The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-05 00:00:00

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perfectly true that Catholicism is a political instrument.
But why ? Because the Pope is a mere functionary acting
under the Austrian Government, whom the Cabinet can re-
strain and deprive at pleasure. The case was very
different with respect to Prussia and Bavaria. There
the Catholic Church was to become an inde-
pendent establishment, and all that constituted its in-
dependence was so much taken away from the power of the
political Sovereign." " The King of Bavaria, we are fur-
ther told, is no longer a King, but merely a paid func-
tionary of the Catholic Church ; and Austria at this mo-
ment has no more faithful ally and friend than the Govern-
ment of Bavaria. The King of Prussia, on the contrary,
endeavoured to resist the growing influence of his new rival,
and to destroy the imperiunz in imperio ; and he has been
forced to retreat. The influence of Prussia over Germany
is gone." The King of Prussia has so managed matters
that the Catholic Church is the only privileged body in his
kingdom ; and having driven from him the liberal Catho-
lics, he is not supported by the liberal Protestants. The
moral would seem to be that the best way of dealing with
Popery is to govern with a spirit of fairness and impartia-
lity—to consider subjects of all religious opinions as equally
entitled to all civil advantages. By adopting this course
the liberal and enlightened of all religions will equally sup-
port the Government, and a Government so supported
has nothing to dread from any priesthood whatever. The
Cromwellian way of dealing with Popery being, therefore,
no longer possible, the only other way is to place Catholics
and Protestants on the very same footing. When a con-
trary course is pursued, liberal Catholics are forced to
make common cause with the illiberal ; and every friend of
civil and religious liberty among the Protestants is com-
pelled, in accordance with his principles, to throw his
vv, ight into the scale of the oppressed or insulted sect.—
Morni»g Chronicle.
Notwithstanding all the lioity toity affectation of security
with which Ministerial hacks fill the columns of Ministerial
Journals, there can be no doubt that throughout the whole
empire a storm of contempt is gathering which must, ere
long, burst forth against the Ministry with irresistible and
withering force. What the end of all this may be, it
would be as yet somewhat rash to attempt to determine ;
but if ever any political change was distinctly foretold by
general symptoms, it is that the present Ministry will not
for many months longer be endured by the country. By
all classes it is utterly despised, and even the very persons
who profit by its existence cannot so far command the
nutural impuses of human nature as to refrain from occa-
sional strong expressions of contempt for that which a
writer in Blackwood's Magazine so truly calls the " abor-
tive, feeble, and perplexed" Administration. 'File defenders
of the Government (save in some absurd efforts of jour-
nalism where mere unblushing impudence of fiction is re-
sorted to) are compelled to avail themselves of the lan-
guage partly of lamentation and partly of apology. This,
however, is nothing but contempt in another form.
Even O'Connell's language concerning Ministers is con-
temptuous. To the Irish people he says that they must
no longer trust in the pad dispositions of the Government,
since it has not been able to effect any permanent good
for Ireland, and instead of becoming more able, is becom-
ing less so. He tells those who aid listen to him (and
they are many) that he and the Irish generally have
patiently (!) awaited the result of the Ministerial efforts
tdk advance the interests of Ireland, but the Ministry, in-
stead of increasing in power to serve them, have actually
become less able to carry any one measure useful to Ire-
land. The strength of the Tory party, he maintains, on
the other hand, has augmented, and he impresses upon his
countrymen these two brief conclusions ; first, that the pre-
sent Ministry would carry into effect his policy, or, as lie
phrases it, " obtain justice for Ireland," if they could ; se-
condly, that they cannot, because the English Tories are '
too strong for them. Such is the contempt for the Govern-
ment openly and ostentatiously published to the world
even by its principal friend and potent ally, Mr. O'Con-
nell. is it to be supposed that the feeble wordiness and
shabby special pleading of such a senatorial creature as Mr.
Ward, who himself does not abstain from some statements
implying contempt, will neutralise the effect of Mr. O'Con-
nell's friendly admonitions ? Ridiculous ! The strength,
indeed, of the Government lies in such personages as
Messrs. Ward, and Pease, and Hawes, and that trifling
class who, while affecting independence, are so fl ittered by
the notice taken of them, that they would rather de any-
thing than really disoblige " Lord John this and Mr.
