The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-19 00:00:00

ITNILLL 07 BAIL PITZHAIWINGZ

BERKELEY, OCT. 17.
The remains of this lamented nobleman were this
day interred in the family vault in Berkeley church, and
although it is market day the occasion has been obeeried
with great soimanity, the bonne end places of Whims
throughout the town being almost universally closed. The
coffin was made of British oak grown on the ontann covered
with rich 000011 crimson velvet. On the breast plate was
engraved the coronet and armorial and the following
inscription -." William Fitzhardinge Seel Fitzhardings, of
Berkeley Castle, in the county of Gloucester, dittoing aa of
right to be Earl of Berkeley by descent, and Bans de
Berkeley by tenure, been December, 1786 ; died October 10,
1857.'

The coffin wee borne from Berkeley Castle to the church
without pall or coveting upon • funeral car drawn by his
lordship's favourite four grey.. The 081 was driven by the
earl*. favourite outchman, the horses being led by the chief
huntsman, the stud groom, and two of the hunt whips. The
cortege wee attended by upwards of • hundred of thee
by the Rev. Dr. Morton Brown, of Cheltenham, by Mra
ship's medical aheadanti, hie three stewards, and anzaeroes
domestics. The coronet was borne by the chief steeled,
H. M. Boodle, Eaq., on • cushion of Mack velvet. The
mourners were Admiral the Right Hon. Sir Maurice F. F.
Berkeley, K.C.8., the Hon. Augustus Berkeley, Boa. F.
H. Berkeley, M.P., the Hon. Moreton Berkeley,
F. W. F. Bovinity, M.P., Charles Paget Berkeley°,n
James Hum, Req., MA* Caps', and Col. Kingesote. T
absence of the His. Gram* Berkeley from the provost=
formed a stakject of general &earration. The hon. gentle-
man wee known is have wane to the castle on Friday with
this esseved inteatkia of following his deceased brothels
remains to their Sail resting place, sad his name sad Elate
were duly printed in the undertaker's programme. This
morning he breakfasted with the mourners, but about a
quarter of an hoer before the procamton left the castle Mr.
Grantley Berkeley suddenly quitted it.
The monsufill cortege moved from the castle soon after 11
o'clock, and proceeded through the town to the church, at
the entrance to which it wan mot by the Vicar, the Rev.
Satan Cu,, by whom the funeral eerviee was mint imper
eive read. At the proper point the body wee removed to
the family rank and deposited with Hume of the old Earls
and Barone of Berkeley. The streets were densely thronged,
but the presence of • strong body of police preserved a pas-
sage for the funeral prooeesion.

THE AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.-
HEAVY DEFALCATION.

We regret to announce the defalcation of Mr.
Frederick W. Porter, who has for thirty years held the re-
epomaible poet of.Correeponding Secretary of the Atari.=
Sunday School l. nion. The following card has been issued
erplanatory of the dela:slim
"A CARD.
. . .

"It is aecertitlned that MC. Frederick W. Porter, for
thirty years Corresponding Secretary of the American Sun-
day School Colon, and ae such having • general oversight of
Its burins transactions, has issued notes and acoeptances
for his prints purposes, without the knowledge or authority
of the katd, or of any of its officers, to the amount of 88,883
dole. These note. and acceptanom were signed by Mr. Porter,
but not entered upon any of the books of the society, and were
so arranged that until within a few day. no suspicion of
their slimmer occurred to any per•ou connected with the in •
atitution. We are happy to say that no part of the funds
appear to have been abstracted, nor have any part of the
contributions to its benevolent objects been kat or iniesp-
plied. All the obligations of the society which have been
legitimately incurred have been and will he promptly met.
The bodes will not bo seriously interrupted, though in
the painful circumstance. we dull need, awl doubt not
we shall have, the warm sympathy and liberal aid of our
numerous friends.

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"ANZRICAN SVNDAY SCHOOL UNION,
" No. 1,122 Chestnut-street, Philadelphia."
Mr. Porter, who I. the guilty party in these transactions,
Is well advanced In yeam, is of very quiet habits of life, was
• member of • 'burets veetry for many yearn, and him had the
full confideme of the religious community of all denomina-
tions. His friends am astounded at the late developmenta,
and are utterly unable to comprehend how a man of his hitherto
unsuspected cbancter, matwe age, and moderate mode of life
aboald have gone astray in Oda manner. It to impossible to
my, at present, how long these operations of Mr. Porter's
have been going on. Ile is so much penetrated both In mind
end body by the expoeure that no satisfactory ex-
planation of the details of the tranaactiona can to obtained.
We learn, however, from • reliable source, that • fort-
night or mac ago Mr. Porter we, confined to the house by
illnem. At that time • bank 'whoa for • note of some fifteen
hundred dollars, eigned by him in his official
co capitoftywee
sent under cover to him. He sent it down to the Sunday
hool Union with seven hundred dollars, and amnia that
the remainder of the et= might be provided, as he was one
Ile to go out to obtain it. On examination no record of the
note falling due could he found in the books of the UOlOll.
Suspicion was for the Sent time excited; the managers were
called together, and a rigid investigation has been going on
ever since.

