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The funeral obsequies of the Duke of Wellington have filled the largest share of public attention in the Metropolis throughout the week ; of which the lying in state occupied Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and the final ceremony the Thursday.

The lying in state was not celebrated without calamity. It had been felt on Friday that the arrangements were extremely defective ; as even then the privileged few thousands who attended were crushed and hustled by the crowding of narrow spaces. On Saturday, as the arrangements remained unamended, and as thousands on thousands came pressing. on, the scene was indescribable. Screams were heard on all sides ; women fainted and were carried away ; two were crushed to death ; and the steam from the dense mass of animal life looked like the smoke of a great fire. Monday opened with angry reclamations from the press. As the day advanced it was found that the arrangements were greatly, improved ; and with little inconvenience, nearly fifty thousand passed through the Great Hall. On Tuesday the numbers increased, with increasing con- fidence, to nearly sixty thousand ; and on Wednesday before the close at four o'clock, sixty-five thousand were admitted. In the morning, the foreign bfficera and the troops visited the Hall; and in the evening the Duke of Wellington went, and remained there some time.

During all Wednesday, and in fact, for days past, London has been truly described as in a state of turmoil. "Public duties were postponed, and private business was kept standing still ; troops were brought from all parts of the kingdom ; heralds were rummaging archives, and under- takers were preparing all the appurtenances of their costly grief; whole woods of timber were roughly fashioned by thousands of workmen into hasty seats ; acres of cloth and of crape gave not simply men, but build- ings, the black semblance of wo ; special trains brought new crowds from the country to swell the crowd of the town ; scaffoldings about clubs and churches, and barriers by roadways, changed the outer aspect of the tho- roughfares; whilst shopkeepers, leaving the proper custom of their trades, became showmen, and sold seats, because no other avocation could be so profitably plied." Nor did night put an end to the sound of the hammer. By the glare of torchlight the din was continued ; and, until "the small hours of the morning," there were throngs of people circulating on the pavements, and endless preparations.

It was late in the night when the body of the Duke, escorted by a squadron of cavalry, was conveyed to the Horse Guards, and placed in the audience-chamber, there to remain until the morning. During the greater part of the night the wind howled and moaned without ; and, sometimes driven by the cutting wind, sometimes settling down in a thick mist, showers of rain fell upon the many hundreds who thronged the streets.

Before dawn the troops began to arrive, and to take up positions near the ample parade-ground at the back of the Horse Guards, so that they might readily fall into their places in the procession. On the parade a large tent had been pitched ; above it floated the banner of the nation ; and under its white canvass edged with green lay the coffin on the car. As the day broke into a kind of foggy brightness, officers were visible, sprinkled over the ground in groups ; walking and trotting about was the Duke's horse, under the charge of a groom ; here and there policemen scampered, and the sombre assistants of Mr. Dowbiggen, the undertaker, sauntered at their ease. All this time carriages continued to arrive and range themselves. About half-past seven Lord Hardinge drove up ; and the concealed proceedings in the tent being completed, signals were made, and the car, suddenly revealed, was saluted by the boom of cannon, while the troops presented arms. Just then the clock struck eight, and the procession began.

It was led by some Horse ; followed by the Rifles, a compact mass of dark uniforms with their muskets reversed and slung, moving at a slow regular pace, and keeping time to the grand music of the Dead March in Saul. Soon the dull green uniforms disappear, and are succeeded b the red uniforms of the Marines, the Duke's Own kegiment the Thirty- and the Foot Guards. Dispersed among them were bands, playing. the solemn music of the dead. Steadily the men stepped along, especially the Thirty-third, who kept their ranks most admirably, and dressed as if on parade. Close after these came the squadrons of Cavalry, Horse Guards, Red and Blue; the Seventeenth Lancers, the Thirteenth Dra- goons, the Eighth Hussars, and the Scots Greys; and in two detach- ;onto, divided by bands of Horse, were the nine guns of the field-batte- ries, and the eight guns of the Horse Artillery, remarkable both for the men and horses. The appearance of the cavalry was very striking. The helmets and cuirasses gleamed in the sunshine; the pennons of the Lan- cers kept up a ceaseless flutter; the plumes of the heavy regiments nodded to and fro; and the gallant bearing of each squadron commanded the ad- miration of all.

