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The remains of Lord Macaulay were buried on Monday in West- minster Abbey. The funeral procession started from Holly Lodge, Kensington, where the late Peer died, shortly after eleven o'clock. The hearse was drawn by six horses, but the usual ceremony of carrying the coronet of the deceased on a velvet cushion before the hearse was omitted, by the special direction of Lord Macaulay. Three mourning coaches followed the hearse. In the first were the chief mourners—the Reverend John Macaulay, Mr. Charles and Mr. Henry Macaulay, and Mr. George Trevelyan. In the second were Mr. Edward Cropper, Mr. Kenneth Macaulay, Mr. Hower Ellis and Mr. Harry Holland. The. third carriage contained the principal domestics of the late lord. The route selected was through Kensington, Knightsbridge, Grosvenor Place and Bird-Cage Walk. A long line of private carriages followed the hearse, growing in length as the procession advanced. Many houses were entirely and others partly closed. Those who obtained tickets were admitted to the Abbey. Among them were—Lord Cranworth, Lord Stanley of .Alderley, lord Belper, Lord Robert Montagu, Earl Granville, the Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone, Lord Broughton of Broughton Giffard, Lord Monteagle, the Right Honourable C. Villiers, Sir J. Shaw Lefevre, his Excellency the Belgian Minister, Mr. Alder- man Salomons Mr. Durham, Mr. Bohn, Mr. Wyld, M.P., Mr. Grote, Mr. Locke, M.P., the Honourable Arthur Kinnaird, Mr. Thackeray, Mr. Shirley. Brooks, Lord Stanley, Mr. Alexander, Q.C. Mr. Serjeant Shea, Dr. Hawtrey, Povost of Eton, Mr. Tom Taylor, kev. J. Scott, Mr. J. Mills, M.P., Mr. Rich, M.P., Mr. E. Buxton, Mr. S. Lever, Mr. John Forster Mr. S. C. Hall, the Very Reverend the Dean of Canter- bury, Mr. Charles Knight, Sir D. M`Dougall, and Lord Shaftesbury. It may have been merely a singular concidence, but it was a subject of remark in the Abbey, that not a single Conservative of note was present during the ceremony.

At one o'clock the hearse arrived at the western entrance of the old Abbey, beneath the great door of which the corpse was borne, an honour only granted to peers of the realm. Inside the porch the procession ar- ranged itself as follows :— Bailiff of Westminster, The Almsmen of the Abbey, Sixteen Boys of the Choir, The Sub-Dean, Canons Repton, Jennings, and Cureton, The Dean (Rev. T. Trench).

Those who had the honour of assisting as pall-bearers were :— The Lord Chancellor The Speaker of the House of Commons Lord John Russell The Bishop of Oxford The Dean of St. Paul's Sir Henry Holland Sir David Dundas Sir G. C. Lewis The Earl of Carlisle Earl Stanhope.

Lord Shelburne, who was to have attended in the place of the Marquis of Lansdowne, was prevented by illness from assisting.

As the procession advanced up the nave, the choir performed Dr. Croft's anthem "I am the resurrection and the Life." The body was placed inside the screen. The service proceeded, and Sphoes hymn, "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord," having been sung, the pall- bearers again took their places and the coffin was borne to its resting place in Poet's Corner. Here the remainder of the ceremony was per- formed, and at its close the "Dead March in Saul " was heard as the mourners retired. The body lies at the foot of Addison's monument and beside the remains of Sheridan.

At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on Monday, the Earl of Ripon in the chair, Mr. J. Petherick, her Majesty's Consul at Khartum, read a paper describing a journey up the White Nile to the Equator, and travels in the interior of Africa in the years of 1857-58. During his residence at Khartum, Mr. Petherick had made several ex- cursions up the White Nile to explore the country and to traffic with the Natives, which paved the way for his more extensive explorations com- menced in the latter part of 1858. He went accompanied by a numerous armed escort of Arabs and Negroes, and in one of his earlier expeditions his party had been compelled to fire on one of the tribes who had acted treacherously, and attempted to murder them. Mr. Petherick's paper consisted principally of descriptions of the Natives, and of his intercourse with them, from which it appeared that they looked upon him with suspicion, though they bartered freely with him, the chief articles he obtained from them being elephant's teeth. In his expedition in 1858, Mr. Petherick went up the White Nile in a boat about 400 miles in a South-Westerly direction, till he came to a lake covered with weeds, where he cast anchor, and then proceeded with his party overland in a Southerly direction until he reached the Equator. The country along the banks of the river he found to be fertile, and cultivated in many places with cotton, which the Natives manufactured. Mimosa and sycamore trees grew luxuriantly until he approached the Equator, and there appeared to be abundance of food. Mr. Petherick gave a lively account of his adventures among the Native tribes and their methods of bartering. In one of these tribes the extraordinary custom prevails between the women and their hus- bands of living together for the first four days of every week, and the re- maining three days they live indepsndently. Polygamy is practised to a great extent, of which Mr. Petherick had rather an embarrassing proof. Wishing to make a return to one of the Natives who had done him a service, Mr. Petherick told him he would make presents to him and his children ; and on the following morning the father came to him, attended by forty young men, his sons, observing that he had not brought his younger sons nor any of his daughters, because he did not wish to impose on his gene- rosity. On inquiry it was found that the whole family numbered about ninety. Mr. Petherick said that in his travels he had no scientific instru- ments to enable him to calculate the longitude and latitude, and he esti- mated that he reached the Equator by reckoning the distance travelled daily, and the direction as pointed out by the compass. The Earl of Ripon expressed his gratification at the interesting account given by Mr. Petherick of that part of Africa, and he trusted that his researches, combined with those of Captain Speke, would bring to light the true course of the Nile. Lord Ripon said he was happy to confirm the announcement previously made that the Government had granted the sum of 2500/. to aid Captain Speke in his discoveries, the money being placed in the hands of the Council of the Geographical Society to be ex- pended as they thought fit.

