The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-16 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

THE SCARLET DYE.-Our scarlet dye is nnw manufac-
tured from the wax of the lac insect in the East Indian
forests, to the value of X 500,000 yearly. The expensive
cochineal is almost superseded.

ADDISON.—The following is the inscription upon the
stone recently placed by the Earl of Ellesmere over the
grave of Addison, in Westminster Abbey. The lines are
by Tickell. The Montague alluded to was Charles first
Earl of Halifax :

" ADDISON.
"Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty rest,
Since their foundation came a nobler guest;
Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed
A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade.
0! gone for ever, take this long adieu,
And sleep in peace next thy lov'd Montague.
" Born, 167'2 ; died, 1719.
"Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere, P.C., 1849."
LIFE ASSURANCE.—A trial of considerable interest to
life assurance offices and the public was concluded on
Tuesday in the Court of Exchequer. The Eagle Company
held a policy for an assurance of £539 in the Albion Com-
pany as security for an advance, the payment of which
policy was disputed by the Albion. on the ground
that at the time it was effected, the fact of the assured
party having been a man of intemperate habits was con-
cealed from the office. The chief evidence turned upon
' the question as to the degree of intemperance that had
been exhibited, and the result was that a verdict was
given against the resisting office, not only for the amount
of the policy but also for £4O interest from the date when
it became due. The circumstance of the action being
brought by one office against another presents a striking
iliustration of the uncertainty which may attach to all
policies under the present system,and shows that the only
mode by which absolute security can be obtained by the
public must lie in the general adoption by assurance
offices of the plan of protecting themselves, in every case,
by due inquiries before the granting of each policy, and
of afterwards assuming the full responsibility of the com-
pleteness of such inquiries by holding themselves pre
eluded from raising any future question. In the present
case two offices are found to be diametrically opposed in
their opinicns as to what can properly invalidate a claim,
and yet the public are expected to be able to guard
themselves against such contingencies. Similar cases
have occurred before, and even if they were more
rare, they would seriously injure the progress of life
assurance. The very principle upon which the business
is founded is the removal of uncertainty, and whenever
that principle is counteracted in the slightest degree, the
people who would be the first to resort to its advantages
are the first to be deterred.—The Times.
A LITERARY LOPEZ.—A new literary enterprise has
just been started in New York, which illustrates the work-
ing of the system by which Enclish literature is made to
enrich American publishers. This is a monthly magazine
by the Harpers, the well-known baronial house in Cliffe-
street, who have amassed an immense fortune, principally
by their sagacious selection of current English books for
the American market. This magazine consists ofselec-

tions from fhe whole, compass of British periodical litera-
ture, including popular extracts from favourite English
books, which they receive in advance of their publication
in London. The plan is not altogether new in this coun-
try, but this differs from any that have preceded it in its
extent and cheapness. For instance, the forthcoming
July number will contain the cream of all the June peri-
odicals, with copious specimens of new books that will
scarcely have made their public appearance in London at
that time, like Leigh Hunt's charming Autobiography,
and other works of similar interest. This plan keeps
curiosity alive, and with the contents of the magazine it
will be abundantly gratified, each number containing
as much matter as a volume of Macaulay's History
of England, and sold at the ridiculously low price of
25 cents. The sale of this work amounted to 20,000
copies within the first fortnight of its publication, and
will probably run up to 50,000 before the close of the
year. This certainly shows the popularity of English
literature in this country, whatever inference may be
drawn as to American justice.—From the American
Correspondent of the Manchester Examiner.
THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE AND ART.—The charities of
the metropolis, the Art-Union of London, and many other
bodies associated for useful purposes, have sustained a
great loss by the death of his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge. The council of the Art-Union, on Tues-
day, when the announcement of his death was made to
them, adjourned the meeting, in token of respect and sor-
row. The following anecdote of the duke, illustrative
simply of his Royal Highness's manner, will probably
not be considered out of place at this moment. Very
early in the morning of the first day after the private
view of the British Institution, in 1849, Mr. Goodwin was
alone in the gallery, when the Duke of Cambridge entered
with one of his suit. The duke kindly recognised,and spoke
about two or three of the pictures. Ultimately the duke
carne to a very dark painting by Danby, which some of
our readers will recollect, called " A Highland Chief-
tain's Funeral." " That's a bad picture," said the duke.
" Well, sir," replied his auditor. " I am sorry to differ
from you, but I don't think it a bad picture." " You
don't think it a bad picture ? Now, I insist on your
telling me why it isn't a bad picture." " Why, sir, if
you'll permit me, it is so and so, and so and so ; and
moreover it is very poetical." " Poetical, is it ?" re-
joined the duke, with a slight laugh ; ah, yes poetical ;
that means you must have it in you yourself, and I
haven't."—Builder.