Spring that," and all the rest of the small flies of Downing-
street. But wherever there is anything like force of sen-
timent, or even energy of language, the scorn of Ministe-
rial worthlessness breaks out in terms not to be mistaken,
and certain to be more or less effectual towards a change
in the Government. Ministerial hacks try to persuade
the people that, let the Government be ever so con-
temptible as to the individual talents and strength of
character of its members, it is at least docile and manage-
able in the hands of the populace ; and that if it. be but
ordered in sufficiently loud and imperious terms, it must
and will obey. But it is only a small, a very small, mi-
nority of the people—to wit, the shallow conceited inmates
ot Mechanics' Institutes, and the like, who relish this
description of government. The people at large do not
like a Government whose rule of action is like that of
footmen and shoe-blacks, to do just that which they are
ordered to do. The people may, indeed, wish their pre-
judices to be consulted by the Government, but they ex-
pect to find the Government capable of taking the lead,
and not waiting for the spur of imperious dictation from
any quarter. The people, if they do not know, at least
feel the distinction between a popular Government and a
servile Government. But the nobles feel, and the gentry
' feel, and the " masses" feel, that the present Government
is at once feeble and servile, and a disgrace to their com-
mon country. There is not the slightest doubt of this
broad fact. It is only among miserable trimmers, and des-
perate jobbers, and the despicable expectant crew of
hangers-on for reward, that there is any exception
to the strong sentiment that the present Government
is a disgrace to the country. We do not mean to say that
all who entertain this sentiment wish for the re-establish-
ment of the Tories in the Government. We know very
well that this is not the ease, but we rejoice to know also,
that even they who are most hostile to the principles ot
Tory Government, and who would most strenuously oppose
the carrying of those principles into action, are consinced
in their hearts, and not ashamed to confess with their lips,
that were the Tories in power there would be no longer a
contemptible Government ; no longer a " feeble, perplexed,
and abortive" Government, which a true-hearted Briton
cannot advert to, without blushing for the political degra-
dation of his country. We repeat, that in all directions
throughout this empire; the strongest and the most prevail-
ing political sentiment is that of scorn for the present Ad-
ministration, Against such a sentiment as this, we do not
believe that even the trickery and knavery of O'Connell
will be able to uphold the Government. Either a great
and very unlikely change must take in the public sentiment
of England and Scotland, or the Government must be
changed.—Morning Post.
Mr. O'Connell has published yet another of the inter-
minable series of his letters. This last effusion is ad-
dressed, not to " the people of Ireland," but to his " be-
loved constituents." The tone of this production is
pitched exceedingly low. It breathes of despondency—
almost of despair ; although phrases, that seem to embody
anticipations of triumph, are employed from time to time.
Mr. O'Connell is obviously approaching the end of his mis-
chievous career. The miserable old man has yet to endure
some of the penalties of detected and baffled imposture :
and then the curtain will fall upon the achievements of one
of the most unprincipled and most successful mountebanks
whom the present age, fruitful as it has been in politicalad-
venturers, has produced, or of whom history has pre-
served the memory. But although the influence of Mr.
O'Connell is destined very
so much, remains in unabated vigour—n
power, in virtue of which Mr. O'Connell has achieved
speedily to pass away, the
by the lapse of every hour that is added to the duration
of the system of Government ly, gains strength
The anti-Englishwhich the
by the ultimate filet
Melbourne Cabinetpowerin Ireland is
.the power
that now prevails in Ireland.
merely the tool—thee
exists by pandering to ; and the fate
of that power is t, as many suppose, to be determined
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to strengthen the hands of the party selected, than in the
when O'Connell ntehlle was
pretensions fi
rspt
of the Pope. Other
daysoo iarout, as the se-
qualities, besides, than those, which have been cultivated
by Mr. O'Connell, duringbegin the greater portion of his life,
to be indispensable to the extended
Romish Church in Ireland.
triumphs of the
'That Church is no
longer prostrate. It is al most triumphant. It
aspires to be dominant. Its rFel ators, and dignitaries
are now brought into closer
• colli
sion with the highest ad-
ministrators of our
social and political systems. More
subtlety, greater polish,
a nicer observance of propriety, a
deeper insight into the influences which sway lofty minds,
O'Connell possesses :—these
over his passions than Mr.
