The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

must be conf

and what adds

fast, or are actually gone

other hand, that hajyis unusually plentiful. -
The editor of the Agricultural Gazette attaches very
considerable importance to the returns from which the con-
clusions-have been drawn. They were prepared by practical
men, each well known as such in his own district, and, in
most cases, the questions submitted to them were made the
subject of consultation with neighbours equally well-in-
formed.

In. Yorkshire, the Wheat crop is described as less than
nal: barley. oats. beans. neas, and notatoes, are " very

„ .
turnips and other roots failing fast;' hay plentiful
s usual :” but the " continued frog

the extent sown

near the average ; of tur-

no* ; the present ap-
pearance of the crops is said to be backward and badly.
In Cheshire, the wheat is described as being;two-thirds
of the usual average ; of barley, little, if any, is• on hand ;
of oats, two-thirds ; of beans, none ; of peas,.none ; of
Seen an in- I potatoes, " there will probably be plenty of seed her
A .;u2- -

tng Z3O4,UUU paid as duty on tee import of toreigu
He now would state what the probable in-
come of the year, from sth April, 1846, to sth April,
1847, would be. Last year the duties on corn produced
£793.000. He could not calculate upon such an amount,

but still be calculated in security

" it ha

full average sown

action of duty

looked badly of late."

ciliated that this increase would continue, and he assumed
that the probable revenue from customs during the next
year would be £20,000,000. During the present quarter
the increase of customs duties had been £204,000. Up

COMPARATIVE MORTALITY BY WAR AND
SICKNESS.

£13,988,000

reckoned for the ensuing year

From these statements it may be concluded that'cannon

an increase of £13,700,000. The increase on the excise
from the beginning of the quarter had been £106,000, and

Is are come
ale than

atively harmless things, and frig?

itary da-nger

in Ireland,-extending to January, there had been an in-
crease. He contemplated from Stamps .a revenue of
£7,500,000, from Taxes £4,270,000, from Property-tax
£5,390,000, from the Post-offices £845,000, from Crown
Lands £120,000, from miscellaneous sources of revenue

and its interential prowess, have been prodigiou. slyover:
rated. A comparison of the registers of mortality. will
convince ys that a hero, placed in the trenches of a be-

£427,000 •, making a total of ordinary revenue of
£52,065,000. The expenses of the interest of the debt
and the Consolidated Fund would be £30,735,000 ' • for the
Army, £6,840,074. The Navy vote would be £7,561,000 ;
the Ordnance vote would be £2,679,127, being an increase
of £135,568 over the vote of last year, a great portion of
which was due, as in the case of the Navy, to a deferred
vote of last year. The residue was owing to an increase
of 1,200 men and to putting the ports in a state of defence.
The miscellaneous votes, exclusive of votes for Ireland,
would be £3,750,000, being an increase of £397,000.
The increase was owing to the expenses of the poor-law
and the prosecution of prisoners, and another portion to
the increase of printing and stationery for the Houses of
Parliament. The whole of the estimates would amount
to £20,851,077, making the whole ordinary expend'
£51,576,000. He had purposely omitted in his states

battle before the bravest and most resolute of his enemies,
has a much better chance of life, and runs less risk of
premature death, than if he worked in some undrained
street, and slept in a crowded room in Bristol or Liver-
pool. The chance of life was at the
Siege of Flushing.. 420 to 1 1 Shopkeeping Liver- -

Siege of Antwer

68 to 1

17 to. I

Siege of Badajo; ~ 54 to 1 WeavingManchester 17 to• 1
Battle of Waterloo 30 to 1 Sawmaking Sheffield 14 to 1
The account of the loss of life in the "trade of war " and
.aceful trade" may be stated thus. Assuming a
fair average mortality to be 1 in 50, then in places where
this is exceeded, it follows the excess might have been
diminished or saved. It is now thirty-one years sin
the battle of Waterloo was won, and between that tir
and this there have been the following numbers of pr
ventible deaths over and above the
)rtality " in the towns specified

regular annu

all allusion to the grants for the relief of_ distr

land; and he would now state what he tholight
required for the distress to be advanced by the Treasury
for whatever burden might ultimately be thrown upon th

