The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-17 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

(From Fun.)
STRANGE I—We have been told, and have every reason
to believe, that the Mansion House, although situated, as
it is, in the very heart of the City, and despite the time of
year, contains, at the present moment, within its walls, an
extremely fine bed of rose's I
MUSICAL.—If the pianofortes be introduced into the
police bands, the instruments will be, of course, of the
manufacture of Collard and Collard.
THE BEST " CARIES DE VISITE" FOR LANCASHIRE.—
Bakers' and butchers' carts.
THE DARK AGES.—The ages of ladies between sixteen
and sixty.

CON. BY A COPYST.—Why is it awkward to have your
ink handy ?—Because it's ink-convenient.
GREEK GRAMMAR.—The first letter in the Greek lan-
guage is now Alpha-red.
May the Cattle Show be called a Joint Stock Company ?
" MOTTER FOR A GAROTTER.”—Embrace every oppor-
tunity.
A correspondent wants to know if he were to show his
carte de visite to a person with a bad cold in his throat,
whether it would be putting the cart before the horse ?—He
must give us time to consider.

THE REMAINS OF THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.
—The new Royal mausoleum in Frogmore Gardens will be
consecrated about 2 o'clock to-day (Wednesday). The
members of the Royal Household will attend, and the choir
of St. George's Chapel, 'Windsor, will assist at the cere-
mony. The final removal of the remains of his late Royal
Highness to the mausoleum will take place at an early hour
to-morrow (Thursday) morning. The arrangements for
the re-interment (which will be conducted with the greatest
privacy) will be carried out by Mr. Banting and his assist-
ant, who will undertake the removal. The services in St.
George's Chapel are consequently suspended till the coffin
containing the earthly remains of the illustrious deceased
has been removed from the Royal vault beneath the chapel
to the mausoleum erected for its reception at Frogmore. On
Sunday, the anniversary of the death of the Prince, the
service in St. George's Chapel was conducted by the Hon.
and Rev. Lord W. Russell. The anthem " I am the Re-
surrection and the Life" &c., was sung by the choir with
marked effect. Lord Russell preached from Lamentations,
chap. iii. v. 20, " My soul hath them still in remembrance,
and is humbled in me." In the afternoon Luther's hymn,
" Great God, what do I see and hear ?" was performed
with great solemnity, and the chapel was crowded to excess,
vast numbers being obliged to stand during the whole of
Divine Service.

It is stated that M. de Lamartine has just solo? his
" Memoirs from Beyond the Grave" for about £B,OOO.
It is stated that the practice of charging unpaid
book packets with letter postage, as a penalty, is likely
soon to be discontinued.

