The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-25 00:00:00

PORTUGUESE BONDS.

At a meeting of the Committee of Bondholders held on Wed-
nesday at their chambers, the subjoined resolution was agre)zd to.
It is certainly high time that foreign nations should be com-
pelled to pay at least the interest of the capital sent from this
country to establish their independence and secure free insti-
tutions. Many of these bondholders have suffered great dis-
tress from the nefarious conduct of Governments that could pay
if they only chose to be honest :
Resolved,---That the Committee of the Portuguese Bond-
holders, as a new Parliament is about to be elected, do invite
the Committees of all Foreign Bondholders to join them in
calling a public meeting at the Mansion-House for the purpose
of passing resolutions to memorialize the new Parliament,
when assembled, to address her Majesty, praying that she
would take immediate measures for compelling all Foreign
States which have not fulfilled their engagements, to pay up
all arrears of interest due on their several obligations, and give
satisfactory tangible security •for the principal; and, further,
that an address be sent to the several candidates for seats in
the ensuing Parliament, calling upon them, if returned, to
support in the most decided manner the petition for justice to
the thousands of sufferers deprived of a capital amounting to
upwards of one hundred millions sterling.
Resolved,—That a Sub-Committee be appointed to draw up
the necessary resolutions, and to carry out fully the objects of
the foregoing resolutions.
Committee-room, Old Swan, June 23, 1841.

SINGULAR FUNERAL.,--A farm of about 180
I acres called Woolseys, near Duton Hill, Great Easton.
has for the last thirty years been in the occupation of
' Mr. Robert Joslin, and the property of Thomas Kearsey,
Esq., solicitor, formerly, of Bishopsgate-street, but late
of Bucklersbury, London, and Carshalton, Surrey. This
gentleman, who, although in some respects an eccentric
person, has left behind him the character of a kind-
hearted good landlord, and through life, a most chari-
table man, was Steward of the Courts of the4/tight Hon.
Lord Roden. About twenty years ago he projected,
for the purpose of receiving his own remains, a rural
cemetery on the above farm. In an arable enclosure
containing eight acres, called Cross Field, about a quar-
ter of a mile to the north of Woolseys, he caused a por-
tion to be parted off, forty rods long from outside to
outside of the ditches, and four broad, thus making an
exact acre. This was formed into a long flower garden,
having a row of oaks in a grass plot on either side, and a
gravel walk up the centre from end to end; exactly mid-
way in this garden was to be his last resting
.place, and a
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circle of yews were planted round the spot intended for
the grave. At the head and foot of this last stands a cypress
ofl.7ooll3astr-33i'ssba3t' lMars.
t Kearseyyear in the summer, and always took great delight and
himself. tree, raised
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interest in visiting this rural spot he had selected for his
burial, and in directing and suggesting alterations and im-
provements to be made in it. . About five years ago he
caused the grave to be sunk, which is thirteen feet deep,
and bricked all round to the thickness of fourteen inches;
and also about two years ago he caused a second or outer
circle of yews to be planted. The inner circle of :trees
have been carefully reared and trained to overshadow the
grave, and the whole will complete as it were an um-
brageous mausoleum. Imitative gothic arches have be-
gun to be formed, and will, .as the trees grow, be cut
out from the intertwining branches of the yews. Mr.
Kearsey died rather suddenly a.; his residence in Town
on the 4th instant, and immediately afterwards the most
active measures were taken, both by his widow and te-
nant, to fulfil to the letter what was known to be his
wish. It was his expressed wish, which wss implicitly
followed that no scarfs, hat-bands, or mourning gloves
should be used on the occasion. As many as five hun-
dred persons who could witness the proceedings by look-
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fortnight at least.
We learn from Tiverton that Mr. Charles Ross
has given up his canvaaihas.reti-ed from the contest, and has
left the town. The two sittiiTeilibers will therefore 12c
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turned unopposed.