Separated from these only by Marshalmen, and falling in at Hyde Park Corner, were the red-coated forms and venerable faces of eighty- three Chelsea Pensioners, each carrying a black wand, and some wearing as many medals as a decorated general officer. In dark-blue frocks, a few of the enrolled Pensioners went before Lieutenant-Colonel Garvoch ; who, on horseback, bore the Pennon. Then came carriages, bearing the Lieu- tenant of the Tower, the Wardens of the Merchant Tailors' Company, Sir James Weir Hogg, and others on the part of the East India Company, the Deputy Master of Trinity House, the Lieutenant of Dover Castle, the Captains of Deal, Walmer, Sandgate, and Sandown Castles, and the de- legation from the University of Oxford. In advance of the Guidon, borne by Lieutenant-Colonel Conynghame, were two Pursuivants ; and then followed the Comptroller and Physicians of the Duke's household, the Chaplains of the Tower, the London District, and the Chaplain-General of the Forces. Then the Sheriffs of Southampton and London, followed by Colonel Airey, the Military Secretory; and the Companions of the Bath, re- presented by Sir Loftus Otway, the Honourable Joceline Percy, Lieutenant- General Sandwith, and Sir Joshua Rowe; the Knights Commanders, repre- sented by Earl Cathcart, Sir John West, Sir H. S. Scott, and Sir George Bonham ; the Knights Grand Crosses, represented by Sir Edward Blakeney, Sir George Cockburn, Sir George Pollock, and Viscount Palmerston. The Banner of Wellesley was borne by Lieutenant-Colonel R. B. Wood; and fol- lowed by carriages containing Lord Cranworth and Sir Knight Bruce, Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir John. Jervis, Sir John Romilly, Lord Campbell, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Colchester, Major Beresford, Mr. George Bankes, the Duke of Northumber- land, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Colonial Departments, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord Malmesbury, Lord Derby, the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Willoughby D'Eresby, the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Lonsdale, the Archbishop of York, Lord St. Leonardo, and the Arch- bishop of Canterbury. Here, when the procession reached Temple Bar, place was given to the Lord Mayor. He was followed by high military officers connected with the Horse Guards. Then came Prince Albert, in a carriage and six, duly preceded by attendants, and followed by the Marquis of Exeter and the Marquis of Abercorn. Heraldic personages preceded the Great Banner, borne by Colonel Chat- terton ; and then the Duke's various batons of command—that of Spain, borne by the Duke of Osuna—of Russia, by Prince Gortchakoff—of Prus- sia, by the Count de Nostitz—of Portugal, by Marshal de Terceira—of the Netherlands, by Baron d'Omphal—of Hanover, by Sir Hugh Halket- of England., borne by the Marquis of Anglesea, supported by the Duke of Richmond and the Duke of Cleveland. Then with the Clarencieux King of Arms- and others in front, came the eight pall- bearers—Viscount Combermere, the Marquis of Londonderry, Sir Peregrine Maitland, Viscount Hardinge, Lord Seaton, Sir Alexander Woodford, Viscount Gough, and Sir Charles Napier. After these, preceded by a band of music, was the Funeral Car, bearing the coffin, which was covered with crimson velvet banded with gold ; and drawn by twelve noble black horses of huge size and strength, which Were draped in black velvet powdered with silver. Sir Charles Young, the Garter King of Arms, drove close behind the car; and after him, in mourning coaches, the Chief Mourner, the present Duke of Wellington; with his supporters and assistants—the Honourable William Wellesley, Lord Charles Wellesley, the Reverend Gerard Wellesley, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Marquis of Tweeddale, Earl Cadogan, the Earl of Gifford, Lord Arthur Hay, 1Lieutenant-Colonel Darner, Lieutenant-General Har- vey, Mr. Samuel Bignold, Viscount Wellesley, Colonel Begot, Lord Rag- lan, the Honourable Fitzroy Somerset, the Earl of Westmoreland, Lord Barghersh, the Honourable Julian Fane, the Reverend R. Liddell, the Reverend G. D. St. Quentin, Viscount Chelsea, Colonel A. Liddell, Lord Cowley, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Mr. Culling Smith, the Marquis of Worcester, the Reverend Dr. Henry Wellesley, Mr. Richard Wellesley, Lord Hatherton, the Reverend Dean of St. Patrick's, the Earl of Long- ford, Major Pakenham, Captain T. Pakenham, the Honourable Fenton Freke, Lord Burghley, Sir Edmund Hayes, Captain E. Pakenham, Mr. Thomas Thistlethwayte, Mr. Thomas Conolly, the Reverend W. Foster, Mr. J. Stewart, Mr. Algernon Greville, the Earl of Ellenborough, Vis- count Mahon, Lord Downes, the Honourable Robert Clive, Major-Gene- ral Anson, Major-General .Arbuthnot, Mr. Henry Arbuthnot, Mr. John Parkinson, Mr. William Booth, Mr. Philip Hardwick, and Mr. John Hamilton.

These were followed by perhaps the most touching object of the spec- tacle—the Duke's horse, led by the groom. The band of the Ninety-third, officers and men from every regiment in the service, the Royal carriages, and troops, closed this memorable pro- cession.

The route which the procession followed forms four grand divisions. First, from the Parade Ground to Hyde Park Corner, where Apsley Rouse formed the chief object. The private houses and Government offices, Spring Gardens, and Carlton Terrace, were covered by people ; and a slope of human faces extended up to and around the Duke of York's column. At Buckingham Palace, the Queen and the Royal Children, all in deep mourning, appeared on the balcony, and remained until the procession had nearly passed. Excursion-trains had brought up to town thousands of persons; and as soon as we get out of the pre- cincts of Buckingham Palace, the vast numbers of the throng begin to make an impression on the mind. Grosvenor Place, St. George's Hospi- tal, all around Hyde Park Corner, mounting every possible stand, were human bodies, peering from every crevice were human faces. Here, as elsewhere, strong barriers had been put up, and police were stationed to keep them, assisted by some light dragoons. Apsley House, and the houses of Baron Rothschild and Miss Burdett Coutts, were closed. From that point, as we begin the second grand division of the route, houses acquire a new character, and many seem composed of fronting of human beings ; while the pavement on either side is thronged. "The Co-

ventry Club appeared for the day to be in possession of the ladies, who occupied its handsomely draperied balconies. The long screen in front of Devonshire House was fitted up with spacious galleries, which were all crowded. And now, as the procession approached the head of St. James's Street, and passed across the entrances of streets diverging on both hands from the route which it was taking, a new feature of the most remark- able kind began to develop itself. The entrances of those side-streets were completely built up with living masses of men and women, form. ing, to all appearances, a mound or rampart of heads, which were all duly and respectfully uncovered as the stately funeral car swept by. The windows, too, as far as the eye could reach, had people thrust from them eagerly gazing ; and the house-tops, of course, had their adventurous crowds of occupants. It seemed as if the whole world had assembled to witness the ceremonial ; for the people were everywhere—built into the walls, swarming in the streets, and clustered like hives on every projec- tion and parapet. When St. James's Street was reached, the double view, first Eastwards along Piccadilly, and then down towards the Palace, was singularly impressive. There must have been thirty thousand people within range of sight at this point, and the orderly and respectful be- haviour of even the humblest among them crowded and hemmed in as they wore, cannot be too highly praised. The entire breadth of Piccadilly was closed in with an embankment of men and women • numbers of wag- gons, carts, coaches, and omnibuses having been place in the road-way to give their occupants a more commanding view." Entering St. James's Street, and passing down to the Palace, and so on to Charing Cross, what we would call the second division is completed. Here Crockford's and the Con- servative Club seemed to hold the greatest numbers. At the bottom of the street, the Queen and the Royal children, who had left Buckingham Palace and passed the rear of the procession in the Mall, appeared at the windows of St. James's, close to the main entrance. In the region of the great Clubs were thousands of persons. The Clubs themselves, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Army and Navy, the Carlton the Reform, the Tra- vellers' and the Athenieum, were swarming, and black balconies were filled with ladies. Few persons were on the pavement in Pall Mall. "At Waterloo Place, however, a very different aspect in this respect was pre- sented; and the view up Regent Street, along towards Cockspur Street, and on the right hand side in the direction of the Duke of York's column, was really astounding. In addition, however, to the number of people within one's glance at this point, there was something particularly touching in the muster of old officers at the Senior United Service; many of whom looked with unusual earnestness at the great car, as with its illustrious burden, to the roll of drums and the fitful strains of martial music, it rolled upon its way. The Haymarket and Trafalgar Square were like Waterloo Place, great centres of attraction. At the latter point there could not have been much less than forty thousand people assembled; and the National Gallery, the roof of which was covered with spectators, borrowed from the scene a grace and animation which it never knew before."

