The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-24 00:00:00

THE LATE DUKE OP NORTHUMBERLAND.

From 10 to 4 yesterday there was a constant
stream of views at the gists' emberiand
Charincereo attesd the 13rofiagNedit-inotatel of the Duke of
Nortitamberlaad, whose remelse had bees bought to lowa
on Wednesday night from Alamein iinsbery to inter.
meat is the Percy vault at Weetmfpeter The
admission were used to be oohed to the persona
friends of the late duke, his tenni sad tads.-
rtbut many others were favoured with ear&
oonapated that more than 3,000 peons seised ed.
mitten°, and act the slishtest indecorum was detected.
A body dthe police was present to preserve order, but
the regulation' were so admirably &creased that their
duties wen cooperatively not required. Among those
who attended to witness the lying in state early were
Lord Lorain, the Earl Grosvenor, AL P., Lord Richard
Grovesor, IL P., Viscount Falkland, the Res. W. G.
Humphrey, Professor Owen, Professor Domaldoo ad •
host of anal friends aid others enjoyin the eashiseos and
esteem of the deceased noblemen. Those favoured with I
the earns proceeded through the co nyard to the
anon to the home, sad were at eon esa-
Pdtptilen the dining-room, which had hem oompleprlsiel
covered with black drowsy, the aillag, al white and
being aloes expond. In the centre of the room was
• bier, also draped in black, oa which reposed the corpse
at the good du kwith crime=e, usoloesd in several colons ; the outer one
bens severed velvet, sad oreasesand with
gat metal embellishments. The coin, on which, at the
head, was placed the ducal coronet on • velvet cushion
fringed with gold, sad at the foot his admiral's hat,
sword, and belt, was partislly covered with the pall.
The coffin on its bier wee surrounded by 14 large wax
candles in meseive elver csadiestidos, between Wiliell were
plumes of black feathers. At the extreme sad ci thereon
the armorial bearings were emblazon& as • hangmen.
Those who availed t ves of the privilege retired by
the auttroom and *mike by which they Wand.

FATAL ACCIDENT THROUGH ROUNDING A
RAILWAY WHISTLE.
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INQMIST.—(THIS DAY.)
This morning Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, held
as inquiry et the Lades Hospital, respecting the death of
William BetWatd. erd 39 yam.
Polices-ormstabls miubwy, 119 F., said that as Then-
day be saw the deceased driving a out used for the curios'
of hoe along the street does to the Blackwell Railway via-
duct et labilebOUNS. A train came up slowly, end themes*
whistled coos, sad then a second time with peat louder&
The horse which deceased was leading took fright, end
dated off. Demand caught hold of the bit to step the
bone, when the animal nand up and dashed him down, his
head striking the imbibes, and thee the wheel of the out
west over sad crushed his drulL He was killed oa the spot.
The shriek of the railway whistle was the mole cease of the
eceicient so far as whew § could sea.
It appear that the shrill and sudden blast of the railway
whistle is Dot only regarded with dread by those
who have to drive spirited hones through the thorough.
fares in the neighbourhood of Si. lines which inter-
sect the metropolis, but has given rise to complains as
the part of the general inhabitants in the vicinity of
some of the railways, and on that scoonet siguelWs by
wound has bun greatly reduced in frequesey by the Neck-
wall Railway Company. A suggestion was made some time
back that the ppieeermog and discordant noise of the whistle
might in amended localities at lent be edvaatsgeoesly re-
placed by some kind of trumpet sound which would be ices
startling sad disagreeable and equally distinct, bat theides
has as yet led to no practical rertilt
Is the preeeet ease the jury returned a verdict of " Ac-
cidental death."

