The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-21 00:00:00

IHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, IPg2.

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and he he there- Under the permission of Providence, the late
valuable to the Trade of the East,
fore asked that the paper thus curtailed might be Lord CANNING has that twofold claim upon
allowed its former means of circulation. Not to the remembrance of his fellow-countrymEn
grant this is equivalent to suppression of the —of having been the Sovereign of British Rule in
paper. It will hardly be credited that to this Asia at a period of dire emergency—and of having
request, to be allowed to aid in te literary, so- been the first Governer
the-General whoof to
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cial, and commercial instruction of the Greeks in literally and actually position
the East, Lord RUSSELL replied in one of his From the epoch marked by the period of Lord
curtest, it would hardly be too much to say rudest CANNING'S rule in Hindostan will date, we firmly
notes. Ile appears, we must confess, not to have hope and believe, a new era of civilization among
given himself the trouble to understand the case the Asiatic races. Upon the pediment of the great
for he, in this second note, referred to the ~ poll- structure of ourrceently and elaborately reorganised
tical character" of the paper, as justifying the Government for India hasbeen in effaceably graven
refusal of the Government to allow it to pass the name of the departed statesman.
through the Post-office !
Wo hope Mr. LAYARD and his chief, and the
Turkish Government also, will reconsider the wnole
subject. Unpleasant temper and personal differ-
ences have been imported into it, but it will be a
disgrace to this country if, with all its influence at
the Porte, it cannot obtain the withdrawal of the
request to stop the circulation of the literary
British Star in Turkey. The head of the British
and Foreign School Society, the once active member
of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know-
ledge, will surely be but too pleased, when he
rightly understands the case, to procure again for
the British Star a free circulation throughout the
Turkish empire. Our Foreign Secretary has, in
the case of Mr. KENOS, a gentleman of known
character and standing to deal with, and may feel
quite sure of no future cause being given for Turkish
complaints,

This morning there were consigned to the grave,
in Westminster Abbey, the mortal remains of
CHARLES JOHN, Earl and Viscount CANNING, of
F.ilbrahan, _Governor-Gsn oral of In
The narrow span of the deceased statesman's life,
between the 14th of December, 1812, and the 17th of
June, 1862, was thus opportunely commemorated
by those who loved and honoured Lord CANNING
the most truly, more especially by those who had
enjoyed, fora longer or a shorter interval, the pri-
vilege of his personal friendship. The solemn
sepulture of an eminent administrator like the De-
ceased in that national mausoleum, under the
shadow of which England reverently lays the ina-
nimate dust of the majority of her great men, was
an evidence of homage due to Lord CANNING'S
reputation. As the mourning friends and asso-
ciates of the departed statesman passed on their way
to Westminster Abbey, under the effigy of his illus-
trious father, immediately opposite Palace Yard,
they must have felt that in no other than that
neighbourhood could the distinguished successor to
his name—himself also the conservator, and even
it might be said, the enhancer, of his fair fame—
find more appropriately his last resting-place. In
Westminster Abbey, and no where else than in West-
minster Abbey, ought that son of GEORGE CANNING
to repose in death—that eminent son of an emi-
nent sire—whose lot it had been to crown the,
honours paid by a grateful nation to the memory
of his progenitor, by adding to GEORGE CANNING'B
posthumous Viscountcy—CHAßLES CANNING'S well-
earned Earldom.

Our friends the Japanese are now starring it at
Rotterdam. Circumstances prevented them from
accepting the hospitalities of the Swiss ; but it was
already down upon their programme to become for
a brief interval, at least, the welcome guests of the
Dutchmen. It was due to Holland indeed that
these courtesies between the Dutch and the Japanese
should be thus reciprocated—and that the three
gentlemen, with the unpronounceable names, from
Nangasaki, should not quit Europe without having
visited the capital of Holland. For it was the
Dutch traders in all human likelihood who first
gave Japan an inkling of any tangible and
visible kind what there is in Europeans. The
Japanese have been in relation with the
Dutch, politically, socially, and commercially, during
more than two centuries. From the Dutch it was
that they obtained their earliest notions of the en-
terprise of the western peoples of this old eastern
hemisphere. And it is therefore simply because of
their having a reasonable regard to the general
fitness of things that the members of the Em-
bassy from the councils of the Tycoon have
fouud their way in duo course to Rotter-
dam. There they appear to have arrived
comfortably enough on the 14th instant : and for the
first time since they took their departure from
Japanese waters, they had the satisfaction of read-
ing words of welcome, emblazoned in their own
language, on the banners hung out by the courteous
Dutch to signalise the little pageant of their arrival
and reception. It was a graceful thought on the part
of the local authorities : and one that the Japanese
travellers must to the full have appreciated. The
incident can hardly be looked upon as so very
surprising, however—remembering that the Dutch
and the Japanese have held uninterrupted inter-
course with each other, as we have said, during
two centuries.

