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Accounts of the preparations in St. Paul's Cathedral for the burial of the Great Duke continue to flood the journals. Between three and four hun- dred workmen have been engaged in constructing the galleries, platforms, and orchestra.

" The entire range of seats, orchestra, and platforms, are to be covered, the former with black cloth, and the latter with black velvet. The Cathedral win- dows will be darkened with black drapery; but the cornices, architraves, and transepts, will be fringed with jets of gas-light. R is in contemplation to hang the dome with draperies of black ; to suspend from its centre, over the vault where the bier will rest during the service, a large and powerful light ; and to toll the great bell at intervals. It has been determined that all the seats shall be free, and that no gratuities shall be taken by the representa- tives of the Dean and Chapter. The steps of the Western portico, are to be covered with black cloth ; and a platform, also black, is being erected to re- ceive the bier with its illustrious remains, after ascending Ludgate Hill." The funeral car is to form a stage 27 feet long, 11 feet wide, and 17 feet high, supported on six wheels, and composed of solid bronze. "Above the framework there will be a pediment seven feet wide, the aides of which will present a mass of gilt carving, enriched with circular panels, within which the names of the Duke's principal victories will be emblazoned. In the centre and at each end of the pediment will be shown trophies of arms and flags. These trophies will consist of real arms and war-banners, arranged in chronological order. The side trophies will be surmounted by the ducal coronet, the whole rising considerably above the pediment. Upon the pedi- ment will, be erected a bier six feet high and four feet wide, which will be co- vered by a pall of black velvet, richly powdered with silver ornaments; the Duke's crest and motto alternating with two Field-Marshal's batons crossed and entwined with laurel. The fringe of the pall will be of silver, six inches deep. Upon the bier will rest the coffin covered with crimson velvet. The hat and sword of the deceased will be placed upon the lid. From the framework will rise, at each of the four corners massive halberds; which are to form the support of a canopy of Indian kinkhal, hanging over and partly covering the coffin. This rich material, which is of a very beautiful pat- terni and worked in silver and gold, is now in process of manufacture in Spitalfields." According to the latest rumour, the body of the Duke will lie in state jive days, at Chelsea Hospital. The following is an outline of the order of procession, as at present suggested. It has been announced "upon authority," that the pro- cession. "will start from the Horse Guards, pass up Constitution Hitt, through Piccadilly, by St. James's Street, along Pall Mall, Charing Cross, and the Strand, to St. Paul's."

OUTLINE PROGRAMME OF THE STATE FUNERAL.

Troops; including six battalions (each 600) of Infantry; eight squadrons of Cavalry; a de- tachment of Foot Artillery, with 17 guns ; a detachment of Horse Artillery, with — nine-pounder batteries.

Marshalmen, Messenger of the College of Anna, and eight Conductors, all on foot. Eighty-three Chelsea Pensioners. Trumpets and Kettledrums. Mourning Coach bearing two Pursuivants. Standard of Pennon, carried by Lieutenant-Colonel, with two Captains, ou horseback.

Servants of the Deceased.

Trumpets.

Lieutenant and Deputy-Lieutenant of the Tower. Deputations from Public Bodies; namely—Merchant Tailors Company, East India Company, Corporation of the Tri- nity House, Barons and Officers of the Cinque Ports; Lieutenant and Deputy-Lieutenant of Dover Castle ; Captains of Deal, Walmer, Sandgate, and Sandown Castles. Board of Ordnance, and Ordnance Department.

Delegation from the University of Oxford.

Deputation from the Common Council of the City of London. [To fall in here as the procession passes through Temple Bar.] Trumpets. Two Pursuivants of Arms, in a mourning coach. The Guidon, carried by a Lieutenant-Colonel, supported by two Captains, on horseback.

Mourning coach, containing the Physicians of the Duke, Chaplain of the Tower, Chaplain-General of the Forces. Attendants on the Body at the Lying in State. Carriages, containing High Sheriff of the County of Southampton, Sheriffs of London, Alder- men and Recorder of London.

Companions of the Order of the Bath, represented by three. Knights Commanders of the Order of the Bath, represented by three.

Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, represented by three. Trumpets. Herald. Banner of Wellesley,

carried by a Lieutenant-Colonel; supported by two Captains, on horseback.

Officers of the late Duke's Household with Staves.

Dignitaries of the Law; namely—Lord Justices of Appeal, Master of the Rolls, Chief Baron of the Exche- quer, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Her Majesty's Ministers; namely—Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary at War, Judge Advocate-General, Secretaries of State under the degree of a Baron. Speaker of the House of Commons (if not with the House). Peers in the following order—Barons, Bishops, Viscounts, Earls, Marquises, Dukes. Officers of State;

in this order—First Lord of the Treasury-, Earl Marshal, Lord Great Chamberlain,

Lord Privy Seal, Lord President of the Council, Lord Archbishop of York, Lord High Chancellor, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

Lord Mayor, carrying the City Sword—[To fall ili at Temple Bar.]