these are the qualities, which the
man who is destined to succeed to the
O'Connell's political influence, must displayheritance of Mr.
qua-
lities will, infallibly, be developed
1;1
e and these
y t
the demand for them. Mr. O'Connell is but a
influence of
coarse artist. His coarseness, indeed, was
indispen-
sable to his perfect success. A. man of more
iatellect, and of more highly-pitched moral feelings,refined m
have failed in all those scenes, where O'Connellhuasst
achieved his greatest triumphs. The Romish Church, we
hare stated, aspires to be dominant in Ireland. Circuin-

stances favour the scheme. The policy of the last twenty
years would seem to have been framed expressly with the
view of paving the way to the re-establishment of the Ro-
man Catholic power
.in things temporal. The legislative
measures, more especially, of the present occupants of
office, are directly prompted by the directors of the Ro-
man Catholic Church. Let but the Whig Government
endure for a few years longer ; and the supremacy of the
papal power in Ireland is as certain,as is the succession of
night to day. This necessary consequence of keeping the
Whigs in office, is what O'Connell and the Rornish priest-
hood hint at, in the employment of the phrase—" Justice
to Ireland." The danger of witnessing the triumph of that
sort of justice is much greater than unsuspicious Conserva-
tives are disposed to imagine. Nothing less than such a
triumph will ever satisfy the real agitators of Ireland—
the anti-English party. But would even that measure
of imputed justice—would the recognition of popery+ as
the state religion in Ireland—satisfy the Rornish priest-
hood? Undoubtedly not—nor would it avail, in the
way of satisfaction to a greater degree than the concession
of the Bill of 1829 has availed towards that end! Ire-
land, ruled by a Roman Catholic Priesthood, then, by
the supposition, a State Priesthood, enjoying large
revenues and vastly extended power, would ne.s,h r
submit to be ruled by a Parliament of Protestant Englis-
men. The old policy of concession would then be as
necessary, in order to avoid the threatened alternatives, as
it has ever been since 1828, while all the equivocal virtues
of that policy would be absolutely exhausted. The danger
of a civil war would then be more imminent than ever. It
was that alleged danger which carried the Bill of 1829. It
is that alleged danger, under the form of a tithe-war, that
has led to those compromises which have placed
the existence of the Established Church of Ire-
land in jeopardy. That alleged danger will, at no distant
period (unless our national policy shall be absolutely
reversed) lead to the recognition of the Romish Church
as the Established Chureh of Ireland ; and after the
exhaustion of the whole series of degrading experiments
which we have indicated, we shall, infallibly, be nearer a
civil war than ever. The terms of continued union with
England that would then be proposed, would be, the adop-
tion by England of the Papal faith. The alternative,
then, as now, would be a war of extermination ! To win
back heretics! England to the Romish fold is, undoubtedly,
the great, the ultimate object of the Irish Roman Catholic
party. To attain that object, everything will be sacrificed.
The policy, through which alone that object is to be at-
tained, is now triumphant. Let those who dread such a
result, bestir themselves forthwith to subvert a policy, of
which that result must prove a necessary consequence.
The time for hesitation is rapidly passing. The last ten
years have brought with them a century's strength to the
Roman Catholic cause in Ireland.—Morning Herald.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—This
line has been open throughout the whole distance for one fort-
night only, and we have reason to know that during the first
week the receipts amounted to 11,0001., of which sum more
than 2,000/. were taken in one day.—Railway Times.
RAILWAY COMPENSATION CASES.—In the She-
riff's Court on Wednesday six cases of
A cntmwieanssatsio,2nBofolr.,p:hof
perty required by the Blaw ail Commercial Railway Company
were trit d. The t ,tal amount of claim
amount of award 3,670/. In one case the claim was fur 2001.
while the award was 501 (the sum offered by the Company),
and it appeared that while the claim had h. en made upon the
6th of August, 1838, the lease under which it was male was
dated the Bth of the same month. The Company's Counsel
and the Under Sheriff characterised the claim as " extraor
dinary," and such it certainly was. The expenses will nearly
reach the sum originally claimed, twenty-four guineas being
the item paid to the Jury for their inspection of the premises.