A LANCASHIRE CELLAR.—It was tenanted by two
women, It was as ill off for furniture as it well could be.
The floor was of stone, but very clean. Here, too, was one
of those frigid wooden bare bedsteads, but it looked clean
and the straw or shavings which stood in place of the
mattress were decently covered up. What there was
in the room was placed in an orderly and symmetri-
cal fashion; and an old chest, and an object which
stand.; out in my memory as a bandbox, were both covered
neatly at the top with handkerchiefs, or some other
kind of clean cloths, so as to give them a sort of extra-
vagant air of ottomans. W hether this was the work of
the woman I saw in the room, or of her fellow-tenant, I
know not ; but the appearance and behaviour of the woman
whom I found here was quite consistent with such modest
heroism. She had a son, poor creature, who had worked
for her, but now they had been obliged to break up their
little establishment and separate. As the poor woman
spoke of her boy, her strength gave way, and:the tears came
up into her eyes : standing there, as some very bitter
tears will do, without overflowing. Little things these,
no doubt. An old bandbox set against a wall, with a
clean handkerchief, or duster, mayhap, stretched neatly
ever it, is not much to some people. But, indeed, such
little things make all the difference; and by them, one
may tell to which of two great classes people belong, and
whether they are to be ranked among those who do all
they can under all circumstances, and to try to make the
best of everything, or sink prostrate under the first stroke
of misfortune without making a single 'effort, worthy of
the name, to save themselves.—All the Year Round.
THE ATTORNEY'S CERTIFICATE DUTY.—Yester-
day was the last day for taking out attorneys' certificates
for the ensuing year, to bear date from the 15th November.
The certificates taken out until the Ist January will bear
the date of the day on which they are issued. The present
duty is £9 to practise in London, and £6 in the country,
and that amount has been imposed since 1853, before which
time the respective amounts were £l2 and D. There are
upwards of £lO,OOO attorneys on the roll, and something
like £70,000 is paid by the profession to the revenue.
PROPOSED DINNER TO LORD PALMERSTON.—
A meeting of the Conveners of the Liberal Committee was
held on Monday in Edinburgh, to consider as to in-
viting Lord Palmerston to a public dinner during his ap-
proaching visit to Scotland. Sir William Gibson-Graig
was called to the chair, and the following resolutions
were unanimously and cordially agreed to:—" That, in
the prospect of Lord Palmerston paying an early visit
to Sc tlar. d in connection with his office of Lord
Rector of the University of Glasgow, it is de-
sirable that public expression should be given to the
admiration so generally entertained of his lordship's
Liberal policy and valuable services as a statesman, and of
the vigilance and success with which, in the true interests
of peace, he has promoted the safety and maintained the
honour of the country. That Lord Palmerston be respect-
fully solicited to accept a public entertainment in the City
of Edinburgh, on as early a day as may be consistent with
his lordship's convenience." A third resolution appointed
a committee to make the necessary arrangements in the
event of Lord Palmerston's acceptance. The movers and
seconders were Mr. Black, M.P. ; Sir W. Johnston; Bailie
Russell, Bailie Mossman ; Mr. Richardson, Chairman of
the Chamber of Commerce ; Mr. A. R. Clark, advocate ;
Mr. W. Chambers of Glenormiston; Mr. Jas. Cowan, &c.
—Scotsman.
BRUTAL OUTRAGE BY POLICE OFFICERS.—The
Newcastle Chronicle describes a brutal assault made a few

days ago by some policemen of the Durham county force,
on a young man named Greenor, at Stella. It appears
that Greenor and some others had gone to the rescue of a

keelman called Forester, who had been called on to defend
himself against fearful odds, and a body of policemen
entered a publichouse at Stella, with the view of appre-
hending him for the part he had taken in the affray. " A
number of persons were in the house at the time, amongst
the rest were Greenor's father and brother. Immediately
the father knew the errand of the policemen he went up
to his son, and urged him to surrender himself quietly.
Without any warning a policeman knocked the father to
the floor with his staff. The brother, seeing the unpro-
voked attack on his father, rushe3 at the policeman and
knocked him down. No sooner was this dono than three
or four policemen entered the room with drawn staves,
and laid about them right and left. One of the Greenora
they beat most unmercifully ore the head and arms; the
other brother they apprehended and took away. This
occurred on Sunday week, since which time Greenor has
never spoken. On Saturday, he was delirious, and great
fears are still entertained of his recovery. There has been
a severe internal bleeding in his head, and one of his arms
is paralysed. A memorial is being prepared to present to
the Home Secretary detailing the conduct of the policemen,
and a subscription has been entered into to defend Greener
and prosecute the policemen."
HUNGER AND SELF RESPECT IN LANCASHIRE.
—They are wonderful, thee Lancashire people. They
are no beggars. I almost think that if we were so wicked
as to leave them to starve, they would just do so, without
a word. There is no trackling and cringing on the one
hand, there is no insolence or coldness on the other. They
are independent. Their self-respect is not injured by the
relief they receive ; yet for that relief they are most ob-
viously and undisguisedly grateful. If a college of wise
men, wise in manners, arbitrators in matters of taste, had
assembled in committee to decide how a community should
bear itself under such e:rcutnstances as these which now
affect this cotton community, they could never have hit
out anything half so complete, and so delicately fine, as
these-people have hit out unconsciously with . their own
unaided but unerring instinct. As long as hope and
energy are left to these suffering people the case is not at
its worst, and these seem rarely or never to have deserted
the workmen whom trouble has thus overtaken for the
first time. It is widely different with the habitual pauper ;
the man long accustomed to penury and dependence. This
last makes no attempt to face his antagonist,Want. He has
ceased to strive against misfortune, He has lost pride,
self-respect, every etyitaining quality.—AU the Ear
iielogt, .