The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-29 00:00:00

It now appears that the remains of every
one of the men and boys who were involved
in this dread catastrophe have been recovered ;
and that there i now not one of the victims but
has had accorded to his dust the tribute of a solemn
interment. Altogether 199 dead bodies have been
raised from the middle or yard-seam--each of these
199 corpses being separately and slowly drawn to
light np the ruined shaft, a cord or strap having
been slung under the armpits : and thus awfully,
one by one, the poor fellows have been
brought within view of their weeping friends
and relatives for recognition. The mere
spectacle then, as the 199 dead bodies were
slowly brought to bank, most of them with
their dead faces calm and tranquil, as if in sleep,
read, as the news come before us here at a distance
like the record of some dreadful nightmare.
But the fearfullest thought of all in one sense
(though the most consolatory in another) was that of
the scenes enacted in the coalpit, so many fathoms
below the surface of the earth, from Thursday morn-
ling when the accident happened, up to Friday
evening when (it is a solace to know this much, now
almost for certain) the last survivors must in all
human probability have breathed their last. The
first horror of the realisation by them of their
actual position down there, after the roaring fall of
those twenty tons of iron down the pit-shaft with
the shock as of some stupendous thunderbolt ! Yet
through the very darkness of that horror it is
an exquisite consolation to know that those
brave, honest, gentle-hearted fellows had
the holiest comfort of all to soothe their dreadful
anguish—and to sweeten the last moments of their
lives from what would have been only the blackest
and direst despair without it. They had the in-
effable aid of true and practical Religion. "Ser-
mons in stones," says &TAMPERE, " and good in
everything." No sublimer sermon has ever been
preached by mortal lips than the Sermon that
comes up, in accents, how affecting in their elo-
quence, from that Pit-mouth—from the memo-

ran dum scrawled by the untrembling hand
of the brave Overman, from the prayers of Hope
and Love scratched on the tin cans of the dying col-
liers. What can be effected by "Faith" the world
was told nearly two thousand years ago by
Divine Lips in Palestine. And here among these
poor unlettered delvers of the soil, buried in a living
tomb some seventy or eighty fathoms below the
surface of the earth—here, indeed, was a Faith
Strong in Death—a Faith the simple remembrance
of which, merely to read of it, is a consolation and
an encouragement.
Turning, however, from the remembrance of the
men themselves—now that (to adopt and to apply to
them a beautiful thought of Mr. THACKERAY'S)
"they are there [pointing down], they are there
[pointing up]"—turning from the remembrance of
the men themselves to a momentary considera-
tion of their survivors, their widows and their
orphan children, it is a melancholy happiness to
know that already they could hardly have been better
cared for. The subscriptions flowing in from all
directions to swell the funds for their relief give
promise of increasing rapidlyto an amount calculated
to secure them all a humble competence for life. It
is a noble and humanizing spectacle this evidence
of an universal sympathy, from our beloved and
sorrow-stricken QUEEN downwards—this evidence
of the national and practical sympathy for the
sufferings of these poor afflicted widows and orphans
in the Northumberland village.

Charleston is not to lose its harbour for ever.
The United States recognises the duty of removing
the obstacles at the close of the war. Even now
it has only stopped some of the small inlets, and
left the othera to the blockading squadrons. The
removal of the sunken ships is a mere question
of expense, and will certainly be effected. Such
are the assurances Lord LYONS has received, and
we believe them, recognizances having been
entered into with two such countries as France
and England. We do not believe, however, that
anything but the immediate remonstrance
of the two countries saved the other
entrances to Charleston harbour, and also