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London, England, 1852-09-17 00:00:00

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tt, 41.:13 JOHN RUSSELL ON THE SUIIMIOY,cIoorck,BLEONr-d
u°hn ...I.°ll Saturday last, at halt-past seven
yilitosQussell and family passed through Callender, on their
taip, e)enledi. On arriving at the base of the lofty mono-
trate,ai little westward of Gollintogh,. Ford, where the cele-
bho, ,c°ntlict took place between }az. James and Roderick
liaist"mtultnber of Shetland ponies were found in waiting, to
ttloodi's noble party in reaching the summit! The day was
404r8`88, and the ascent having been made in about
summit
t'c'r a c'otiab_s, noble party enjoyed themselves on the
/thich , sous noble
time, admiring the grandeur of the scene,
dell k 'or romantic beauty and delightful landscape, it is
,4c en,l°`"), i 3 nowhere surpassed in Scotland.d at halt-
party
halt-ast
`stet-'eci the mountain in perfect safety, an
their o'clock •
w In the afternoon passed
.thr.ough Callandera on
cuben aY to the Gart, highly delighted with their day's ex-
,
,I)"--aT7c)„v-rri OF GOLD ARTICLES ONwhAo
happeneds
l',,,!ttee4lng a stroll upon Arthur's Seat, Edinbur h unex-
saainB:Y,carn.e upon a secret deposit of gold and silver
~s.. Trio. iockets, a gold watch, and other valuable. l
‘ivortio eey made the discovery when climb. ing up a difficu t
,i Sansti °I the rock on the side of the hill directly to the west
'''''is 'Ws Ribs The articles were carefully concealed in a
ftrtei'Qteprieade_b° a turf, which had been accidentally removed
the hole
Qi Yfo eby one of their feet. On searching
Ithttet:he:ablougtold watch, half-a-dozen gold guardtchams,
;Ito ~or sixteen gold seals a quantity of gold locke s! and
'cltti. "1. three silver_ _ watch' chains, in value amounting to
bO/ They at once brought the articles to
IttrtPilieei.:ol:ace, Nvh • they remain for the inspection of any
toter,lies wu° 14aV haveerehadany articles of this description
,) aa there can be no doubt that the things found were
$, nestiv
e come by by those who secreted them.
tilohater Bs
.0! MATERNAL FANCY.—A few days ago,
—°ll stresiding in the hamlet of Armscott, near Shi.p-
-I°Ver ,-i "or, upon going into one of his hen-pens, d.is-
4tilee'uta...fav,rsourite hen of his.. daughter's tenderly brooding
ii4e'kens,'.,..rrompted by curiosity to count the number of
,I,.,,lN•itti
tl. Stooped to remove the feathered matron, but
ih ashy
_.'
.pneculiarity of her nature! offered some resist-
-4441.1iajee7),f, geart
independent
worthydt spirit,
hand. However,
he thurst. his hand
ileZrl, ntZithin__er,,.butinwitphe.nsuerpnrise he suddenly withdrew
lielse th 4 •K nis nand in contact w.ith. a number of feet
it h 'eized ~e of a chicken. His curiosity was now greater.
tvit,tooe or.Le.hen, drew her from the nest, when, instead of
is 4 all tl,,u'eltens, he found she was nursing a fine kitten,
k llot ~,".,' affection of a real mother. How it came there
Oery"'.'uerstool, and how it subsists is a still greater
tort 44' a cat has never been observed to go near it,haendeotnahe-
ettabi ',nal is very sprightly,and seems to enjoy t
4ro,:cieWarrEith
Aei of e old hen's winger Worcestershire
'4l,_4teci. (127'F ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—
l'tiitlZio r ~itt`nbio
wa pil) ear
theratS don branch of this line,
Western Union Railway, on
ttl,evening, whic was of an alarming character.,
ap-
t ql- - ° Put many
icethat the usual *
AI ,ster levening up goods train to London from
hundred of lives in jeopardy. It_ pm
3 Nader eft the latter place at about half -pat four o'clock,
th,:kiscnt,t through the Sapperton tunnel, and when near
'lti'hirie up
one of the trucks by some means or other got oil
to,:: lean:" was smashed to pieces, the truck being literally
he ftil'!,. werf,', and the contents, consisting chiefly (ft na'
_,r
4p',1.111 scattered over the line. How the truck go eL
kids`% of ca,cials either cannot or will not divulge, but the
t he rails was blocked up, several rails were torn up,
toy °P trafa •
Okie
sope c impeded. Luckily the 5.30 passenger train
tact ed
lster, which reaches Paddington at 10 e.m... had
too ; but eLlfne while the goods train was shunted in a
hagh thew 4 ueavy excursion train, which had been delayed.
Alc-,5t43,,,r aiit of sufficient carriages being provided,
tlijicel',B,„,d traveller, who had been to the Chepstow
IN!fee ,;:a1 t ete, were detained until past midnight, when
Qiirltlatic,a,sufliciently cleared for them to pass on to their
h° to th'" '3windon - I - • ted that no serious injury was
Nk'lly -015ee who had thte"chsatarge of the train.
ti oa la ruselfTliordtoic flosruAL, HATTON-GARDEN.
e: oele—g ',f the friends and supporters of this instiiu-
e,,stt'ese tY''Bterday in the board-room, the report of the
"ela_ci'in. the„l3o,pital afforded to all present the greatest
ra' k.:11,;'," -t' rem the statement of the senior surgeon, Mr.
t'br,bl Pai7ee' " Old Br 050-street, it appeared that the nimi-
listi arecillants on the books since the opening of the institu-
tcl ha I thlltel to 1,029, and that they had come (patients all
th 4 e ktruie Ijnited liiii dom The applications of
ths4„%ehittked for in-door treatment. were far more numerous
kleCate of ,accommodated, and were daily increasing; but
44(IrniatiV funds would not warrant the extension of
v .t.b._. o for the present.
"'an gittaG
4ti he • .--.1.N0 man ever knows when, where, or
t 4 'IR will marry' 1, kit about it nY. Ita all nonsense planning and specti-
e'Y • lou might as well look cut forasof.t spot
h date steeplechase. You come smash down in the
0
°I Your speculation.—Dublin University Ma-