Great interest was excited in the show-yard at the
agricultural meeting (at Glasgow) on Thursday, by the pre-
s. nee of the veteran hero Baron Lynedoch_" the gallant
Graham who conquered at Vittoria." His Lordship has now
reached the age of eighty-ei!:ht, and has a very venerable ap-
pearance. He rode over the ground slowly, and inspected the
stock with much attention.—Scottish Guardian.

An inquest was held on Tuesday at the Rising Sun,
Bromley, on the body of Anne Jameson, who died of hydro-
phobia. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Illcott, sur-
geon, and others, that the deceased was bitten by a strange d.ig
while in the street, on the 4th of July last. After the first
fright she took no notice of the occurr...nce. On Monday
se'nnight she was viiited by Mr. lllcott, who found her com-
plaining of a violent pain in the arm. He then administered
medicine, but she dAils grew worse, and died on Thursday.
The dog had been killed. The deceased was a married woman,
53 years old. Verdict—" Died from hydrophobia."
A short time since two young men, the very pinks of
fashioa, of the most approved gentility. came down to Brighton
and took lodgings in a fashionable part of the etwn. During
the time they stayed here, four or five days, they lived like
lords, were most liberal in their orders, and altogether con-
ducted th•-rnselves in the way in which gallants who have not
yet learned the use of money are apt to do. Amongst other
instances of this seeming extravagant spirit, we may mention
that they purchased--no, not pui chased—procured, two baud-
some five guinea riding-whips of Mr. Akehurst, saddler, of
St. James's-street. After having bestow ed similar extensive
patronage on many others of our tradesmen, and the time for a
settlement being arrived, they took a sudden diilike to the
town, and one bright morning shook the dust from their feet,
bade it farewell, and have never been seen sinco, at least not
by those who were induced to put so much confidence in their
dress and address. The owner of the house, we are sorry to
add, is ill able to sustain the loss. —Brighton Herald.
A FAT GHOST.—We inserted a few weeks ago an
amusing anecdote from the pen of Theodore Hook, of the part
of the ghost in Hamlet, having once been played by an act
whose name he gave, in spectacles. Since then the Liverpool
playgoers have had an opportunity of seeing the ghost played
at our theatre by Mr. Stuart, with his arm in a sling. Amusing
as the appearance of the spectacled ghost must have been, the
anecdote we are about to relate of a fat ghost is not less amus-
ing. Many of our readers will recollect the late Mr. Banks,
who for many years was co-lessee of the Liverpool and Man-
chester theatres. He was a remarkably large, fat man, as
large and as fat as Lableche, the famous bass singer. who ap-
peared recently in the Italian concert at the Amphith.
thou g h
Mr. Banks always played the ghost in Hamlet, and,
formidable-looking, a most excellent ghost he was. Once on
a time, while enacting the part on the stage of tire Manchester
theatre, his great bulk gave rise to a most laughable incident.
The ghost, it will he remembered by our theatrical readers,
used to vanish. from some of the scenes, through a trap-door
or. the stage. Well, on one occasion Mr. Banks had taken
his station on the spot. The bolt was withdrawn, and slowly
descended the ghost, truncheon in hand. The legs disap-
pr'ared in due course ; but whether owing to the increase of
his own bulk or to some alteration in the size of the aperture,
the moment the huge round belly touched the edge of the
stage the process of sinking suddenly ceased. The ghost
stuck fast in the middle. No contrivance, no squeezing. no
wriggling on the part of Mr. Banks could force his Falstaffiati
hotly through the trap-hole. The auditory were convulsed with
laughter
; even the ghost himself, alas 1 poor ghost,"
joined in the laughter, and quietly submitted to be lifted out
"
of the hole by the stage attendants.—Liverpool
On Wednesday, as several workmen were employed in
digging a foundation at the back of the premises of Messrs.