Latterly the citizens of the metropolis have had
only too many opportunities of realising to them-
selves the pathetic character of these last tokens of
respect offered by England to her illustrious dead,
when laying them, with the alternately spoken and
chaunted words of the sublime ritual, among the
crowded tombs accumulated there during many
past centuries under the venerable roof-beams of
the old Abbey down at Westminster. How often
during the last few years has not the Very Rev, the
Dean had occasion to stand there at the head of
some newly-opened grave of a renowned contem-
porary articulating those words of divine hope and
of sublime promise, while the echoing arches of the
LilhEing nal:lames of GROF-T and PURCELL ! Now
it was at the grave of Lord MACAULAY—now at
that of the veteran Earl of DUNDONALD!

I The distinguished man who in his turn was in-
terred only this very day down yonder in West-
minster Abbey, although passing away from
amongst us at an earlier age than the gifted
Historian of England, the Master-Essayist of
our Literature, can hardly at the same time
be deemed to have expired so prematurely as
Lord MACAULAY. The magnum opus of the
latter was at the period of his somewhat abrupt
demise left in a state deplorably incomplete. Inso-
much that it is none the less of a fragment than that
previous commencement by Sir JAMES MACKIN-
TOSH of a History of England, dating downwards
in its narrative from the self-same starting point,
to wit, from 1688, the ever-memorable year of the
English Revolution ! that year, strangely enough,
just a fully rounded century before the outbreak in
1789 of the great French Revolution ! To the
incompleteness of MACKINTOSH'S History, THOMAS
MACAULAY himself made affecting allusion in the
dignified preamble to his own—hoping, alas ! vainly,
for a prolongation of life sufficient to enable
him to accomplish the self-same task more
thoroughly. So incomplete, however, have
been these more extended labours of Lord
11IACAULAY over that same great epoch immediately
subsequent to the close of the Revolution of 1688,
that his work, as it now stands before us, even as
it has been partially and posthumously finished
by the fifth volume issued about a year since from
the press of the Messrs. LONGMAN, ought, correctly
speaking, to be re-entitled ! The work, as a whole,
ought to be called no longer " The History. of
England," but—rather than that—" The History of
the Reign of King WILLAIM by Lord
MACAULAY. Even then it would be difficult not
to recognise in its full force the fact, that Lord
MACAULAY, when he died, died, so far as his earthly
labours were concerned, so far as we his fellow
mortals can at all appreciate them, most prema-
turely. Not thus, though expiring, as we have
before said, at an earlier age, has passed away
from the public scene the late ex-Governor-
General of India, His work may in truth be
pronounced to have been as fully as it was
beyond a doubt most satisfactorily accomplished.
And it was work peculiarly worthy of accomplish-
ment by the hand of the son of GEORGE CANNING.
The cherished ambition of that great: statesman
was, as modern history relates, that of filling
the great English Pro-Consulate in Hindostan
as the ruler of our Oriental dominions.
It was an ambition that GEORGE CANNING
was constrained reluctantly to forego by the
force of those unlooked-for circumstances
which compelled him, instead of becoming
Governor-General of India, to become for
a brief interval, and au interval of very bitter and
for CANNING himself unhappily of fats anxiety,
Prime Minister of England. What GEORGE CAN-
NING dreamt of only, his son CHARLES CANNING
was enabled by a happier destiny to:accomplish ;
and to accomplish in a way that his illustrious father
never once probably had presented before his ample
.and radiant
of the British imagination.
CANNING, UtnhdeerfutthuererumleAocfAulldAiya
by the late Earl
Empire will relate ft at our sway over
Hindostan was
not only saved from utter destruc-
tion, but that the sceptre symbolical of it was trans-
ferred from the grasp of the East India Company
to the hand of the SOVEREIGN of these realms.