THE SUN,

DEATH

OF THE

DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

WALMEE, SEPT. IG.—To the per!iculars which
were published yesterday of the circumstances at-
tending the Duke of Wellington's eudcien illness and
death nothing remains to be added that at all alters
its character, or could do more than minister to an
impertinent curiosity. It may be mentioned, how-
ever, that when his valet first roused him at half-pest
six o'clock it struck him teat his Grace appeared to
wake up with a greater effort than usual, and that
when at half-past seven o'clock he again went to him
he seemed still more disturbed. It was on the second
occasion Chet his Grace ordered the doctor to be sent
tor, and the valet at once knew that his master must
then have been feelieg very unwell, for he was always
reluctant to call in medical aid, believing that he knew
better than any one else how to manage his own con-
stitution. For some little time, and especially while
staying at Wahner Castle, the Duke has, when
so disposed, taken an additional hour or halt-
hour's rest in the morning, and the circum-
stance, therefore, that he did not at once bestir him-
self when awakened of itself produced no alarm.
The arrangements for the funeral stand over until
the arrival of the new Duke, who is expected to-
morrow. In the interval there is a good deal of
speculation as to the form which the obsequies of so
gr.-at a man will rake. Some say that he will bein-
terred as unostentatiously as possible at Strathfield-
, saye, in a spot selected by himself for the purpose,
while others believe that he has made no such choice,
nor left any instructions whereby the natural wish of
the Sovereign and of the country to honour his re-
mains with a public funeral might be prevented. For
some time past an impression has certainly prevailed
that the Duke had expressed a wish to be buried at
Strattifieldsaye, but those likely to be well informed
on the subject, seem to think that the Queen's ple
sure will decide the manner and place of his interment.
It is not quite certain that the telegraphic mes-
sage recalling the Marquis of Douro to Walmer
Castle will have found him at Frankfort, but, as it
was sent through the Embassy, it was sure to reach
him with the least possibly delay.

PORTSMOUTH GARRISON, THURSDAY.—The follow-
ing district order was this day issued by the Acting
Lieutenant-Governor, on account of the lamented
death of Field-Marshal his Grace the Commander-
in-Chief :—" Until further orders no music is to play
in public, except what may be absolutely necessary for
the performance of duties."

WOOLWICH GARRISON, SEPT. 16.—The melancholy
intelligence of the death of the Duke of Wellington,
was telegraphed here on Tuesday afternoon, and
caused a universal feeling of the deepest regret. The
flags were raised yesterday half-mast high on the
various flagstaffs, and the bands have been ordered to
discontinue playing until further orders.

