The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 185 3.

by stating that no further interest at present would be
paid to the shareholders. The financial statement
showed a balance in hand of 11,5741. 3s. Bd.
The CHAIRMAN recommended the adoption of the
second course set forth in the report, which he very
strongly supported. .
The report was adopted after some discussion.
A resolution was then moved and seconded, authoris-
ing the directors to carry out the second course above
referred to, but
Mr. BACKER moved, and Mr. BARLOW seconded, an
amendment, authorising them to take the third course.
Both the resolution and the amendment were nega-
tived, which leaves the affairs of the company in state
quo for another six months,
The meeting separated after a vote of thanks to the
chairman.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN-

SHIRE.

The report of the directors of this company states,
that the expenditure on capital account for the half-year
ending June 30, amounts to 93,8721., of which 23,0901.
was for the settlement of a long-pending. claim. The
receipts for the half-year amounted to 172,1421., and
for the
i Rcorresponding period of 1852 to 160,672/., show-
ing an increase in the receipts of 11,51
in , while the in-
crease the expenses only amounted to 3,5501. The
receipts for goods continue steadily to increase, while
the passenger traffic is progressing satisfactorily. The
traffic at the new dock at Grimsby exhibits a gradual
improvement, but the directors fear it will be some time
before a return will be obtained commensurate with the
large outlay. The value of the merchandise traffic to
and from the Grimsby station was 12,6221., against
6,0371. at the corresponding period of last year. The
directors have been able to reduce the interest upon
some of the bonds from 5 per cent. to rates rang-
ing between 34 to 41 per cent., and thus, although
a larger amount has been borrowed than in the
corresponding week of last year, the total inte-
rest is less. The whole of the interest upon the
debenture debt has been this half-year charged to reve-
nue. In the corresponding period of last year 6,1831.
was charged to capital in respect of unproductive works.
The directors recommend that one half-year's dividend
be paid upon the 6/. preference shares, which will leave
a balance of 3,5301. The expenditure during the half-
year in working the traffic on the railway was 104,572/. ;
and on the canals, 19,818/. ; total, 124,390/.—leaving
84,7451. as the net profit. To this sum is added 4,0921.,
the balance from the last account, making 89,8271. Out
,of this sum 56,7521. is deducted for interest on loans,
13,734/. canal annuities, 15,525/. dividend on 6 per cent.
preference shares, and 2851. interest on calls in advance,
leaving a balance of 3,530/. towards dividend on capital
amounting to 4,816,8101., no part of which balance was
earned in the course of the half-year.

THE PROTESTANT BURIAL-GROUND AT
MADRID.-POPISH BIGOTRY.

The following further paper respecting the Protestant
burial-ground at Madrid, in continuance of the corres-
pondence presented to Parliament in 1851, has been
presented to both houses of Parliament by command of
her Majesty :

LORD HOWDEN TO TIE EARL OF CLARENDON.—(RECEIVED
JUNE 13).
Madrid, May 30, 1853.
My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose a copy and
translation of a note I have received from the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, containing permission to establish a burial
ground for British Protestant subjects.
Although this permission appears the direct consequence
of a right secured by treaty, it has for half a century been
opposed, evaded, or delayed, and I have had the greatest
difficulty in obtaining it.
I have been told confidentially that the fear which has
always actuated all Spanish Governments, and excited
constantly both the open and underhand opposition of the
ecclesiastical authorities, is, that by any concession what-
ever a wedge would be introduced by Protestant Govern-
ments as a means of demanding further facilities on sub-
jects connected with any manifestation of a different ritual
than that which is alone tolerated by law.
I have so often debated this question, both in words and
in writing, that I have deemed it quite useless to make
any rejoinder to the three first conditions contained in the
inclosed. When once a nation, like an individual, sets at
nought the opinion of the whole civilised world for the
gratification of some darling passion, it is perfectly idle,
as I feel it to be in this case, to hope that any representa-
tions can have avail.
I, however, could not refrain from making an observa-
tion on the fourth point, and I add herewith the copy of
my note.—l have, &c., HOWDEN.

Inclosure 1.—(Tran514322.)

