The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-28 00:00:00

CAIIBRID GE INSTALLATION.

The Vice-Chancellor has issued an official notice of
her Majesty's intention to honour this ancient seat of
learning with her august presence at the approach-
ing M. A. commencement; and it may be most con-
fidently anticipated that Cambridge will on that
occasion present a scene of unexampled splendour. A
week of uninterrupted festivities, worthy of the event
they are destined to commemorate, will enliven and
delight the assembled guests ; and if our fair readers
should, in consequence of the impossibility of devo-
ting the Fitzwilliam Museum to so gratifying a pur-
pose, be deprived of the fascinations of a Ball in that
noble pile, we think we may venture to assure them,
that they will lose nothing in the shape of amuse-
ment, as arrangements are in progress which will
ensure a succession, we hope, of unalloyed enjoy-
ments.

We may mention that it has been whispered to 1.1.;,
on no mean authority, that the Queen will certainly
hold a Drawing Room in the State Rooms of Trinity,
which will be splendidly adorned for the purpose ;
and it is not altogether impossible, that in the even-
ing of that eventful day for the fair dames of this
locality a select Ball, which will be honoured by the
presence of her Majesty, will be given in the same
magnificent apartments.—Cambridge Advertiser.

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MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MA-
GISTRATES.
A meeting of the magistrates for Middlesex was held
yesterday at the Court House, Clerkenwell-green, for
the transaction of the county business to be disposed
of at the May general sessions. Mr. Pownall in the
chair.
The minutes of the last meeting were read by the
deputy cl4?ck of the peace, after which the report of the
committee of accounts and for general purposes si as
brought up and read.

ALLEGED UNNECESSARY INQUESTS.
me. WILKES said it appeared from the report just
read that within the last six weeks it bad cost the county
a sum of no less than 9001. for coroners' inquests. He
thought this called loudly for investigation, for it was
an enormous tax to be levied on the rate-payers within
so short a time. He saw these items amongst the ac-
counts:—William Balzer, coroner for the eastern dts
trict of Middlesex, for inquests holden from the 3,1 of
April to 14th of May (a period of little more than five
weeks), 3931. 7s. 9d. To Thomas Wakley, for inquests
held in the western district from the 22d of March to
the llth of May, 473/. 19s. 2d. He thought it was only
necessary to direct the attention of the Court to the fact
of, in round numbers, 922/. being expended in so short a
time for coroners' inquests.
Mr. HILL said if vouchers for each of the inquests
holden, the number of miles travelled by the coroners,
and the incidental expenses had not been laid before
the committee, the accounts would not have been re-
ceived.
Mr. WILSON said this was a subject calling loudly for
investigation, and he hoped some steps would be taken
by the Court to prevent a system which was growing
into a crying evil.
Mr. ROTCH denounced the system, and thought that
in many cases inquests were holden without any ne-
cessity-. A very short time ago a justice of their own
body, whose death had been lung anticipated through a
lingering illness, had died surrounded by the members
of his own family, in his own bed, and in his own house,
and under circumstances which to the mind of any rea-
sonable man must appear natural. Now, when they
found that some one had the power to distress and dis-
turb his family in the hour of their sorrow and bereave-
ment, without the shadow of a shade of necessity—
(Hear, hear)—by insisting upon holding an inquest,
and that they were then called upon to pay for this vio-
lation of common feeling, it was high time that sore of
their body should bring the matter before the Hothe of
Commons.

The matter then dropped, after which the Cour
proceeded with the usual routine business.