Panics ALBERT,

Attended [on horseback] by Assistant-Quarter-Master-GeneraL Assistant-Adjutant-General. Aide-de-camp to the Duke. Aide-de-camp to the Duke. Deputy-Quarter-Master-GeneraL Deputy-Adjutant-General.

Quarter-Master-General. Adjutant-General. Four Trumpets. Sergeant Trumpeter. Herald. Great Banner, carried by a Colonel; supported by two Lieutenant-Colonels on horseback. Dignitaries of the Church—[To fall in at the Cathedral.] Arms of the Duke: namely—the Spurs, borne by York Herald ; Helmet and Crest, by Richmond Herald; Sword and Target, by Lancaster Herald; Surcoat, by Chester Herald. Norroy King of Arms. Foreign Batons ; Austria, Hanover, Netherlands, Prussia, Portugal, Russia, Spain. Baton of the Duke as Field-Marshal, borne by the Marquis of Anglesey, on a black velvet cushion, in a mourning coach. The Duke's Coronet,

Gentleman Gentleman on a black velvet cushion, in a mourning coach, Usher. Usher. by Clarencenx King of Arms.

Officers on Funeral Car with eight horses, bearing Officers on horseback,THE Borer

horseback, , bearing five bearing five bannerols. under a black velvet pall with escutcheons. bannerols. The Pall-bearers, eight General Officers in mourning coaches.

Gentleman Garter King of Arms, in a Gentleman Usher. mourning coach. Usher.

Supporter. Tun CUM& Moves= ; Supporter. His train borne by Assistant Mourners. Executors, Relations, and Friends of the Deceased. The-late Duke's Horse led by a Groom. Officers, Men, and Bands, representing every Regiment in the service. Carriages of the Queen and of the Royal Family. Troops to close the Procession.

We understand that ten line-of-battle ships, being built, or ordered to be built, in the Royal Dockyards, are ordered to be fitted with screw ma- chinery.—Morning Herald.

Ministers appear to be looking to "Our Naval Defence." The Morn- ing Herald of Tuesday contained an article, in conspicuous type, under this head, apparently on the suggestion of the visit to Portsmouth made by the Duke of Northumberland, Sir Thomas Herbert, and Mr. Augustus Stafford, on the same day ; when they inspected the ships on the stocks, and the new 130 gun screw-ship the Duke of Wellington. The Herald has, of course, " every confidence in the peace policy of Louis Napoleon," but insists on the British navy's maintaining an unquestionable superiority in number, weight of metal, and efficiency, over the French navy. The " chief anxiety of the Duke of Northumberland is to restore the maritime empire of Great Britain to its proper position—namely, that of the chief naval power of the world. It cannot be doubted that the Duke will have the country with him in his patriotic design ; for it must be seen at a glance, that to possess, and to keep up ready for active service, a fleet of screw line-of-battle ships and frigates, is simply self-preservation and national security."

The new Orders in Chancery, regulating the alterations consequent on the act for the abolition of the Masters' Offices were issued on Monday last. Their general effect is, that summonses will be substituted for war- rants, which were a fertile source of delay and expense in the Masters' Offices. These summonses will be heard before the Judge's clerk ; and the practice is so arranged that a considerable saving of time and expense to the suitors will be effected. Instead of the old prolix re- port of the Master, which used to set out the order of reference, the evi- dence, and all the documents referred to at considerable length, the chief clerk has power to certify to the Judge in an explicit manner, the result of the inquiries ; the Judge to approve and adopt it.

This is the second class of orders which have been issued since the passing of the act ; and in a few days hence a further set are to be issued, regulating the allowances to solicitors and fees payable to the officers of the court.

The Queen has issued a proclamation limiting the legal tender of Bri- tish silver coin to forty shillings in "Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, the Mauritius, and Hongkong," in order that their currency-regulations may be in harmony with those of the United Kingdom.

We hear that the Address will be moved in the House of Lords by the Marquis of Bath, and will be seconded by the Earl of Donoughmore.— Morning Herald.

The ex-Queen of the French and the Prince de Joiliville have returned to Claremont.

It is stated by a Genoa paper that Lord Minto was expected to pass some of the winter months at Genoa.

Father Gavazzi has been lecturing this week in the Dublin Rotunda. Mr. Nobbs, the envoy from Pitcairn's Island, was ordained at Islington on Sunday last, by the Bishop of Sierra Leone.

