The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-09 00:00:00

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I port, and the procession was then forined in the
following order :

The Masons of the Phoenix, Royal Sussex, and
o Portsmouth Lodges.
'l4 The Mayor and Corporation of the borough of
no Portsmouth, in their robes, and with their
Pig
insignia of office.

•a, Chariot with Dr: E. J. Scott, Dr. Wilson, 2,
Mr. Davis, and Mr. Perry.
Q'-+"-- Undertakers—Messrs. Marvins.

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HEARSE, 5
`461 Four Soldiers. Drawn by four Four Soldiers. • 0

Horses.
Charger with Trappings.
Mourners.
Ist Carriage—Ladies of the family.

2d Carriage—R. Napier, Esq., Lieut.-Colonel
W. Napier, Major M`Murdo' J. Napier, Esq. '
3d Carnage—C. Napier, Esq., Mr. Alcock, Mr. J.
Alcock, Vice-Admiral Sir C. Napier.
4th Carriage—The Earl of Ellenborough, Viscount
Hardinge, Lieut.-General Sir W. Napier,
Colonel Kennedy.
Rear-Admiral the Hon.

H. D. Byng.
Major Travers. Gene ral Hunter. W. Grant, Esq. 2
Sir Colin Campbell.
Major-General Simpson.
Carriage of the deceased.
Lords of the Admiralty.
Officers of the Navy and Army.
Seamen and Marines' Orphan School.

In this order they advanced down High-street.
The masons all in full mourning, the corporate
officers in their robes, the hearse with nodding
plumes, and the row of dark carriages, followed by
the blaze of uniforms, had an effect all the more
striking, perhaps, that no sound was audible save
the tramp of feet and the grating roll of wheels,
for "not a drum was heard—not a funeral note," save
the slow booming of the deathbell, so that a wondrous
silence remained over thewhole scene. Major Travers,
one of the pallbearers, is the only officer who now
remains alive of all who messed and lived and fought
with the dead general in Spain, and it is somewhat
noteworthy that the very battalions in which they
both served should have furnished men to accom-
pany the funeral procession. Mr. Grant is an old
personal friend of the deceased. Major-General
Simpson, the Commandant of the town, was also
an old friend of Sir C. Napier. The names of most
the others mentioned above are tolerably well
known to nearly all our countrymen.

The charger of the late General, "Red Rover"—
a handsome light bay—which bore him through
many a hard day in India, followed the hearse, led
by a groom, and decorated with military trappings,
while the boots which had so often pressed his sides
in the reconnoissance or the gallop hung dangling
idly to the stirrup-leathers. As the officers and
seamen passed, the soldiery closed in from the sides
of the street, and formed a dense column across it,
bringing up the rear of the procession, and closing
it as though a rainbow had fallen from the clouds,
so brilliant was the contrast of distinct colours fur-
nished by the various branches of the service thus
brought together. The cortege took about 15
minutes to pass, and arrived at the entrance to
the Garrison Chapel before 3 o'clock. Inside the
humble walls which enclose the very humble and
methodistical-looking building which serves as gar-
rison chapel, a great number of ladies and gentle-
men were assembled ; and outside the crowd was
very dense. The coffin was removed from the
hearse at the entrance of the churchyard, which is
very plain and very scant in its proportions, and
the chaplain of the garrison (Mr. Milner), meeting
it there, proceeded to read the sublime funeral
service of the Church. It was observed that the
coffin was not highly decorated or over ornate.
The inscription on it simply stated that Lieut.-
General Sir C. J. Napier, C. 8., was born on such
a day, and died on such another.
On the lid were the General's hat, with plume,
&c., of the deceased. There were two swords
upon it also ; one of them was worn by the Gene-
ral for many years, and memorably in the last
India campaign. The guard was torn up and bent
backward towards the blade from the hilt. This
was the work of a musket or ginjal ball at Hyder-
abad. The second was a sabre d'honneur, a very
richly-mounted and handsome weapon, presented
to the General by Lord Ellenborough when
Governor-General of India.

When the coffin was lowered into the grave—a
plain bricked-up pit, some five or six feet deep,
by the side of the path from the gate to the church
—and the solemn words " Earth to earth, ashes to
ashes, dust to dust," were pronounced, not a few
of the old soldiers present were unable to restrain
their emotion. As soon as the service was con-
cluded, Sir W. Napier, standing by the side of the
grave, turned round to the soldiers, who formed
three sides of a square around it, and, as well as
we could hear, said—

