The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-09 00:00:00

baneful efforts of those who offer injudicious ad-
vice to their beloved SOVEREIGN. A coastitutianal
opportunity must ere long be afforded. A general
Election must take place, when the battle of
the Constitution will be fought at the hustings.
As, in the United States, the rival principles of
Freedom and Slavery are at issue, so, in this
country, will the questions of Anglicanism and
Germanism be brought into conflict, and should
the present system be persevered in much longer,
no compromise can be effected. It will be a battle
cL l'outrance between the parties.

are not manifesto .d on the side of Liberal-
ism, and each suci seeding Parliamentary session
testifies to a desire in sorue quarters to approxi-
mate,d however slow ly and distantly, to the conti-
nental model. TllO scandalous preference shown
to the German J 2 igers in our service ought not
to be forgotten, n.or the repeated visits of the
Brummagem
of U
.SSES of Belgium. In conclusion,
the
moral thLeY, whole affair offers the best coun-
coun-
sel that can be advanced. Despotism and Con-
stitutionalism are antagonistic, and if it is not
safe for the dept to be neighboured by freemen,
freemen should. be on the watch against the de-
sg lesPot.. More—if despotism must
havein aofp:ollQ f
paf;anda,, Constitutionalism need not be
blamed if it establishes a propaganda too !

It is a favourite argument with septuagenarian
politicians whenever their own views are for the
time being overruled that the days of the Consti-
tution are numbered. The decadence of the
national power is fearlessly predicted, inasmuch
as they are well aware that they cannot under
any circumstances be taunted with the failure of
their gloomy vaticinatious. Should they even
survive to witness the result, the respect due to
grey, or, rather, white locks, would prevent any
personal application. General Cass, who is now
rapidly approaching the completion of his fif-
teenth hutrum, has acted on this principle. As a
true descendant of NESTOR, he has indulged in :A
heap of prosaic twaddle on the difference between
the Senate and the House of Representatives at
Washington, but, wanting the wisdom of his pro-
totype, he has not called for any concession on
the part of his associates. On the contrary,
with youthful recklessness, he has counselled war
to the knife, and predicted even the " dissolution
of the Union " should the Northerns not yield at
once to the will of the Southern slaveowners—
even that Mr. Gas is prepared to brave rather
than to yield a single inch of the position assumed
by itis friends. He is not even satisfied with
maintaining the status que, but wishes to have the
brief period that remains for Mr. PIERCE'S occu-
pancy of the White House distinguished by a coup
d'etat in favour of the thorough-going slave-
owning Yankees of the South.
But which party to the contest could got on.
beat without the other, and which would trium-pli
in the long run, North or South. All former ex-
perience is in favour of the hardy Northerns, even
if entering on the contest on equal terms. But
would this be the case T Why, the South could
scarcely hold its own without Northern aid, if
left to its own reckless devices. The old Poet
tells us, " Iris ooncili' expers mole ruri,t stut ;'' and.
the principle holds good to the present hour.
The machine would fall by its own weight, al-
though independent of external force and aggres-
sion.

What is the Southern Power, to terrify the Free.-
goners? There are some 300,000 slave-owners, with
1,000,000 slaves—au majority of ten to one in
favour of the " coloured" population, who, the
moment the matter was left to themselves, would
not fail to discover and make full use of the
golden opportunity. There night be a black
Republic or a sable Empire, but a white one
would not long exist without help from the North.
On the other side there are 25,000,000 of free
men exempted from that terrible stain that must
paralyse the arms of those who seek to hold their
fellow-men in captivity. Supposing that the
slaves were even to remain neutral in such a
contest there would be a majority of at least fifty
to one in favour of the North. What then could the
Southerns do ? Let the true conditions of the
conflict predicted, and we may add pro-
voked, by Mr. Ciss
.be only considered,
and it will be seen that those who are
so insolently threatened have nothing to fear,
while the bullying party have everything to dread
from the collision. Let the North become con-
scious of its true power, and the South will not
attempt a domination only practicable over a de-
based and fallen race.