The skating club at St. Petersburg gave last
week its grand night ball on the Nora. To the must
Wisdom of this festival was added a magnifiosnt pavilion,
mistrusted of blocks of toe fear feet thick, which, being
brilliantly lighted up in the icterior, produced the effect of
• palace of crystal.
Austria and Prussia, it has been stated, bare
@greed upon the flag for the mercantile marine of Bleset{•
Holstein. It is composed of three horizontal bands, the
upper one blue, th►t in the middle white, and the lower
one red. The bine band is to have a yellow square by the

side of the staff.
The Sketching Club of Edinburgh has presented
the committee for the relief of the sufferers by the late fire
in the Theatre Royal with aa album consisting of twenty.
four highly-fioiahed water•ooloors, tad these cheeky have
' been gratuitously mounted. The Scotrman estimates tie
value of the drawings at 1201.
Letters from Mr. Sanders, one of the directors of
the Imperial Madsen Railway Company, who proceeded to
Mscioo in November lest to arrange the transfer of the eon-
cession, have been received to the effect that all points in
dispute have been satisfactorily arranged, and that the
transfer of the conosmion to the company has been coofirmed
by the imperial government.
THE LAST HOURS OF CARDINAL WISLYAN.
DT. Manning, in clamor his sermon at Koorfields yesterday,
said—" The last year, and the last days especially, brought
out the lon of God that wee is him. He was a true
Englishman, for be always shrunk from making prolamine
by the lips. One near him daring his ilium I fear
you suffer greatly.' I doe% suffer at he replied ;
'think of the poor. I have a good bed to lie upon, and I
have made it a role to call anything pain nisi it is
unendurable.' When they told him is wee neemeary to us.
deep another pistol operation be said, nadir the pt.
imp of snore, ' I cannot,' but he immediately recalld the
words, and said, That will not do ;ifit is right it men be
don.' When he was to receive the Viaticum he was °sly then
impatient because they were delaying what was his chief
solaria. When the list operation was announced to him,
sad it was said if he did not =bait he could an live eat
the night, he remarked, ' How unkind of them to operate—
otherwise they said I would have been is heaven to-night.'
Just whoa they were offering for him, in Ids owe chapel,
the sacrifice of redemption, his last breath was departing.
One said of bine, ' We have lad a man worthy to repreent
the universal church in the face of this great people which,
strong sometimes in its reseetmenk, bed learnt to Mite
him.'" Theo, turning tonsils the bishops, Dr. Hann*
continued, "It is for you, right rev. fathers, to bear him
out and lay him trader the great sod, outside this wild
multitude of meet, where the holy ore towers above the
tombs, and where they who were round him in life will be
round him is death. He is oot here ;he will sot be there ;
but he is before the throne of the great Pastor of the
sheep, his hands lifted up in prayer for those whom he
loved so well, for you, for Regina, and for the thumb."
THE 1311RFFIELD INUNDATION COMMIISION.—A
very palatal case mum before the commissionre yesterday.
A woman, aimed Rachel Thorpe, claimed compensation for
the bise at her husband, who had lost his life in consequence
el cold and expenre. It appeased that the man was a night
watchman at a menufenery, which was just above the find
line, and that oa hearing of the diameter, at 4 ethnic in
the morning, he ma, helf-dreased. through the skeet to
his home in on of the kneaded streets, ober* be had •
wife and eight young ohlkkn. The streak wen full of
mud and slime, loft by the wake, sad he got wet sad cold,
and the ill consequences were bermes& bat afterwards
spending Saturday and Sunday is clean* the havies,
, and he died at fever. The thief emsunionkmer hell that
the cane of death was too remote, and on the legal
point the skins was dierainsed, and the claimant is thee
! left in • eery deplorable Mike. The ether econtheirmers
, were in hover et hear* the claim, but they yieldelt• Mr.
yy Overend's legal Adam. He bead that al egii the man
' 1 wee obeying per sod sutural impulse is going to see '
if his wife sad badly were drowsed, yet if he received
any injury is so doing, that was not • direct and limo
date " coosegsseca of the flood." and Me dompry were
sot liable. At the same sitting a woman elehmed eempea-
, mike for •.• fright," caused by the flood, and seised her
on the authority of a &ticks by Justice Bissldous,
In a ease where • an who was Mending at Roby
_Unties
. and saw • colliden, chimed images for the tdsbi sad
, shook which the sweet oomeiened to Idea. A wideorteamed
An Slaps" was awarded for the be. ef her bulbni,
2001. to herself, and MU for her sit &Urn. .Agiellmer
• , widow, named Esther Brstbsry was awarded the we af
I • MOIL for herself and two inhale. AAA •PI al throe yean
recovered 2001. for the lose of her beer, who was &gamer.