Premattire deaths

Liverpool .
Manchester

annually
3,200
2,130
1,007
1,013

Total in
31 years,
99,200
66,030

31,217
31,403

Birmingham

,
beings have been destroyed whose lives might have been
preserved to their families and the public—a carnage equal
to that of one hundred 'and three battles, each as bloody
as that fought at Waterloo. The " game of war, played
by princes," has been a subject of vituperation from Nim-
rod to Bonaparte, but princes and conquerors have not, on
the whole, been the most heartless or most desperate gam-
blers ; their battles have a cessation, and they end in

ughterersand

destroyers of mankind, whose deadly work ioes on from
year to year and for ever are men who shiver at the sight
of a naked sword, and ;hut their eyes when an unloaded
musket is pointed towards them ; who walk about with
pens behind their ears and their hands" in their pockets,
and most days in the week hold their breath and put their
handkerchief to their nose as they Pass through the dirty.

pestilential streets that intervene between their villas and
their counting-houses, and instinctively cross the road to
avoid contact with their contagious-looking townsmen

issuing from courts and alleys. 'these are the men who
unconcernedly look on thousands of their neighbours at-
tacked by disease, disabled from labour, consigned to the
workhouse, or prostrated by death, and deposited by
fifties and hundreds in' revolting dead-pits ; while in feast-
ing, in jobs of every sort, in building exchanges, court
houses, town halls, and other specious clap-trap undertak-

ings, they dissipate and squander the town funds, often of
enormous amount, which should be held sacred, and ap-
plied to promote improvements that would alleviate and
prevent the havock and destruction made on the lives and
health of their indigent fellow-citizens—those citizens by
whose toil and skill the public wealth has been created.

Otntrai Altsrtlianp.

At present, in Great Britain, there is one in 1,585 of
the population deaf and dumb, and one in 1,000 blind;
that is, the ratio of the blind to the deaf is about that of
8 to 5, and this, be it remembered, when the advantages

of vaccination are very widely diffused and understood:
On Tuesday last, a serious riot occurred at Leicester,
between the police and the civilians, in consequence of the
interference of the former, by order, of the magistrates,
with certain sports and diversions practised-by a long es-
tablished custem on Shrove Tuesday.
The wonderful patriarch of English tenors, Brahami is
now in London, and is rusticating for a time, after giving
400 concerts in thirty-seven weeks, two each day, and tra-
velling every morning by railroad, post-stages, &c. lie
is in excellent health, strength, and voice.
The upper part of an immense dust heap gave way on
Tuesday, at Camden Town, and overwhelmed a number
of persons who were sitting at its base. Some escaped,
others were taken out insensible, and recovered, and:one
taken out dee(

was
A young woman at Bradford, troubled with epileptic tits,
has swallowed, on the prescription of a quack, a human
skull, powdered and mixed with treacle, in occasional
doses, as a remedy for her disease ! A belief in the effi-
cacy of powdered human skull for fits was formerly ver
common.

—A patent has just been taken out by
Peckham, Surrey, for making .coffins of
glass by a mould, or of thick plates of chmajomed toge-
ther by a durable cement, or of wooden cases lined with
-elates of glass, united by a mixture of, fused glass and

GLASS COFFINS

THE WHEAT .IJUTIES.---1 .
to 19th Janu
foreign wheat from the sth July, 1846, ary,
1847, was £72,059 on wheat, and £60,929 on wheat flour,
making a gross sum total of £132,988. Of these duties
4:1 id Ora WPI•P ~,,,pivAd on foreign wheat and wheat flour,

and. £18,024 on British colonial wheat and wheat flour.
Alexandre Dumas, the French feuilleioniste, usually
sells his writings by the line, at prices varying from sev
aren-
• l...anin !WIPP fm.".l

nce to a shilling: He is said to have neen once onereu
half-a-crown a line for a novel, but to have refused the
offer on the eround that the man who madeiit coald never