THE LATE DANIEL O'CONNELL.
(From the Dublin Evening Freeman's Journal of Tue silay.)
THE REV. DR. MLLEY'S LETTER TO MR. MORGAN
O'CONNELL.
Genoa, Sunday, May 16, 1547.
My dear, dear Sir,—May the God of Mercy sustain
and comfort you. The worst has befallen us—the
Liberator, your illustrious father—the father of his
country—the glory and the wonder of Christendom—is
dead. Dead! No, I should say rather, O'Connell is in
Heaven. His death was happy; he received in the most
fervent sentiments the last rites; and up to the last sigh,
was surrounded by every consolation provided by our
holy religion. Oh, would to Heaven that I could pour
the balm of consolation into the wound which I open by
this heart-breaking intelligence; but, alas! how could I,
my own heart is bursting, and poor Daniel is crushed
with grief. Nothing that strangers could do to comfort
us has been wanteeg, but the stroke is so tremendous! On
the side of religion everything cheers us, and it is there we
have sought for refuge. You are already aware ft my
last letter, and that which was written by Daniel at a
later hour, how matters stood up to six o'clock on last
(Saturday) evening. From that hour up to eight o'clock
he continued to sink gradually, but without suffering.
I knew long before this hour that he was dying, and we
had recited the prayers from seven to eight o'clock, in
which he joined most fervently, and with 'all the
distinctness his fast tailing powers permitted. I think
his agony began at eight o'clock, or a little after, but in
using this word you are not to understand me to say
that there was any painful struggle. At no stage, espe-
cially for the last two days, was there anything like pain.
At this time the Vicar-General, who is a prelate, with the
clergy, were round his bed; his breathing became gra-
dually m, weak; as the prayers were recited, his hands
were firmly clasped upon his noble breast, his counte-
nance perfectly serene; and as I suggested to him all
that my sacred office required, and my grief permiVed,
he responded by word and sign so as to express per-
fectly and fervently the glowing sentiments of his heart.
Daniel and me, and his faithful Duggan, he recognised
to the last. Our supplications, in the sublime and con-
soling language of the Church, were mingled with our
tears., as we knelt around his bed. When at last his
migb ty voice was hushed, his countenance—his hands—
responded to the prayers.
At 37 minutes past nine, the hand of the priest of
God, privileged "to bind and loose on earth, even es it
is done in heaven," was extended over him. There was
no ateuggle—no change visible upon the features, except
the.; as we gazed it was plain that a dread mystery had
cast its shadow over him. The spirit which had moved
the world took its flight so peacefully, that all who were
th ere, except the angels who were in waiting for it, v'ere
in doubt if it had departed. He died as an infant sinks
tit ion its mother's breast to sleep. It was by the soft and
bisautiful transition of the prayers that we were reminded
that we had before us only the noble body of O'Connell,
as if listening. hushed in attention, for the summons to a
glorious immortality.
We are thrown upon our own counsels, with nothing
to guide U 3 but what we inherit from his conversations
and casually expressed wishes. Acting on this, we have
detetminad to have the heart embalmed, placed in a
silver urn, and transported to Rome, as of old the heart
of Robert Bruce was carried to Jerusalem, when it was
not permitted him by Providence to perform, in his own
person, that pilgrimage to the holy sepulchre which he
had vowed, as O'Connell had vowed his pilgrimage to
the tombs of the Apostles. His body, also, is to be em-
balm ed, and deposited in a chapel of the church of our i
Bles aed Lady, Delle Vigne, where tis to repose until,
on o ur return from leaving the heart in Rome, we con-
vey it to Ireland.
-e have thought it right that his obsequies, though
to E ie renewed no doubt by the Irish nation, should be
prin. cely here. It is likely we shall proceed with our
sacr ed charge to Rome on Thursday or Friday next, by
way of Cirita Vecchia, where the carriage and nearly all
our luggage have been fur some days.
We shall hold it a sacred duty to guard every object,
no. matter how otherwise insignificant, that belonged to
his Pilgrimage, as well as all the documents and memo-
rialLs appertaining to it, which we have collected.
I should add that we are satisfied with the physicians.
We are certain that there was no mistake about the iiis•
ease, and hut for the science and skill of the continental
physici ans it must have had inucli sooner a fatal termi-
nation or one still more afflicting. I will write to Mr.
Fitzps trick a few lines, but you will oblige me by letting
him so this letter, as lam not able to write to him at
lengt3 a. We have had a cast taken of his head, which
ha a -filled with wonder the physicians who have seen it.
Face well. May Heaven comfort you all. My beloved
and revered friend, John—l could not write to him. In
wri ting to you I write to him and to all the family. Oh!
eve I' Blessed Mother! comfortress of the afflicted, pray
for us!—Ever yours, J. MILEY.
ro Morgan O'Connell, Esq.
' f'he following is Dr. Miley's letter to Mr. Fitzpa
tri.

Genoa, May 17, 1847.
Oh, friend of my heart—of my heart crushed and
Sped in sorrow—how shall I address you ; He is
'esfl, I The stroke has fallen upon us close upon hopes
withhi Q'wohe which we had cheated ourselves, that we should see
cons,ol:hitaige almost himself returning to cheer and
hearse the d country. I must not again atte.mpt to re-
details of his last hours ; I thought my heart
would not have held out to the end while I wrote them
yt ‘sterday to Morgan.
Go to him, he will be hardly
whaAnly
ab le to read
pev.mited me to write.t ear? and the agitation of grief
Genoa attended round hi he dignitaries of the church of
of the dead was Itlpt up
church of the Ann ziata•
death-bed ; the dirge or office
the. Franciscans of the daeeartrtually day and night by
beside his sick bed
The Jesuic fathers came andsio7earLel
—the church bells tolled
cal-Z.l3l)la".This
hour of
ag•ony till the removal for embalnaintfZionak his
morning the solemn votive mass was
whole chapter, to-morrow the same, on Wevdanted by the
grand mass uptusica with catafalque at the grrndatil the
altar
and the chapels lighted with wax-lights, the w,,,,,;
ch arch ,hung in black, and masses at the four .ftzl,i,
twenty altars—then the body embalmed is to be Ce-
p% lied temporarily in a separate chapel till we rett.ra
fro' 72 leaving the heart at the tombs of the Apostles,.
Es er yours, J. MILEY..

,
Crry OP LONDON NATIONAL SCHOOLS.—The ant i—
versa ry festival of these schools was held on Wednesday .a
the L ondon Tavern, and was attended by about 70 or 80
gues•t, 3. The Lord Mayor presided, and explained tl
object of the schools, which is to educate the children of'
the po o r in the principles of the Established Church.
Fie stated that 1,2001. were required for carrying oLi,t.
the pAans proposed for the more effective operation-. Or
these schools, and he urged on the meeting to subsel vibe
libera ily towards Ro useful a charity. The subscripti
annou aced during the evening amounted only to 35 04',,
but Al derman Johnson offered to make one of 24 gen tle -
men wl So would be ready to supply the sum still requixecit.
The dij vier and wines were excellent, and under th.o di -
rection ce Mr. Higgs, as toastmaster, the evening proses
"rY agr toably.