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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINi24, NOVEMBER 14, 1860.

therefore, weak. And it is for her interest, if
France is the better for being in a position to domi-
neer over small adjacent States. Now that the
Italians have succeeded thus far, they have one
French danger to prevent, another to get rid of ;
and both will be most easily dealt with by a mani-
festation of real strength. They have to veto, by
anticipation, any further demand for cession. If
the addition of a few millions in the north of
Italy was a reason for robbing her of Savoy and
Nice, what will not the Naboth of the Tuilleries
demand, if he dare, now that double the number
have annexed themselves and their country to the
Government and territory of the same monarch.
Nothing but the military strength of renovated
Italy will prevent Louis NAPOLEON from demanding
another slice of territory to compensate France for not
being able to dictate at pleasure her will to the
new kingdom. Count CAVoUR, indeed, himself re-
presented the union of 22,000,000 of Italians as the
best guarantee against further cessions, thereby
shaming the French EMPEROR, could he know
shame, with the implication that he had extorted
the former cessions by brute force.
And then the Italians have the Quadrilateral
and Rome to deal with. The expensive means of an
immense army will be their best reliance in each
case. If Austria means to fight for Venetia, which
ought to be the meaning of her present measures
there, then, of course, a vast army will be the only
means of expelling her. If she knows by this time
that she must condescend to take money instead of
blood, she would certainly accept more favourable
pecuniary terms from a power which could coerce,
than from one whom she might hope to
conquer, and on whom she might flatter her-
self she could impose her own terms. But what
of Rome ? Why there, also, the strong will be
most respected. At present the French may feel
pretty sure that the Italians would not attack
those whose blood had been so largely shed for the
purchase of their liberties ; besides the immense
difference of the military force of the two countries.
Bat Louis NAPOLEON must know that this cannot
last for ever; and that if Italy became strong in
the military sense, the pride of its inhabitants
would not long tolerate the occupation of its capital
even by a neighbour tai whom they are so much in-
debted. The Italians will be wise, therefore, to
follow their great general's advice. They ought
to spare no cost to take a first rate military
position. Their liberties are worth the outlay.
Sacrifices now will be a saving hereafter. A strong
Italy will be a blessing to herself, and a blessing
to all the nationalities of Europe.

We are sure to find Lord STANLEY heartily en-
couraging any voluntary movement. A young Con-
servative Lord, who could plead for the abolition of
Church-rates, on the ground that it would train the
Church of the Aristocracy to habits of self-support,
encountering for this a severe rebuke from the
Whig Lord of Reform Bill notoriety, might well
be expected to go heart and soul with the Volun-
teer movement. Most ably did he represent his
invalid father in the review at Knowsley Park;
but on Monday he appeared in his owu behalf,
advocating the formation of a county association
for the encouragement of good rifle-shooting by
annual matches to be held within the county. On
the same occasion the prizes were distributed to the
successful candidates at the recent contest at
Hightown.

He observed, and with good reason, that much
as we are disposed to magnify the importance of
present events, history will regard the spontaneous
arming of themselves by the people this year as one
of its most remarkable facts. And history will
also read it aright, for it will be seen that the oc-
casion was furnished by our neighbour across the
water, although his policy did but awaken us to
the perception of a want which had long existed.
We needed something which should prove to all
Europe that we were not inferior in martial feel-
ing to Frenchmen, Austrians, and Prussians ; and
they have got the proof with a witness. They
all now see not only our taste for the manly
acquirement of military discipline and skill, but
they see an aptness for it, and an enthusiasm for
it which leaves at a vast distance the unwilling
conscripts whom continental governments strip of
their peasants rags, and put into uniform at the cost
of the State. Lord STANLEY most truly observes
that politically this movement has done more than
any augmentation of the army by the Government
could have done; because it is undeniable proof of
the temper of the people. No foreign potentate
would dream now of the possibility of successful in-
vasion, and even fire-eating journalists and colonels
abroad are so cowed, that we do not remember a
hint about sacking London since the Hyde Park
Review.

