The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-26 00:00:00

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Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial Office from the Governor-General of Canada,
and from the Governors of the West India Islands
and the Australian Colonies.
Despatches were sent to the Governor of Malta.

FUNERAL OF THE SUFFERERS BY THE

LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

ABERGELE, Aug. 25, 1868.
The remains of the 32 bodies were interred this
morning at 10 o'clock with impressive solemnity,
and amid such unostentatious demonstrations of
sorrow and sympathy as the townspeople could
manifest. Every shop was closed. The silence of
death reigned in Abergele and Pensarn. There
was not even the tolling of a funeral bell to break
the stillness. By the early trains from Chester and
Rhyll a large number of the relatives and friends
of the dead, many from distant places, came into
Abergele. All were in deep mourning. Precisely
at 10 o'clock the mourners took their places in the
churchyard near the door of the Vestry-room, under
the tower of the old church, the coffins having
been piled there. On such an occasion it was ha-
posible to ascertain the names of all who were pre-
sent ; but of the relatives of the late Lord and
Lady Farnham there were the present Lord Farn-
ham, the Hon. Richard S. Maxwell, the Hon. Wil-
liam Maxwell, and Mrs. Ilotham, wife of Captain
Hotham, and niece of the late Lady Farnham. Of
the relatives of the late Captain Edwards, there
were his surviving children, Mr. Lea Priestly
Edwards and Mr. Alfred Delaponte Edwards ; Sir
Henry Edwards, M.P., his brother; Major
Waterhouse, M.P., his brother-in-law; two sons
of Sir Henry's, his son-in-law, Captain Dear-
den, acd Mr. Norris. Of the relatives of the
late Judge Berwick, Miss Berwick, Mrs. Symes,
and Miss Ingram, Mr. Edward Berwick, and Mr.
John Berwick. Of the relatives of the late
Misses Lea, the Rev. S. Simcox Lea. Of the
relatives and friends of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Aylmer and Miss Franks there were Mr. Franks,
Mr. J. Franks, Mr. T. Greene, Mr. Charles Eade,
Sir J. J. Coghill. Of the relatives and friends of
the late Mr. Whitmore Scovell and Miss Scovell
there were Mr. Dance and Mr. R. D. Kane. Of the
relatives and friends of the late Mr. William T.
Lund, William B. Parkinson, and Christopher Par-
kinson there were Mr. Thomas Lund and Mr.
Robert Parkinson. Of the relatives of the late Mr.
W. 11. Owen there were Mr. J. William Owen and
Alfred Owen; Thomas Outen, brother of the late
Edward Outen ; T. J. Smith, brother-in-law of the
late Mary Ann Kellet ; Sarah Brested, sister of
the late Elizabeth Strafford; Maria Cripps, Lucretia
Buchanan, and Henry Cripps, the wife, mother,
and brother of the late
.Charles Cripps; and Mr.
Davis, butler of the late Lord Farnham, also at-
tended the funeral.

When the relative's and friends had assembled in
the churchyard the Rev. James Meredith, the rec-
tor, and the Rev. James Taylor, of Bamberbridge,
near Preston, himself a mourner, came out of the
church to meet them. When the rev. gentlemen
had reached the vestry room, the door was opened,
and Mr. Taylor commenced the first sentences of
the Burial Service. He continued the service while
returning into the church, and the mourners, two
and two, walked after him and Mr. Meredith. Both
reverend gentlemen having reached the reading-
desk, and the mourners and a large number of the
parishioners of Abergele having taken their places
in the pews, Mr. Taylor read the psalms and the
beautiful lesson from the 15th chapter of St. Paul's
First Epistle to the Corinthians. While he was so
doing the coffins were being conveyed on men's
shoulders from the vestry-room to the grave, which
had been dug close to the wall at the opposite
extremity of the churchyard to that in which the
vestry-room is situate. When the clergyman had
reached the close of the lesson, and it was au'
nounced that all the coffins had been removed,
the procession was reformed. It was, as on the entry
into the church, headed by the two reverend gen-
tlemen. Next followed Lord Farnham, supporting
on his arm Mrs. Hotham. Outside the church-
yard, all round, was a large crowd. People stool
or sat on the walls, and men and boys were grouped
in the trees which from outside overhung the
grave. The conduct of these Welsh peasants was
exemplary. Not a word escaped them, and all of
them gazed on the scene within the graveyard with
a respect nothing short of reverence. Nothing could
well have exceeded the severe solemnity of the pro-
ceedings. When the mourners reached the hug°
grave they found there, side by side, at a depth of
some seven or eight feet, 32 coffins. There were
the remains of 33 persons there for interment ; but
in one case so little had been left of a human body
—only what had been gathered into a very small
paper parcel—that the remains were put with thoso
of another person. All the coffins were covered With
black cloth, bin there were no inscriptions. On the
foot of each coffin was a bit of white paper bearing a
number. The mourners ranged themselves on tilve°
sides of the vast grave. The Rev. J. Meredith
read the conclusion of the Burial Service. Every
passage was uttered in faltering accents, and the
responses were given amid heartrending lamenta-
tions. Probably no more painful scene was ever
witnessed in any churchyard.
After the burial a meeting of the mourners NV°
held. Mr. Cawkwell, general manager of the Leh-
don and North-Western Railway Company, W
present. A communication was made to them that
the railway company would purchase, as a private
grave, the ground in which the interment bad been
effected, and would rail it in. A committee, con-
sisting of Lord Farnham, Sir H. Edwardes, Bier:
Waterhouse, and others, was appointed to
arrangements for the erection of a tablet with 4
suitable inscription.

In the diplomatic circles of St. Petersburg it i$
stated that Prince Gortchakoff has elaborated a
plan for convoking a European congress whose rale;
sion will be a general disarmament. It is Addeo
that the draft of this scheme has been communi-
cated to the Governments of the Great Powers.
The Official Journal of Warsaw publishes a oha;
racteristic announcement, indicating the limited
amount of liberty left to the Poles. It says
" His Excellency Count Berg, the Emperor's Veil-
tenant, has been pleased to permit the inhabitant°
of Warsaw to go on Sundays and fete days to al.
country by railway as far as Skierniewice (1121 Peria
Park and Palace) without passports, on condition,
however, of having with them some proof of ides'
City." -
EUROPEAN EMIGRANTS. —During last raelltil
nearly 30,000 emigrants landed at New York from
Europe. About 23,000 of them landed WI
steamers ; about 20,000 were from German en
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French ports, and upwards of 26,000 of
were steerage passengers. They arrived in ne3ra
forty ships. There were thirteen births on boarg,
the ships during the Atlantic passage. The /311,10
of the emigrants were from Germany and -of
north of Europe, which contain a population
70,000,000, and from -which there is a perPetil
exodus. The chief persons engaged in this error,
mous passenger traffic are two German Steao
packet companies, called the North German '
ho
and the Hamburg and American companies, ter
will before long have a fleet of forty n'lelistho
screw steamers, as large and as fast as any i°4l/4,0
world. They are now rapidly building
gigantic steamers, at a cost of upwards £500,00,:.
This fleet will form a nursery for a German Ll°__e_
They have now lines to New York and Baltiraeol
and they will soon have one to New
These companies will monopolize all the passel
traffic between the Weser, Elbe, and SolentB•pi.
the Hudson, Chesapeake Bay, and the MissistP,,o
What they get for carrying mails scarcely eq,"l-1,
what they pay to the. English Trinity Board. A
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German steerage passengers are persons poss
of a little money. They form almost the
population of some towns and cities in the nu'
oconle
States, and are said to be the most vi
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emigrants that go there,