PATRICK'S COLT.—" A gentleman," says the Man-
chester American, " who favours us with some reminis-
cences respecting the early settlement of this place, for-
merly old Derryfield, relates the following anecdote :
When my grandfather resided at Goffetown and Derry.
field, then settled by the Irish, be hired a wild sort of an
Irishman to work on his farm. One day, soon after his
arrival, he told him to take a bridle and go out in the
field and catch the colt. ' Don't come without him,'
said the old gentleman. Patrick started and was gone
some time, but at last returned minus the bridle, with his
face and hands badly scratched, as though he had re-
ceived bad treatment. " Why, Patrick, what is the
matter ? What in the Dame of wonder ails you ?" "Au'
is'nt it myself yer honer, that never'll catch the ould
black cold again ? Bad luck to him ! An' didn't he all
bsutiiEn sayhing
scratch my eyesy my 1-m0 ? An' faith, as t hrue
a toy toQuil, IQl:ad to climb up a three after the
colt." " Climb up after him ! Nonsence ! Where is
the beast ?" " An' its tied to the three he is, to be sure,
yer honer." We all followed Patrick to the spot to get a
solution of the difficulty, and on reaching the field
we found that he had been chasing a bear, which he had
succeeded in catching, after a great deal of rough usage
on both sides, and actually tied with the bridle to an old
tree. Bruin was kept for a long while, and was ever af-
terwards known as Patrick's colt.—New York Courier.

A PC ODLE STORY FROM WREXHAM.—Recently, two
maiden ladies' favourite dog became sick and unable to
partake of the usual fare, consisting of the best of good
things. To effect a cure a dog-fancier was sent for, and,
upon examining the " dear creature," the soi-disant
doctor shook his head and declared it to be a " bad case."
It was arranged that the cur should be placed under the
immediate care of the man, who at once prescribed beef-
tea. A shin of beef was immediately procured, and from
that day, until the dog was taken home the fancier and
his family lived in clover. A decided improvement in.
their appearance was visible, scarcely a day passing with-
out a piece of beef or leg of mutton being sent to the
oven, of which the dog was allowed a smell. In six weeks
the ladies could not endure his absence any longer, and
accordingly the dog arrived, the ladies remarking that
the dog must certainly be worse, as he looked much
thinner: but, in order to show the ladies what a perfect
cure had been effected, a crust was placed before him,
which disappeared like magic. This was convincing., and
the delighted ladies placed E. sovereign in the man's hand.
Poor pug had been in " durance vile" in a rain tub,
and allowed the privilege of fasting, which effected his
cure.—Chester Chronicle.

THE MERMAID AT RHYL.—On Monday. the Ist inst.,
some fishermen of Rhyl were out with their boats and
nets salmon fishing. At the entrance of the river some-
thing drew their attention floating in the sea. On ap-
proaching it they took it to be the dead body of a female,
and when within forty or fifty yards of it, they found it
to be a living object, a fish. The appearance of the fish
resembled that of a female, with a fine head of hair hang-
ing over her shoulders. The like was never seen before
on this coast. This settles the dispute concerning the
mermaid.—Ckester Chronicle.
ASSYRIAN CUSTOM OF NAMING A FATUER.—It is a
custom in Assyria to call the father by the name of his
eldest son. Thus supposing the appellation of the latter
to be Mohammed, the father would be termed Abou Mo-
hammed, the father of Mohammed ; and this compound
title is often substituted for his proper name. On one
occasion an old gentleman, entitled Ismail, who was much
respected by his neighbours, was so unfortunate as to
have no.son from whom to derive an honorific appellation.
What was to be done ? All the neighbours agreed it
would 'be a great shame that so respectable and worthy a
man should be called all his life plain Ismail. A mollah
was called into consultation, and it was determined, by a
species of legal fiction, to denominate him Abou Ahmed,
the father of Ahmed. He had been known by this name
for a year cr two when he married again, and a son was
born, to whom, in acknowledgment of the kindness of
his neighbours, he gave the name of Ahmed.—Notesfrohe
Nineveh.

