The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-14 00:00:00

THE BURIAL DISCLOSURES AT SHEFFIELD,

This inquiry was resumed yesterday.
Isaac Howard, the late sexton of St. Philip's
burial ground, appeared before the magistrates to
answer the charges against him, which, it will be
remembered, were to the effect that he had disin-
terred bodies after burial, as alleged, for the pur-
pose of disposing of them for dissection.
The first evidence gone into related to the case of
a child named Edward Charles Shearman, which
was interred in St. Philip's burial ground in Sep-
tember last. On the 4th instant, in consequence of
reports, the parents went to the burial ground, and,
at some distance from the child's grave, saw a hole
or pit in which were a number of coffins lying in a
heap, and among them the one in which their son
had been buried, with the lid open, and a body in
it which they were able to identify as that of their
child.
Another witness proved seeing several coffins in
a stable belonging to Howard, and also seeing him
there doing something to one of the bodies in the
coffins, apparently as if he were cutting a leg off it
with a carving knife.
He had also been seen to bring coffins direct from
the: grave to the stable, and afterwards to remove
something in a barrow.
An application was made to have the grave of
the child Shearman opened, to see whether the
body was there or not, and for this purpose a re-
mand was granted.

MR. DISRAELI'S LEADERSHIP.

A good tactician but a bad general, Mr. Disraeli
understands everything' ut the art of victory. He
can contest a borough, bring his party up to a divi-
sion in admirable order, and ,keep up their spirits
under defeat by vague and magnificent hopes of
coming success. But the Conservative reaction
never gets farther than the hustings and the agri-
cultural dinners. The session comes round, with
its pitched battles, its Whips, tellers, and division
lists ; and, " Oh, what a falling off is there!" A
vast amount of cleverness is expended in winning a
crushing defeat. The array of Ultra-montanes,
high Protestants, discontented Whigs, splenetic
Manchester men, and the solid files of squires and
country members, melt away under a division, as
the Scotch at Flodden, melting like snow before a
south wind. If the returns at the Carlton of vic-
tories gained at the hustings are to be considered
authentic—if the phrase " the Conservative reac-
tion" means anything at all, then why is it that
Mr. Disraeli cannot carry the Treasury benches by
storm P The reason is, that all his tactics begin and
end in finesse. According to all the rules of war
the Austrian Generals ought to have gained the
victory, and so Mr. Disraeli ought to put Lord
Palmerston into a minority. There is nothing Mr.
Disraeli does not attend to except the one thing
needful. He is as accomplished a linguist as Giuliai,
who addressed his army in crossing the Ticino in
six different languages. Mr. Disraeli has a word
of comfort for all his followers, an ingenious
theory by which to reconcile their fighting under
one flag. But the Protestant party have resolved
to submit to this kind of leadership no longer. Like
Hungary, they have stood up for independence, and
the Conservative leader, like Francis Joseph, must
em-
* pire broken up.—Dublin University Jfevazitie.
conciliate these stubborn Magyars, or see his