The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-08 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

According to a Berlin letter of the 3d in the
Eoerscnhalle of Hamburg, the Anglo-French
despatches are now sent by the line organised
by Mr. Colquhoun, the British Consul at Bu-
charest. By his plan, despatches from Bala-
klava may be sent to London in 90 hours, 80
of which are taken up by the passage from Ba-
laklava to Varna and from Varna to Kronstadt
(Transilvania) via Bucharest, the latter being per-
formed by tatars.
Count Henckel von Donnersmark, Secretary to
the Prussian Legation at London, arrived at Ber-
in yesterday.

There hits lately been very little change in the
cholera in Vienna. The deaths still average about
30 per diem. There are at present upwards of 900
persons under treatment. Since the breaking out
of the epidemic, 1,204 persons have died of it.

LONDON NECROPOLIS AND NATIONAL
MAUSOLEUM COMPANY.

Yesterday the ceremony of consecrating that part of
the new cemetery at Woking which is destined to afford a
resting place to members of the Church of England having
been appointed to take place, a large number of the direc-
tors and their friends proceeded from the South-Western
station at hall-past 12 o'clock, to be present on that occa-
tion. The office of consecration was performed by the
Bishop of Winchester, assisted by bis commissary, the
clergy ofthe diocese and of the metropolitan districts. There
was a large number of peasantry from the surrounding
country, to whom the arrival of a railway train in the
middle of Woking-common was no doubt a novelty
never to be forgotten. Tile chapels for the reception
of the deceased members of the Established Church
and. of the dissenters are precisely similar in structure,
extremely plain in character, but well adapted for
the purposes for which they are intended. The land
is at present almost in a state of nature ; but when
the grounds are properly laid out, and the plantations
sufficiently grown, no doubt they will offer a desirable
resting place for the inhabitants of this metropolis.
The directors and visitors on their return to town pro-
ceeded to the Albion Tavern, where an excellent enter-
tainment was provided; Mr. Thomas Dakin' chairman of
the committee, presiding. After the usualloyal toasts,
The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of " the Army
and Navy."
General CHATTERTON, one of the directors, returned
thanks.

The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of the Bishop
of Winchester and the clergy, to which the Rev. Mr.
HUBBARD, rector of St. Ola.ve's, replied.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the prosperity of the
company, and, in doing so, referred to the evils of intra-
mural interments, as acknowledged by the reports of the
Board of Health. Englishmen were slow to believe that
the Government could do for them that which they could
do for themselves, and therefore they resolved to set about
the matter themselves. It was at first considered that this
was not a proper matter for a trading company, and that
the Government would be best fitted to carry out such
an undertaking. They accordingly proposed to carry it
out with a capital of 700,000/. and a revenue of 112,000/.
Now, the present company proposed to' accomplish the
same object with a capital of only 250,0001., of which, at
the present moment, they contemplated but the expendi-
ture of 125,0001. ; and of the efficiency of that expen-
diture they could form some judgment by What they
had witnessed in the early part of the day. The
mortality of the metropolis was' calculated at 60,000 a
year, so that a means of transport for 150 per flin-n would
be ample to meet the requirements of the whole metro-
polis, and, through the kind co-operation of the South-
Western Company, this could be effected without at all
interfering with the ordinary traffic of the line. (Hear,
hear.) If the company could effect this, and effect it
at one-third less than was contemplated in the report of
the Board of Health, they were surely meeting the
necessities of the case, and at the same time solving a
difficulty of no small social importance. (Cheers.)
The toast having been drunk with enthusiasm,
• The CHAIRMAN proposed in succession " The Heal ths
of Mr. Lacy, M.P. ;" " Mr. Harvey, rector of Flornsey ;"
" The South-Western Company and the Hon. Mr. Dun-
combo ;" " Mr. Sydney, Smirk and Mr. Tite, the archi-,
tests," whiCh were severally responded to.
The compainy remained to a late hour.

The Kreutz Zeitung announces the arrival of the Aus-
terlitz at Sheerness in these words :—" The French
liner ran into Sheerness yesterday from the Baltic. She
is
45 guns less of the number she hadon board when she
sailed with ber Bretons and Gaseous to the Baltic,
into which their forefathers would have as soon ventured
as into a lion's den. She was obliged to throw her can-
non overboard to save herself from the Finland rucks,
which also compelled English ships to adopt the same
plan."
THE ALAND ISLES.—The Aland Isles are now quite
evacuated by the Allie. The frigate Penelope, that has
been hitherto stationed at Ledsund, left there on the
28th ult. for (Eregrund, where, in connection with the
steam frigate Odin, she will watch over the blockade of
the Gulf of Bothnia. For the last 6 weeks there has
been hardly one day of fine weather at Ledsund ; it
,blew and rained from morning till night, and a /lumber
of vessels have been lost lately in those waters. All
the small steamers had already left. The Alanders
were particularly dejected, knowing that the Rus-
sians would return in force immediately the last
English ship left. The Russians have managed
to keep up their communications between the Island and
Finland even while our ships were there. Some time
back a steamer used to come every week from Abo on
one excuse or the other, but this has since been put a,
stop to. The communication has, however, been kept
up surreptitiously since then. All the buoys and sea
marks have now been taken up, which leads to the con-
elusion that the Aland Isles are not to be taken posses-
sion of again next spring ; the station at CEregruud is,
however, to be maintained as long as the ice will admit
of its There is a detachment of the fleet also in Faro-
sund,