(Fram the Times)

We believe we should best describe the national feel-
ing at this remarkable period by saying that no ono can
yet fully realize the loss which the country has sus-
tained. The Duke of Wellington, for generation after
generation, had lived among us se loug, and had so
adapted his presence and capacities to the changing exi-
gencies of time, that it requires some effort to look hack
on more than the last stage of such an eventful li!e. For
most political characters it would be distinction enough
to say that they had been appealed to for nearly twenty
yeare, in -every crisis of the State ; but these twenty
years would not carry us even to the Duke's own Mi-
nisterial career, and this career itself did not commence
till a military life of prodigious celebrity and duration
had finished. Even Lord Grey's Premiership now wears
almost an historical aspect, but the great Duke was
Premier before Lod Grey. Ile was the contemporary
and colleague of Liverpool, Melville, Saimouth, Castle-
reagh, and Bathurst—names which have long been con-
signed, with various remembrances, to the pages of the
past. Though not absolutely a member of the Administra-
tion he exerted a materiel influence on the policy of Eng-
land when existing Ministers were in their cradles. Ile
was a powerful and energetic mover in times which the
Present generation can only reach by study, and can
-scarcely comprehend without an effort. The great
Duke's actual span of life was extraordinary, but it
acquires almost a character of immensity when we think
of the events it embraced. Into the fourscore years of
Arthur Wellesley were crowded the revolutions and
wars of two ordinary centuries, and the course and con-
summation of these wars and revolutions were controlled
in no small degree by his own achievements. The pe-
rusal of the biography which these columns have con-
tained will have sufficed to show what stretch of com-
prehension is required for so marvellous a view, and
what liberality of consideration is due to a representa-
tive of such bygone times. The great Duke had been
in the confidence of Cabinets who were little less des-
potic than the Cabinets of Austria or Naples, and yet he
survived till the days of Disraeli and Cobden, and
was not a Protectionist.

In directing our gaze on a military life which had ter-
minatori, after almost thirty years of conquest, before a
political life of more than thirty years of wisdom had
begun, the prospect is still more astonishing. When the
73d Regiment was first joined by the officer who but
this week was living still, there was scarely a single
feature of a soldier's condition or duties corresponding
to what we now see. Costume, character, discipline,
and equipment were all and altogether different, and the
uniform which Arthur Wellesley first assumed would
now excite surprise in a dramatic representation.
Men wore powder and
pomade, cocked bats
and pigtails, gaiterssobad and breeches, btro be
eeches.
oftTehneycar-
rred
unser-
viceable, and camp kettles so heavy as to re-
tard their march. They were
mercilessly the smallest transgression. Their officers,uscnotuilrgtehde
pexoiorgeteniciaersdefptrhoemworaerd hrbardouingdbuicuetderwesist
lo wiser views,
were
and legs
which would now set the kingdom in a blaze were do
as the unquestionable privileges of a class.
Ituw o o
inclinedar military
reforms, t o t h
it shoals
s bori disparagingly
bo our firs
ot duty
of the
everthatm he was reared in a school luouncf past, and
greattreeu Duke'sallre areet
that the abolition of corporal punishment
unlimited
service must at first sight have appeared in his
much as the five points of the Charter s eyes very
might have ap-
peared to Mr. Pitt.
At the commencement of that career which has only
just ended the very face of Europe itself was such as
can hardly be conceived. There are now five great
Powers; there were then nearly four hundred states
pretending to sovereignty. There was an empire of u
thousand years' renown which styled itself the Empire
of the Caesars, and there was a famous old republic
which had survived from ages earlier still. When Arthur
Wellesley received his first commission in the service of
Great Britain the monarchy of France was thought the
most absolute and stable in the world; Spain was a
powerful kingdom, and Poland an existing state. The
great Duke witnessed the extinction of Venice, the fall
of Poland, end the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire,
and he contributed more or less directly to the creation or
recognition of half-a-th zm kings. In the interval there
occurred the most monstrous metamorphosis of Europe
which had been seen since the days of Charlemagne.
All the kingdoms of the continent, from the frontier of
Portugal to the banks of the Vistula, and from the Ger-
man Ocean to the Gulf of Otranto, were subjugated to
the sway of a single French soldier, under whose unpa-
ralleled policy and dominion a new race of statesmen
and generals sprang rapidly into being. But this mighty
revolution, which almost provokes the incredulity of the
present age, was but an episode in the life of the great
Duke. He lived both before it and after it. He saw it
rise, culminate, and sink, and a hundred names of im-
asytilflr.om the scene during
continuancethe
erishable
In addition to such reflections as these, which of
memory
of. one passed
greatera away
themselves would suffice for a time to bewilder our
ideas, it must be remembered that the event which we
have now to solemnize is virtually without a precedent.
Neither this nor any other country has ever, in modern
times, lost such a son. The obsequies of French Mar-
shals have within a few years been celebrated with
becoming pomp; but, excepting that wonderful con-
queror, whose conquests did not keep pace with his life,
there was no French General to be compared with ours.
Nor were the other belligerent States more productive.
If we were now to recapitulate the names and titles of
those Austrian or Russian or Prussian commanders
who stood side by side with our great hero, or
fought in other fields for the same cause, they would
obtain but a partial recognition. Blucher's credit, as
Wellington's comrade, has given him an incidental re-
nown; but Schwarzenberg, Wurmser, Wittgenstein, and
Klrist have little honour beyond their own countries.
Neither can England herself be said with justice to have
ever known before the onlisrations of to-day. The
deaths of Marlborough and Nelson supply the nearest
parallels, but the cases are far from similar. Marl-
borough's unrivalled generalship was tarnished by his
political disrepute, and so completely had the dotage of
senility combined with the stigma of treason to depress
his fame, that his decease, in what was long the
chief chronicle of those times, is disposed of in
a footnote at the bottom of a page as that
of " the father-in-law of the Earl of Sunderland."
More impressive, indeed, and affecting was Nelson's
departure, for be died in the arms of victory, on
England's own element, and before it had been shown
by the great Captain of the Peninsula that we come'
aspire to military renown. But, though Nelson can
scarcely be said to have done less than another, in
that he left nothing to he done, it would be hard to
• withhold from the services of half a century some higher
Diced than that of even ten years glory. Wellington
has been all that Nelson eras, and more than Nelson
was permitted to be. His years have been protracted
• to their longest span without an instant's remission of
his services in any capacity which remained to him, and
it is now for us to render the last acknowledgment
of deserts rich have accumulated from ono age to
another.

