The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-04-24 00:00:00

FUNERAL.

On Saturday se'nnight, about half-past one
o'clock, the remains of the Earl of Harewood arrived
at Doncaster with great funeral pomp, on their way
for interment its the family vault at Harewood. In
the evening the body lay in state at Mr. Belcher's,
the Old Angel Inn. The procession consisted of a
hearse and six horses, three mourning coaches and
sic, the Earl's private carriage and six, and numerous
out-riders, which proceeded the following morning
for Thorp-arch, and from whence it set out on
Monday morning, ut so early hour, and reached
Harewood church loon after nine o'clock. The
following was the order of the procession t--•

The Teasatry, followed by hie Lerdsbip's Tradesmen,
His Lordship's Upper Illervaats.
Genderless on reist, eptcytng sat news, '
Gentleman on Horseback tarrying the Coronet.
THE BODY,
In a Hearse, drawn by lix thwern
His Lordship's Carriage arid lix.
Three Mownsiag C.atebee and SM.
A numerous train of °emirates's Carriages ;
Amongst which we noticed obese of
Lord gwertoe,
The Hots. Edward Petre, the Hots. John Lowther,
Kr. G. L. Fos, Mr. Shied, of Hippos, Mr. Middleton, of
Stockbill, Mr. Wilkiasoa, of Pattern's. Mr.Starkle,

Mr. rectos Stitt, Mr. Claimer,
Ste. he.

The procession was followed by upwards of five
thousand spectators from the neighbouring towns
and villages. Ols reaching the yard approaching
to the church, the body was taken out of the hearse,
when the present Ea►l and his sons joined the pro.
cession. At the conclusion of the funeral ceremony,
the numerous assemblage that had followed the
procession were permitted to view the coffin in the
vault.

A military brevet, on a large scale, is expected
in a few days.

A difference of opinion having lately pre/roiled
amongst the clergy respecting the manner of admi-
nistering the Holy Sacrament, the Bishop of
BRISTOL has addressed to the clergy of his diocere
the following circular letter :••••
Trisity Lodge, Cambridge, March SS.
u Reverend Sir—Revise bees informed that several ekr-
gymen in my diocese have adopted an irregular meaner of
adnainiateriug the Sacrament of the Lord's Sapper, by de-
liveriag the holy elemeate,and prooonscing the words which
aceompany them, to mots lbws see perms at owe time;
and havior given the @abject my most serious coneideratios,
and consulted others of the Bishops thrreepoo. I inset re-
quire all eleveyntes of Bey diocese to avoid the afuresaiii irre-
gular practicet to lay it aside, if they have at say time
adopted it; and to eashins, exactly, in this cue, me in all
other*, to the dirostioso Oyes in the Rubric.
"1 resale, Reverend Sir,
" Tatrover affectionate Brother,
" W. BRISTOL"
CALcUTTA.—A, most singular curiosity Iles been
brought to this Presidency by a Portuguese vessel
lately arrived from Brazil. locredible as it•iney
appear to those who have not studied the won-
derful coinbinations of nature, it• seems to be a
man of amethysts, of the enormous. dimensions
of four feet in circumference, by something less
then one foot in height, and weigher* ninety.
eight pounds. It is in its rough state, and w
described rather as sit assemblage of move than
fifty irregular intoning, high, smooth.. transpa-
rent, purple and white, shooting up Idle crystailie
xenon from one common bed or source, than ass PPS
gularly formed and perfect stone. It• was sent
frous the Brasile as a reel amethyst, and such
also has it been declared by professional men who'
have examined it since its arrival at Calcutta;
We believe that one essential to the value of an
amethyst, and which places it on a rank with the
ruby, supphire,and other precious gems, is hardness.
This quality, however, is seldom met' with in any
but such as are of • roundish or pebble-like form.--
many of these which are fused is tint country and
in America, being little herder NM thrdiaoli—crys.
tal, anti of essbparativeis • 6604 r—wallet to the
former.

LAW itirstLacancs.

COURT OP KIROV BENCH, Wasitaturstita,
SATlllbalr, Aram StIE

Thom.. Davison woe brought up to plead to so
isidictineut, charging him with publishing and sell.
ing a certain wicked, impious. and ►editious libel,
reflecting on and scandalising the Christian reit-
gi ~,, sad tending to bring the Holy Scriptures into
contempt. The publication in question is one of
those issued into the world by Palmer, and recently
sold by Cathie. The Defendant is a bookseller
residing in the neighbourhood of Smithfield, and
the luesent prosecution was instituted agaitnl bola
fi:r selling this publication by the Society for the
Suppression of Vice. He now pleaded Not fiatilly,
and requested the Court to grant him a copy of the
ioformation.

Mr. Justice Bare said, as this was not a petunia.
tiou by Gogrerntoeut, the Court had no power un.
der the Statute to couiply with the I)efendant's
request.
TUB Mlle V. SIR CHARLFS WC/Lai:LET.
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Mr. PEARSON applied to the Court for a rale-to
phew cause why a slew trial should not be granted
in this case, in which the Defendants were Sir C.
Wolseley and Mr. Harrison.
The trial came on before the Chief Justice of
Chester. Mr. Warren, end the present application
was made on two grounds; first, that the verdict
was against the weight of evidence : anal nest, that
the Learned Judge had misdirected the Jury in
amusing op. It appeared. that at the trial a
young man, named Johnson, swore that at a pub.
lic meeting where Sir Charles addressed the multi-
tude lie heard him use the following words:—.• Be•
firm. unite your strength, awl in three weeks the,
great struggle will hewn and end." Now at the
trial two reporters who were present swore positively'
no such words were used by Sir Charles. As to
the misdirection of the Judge, it consisted in his
Lordship's unstating the order of facts as stated ,
at the trial. It was sworn, that in his speech Sir
Cliarles•saidw4uware of spies and informers; and
the Learned Judge, in summing up, said, the Jury
would observe what effect this speech had on
the people assembled, since it appeared that
a constable was nearly killed by the mob. Now it
appeared, that by the evidence given, it was proved
that the speecb of Sir Charles could have bad no
effect in this respect, for Sir Charles did not arrive
at the meeting till an hour after the constable was
assaulted. These circumstances. the Learned
Counsel submitted, must have had great effect in
deciding the verdict of a Jury, whose minds were
fatigued by attending to a trial of two days' con-
tinuance; and upon these facts he trusted the
Quirt would grant a rule to skew cause.
Rule granted.
TEN ZING V. HUNT •ND OTHERS.
The Defendant Hunt, at the rising of the Court,
addressed their Lordship.. He had to apply. on
behalf of himself and the other Defendants, for a
new trial in this case.

The Clitir JusTice--" Mr. Hoot, this is too
late au hour of the d.y to enter upon your business,
but you shall uot be prejudicvd by the delay; we
will hear you en • future day."
After wise further conversation, Wednesday was
Axed for bearing Mr. Hunt'. motion.