The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-05 00:00:00

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gi of prophecy. Particularly when it is remem-
bers t the same time that portions of both the
French nd English fleets are there off Gaeta,
keeping open for the pro tem. KING "of the same,"
or, as the' Scotch would say, "of that ilk"—keeping
open there at Gaeta for Fr..ANcis 11. and his col-
lapsing Court "the maritime communications !"
Certainly the young KING, or rather ex-KING, has
just now Every possible inducement to withdraw
altogether from the soil of his late dominions. There
are the Western Allies with their ships of war
politely keeping the " coast clear" at one particular
point (first in front of him) to enable his ex-
Majesty to sneak away at the last opportunity,
when he may find it (as he probably will before he
is many days older) just a little more perhaps than
merely convenient to do so Moreover—behind him
—there are the Piedmontese and the Garibaldians
pushing him rather urgently forward in precisely
the same direction. General SONNAZ, meanwhile
looking down in the most unpleasant way imagi-
nable from the heights "commanding" Gaeta—
that last retreat of the expiring Bourbon Sove-
reignty.

From the capital of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies
moreover comes resounding—through the pecans of
the Piedmontian Conquerors on the Garigliauo_
the almost more terrible and certainly more
decisive sound of doom to the cause of FRANCIS
11., the announcement of the result:of the plebiscite
For the annexations 1,310,266
Against it 10,012

It is in the midst of that great announcement,
and in the midst too of the re••echoing shouts of
victory from beyond the banks of the Garigliano
that the Soldier-King of Italy, VICTOR EMMANUEL
the galantuomo, was to make his triumphal entrance
into the Southern capital of his new Kingdom yes-
terday!

Everything—so far—is certainly auspicious for
the interests of Italian Unity. Italy giving good
auguries—so far—of freeing herself (to adopt the
phrase of the famous Milan Proclamation) from the
Alps to the Adriatic, in spite of the temporary in-
terruption caused by the Imperial interview at
Villafranca ! Everything augurs well in this way,
saving only, as we all know, in two directions. At
Rome, where the French army has increased and
is increasing. At, Venetia, where the Austrian
forces, in the same manner, have been long and
rapidly, and still are concentrating. Else-
where—ltaly is already One and United. Those
two difficulties in the complete working out
of the problem yet remain for solution. The
solution of neither, we console ourselves
with thinking, (and really believing) by no means
whatever involves the necessity for further blood-
shed. So much has been accomplished already ita
Italy by the Italians towards the securing of their
own political emancipation, that Now the period
seems to have arrived when Europe might step in
effectively for the solution by purely moral agencies,
and without further:bloodshed, of the only two re-
maining difficulties—the one at Rome—the other
in Venetia and the Quadrilateral.

England looks at this moment to her Govern•
ment for the discharge of a great and solemn duty
—a duty devolved now by death upon that collec-
tive representative of all freeborn and patriotic
Englishmen—the Government.
England looks now to her Ministers, to the Cabi-
net of Lord PALMERSTON—and expects from them
the payment (in the name of England) of a debt of
gratitude—alas one only too tardy, but for that
very reason all the more heavily pressing upon the
national conscience—the payment of a debt of
gratitude and of a tribute of homage and admiration
upon the tomb of one of the noblest heroes that ever
drew battle-blade in the name of England, upon
the grave of that glorious old Sailor-Earl now
lying dead at Kensington—Lord DUNDONALD !

It will be a disgrace to this country if the
remains of this great man—so infamously treated
in the early part of his historic and truly wonder-
ful career—it will be an eternal disgrace to this
country if the remains of this great man are not
buried at the expense of the nation, and buried too
with all befitting pomp in one or other of the na-
tional mausoleums;either in Westminster Abbey or
in St. Paul's Cathedral.

How Lord COCHRANE, the famous COCHRANE, the
boast of our own navy and the terror of all the
other navies of the world with whom we were at
war during the days of NAPOLEON the Great, and,
before that, during the earlier days of the first
French Revolution—how Lord COCHRANE was
treated during his lifetime in return for his ma: 1y
resplendent achievements, we related in these
columns on Friday evening in words of burn-
ing indignation. It remains now to be
added to all that we then wrote that it is
only by too painfully appropriate a sequel that this
grand old Sailor-Earl was left by his country to
die the:other day—almost penniless—in his house
at Kensington ! England, in his regard, has, at
least, a posthumous expiation to make—by accord-
ing to his inanimate dust a sepulture in some
degree worthy of one of the most dauntless heroes
that ever fought under the banner of England for
the honour and glory of the old fatherland.

Since writing the above we are given to under-
stand that what we suggested on :r2riday shouldlA
done is really going to be done•—that the remains
of the glorious Earl of DuNr,oNALD are ton Wed-
nesday next) to be fleko6itcd in their final resting
place in Westminster iabey !
Let us hope that the funeral will be entirely at
the expense of the nation, and that it will be con-
ducted with all befitting pomp and ceremonial,
with all the funereal e'idences of: respect due to tine
memory of the dauntless Dur,torTALD.

The Register-Gen er.al's last Quarterly Return
ending on the 30th of September, comprises within
it some very surrt,rising particulars. Altogether, its
Purport oftuu:dt but be regarded as satisfactory. It
demonstrc,tes by a series of the most gratifying
facts--facts brought to view through the medium
r.sf tb,e:most reliable statistics—that, in spite of the
almost unexampled humidity of the late summer
and autumn season, the sanitary condition of the
country has evidenced, by comparison with the
corresponding quarter of the preceding twelve.
month, an appreciable improvement.

Within the 92 days of July, August, and Sep.
tember, 1860, 164,082 children were born and
registered-86,423 persons having within the same
interval died, according to the books of registra-
tion. So that the increase of population within the
ea
quarter has been at the rate, in England and Wales
alone,
deaths of abs
beingoutB44 daily. The excess of births
over
77,639! Yet, strange to tell,
upon comparing the return of births for the last
quarter of 1860 with those for the corre-
sponding quarter of the previous twelvemonth,
it is actually noticeable that the number of
births is less in the former than in the
latter ! The considerable increase of the popula.
tion already noticed as having taken place, never-
theless, is consequently attributable in a great men.
sure to the increased salubrity of the past season—
the deaths in July, August, and September, 1839,
having been more by 17,916 than the deaths
Da the name quarter of 1860—the latter haying