The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-23 00:00:00

DISCOTERY OF SAXON GRAVES.

A discovery of considerable interest, throw-
ing much light upon the funeral rites of our
Saxon ancestors previous to their conversion to
Christianity, was accidentally made during the
past week in the garden attached to the resi-
dence of Mr. Charles Carill Worsley, at Winster,
Derbyshire. While lowering a bank of earth for
the purpout of making some improvements in the
pleasute ground the labourers uncovered two
gra,:es at the depth of upwards of four feet from
ttie present surface, each containing a human eke-
' leton, lying on its right side with the knees drawn
up and the head pointing towards tne north-east.
A careful examination of the place and the objects
there discovered affordsevidence of the intermen is
having been made in the following manner :—A wood
fire was in the first place lighted on theground, in or
around which some large stones were put so as to be-
come calcined ; this being burnt out, the place it oc-
cupied was cleared for the reception of the body,
which was then deposited in the position before
mentioned, along with the implements and weapons
of the deceased. The calcined stones were next piled
carefully over the corpse, and finally earth was
heaped up above the whole, probably while the
ground was still warm. The first skeleton was
accompanied by a small spear-head or knife of iron, I
much corroded, and the lower stone of a hand-
mill,
anciently used in every household for grind-
ing corn ; the latter had passed the fire. With
the second interment was found the upper stone
of the same mill, very neatly wrought in sandstone,
but split to pieces by the great heat to which it had
been exposed. Some pieces of a very coars3 vessel
of plain earthenware were found near the head
of this skeleton, and behind it lay a large spear-
head of iron, 2 feet 10 inches long, a curved instru-
ment of the same metal, five inches, originally
fixed in a wooden handle, the bone ferule of which
still remains, and a ring-like head or decoration of
light-coloured porcelain, about one inch and a-half,
in diameter, The whole of the articles exhumed
from these graves (which may be assigned to the
Teutonic or iron period, including the time from
the end of the fifth to the eighth entury, A.D.),
by the kind permission of, Mr. C. Carill Worsley,
have been deposited in Mr. Bateman's museum of
antiquities, at Lomberdale-house.

EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.--LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.—
The owners of the White Star line of Australian Packets
(Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson) despatched their fine
new clipper Merrie England, Captain Kelly, to Mel-
bourne, yesterday afternoon, with 280 passengers, and
about 900 tons of valuable cargo on board, and to.da)
the splendid clipper Star of toe East, under the com-
mand of Captain Gaggs, sails for the same port this
afternoon, also under the White Star flag, with above
300 passengers and about 1,000 tons of cargo.
Mr. Smith O'Brien, in a letter to the Nation, contra
dicta the statement that the massive gold cup which was
presented to him by the Irish and others in Australia,
and which is now in Belgium, whither it was transmitted
to him after his return to Europe, has been suffered to
remain there because he declined to pay a duty charge-
able upon it on its removal from the Belgian territory.
MILFORD-HAVEN AND WATERFORD.—Since the re-
cent establishment of the steam transit between these
ports in connection with the South Wales Railway, the
importations of cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry, bacon, but-
ter, &c.' have been very important, and now that pas-
sengers from London reach Ireland in one day by this
route, the amount of passenger traffic is largely extend-
ing. Additional steamers are at once to be put on, the
two already plying being quite inadequate to the de-
mands. The works at the Neyland terminus are rapidly
progressing, and the pier completing with much de-
spatch.
SALE OF LITERARY PROPERTY. —On Monday Mr,
Lewis, at his auction rooms, Fleet-street, concluded the
sale, by public auction, of the seventh portion of the
literary property of the late Mr. Pickering, when the
copyrights of the following works were sold at the price
affixed to each :—Physical Theory of Another Life, the
copyright 511. 9s. ; Dyce's Edition of the Dramatic
Works of Green, Marlow, Peel, and Webster, 12 vols.,
the copyright 1151. ; Herbert's Works, the copyright of
notes, &c., 611. ; Holbein's Dance of Death by Douce,
and Holbein's Bible Illustrations by Dibdin, the copy-
right and woodcuts 68/. ; Montague's edition of Lord
B.Ncion's Works, 17 vole., the copyright and engraved
copperplates 101. ; Mitford's edition of Milton's Works,
8 vole., one half share of copyright in the life, &c., 241. ;
Dibdin's Library Companion, the copyright 61. 63.

A letter received from Berlin of the 19th announces
the arrival in that city of General de Kisseleff, the Rus-
sian ambassador at Paris. It says also that the Grand
Duchess Constantine of Russia intends to leave St.
Petersburg on the 20th to make a tour in part of Ger.
many.

The Diamond returned to Corfu on the 2d, having
been absent five weeks in the Gulf of Corinth with the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Isles, his lady,
and suite, to visit the interesting places on the borders
of the gulf.
THE CHARGE AGAINST STOWELL.—Yesterday at the
Surrey Sessions true bills were returned by the Grand
Jury against Stowell the informer, and was called upon
to plead in the usual way. Ashe did not answer to his
recognisances, they were entreated, and returned by the
Clerk of the Peace to the Sheriff.

CRIME IN WlLTS.—Notwithstanding that there has
been a great increase in the population during the past
15 years, there has been a very great diminution in the
number of offences committed. The total of offences in
1841 was 1,133, cost to the county, 4,3421. ls. Bd. In
1856, 601 ; cost to the country, 2,4741. 15s. 4d.—
Wilts Standard.
THE RIGHT MAN.—The man who was "struck with
astonishment," without resisting it, has been sent to the
next peace convention.