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London, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

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THE LATE REV.
ALMER.

The last duties to the remains of Dr. Balmer were
performed on Tuesday. Before one o'clock the body
was removed from his house into the chapel, Golden.
square, and, at that hour, the members of the congre-
gation and others, assembled for the purpose of joining
I in devotional exercises, and improving the melancholy
event which had brought them together. Every part
of the chapel was crowded, and many were unable to
obtain admission. The services were commenced by
the Rev. Mr. Brown, of Dalkeith, who dispensed the
Communion to the congregation on the preceding.
Sabbath. After the first four verses of Psalm 6GI st
had been sung, Mr. Brown read.the 90th Psalm, and
st Thess. ch. iv. from the thirteenth verse to the end.
He then offered up a most impressive prayer, amid the
tears of many in the. chapel, and gave out the first two
verses of the 53d Paraphrase, which were also sung.
The Rev. Dr. Henderson, of Galashiels, one of Dr.
Balmer's earliest college companions with whom he
maintained the warmest friendship through life, then
delivered a most solemn address t,i the congregation, in
which he feelingly and skillfully sketched the character
of his departed brother, and impressed on the audience
the duty of being followers of him as he also was " a
follower of Christ." Verse 4-6 of the fifth-third
Paraphrase were next sung, when the Rev. Mr. Lee, of
llorndean also offered up a very impressive prayer,
and, shortly after two o'clock, the services were con-
cluded by singing the last two verses of the Para-
phrase and pronouncing the apostolical benediction.
It had been arranged that the funeral procession.
should move in the following order :—The pall-
bearers, consisting of the clergymen of the
town ; the relatives of the deceased ; the elders of
the congregation ; the members of the Cold-
stream Presbytery and other clerical friends who
were present; the trustees and managers of the con.
gregation ; the male members ; the female members ;
and last, those belonging to other Christian bodie-,
all walking four a-breast. This arrangement, how-
ever, was known to those only who had been in the
Chapel, and, so large was the multitude without
who had come to attend the funeral, that to
observe it • was impossible. The whole line
along which the procession moved presented
a dense mass of human beings, all anxious to
testify their respect to him who, in life, was universally
esteemed, and whose loss they deplored. A funeral, so
numerously attended, has certainly not taken place here
within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The
windows of the houses along the line of the procession
were crowded with spectators, not a few of whom were
in mourning and shedding tears of sorrow ; and, though
death has removed him from those by whom he was
loved and esteemed, and they can see his face or hear
his voice no more—his memory will be hallowed in
their recollection. The Rev. Mr. Peden of Church-
street Chapel, and the Rev. Dr. Brown of Broughton-
place, Edinburgh, are to officiate on Sabbath in the
pulpit which he so long oce upied.—Beritick Advertiser.

BUTTER AND CHEESE.—A Bill to repeal the follow-
ing Acts for regulating the trade in butter and cheese
has been brought into the House of Commons:—An
Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of King
William the Third and Queen Mary, intituled, " An
Act to prevent Abuses committed by the Traders in
Butter and Cheese :" Art Act passed in the thirty-sixth
year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled,
" An Act to prevent Abuses and Frauds in the
Packing, Weight, and Sale of Butter, and to re-
peal certain Acts relating thereto :" n Act passed
in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of King
George the Third, intituled, "An Act fur amending and
rendering more effectual an Act made in the Thirty-
sixth year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled
An Act to prevent Abuses and Frauds in the Packing
and Sale of Batter, and to repeal certain Acts relating
thereto.' "
CONFESSION OF AN INCENDIARY..—Thomas Rust,
who has undergone several examinations at Halstead„
charged with setting fire to Mr. Nott's premises at Peb-
marsh on the 6th of April, and Mr. Ball's premises, in the
same parish, on the 6th of June, by which property to a
considerable amount was destroyed, was on Tuesday
finally examined. A number of witnesses were examined,
but the tes imony of J. Estall, a vagrant, who had been in
the station-house with the prisoner Rust, was the mostint-
portant. They had occupied cells adjoining each other,
and were enabled to hold a conversation. Estall had
asked him for what he was in custody ? He replied.
" On suspicion of setting fire to a house or barn."
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