NORWAY'S HONOURING OF OUR DEAD.
[To THE EDIToR or TEN " SPEOTAToa."1 Sra„—I beg to enclose an extract from a Norwegian letter giving some account of the burial of British sailors. I send it you hoping that some of those who have lost relatives may know of the honour done is our dead, and also of the chivalry displayed by a neutral Navy.— "Great numbers of bodies have floated into Frederikstad forty-tone were buried there two days ago, and many, both English and German, have been washed into Ilvaki. The Navy hero have gone out on purpose to pick them up. The body of an English Admiral was found nose Frederiketad. On Monday there were eighteen dead sailors, nearly all English, with an English officer and also a German officer, buried in the churchyard here : the bodies had floated into Tonsberg Fjord. It was a touching scene ; all our naval officers were in full uniform, and the sailors presented arms as each coffin was brought inland r the naval bands played, all flags were half-mast, and nearly the whole town brought flowers or wreaths to lay on tho dead. I drove to the servioe, which was taken by the clergyman here ; the British flag was hold at the head of each grave and some verses were sung. There was a beautiful large wreath from the Norwegian Navy laid down by an officer; W also brought one, and I went last of all and laid a big one tied with the English colours. Only the day before an English officer had been buried, and as I stood by his grave and saw his coffin I thought bow little his relatives in England know where ho was lying. He had on a wedding ring and also a diamond ring and a gold watch. The Norwegian officers have taken particulars and numbers of the dead (I understand that they have all marks on their clothes) so that their relatives mar be informed of their burial."
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