The Copenhagen journals of the 22d announce the arrival in that city of Sir Charles Fox, to treat with the Government for a continuation of the railroad from Rothschild to Cosser.

One of Burns's " six proper young belles" of Maucbline has just died there—Mrs. Paterson, a widow in her eighty-seventh year. She was Burns's Miss Morton—" There's beauty and fortune to get with Miss Morton:"

The Reverend William Seaton, minister of the Methodist New Con- nexion, died at Rochdale on Wednesday week, aged fifty-six. He was the last male descendant in a direct line from George fifth Earl of Win- toun ; whose titles, honours, and estates were forfeited for his share in the Scottish rebellion in 1715.

Military mourning ceremonies in honour of the memory of Wellington have been performed at Venice and Milan.

The King of Sweden caught a severe cold in his journey from Chris- tiana to Stockholm, and has since been ill of rheumatic fever. The latest accounts say he is better.

The King of Naples, with a "moveable column," has been journeying in Calabria.

The Grand Duke of Tuscany set out on a visit to the islands of Monte Cristo and Pianosa on the 15th, and returned on the 19th.

The Pope gave a grand dinner to the Duke of Modena on the 18th, in the garden of the Quirinal.

General Haynau arrived at Verona on the 18th, from Venice.

General Lamorieibre has been visiting the German battle-fields. He was at Jena on the 21st.

Baron Ward, Prime Minister of the Duke of Parma, has gone on a mission to Madrid.

The death of Count d'A so long Austrian Ambassador in France, was reported in Paris on " ednesday.

Marshal Narvaez is at Seville, awaiting the Reconcilement of the Duchess of Montpenaier.

The Count de Cavour, late Finance Minister of Sardinia, has returned from France to Turin.

The daughter of General Rom, ex-Dictator of Buenos Ayres, was mar- ried to a Spanish gentleman on Saturday last, at the Roman Catholic -chapel in Southampton.

The celebrated Abbe Gioberti, leader of the "New Reformation" in Italy and of the Moderate party in Piedmont, in 1846-'7-'8, died recently of apoplexy, at Paris, in his forty-fifth year.

Various letteni have been written to the public journals arising out of the case of Gurling, who died from the bite of a serpent. All the correspondents agree that serpent's poison may be successfully counteracted by antidotes. One recommends "eau de lace " ; several prescribe brandy, to be taken in great quantities, while the patient is kept walking about, and by no means allowed to sleep until recovery be effected. It has also been suggested that the fangs of serpents exhibited in public collections should be drawn; an easy process, often practised. A rat-catcher died lately in Perth Infirmary, after suffering dreadful agony, from the bite of one of lus ferrets. Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last.

Zymotic Diseases of Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Tuberculin. Diseases Tea Weeks Week 154 1152.

2,4902-51. .... of2 51

CH .... 41

1,655 .... us

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,076 .... 110 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 325

....

47 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration

1,361 ....

201 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion

561

50 Diseases of the kidneys, Sc 108 .... 19 Childbirth, diseased of the Uterus, dm 115 .... .... 6 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Ac

6l

.... 7 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, dm. 15 ....

5

Malformations 25 ....

8

Premature Birth

280

28 Atrophy 1:4 .... 94 Age 467 • • • • 46 Sudden 69 ... • 14 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance

900 ....

33 Total (including unspecified causes) 9.472

1,072

A great "sensation" has been created in Hull by a series of "spirit tap- pings" in a lonely house in Wellington Lane. An invisible hand seems to tap or scratch on the walls in divers parts of the house, and as yet the cane of the noises has not been discovered. Thousands of people assemble round the house, and the Police are constantly on duty to keep order. The mor- tal occupants of the house are an elderly bedridden woman, her son-in-law, her daughter, and a female servant.

By the arrival at Liverpool of the brig Richard, from Pernambuco, intel- ligence has been received of the loss of the Enchantress, Captain Buck- land, of Yarmouth, on her passage from Pernambuco for Falmouth. The Enchantress struck on a sunken reef three days after leaving that port, and immediately went to pieces. The captain, two mates, one man, and a boy, were washed off the reef and drowned. The remainder of the crew, six in number, succeeded in constructing a raft out of the bowsprit of the wrecked vessel and another which they found on the reef; by which means they reached a small uninhabited island some distance off, called Lass Island; where they remained for twenty-five days, enduring the worst of privations, the only thing they had to subsist upon being the eggs of sea-birds. There seeming to be no hopes of their being taken off the island, they again put to sea on the raft ; and fortunately the Richard fell in with them. They were taken on board, most of them in an almost dying condition. Every attention was paid to them by Captain White, and they are now in a tolerably healthy state.