of the work col

of the

person

ell doing, and the bankers are ready to assist on occa-
sion. It may be expected, therefore,, that corn will be
brought more freely to_market now that the bankers will
__ rather anxious to recall their advances.
Messrs. Osier, of London, have just completed a mag-
eificent candelabrum for Ibrahim Pasha. This extraor-
dinary piece of glasswork consists of .500 pieces, is seven-
teen feet in height, and weighs a ton. From a base richly
decorated springs a shaft composed of: triangular prisms.
Upon this shaft, at twelve feet six inches from the ground,
is placed a large dish, from which spring, the branches,
twenty-four in number, each provided with a bell-shade
and decorated with a solid star. The dish is likewise de-
corated with six pendants two feet long. The work about-
the base is on the inner side of the glass,. and the cense-
- quence is that the smooth side being.outwards, the dust
......—..._.
W. B. Ferrand, Esq.,_, has been appointed a Deputy-- is not easily collected, and cleaning is effected without
Lieutenant for. Yorkshire. trouble. The wholeis intended to represent the form of
The House of Assembly in Nova Scotia have contri-, a. Palmyra tree. It is not the least.interesting fact con-
huted £lOOO. towards the relief. of Ireland and Scotland. nected with this beautiful work of art, that its coilstruce
The subscriptions in Guernsey for the Irish , amount to time has alone been rendered possible by the abolition of
£2,000. the laws requiring the sueerintendence of the excise.
A Chinese junk is stated to be on her voyage to Loielon PROTESTANTISM AND 'POPERY ATINOTTINGHAM.—On
for exhibition as a curiosity. Tuesday last the Protestants of Nottingham held a great
The late Mr. Byng's estate has beenvalued for probate meeting in the Mechanics Hall, which was crowded, in
duty at £400,000. d every part by above 1,500 persons.. The Rev. J. W.
It is most singular that nothing has yet been heard of Brooks, the worthy vicar of St. Mary's, took the chair.
the Rev. H. W. Starr, who is supposed to have perished The Rev. Dr. Gemming, the. Rev.. It. Blakeney, and
in some of the defiles of Snowdon. others, addressed the audience at length, and amid much
The Mayor of Leeds has forwarded an invitation to enthusiasm. A counter meeting was got up in the Ex-
Count de Montemolin to visit Leeds on his contemplated. change Rooms to receive the Rev. Dr. Wilson, the Roman
tour through the provinces. Catholic bishop. The audience amounted to about 200...
The report about the Emperor of Russia having.,pro- It was a strange scene. Mr. Wakefield, a well, known,
hibited:the exportation of corn is a Mark Lane fahriea. Socinian, and one of the corporation, took the chair;. and,
tion. Mr. Cripps, the mayor, a dissenter and leading member,
A very large quantity of cocoa nuts have been imported of the Independent Chapel„ under the ministry of the,
into Sunderland, which are selling at the low price of Rev. Mr. Gilbart, was seated, between the Popish bishop,
threepence each. and a Popish priest, as one of.the chief patrons of the pro-
The wages of the ship carpenters at Sunderland have Popery festival. While this is going 0n,., these
tsbamesee
been, raised from,twenty-four to twenty-seven shillings a liberal Socinians and Independents have, ref used _ _
II
week. rooms on any terms to the Reformation Society of Not--
Dr. Adler, the chief Rabbi of the Hebrews, has been tingham.—Heraid.
recently introduced to her Majesty. He is aboutto insti-
Arrangements are in progress for fitting out the mx,an
bite schools connected with the' various congregations of SURVEYING EXP. EDITION To TIIEC OASTOAmFBAcA.—d
Teazer steam-vessels, of 100 horses' power each, and light
Jews in Great Britain.
cud news
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t i 1---r oT AY.-The)
g eh
grandt e petsott-ealific, of. letters
elnettsears_ drgnugahntdashwarpateerh,eaentedrt, two other
2o hosrsteeasmp-voewsseerlse,acth,he
oßnietleoi
turday last stands as follows :—Letters, 422,000 ; news- each class built of wood, and the others of iron,, and all
papers, 145,000. fitted with screw propellers, for the purpose of proceeding
The Brummegem twelve shilling guns, says the Tippe- to the Bight of Bei in, on the west coast of Africa, to war-
rary Free Press, are doing serious havoc. through the vey the extensive Lagoon at the mouths of the Niger or
country. New accounts are daily read of the last explo- Nun river, as it is named by the nathes of that part of the
coast. The Lagoon is. a fresh-water lake, extending from
Cape St. Paul to Cape Formosa, separated from the sea
by a narrow beach through its whole extent, in some
places. the land being scarcely half a mile broad, and in no
part exceeding two, miles.
__The Lagos,.r the Benin, the
-•-• , 1 n 0 A ,