From Charing Cross to Temple Bar formed another section. The cha- racter of this was wholly different. "The demonstrations of respect be- came parochial, and the churches formed the great centres for spectators. St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, St. Mary-le-Strand, St. Clement Danes, and St. Dunstan's, were honoured with larger congregations than had pro- bably ever visited them before. Thousands of people filled the spacious balconies that surrounded them, and we trust that the funds which the parish authorities have been enabled to realize may be large enough to be substantially useful to the charities to which they are to be applied. All the cross-streets leading out of the Strand presented in a still more striking manner the appearances which we have described at earlier points of the route. The shop-windows had been turned to account in a most mar- vellous way, and enclosed numbers of full-grown people compressing themselves for the occasion into the dimensions of charity-school children, and looking perfectly placid and resigned under circumstances that would be ordinarily regarded as amounting to the peine forte et dune. It is rather a singular fact, that the only attempt at a motto or inscription to the memory of the Duke was that suspended over the entrance to Exeter Hall= Non sibi Bed " Temple Bar was strangely decorated with black druggett and gilding, and jets of gas flamed away. Here the procession entered the fourth section of the route. The crowds were as great as at any other part ; but the aspect of the scene was changed by the soldiers who filed off on either side, and formed up and down the street as they came into the City— from Temple Bar to St. Paul's Churchyard. Everywhere, as the car passed along this magnificent line, through the ranks of the nation, each head was bared. • -

Arrived at the Cathedral, the Times describes the scene as viewed from the balcony over the Western grand entrance- " A mart of commerce has become a garrison. St. Paul's is invested. In the enclosure before us Queen Anne looks down unconscious upon a guard of honour, at present waiting about in groups, as soldiers do, their arms piled near the balustrades. There is a clear sweep of road In view ; the sun Is be- hind us, and will be for these two hours, and we can see everything as dis- tinctly as possible all the way to Farringdon Street. You see the road-way clear and empty, as you might see it at four o'clock on a summer's morning ; but there is contrast enough on the pavement on either side of the street. There people are jammed as close as human beings can be, until the spot where Ludgate Hill is intersected by Ave Maria and Creed Lanes, beyond which the crowd may not come. The houses seem bursting with people— every window is full, and the roofs bristle with heads. Some of the roofs have awnings put up, to protect those who stand upon the tiles or leads from the weather. Everything speaks of crowd. The street-lamps are left lighted, either because the lamplighters could not get at them to put them out, or be- cause they could not have lighted them again. We can 'rear the hum of an innumerable multitude. They are as quiet as such a multitude can well be, but every now and then raise their voices to a shout when some person is in distress, or from any cause must be removed, or when an unfortunate dog rushes along, bewildered and alarmed. "There is a stir among the soldiers; they are getting into order. The Life Guards ride into the Churchyard from Dean's Yard. There is a slippery bit of paving at that gateway, and one of the horses falls ; the rider has a narrow escape' but, though evidently shaken, he is not materially hurt, and, like a soldier, he mounts again and proceeds upon his duty. Later in the day another horse fell there.

A host of infantry now approach, advancing up Ludgate Hill in single file, one file on each side of the street. The train seems interminable. They pass the church, and clear off in an Easterly direction.

"It is now eleven o'clock. These files of infantry have ended, and after an interval the general procession comes. It is still military Sometimes

there is a succession of guns, sometimes dense masses of the Guards. At in- tervals there are the bands of various regiments. It is very striking, these successive bands; as one passes by the church, and the music dies upon the ear, the noterof the next band begin to be heard, taking up the wail. Major-General his Royal Highness the Duke ofeambridge,whe eomman ds the troops employed, is riding about, and giving the requisite directions. Now come the eighty- three Chelsea Pensioners, wearing their medals—it is a company that seems to azaite general interest : the soldiers went past the church, the Pensioners &o in. brezt, the 'one soldier from every regiment '—an interesting group. The proce,ssioa now. begins to be one of carriages and mourning coaches; and the time consumed in setting down their occupants at the doors makes this part of the proceeding rather tedious. The Sheriffs' carriages approach, but they are hardly in keeping with a funeral procession ; their gay decorations require some signs of mourning about them on such an occasion. The Speaker is there, in his quaint state carriage; and the Lord Mayor, in that capacious vehicle of his, which, after all,, the citizens have seen in proces- sion in November before. Now come three Royal carriages, with those no- ble horses which it is a treat to see : the third carriage brings Prince Albert. We cannot see him, but the saline as he passes the troops proclaims his presence. We miss the foreign batons, but it is because they are carried in closed mourning-coaches. All eyes now watch for the funeral car. It is drawn by twelve black horses, three abreast, and covered with velvet, presenting such a dark foreground that we can hardly see whether the car is drawn by horses or not. The car is driven in at the Churchyard- gates, and drawn up in front of the great Western door : the relations of the Mike are set down at the side-entrance. After them follows that touching sight, the home led after the bier of its master. There still remains a very interesting passage. Officers and men from every regiment in the service march past. The Churchyard from the entrance up to the car is cleared ; the coffin is there before all eyes; the Duke of Cambridge, the commander, stands at the gate with his sword drawn in his hand, and the men who re- present the whole Army of England march slowly and sadly by. There has not been a more striking or effective circumstance in the proceedings of the day. The soldiers seem to be impressed with the situation : it is the final token of reverence for their departed chief: it is rendered in solemn silence. It closes the procession, with the exception only that the carriages of the Sovereign here most appropriately follow." The car arrived at the entrance of the Cathedral at ten minutes after twelve. Here something was wrong in the machinery constructed to move the coffin from the car; and the old Generals bad to wait until it was remedied. Meanwhile, the clerical staff of the Cathedral had come to meet theliedy at the grand entrance; and there they stood, in a cutting wind, in double lines. Sir William Napier sat on a kettle-dram; his brother Sir 'Charles was actively moving hither and thither ; Lord Harding° standing; and the Marquis of Anglesea, with uncovered head, seemed to think that age could stand exposure to cold as well as youth. The display of orders, stars, and ribands, was remarkable. At length the difficulty was overcome ; the coffin glided from the car; and the proces- sion disappeared into the Cathedral.

The interior of St. PauPs was metamorphosed. Burning gas ran round the building in sinuous lines following the, architecture, and encircled the whispering gallery. This was a grand and simple idea: but, unfortu- nately, sufficient care had not been taken to exclude the sunlight ; and there was therefore a strange blended light, red above the jets of gas, and fading away into a negative hue, very unsatisfactory to the eye. Moreover, the gas had been kept down in proportion to the admission of daylight; so that there was no more light in the Cathedral than on an ordinary day. Under the dome, on either side of the area, rose two segments of an amphi- theatre. Here were allotted out the seats of the two Houses of Parlia- ment, on either side of the amphitheatre; the foremost seats being wen- pied by the Ministry, the Judges, and the high functionaries of state. In a mW space close to the nave' sat the Orford deputation ; in a large space to the East, were an array of officers of both services, forming tolerably broad belts of colour, blue and red, bespangled with orders; and on the other side sat the Ministers from foreign countries. Above the Lords and Cenmions towered two huge galleries fifty feet high. In the nave, South end North, were seated a dense body of citizens, fringed at the lower edges with- military. In the gallery beneath the organ, devoted to Peeresses, were the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary. The Duchess of Wellington sat alone. In the gallery overlooking Ludgate Hill sat Lord John Russell and the private friends of the Dean. In the centre of the area was a platform, with an opening into the crypt; and ranged romid this were seats for the chief participants.