Financially--the movement has been a great
gain. If, as Lord STANLEY observes, we cannot
dispense with a large regular army, we can dispense
with augmenting it. Our rulers, but for the success
of the Volunteers, would certainly have asked us
for more soldiers and for more money to pay for
them. We may thank Volunteers that Mr. GLAD-
STONE did not screw up his Income-tax to the
shilling on which he looked so wistfully. Nor are
the subsidiary, social, and sanitary effects of the
military exercises to be overlooked. It is some-
thing that the different ranks of society should
be brought into what we may term "comrade"
terms of association. Much of the undesirable
sentiment which grows up between classes who
know nothing of each other will vanish under the
friendly intercourse of the:Rifle Corps. So far as they
are composed of young men from the counter and
desk, and other pursuits of a sedentary character,
or which do nothing to develop the human frame,
the training and exercises must also be of great
value. We believe we can note the effect on the
gait and bearing of numbers of young men whom
we meet, and cannot doubt that their lives are better
worth insuring than they were before; not to speak
of their manlier tastes.

Lord STANLEY is rather fond of a paradox, and
here is one. Having remarked on the tendency of
the movement in favour of Europe and peace, he
went on :—" It is not merely in the sense in which
that expression is often used—because it has a
tendency to deter other nations from attacking us—
but it is so likewise because it has a tendency to
render us less willing to engage in quarrels with
other countries. That may appear at first
sight a paradox, but I can explain in a very
few words what I mean. I believe that
whenever a cry for war spreads through
this country—we have known such before
and may possibly hear them again—•one of the
motives which most powerfully influeners the public
in favour of war is an uncomfortable sus oicion that ,
people abroad believe that England is not prepared
to enter into a war, and a still more uncomfortable
suspicion that in that belief it is possible that the
people may be right. It is in the body corporate
as in the physical frame, weakness and irritability.
go together. It is with nations as with individuals.
Those who are strong, and know themselves to le
so, can afford to be good humoured and forbearing,
and to pass over petty annoyances and strife, and
it is those who are distrustful of t heir own position
who are distrustful of the opinion formed of them
by others, who, in order to vindicate that doubtful

position, are always ready to rush into a quaiwel at

a moment's notice."
In conclusion, his Lordship adverted to the 'im-
portance of so regulating their prize system, 'that
it should not merely create five or six crack shots
in Lancashire, but furnish 600 of the best shots in
England. This is important, doubtless. The
tendency of some modes of competition, like that at
public schools, is to develope extraordinary ability
in a few, but to leave the great body—the " pol"
—with very inferior attainments. This has been
noticed before as an incident to prize shooting,
which should be guarded against, since clearly a
regiment, the greater part of whom were only good
shots, would be more effective than one of which
the mass of the men were below par, although
they might have among them a few who distanced
all competition.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE

EARL OF DUNDONALD, G.C.8., &c., &c.