become-

Foseado, the Esclanzto, the Rio Ramos, Nos. r, aro' `s,
and 6, the Rio Dodo, the Formosa, and the Rio Nun or
Niger, all rivers or mouths of, the Niger, some of them
nearly two miles broad where they enter the LElke Lagoon,
supply this large inland reservoir with fresh water ; and
the smaller steam-vessels, the Minx and Tea.zer, are in-
tended to explore the banks of the recently-discovered
branches of the rivers entering tke lake, and proceed as
far inland upou them as will be fand practicable.
UNWILLINGNESS OF IIIGIILANI! LABOURERS TO
WORK.—From what we hear from various quarters, the
.

Highland Destitution Committee will; require to exercise
a very strict vigilance, and to be firm to sternness, if they,
are to prevent the money with which they have been en-.
trusted for the relief of helplessness and want, being con-.
verted into an encouragement to idleness and dishonesty.
There is no doubt whatever that a large number of the
Highland labourers employed, on railways in the Lowlands
have returned, and are returning homeward, attracted by
the hope of being able to live there without workbag.
For instance, on one contract on the Edinburgh and
Northern, near Kirkcaldy, 90 Highland labourers have
gone home since the end of October, and of these about
50 left during December and January. The manager re-
monstrated with them repeatedly, and almost invariably
got the same answer—that they would now get " plenty
of porridge" at home for nothing. About forty have also
left another contract in the same district, avowedly on the
same inducements. A short time ago, a contractor on

the same line, suffering from want of hands made a tour
through parts of Inverness and Argyle, offering employ-
ment to 300 men,, at wages varying from 2s. 4d. to 3s. a
day ; and after making every exertion, could only obtain
between thirty and forty.—Scotsman.

WORK.-It Boz's BAST must be a matter of surpris
to the public generally to perceive how varied are th

opinions expresseu toy imv irdwit6 nu iv --
sped to Mr. Dickens's last publication. It may well be
imagined that some adverse criticisms upon the works of
this and other celebrated authors may proceed from per-

replace so great an outlay. sonal feelings or educational prejudices. inese, 11.0%Ve-Ver,
WITCHCRAFT.—At Yarmouth police-court, last week, could account for but n few. The majority, as we have
a Mrs. Leggett applied for protection against her sister, the best medical authority for stating, may be ascribed to
who had assaulted and threatened her, because. the de- irritability of temper, generally arising from a deranged
fendant suspected that complainant had bewitched her state of the liver and other viscera, and which could easily
husband, who was never well, though no one could tell- be remedied by the occasional use of Frampton's Pill of
what ailed him. The magistrate endeavoured in vain to Health. which is gentle in its operation and unfailing
in
convince the defendant that her sister was not a witch, I its effect.

FOItEIGN StfivEn..--'The -Antonidf of London, aMved
at Newhaven, on Tuesday, with a ergo of silver from
Callao, stated to be in value near £BO,OOO. It was, on
Thursdiy, re-moved to Lewes, in three railway vans, each
drawn by four horses, and was thence despatched to Lon-
don by railway.

