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

At tt meeting of the Directors of the East India Company,
on Wednesday, votes of thanks were unanimously passed to
Lord Ellenborough, Sir G. Pollock, Sir. W. Nott, Sir J.
M`Caskill, Sir Robert Sale, and Major-General England;
and a vote of approval was also passed of the conduet of the
non-commissioned officers and private soldiers employed in
Afghanistan. At the same court, Sir Hugh Gough was ap-
pointed Commander-in-chief of the Company's forces in

Acorrespondent 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
desth we recently mentioned, is reported to have written as
follows, respect;n,g 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 OP 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 afternoo❑ a vast number of persons were as-
sembled in Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, to witness the de-
parture 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 the 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.) The clergyman continued—" I must