Madrid, May 24, 1853.
Mp Lord,—With reference to what I stated to your
lordship in my note of the 29th ultimo, I have the honour
to inform your lordship that, according to a communica-
tion which I have received from the Minister of the In-
terior, the Queen, my Sovereign, agreeing to the opinion
of the Consultive Board of Police of this capital, has been
pleased to grant permission for the construction, at the
place known by the name of La Herradura, at a short dis-
tance from the hill of San Damaso, in the vicinity of this
ihmcnaaapvtyiehtthaeblne,esooinntfetaalhl6metya.jryulyf,olrBPslrotestant British subjects who
town, under the following conditions, which
communicated to the British Legation
:-
1. The cometary will be erected on the hill of San Da-
maso, outside thegate of Toledo, and it will be constructed
with subjection to the hygienic or sanitary rules required
by establishments of this kind.
2. No church, chapel, nor any other sign of a temple, or
of public or private worship, will be allowed to be built in
the aforesaid cemetary.
3. All acts which can give any indication of the perfor-
mance of any Divine service whatsoever are prohibited.
4. In the conveyance of the dead bodies to the burial-
ground, any sort of pomp or publicity shall be avoided.
The civil governor of this province has already been
made acquainted with the aforesaid royal decision, and on
communicating it to your lordship, I cannot abstain from
adding, with reference to what is stated to me by the Mi-
nister of the Interior, that the epithet of " gratuitous,"
which has been applied to the delay which this affair has
experienced, is not just ; because, in spite of the wishes
and exertions of the public administration, there are some-
times powerful causes which occasion a necessary delay in
the dispatch of business, as has been the case with the
affair in question.—l avail, &c.,
FRANCESCO LERSUNDI.

Inclosure 2.
LORD HOWDEN TO GENERAL LERSUNDI.

Madrid, May 30,1853.
Sir, I have the honour to acknowledge your Excellency's
note concerning the establishment of a cemetary for Bri-
tish Protestant subjects who may die in this capital.
With regard to the three first conditions specified in the
document I shall say nothing, having already said use-
lessly a great deal, and often, on the subject. My opinion
on them is that of Europe, including the great Catholic
nations of France, Austria, Portugal, Belgium, Sardinia,
and Brazil ; and if that opinion be indifferent to the na-
tion of her Catholic Majesty, England will at least find
herself in good company in the appreciation of the above
conditions.

I have however, a word to say on the fourth condition,
because I think that it is practically a seed of future diffi-
culty.
It is this :—" Se evitara, en la conduccion de los cada-
veres toda, clase de pompa y publicidad." (In conveying
the dead bodies to the burial-ground, every kind of pomp
or publicity shall be avoided.)
This clause is as vague in its sense as it is in its phraseo-
logy. What may be called pomp in this country may only
be deemed decency by persons brought up with different
feelings as to charity, and animated by a respect for the
dead which is unaffected by latitudes.

What publicity means lam entirely at a loss to discover;
I really do not see how it is possible to convey a corpse
from the gate of Atocha to the gate of Toledo, without it
being known that it is a dead man, which recognition is in
itself an act of publicity.
Does the Spanish government mean that the body is to
be smuggled ?
I regret anything like jesting upon such a subject, but
the field is open to much ridicule, and I restrain myself.
May object in writing this note is to state to your Ex-
cellency that the above clause opens a source of much
possible conflict between the Legation and your Excel-
lency's department.

CRICKET

. -
I renounce all responsibility as to its being carried out
according to the expressed wishes of the Spanish govern-
ment, or the appreciation of the word " pomp" by some
ignorant and fanatical mob. I do not know whether the
State of Spain would permit such a homage to civil dignity,
but in all other countries of the world it is precisely to the
authorities themselves that the representative of a foreign
country would apply for protection in conveying a human
body to its last resting-place. Perhaps I shall have occa-
sion to try this question.
I hasten to finish this communication, as it is impossible
to make it without a feeling of irritation. If in the streets
of London, whither lam going, I have the misfortune to
meet a Spaniard carried (with "publicity") to the grave,
while reverently uncovering myself as the corpse passes,
my sorrow will be' tempered by the feeling that he is
buried like a Christian, and my pride will be gratified by
thinking that this homage has been paid to one of God's
creatures by Christiaas who are my countrymen.
I cannot conclude without stating my deep regret that
the course of Spain is such as to produce a gradaal aliena-
tion in the opinion of the English public, out of which will
must infallibly result a state of feeling which no govern
ment can control or oppose.—I avail, &c.

ELEVEN PLAYERS v. EIGHTEEN GENTLE-
MEN OF SURREY CLUB AND COUNTY.