The interior arrangements were so imperfect, that many persons who had arrived early, not having any guide, lost themselves in the mazes of the vast edifice, and did not get places until late. Painters were finish- ing black window-boards; and even while the procession was solemnly filing in, the sound of the hammer was heard. [This, it is said, was owing to a strike among the workmen.] As the Cathedral began to fill, the perceptible effect of the colour of the divers uniforms was manifest. Groups of military men came fast upon each other. The rich but modest uniform of the Line, the bolder and saucier costume of Dragoons, Hussars, and Horse Artillery, the tartans of High- land regiments, and the sombre coats of officers of the Rifles, soon began to enrich the lower benches of the nave. The members of the Corps Di- plomatique were perhaps the first to occupy the seats specially reserved beneath the dome. Soon Commodore Napier made his appearance; then Sir John Macdonald and Sir Willoughby Cotton; then the Duke of Bra- bant and the Prince of Flanders, fair-haired youths in Belgian uniforms ; then Mr. Hume, with the white neck-tie he promised to wear Count Walewaki, and Sir James Graham. Heralds in gaudy tabards ran about; the great Law-officers entered ; and soon the Chelsea Pen- sioners tired with their long march, tottered up to the seats in the nave allotted to them. Mr. Disraeli took his seat between Major Beresford and Mr. Christopher. The Earl of Derby, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir John Pakington, and Mr. Walpole, sat together at a little distance. All the Ministers wore the Windsor uniforms.

"The flags borne by the leading personages of the procession had now been planted in the amphitheatre, and the Russian, Prussian, and Spanish Mar- shals, carrying the batons of the late Duke in their respective services had marched up, the cynosure of every eye, to the central area. The uniforms of the several countries were very splendid. Those of Spain somewhat resemble our own; • the Prussians are dark, but very rich ; the Russians the same ; but the bearers of the latter were out of sight the most remark- able of the foreign military deputations. Their small heads and Cabriuck faze; curiously intellectnelieed, and lighted up with eyes of wild keen- ness and the most penetrating slyness, demonstrated at once the Northern said Eastern races from whom they have sprung, and excited no small de-

gree of admiring remark. The passage of the nave was now tolerably well filled, and the amphitheatre was brilliantly crowded, principally by military men and diplomatists" : it was then, perhaps, that the finest effect of the whole day took place—the procession of ecclesiastic; headed by the Bishop of London, who went to meet the corpse. As soon as the obstruc- tion before mentioned was removed, they reontered the Cathedral, and the funeral service began. The choristers sang the opening sentences of the Burial Office in magnificent intonation ; and as they slowly—very slowly —crept in procession along the nave, they chanted the 39th and 906. Pkalms, to music familiarly known as the composition of the Earl a 3dornington, the father of the Duke of Wellington. After them came groups of soldiers, and the Foreign Marshals, carrying the Duke's several batons ; after these Prince Albert, with the sword of state borne before him, and a group of officers following. The coffin was, conveyed upon a wheeled bier, the pall flung back, and the white feathers of the Duke's hat waving in the wind which swept up the nave. The ear upon which the coffin lay was partially propelled by the persons in rbfirge of the mechanical arrangements, and partly by the private soldiers, gracefully placed side by side with the generals who bore the pall- Among the familiar faces were those of the gal- lant veteran Combermere, the Duke's right-hand man now his successor Lord Hardinge, the Marquis of Londonderry, Viscount Gough, Sir Charles Napier, and Sir George Pollock. Close to the coffin walked, as chief mourner, the Duke of Wellington, supported by the Marquis of Salisbury and the Marquis of Tweeddale ; each with the collar of an order placed round the dark cloak in which all the mourners were cos, turned. A. group of these followed; and then a confused mass of servants, soldiers, and the general public, The procession took a considerable time to defile up the nave, stopping every, now and then to give the choristers time; but at length, and after some delay, the coffin was slipped from the wheeled bier to the platform, and the mourners and pall-bearers ranged themselves around it. The eldest son of the late Duke stood at his father's head; the Generals, his father's old companions in arms, on either side of the coffin, and the Foreign Marshals at the foot. Prince Albert, in a Field-Marshal's uniform, stood in the centre of the South side. As soon as the coffin was placed upon the plat- form on which it was to descend, the Duke's hat and sword were taken away, and a cushion and his coronet substituted. Dean Mil- man then read the remainder of the service in a clear and sonorous voice; and the choir—which, although it might have been stronger, contained many of the best voices in London—sang the " Nune dimittia" to a chant adapted from Beethoven and a dirge by Mr. Goss, the organist of St. Paul's, containing striking trumpet passages, leading to the very solemn and effective Dead March in Saul; in the midst of which the coffin slowly sank away from the gaze of thousands of eyes fixed upon it, into the darkness of the tomb. The disappearance was very striking. The platform with the body stood for one moment as firm. in ap- pearance as the floor; the next—both were gone. Dean Milman re- sumed the part of the burial service spoken when the body is in the ground. At its conclusion, Garter King of Arms proclaimed the style of the deceased in the usual form, reciting the brilliant catalogue of the titles and offices of trust and' honour held by the deceased ; a wand was broken, and the fragments flung down, upon the coffin. Then the benediction was pronounced by the Bishop of London ; Mendelssohn's " Sleepers, awake" was chanted—and the Duke of Wellington lay buried, in St. Paul's.

When all was ended, the soldiers marched off to their quarters by va- rious ways, none returning through the route traversed in the morning.

The Convocation of the Clergy of the Province of Canterbury met again on Tuesday and Wednesday. At the sitting of Friday last week, it was obvious that the active mind of the Bishop of Oxford breathed an unwonted spirit into the proceedings; and that the prolonged session of the Convocation would be mainly due to him. So it was in the sittings this week.

The Upper House, at its meeting on Tuesday, conceded to tlua press the privilege of admission in order to report the proceedings. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Winches- ter, Lincoln,, Exeter Rochester, St. Asaph, Peterborough, Llandaf4 St. David's, Oxford, Salisbury, Worcester, Norwich, and Chichester. A discussion took place at the outset as to the right of the Archbishop to prorogue the Convocation without the consent of his suffragans. The Archbishop said, he had no idea of surrendering the right hitherto exer- cised by his predecessors. Some of the Bishops denied the right; and it was understood that they are supported by the legal opinion of the Attor- ney-General.

