important that some change should be made at once,
for it is highly necessary for the maintenance of
public decorum and decency, and the furtherance of
the principles of morality, that these evils should
be checked at once with a strong hand. Too much
attention cannot be given to this subject, as it is
one which is immediately connected with those
feelings of respect and reverence which should be
cherished and encouraged, and the neglect of which
cannot fail to exercise a most degrading effect, and
to impart deleterious influences on the people who
practice them. Laws which relate to such subjects
should be stringent, and carry out the principles
that • •
nave actuated all nations from the earliest ages,
who
father,
went forth to fight `0 for the ashes of their
'ltd. the temples of their gods."
The cleat,

Danish Rigsraad has given the
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the
anxiousDlZatuaritT of addressing. his people on
KING the
maal._3:ring position of the national
i',l44::h. address is quiet and mode-
in. neither threats nor
raafftae
irisn. His
its tone,
points out that the pre-
tensions founded on reason
reei m i n ae
ft i otnhs;
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itelito3,,r Fgtite
inlBs. the members
, ht Kier, CHRisTux
reminds
nor rig— • 0
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constitutionalw Eetesiitthheoneagshet,
that when they assembledquesti in
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est,
relations of the
that the long•ve
definitely 1
mxeodnarchy was
andcon-
elusively settled. Such ought to have b
end we should have heard no more of that
Political
bugbear, the Schleswig-Holstein question, had it
not been for the secret influences of German ababi‘
tion. The FING explains that the Constitution of
the 18th of November—the Constitution, that iki,
which he has just given his assent to for Denmark
and Schleswig, and whose withdrawal is now being
made a sine qua non by the Germans—is founded
on the same basis as that of the Constitution which
is at present in force for the whole monarchy. 13y
the old and the new alike are the common affairs
of the kingdom distinguished from those specially
concerning its several provinces individually. In
neither is the Rigsraad directed to interfere in
matters only concerning the provinces; and it is,
consequently, difficUlt to see upon what ground'