THE OLD DIVIDEND BOOKS IN THE BANK.—A separate
set of offices is necessary to keep all such accounts, and
these stock offices contain the most varied and extensive
collection of autographs extant. Those whom fortune en-
titles to dividends must. by themselves or their agents,
sign the stock books. The last signature of Handel, the
composer, and that upon which Henry Fauntleroy was
condemned and executed, are among the foremost of these
felons. Here, standing in a great long building of divers
stories, looking dimly upward through iron gratings, and
dimly downward through iron gratings, and into musty
chambers diverging into the walls on either band, yoil
may muse upon the national debt. All the sheep that ever
came out of Northamptonshire seem to have Yielded up
their skins, in order to furnish the registers in which its
accounts are kept. Sweating and wasting in this vast
present library, like manuscripts in a mouldy old convent,
are the records of the dividends that are, and have been,
and of the dividends unclaimed. Some men would sell
their fathers into slavery, to have the rummaging of these
old volumes. Some, who would let the tree of knowledge
gather while they lay contemptuously at its feet, would
bestir themselves to pluck at these leaves, like ship-
wrecked mariners. These are the books to profit by. This
is the place for X. Y. Z. to hear of something to his advan.
tage in. This is the land for Mr. Joseph Ady's dreams.
This is the dusty fountain whence those wondrous para-
graphs occasionally flow into the papers, disclosing how a
labouring thatcher has come into a hundred thousand
pounds—a long, long way to come—and gone out of his
wits—not half so far to go. Oh, wonderful old lady !
threading the needle with the golden eye all through the
labyrinth of the national debt, and hiding it in such dry
hay-stacks as pre rotten hero ! —.Mckens Household
Word'.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL xTANDARD
SIR,—On Sunday evening last, hearing there were great
doings going on at a Roman Catholic chapel. not a hun-
dred miles from Birkenhead, I paid it a visit. Will you
allow me to give a brief description of what I heard and
saw, together with the feelings the scene gave rise to. On
entering the outer door, I first witnessed the " faithful"
dipping the tips of their fingers in a small font, contain-
ing holy water, and putting it on their foreheads, crossing
themselves, and bowing and curtseying in a most rustic
fashion. I was then recommended to go up into the gal-
lery, where I should get the " best sight" of the proceed-
ings. Upon entering, there was a penny to pay ; not,
however, having a penny, I would feign have excused
giving 'til next time I came, when I promised to pay
double. But that would not do for the little Irish-
man, who threw himself athwart my path, and de-
manded a penny ; so, therefore, I put in a shilling and:
took out sixpence, though upon going up stairs there is a
board intimating that the entrance fee is a " voluntary
offering," See The service soon alter commenced, which,,
I presume, was the same as usual, though perfectly unin-
telligible to me, a churchman. There were the lighted
candles, as if the light of the sun and the light of the
Gospel (which I was told they were intended to illustrate
and emblematise) were not sufficient to light up the place
of worship ; there was the decorated altar, and a luil-sized
picture of Christ upon the cross. Then came the priest,
with a dress of the most gorgeous colours, yellow and
white, and his attendants, two of the boys, carrying
candles. The Rom in Catholics might surely suppose
that we are living in times antecedent to the birth of
Christ, when such emblems and artificial lights might
have been allowable. But I must proce:d to the discourse.
It was upon the lack of attendance at the confessional;
and was delivered by an Italian priest, with all the vehe-
mence of language, voice, and action, that he could com-
mand. He did not condescend to tell us where the text
was taken from ; but it consisted of two verses out of the
Psalms, from which he drew a representation of the state
of the " damned," the danger of delaying confession ; and
arrived at the conclusion :that all those who did not come
often to confession were liable to mistake their last illness
as only a temporary Hitless, and thus " to die in their sins."
He then gave several instances, as (he stated) they
were told to him by the ministers of God in the parishes
in which they took place, one of which I give you as a
specimen. He said, " I was told by a minister of God,
in this very country, who resided in one of the commer-
cial towns, that a gentleman of respectability and wealth,.
who to all appearances was attentive to the outward forms
of religion, so far as going to church, paying his dues,..
and performing many of the duties which the church en-
joined, attending nominally the confessional at. Easter
time, &c., &c., but he was not a true catholic, he neg-
lected to make his sincere repentance, and confess, as
every true catholic ought to do. He put off from Easter
to Christmas, and from Christmas to Easter again, the
true confession of his sins, till at length he was seized
with a mortal illness, but even then, not at first knowing
it was his last illness, he put off till the last hour sending_
for a priest. But at the eleventh hour, in time dead of
night, his wife sent a servant for the priest. The servant
knocked at the door of the pri: st's house, and the win-
dow was opened, and a voice from the window said, ' I
will come immediately.' The servant went back, but no
priest came. The wife sent the servant again, requesting
the priest to come without delay, or her husband would
be dead. The servant went, knocked at the door, and
again the window opened, and the same voice said. I
will come immediately ; I will be there as soon as you are.'
The servant returned and told her mistress; who waited
for some time longer, till her husband being apparently
at death's door, a third time sent the servant to press the
priest to delay not a moment or her husband would be
dead. The servant knocked at the door a third time, and
the window was again opened, and the same voice said,
he is gone, you must have passed him ; or he may have
gone by another street.' The servant returned, the hus-
band was dead—the priest had not arrived, and conse-
quently the man died ' without benefit of clergy.' The
disconsolate widow called the next morning on the priest,.
when the priest informed her that that was the first time
he had heard of the illness of her husband ; he was not
aware that any servant had been to his house." Tee
Italian preacher then said,—" I leave you to guess who it
was that opened the window and delivered the message."
Comment upon this would be idle. If a Christian con-
gregation in England (though I believe they were chiefly
Irish), in the nineteenth century, will support such a
system of religion as this ; farewell say 1 to ail the corn-
mon sense, the moral and truthful tone of society that
has pervaded her people for centuries past.—l am, Sir,
yours, &c. AN EYE AND EAR WITNESS.
Birkenhead, 9th July, 1850.