The announcement contained in a despatch
which will be found in our foreign news, to the
effect that the Emperor of the FRENCH has sent
General O'DONNELL the Grand Cross of the Legion
of Honour, will be regarded by our readers as
♦ery significant.
When the particulars of the coup d'etat in
Madrid reached this country the more far seeing
turned with instinctive suspicion towards France
to ascertain how the feat of Marshal O'DONNELL
was regarded by the Emperor, and that suspicion
was certainly not dissipated by tke news that an
army of observation was on tho way to the
Spanish frontier. Other circumstances contri-
buted to the uneasy feeling to which so flagrant
au attack on constitutional principles had given
rise. To these it is not necessary to refer ;
but it was not unfairly urged by those
who knew something of the p)licy of the
ruler of France, that, daring and unscrupu-
lous as the Spanish Marshal might be, it
was nevertheless improbable he would have so far
c)ramitted himself had he not been assured of the
sympathy, if not of the active support, of the
French Government. Subsequently the presence
of the Spanish Ambassador as a cherished guest
at the Imperial retreat left but little doubt as to
the part taken by NAPOLEON in the infamous
transaction ; and now that all doubt on this
head, is removed, we may justly recognise in
Louis NAPOLEON the chief assassin of Spanish
liberty.

Viscount P z‘ltf,orston, accompanied by her ladyship,
arrived at th (i Victoria Hotel, St. Leonard's•on-Sea, on
Thursday nig
went slit, from town, in order to enjoy the retire-
uiet marine retreat. His lordship will
remain
b q
,re about a month for the benefit of his health,
which ha s of late been slightly affected by the death of
ofthtf
his hrottaer, Sir Wm. Temple.
His is xcellency Senor Don Joaquim Francisco Pacheco,
the ',lowly-appointed ambassador from Spain to this
court, has arrived at Chapman's Hotel, 4, Cavendish.
square.

The 328,0001. of gold brought by the Kent was deli.
vered in London yesterday, but the whole is to be de.
',patched to Paris.

CLARA N'OVELLO.—The New fork Musical Retina
says Mada,.ne Clara Novello will probably visit America
in autumn.

Miss Catherine Hayes has arrived in Paris to enjoy a
season of repose after her unprecedentedly long journey-
ings in the Antipodes, the two Americas, and the East
Indies.
Mr. Henry Cook, late secretary to Captain Barlow,
of the South-Eastern Railway, has been appointed joint
secretary to the Whitelaaven Junction Railway, and of
the Whitehaven and 7,-furness Junction Railway.
The Smyrna Rail',eay has been conceded to Mr. Wil-
kins, the represen'cative of an English company. The
concession is for 50 years, with the permission to work
the coal Mine a. .on the line.
The cliPPrAsohip Lady Hodgkinson, from Shanghae,
is announced off Plymouth with a very valuable cargo
off silk arid tea—the former, 3,335 bales, is probably the
largest and most valuable shipment yet brought in ono
vessel, it alone being worth nearly 400,000/.
L&RSEILLES, Sept. 7.—The English steamer Carodoc,
Capt. Clavering, arrived this morning from Malta,
whence she sailed on the 4th inst. She drought the
Constantinople mails of the 28th ult.; 'which the French
mail steam packet Thabor was ':inable to carry further
than Malta, where she remai
E
to repair her machinery.
Tn NEW CANON OF Cur
ORCESTER.—On Tuesday
last the Rev. Gilbert F rankland Lewis was installed as
Canon of WorceetAr Cathedral. The usual oaths were
administered to the rev. gentleman by the Very Rev.
the Dean, in 4... tie Chapter-house, after which he took his
seat in one of the prebendal stalls during the afternoon
service. The new canon was to " read himself in" on
Sundal,e.—Birntingltant Gazette.
rne remains of Dr. Buckland, the late dean of West-
rr..inster, have been deposited in a most characteristic
resting place in the solid rock below Islip, The sock
was blasted and the body was interred in the cavity,
lined with Portland cement to keep out the water. Dean
Attenbury desired to be buried in Westminster Abbey,
as far from the kings as possible. Dean Buckland is
buried far enough from them.
His Grace the Duke of Buckingham, who has led a
retired life for many years past, owing to the difficulties
in wkioh he became plunged and the consequent sale of
his estates, has intimated his intention of appearing in
public again on Tuesday the 30th inst., on which occa-
sion his grace will preside at the annual dinner of the
Royal Bucks Agricultural Association, which will take
place at Buckingham.

WEST HARTLEPOOL CEMETERY.

TO THE EDITOR or THE SUN.