The business of the sitting commenced by the reading of the address to the Crown proposed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. It stated, that there were many of the clergy favourable, and many unfavourable, to the revival of Convocation ; and that Convocation was content to leave the matter in the hands of her Majesty. Upon this the Bishop of Oxford moved an amendment, stating that the time was come when it would be beneficial that the active deliberation of Convocation should be re- sumed; .but disclaiming by a distinct statement the discussion of contro- verted questions of doctrine, and confining itself to questions of disci- pline. The Bishop of Winchester was decidedly Opposed to the amend- ment. The Bishops of Llandaff, Worcester, and Norwich, rather depre- cated than directly opposed it. The Bishop of Salisbury supported it. The Bishop of St. David's, dissatisfied with both the original address and the amendment, struck out a third course, in which several, and more particularly, the Bishops of Exeter and London, concurred. He proposed that both should be submitted to a Committee, for the purpose of seeing how far they could be united. The speech by Which he preceded this suggestion was warmly praised for its ability and moderation. But the Archbishop would not say whether he would agree to the appointment of a Committee. Ultimately, the Bishop of Oxford withdrew his amend- ment, in favour of one drawn up by the Bishop of Salisbury, expressing nearly the same opinions as the Bishop of Oxford's, only in a less dog- matic manner,—namely, praying that Convocation might at no distant date be revived, and disavowing any intention of touching doctrinal questions. This was agreed to ; as was also an additional clause protesting against the Papal aggression. A Committee, consisting of the Bishops of London, Oxford, Salisbury, Exeter, Winchester, Chichester, and St. David's, was afterwards ap- pointed, on the motion of the Bishop of Oxford, to consider whether an address should be presented to her Majesty, with_ respect to a measure for the better enforcing of diseipline among the clergy. The Committee was directed to confer with the Lower House. Wednesday's business consisted in settling some matters of routine, and in finally passing the address to the Throne. The Lower House met at ten o'clock. The actual business consisted of the appointment of a Committee of Grievances ; the members of which were proposed by the Prolocutor and consisted of the Deans of St. Paul's, Norwich, and Wells, the Archdeacons of London, Middlesex, Lewes, St. Alban's, Winchester, Chichester ; Dr. Spry, Dr. Telf, Dr. Mill, Dr. Wordsworth, Dr. 111.‘Caul, Dr. Jeremie, the Reverends G. B. Blomfield, Frederick Vincent, Montague Villiers, and Francis Massingberd. This Committee had to consider the representation of " gravamina " and " re- formanda " presented in a paper by Dr. Spry at the previous sitting. Some discussion arose as to the legality of the Committee ; and Dr. Jelf, Archdeacon Garbett, and others, declined to sit unless it were legal. At length the motion was agreed to. The Prolocutor carried the resolution to the Upper House ; and on his return reported that the Archbishop had requested that the document be left with him, in order that he might con- sider it, and that he would send an answer.

A paper of " gravamina," presented by Dr. Wordsworth at the last sit- ting, was also ordered to be referred to the Committee of Grievances. Some other matters were disposed of; and the House was in the midst of a discussion on an important paper framed as an address to the Queen, praying that licence might be given to protest against the Papal aggres- sion in which all the branches of the Church within and without Great Bri- tain would be invited to concur,—when a message was sent proroguing the sitting until the next day.

The Lower House met accordingly on Wednesday ; and the address from the Upper House having been received, it was taken into considera- tion. Several additions were made, one being an expression of regret at the death of the Duke of Wellington. On that portion of the address re- lating to the meeting of Convocation, which rather hinted than expressed a formal desire for the revival of its active functions, Archdeacon Hare moved an amendment, expressing in terms a desire that her Majesty would take such steps as seemed to her most expedient "for the speedy conven- ing of a Synod, constituted in such a manner as may suit the present condition and wants of the Church of England, and may fitly represent her as the United Church of England and Ireland and her Majesty's Colonial Empire,—a Synod in which the mani- fold gifts of the lay members of the Church may work together with those of her ecclesiastical members." This was seconded by the Reverend Mr. Seymour. It was at once met by friendly opposition—Archdeacon 'Thorpe trusting it would not be pressed ; and, in deference to the general opinion, the amendment was withdrawn. An attempt was made never- theless, to raise a discussion. Dr. M'Caul, with various interruptions from the Prolocutor, who endeavoured to repress debate, proceeded to un- fold his objections to the revival of Convocation. Archdeacon Sinclair and Archdeacon Garbett took the same side : the latter urged that "the steps they had taken were the beginning of a spiritual and ecclesiastical revolution." The Reverend Hayward Cox wished to enter a distinct protest against the paragraph in. the address under discussion : he moved an amendment recognizing "its legitimate assemblies as an important part of the constitution of the Church, but affirming, that as at present constituted, and without lay coOperation, the resumption of its active functions would be at once inconvenient and open to just suspicions." /laving been seconded, the amendment was put, and lost by a large ma- jority. Subsequently the address was carried up by the Prolocutor; who reported that their Lordships had agreed to the alterations.

The address of Convocation, as rustily amended end adjusted, stood as follows.

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Madam—We, your Majesty's faithful subjects, the Archbishop, Bishops, and Ckrgy of the province of Canterbury, assembled in Convocation, most humbly ap- proach your Majesty with respectful assurances of loyal affection to your Majesty's throne and person.

"And we desire to add our sincere congratulations, that since the last occasion when we enjoyed a similar privilege, it has pleased Almighty God to bless both your Majesty's royal family and the country at large with a measure of prosperity which demands our warmest thankfulness.

"Your Majesty has been graciously pleased to state to your assembled Parlia- ment, that your Majesty has received assurances of a disposition on the part of Fo- reign Powers to maintain those friendly relations with this country which have already been prolonged beyond all former example. And never, perhaps, was there aitime when the inhabitants of this land were more generally prosperous, more wil- lingly obedient to the laws, or more loyally affected towards the Throne. It is our earnest prayer to Almighty God that he will continue to ourselves, and extend to all nations, the blessings of peace and unity.

"Here we earnestly desire to assure your Majesty of our.deep sympathy with the sorrow which your Majesty, has so graciously expressed, a sorrow which is even shared by foreign nations, for the loss which the empire is now mourning, in the death of that great warrior and statesman, to whom, above all, it has been owing, under God's all-ruling Providence, that we have enjoyed this long and unprecedented peace and prosperity. We assure your Majesty that we prize, above the splendour of his greatest exploits, that high sense of duty which led him to devote all his fa- culties to the service of his sovereign and his country, and to valuehia most glorious victories chiefly as they secured a lasting peace.

