The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-10 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

THE TRAFFIC RE TURNS on the Dublin Railway
show a considerable increase for the week signalised
by her Majesty's pre: ience in the Irish metropolis.
On the Dublin and ifast Junction the increase on
the week, as compared with the corresponding period
of 1r45..!, was 000/. ; oil the Dublin and Drogheda,
800/. ; on the Dublin an. .1 Kingstown, 1,500/. ; on the
Great Southern and W, %stern, .4000/.; and on the
Midland Great Western, • 1501.

THE FUNERAL. en' SIR CH tta.rs NAPIER took place
at Portsmouth on Thursda y. when, although the
ceremony was, strictly speakin V, a private one, a crowd
of military, naval, and civil authorities seized the
opportunity of paying the Iv:t t ribute of respect tothe
hero of so many fields. The v. Thole of the troops in
garrison, amounting to nearly 4,t )00, took part in the
solemnity; and the presence of I%orti Ilardinge. the
commander-in-chief, the Earl of t:llenborough, Sir
William Napier, Lieut. Col. Napier, • and other dis •
tinguished officers, gate thitational , 'uterest to the
proceedings. The naval authorities also mustered
in considerable force, including Sir ,Itt, yea Graham
(who wore a plain black suit 1, Admirt d Berke'. y,
Admiral Militias, and Captain Milne, Lo WS of the
Admiralty ; Sir Baldwin Walker, the curve vor of the
navy ;• and Colonel Greene, the director (.I,* works ;
all iu official costume. The mayor, alderme U. "tit
neon councilmen, and other members of the ci l'Porat
tion, attended in their robes of state; and a lorge
number of the loyal fraternity of Freemasons, ith
which body Sir Charles had long been conned t2ll.
also took part in the proceedings of the day. I In
reaching the parade the coffin was borne on th
shoulders of eight soldiers into the chapel, and placed
on a bier. The body was immediately followed by
Sir W. Gough, the Earl of Ellenborough, and I.ord
liarOinge, and the other principal mourners. and the
funeral service was read by the Rev. E. W. Milner,
the chaplain to the garrison. The coffin bears on a
brass shield the following brief inscription Lieu-
tenant-General Sir Charles .111111eS Napier. I
Born August 18th, 1781; died August 29th, 18T41."
Sir W. Napier has written a letter to correct an error
into which the biographers of his brother have fallen
—the statement that to the late Marshal Souk Sir
Charles Napier owed his liberty at Corinna. lie
says : . _ .

"It was not MO. Marshal Soult treated him with great
kindness, and would no doubt have cont. 41 to do ;
but. he marched from Cori ut three days after the battle,
leaving Sir t'. Napier to the of Marshal Ney, who pro-
tected hint for several months, and finally gave him his
liberty. The circumstances deserve to be repeated, as
showing the generous temper of Ney. His aide-dc-eamp,
'aptain Clottet, reported that a frigate had sent a stag of
truce to inquire if Major Napier was living? Tell them
l'es, and that he is well ; let him 1w seen.' Captain
Chatet looked expressively at the marshal, and said, ' He
has an aged mother, a widow.' Let him go himself, then,
to tell her he is alive,' was the response. And with Major
Napier he freed about twenty-tive English soldiem who
had been badly wounded and left behind."