This day, at one o'clock, the mortal remains of one of
the greatest of British heroes were consigned to their last
resting-place in Westminster Abbey, and Admiral Thomas
Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald, now sleeps beneath the
nave along which monarchs have walked to receive their
crowns, and no future King or Queen may pass to the
ceremony of Coronation without stepping on the stone
which marks the grave of one of the bravest of the
brave—of one of the greatest naval geniuses, whose
glorious deeds will shine resplendently in the annals
of his country as long as Europe has a history. In
the peaceful quiet of his English home, this illustrious
captain, whose name was the terror of the enemy's coasts,
and a legend in every sea from the sunrise to the sunset,
when as yet our grandfathers were boys, sank at last into
wellwon repose. From his boyhood he pursued death and
glory with all the eager passion of a lover. Tho flag of his
country was his lodestar, and, by day and night, through
battle and tempest, through the iron hail of the enemy's
guns, he watched over its stainless glory with unsleeping
jealousy and insatiable devotion. The name of Cochrane
must ever be a living and speaking memory and tradition
in the noblest national service in the world.
To render honour to such a hero one would have
thought the Government would have readily awarded
a public funeral to mark the estimation in which the
governing power of the country held the brave old Sea
Sling, but the spirits of routine and red tape prevailed, and
the remains of the old Admiral were left to his friends and
relatives for burial, because it was said no power existed to
order the paynzent of the necessary funds. But the result
of such a mean expedient was triumphant. Without the
aid of Government, an honour as noble as it was spon-
taneous was paid to the illustrious dead by an admiring
public, and a funeral marked by more simple magnificence
has never taken place.
At eleven o'clock the body of the deceased peer was re-
moyed from his residence at Kensington. The inner coffin
was of old English oak, lined with white satin, and was
enclosed in a leaden coffin. The outer coffin was covered
with superfine black cloth, having eight massive gilt
handles, and a coronet over each with Gothic nails. The
coffin lid was in three compartments : the upper compart-
ment had a coronet, the second contained the inscription
plate, and the third contained the order of the Bath. The
inscription was as follows :
The Right Honourable
Trouts,
Earl of DUNISONALD,
G.C.8.,
Rear-Admiral of the 'United Kingdom.
Born 14th of December, 1775.
Died 31st of October, 1860.

The procession, which was formed, consisted of the usual
feathers, the coronet and cushion of the noble lord carried on
horseback, the hearse drawn by six black horses, with three
mourning coaches, containing Thomas Barnes, Lord Cock •
rane (now Earl of Dundonald), the eldest son of the de-
ceased ; the Hon. Horace Bernardo William Cochrane, the
second son; Captain the Hon. Arthur Auckland Leopold
Pedro Cochrane, R.N., the third son; the Hon. Ernest
Grey Lambton Cochrane, Lieutenant R.N., the fourth son;
Mr. W. A. Mackinnon, M.P., Mr. J. W. Fleming, Mr. G.
Smith, Mr. F. Smith, and other friends and relatives.
These were followed by carriages containing the late peer's
servants, and the carriages of a large number of the nobi-
lity and gentry. The procession moved along the Ken-
sington-road, through Knightsbridge to Hyde •park-corner,
Great George-street to the Abbey. Here the coffin contain.
fug the body of the deceased was received by the friends
who had assembled in the Jerusalem Chamber, at the
south-western corner of the Abbey.
The gathering within the Abbey of admirers and brothers
in arms was immense. The side aisles were separated from
the nave by temporary railings, and behind these were
massed the principal portion of the spectators. The seats
in the choir were occupied by ladies, all of whom were ha-
bited in deep mourning. Not only was the nave crowded,
but the lofty clerestories in the organ loft, the screen, and
every place which could afford a view of the proceedings
were filled with spectators.
Shortly before one o'clock a procession of vergers, cho-
risters, and officers of the Abbey proceeded to the western
door to receive the corpse and accompany it to the choir.
-The procession walked slowly along the nave towards the
choir ; the singing boys carried their music paper in black
scarfs, the choristers wore black silk over their white gowns,
and the High Bailiff of Westminster had his silver staff
and ineignia of office covered with black crape. The funeral
cortege then moved into the body of the Abbey in the fol-
lowing order.

The Abbey Beadle.
Twelve Beadsmen in the gowns.
The High Constable of Westminster.
Sixteen Choristers, two and two.
Fourteen Vicars Choral.
Two Minor Canons.
The Precentor :
Rev. J. Clarke Haden.
Three Canons.
• The Dean's Verger.

The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster (Dr. Trench),
supported by the Chapter Clerk and Receiver,
Mr. Bedford and Mr. Marsh.
THE BODY,

Covered with a black velvet pail, supported by six pall-

bearers.
Chief Mourners, Relatives, and Friends.