SUPPLEMENT, GRATIS consequence of the
death of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Proprietors
of the Weekly Dispatch have determined upon presenting a
supplement with their journal on Sunday next, the 19th inst.,
The supplement will contain a copious biography of his
Grace, comprising his military and political career, with
such episodical matter connected with so eminent an indivi-
dual as may complete the sketch of his varied and extraor-
dinary life. All orders should be given to the newsvendors
in town and country without delay, or forwarded to the
.Dispatch Wee.

COURT CERCUI.AE..

BALMORAL, SErr._ls.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert went; yesterday to the Balloch Buie, accom-
panied by the Princess Royal.
The dinner party yesterday included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Serene High-
ness the Princess Hohenlone Langenbourg, Lady
Augusta Bruce, Mr. and Lady Agnes Dud, and Mr.
Brooke.

Mr. Secretary Walpole, accompanied by Colonel
Jebb, visited Parkhurst Prison, in the Isle of Wight,
yesterday.
Dispatches were sent to the Governors of the
West India Islands, from the Colonial-office, yes-
terday.

THE QUEEN AT LOCHNAGAR.
CRATHIE, TUESDAY..---SiDee Sunday the weatb?r
has been very cold and wintry, and our loftier hills
have more than once assumed their winter shroud of
snow. Yesterday her Majesty walked out and visited
several of her cottare, with whom she left appropriate
marks of her Royal benevolence in the shape of
useful articles of clothing for the winter season. His
Royal Highness went out shooting, and killed five
beautiful stags—the best day's sport he has yet had.
In the evening her Majesty and his Royal Highness
drove down to Merge!die to attend a ball given by
the Duchess of Kent in honour of the birth-day of
his Royal Highness the Prince Leiningen. The
piper of Captaiu Forbes, of Blelack, was present, with
other district celebrities, and a very happy evening
was spent. The Royal party returned to Balnaoral
about eleven P.M.

To-day the weather is still wintry, but her Majesty,
with that courage and self-confidence which she is
at all times ready to display, ascended Lochnagar, on
which the snow was lying in some places pretty thick.
The atmosphere was exceeding chilly, but the exer-
tion necessary for the ascent in a great measure
nullified this inconvenience, and her Majesty seemed
to enjoy the somewhat adventurous excursion very
much. She was accompanied by Prince Albert and
the Royal suite.