This match, which is for the benefit of one of the old
Surrey umpires, Mortlock, who,. from severe illness, is
compelled to make an appeal to his patrons, was opened
at the Oval yesterday. There was a large amount of
good play exhibited. At the close of the day the score
presented this appearance :

HOWDEN.

MR. BUCKLEY'S ABSOLUTE SALE OF PURE-
BRED LEICESTER&

The high and increasing estimation in which this first-
class breed of sheep is held at the present moment is no
less traceable to the efforts of the breeders in whose
hands the true race of Leicesters has remained, to main-
tain it in all its integrity, than to the vast importance
which sheep begin to acquire in agriculture, both from
the excellent profits certain to be derived from ordinary
care and prudence in sheep farming, and from the re-
markably advantageous position in which these animals
stand, related as their products are at once to trade
and subsistence, and consequently of great value in a
populous manufacturing country. In the breed of sheep,
its excellence and yield, whether of wool or mutton,
the manufacturer is in fact as deeply interested as the
farmer. Hence the universal attention which the
Leicesters, our highest native English race are at pre-
sent attracting ; for the present is a social crisis in
which the rapid development alike of manufactures and
population is instinctively impelling men to look for-
ward with eagerness to every improvement in the re-
sources of material and food. The sheep, as we have re-
marked, stands in the prominent position of contrinuting
largely to both these desiderata. The shows and letting
of sheep which we have latterly had to record in the
Nottinghamshire Guardian's farming columns, have
been in one respect different from that of Mr. Buckley,
at Normanton Hill, near Loughborough, who is de-
clining ram breeding altogether, and is consequently
bringing forward on the Ist proximo, one of the first
and most celebrated breeds in the country for absolute
sale. The whole of this fine flock consists of 40 rams
and 200 ewes and theaves. It is stated by Mr. Straf-
ford, of London, who is to be the auctioneer, that the
purity of this stock is too well known to require further
comment beyond pointing out its descent namely,
from the flock of Mr. Buckley's late father and grand-
father ; the latter being well known as identical with
that of Mr. Robert Bake well, of Dishley. We may add
that the flock was constituted by Mr. Nicholas Buck-
ley, of Normanton Hill, the present Mr. Buckley's
grandfather, and assisted by the purchase of ewes at
sixty-five guineas each at the sale in 1793, of the
late Mr. Paget of Ibstock (whose derivation from
the Dishley breed is familiar to all who who know any-
thing of the Leicesters.) Mr. Paget indeed was the
constant associate of Bakeweil himself, and consulted and
advised with that eminent breeder in every step taken for
the improvement of those fine and valuable animals. He
was also a member of the Dishley Society ; an institu-
tion of few but select members, associated for the pur-
pose of promoting and preserving the improved breed
of Leicesters, regardless of expense. For a number of
years, in imitation of the spirit and purpose of this cele-
brated association, as much as from 1,200 to 1,000
guineas was subscribed and expended for the use of
three or four sheep annually, by Mr. Nicholas Buckley,
conjointly with those other two celebrated breeders, Mr.
Stubbins and Mr. Breedon. They adopted this method
of maintaining the superiority of their flocks, as one
which at an expense that could hardly have been at-
tempted single-handed enabled them to match the pecu-
liarities of a greater variety of their ewes, and to meet
the improvements where they were wanted.
The results of these careful and expensive practical
improvements by the most eminent men connected wit's
the breeding of Leicesters may now be said to be sub-
mitted to public competition in the sale of the Normanton
Hill branch of the Dishley flock. Mr. Nicholas Buckley,
it is well known, realised the largest sums ever obtained
for the use of a single Leicester ram; but it may not be ge-
nerally known that of the very sheep which he let for 1000
guineas, he reserved for the benefit of his own flock one-
fourth part of the use; so that the services of the best ani-
mals which the flock turned out were never lost to it. the
sheep have not been crossed to this day by any other tups;
for after what has lately been stated in the Guardian re-
specting the animals bred by Mr. Burgess of Colgrave, and
Mr. Sanday, of llolme Pierrepont, and what is known of
these gentlemen in the profession, the fact that during
the last few years rams have been used which were bred
by them, will rather be accepted as an additional proof
of the purity, integrity, and advancement of the Nor-
manton Hill sheep.
We have nothing more to add than that any breeder
or flock-master desirous of effecting permanent improve-
ments in his flock, will have on Thursday next one of
the best opportunities of doing so at Normanton Hill.
The purposes for which these Leicesters are now so
greatly sought after and so largely employed, were
never more urgent than at thiA moment when the
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