The weather during the last few days has been extremely
sultry. Nearly all the hay in this vicinity has been
secured in good condition. The crop is scarcely an
average one, and the stock of old hay is unusually small.
At Berlin a wealthy Jewish merchant has been arrested
on a charge of usury, and the moner-lenders, who carry
on an extensive business with the continually embarrassed
officers and underpaid employes, are in consternation, as
it is the first time the offence has been prosecuted as a
felony by what is called criminal arrest.

FOREIGN AND ENGLISH ARCHITECTS.—The three
£l4O prizes for the best designs for the building to be
erected in Hyde Park, as the 1851-exhibition bazaar, have
been awarded to M. Bonnet del, of Paris, Mr, Leonard
Wyon, London, and Mr. G. Adams, London. The £5O
prizes have been awarded to Mr. Hancock, London, M.
Wiener, Brussels, and M. Gayrard, Paris. None of the
designs, however, have been accepted.
SHEEP THAT WENT HOME.—We can vouch for the
following :—A gentleman from the neighbourhood of •
Bath purchased and brought home a large flock of sheep
from one of the counties of south Wales. The morning
after he had placed them in the field he found the entire
flock gone. Search was made for days without the
slightest trace. At last an old shepherd suggested that
they might be found in their own Welds in Carmarthen-
shire, and there, sure enough, they were. They must
have travelled an immense way to have crossed the Severn.
—Alias.