" Soldiers! there lies one of the best men—the
best soldiers—the best Christians—that ever lived!
He served you faithfully, and you served him
faithfully. God is just.".
The gallant officer could proceed no further.
He had evidently intended to speak something at
greater length, but was unable to command his
words, and slowly and sadly the group around the
grave broke up, and the military filed away. The
crowd gradually thinned, and at last nothing was
to be seen in the churchyard but the men who
were closing up the mortal resting-place of one of
the noblest soldiers England ever sent forth to do
her service.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT, Sept. 8.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.—Sept. 2. Constance, schooner, R. C. Nay-
lor, Esq., from Mediterranean. 4. Fancy, schooner, Rev.
R. P. Hartopp, Ireland and Plymouth ; Beatrix, do.,
Sir W. P. Carew, Bart., Western Ports. 7. Hornet,
cutter, John Naylor, Esq., Weymouth. 8. Lotus,
schooner, Marquis of Bath, West of Scotland.
SAILINGS.—Sept. 3. Gloriana, schooner, J. Gee, Esq.,
for Hull, left for the season ; Camilla, do., J. E. W.
Rolls, Esq., Portsmouth, to lay up. 5. Gondola, cutter,
W. H. Woodhouse, Esq., Plymouth and Ireland. 6.
Stella, cutter, R. Frankland, Esq., Cork ; Pandora, do.,
Capt. Smith Barry, Dublin and Scotland. 7. Kath-
leen, cutter, Viscount Bangar, Plymouth and Ireland.
8. Capricorn, schooner, Vice-Commodore 0. R. M.
Talbot, Esq., Western Ports.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.—AIarm, Petrel,
Sultana, Aurora, Seagull, Intrepid, Coquette, Titania,
Fancy, Osprey, Hornet, Raven, Arrow, Lotus.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—A great number of workmen
are employed laying down pipes between Cowes and
Yarmouth for the telegraph wires to be placed in.

DEATH FROM PRUSSIC AClD.—Yesterday afternoon
Mr. W. Baker concluded an inquiry at the Bromley
Arms, Fairfield-row, Bow, respecting the death of Mr.
John Andrew Wallace, aged 51, a surgeon of consider-
able practice at Carlisle-terrace, in the above road, who
died from the effects of prussic acid. It appeared that
in the course of the forenoon of Friday the 'life of the
deceased called upon Mr. Garman, a medical gentleman
in the district, to attend her husband, and on reaching
his residence Mr. Garman found him stretched in a
chair in a kind of back kitchen, which he used as his
dispensary, and where she stated she bad found him.
He was quite dead, and from the strong odour of prussic
acid which pervaded the apartment, and the finding of
a bottle which contained a few drops of that poison, it
was believed he had committed suicide. To remove all
doubt, however, a post mortent examination was made,
assisted by Dr. Smythe, of Bow, and the result
clearly proved previous anticipations. In conse-
quence of certain allegations which were made by
one of the witnesses, to the effect that the de-
ceased's domestic happiness had been much dis-
turbed, the widow, Mrs. Wallace, was examined.
She said that she last saw the deceased alive about
half-past 11 on Friday morning in the dispensary. He
seemed much depressed in spirits. She did not know that
there was any prussic acid at all in the house, but he
had told her often since their marriage that one of these
odd days he would take some of that poison. That in-
duced her to believe that he meditated self-destruction.
There was no person in the house but themselves. She
left the dispensary to attend to some household work,
and had not been away more than 10 minutes before she
heard a strange gurgling noise. She called to him to
know the cause, and, receiving no answer, went down
and found him stretched back on a chair, gasping for
breath. Thinking he was in a fit she applied some salts
of ammonia to his nose, and, finding he did not recover,
she went for Mr. Garman. She had no quarrel or dis-
agreement with the deceased, and she slept with him
at home on the previous night. She attributed his
depressed state to embarrassed circumstances. The
widow was questioned as to some rumours in the neigh-
bourhood. The coroner, however, interfered on the
ground that the matter was irrelevant to the object of
the inquiry. The residence of the deceased had been
carefully examined, but no prussic acid could be dis-
covered, and what rendered the affair somewhat more
myst rious was that the bottle was not of the character
generally used for its keep, being larger. It had been
brought into the house a few days before by one of the
children. In the absence of evidence as to how it was
taken, the jury returned a verdict, to the effect that the
deceased died from prussic acid, but how administered
there was no evidence to show.
GREAT FIRE AT BARNET.—Shortly after two o'clock
yesterday morning a most awful conflagration took
place on the estate of a gentleman named Smith, of
Cobbett's Farm, Friern Barnet, Herts. The flames
were first observed in one of the hayricks, of about 50
loads. An alarm was raised, and two or three small
fire-engines, with that belonging to Barnet parish, were
quickly on the spot. Their power was not sufficient to
stay the progress of the flames, and the work of de-
struction extended to the outbuildings and other stacks.
A. mounted police-officer was dispatched to London,
and instantly the Farringdon street Brigade were dis-
patched to the scene of disaster. By this time an im-
mense stock of hay and other property had been con-
sumed ; but, with the assistance afforded the firemen,
in about five hours farther danger ceased, with the to-
tal destruction of out-houses, ricks, live stock, &c.
Insured in the Sun Fire-office. The cause of the fire
is undergoing investigation.

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