The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-03 00:00:00

Acorre3pondent of the Morning Post points out an " histo-
rical parallel," citing Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.
The House of Commons had declared the Duke of Bucking-
ham " the cause of all the evils the kingdom had suffered,
and an enemy to the public ;" when that " melancholic gen-
tleman," Felton, wrought upon by the repetition of such ex-
pressions and the discourses of some popular preachers in
the city, provided himself with a knife, which he bought of a
common cutler for a shilling, and murdered the duke.
On Monday the Kent magistrates were engaged in inves-
tigating a charge preferred by Mrs. Walker, residing in a
cottage near Rochester, against Ensign R. D. Chapman and
Ensign Jas. Le Merchant Carey, officers belonging to her
Majesty's 44th regiment of foot, for killing and stealing
three fowls, her property. The complainant told them to
desist, but one of them fired a gun so close to her as to ter-
rify her exceedingly • and when she asked them to pay for
her property they only laughed at her. The
_gentlemen had
afterwards eaten the fowls to dinner. The Court granted
warrants for the immediate apprehension of the parties.

Richard Carlisle, the long-notorious blasphemer, whose
death we recently mentioned, is reported to have written as
follows, respecting another blasphemer who was in prison :
" My christianity has led me to visit him in prison, and my
passion with him is to convert him from atheism. I find
him with a mistaken conceit, that no man has avowed atheism
before himself. I have been such a fool before him, and I
had before him brought hundreds, perhaps thousands, to the
same folly. lam wise and renounce it."

FUNERAL OF THE LATE RICHARD CARLILE.—The re-
mains of this notorious individual were deposited at the
Kensal-green Cemetery, London, on Sunday last. At two
o'clock in the afternoon a vast number of persons were as-
sembled in Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, to witness the de-
prture of the funeral cortege. At three o'clock a hearse
and five mourning coaches drove up to the house where the
deceased was lying. The funeral procession moved on, and
during its progress attracted considerable attention. When
the officiating divine, the Rev. Josiah Twigger, arrived at the
grave, accompanied by the clerk, one of the deceased's sons
addressed tile clergyman as follows :—" Sir, we want no ser-
vice over the body of our late father; he passed his life in
opposition to all priestcraft, and we protest against the ser-
vice being read." The rev. divine replied—" Sir, I must do
my duty." Another son of the deceased here stepped for-
ward and said—" We have purchased this ground as the
resting place of our deceased parent, and I object, with my
brothers, to the reading of the funeral service." (Here
loud cries of " Hear, hear" were given by the mob assem-
bled round the grave.) Tile clergyman continued—" I must
and will do my duty, and at your peril abide the conse-
quences that may occur from any opposition to the usual ob-
servance on such occasions." Another son—" Then, Sir,
we will not hear it." (Here the mob cried out, " Yes, yes !
leave the grave : let all the friends of Mr. Carlile go away."
At this moment the party assembled quitted the grave, the
mourners retired into the coaches, and the clergyman pro-
ceeded in the most impressive manner to read the service,
during which he was frequently interrupted by ribald jests
from a few stragglers who had kept at a short distance from
the spot. It is due to the sons of the deceased to state, that
they gave their opposition in the most respectful tone possi-
ble, but their example was not imitated by many of the fol-
lowers of the deceased. After the clergyman had retired, a
rush was made to the grave, and a son of the deceased ad-

dressed the crowd as follows :—" I beg to state that I, with
my family and friends, were opposed to the performance of
this service ; we do not require it, and have given every op-
position in our power to its being done. I thank you all, in
the name of my late father, for your attendance here on this
occasion." Having said thus much, he and the followers of
the funeral departed.