The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-12 00:00:00

If not, we can safely entrust them to Lord ST.
LEONARDS and Messrs. NAPIER and WHITESIDE,
convinced thAt the absence of official duties will
not deprive the country of the inestimable
services of . these energetic and efficient
Legal Reformers. There is, indeed, a gene-
ral concurrence of opinion among all classes—
professional and non-professional—of the necessity
of rapid progress in the path of legal amelioration.
The Society for Promoting the Amendment of the
Law has set the example. By its unobtrusive but
useful labours, it has sown the good seed which
has brought forth such abundant fruit. There is
" unrestricted competition" between the dif-
ferent parties in their efforts to bring
forward the most perfect measures until
" legal Free Trade" be attained. There
can be no halting in the path. There may be an
honourable emulation as to which will go the
farthest, but procrastination or postponement on
these matters is no longer practicable.

A remarkable document appeared the other
evening in the columns of The Sun, as well as in
those we believe of the majority of our contem-
poraries, purporting to be a Proclamation ad-
dressed by Louis KOSSUTH to the soldiers in
Italy, in the name of the Hungarian nation.
Almost, simultaneously, there appeared another
document of a somewhat similar character,
signed by JOSEPH MAzzixr, and avowedly
summoning his fel:low-countrymen throughout the
Roman peninsula to a grand and instant insurrec-
tion. Of the authenticity of the latter appeal we
have no doubt whatever. It breathes throughout
the passionate enthusiasm and almost phrenzied
eloquence of perhaps the most formidable of the
Demagogues of his Age. But of the proclamation
ascribed to KOSSUTH, we must acknowledge our-
selves dubious in regard to the authorship.
Nowhere from first to last can we recognise
the accents of that great patriot—nowhere
from the commencement to the conclusion of the
document can we perceive the fervour of his
tones as an orator, or the impress of his character
as a statesman. One sentence alone is sufficiently
rhetorical in style to persuade us that it can have
emanated from One of the most eloquent of the
• great men of this generation. " Hungary is the
right wing, Italy is the left wing, of the army I led."
But even this conveys a sentiment which we may
reasonably hesitate to attribute to the temporary
(and, as we hope and believe, in the end the per-
manent) Liberator of the heroic race of the Hun-
garians. One reflection naturally forces itself
upon us in reference to this remarkable document,
the reflection that it appears somewhat mistaken
and ill-judged to apprise the Northern Powers
beforehand of an intention to " rise" on the part
of Italy, or of Hungary, with a view to vindicate
their rights, and to realise their independence.
To say the least of it, such a course must seem to
the world singularly injudicious. Before, how-
ever, condemning it as such, we should like to feel
assured that the proclamation attributed to Kos-
sum has the stamp of authenticity.

Thanks to the prompt and energetic interfer-
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at the
a prospect of our at last witnessing the " begin-
ning of the end" of the odious and most execrable
system of intramural interments. Really the
" beginning of the end"—really, because prac-
tically. Hitherto we have, to all intents
and purposes, only talked of commencing the
suppression of the abomination. Acts of Parlia-
ment, having this object nominally in view, have
been passed—and, not very long after being
framed, have been amended---but all without
any avail whatever. Insomuch has this proved '
toblethec andse
,thatwein t
have found
thedattentionourselves
com-
peled again of
the community at large to the detestable con-
dition of our London Graveyards, first in
one direction and then in another—now in
Drury-lane, now up at old St. Pancras—
where the ground is rotten with the decay
of the remains of " our dear brothers departed,"
and where, though thus crammed with the dead
to repletion, the earth is still being crowded with
more of our dear brothers and sisters, fathers and
mothers, uncles and aunts, and all the rest of our
kith and kin indiscriminately. Beholding this
monster evil still flourishing in the midst
of the wealthiest capital in the world,
Lord DUDLEY STUART last evening humanely
brought the matter directly and expressly under
the HOME SECRETARY'S consideration. To the
honour of Lord PAL.ILERSTON be it said that he
was neither slow nor measured in his condemna-
tion of the system of intramural interment.
" With respect to the question in general, I can
only repeat what my Noble Friend has stated,
that the graveyards of the metropolis are in a
state which is disgraceful." As an earnest that this
is his true and sincere conviction as an administra-
tor, the Noble Viscount announced, in answer to the
well-timed inquiry of Lord DUDLEY STUART, that
an Order in Council would be passed as soon Is
possible to shut up the churchyard of St. Clement
Danes, in the Strand—one of the most notori-
ously foul and overgorged of all those hideous dens
of abomination. Thank GOD, something practical
is at length being adventured upon by the Govern-
ment for the close of that horrible system which
Mr. WALKER has long taught us to regard as
one of the greatest curses of the population. Let
Orders in Council, like that promised by Viscount
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" Thank you for nothing," DANIEL O'CoNNELL
used to say, and as we expected there will be no-
thing to thank our new Government for. No-
thing for ourselves. Canada will touch its hat for
the long-deferred concession of the Clergy Reserves,
the Jews will make their best bow for "long looked
for come at last," and Australia will smile plea-
santly to find itself too strong to be any longer
made the moral d
sink of the mother country.
Well, so far we are gla to see work done which
must be done, but there is little in it that can be
called noble or generous—little aristocratic sacri-
fice to the rights of the many. Beyond our having
more to
.Pay, we have no specific information at
present. We will try and hope that Light Dues,
Education, Secondary Punishments, and facilitat-
ing the Sale of Land, will be as well dealt with
as they would have been by the late Cabinet. We
shall see. But on the Reform Question, the one
which concerns us all—on that Lord JOHN is
quite Lord JOHN again. Lord JOHN in office we
mean, not his Lordship of Perth and of Chesham-
place. The panegyrist of Democracy at Perth is
the cold Whig aristocrat again ; while endea-
vouring to make the best for him of his declama-
tion there, we could but hint our apprehensions
alaver
that it was mere out-of-office cant and p.
It seems our fears were but too well founded.
At Chesham-Place again we were assured
not merely by report, but by sincerely Liberal
Members who were present, that he gave them
distinct encouragement to expect, if they would
only put him on the Treasury Benches again, a
much better Reform Bill than the last. Yet, the
Noble Lord complains that Reformers must have
laboured under a misapprehension ! He wonders
how such an erroneous impression could get
abroad as that be ever intended any advance upon
Now
his contemptible propositions of last spring.
this is too bad. No such impression could have
for Lord JOHN'S own office-
got abroad but
biddings at Chesham-place, and his after-dinner
oratory, in accordance with it at Perth. No one
could have imagined any advance towards Repre-
sentative Reform from Lord JOHN. He once
swore allegiance to "finality" in words, and
although he has for some time been ashamed of
the word, he has been as faithful as possible to
He made by the Reform
the spirit of his oath.
Bill a diyision, final to his mind, of the propor-
tions of iepresentation. He avowed that he gave
designedly the predominance to the Landed Inte-
otedr
rest. He gave them in many cases double the
number of County Members—he gave them agri-
cvidetteursralbyborwohuogihessaleo_f
htewogavoer
titihemreethheupn
to coerce, to bribe the voters ; and these