'The subject, however, on which your Majesty will expect us to feel the deepest interest, is the state of religion in this land. And here there is much to encourage, Whilst there is also much to lament, and much that we hope gradually to amend. Great exertions have been made during the last thirty years, with the desire of pro- viding the means of spiritual instruction for a population increasing beyond all former experience. Much has been done by the awakened liberality of individuals, assisted by recent legislative measures, towards enabling the-Church to fulfil the ends of her divine mission. Much, however, still remains to be done; and we as- sure your Majesty that our heartiest endeavours shall be used to relieve, wherever they exist, the spiritual wants of the population. We feel a confident persuasion that these our endeavours will be seconded by the pious and ready caperation of our lay brethren in the Church. In connexion with this subject, we cannot but oh- Serve, that although the population of England and Wales has been doubled in the last half century, the number of English and Welsh Bishops remains nearly the same as it was three centuries ago ; a state of things to which we beg respectfully to invite your Majesty's consideration. " We trust, however, thit if the Church has been unable to accomplish all that might be desired, it has yet given no slig:tz. proof of activity and power. Fewer churches were built during the whole of di: last century than are now consecrated to the service of God in every successive year. Inadequate as are still the means of providing Christian education for the increasing numbers who require it, we thank- fully acenowledge that great efforts have been made for its extension and improve- ment.

" And great and painful as are the privations of many of your Majesty's poorer subjects in our crowded cities, it must be a peculiar source of satisfaction to your Majesty, that, under the continuous and active encouragement of your Majesty's illustrious consort, institutions have been formed and are daily forming, to increase the comforts of the labouring classes, and to improve their moral and social condi- tion; and, as all true charity has its origin in religious principle, we trust that in this instance also proof has been given of the influence of that faith which it is the auty of the clergy to inculcate and maintain amongst the, people intrusted to their

charge. For whatever has been done or intended of good, we desire to give God the glory, through our Lord Jesus Christ ; being deeply conscious of the imperfection of all our endeavours.

"In thus referring to the subjects which appear to us especially to concern the wellbeing of the Church, we cannot omit to speak of those deliberative functions of this Convocation which many members of our Church desire to see again called into active exercise.

" We do not indeed deem it advisable, at the present moment, to petition your Majesty for your royal licence to transact such business as we may not enter upon without it ; but we think it our duty respectfully to express our conviction, both that its legislative assemblies are an essential and most important part of the constitution of our Reformed Church, and that the circumstances of the present day make Ralik* more imperative to preserve, and, as far as possible, to improve them, and more par- ticularly that the resumption of their active functions, in such manner as your Ma- jesty by your loyal licence may permit, may at no distant date be productive of much advantage. We know, indeed, that apprehensions have been entertained that in such case Convocation might address itself to the diocussion of controverted questions of doctrine, and a spirit of strife and bitterness be thereby engendered, fatal to Christian charity, and dangerous alike to existing institutions and to our visible unity ; and we therefore feel it to be our duty humbly to pray your Majesty to receive this our most solemn declaration of our hearty acceptance of the doctrinal formu- laries and liturgical offices of the Reformed Church, and our assurance that we re- gard them as inestimable blessings, and are resolved, by the help of God, to trans- mit them unimpaired to posterity. And further, we not only recognize, but highly prize your Majesty's undoubted supremacy in all causes, ecclesiastical and civil, over all persons and in every part of your Majesty's dominions, as it was maintained in ancient times against the usurpations of the See of Rome. and was recovered and re- asserted at our Reformation. In connexion with this grave subject, we feel that yeller Majesty may expect from us the expression of out solemn protest against that fresh aggression of the Bishop of Rome, by which he has arrogated to himself the spiritual charge of this nation, thereby denying the existence of that branch of the Church Catholic which was planted in Britain in the primitive ages of Christianity, and has been preserved by a merciful Providence to this day, as well as against many which have preceded it; and we desire on this, our first occasion of addressing your Ma- jesty since its occurrence, solemnly to protest in the face of Christendom, and to lay this our protest before your most gracious Majesty."

Both Houses were prorogued till the 16th of February, on the sole au- thority of the Archbishop, under a protest from the Bishops of Oxford, Salisbury, Chichester, and St. David's.

It is understood that the Committee of Grievances appointed by the Lower House would be called together during the recess by the Prolo- cutor.

This week an important Conference took place, having for its object the assimilation of the commercial laws of the Three Kingdoms ; attended by Lord Brougham, the Earl of Harrowby, fourteen Members of the Lower House, and deputations from Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Nottingham, Southampton, Worcester Bath, Aylesbury, Birmingham, Bradford, Man-

chester, Newcastle and Worcester, Dover, Dublin,'Belfast, and Perth. The Conference was held in the rooms of the Law Amendment Society, under the presidence of Lord Brougham on Tuesday, and Lord Harrowby on Wednesday. Among the speakers were Mr. Matthew Baines M.P., Mr. C. Turner M.P., Mr. Hadfield M.P., Air. Headlam M.P., Mr. Mas- sey M.P., Mr. Hastie M.P., the Earl of tarrowby, Mr. Hutt M.P., Mr. Ewart M.P. The resolutions adopted set forth the scattered, discon- nected, and even dissimilar character of the mercantile laws of England, Ireland, and Scotland, and pointed out how desirable it is that they should be revised, reformed, and digested ; and that the proper course would be to pass a series of large measures at intervals, and single acts for the remedy of the more pressing and grievous evils. A Committee, consisting of the President, Vice-Presidents, and Council of the Law Amendment Society, and certain other gentlemen, was appointed to repre- sent the views of the Conference to Lord Derby ; and accordingly these gentlemen waited on the Premier on Wednesday afternoon.

A breakfast meeting of the friends of the Society established, to obtain International Postage Reform was held on Wednesday, at the Society of Arts. Among the gentlemen present were, Earl Granville, J..ord. Wrottesley, the Earl of Harrowby, Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Hume, Mr. Henry Brown, Mr. Oliveira, Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir John Burgoyne, Mr. Henry Cole, and Mr. Dilke. All the gentlemen were extremely favourable to the objeots of the association.

In dismissing the East Middlesex Militia, on Tuesday, at Hampstead, Colonel Wood said he had not a single name on the defaulter's book ; a thing which had not happened to him before in dismissing his men. Loud cheers were given when he said that he was convinced, from the discipline they had exhibited, that when wanted, they would be ready to act in defence of their country.

Certain citizens of the United States, living in London, met on Satur- day, at the American Legation, wider the presidency of Mr. Ingersoll, and passed resolutions in honour of the memory of Daniel Webster. They resolved to wear mourning for thirty days.