THE LAW'S DELAYS.—At the Vice-Chancellor's Court,.
on Thursday, before Sir J. K. Bruce, a young lady, a ward
of the court, petitioned, through her agent, for permission
to visit Boulogne, in company with her stepmother. His
Honour inquired what reason was assigned for the proposed
visit to Boulogne, and Mr. Lloyd, the agent, in reply,
stating that he was not instructed as to the object, his
Honour then replied, that the petition must stand over, as
he should require information on that point. His Honour
also observed, that he should certainly not approve of
Boulogne as a residence for the ward ; there might be less
objection to Dieppe.
A RAPID MODE OF LIGHTING GASLAMPS.—A rapid
and scientific mode of lighting and extieguishinz public
gasburners has been invented by a person named Viilatte.
The opening of the burner of each lamp is covered with a
piece of soft iron, mounted upon a hinge. In connexion
with this is a wire extending from a galvanic battery the
length of the service of the gaslamps, and close to the orifice
of each burner is a small slip of platina. The soft iron, be-
coming a magnet when acted upon by the electric fluid,
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different. action on the magnetized iron.
MR. BRIGHT'S FOREIGN POLICY VOTE.—Mr. John
Bright has replied to a constituent who arraigns his vote
against Lord Palmerston's foreign policy of interference.
He considers that policy as necessarily leading to irritation
and quarrels, threatening war, and requiring extraordi-
nary armaments ; as violating all the principles on which
Mr. Bright was elected. As to his motives he voted with
his honest colleague from Manchester ; with Mr. Cob-
den, whose political sagacity and regard for the true inter- .
ests of liberty few will suspect ; and with Mr. Hume ; he
voted too "with that statesman, since then so suddenly
taken from amongst us, whose good disposition towards
the government none could doubt, and whose sacrifices
for his country, and whose services in recent years have
been such as to make his narne sacred among his country-
men, and, if on this point there be any distinction among
them, most of all to be revered by the inhabitants of
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but to sit in parliament as the mere instrument of
party, is no object of hope or ambition with me."
RAPID JIISTIcE.—We hear much of the law's delay. It
is well now and then to know that justice can he quicic. as
well as sure. As the Hon. Charles Piesse, the Colonial
Secretary for Western
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his pocket. Casting his eyes around. be saw a suspicious-
looking character, and at the same moment missed his purse.
The man moved off. Mr. Piesse followed, the thief ran, the
secretarygave chase, and finally ran into his game in White-
hall-yard, just behind the Chapel Royal. Theruffian showed
fight, aided by some of his companions, but speedily threw
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the case, and on the evidence committed the man, who
gave the name of John O'Connell, for trial at the cur-
rent sessions. The next morning a bill was sent before
the grand jury, found to be a true bill, and thi prisoner
was forthwith put on his trial. Utterly unable to deny
the facts, he pleaded guilty in hopes of a mitigated,
punishment. But, as it turned out on inquiry that he
was a known thief, burglar, and returned transport,
Sergeant Adams sentenced him to be transported for ten
years. Thus this sentence was pronounced within
twenty-two hours after the commission of the offence.
the swell mob are great. They can always command ca-
pital to execute any especial scheme. Their travelling
expenses are large ; for their harvests are great public
gains of some of
occasions, whether in town or country. As an examule
of their profits, the exploits of four of them at the Li-
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every one of them personally. The consequence is, that
the appearEnce of either of .these officers upon any scene
of operation is a bar to anything or anybody being
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DEATH OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge expired
onMondaynizht. The following officialannouneementwas
immediately issued :

" CAMBRIDGE HOUSE, 10 o'clock.
" His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, after
passing a tranquil day, expired somewhat suddenly, and
without suffering, at 20 minutes before 10."

MEMOIR OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)

The deceased prince (Adolphus Frederick) was the se-
venth son of King George 111. He was born on the 24th
February, 1774, and received his earliest education at
Kew, together with his brothers, the late Duke of Sus-
sex and the present King of Hanover, under the care
of Dr. Hughes and Mr. Cookson. At 15 years of age,
he was sent with his brothers, to Gottingen, to finish his
studies. He also received a regular military training; and
as soon as his age allowed, he entered the army. As early
as 1793, he had already seen active service, having served
with the British forces in that year before Dunkirk. Like
his brother, the King of Hanover, he was no mere holiday
warrior, but bore about him marks of having been actually
engaged in conflict. By the year 1794, he had been pro-
moted to the rank of colonel. It was in the year 1801,
we believe, that his royal highness received his rank as a
peer of the realm, by being created Duke of Cambridge,
Earl of Tipperary, and Baron of Culloden. At the same
time that he was thus honoured with the rank to which
his princely birth entitled him, parliament voted him a
yearly allowance of £12,000. This was increased (we be-
lieve on his marriage) to £27,000 per annum. In the
year 1803, he was placed in command of a force of 12,000
men, whose destination was the relief of Hanover, then
menaced, together with the rest of eastern and northern
Europe, by the French armies. The revolutionary fever,
however, had so far affected the people of the electorate,
that they spewed no great disposition to accept the aid
thus profferred, but rather evinced an inclination towards
the French. The prince, therefore, solicited and obtained
permission to return to England, leaving the British forces
under the command of Count Walmoden, who soon after
surrendered. In the year 1805, on the sth of September,
the Duke of Cambridge was appointed colonel of tle
Coldstream Guards, and in the year 1813 (on the 26th of
November) he was made a field-marshal. In 1816, when
the final defeat of Napoleon had restored the old bounda-
ries of nations in Europe, the Duke of Cambridge was
appointed by his father Governor-General of Hanover,
and he continued to fill that most important post with sa-
tisfaction to the country, until, in the year 1839, the death
of King William IV. opened the succession to the throne
of Hanover to the Duk • of Cumberland, when the Duke
of Cambridge returned to England.
The general administration of his royal highness, in Ha-
nover, had given great satisfaction to the people, and he
was universally respected and beloved. But the spirit of
revolution acts altogether independently of considerations
of the personal merits of governors, or the actual condition
of the governed. The change of dynasty that took place
in France, in the year 1830, had its effect—like that which
we have seen more near to the present day—on surround-
ing nations. Hanover, or at least a part of the kingdom,
did not wholly escape the contagion. In January, 1831,
its effects became manifest in the university of GOttingen,
where insurrectionary symptoms displayed themselves.
As usual in all German popular movements, the students
of the university were active on the side of the malcon-
tents. The insurgents used a very menacing tone. A
municipal council and a burgher guard were organised ;
the troops of the king (William IV. of England) were
driven from the city of Gottingen; and there was every
disposition to render this famous city the nucleus of a re-
bellious movement, which it was hoped would spread all
over the kingdom.
_ _

