The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

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Raphael.—Athecneum.
AN EGYPTIAN FUNRRAI..—Another uncommon fune-
ral procession, that of Kharsheed Pasha, late governor of
Sennar, passed our house a few days after that of the
saint ; and as it was the most remarkable of all such spec-
tacles seen in Cairo since my arrival I am induced to de-
scribe it to you. It was preceded by six camels, each bear-
ing two boxes filled with corn and dates, above and be-
tween which sat the distributor with a stick in his hand
to drive off the crowd that presssed upon him. making as
great. a clamour as though they were all starving ; and
strange to say, the most decently dressed persons were
the most importunate. Then followed three camels with
water • and then two buffaloes to be sacrificed at the tomb,
and the flesh to be divided among the poor. These practices

are always observed at the funerals of rich persons in Egypt,
and, I believe, throughout the East. About thirty reciters
of the Kur-an followed next, and about the same number

of Sbeyksheaded alarge body of Turks of the middle classes,
chiefly wearing the military dress. Then followed a tribe of
Chaooshes, two and two, in full uniform ; and after these
walked about fifty grandees of all ages. Their dresses
were most picturesque, the varieties of colour they dis-
played rendering the group they formed by far the most
striking feature in the proce,sion. There were among
them some old men who had doubtless seldom before
walked in the streets of Cairo. One, bent with age and
apparently blind, was leaning on a youth who seemed to
be his son, and many were much exhausted. They had
all walked nearly a mile, and had to walk nearly a mile
and a half further, the last half mile exposed to the
burning sun. But to return to the order of the proces-
sion. Some boas walked next, each bearing a Kur-an ;
and they were immediately followed by a crowd of men
bearing incense in silver censors, filling the streets and
houses with clouds of frankincense and other perfumes;
while others, carrying sprinkling bottles of silver,
showered their sweet contents around them on the more
distinguished of the spectators. Then passed the bier,
the at peerance of which was not unusual : it was
covered with a red figured Cashmere shawl, and borne
by four men. The ladies, female slaves, and friends
and attendants of the harem next fol!owed, consisting
of about twenty-five or thirty ladies, mounted on high
donkeys, and perhaps twenty slaves on ordinary donkeys,
and a host on foot. All the last mentioned screamed and
wailed so loudly that the noise cannot easily be forgotten
by those who have heard as well as seen a grand funeral
Procession ; the mingling of voices—the reciters of the
Kar-an—the chaunting boys—and the wading women, oc-
casioned a deafening yell hardly to be imagined. The led
horses of the grandees bore up the rear, and thus con-
cluded a spectacle as singular as almost any which can
have been witnessed in the streets of Catro.—Corres-
pendent :of the Times.

STANCE OF AFFECTION FOR A CHILD.—I wit-
d in the family of a native, named Alligator, an
nce of affection for a departed child, which, though

hibited itself in this peculiar manner, was extremely
touching. The wife had treasured up the bones of the
little one, and constantly carried them about with her, not
as a memento mori, but as an object whereon to expend
her tenderest emotion, whenever they swelled within her
breast. At such times she would put together these
bones with a rapidity that supposed a wonderful know-
ledge of osteology, and set them up that she might weep
over them. Perhaps in her imagination, as she performed
this melancholy int.., the ghastly frame-work before her
became imbued with the comely form of infancy ' • bright
eyes once more sparkled in those hollow calls, anda smile

of ineff tble delight hung where in reality was nought but
the hideous grin of death. I exceedingly regret that the
mother who could feel so fine►y was some time afterwards
overpersuaded to part with the bores o; her child.—Cap-
lain Stokes's "Discoveries in Au.dralia"
NEW METHOD OF FINISHING BRONZE STATUES.—
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SIR ROBERT PEEL AND M. COBDEN,

(From the Lyndon Record.)

We cannot but think that Sir Robert Peel might have
paid a compliment to Mr. Cobden, without doing it in
such a manner as might seem to approve of the constitu-
tion of the League, and of the system of its agitation, as is
the reasonable inference from the right hon. baronet's
speech of Monday night.
When Lord Anglesea was recalled from Ireland, and
said in his parting address to the Romanists, that his ad-
vice was " Agitate, Agitate, Agitate," every n

denounced the folly of the

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his conduct
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ips of a retiring Viceroy: and only palliat

of sense
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bead of a regiment of hussars than to govern a nation.
But Sir Robert Peel must be regarded in a very different
aspect, and we cannot but feel that his panegyric is fitted
to stimulate the ambition of future agitators. and to cal
into existence a new swarm of would-be Richard Cob-
dens.

It cannot be forgotten that Sir Robert Peel at one time

a very di

)bden, and

thought that he did not always " appeal to rea._ No,
one can overlook the fact that when Mr. Drummond was
assassinated by one who designed the bullet far Sir Robert
Peel, the premier spoke in such a manner of Mr. Cobden's
addresses to the great Anti-Coru.law meetingsras seemed
to intimate that Mr. Cobden was morally responsible for
the attempted murder. Great was Mr. Collerr's indig-
nation, but so unsatisfactory was Sir Robert Peei's ex-
planation of his meaning, that it was not until the rre-
sent session that Mr. Cobden expressed himself satisfied,
that the imputation was withdrawn.
But it is not to any private feeling between' Sir Robert
Peel and Mr. Cobden, that we now look. We look to
the fact that Mr. Cobden, not by appeals to reason merely,
but by a powerful organization, meant to overawe the- le-
gislature,. has for many years laboured to carry'the repeal
of the Corn-laws. Could the creation of fictitious vote&
be styled "an appeal to rew=oa ?" Could the preparati-
ons on foot for supplanting the county constituencies be
regarded as an "appeal to reason ?" _

Mre regret that Sir Robert Peel should have used stach
language in regard to Mr. Cobden, although we are free
to admit the great talents, the indefatigable industry, and
the comparative moderation of that eminent agitator.
We admit that amongst agitators he is entitled to a high
place, but still he was an agitator. And it would have
been quite as suitable if Sir Robert Peel, as he has now
concluded his labours in favour of the abolition of the
Corn-laws with a panegyric on Richard Cobden, bad
closed his great effort on behalf of Roman Catholic

Emancipation with a laboured panegyric on Daniel
O'Connell. Richard Cobden and Daniel O'Connell are
both unconstitutional agitat-irs, although we freely admit
that as between them, the palm of truth, integrity, and
principle, must be awarded, not to the selfish, blustering,
equivocating mendicant of Ireland, but to the more self-
denying and truth-telling Leaguer of Stockport.

TETE VALUE OF LAND AND SIR ROBERT PEEL'S
MEASURES.—Our readers will remember we ventured a
few strong thoughts last week on the subject of Sir R.
Peel's new and decisive measures in respect to the corn-
laws; and as they may now be accounted as fixed and set-
tled, it may be a good time to pursue our remarks in re-
spect to its effect and its consequences. That portion of
the community whom Mr. George Robins has designated
those " who are more frightenedthan hurl," will do well
to mark, learn, and inwardly digest ihe short commen-
tary with which we purpose to illumine our sceptical
readers. The cry has been, and still coiitinu's, that the
produce of the soil must now be so deteriorateii, and the
tenantry everywhere so out of heart, that ruin and the
Corn Bill are become synonymous terms with the aitricul-
r, I turist