Torras and Co., letter-press and copper-plate printers, No. 7,
Palace-row, near the Reservoir in the Hampstead-road, on
arriving about four feet below the surface, they discovered, to
their astonishment, three perfect human skulls, placed in a
direct line, about a foot and a half from each other, but with-
out any other portions of the human frame being in any way
attached to them. They were immediately shown to the pro-
prietor of the premises ; but he not knowing what to do with
them, ordered their re•interment. Many surmises are afloat
upon the subject, but the most feasible is, that they must have
been placed in the position in which they were found by some
investigation.G E Ro
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medical students. It is supposed, however, that in the event
of the circumstance coming to the ears of the parochial autho-
rities they will be again exhumed, and become the subject of
some
MextlrSaTorAdilCnaEr
following Wednesday,.y—anOil
neemen
bearinc, the were
attached bills
to the walls of Southwark and its
environs
•—" Poison.—On
Sunday morning last a man, apparently 25 • years of age, and
about five feet eight inches high, rather thin face, withprn-
pro-
jecting or prominent nose, and who wore a jacket and lightish
echo m
trousers, and stated that he had been a watch
the parish of Walworth nine years previous to the an'
in
police,
came to a regular druggist's shop, a -hen distance from
Walworth, for medicine to cure an eruption on the skin,
and stated that more in the house were
size, the same
condition as himself. He took away by mistalle
containing Stave's-acre powder,' which one out of
a packet
five persons in the shop was waiting for, d
should
have had. The packet was of the same and
and
was tied up in the same coloured paper. The mistakee, an
arose
from the hurry ; all the persons in the shop wishing.
served at one timeprevent . This notice is to
the individual
taking the poison. Probably some one reading this may
know the person described. The remedy or antidote is to.
drink warm water plentifully ; as soon as possible take an
emetic of sulphate of zinc, castor oil if required ; smell of
ammonia (not take it internally); to refrain from vinegar or
• "ts May he well rubbed, and be kept moving
spinto prevent
sleep. An egg or two may be swallowed previous to the
emetic." In a similar case about six years ago the notice
then published was too late ; two persons died from the effects
of the poison given in mistake.
THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING TALL.—A young
Sciatchman, who the other day was a private in the 92d Regi--
nient, now stationed iu this island, being so re,arkably tall
that he was unable to stand upright in a sentry box, w as, iu
in consequence, promoted to the rank of corporal.—Malta

, John Neinenger, a
German c
remanded on a chchargePaper.
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was nay
stabbing in the hand a woman named Tees, the keeper of a
Hall, on
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house ill-fame in Newington, with whom he had a dispute res-
pecting money. The wound was of a serious description.
CAUTION TO CARMEN.—On Wednesday night,
between eight and nine o'clock, Joseph Banks, carman, in the
employment of .Messrs. Host Cotton, of Bermondsey_wali
watt en the top of a waggon loaded with rushes, when h,
slip, ed off and fell about fifteen feet to the ground, pitchinv
upon th - back of his head. He sustained severe injury of tilt
skull aid likewise of the spine. He was removed to St.
Thcmas's Hospital. Hopes are entertained of his surviving.

RADICAL MEETING ON THE CUR

BELLY HILL.

(Abridged from the Dumfries Courier.)
A public meeting of the working classes of Dumfries and
Maxwelltown was held at four o'clock on Friday last, in the
field on the Corbelly Hill. The meeting was called under
the auspices of the Working Man's Association. A hustings
with a single chair for the President, had been erected upon
the ground, and at the hour mentioned we should think about
400 would be in attendance, chiefly of the class of workmen.
Two banners floated on the brow of the hill, one or both of
which had figured a few minutes before in the Tee-total
procession.
After a few remarks by Mr. Jerry Knight, the CHAIRMAN
stated that this was the first public meeting of the working
classes in Dumfries for the purpose of sxpressing their political
opinions. The business before the meeting was to adopt the
Pe,,ple's Charter, which had already received the sanction of
millions of their countrymen in other parts of the kingdom,
and though the Dumfriesians were late, it was better late than
never. Their intentions were to better their condition ; to
participate in what God had given, but which had been with-
held by man for many a day. After .a few further obser-
vations the Chairman called on Mr. Jerry Knight to address
the meeting.
Mr. KNIGHT, hatter, spoke at considerable length on the
subject ot politics, and the condition of the working classes.
He stated that the first object of their exertions was to obtain
Universal Suffrage. This, however, had been scouted by the
great ones of the earth, and the working men were told that
they were not entitled to it. He conceived he was as well in-
formed, and a good deal better, than many Members of Par-
liament—that he could decipher a bill as well as many of
these legislators, and since they taxed him, he conceived he
was entitled to representation. They had been told, too, that
they had no stake or nt.rest in the country. Why, here is
our property, said Mr. K extending his ten fingers ; and
yet. though they were the productive classes of the country—
though the working classes were those to wham its greatness,
asa commercial and manufacturing nation, were attributable,
still they were those who were excluded from all political
equality, and while the wealthy man could go to another
couutry and buy a cheap loaf of bread, the poor man
was compelled to starve at home on provisions which
were rendered dear by the landlord's monopoly. The
lot of the poor man is wretched in the extreme, and
though to his exertions the wealth of the country might
be attributed, yet he had no share in theses benefits.