Immediately upon the entrance of the body within the
Abbey the organ pealed out, and the choristers sang the
words, "I am the Resurrection and the Life, which have
been so beautifully set by Purcell. By the time this was
finished the choir was reached, and the coffin was placed
under the screen, while a portion of the Burial Service was
read and chanted. The Psalm was the 90th, " Lord, thou
Nast been our dwelling-place in all generations." It was
chanted with unusual effect by the choir. Then followed
the Lesson, from Corinthians, chap. xv., "Now is Christ
risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that
Bleep." The lesson was followed by Handel's funeral
anthem, " When the car heard him, it blessed him ; and
when the eye saw him, it gave witness of him." The ex-
pressive music of this delicious anthem was sung to per -
fection, and not a note was lost in the spacious building.
The service in the choir having been concluded, the pro-
cession re-formed, and proceeded to the grave, which is
close to that of the late Robert Stephenson, M.P.
Chanters and vergers, and deans, and canons, arranged
themselves on the west side, or head of tin grave, while on
the sides and foot were grouped the large body of mourners.
The impressive language of the Service for the Dead was
then proceeded with. The anthem of Purcell's, " Man
that is born of Woman" was sung, and the coffin was
lowered by the ropes into the grave, and the reve-
rend Dean, with a voice distinct and clear, heard over
the suppressed sobbings of the mourners, consigned
" ashes to ashes, and dust to dust." Before the last echo
had died away in the cloistered pile, the organ again pealed
through the sacred edifice, and the choristers sang Handel's
Funeral Anthem, composed for one of our Georgian
Queens, the words being altered to suit the occasion.
"His body is buried in peace,
But his name liveth for evermore."

To the music of this anthem one might apply, without
exaggeration, the description that it is "fit for martyrs to
play and for angels to hear."
Then followed the " Benediction," and the mournful
procession passed away from the grave as Dr. Turle played
" The Dead March in Saul." The spectators of the ser-
vice, hitherto kept back to the side aisles, pressed forward
to the grave to take, with the mourners, a last look at the
coffin.

At the grave, amongst the crowd, we noticed Lord
Brougham, Sir Michael Seymour, Sir Augustus Clifford,
Vice-Chancellor Stuart, Sir T. Trowbridge, the Brazilian
and Chilian Ministers, &c.
Outside the abbey intense interest was displayed in the
proceedings by the crowds of persons who thronged the
approaches to the abbey and were assembled in the streets
through which the funeral corteye passed.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the
Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord John Rus-
sell, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset,
the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alder-
ley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, Sir George Grey, and
the Right Hon, Edward Cardwell.

T z. 4 ri
N E I Y S.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

RAGUSA, Nov. 13.
The French Consul, M. Hecquard, has been to
Cettigne.

The widow of Prince Danielo will proceed by
to-morrow's steamer, Liu Corfu, to Paris. She
will be accompanied byM.Hecquard and the Prince
as far as Scutari (Albania). Her daughter is ob-
liged to remain here.

TURIN, Nov. 13.
General Fanti has arrived here.
A Lieutenancy Council has been instituted. It
is composed as follows :
Vintimiglia lnterior.
Pisanelli Justice.
Scialojq.
Poerio
Baftletto .
De Vicenzi..
Several Councillors and Directors have also been
appointed.

Signor Deblasio has been appointed Prefect of
Police. Admiral Persano has been intrusted with
the management of the affairs of the Marine.

The electoral law of Sardinia has been promul-
gated for Naples.
A General Council has been established for the
organization of the Southern army. •
The departure of the King for Palermo has been
adjourned.

Preparations are being made for celebrating the
annexation of the Marches and Umbria.

MARSEILLES, Nov. 13.

Letters from Gaeta, dated Sunday last, state that
Francis 11. had rejected the proposal to evacuate
the town.

General Bosco had arrived and would take the
command of the troops, who still number 13,000
men. He relies on the strength of the fortress. A
Prussian General had arrived on a mission. A
Portuguese and two Spanish frigates had arrived
off Gaeta.

PARIS, NWT. 13.

The King of Siam has declared war against the
Emperor of Annam, who is now at war with France
and Spain.

MONTPELLIER, Nov. 13.

A serious accident has happened on the Southern
Railway. The country between Cette and Narbonne
in inundated.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY.