‘‘ BANK SNEAKS.''—AN OLD HAND.-011 Saturday
last, two men were brought before the Lord Mayor of
London, at the Mansion House, under the following cir-
cumstances :—They had been observed to go into several
banking houses in succession, mix amongst the customers
at the counter, and come out again without doing any

swell moil," they were apprehended, in order to
ascertain whether any person had been robbed. It was
stated by the police that their plan was, for one of them
to go into banking houses and watch in what pocket parties
deposited their money, and an accomplice waiting in the
neighbourhood ready to act on the information thus ob-
tained. On the examination of the prisoners, one pro-
duced a cheque for SA ss. which was genuine, and said he
had gone into the banking house to get it cashed;. and it
was stated by the officers, that thieves were in the habit
of getting these genuine cheques as blinds, so that, in the
event of suspicion, they might produce them, and then
.it might be supposed to'be a mere mistake their entering
the wrong bank. The. evidence against them not being
strong. enough to warrant their detention, they were (ha-
charged. Shortly after, a:member of the committee of
bankers called at.the justireroonr, and said that a gentle,
man had been robbed of .£10;000 after leaving one of the
first banking houses in the city.

MATRIMONIAL CORRECTION.—The Times of Friday
It is our duty to acknowledge a compliment we
have just received, and to impart to, our readers a fact of
some interest concerning a historical fact which has al-
ready caused some excitement, and bids fair to occasion
a little more. In a recent copy °four journal we alluded,
in speaking of the conquest of Seinde, to the brazen whip
with -which fusser Khan was wont; according to certain
legends, to chastise his offending wives, endive hinted our
suspicions that fact had as large a share m fable in the
materials of this edifying narrates. To extinguish our
doubts andconfirm our faith, Major-General Napier had not
only the politeness to inform us that the ' identical' whip
was in -his possession but he was good enough to despatch it
across the channel for our inspection, and a gentleman
yesterday did us the honour to call upon, us, at the Gene-
ral's request, with the veritable Scindian scarifier' in all its
unnatural' proportions: We regret extremely that our
unpictorial character debars us from soriveying- to our
readers so vivid •an idea of this effective machine as could
be given by some weekly cotemporaries ; but we can
readily enter'into the unwillingness of a ladrto share the
flight of a husband, who included such implements among
the necessaries of his household. To princes about to
marry, we hope the story will furnish a warning as ser-
viceable as anyin that immense stock of instructive-ex-
amples supplied by the nuptials of last autumn?'
INTREPID CONDUCT Or A YOUTH.—On Friday mum-

ing, between twelve and one o'clock, an express was re-
ceived at the London engine stations of the outbreak of a
most destructive fire in the town of Old Brentford, in the
premises of Mr. Grover, a boot and shoemaker. A youth
named George Best, in the service of Mr. O'Hara,. butcher,
first discovered the 'fire, and) owing to his intrepid con-
duct, was the instrument of saving five lives from- a hor-
rible death. He micceeded, with the aid of a poleaxe used
for killing bullocks,- in breaking open the door, when he
ascended the staircase; and made for Mr. Grover's bed-
room,

but the smoke had obtained such power over the
inmates, that they were perfectly unconscious of. what
was going on, and, in-the course of a very few minutes
longer they must hire been burnt to death. Best
having laid hold of C-rover's leg„ shook him violently,
and took up a couple- of 'his children in his arms and.ran
down the stairs with them. Having placed them in- safe
custody, he returned and saved Mrs. Grover and her hus-
band, and a third child was saved in a similar way. Not feel-
ing then satisfied that all were saved, he returned into the
burning premises for the third time,- and inspected every
room not on fire, and being .convinced that all the inmates
had already been got out, he was- about to run down stairs
to escape himself, when a large sheet of flame overtook
a on miaptply knocked him down,.

but having recovered •himself he• opened one of the nacK
windows and leaped into the back yard. When picked
up he was quite insensible, and such a'powerful effect had
the smoke upon him that the blood issued from his mouth
and nose, and it was some time before the youth could be
restored

Feb, 23,184.