Sut,—My attention has been called to a paragraph,
headed " Where's the Bishop?" which appeared in The
Sun on Saturday last, and which, while professing to
give a true account of certain occurrences at the West
Hartlepool Cemetery on Sunday se'nnight, is at once so
garbled, so one-sided, and in many partioulars so wil-
fully untrue, that I shall rely upon your sense of justice
for the insertion of an accurate statement of what really
did take place on the occasion referred to. The narra-
tive which I now subjoin was drawn up by Mr. Ralph
Jackson, as chairman of the 'West Hartlepool Improve-
ment Commissioners, and its literal truthfulness being
guaranteed by the observation of several of the other
members of the Commission who were present, it was
ordered to be entered on the books as the official minute
of the proceeding :

DYCE SOMBRE 'e WILL.—In a return ordered by the
House of Lords, respecting the law expenses of the
East India Company in England, there is an item of
4,2491. 6s. ld. expended on the will of Dyce Sombre,
and another of 7,0001. advanced to the executors for
law expenses in support of the will, to be repaid,
subject to taxation, out of the estate. The fees to
counsel by the company in the last few years have
amounted to a very large sum.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday morning last a fatal
accident occurred at one of the Sheffield Coal Company's
pits at Birley Vale. Zt appeais that a man of the name
of Hugh Bach was at the mouth of the pit, letting down
some iron pipes for the watercourse, and by accident the
rope broke, and Bach was precipitated to the bottom.
The pipe struck a man named David Midgley, who was
stationed at the bottom, and knocked him into some
water, where he was in all probability suffocated. Baoh
was got out as speedily as possible, but he lies in a very
precarious state.--She, eld Pre. Press.
THE DUBLIN AND WICKLOW RAILWAY COMPANY.--
Mr. Dargan entertained the directors and several of
the shareholders in this company at Bray, on Saturday.
After the cloth was removed, Mr. Dargan proposed
" Prosperity to the Dublin and Wicklow Railway,"
and in the course of some observations spoke in the
most earnest manner of the prospects of success which
awaited the enterprise after having overcome all its
difficulties. The receipt of 15001. per week would en•
able the directors to pay all working expenses, wear
and tear, salaries of officers and servants, interest upon
loans, and the rent to the Dublin aad KingstOwn Rail-
way. Every 1001. received over and above that sum
would give 1 per cent. to each of their shareholders.
Great applause (says ktundes's News) followed this
plain and gratifying statement.
VANXIZALL GARDENS.—This old and well-known place
of public amusement, in which many generations have
spent many pleasant hours, was opened last night for a
few evenings previously to its final close, which will
take place at the end of the month, as the copybold of
the Royal property has been purchased by a gentleman
who is understood to be in no way connected with the
amusements for which tl is place has been for more than
200 years celebrated. The entertainments of last night
were fully equal to anything that has ever been provided
for the public. The ascent of Mr. Green's Great Nassau
Balloon, at a quarter before 7 o'clock was the commence-
ment of the sights of the evening. The ascent was mag-
nificent. The usual entertainments, consisting of horse-
manship in the Rotunda, in which the performance of
the equestrians was of the first class of excellence, were
followed by a brilliant display of fireworks. Several
thousand persons were assembled, and the festivities of
the evening were protracted till a late hour.
THE MINISTERIAL NON RECIPROCITY SYSTEIL —I have
no more interest in the architectural profession tha❑ with
the profits of any other class of her Majesty's subjects ;
but until her Majesty's Ministers are selected by compe-
tition from the best qualified of all other nations, I must
protest against foreign competitioa in designs or erection
of national buildings ; and I trust the British architects
will act upon their rights as British subjects. I need
scarcely add that the existing non-reciprocity system
connected with our commercial economy should be
promptly corrected, or John Bull will not have an ounce
of gold or silver left in his money chest.— Correspondent
of the Builder.
BATH BRlOKS.—Bridgewater is situated on the river
Parrot, about six miles from its mouth. It is an ancient
town, though most of the evidences have been removed,
and is peculiar as the only place in the kingdom where
the well known bricks for scouring purposes, known as
Bath bricks, are made. Why they have ,this name is not
known. It would seem that a mixture of sand from the
sea with the alluvial deposit of the river, is here formed
naturally, to the extent of about half a mile above the
town bridge, and half a mile below it. The works are
situated on the banks of the river, so that the sediment
is taken at once to them, and being dried and formed
into shape, is then burnt in kilns hard by. The manufac-
ture employs from 4,000 to 5,010 hands.—The Builder.
RAPID INCREASE OF THE GOLD DIGGINGS.—The gold
diggings are progressing most triumphantly. During the
two weeks the gold returns were by escort 37,661 oz.
and 47,757 oz. A lump of pure gold, weighin g 614
3 dwts., bad been found in the Back Creek, Tarradale.
Quartz crushing was rapidly progressing. The ship-
ments of gold from the 24th May to the 9th June were,
to England, 173,346 ozs. (including the Royal Charter);
to Calcutta, 14,701 oze. ; to Sydney, 2,557 cis.—Aus-
tralian and Non Zealand Gazette.