Captain Spoke, Sir Roderick Murchison, and Mr. Anson, a native of Africa, joined in the discussion arising out of the topics started by Mr. Petheriek's narrative.

At a meeting of the Law Amendment Society on Monday, Mr. Alfred Hill read a paper containing a sketch of a plan for the establishment of courts of reconciliation. It was ordered to be printed.

A meeting of the Great Ship Company was held on Wednesday, Mr. R. J. R. Campbell presiding. A report was presented entering briefly into the position of the company, and announcing the resignation of the board. The financial statement showed that 353,971/. had been received, including 298,733/. from the shareholders, 10,133/. for ad- mission of visitors to the ship, and 40,000/. on loan ; and 347,483/. ex- pended, including 166,164/. on purchase account, 142,2901. on comple- tion account, 11,842/. for general stores, 15,311/. for wages and ship's expenses, and 11,067/. general charges, leaving a balance of 6474/. The estimated liabilities and assets showed a balance against the company of 36,641/. A motion to receive this report was followed by an amendment that before doing so a committee of investigation be appointed. After a protracted and angry discussion, abounding in personalities, it was resolved to decide the question by ballot. It is understood that the pre- sent directors are in favour of a committee of investigation, and that a re- solution to that effect, if offered as a substantive motion, and not as an amendment to the report, would have received their support. The re- sult of the ballot, which practically amounts to whether the report and balance sheet of the directors be forthwith received, or whether a com- mittee of investigation be appointed in the first instance, will be an- nounced on Tuesday.

Colonel Boldero and others sued the East India Company for the return of the difference between their subscriptions to the "Bengal Civil Service Fund" and the amount of their retiring pensions. The Master of the Rolls deciding against them they appealed, and on Wednesday the Lord Chan- cellor delivered judgment. He sustained the judgment of the Court below, basing his decision on the terms of the contract. The fund is not a species of savings' bank. When money is paid in it ceases to belong to the sub- scriber and belongs to the fund.. If surplus contributions were refunded that would operate as an inducement to remain in the service and thus de- feat the object for which the fund was established, early retirements. In Madras the contract enables the subscriber to recover the excess over his subscriptions, but not in Bengal. Appeal dismissed with costs.

In the Court of Divorce, Sir Creswell Creswell granted the petition of Mrs. Anthony for a judicial separation The Judge went over the evidence, which showed that Mr. Anthony had treated his wife with cruelty on more than one occasion—by striking her, by the treatment of his wife in relation to the servant Bennett. The Judge said he was not surprised that Mrs. Anthony refused to return home ; and the Court was bound to grant a de- cree of judicial separation.

At the Middlesex Sessions one Taylor was indicted for burglary. The case turned upon proof of identity. The woman whose house was entered and a young man swore to the prisoner as one of the burglars. On the other hand Bennett, a shoemaker, swore that Taylor, in company with himself and one Redden, was drinking at a publichouse at the time the robbery oc- curred. Redden did not appear, and the Jury found the prisoner guilty. Redden immediately :entered the Court. He had attended as soon as he could. His evidence corroborated that of Bennett, and one of the jurymen vouched for the respectability of Radden. Under these circumstances, while the Assistant-judge refused to teke the evidence, he remanded the prisoner for judgment until next session, promising to make strict inquiry.

Mr. Guedella, a merchant, appeared at the Mansiouhouse Police Court, to obtain protection from a threatened assault by Mr. Lazarus Magnus. Mr. Guedella had offended Mr. Magnus by some reference to his late father at a meeting about the Great Eastern. Thereupon Mr. Magnus wrote a letter, calling him a liar by threatening to chastise him. The Lord Mayor bound over Mr. Magnus to keep the peace for six months.

Mr. John Bradford, one of the persons charged with disorderly conduct in St. George's-hi-the-East, after stoutly denying that-the charge was true, and after much demur, has by the patient management of Mr. Selfe been induced to sign a paper, similar to that signed by the young man Barnes, and has therefore been liberated. He is pledged not to "say " the responses at irregular times or in a manner so loud as to disturb the minister and the choir.

Two young men who had been three years in the Artillery, stated a grievance to the Southwark Magistrate. It seems that they accepted their discharge under the general order of the Indian government. Contrary to the custom in the army, the discharge did not say anythiug about their cha- racters. These have been withheld by the India House, and the poor fel- lows are this left destitute, without the characters which would insure them admission into the police. The Magistrate said he could do nothing for them.

John Thompson, a deserter, has been handed over to the military au- thorities by the Lord Mayor. His story is curious. He had served four years in India, and had fought at Delhi and Lucknow. Claiming his dis- charge he was brought home, and at once enlisted in the Royal Artillery. He took the bounty, and immediately deserted ; enlisting, when it was Ppent, in the Rifles. He was then detected.