Gray's Inn. He further Stated that his falhor had been
in good circumstances, but had become so redtteed as to
be obliged to send him to sea five months ago, and that
the ship had left him at Exmouth. The worthy clergy-
man gave him a shilling, at which the poor boy burst into
tears of gratitude ; but the kindness of the former-did not
end here, as, seeing the youth so foot-sore and distressed?
he gave him a note to his housekeeper at Yatesburyf
desiring her to clothe and keep and feed the bearer until
his return. He told the boy at parting that he would
inquire into his story, and if he found it to be true, he
would procure him a situation, or otherwise provide for
him. The gentleman did inquire, and found the father
" lodging on the third floor over a carpenter's shop, and
in a state of extreme destitution, although he had for-
merly not only been the owner of the house, but had
built a large portion of the street in which it stood. He
said that his son George was naturally of a good disposi-
tion, but that he had sent him' to sea to keep hiM from
the contamination of bad company. I told him of my
intentions towards his son, for which he expressed much
gratitude. I returned to Chippenham early on Saturday
morning, and then learnt to my extreme surprise and
regret that the poor boy had been found dead." The
poor boy was seen on his road to Yatesbury, but missed
his way, and after a variety Of sufferings over two days
and nights (during which he was kindly treated by several
parties), his suffering affected his mind, and hews found
as stated. The kind-hearted rector undertook at his owtr
expense to' inter the body in the churchyard at. Yatesbury.

REPORTS OP rn E FACTORY INSPECTORS.—These re-
ports-, for the half-year ending the 31st of October,. 1846,
have just been pub lished. The several inspectors point
out some difficultii?s which, attend the enforcing of the
law, especially thai; which is, applicable to print works,
and that which is :intendedto secure the factory workers
from injury by machinery. Little is said in any of the
reports about the ti sme worked in factories during the past
half-year. Testimony, however, is borne to the beneficial
ion of those clauses of the last passed Factory Act,
Pgulate the employment of children and young
The depression of trade which more or less
prevailed throastglu nit all the manufacturing districts
during the period over which. the reports extend is ad-
verted to ; and the ugh such depression had " removed
all inducement to • work more than 12 hours a-day," the
occupiers of three cloth-dressing mills in Mr. Saunders'
district' had been co ,twitted of working young persons ,in
the night. Mr. Sa' unders dwells a good deal on the edu-
cation of the factor y workers, and includes in this report
extracts from an • able paper by Mr. R. Baker of
Leeds, "On the e ducational state of his district, from
which we may Tirol oably make extracts next week.. Mr.
Saunders strongly • urges the importance of granting pecu-
niary aid to- the pi iblic schools in his district, or, as he
says, " the absolut e necessity of doing so, if the train-
ing and instruction factory children are to receive in these
schools- are to be madesi•eally useful and efficient."
has been,' says Mr. Saunders, " a considerable

)er of
hilt iren durins
_ to add •to what I stated in 1843 in respect to
Their eM ciency depends much on the zeal, and
sE (.1 by the authority to whom the super-
intendence of the school is entrrusted. The general state
and condition of many are" improved. Well-trained and
efficient teachers are more justly'appreciated, and greater
exertions therefo re made for the purpose of obtaining
their services; be tt the want of funds continues to operate
very prejudicially in this most important particular."
ECONOMICAL .AND NUTRITIOUS SOUPS.—M. SOyeT, the
cook- of the, Refc min Club, has lately paid attention to the
production,, at the cheapest rate, of nutritious soups for
the poor. He strongly recommends the two following
receipts to the attention of the public. For Soup ,No. 1
Put one ounce of dripping into a saucepan holding two
gallons of water, with a quarter of a pound of a leg of beef
without bones, cut into square pieces about half an inch,
and two initidling-sized onions, peeled and sliced. Set
the saucepan over a fire, and stir the contents round for a
few- minutes, until friad lightly brown. Add the peeling
of two turnips, green leaves or tops of celery, and of two
leeks, cnt into small pieces. Then add half a pound of
common flour, and half a pound of pearl barley, mixing
allwell together. Add two gallons of water, three ounces
of, salt, and a quarter of an ounce of brown sugar, and
allow all to simmer gently for three hours. The cost of
the Soup No. 1 will as fiAlows :
Quarter of a pound of leg of beef at 4d. per 1b.., ld
Two ounces of drily* fat, at 4d. per lb. 01
Two onions and other. vegetables
Half a pound of flour, seconds, at 1-id. per 1b...
Half a. pound of pearl barley, at 3d. per lb ll
Three ounces of sak, with,lialf an ounce of brown sugar,
at4d. per lb._
Fuel . .
0
Two gallons of water