Memorandum of Occurrence at the West Hartlepool
Cemetery, on Sunday, the 31kt of August, 1856.
About 3 30 p.m. my son and I left my room at West
Hartlepool to walk to the cemetery. On our approach-
ing it we saw Mr. Burges and another person (whom I
did not know) walking quickly to it from another direc-
tion. Seeing us they hurried forward at a much quicker
pace, almost running, to get before us. Mr. Burges, on
arriving at the cemetery, it being then more than 20
minutes before the regulated time for funerals, entered
the room in the lodge, and before I reached it (which
was not half a minute after him) he had slipped on the
Town Commissioners' surplice and hood, and was com-
ing out of the door. I there met him, and at once closed
the door ; and, without touching him, stood with my
back against it, folding my arms across my chest. I
immediately handed to him the following notice, which
he at first refused to read :
" The Rev. John Hart Burges.
" The West Hartlepool Town Commissioners having
understood that, notwithstanding their order to you, it
is your intention to interfere to-day with the Rev. Mr.
Ridley in his performance of the burial service in their
cemetery on a funeral proceeding from his parish, have
attended here on this occasion for the purpose of calmly
remonstrating against your conduct, and of entreating
you not to provoke the very painful feelings which must
arise from your refusal to recognise their duty to take
care that no indecency shall occur at the grave side in
their cemetery. If you believe the Commissioners are
acting in contravention of any rights you may consider
belong to you, they beg to assure you that they are pre-
pared to unite with you in having the question decided
in a court of law in the most expeditious and reasonable
manner, and for that purpose request you will furnish
them with the name of your professional adviser, in
order to the adoption mutually of the proper proceedings.

" RA. WARD JACISON, Chairman.

"West Hartlepool Cemetery, 31st Aug., 1856."
I stated to Mr. Burges that the Commi-sioners (a depu-
tation of whom were attending at the time) bad presented
themselves at their cemetery, for the purpose of preserv-
ing peace and decorum, and to entreat him to avoid a
scene, and to abstain from interfering with Mr. Ridley,
who, as vicar of the parish, the Commissioners considered,
under all the present circumstances, to be the proper per-
son to perform the burial services in the cemetery. It was
evident Mr. Burgeshaii previously arranged with the man
whose child was to be buried to be at the cemetery before
the usual hour, 4 o'clock. On my closing the door, Mr.
Burges became extremely excited in the room, in which,
besides myself, were several persons. He called out, when
in the middle of the room and no one near him, "Murder"
twice—walked backwards and forwards hurriedly—first
to one window facing the east, then to another looking to
the west—nearly breaking the panes with the hard raps
he gave them, and calling out to the people to come and
rescue him. In fact, he worked himself up into a totally
unfit state to perform any such solemn and religious
ceremony as he was contemplating. I repeatedly re-
quested him to take off the Commissioners' surplice and
hood, and told him he should leave the room the
moment he did so. He as often refused, and I repeated
to him that, on Mr. Ridley's arrival at the proper time,
the question as to who would perform Ws ceremon) ps2ight
be arranged between them ; and that if he (Mr. Burger)
declined any arrangement, I should not allow him to go
out of the room, in order to prevent him from causing a
scene and confusion at the grave. He said that " Mr.
Blanshord would set all these matters right." On Mr.
Ridley's arrival (5 minutes before 4 o'clock) he came into
the room, and pat on the other Commissioners' surplice
and hood, and then went out with the sexton to perform
the ceremony. Mr. Ridley proceeded into the chapel,
and commenced reading the service. It was evident a
preconcerted arrangement had been made by Mr. Bar-
ges; for the father of the child to be interred rushed
into the chapel, where the coffin was, and violently laid
hold of it ; and, though remonstrated with by the actual
attendants of the funeral, he insisted upon taking the
coffin away. The man appeared considerably the worse
for liquor. Before he had proceeded five yards from the
chapel door, and when surrounded by the attendants of
the funeral, who were endeavouring to persuade him to
allow the ceremony to proceed, I went up to him, and
asked him if it had been agreed between Mr. Burges and
him that Mr. Burges should bury his child. The man
said it had been. I immediately exclai ned, "Under
these circumstances, then, Mr. Burges shall perform the
ceremony." I instantly returned into the chapel and
told Mr. Ridley of this. He at once came out, and
audibly addressed the man and the people—for a crowd
bad been got together—to the effect that, as he wished
Mr. Burges to perform the ceremony, he (Hr. Ridley)
would most readily allow him in this instance to do so.
Mr. Ridley accordingly requested Mr. Barges, who was
in the crowd, to take the funeral. Mr. Ridley, my son,
and I then left the cemetery.

