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DARWIN'S RESTING PLACE. — The Brooklyn Eagle remarks, "The interment of the remains of the great English naturalist in Westminster Abbey will not only be a fit recognition of the splendor of his achievements, but an act in perfect harmony with the broad liberalism of which the late Dean Stanley was so noble and enlightened an exponent. Mr. Darwin had been ranked by the shallow, the ignorant, and the bigoted as an enemy of the church which has in Westminster Abbey its most famous and venerated monument. As a matter of fact, however, his discoveries came to re-enforce the truths of religion, to enlarge the boundaries of human knowledge, and to magnify our ideas of the wisdom and providence of God. No urn within the walls of the sacred temple contains ashes more worthy than his of the honor of such a resting-place."