the nut n

the last three years. I hay

discretion exer

For Soup No. 2 proceed as receipt,, No. 1 • explains (as
regards the fat, meat,. anions, and the other vegetables),
\
but add one quart of water upon tha,whole, which you let
boil twenty minutes,. stirring now and then to prevent
burning ; or else, if convenient, set it by the side of the
fire, and add one pound of maize ; mix well together, and
fill the stew-pan with six quarts of water; season as above,
let it simmer one hour, skim lightly, and it is then ready
One hundred gallons of this soup will cost

for use

I under £1

FUNERAL of TBE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.—Th
remains of this much lamented nobleman were removed
on Friday from the splendid baronial residence of the
Percys, Alnwick. Castle, Northumberland, for interment in
the family. vauL in Westminster Abbey. The funeral
procession left the Castle precisely at nine o'clack, the
body being conveyed in a hearse drawn by six horses, and
attended; by the late Duke's household establishment and
his numerous. tenants in the northern part of the County
of Northumberland. It arrived at the Gateshead Station
of the York and Newcastle Railway shortly after five
o'clock in the afternoon' where a special train was in
readiness to proceed with it to Northumberland House,
Charing Cross, London, where it will remain till Tuesday
(to-day), and then be deposited with august ceremony in
the family vault, which is situate in that part of the
ancient and venerable building known as the Chapel of
SL Nicholas. The arrangements were on a scale, and in.
a.style of splendour, suitable to. the exalted rank of the
illustrious deceased. The body was inclosed within, a
mahogany shell of exquisite workmanship, and French
polished, the inside being lined with pure white silk, pad-
ded and fringed with rich silk fringe and lace of the same
colour, and the shroud was of the same rich material-
The shell was inclosed in a leaden coffin, and both,placed
in an outer coffin of oak, covered with rich erimaon,Genoa
silk velvet, and ornamented in a magnificent style, the
deceased's armorial bearings being emblazoned thereon
in gold. At the sides and ends of the outer coffin, which
was divided into compartments by rows of nails, plated
in gold, were eight massive handles, each surmounted by
a ducal coronet, and on the top were the ducal coronet
with the star and badge of the Order of the Garter, and
other heraldic achievements. The weight of the coffin
and body was estimated at about eleven hundred weight.
There were upwards of three hundred of his Grace's ten-
antry on foot, and about six hundred mounted to ac-
company the proceSsion. Nearly the whole of the popu,
lation turned out. At Felton, Morpeth, and other places
the shops were closed, and the bells of the churches rang
muffled peals.
AFFECTING AND FATAL CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Friday
se'nnight, an inquest -was held at Caine on a youth who
was found drowned in a ditch in Green-lane, Blacklands,
Berkshire. He appeared to be about 15 years of age, of
pleasing countenance, and was dressed as a sailor boy.
In the absence of other evidence, a verdict of " Found
drowned " was returned. After the inquest, the coroner
• received a communication, from the Rev. J. S. M. Kyrle,
rector of Yatesbury, stating that further evidence on the
case could be given, and a further investigation in cense-
; quence took place. It then appeared that the reverend
gentleman named had, while driving in his gig to Chip-
penham on the 25th ultimo, observe the deceased on the
road, travelling in pain from sore feet,
.but not begging ;
P that he conversed with him ; that he said his name was
George Beale, and his age 14 ; that he was going to
London, and that his parents lived at Chichester-place,