The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-09-21 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF LADY PALMERSTON.
PAINFUL ACCIDENT.

The funeral of Lady Emily Mary, the wife of the Into
Viaeount Palmeraton, took place ou Friday afternoon
111 Westinivatur Abbey.
The remains of the deceased lady +ere removed
from Broekett Hall to Park Lana. whence they leen
conveyed on Friday afternoon to Westiniwiter Abby.
and there deposited by the aide of those of her bus
band in a vault in the northern transept of the adhered
edifioe.
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TIIO funeral eortege, which was of the plaineet
detcription, consitting of a hearse arid three mourning
costes.. began to form at throw o'clock, and moved
slowly away from the family residenoe in Park Lane, in
the following order

The hearr, with the r,oin f Itt.r In4vhip oncloaed In •
ettithi trot crud with rrimsm tvistt. reheet.l with wilt nada and
handle...uruntunted 1,, Um lanide ronmot : and or the lid was
t.... tivwription -•• Kielty Mary, Viw4.untart. I'almerston. ty.rn
April, 177; died September 11. Innu.••
In the lint conch were the chef mourners:
The Eight lion. W. Corner. M.P.
The Ilen. C. P.
The Earl Cowl. r.
'rho lion. H. Coe per.
In the seeoed coach were
The Earl el Shatt,,hurs.
Deg Addey.
The lion. lit el., ti
The Wm. Cecil Adtley.
In the third meets were :
Viwount Sudety.
lion. FL Joretlel,
Viscount J,welyn.
Prothera Stnith.
Dr. Drage.
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And in the fourth coMiii,—drawn by • pair of horses.
were Mr. Enacr and Mr. NOWIIIIIII, the grooms of the
chambers

This was followed by a large number of private car-
riages, amongst which were those of Lady Palmerston,
the Rosalie Ambassador. the Turkish Ambaasador,
Baron Rothschild, Sir (teem, Shea, Hoe. F. Dying Mrs.
Lane Foe, Sir U. Litt3n Bulwer, Bk Gsorge{Frowyer,
and Kra Baker.

About a hundred persons were admitted by ticket to
the north transpet, in which the vault of Viscount
Palmerston was opened ready for the reception of his
relict. The visitors were seated, contemplating the
opened grave, when • most painful incident occurred
that created the utmost consternation on the part of all
present. A middle-aged gentleman bad entered the
transept accompanied be his daughter, and in passing
to a seat over the slightly raised ground leading to the
mouth of the grave he failed to observe the open space,
and suddenly disappeared. The young lady being
deprived of her father thus abruptly shrieked aloud.
Assistance was, of course, instanuy rendered, and the
unfortunate gentleman was rescued from his unpleasant
situation. Fortunately the grave was not above eight
feet deep, or he might have anstaleed severe Injury; as
it was he received • severe out on the head.
The cortege arrived at the northern entreats of the
cathedral punctually at four o'clock, and the body was
conveyed to • bier in the northern transept, the
choristers chanting "I am the Resurreetioo." The
service was then performed by Lord John Thynne, the
sub-dean, Archdeacon Jennings, and Canon Conway.
The coffin was afterwards conveyed to the side of the
grave, around which the mourners were assembled, the
choristers taking up a position to the east of the grave.
A grand selection of Croft and Purcell's made, "Thou
knoweert," and "1 heard • voice," was then chanted by
the full choir.

Some of the mourners, and notably the Earl o
Shaftosbury, were unable to oontrol their emotion
while the Sub-Dean read that cart of the service which
commits the body to the ground —"Earth to earth,
ashes to sates, dust to dust." The aolemon ceremouy
was brought to a oioB2 by the benediction.

CHANI AFTNII AN FACAPED MILITANT PRINONICIL
A private of the 9th Lancers, named James Chinery,
had been convicted of neglect of duty, and was tinier
sentence of six months imprisonment In Aldershot
Military Gaol, and was iont with an escort to Kingston
Railway Station. Soon after leaving Hounslow
Barracks, Chinery, who was mounted on a fleet hone,
suddenly applied the spur, and shot off in the direction
of London. The *wort pursued, but their horses soon
began to him ground. Corporal Lowe ordered his men
to draw their pistols, and Are if Cbinery refused to sur-
render. But by this time pistol shots won't not have
covered the dietanes between the pursued and the put.
even, and for nearly two miles the obese was carried on.
Midway between Hounslow and leleworth one of the
eecort's horses stumbled, throwing the rider, and acci-
dentally discharging his plstoL Meanwhile Chinery
was riding madly along and had reaohed Mr. Wdm,g's
garden at Brantford End, when, on the horse showing
signs of restivetiew, the pursuing party were enabled to
come up. The fugitive bad in the meantime dismounted
and secreted himself in the market garden. He was
diacovered and captured noon afterwards.

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MIL GRANTLIT BERKELEY ON THE DESTRUCTION 01
&BM. —The following letter, signed "Grantley F.
Berkeley," and dated Alderney Manor, Poole, Sept. 14,
appeared in Thursday's Tines :—" Sir, —Raving seen
in the Tina of the 13th inst.. 5 correstiondence on the
wanton de,truetion of birds in the country, originated
by that humane naturalist, the Hey. F. 0. Mortis, 1
beg to offer tho following remarks. The wanton
dostruetim of our sioging birds, as well as all others,
exists not only through the gun, but by the cruel
thefts of the birdsnesior. I adders) an incident for
your especial notice. Oa observing • crowd of men and
boys one Sunday afternoon unwed, as it seemed to
use, with seine sort of game, after taking on observation
at a little distance. I went up to them and found an
follows: —They had been birdsneatlng, and were in pos-
session of several nests containing eggs and very ullow
young. The nests consisted of blackbird, thrush, robin,
wren, and hedge•sparrow. The miserable amusement
of these louts consisted in placing an egg, or a living
little bird, on the road, about eight yards from a
scratch made in the slant. One of the party, by turns,
then assumed a stick, when, his eyes being blinded by a
handkerchief, he wu plaited on the scratch and told to
walk as near as he could guess to the egg Of poor
little bud, stop there, and strike three blows. If he
struck the object In the given number of blows he won
what there was to win ; if be missed his blows he lost.
That fact I gathered from what I saw, but I hesrd
nothing or any wager, and therefore could not inter(
11, the site of thee Oanl,.n ruffians there lay a crushed
boat of little foatherledui birds, and in the dust the
moisture and ahtlls of broken eggs."