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Weimer Castle was thrown open to the inhabitants of Deal and the places adjacent on Tuesday and Wednesday, in order that they might have -an opportunity of beholding the remains of the Duke and the room in which he died. The coffin rested on a low stand covered with black cloth, and protected by a railing ; surrounded by wax candles and plumes of feathers. The coffin itself was covered with crimson velvet; and on the lid near the head restedthe Duke's coronet. On the evening of Wednes- day, the body was conducted to London. Shortly after seven o'clock, the hearse containing the coffin, followed by two mourning coaches, in which were the present Duke, Lord Arthur Hay, and other mourners, set out for Deal station. During the progress thus far, minute-guns were Bred from Weimer, and were taken up by the fortresses along the coast. The Deal station was occupied by a detachment of the Rifle Brigade, under Colonel Beckwith. The mourners were received by Mr. Macgregor, Mr. Renshaw, and the Mayors of Deal and Sandwich. At the various stations along the line, officials holding lamps were stationed ; and when the train -reached the Bricklayer's Arms terminus, soon after midnight, the whole committee of Railway Directors were present. Here a troop of Life Guards, commanded by Captain de Res and Lord Mountcharles, were in waiting to escort the hearse to Chelsea. At Chelsea they were met by a company of Grenadier Guards, and the body was received by the Lord Chamberlain.

Chelsea Hospital was yesterday open to those who, armed with the Lord Chamberlain's ticket, visited privately the lying in state of the re- mains of the Duke.

The approach to the Great Hall is through a dimly-lighted vestibule hung with black cloth ; on either side lying the Chapel and the Great Hall. Facing the entrance to the vestibule, is a trophy of tattered flags surmounted by the royal standard. At the entrance on either hand stands a Grenadier Guardsman. At the upper end of the Great Hall, placed on a raised dais, rest the coffin and bier. All the walls around are hung with black cloth, disposed in artistic folds. The dais is covered with cloth of gold; the bier is shrouded in black velvet; the coffin decorated with gilding and crimson velvet. Around the dais runs a silver balustrade, from which ten pedestals project, bearing the eight Marshal's batons of the Duke, his standard and guidon. At the back of the bier is the royal arms upon cloth of gold ; and above all, a magnificent black velvet canopy with silver fringes rises to the ceiling of the hell. The whole hall is lighted up by fifty-four candelabra bearing wax candles, each seven feet long. Around the catafalque are disposed twelve candelabra, each holding five candles ; while ten hollow columns, composed of spears and sur- mounted by feathers, conceal jets of gas, which shed a steady light on the gold and silver, the orders and the banners. Four officers in mourn- ing sit near the coffin. Beside the walls stand picked men from the Gre- nadier Guards, with arms reversed, like statues.

The Pensioners, the Life Guards, and Grenadiers a girls' school, and the boys of the Duke of York's School, were permitted to visit the Hall on Thursday.

The Russian General Prince Gortchakoff, accompanied by General Count de Benchendorf, Colonel Tohernitzky, Count Suchtelew, and suite, arrived on Thursday, from St. Petersburg.

The statement current last week, and to which we alluded under the title " The English Flag Struck," was contradicted by the Standard on Wednesday, in the following terms— "We are authorized to state, that the eagles and principal flags connected with the Duke of Wellington's victories are still in their old resting-place, in the chapel at Chelsea. The flags that were in the hall were taken dowu to enable the decoratois to cover it with black cloth ; and they will be ex- hibited in the vestibule which separates it from the chapel, and which is also to be covered with black cloth. The chapel itself will be open, and the light subdued, so that visitors can see all the principal trophies which we possess at Chelsea."

Max Joseph Eugene Augustus Napoleon, Duke of Leuohtenberg, second son of Duke Eugene of Leuchtenberg, and grandson of Viscount Beauhar- nais and Josephine afterwards Empress of the French, died at St. Peters- burg on the 5th instant. He was born in 1817 ; succeeded his brother in 1835; was married to Maria, eldest daughter of the Emperor Nicholas, in 1839 ; and has left behind him four sons and two daughters. He was Adjutant-General of the Emperor, a Lieutenant-General of the Army, and President of the Academy of Arts at St. Petersburg.

The Grand Duke Alexander of Russia and his consort, Prince Charles of Wurtemberg and his consort, and Prince Alexander of Hesse Darm- stadt, arrived on the 4th instant at Milan, from Chiavenna.