The report addressed by General de Lamoriciere
to Mgr. de Merode, Papal Minister of Arms, has
just been published. It is a document of great
length, occupying upwards of 16 columns of an
ordinary French journal, but contains little beyond
what has been already brought before the public
from different sources during the progress of the
events which are there recorded. The report,
which is dated Nov. 3, is divided into four parts.
The first explains the position of the Roman
States at the end of August and beginning of
September, the number and position of the Pon-
tifical troops, the invasion of the Piedmontese
bands, and the summons sent by General Fanti
to the Roman Government to send away the
foreigners whom it bad engaged :
" From the statements made, it appears
the numerical strength of the forces under
General Lamoriciere's command, amounted to
only 8,000 infantry, 500 artillery, and 300
cavalry. The ambulances of this army was com-
pcsed of only common carts ; and anything in the
shape of a waggon-train was absolutely wanting.
The General speaks of the defective manner in
which the men were armed, only one battalion
having Minie rifles, two others the common
rifle, and the remainder common muskets. The
artillery was equally defective, and the drivers
completely inexperienced. Nothing in the shape
of a reserve of artillery had been provided. The
General alludes to the formation of insurgent bands
on the frontiers of Tuscany and Romagna, and
to the information which he had received of
the intention of the Piedmontese troops to follow
these bands into the Papal States. He also states
that, in reply to a letter addressed to Cardinal
Antonelli on the subject, he had been informed
that Piedmont would oppose the invasion of the
Papal territory by those bands, and that he (the
General) would not be attacked by the Piedmon-
tese troops."
The second part contains a detail of the arrange-
ments made to meet the exigencies of the situation :
the movement of the Papal troops ; the capture by
the Piedmontese of the citadels of Pesaro, Peru-
gia, and Spoletto, and of the town of Orvieto;
the arrival of the Papal troops at Loretto, and
the removal of the treasury to Ancona. The
third part is filled with details of the arrival
of the brigade of General de Pimodan at Loretto ;
of the positions occupied by the enemy; of the
combat of Castelfidardo ; the march on Ancona and
the first operations of the Sardinian fleet against
that place. The fourth mentions the arrival of the
General at Ancona ; the state of that town and of
the garrison; the progress of the bombardment ; the
investing of the place by the Piedmontese troops;
the attack of the fleet, and the surrender of the
town. General de Lamoriciere, throughout his
repo: t, dwells strongly on the fact that he
felt himself perfectly secure on the side of the
Marches and of Umbria, and that he only cal-
culated that he should have to contend with
the forces of General Garibaldi. H© also alludes
to the incident, now completely cleared up, of the
despatch of the Duke de Gramont, in which Mgr.
de Merode erroneously announced to the General
that the French Government would oppose by force
the entrance of the Sardinian troops into the Papal
States, nothing of the kind having been ever said.
The long document concludes in these terms :
" I oonclude this report, which is already much
too long, by giving a word in reply to the re-
proaches which have been addressed to me for
having published, at the beginning of the war,
some documents which seemed to me to promise
the support of France. I feel no difficuity in ad-
mitting that at first I believed in that support,
and, consequently, it was very natural for me to
make use of those documents for the purpose of
maintaining the moral courage of the troops whom
I commanded. But people would deceive them-
selves greatly if they were to seek the explana-
tion of the plan of the campaign which I adopted
in the hope of a co-operation 'Ouch seemed to be
promised. I was placed in presence of a question
of duty and honour, and if I had taken into ac-
count, in my resolutions, the greatness of the peril
which might await us, my former companions in
arms of the French army would have disowned me."
BOURSE, Nov. 13.—The advance made by the
Bank of France in its rate of discount continues to
exercise a depressing influence on the market, and
the arrival of the English funds with lower quota-
tions tends to add to it. For the Account, Threes,
which commenced at 70f 15c, are now at 70f 74c;
Mob;lier, 755 f ; Orleans, 1,383 f 75c ; Northern,
987 f 60c; Mediterranean, 910 f ; Austrian, 512 f 50c;
Lombard, 490 f. The following are the last quota-