The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-14 00:00:00

Content in the meantime with the knowledge, a
knowledge now perfectly assured to us by the de-
spatches printed last night in the Lo;don Gazette,
the certain knowledge that the pen has been long
since flung aside indignantly by Lord ELGIN at
Tien-tsin, and that the sword has been again drawn
in earnest by Sir HOPE GRANT, then (when our
last advices left) at the head of his troops, in a fair
way to lead them shortly up to the very walls of
the Chinese capital.
A little while longer now and we shall, in
all human probability, learn that the Allies
are fully in possession of Pekin, and that
then and there only, as we anticipated, and
as we insisted in plain words from the
very outset, the terms of a satisfactory,
because resolute and conclusive Treaty, may be
dictated to the faineant Chinese EMPEROR and his
efl'ete Government. Humanity even dictates alone
this bold and determined course. Half measures
we have already tried with these Chinese just a

trifle more than once too often. With what result
upon the last occasion is only, alas, too painfully
borne in remembrance at this time beside many an
English hearth, where surviving relatives yet
mourn the loss or the life-long anguish of

those four hundred gallant tars treacherously
maimed or murdered by that infamous am-
buscade, prepared with such devilish art and
deliberation for the reception of our peaceful
ambassador ! Remembeiwg that one deplorable
event alone, we have felt from the first,
we have insisted again and again, from the
time of the fitting out of this expedition
of ours against the Chinese, that one result,
and one result only, could prove in any way really
and expeditiously effectual—that result being, of
course, nothing less than the capture of Pekin
itself, and the dictation at Pekin, and nowhere else,
of the final terms of the pacification. Reading
these last despatches of Lord ELGIN, we can, hap-
pily, exult in the conviction that, still to the last,
the noble Earl is there as the Right Man in the
Right Place, that he yet fully realises the full
weight of the responsibilities devolving upon him
as the British Plenipotentiary entrusted with the
no doubt difficult and delicate task of wringing an
expiation from the treacherous and flagitious Go-
vernment of the Chinese, and of placing our relations
at length with that Gevernment, for once and for all,
upon solid and secure foundations. Their Excel-
lencies the Imperial Commissioners, KWEILIANG,
HANG-FUII, and lIANGKI had—we know now—by
the Bth of September, been distinctly informed by
Lord ELGIN that " for the present" (that is, until
the allied army should have advanced just a little
nearer Pekin !) there was an end to negotiations.
Wherever those negotiations shall afterwards have
been resumed—whether in close proximity to the ca•
pital or better still within the walls of the Imperial
city itself—we may rest assured that Lord ELGIN will
not allow himself any longer to be trifled with, but
that the Treaty he may negotiate eventually, will
be one worthy of his signature, and that the indem-
nities he may demand will be worth while ship-
ping to this country, and dragging in waggon-
loads of silver to be poured into the coffers of the
Bank of England.

GARIBALDI has retired, but with a demand on

Italy for a loan in the Spring. A million soldiers,
and the requisite equipments for war, is what he
asks. The literal number may be somewhat
chimerical, but what he intends certainly is not.
The Italians have yet two serious tasks on hand,
in both of which they can succeed only by showing
themselves strong, although their very doing so
may preclude the necessity of their employing their
strength. The cost pecuniarily, and in the abstrac-
tion of men from pursuits of industry, will be heavy,
but the money will be well spent. It will save
I much heavier expense, and better still, it
spill
secure their new-born liberties from risk.
The French EMPEROR has to be dealt with.ave
He is their very jealous friend. They h
preferred union to confederation—preferred, that
is, strength to weakness. Louis NAPOLEON has
published to all the world his opinion that it is for
the interest of France to have Italy divided, and,

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
dispensewith alarge 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 t•D 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 n ambers of young men whom
we meet, and cannot dombt 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
he movement in favour of Europe and peace, he
" It is not znerely in the sense in which

went on :—'

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 influences the public
in favour of war is an uaeomfortable suspicion 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. Jt 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 distrn stful of their own position
who are distrustful of tt to opinion formed of them
by others, who, in order 4o vindicate that doubtful

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 a'horeas Barnes, Lord Coch •
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-
ing 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 insignia 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.
Tho 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 pall, supported by six pal:

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
hast been our dwelling-place in all generations." It was
chafed 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
sleep." The lesson was followed by Handel's funeral
anthem, " When the ear 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 the 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 rummers, 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. Turk 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 cortege 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 HOD, gdwaid Cardwell.