The inquest on the two women killed at Chelsea on Saturday was opened by Mr. Wakley, at St. Paul's Workhouse, on Monday. The bodies were identified as those of Mrs. Sarah Bean, an elderly widow, and Charlotte Cooke, a single woman of fifty-five cook to Mr. Bethell, Q.C., of Gloucester Place. Mr. Bellard, a surgeon, described the appearance he observed on a post-mortem examination of Mrs. Bean's body. The external hurts were trifling, except a laceration on the back of the head. The congested state of the internal organs showed the cause of death—suffocation. Mr. Furnival, a surgeon of Pimlico found, on examining Charlotte Cooke's body, that the breast-bone was flattened, and the ankles wounded. Within, he discovered that two ribs had been recently broken. There was an abscess in the lung. The woman died from this abscess and from suffocation in the crowd. She was a delicate person of weak frame. Mrs. Ewing, who was with Mrs. Bean, described the eircumstances'attending her death. "We arrived where the people were going up at ten o'clock. We advanced to the Eastern en- trance, where there was a great crowd. We were not alarmed. When we were nearly at the entrance there was a dreadful crush. The pressure was very bad. There was no one with me but Mrs. Jackson and the deceased. Between eleven and twelve there was a great pressure and Mrs. Jackson was torn from us, and we were pushed to the other side. I could not see any barriers to break the force of the pressure. While in the pressure, Mrs. Bean was falling, and she said, 'Hold me tight!' I did so by catching both her arms. I thought she was fainting. I screamed, and some soldiers put their arms out and prevented the mob from falling on her. The sailers were in the crowd, but not on duty. She was taken out in four or five mi- nutes. She never spoke again after she said Hold me tight.' I had much difficulty in breathing, and was afraid I was going down myself. The heat was tremendous." "There were no barriers at all." Mrs. Jackson, another companion of deceased, said she saw a barrier before getting to the railing; an alarm was raised that the barrier was broken, a rush took place, and they were all forced forward, witness losing sight of Mrs. Ewins and the deceased. A discussion took place among the Jury about this "barrier" and its po- sition; and Mrs. Fairhead, who accompanied Cooke, was called to speak of it. She said that she went with the deceased to the Queen's Road about twenty minutes past eleven. A great crowd was there. They passed under the barrier of rope ; she heard the alarm that the rope was broken, and lost sight of Mrs. Cooke. She was very much crushed. The Coroner asked, could she describe the exact position where the rope was. Did she know the Queen's Road ? Witness—" I don't know. The rope was across the road, near the entrance." Mr. Wakley said, it was most important to know the exact lo- cality where the barrier of rope was; the witness did not appear to know,

and they ought to have evidence of that fact. Several persons, as well as the authorities present, offered suggestions explanatory-of its position. Mr. Wakley, however, said he felt satisfied it was absolutely necessary that the

Jury should have a view of the locality where the catastrophe took place ; and he therefore suggested that the Jury should proceed with the witnesses to the spot, and understand from their explanation the position where the de- ceased females fell. The majority of the Jury acquiesced in the arrange- ment; and the inquest was adjourned. The Jury subsequently visited the locality, and inspected the place both within and without the Hospital.

The inquest was concluded on Tuesday. It appeared from the evidence that there were two ropes stretched across the path fourteen yards apart ; this was to give the Police some control over the crowd, by lifting the rope to allow ingress, and then dropping it to stop a further influx. The de- ceased woman perished in a sudden crush caused by a general movement, which broke the inner rope ; at the time the space between the ropes, which would have held two thousand people, was not nearly filled. Sir Richard liavne stated that this rope system had been found very useful at the Great Exhibition. He said—"I had the Police management at the Hospital : I had the management within and without in connexion with the Lord Cham- berlain. Our great object was to prevent a great pressure from behind, by having bodies of the Police to break the crowd. The officers in charge of the Police always have private instructions to erect barriers as circumstances may require. I cannot say how many persons could assemble to get admis- sion at a single door with safety. We allow about twenty-two inches square for each person, but when there is a great pressure there will be less space for each. From my experience I say that no regulation can pre- vent extreme pressure at the point of entrance ; and that applies to all classes; and I have seen it even at the Queen's drawingroorn. At the point of entrance policemen are to a great degree powerless. As far as I have been able to ascertain, there was enough of space-room for all if they had not all pressed forward so greatly at the point of entrance." Coroner— Was there any obstacle made to you using the grass-plot by per- sons in authority ?" Sir Richard Mayne— No, I did not think it would have been advisable to fill that space. It would hold 50,000 or 60,000, which would be perfectly unmanageable. The great difficulty is in getting people to fall into a line." "The number of police on duty at the lying in state of William the Fourth, was 100; and at the funeral of the Duke of Sussex, 113. On this occasion there were on the first day 130; and on Saturday, at half-past eight, there were on duty 220; then, at twelve, 161 more were brought on ; in half an hour afterwards, 63 more ; in another half hour, 107 more ; and at three, 159 more—making in all 990, besides 33 in plain clothes. But I should state, that of these 500 were in reserve ; but about four o'clock, 300 of these were called on duty, leaving 200 in reserve. I had calculated the number of policemen that would be necessary, but the crowd was greater than I calculated. It was the first instance in which life has been lost in my experience in a crowd of any extent." This was Sir Richard's conclusion—

rem all I can learn, this was a mere matter of accident, which might have happened in a crowd of a hundred persons." Superintendent Pearce said, he never saw a crowd exhibit so much angry feeling as that on Saturday. After the Coroner had summed up, the Jury retired, and after upwards of two hours' deliberation found the following verdict—" Accidental death ; ac- companied by an expression of regret that better arrangements were not adopted by the Police authorities for the public safety on Saturday morning last."

Mr. A'Beckett, the Southwark Magistrate, gave an important decision on Monday, on the railway-cab question. Hall, a driver, was summoned for plying for hire in an unlicensed place—to wit, within the terminus of the Brighton Railway at London Bridge. There was no denial that the place had not been appointed a standing by the Commissioners of Police. There were several interesting points in Mr. A'Beckett's statement. He remarked at the outset, that the Railway Company had taken advantage of the delay he had granted to obtain the opinions of the Solicitor-General and Mr. Bovill, which were adverse to the judgment he was about to give ; but, of course, a Magistrate must decide for himself, and could not be led by such "opinions." In the present case, he pointed out how he thought the learned gentlemen had made a great mistake in the application of a particu- lar decision respecting hackney-carriages. Mr. A'Beckett pronounced that Hall, acting under the Company's sanction, had clearly violated the law. It was urged that railway companies made these illegal regulations to promote the convenience of the public ; but he held that it was not at all desirable that a certain number of privileged vehicles should thus be withdrawn from the control of the Police Commissioners, as the railway companies were under no responsibility to the public with respect to these cabs. Some of the regulations were misleading to the public ; railway numbers were placed on cabs different from the legal numbers, and this had frequently led to the summoning of innocent drivers, while the guilty escaped ; the aggrieved passengers having mistaken the Railway for the Police number. Mr. A'Beck- ett had communicated with Sir Richard Mayne, who expressed his willingness to appoint a stand within the terminus, and even to adopt any regulations suggested by the Company that appeared useful ; but instead of taking ad- vantage of this opportunity, the Company had used the time in the en- deavour to find means of evading the law. He inflicted on Hall the nominal fine of one shilling.