The sudden suppression of this rebellious attempt was
mainly due to the energy displayed by the prince whose
death we now record, and who, as we have said, was our
viceroy in Hanover. On the 12th of January, on receiv-
ing news of what was going on, his royal highness issued a
spirited proclamation, in which, after briefly recounting
the circumstances of the revolt, he ordered all the Hano-
verian students of the university forthwith to return to
their homes, and all strangers who were students to quit
the city, on pain of their being regarded as participators
in the rebellion. At the same time proclamations were
issued by his royal highness to the citizens and students
of Gottingen, declaring his determination to put down the
rebellion by !orce of arms, unless all parties at once re-
turned to their allegiance. On the 9th of February fol-
lowing, his royal highness having been in the meantime
strengthened by express instructions from his majesty
William IV., issued another proclamation, couched in
firm but moderate language, in which the hope of some
reforms was not precluded ; but a determination was ex-
pressed to resist to the utmost all attempts to carry such
reforms by illegal or revolutionary means. These energe-
tic proceedings had the effect of bringing the malcontents
to their senses, and tranquillity was restored.
On the following 7th of March, the Duke of Cambridge.
in opening personally the Hanoverian diet, was enabled
to announce that the disturbances were at an end ; but at
the same time he wisely added, that certain political re-
forms were contemplated, more especially in the repre-
sentative system. It is not necessary to follow his royal
highness through the details of his Hanoverian adminis-
tration ; it is enough to say that it was generally of a mo-
derate and conciliatory character, and that at its close he
left the country with every mark of respect and esteem on
the part of the people, he had governed for twenty-one
years.

In the year 1818, his royal highness married, at Cassel,
on the 7th of May, and afterwards in London on the Ist
of June, the Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa. the
youngest daughter of the Landgrave Frederick of Hesse
Cassel. In 1827, his royal highness was appointed colonel-
in-chief of the 60th Foot, and in 1845 he was made warder
•and keeper of the New Forest, Hants. He was also
ranger of Richmond Park.

Beyond the few facts we have recorded, the life of the
Duke of Cambridge presented scarcely any features for
the biographer. But although his royal highness was less
before the public than had been some members of his
family, the general sentiment towards him was one of
esteem and respect. This was a personal feeling, and not
merely a tribute to his rank as one of the royal family.
It is almost needless to remind the reader of the active
part taken by the late Duke of Cambridge in the cause of
charity. His name was to be found as a patron and con-
tributor to many most valuable institutions, and was
always ready to give them his further support by pre-
siding at their anniversary meetings and festivals, where
the frankness and bonhommie of his manners, and the
straightforwardness with which lie advocated the interests
sought to be advanced, rendered him an universal fa-
vourite.

His royal highness was made a privy councillor in 1802,
and in 1842 he received the distinction of D.C.L. of the
University of Cambridge. He was also K.G. and
G.C.M.G. and Grand Master of the order of St. Michael
and St. George. He had passed his 76th year when he
died. He leaves issue Prince George of Cambridge, the
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the Princess
Mary of Cambridge.
His royal highness's last speech in the House of Lords
was delivered on behalf of the Bishop of London's recent
Church Discipline Bill ; but lie meddled very little in
politics.
The interment of the remains of his late Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge is fixed to take place on Tuesday
(to-day) in a vault under the parish church of Kew, and
closely adjoining the cottage in which his royal highness
has resided for so many years.
The body of the illustrions prince has not been sub-
jected to any post snortem examination, nor have the
remains been embalmed. The body is contained in a
!mahogany shell, lined with white satin, which is enclosed
in a leaden coffin. A second coffin, of the finest Spanish
mahopny, covered with crimson velvet, forms the outer
covering, and is surmounted by a handsome plate, upon
which are enumerated the style and titles of the deceased
prince.