RA. WARD JACKSON.

I would merely observe upon the above that the ac-
count which was printed in The San on Saturday had
been previously forwarded by Mr. I3urges himself to the
different local papers in this district, a circumstance
which to the minds of all people hereabouts sufficiently
accounts for the extraordinary exaggeration and disre-
gard of truth by which that statement is disfigured.—l
am, Sir, your obedient servant,

AN OBSERVER.

West Hartlepool, Sept. 8, 1:56.

SMELTING ORE.

Having attained his own present position by
means of a coup cretat, it is quite possible he
may entertain a penchant for this sort of
business, and having nothing to seize by
fraud and violence at home, must, per-
force look for its indulgence abroad. But
there, is a broader view of the matter, which
carries vastly more weight. Such interference is
a necessity of his position if ho is determined to
keep France in bondage—and from what is known
of his unscrupulous character, it is quite certain
he will let no opportunity slip, and hesitate at no
act likely to be attended with success to fortify
his position. Constitutional government in Spain,
alongside of absolutism in France, presented an
anomaly which it was not good for Frenchmen to
ponder over. So, like the sagacious despot he is,
his diplomatists and secret agents were set to
work—Spanish tools were easily found, and the
upshot was the catastrophe to which we have ad-
verted, and which every freeman iu Europe must
deplore.
Englishmen are more interested in this affair
than we are afraid is generally imagined. Bel-
gium menaced and coerced, and Spain prostrated
by the same agency, ought to convey a warning
to us. Thank IiEATEN we are sufficiently strong
to hurl back, in contemptnous defiance, any
threats against us, and to oppose an impregnable
open attempt at interference.
shield against every
There is, nevertheless, a danger against which we
will do well to guard. We have a weak side, and
that side is German. The Emperor knows it,
and, hating as he must do our constitu-
tional Government, and aware of the im-
possibility of subverting it by a dexterous
~:0112, de main, he is likely enough to have
recourse to the only means open to him, if we
have no O'DONNELL, or offer no prospect of suc-
cess to one, we have German cousins to be cajoled
with insidious counsel, if not coerced by indirect
menace. Already the tendencies iu high quarters

Ties PROGRESS OF VICTORIA.—The first point which
deserves notice in connection with Victoria is the rapid
growth of the population. It started on its existence
as a nation with 69,000 inhabitants ; at the close of last
year it numbered a population of 319,000, having in-
creased fivefold during this short period. The ordinary
revenue of the infant community, or that portion of its
income derived from taxation, has risen from 124,0001.
in 1850 to 1,809,0001. in 1855 ; whilst its territorial
revenue, or that derived from the lands of the colony,
has increased from 136,000/. to 848,0001. during the
same perioi. The imports during this time have been
enhanced to a degree wholly unprecedented in the his.
tory of nations or communities. From the small
sum of 744,0001. in 1850, the value of the goodly
imported into the colony rose to the sum of 11,508,000/.
during the last year, it having reached in the former
year to the enormous amount of 17,775,0001. The
imports of that year, as well, however, as of the pre-
ceding one, were affected by an exceptional state of
affairs ; undue speculation and a monetary crisis super-
vened, the effects of which have, however, now almost
completely passed away, and the 11 millions of imports
may be considered as representing the legitimate trade
of the colony. The exports during the period under re-
view have risen from 1,041,0001. to 13,469,0001.,
showing a very considerable increase on the year 1854,
the export trade nut having been affected like the im•
ports by excessive speculation at home. To enable the
colony to carry on so extended a commerce, banking ac•
commodation and the specie in circulation have largely
increased in amount. In 1850 there were but two banks ;
there are now eight. The deposits with the banks have
increased from 823,000/. to 4,869,0001., the circulation
of notes from 180,0001. to 2,014,0001., and the coin in
the banks has risen in amount from 310,0001. to
2,737,0001. The valuation of property in the city of
Melbourne has risen from 123,0001. to the large sum of
1,077,000/. during this brief period of six years. So
far as the commercial prospects of the colony for the
present year are concerned, they are in every respect
full of encouragement. Last year there existed a defici.
ency of 400,0001. in the revenue, which the Colonial
Government were compelled to meet by advances from
the local banks. This amount has been almost com-
pletely liquidated, and on the assembling of the new
Legislature, the Government will have at its credit a
surplus equal to twice the amount of its deficiency in
1855.—Australian and Nco Zealand Gazette.

THE SUN: LONDON, TUESo4Y EVENING, S' :P EMBER 9,