He begged a brother of the earth for leave to toil.
The speaker further adverted to the Corn-laws, which he said
were not made for the benefit of the farmer, but of the land-
lord. As to the system of reciprocity, he condemned the
pol:cy which compelled us to take our sugars from the West
Indies, which took from us only five millions of barter ; and
not from the East Indies, which, under the same circum-
stances, would be willing to take twenty-four millions annu-
ally. The interests of the many were sacrificed for the good
of the few. There was the standing army, for instance,
which had been reduced in time of peace, but the complement
of officers was kept up at the war standard for the express be-
nefit of the Aristocracy. Why they had as many Admirals as
they had ships, and let them look at 304 of these persons re-
ceiving two guineas per day, while there was only need for
three of them, while there were only three Admirals afloat.
--( Hear.) Let mothers endeavour, by all means,
to instil into their offspring the duty of respecting worth
—not wealth ; let them bring them up in those principles of
morality and freedom which would make them good mem-
bers of society. Having made these observations, he would
move that the meeting adopt the national petition, which had
been so cordiilly received by the working men of other quar-
ters He alluded to the anomaly of the franchise as at present
constituted, where a man like Donald Horne, of Edinburgh,
by the manufacture of paper or life-rent freehold, possessed
no fewer than ten votes. He then alluded specially to the
Corn-laws, though he did not wish the workmen to concen-
trate their energies on the abrogation of these laws, to the ex-
clusion or detriment of the other great political questions
of the day. The speaker then Drought the Entail-laws be-
fore the meeting, which he characterised as a most scan-
dalous monopoly on the part of the rich, which would never
have been permitted in the case of the poor. He then
alluded to various public matters—such as the union between
Church and State, which he depatedhurried pass-
ing of gagging Bills, and the tardy enactment of the Test
and Corporation and the Reform Acts ; the introduction of
Lord Brougham's Education Bill, %,,Itich was kicked out by
the Bishops—the expense of croened heads, which he wished
to see paid accordiii to the standard of the President of the
United States, though he was a republican. Finally, he
strongly inculcated upon the working men to depend upon
themselves alone—to agitate R.aceably—guard against vio-
lence to property, and spurn th,• fire and musket advice of Mr.
Stephens. The working men hid only to know their own
strength and exercise it constitutionally to press their wants
successfully upon the House ot Commons Thereafter, on
the motion of Andrew, three cheers were given to the " Peo-
ple's Charter," or the " National Petition," which was declared
to be carried.
On the motion of Mr. J. KNIGHT, three cheers were given
for Provost S eat tridge, for so handsomely emitting the work.
ing men his field as a place of me tiug ; and efts,- thanks had
been voted to the Chairman, the ,is.emblage quietly disp_rsed.

THE SH.RFFIELID anti MAN CHESTER

RAILWAY.

The Manchester Guardian contains a description of the
general nature of the line, and cons-quent character of the
operations requisite for its con,truction. We subjoin some
parts of our Contemporary's speech:—
The first contract on this line has been let, and the ground
was broken, with some ceremony, last Monday, near the
centre of the Railway.
This line is to be 391- miles in length, and will commence
at Chancery. lane, Ardwick, where it is to join the Manchester
and Birmingham line ; and thence it will proceed in a direct
route, by the Pottery at Gorton, to the Stockport brinch of
the Ashton Canal, under which it will pass at a point about
half-way between the factory of Mr. Aaron Lees and the
Ashton New Road.