A Seville journal states that the infant daughter of the Duchess do Montpensier had received the following name—Maria Christina, Francisca de Paula, Antonia, Louisa, Fernando., Amelia, Felipe, Isabel, Adelaide, Teresa, Josef; Joaquina, Just; Rufus, Lutgarda, Elena, Carolina, Bi- Mane, Polonia, Gaspara, Melchosa, Ana, Baltasara, Agueda, Lucia, Narcisa.

The Madrid Atheneum was opened on the 3d instant, with a brilliant address from Seder Martinez de is Rosa, President of that institution.

The German papers notice the death of Dr. Scholz, Professor at Bonn, and one of the most distinguished Oriental scholars in Germany.

Mr. James Disraeli, the brother of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been appointed Treasurer to the County Courts of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Lincolnshire, circuits 17, 18, and 19.

Early in the week, news arrived in town that the Marquis of Nor- manby was seriously ill at Mulgrave Castle.

Lord and Lady Minto have arrived at Genoa, with the intention of spending the winter in the neighbourhood of that city.

Mr. Norris, of Sutton Courtney, was spoken of as likely to be a candi- date for the representation of Abingdon, in the room of General Caulfield, who died last week ; but he gave way to Lord Norreys, who has issued 'an address to the constituency. .

Colonel Shell, British Minister in Persia, has qnitted• bis,post, and re- turns home in extreme ill health.

Mr. H. Bourne, founder of the Primitive Methodists, died last week, in Staffordshire.

The manifest danger of railway collisions has frequently and naturally suggested the inquiry, whether there is no method by which they may, as regards passengers and carriages, be rendered innoxious ; and this important query leads to a consideration Of the means by which vessels on the river, coming into contact with each other, are, to a limited extent, protected, by using an article which is termed a fender, upon which a portion of the force of the collision is expended. Whilst, in the opinion of some practical men, an invention of that description would not have a sufficiently resisting power to render it useful as for railway purposes, it would nevertheless ap- pear that it is not impossible to construct a fender of adequate resisting capabilities to absorb any force that might be directed against it. This opinion is formed after an inspection of the working model of a fender re- cently patented by Mr. A. T. Forder, of Leamington ; where it was exhibited on Saturday last to a select number of gentlemen, including the local Magis- tracy. Before describing this invention, and to enable the reader clearly to understand the principle of its construction, we will observe that the mode in which a fender wards oft' the danger, of a blow is by gradually absorbing US force ; or, in other words, by possessing a resisting power exercised by degrees, and which should be equal to that of the blow which it encounters. The improved fender consists of two parts, one called the striker, and the other the receiver. The striker is formed of a plate of metal, into which a number of strong bars of steel of different lengths are fastened. The receiver is a similar plate with apertures, over which are placed pieces of spring-steel, the centres of which correspond with those of the bars in the striker. The two bars are fixed together, so that the latter may slide towards the receiver, and each bar of the striker be exactly opposite the centre of its antagonistic steel plate. One fender is intended to be fastened to each end of every car- riage. As the striking bars are of different lengths, and project accordingly from the plate, it is manifest that upon the centre part of the plate being struck the bars will successively bend and break its opposing spring plate ; and if there are a sufficient number of them, the fender will absorb the whole of the impelling force, and, in case of a rail collision, stop the train without injury to passengers or carriages, inasmuch as the whole of the blow will have been expended in breaking the plates. The force of the collision conveyed to the carriages will be equal to a succession of slight blows, each of itself insufficient to injure the train. The working model ex- hibited on Saturday consisted of a railway five feet high at one end and three inches at the other, being thirty feet in length, and forming an inclined plane or fall of one in six. Upon the highest position of the rails were placed two carriages fitted up with glass windows, and in all respects similar to first and second class railway conveyances ; at the end of each was ap- pended a model fender of the above description ; and upon a given signal, the train, each carriage of which weighed about sixty pounds, ran down the rails against a block placed at the bottom. The result of the collision or blow was that the plates in the fender were nearly all broken, whilst the carriages remained perfectly uninjured. There was no visible recoil, and the train was brought to a dead stand in an instant.—Aria's Birmingham Gazette.

Fifty young fellows, ardent ta volunteer for the Militia, arrived too late at Bradford, in Wiltshire ; so, out of sheer disappointment, a large number went to Warminster and inlisted in the Line.

A farmer named M'Ardle has been arrested by the Police in the AAR*, of Castleblayney, on a warrant from Dublin Castle, and committed to naghan Gaol, on a charge of being implicated in the conspiracy to murder Mr. Thomas Bateson. The " rabble" at Braintree burned an effigy on the 5th November, upon whose forehead was affixed a placard with the inscription " Bereeford and No Bribery."