Morrish, another driver, was convicted of refusing to take a fare within the terminus. He said it was not his " turn," and that he should be fined five shillings by the Company if he broke their regulations. A gentleman from the Railway announced that this regulation had been abrogated since the last decision on the point. Mr. A'Beckett fined the driver forty shillings.

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At the Middleeex Sessions; on Monday, John Morris, aged fourteen, pleaded g.uilty to Stealing a till tot:ash:lit% 28. 5(1. The lad was old in cnme : he had beeh sumrharily Convicted eleven times. Mr. Sergeant Adams said, in this case he had not the power to transport the culprit.- The prisoner—" I Want to be transported." The Assistant-Judge—" I dare say you do ; but I am serry to say you cannot be gratified at present." Prisoner—" Oh, very well ; I shall go on the same game again when I'm out, till I do get trans- ported, though." The Assistant-Judge—" Well, I promise you that the next tune you come here you shall be transported, if guilty. Now, mind that." He then sentenced the prisoner to nine months' hard labour.

On Tuesday, Elizabeth Bromwich, a good-looking young woman of twenty- one, was tried for deserting her infant. She lived with a person named Stroud, supporting him by money pined in an infamous way ; he used her ill, and then denounced her to the Police as the murderess of her child. It appeared that she had deserted it. A surgeon had pronounced that it could

not live many hours; the prisoner, according to her own account, resolved to abandon it in some place where it might be found, and the corpse would thus

receive burial. The infant was found in a paddock at Hampstead, by mere chance, by a man who got over a hedge in search of a cricket-ball: the child still lives. When the prisoner discovered this, she showed all a mother's

yearnings for her young. Mr. Payne made an effective appeal for the accused)

and failed not to denounce the wretch Stroud. Sergeant Adams left it to the Jury to decide whether the woman had acted from wicked, wilful, and mall. cious feeling in deserting her infant. The Jury soon found a verdict of "Not guilty." A small subscription was made for the young woman. Her child has been named Mary Heath, from its having been found on Hamp- stead Heath.

Henry fierier, a wretched-looking man, living in Sun Street, Bishopsgate, is in custody for murdering his wife by cutting her throat in bed. He seems to have been drunk when he committed the crime, and he was still intoxi- cated when brought before Alderman Finnis. The couple lived an unhappy life. A surgeon thought the murder had been committed while the victim slept, and was probably somewhat affected with drink. A Coroner's Jury has returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Horler.

William Baker, the little boy who stabbed his brother, has been committed to prison, both on the Coroner's warrant and on that of the Marylebone Ma- gistrate, to take his trial for manslaughter.

At Guildhall Police Office, on Monday' i John Cooper, who charged with the robbery at Messrs. Whittaker and Co.'s, was reexamined. The plate, coin, and bank-notes stolen, are now valued at 3001. During the proceedings the prisoner fainted. Some evidence corroborative of that formerly given was adduced ; and Alderman Carden announced that he should send the prisoner for trial when the depositions had been properly prepared, on Saturday.

William Izzard, " wholesale dealer," of Heneage Street, Brick Lane, is in. custody on a novel charge of fraud. He induced Whiteloek, a shopkeeper, to buy a quantity of goods, by sending his wife, and, apparently, other con- federates, to Whitelock's shop to inquire for or order large amounts of arti- cles which Whitelock did not keep. The goods supplied by Izzard were fraudulent imitations of crocus powder and rotten-stone, with pencils of a worthless description, all charged for at a high rate. The people who had given orders did not appear again. The Thames Police Magistrate con, sidered that the facts warranted his remanding the accused.

Mr. William King, of Andover Lodge, Finchley Road, has been sent to the House of Correction, by the Marylebone Magistrate, for cruelty to his cat He hung the animal before the kitchen-fire, partially roasting it alive, and then killed it by hitting it on the head. He pretended that it was ne- cessary to kill the cat to get rid of an annoyance ; he hung it to the roast- ing-hook as the handiest place, not to inflict cruelty, till he knocked it on the head. As the Magistrate was incredulous, Mr. King begged he would only fine him : but Mr. Broughton observed that fining would be no punish- ment to a gentleman.

Some accidents happened in the course of Thursday. Amen was killed by falling from a roof near Charing Cross into a back yard. Two women were trampled on in the City ; and three or four persons were knocked down, but not seriously hurt, in attempting to cross the Strand. A fire broke out is Bedfordbury, Covent Garden ; but, through the judicious secrecy practised, the crowd knew nothing about it; and engines arriving, it was put out. There was another high tide in the Thames on Sunday afternoon, which flooded the low-lying parts adjacent to the river.

A new screw-steamer, the Adelaide, built of iron for the Australian Mail Company, was launched from Messrs. Scott and Ruesell's yard, at Millwall, yesterday week. The launch was "in the American style "—the vessel was masted and rigged, and the boilers were in her ready for service. The tide was so high that the ship was floated off the slips almost as if front a dock. The Adelaide is 288 feet long, and of 1852 tons. There are fifteen water- tight compartments.

On Monday- night, a horse in an omnibus ascending Ludgate Hill began to "jib," and backed the vehicle on to the pavement; the conductor jumped from the foot-board, and in an instant the omnibus was driven through the window of Mr. Faiers, a jeweller, and the pavement was strewn with valu- able goods. Some policemen quickly arrived, and they seem to have effect- ually protected the tempting property; but a gold watch was stolen from the pocket of Mr. Faiers.

Mrs. Hiseman, wife of a gardener at Greenhithe, has died in St. Thomas's Hospital, from an accident at the Greenhithe station. While she was at- tempting to descend from a carriage, the train moved on, her leg was caught between the platform and the carriages, and was fractured. Amputation was necessary, and the poor woman never recovered from the shock.

A child has been born in a carriage at the Waterloo terminus. A young married woman journeying from Farnham to London was taken in labour on the way; and when the train arrived at its destination, a surgeon was procured, who speedily added one to the number of passengers. Mother and child are "doing well," considering the circumstances.