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It sways that Mr. Porter, who wee authorised in hie official
capacity to sign notes for the Union, has Men for some time
borrowing money (or his own yea in this way, and giving
its notes. But ita he did not enter them upon the books, sod
es the notices all came to him, no one elno in the Mediation
ever knew anything about them. The practice may have
been going on for you., and it I. impossible to say what
amount of the funds of the institution may have beam sled
at various time.. The officers think, however, that they have
got to the bottom of the matters it now stands,and that the ex-
tent of the outstanding fraudulent obligations) is eightpsight
thousand eight hundred and eighty-three dollars. Part of
this is secured, and the whole love, it is believed, will not
exceed fifty thousand dollars. During all the time that these
transactions have been going on the monthly statements of
the affairs of the union have shown a perfectly dean record,
and suspicion would probably never have been excited but for
the accident of Mr. Porter's ilinese and the unavoidable ex-
of the note falling due a fortnight ago. —Pkiladaphis
Ereffirog Bulletios, of Sept. 30.

IIftePITALMZI AT ASHBIDOZPARK.—TheirRoyaI
Highnesses the Dacha of Cambridge and the Princes. Mazy,
At the dose citheir visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby,
at Knowsley Kell, war Prescott, On Tuesday last proceeded
On a visit to Lady Marian Alford, at Aslindge Park, war
Berkhatapeteed, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and
Major Home Paves. Hie Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge arrived from town the following day, to partake
of the hospitalities of her ladyship. Among the guests who
had the honour to meet the royal visitors were the Duke and
Duchess of Manchester, the Earl and Counts.' of Clarendon,
the Earl Grenville. Count Chotek, the Countess Craven and
the Ladies F.lizabetb and ErelynCraven,Viaeonnt Valletort,
Lord and Lady Waleingtiam Lord and Lady Harry
Vane, the Earl Cowper, lion. Frederick and Lady
Margaret Leveson Gower, Coked the Hon. Jamas Mao-
dmald, Mr. It. Monckton Mane% Mr. Augustus Stafford,
Mr. Fortiori's, &c. There have been dances; idles dinner
during the sojourn of the royal pis, end amateur
dramatic performances, the latter sonileting of tbe
aentation of Resets end Tat*, written by Mr. Stafford,
M.P. Among the diatingdahed amateurs taking part in
the theatrical peramiations, WO" the Duke of Manchester,
the Earl Granville, the Earl Cowper, Viscount Valletert,
the Earl Brownlow, and hie *other, the Hon. Mr. Onst;
her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge
enacting the Queers. Her Royal Highness the Dachas of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary and attendants left on
Saturday last for Cambridge Cottage, Kew, and the majority
of the guests have ranee taken their departure.—Post.
NEW IRISH LAW APPOINTMENTS.—It is gene-
rally understood in legal circles that,. immediately after the
opening of Michaeloma Term, the Chief Baron of the Court
of Exchequer in Ireland will resign hie judicial seat, and
that Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, the present Attorney. General for
Ireland, will be elevated to that distinevished pst. Mr.
Christian, the Solleiter-Oemend,it ie believed, will not accept
-; . .

the ounceof Attorney-General,'never having iTatotaiitiMiy
attention on politics, and not havinia • mat in psalmist, in
which me it will in all probability be oonfireed en Mr.
poesy. Q.C., member for the county of Cork.—Northam
Int" VERR LTUNG."—Respecting some of the canoes
of the Glasgow failures, the Caledonian Net env mays am
One The coot of their palatial place of business le said to
have be.. 60,0001. The building is mortgaged, and there.
fore the price mum taken out of the capital In trade; but
the interest most form an annual charge of 3,0001. Thum te•
sae bow faints may occur, or how they might have km
prevented." The same paper adds —"This error has le a
committed in New York to en enormous extent. The du
goods men have built themselves out of business. Theywsrs
not content with such houses as those that were oecepisd
thet
their fathers, or such warehouses as those in w
fathers told goods ,• but they needed both in a style slatted
to the fashions and wants of the age. Our neighbours in
Glasgow and Manchester have plumed a similar couree—a
emry proper one for old Same who know not how to use up
their o:mutilations, but worse than merely imprudent for
este firm, who had really no fathers in • commercial point
of vlev.'

_
Lola Monte. is bound to keep herself before the
yobbo It is named that while in Montreal she visited •
well-known confectionary establishment on Notre Dem-
eaned, sad while there wee annoyed by the entrance of seve-
ral young army onions, who, under the plasmice of buying
IMOl•thing, limed pertinaciously and unplemantly at the fair
Lela. After sabreitting a while, Ming Wipes went np to
the Waning albs 111•10011 and asked, " Madame, how ranch
do these_presse ewe yes r Her only answer at first we.
a look simpelee; baton the question being repeated, she
was told .Om shilling and depends." " Here It is," then
mid Ina; . I would not wish that these gentlemen should
loft, • angle copper in gratifying their curizelty by staring
at me." The allows retreated In oonfusion.—Albsny
&Gismos.