A pleasanter incident we learn marked the disem-
barcation of the Japanese, a pleasanter, incident, even
though the Japanese inscriptions legibly emblazoned
on the flags hung out upon that unwonted holiday
among the citizens of Rotterdam. For we find it
related that, in consequence of some delay taking
place at the moment of disembarcation, the
Japanese, with apparent eagerness, availed them-
selves of the fe w moments thereby offered to them
for indulging in so unexpected a freak on the part
of their Excellencies and their attendants—
by mingling in the crowd and entering
freely into conversation with several of the
bystanders, with whom it proved that they could
readily enough interchange ideas. The secret of
this being that several members of the Embassy
could talk a trifle of Dutch—whether High Dutch
or Low Dutch we are not informed—but at any
rate they could understand and be understood by
Dutchmen. It is agreeable to read thereanent that
"A very animated scene was soon presented, as an
active interchange of cards, tobacco, and cigars took
place, and the Dutch ladies attracted a large share
of the favour and admiration of the Eastern visi-
tors. The heads of the embassy seemed to be great
admirers of aniseed liquor," it is added, "or at least
they .soon began to make a liberal use of the cor-
dial; and what perhaps was particularly pleasing
mitt' and assiduity:''
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little glimpses we have caught since they have been
in these latitudes—and we trust it may not be the
last obtained—of our good friends the Japanese
ambassadors.

FUNERAL OF EARL CANNING.

(THIS DAY.)

The funeral of this distinguished nobleman took
place this day in Westminster Abbey.
A t half-past ten this morning, the funeral cortege,
which consisted of a hearse drawn by four horses,
and eight mourning coaches, and a great number of
private carriages, left Grosvenor-square, and arrived
at the Abbey at half-past eleven, where it was
received by the Dean, and a great number of the
clergy, at the cloisters.

The line of procession within the cathedral was
from the cloister door into the south aisle, down
which it passed, to the great west door. It then
turned round, and advanced up the nave through
the screen to the choir, at the entrance of which the
coffin was deposited upon a bier.

Amongst the long line of eminent men Who fol-
lowed the coffin were the Marquis of Clarendon,
chief mourner, Lord Dunkellin, Lord Stratford
de Redcliff, the Earl of Cork, the Speaker of
the House of Commons, Lord De Tabley,
Lord Harris, the Hon. G. Talbot, General
Stuart, Genera' Lindsay, Major Bowie, Sir W.
Alexander, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Duke
of Buccleuch, Lord Palmerston, the Marquis of
*Westminster, the Duke of Somerset, the Duke of
Argyll, the Bishop of Oxford, Earl St. Germans,
Earl Grey, Earl de Grey and Ripon, Lord Stanley
of Alderley, the Earl of Shrewsbury, Sir G. Grey,
Mr. Cardwell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Lord Sydney, Earl Granville, the Marquis of
Sligo, Lord Clyde, and Sir Henry Lawrence.
Amongst those present in the choir were :
Major-General Lucas, General Hill, Lieut.-General
Low, Colonel Hobday, Major-General Peart, Colo-
nel Balfour, Viscount Pollington, Captain Sotheby,
A.D.C. to the Queen ; Major-General Roncroft, Mr.
Dorin, Sir S. Campbell, Sir R. Garrett, Colonel
Cartwright, Major-General Hamynton, Major H.
James, Major Anson, and Lord H. G. Lennox.
Before the processional music ceased the mourners
had reached and occupied their seats in the choir.
Then followed Purcell's burial chant, commencing
" I will take heed to my ways," &c., after which the
lesson appointed for the service was read. The
choir next sang Handel's anthem, composed for the
funeral of George the Second's Queen Caroline—
" When the ear heard him," &c., at the conclusion
of which the coffin was removed from the bier to
the grave, and lowered into its position, the mourn-
ers .forming an extended semicircle on either side.
The choir now sung " Man that is born of a woman,"
&c., by Croft; and " Thou knowest, Lord, the
secrets of our hearts," &c., by Purcell; after which
the Dean read the solemn prayer, " Foras-
much as it hath pleased," &c., which was followed
by the choir singing Croft's "I heard a voice," &c,
The concluding prayers of the service were then
read by the Dean, after which Handel's noble an-
them, " His body is buried in peace," &c., was finely
sung by the choir. Grace having been pronounced
by the Dean, the ceremonial was concluded by the
Dead March in Saul, during the performance of
which, by Dc, 'fork, on the organ, the mourners
slowly retired.
The remains of the late Earl are buried in the
north transept, in the same grave as that which
contains the remains of his father and mother, and
very near the monument erected to the deceased's
father, the graves of Wilberforce and the Pitt family.

His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt received
on Thursday afternoon, at the 1 urkish Embassy, a depu-
tation from the Peninsular and Oriental Company, which
was attended by several noblemen and gentlemen interested
in. Eastern commerce. Among others were the Earl of
Leven and MOville, Mr. Ewart, M.P., several other mem •
bers of Parliament; and Messrs. Anderson and Allen, direc-
tors of the Peninsular and Oriental ompany.