The most prominent feature of this railway will undoubtedly
be the summit tunnel, the length of which is to be three miles
—entering the mountain ridge, which separates the eastern
and western termini, below Salters Brook, and t:.rmintting on
the Yorkshire side at Dunford-bridge. It is proposed_ in the
first instance, to be constructed for a single line of rails, and
to be worked by locomotive power, the gradient through it
being formed nearly level. With the exception of its length,
and the depth of the shafts necessary to be sunk for ventila-
tion, no material difficulty is anticipated in working it. Tne
strata being hard (at least, such is the anticipation of the en-
gineer), and of an extremely favourable description, little or no
arching or lining will be required ; arid the elevation at which
it perforates the mountain effectually secures the perfect and
easi drainage of any water which may present itself. Prepa-
rations are now making for its immediate commencement.
Although passing over a very hilly country, the line is so
laid out that the whole distance can be easily worked without
the assistance of stationary engines—no gradient being so
great, by upwards of one-fourth, as the Sutton and Raiuhill
inclines on the Manchester and Liverpool Rai!way, or the
Warrington incline on the Grand Junction Railway.
The connection hereafter to be opened to Manchester by
this railway will la:-• of a very important nature.
The scenery through which the line is to pass is of great
novelty and beauty, pres,nting throughout a constant succes-
sion of picturesque change. On the Yorkshire side the route
by the valley of the Don and through Wharncliffe Wood will
be unequalled by any railway scenery in the kingdom.

LASCAR BURL AL.-Considerahle crowds were of
Wednesday attracted to the burial ground adjoining Trinity
Church, in Cannon-street-road East, to witness the singular ce-
remony on the interment of a Lascar, who had recently an ived in
this country by one of the East India ships, and who, being in a
very delicate state of health durir,!, the voyage, died shortly
after the vessel had put into the Si. Katharine's Dock. The
hody of the deceased, which was merely rolled up in a piece
of thin calico, was placed on a rude and temporary bier, formed
of a few pieces of cane-wood, and decorated with several tur-
bans enfolded, and carried on the soldiers of four of his coun-
trymen, and in this manner was followed by about twelve or
fourteen other Liscars. The singularity of such a procession,
as well as the mariner of those who formed it, which appeared
anything but serious or solemn, as most of them smoked their
paper cigars, caused a considerable mob of persons to follow
it from the vicinity of the docks, and by the time it had
reached Cannon-street, several thousands had assembled, and
it required the interference of the police to clear a pas-
sage to the churchyard. On getting in, however, some
considerable delay tock place before the interment of the
body could be effected, as it appeared no preparation whatever
had been previously made for its reception, and it was sonic
time before the Lascars could be prevailed upon to pay the 7s.
which was demanded of them by the sextoness for the grave.
They at length. however, paid the money, and a grave was
in a short time prepared. The body was then handed to two
of the Lascars, who had descended into the grave, and who
placed it at full length on the earth, as the remainder of them
squatted themselves round the edge of the grave, which was
about seven feet deep, and with their hands uplifted, com•
menced chanting, in somewhat discordant sounds, a prayer or
hymn, while the two wko were in the grave continued to roll
the corpse over and over several times in the bottom of the
grave. Various other ceremonies were subsequently gone
through, and on a given signal the men in the grave, with
astonishing agility, got out of it, and all commenced with the
greatest rapidity to throw the earth into the grave with their
hands. The almost incredible quickness with which they
per-
formed this was such that the grave was filled in a few mi-
nutes, and having then used a shovel to settle and harden the
earth on the top, the whole of the party left the ground
smoking their paper cigars.
The beetroot sugar manufacturers of Valenciennes,
Avegnes, Lille, and the department of the Pas de Calais, have
held various moetings for the purpose of petitileminGovern--
borne ment and the Chambers on the sugFourar
Deputies, dutis, to
the same
'
effect as the growers of Cambrai. Mc-sars.
Taillandier, Corne, Dumont, and INlarchant, have promised to
support their claims.
Carinino Rosso, the itinerant Neapolitan tinker,
who, as our readers will remember, committed a barbarous
murder in the month of January, at Da
per-
son of an ex-friar, named True, was guignan, on the
tse executed this day week
of the
in that town. The last penaltylaw had not for many
. fears been carried into effect at Draignati, and, on this
occasion the execution was attended with peculiarly horrible
circumstances. The knife of the guillotine not being
. t•iently sharp, descended three different
. tie culprit without severing his head frotrriih his
onho
dthearigliedck of
one
the executioners was in the end actually hi' y, • -form
0 lf,l( perform
his fatal dace with the aid of a eutlass..—Gailynani.