The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-08-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FUNERAL OF SIR T. HESKETR.—On Wednesday last, this gentleman's interment took place in Ruftord Church. The distance from Rufford.hall to the place of sepulture is very little less than a mile, and as it was determined upon that his honored remains should be borne to their last resting place, by individuals to whom his excellent example had endeared him to their hearts, by the warmest tics of obedient respect and sincere esteem, it was arranged that the space should be divided into ten equal portions, at each of which a fresh relay of six supporters should enter upon their allotted duty of beat ing their revered burden to the next relief point on the road. The persons selected were thirty of the deceased baronet's Rufford tenantry. The distance marked out for the labour of each relay of bearers was about one hundred and sixty yards. The orderof procession, from the hall to church, was as follows :—The Rev. Mr. M'Grath, incumbent of Rufford, took the lead, and was followed by Dr. Robinson, M.D., Mr. Dandy, surgeon, and W. Rawstorne, Esq. Next came the body, borne in the manner we have already described; then succeeded, as chief mourners, Mr. Hesketh, (son of the present baronet) and Mr. W. Hesketh, (son of the deceased ;) the Rev..l. T. Horton, vicar of Ormskirk, the Rev. Mr. Hodgson, Captain Greville. Mr. Hinds, and some other personal friends, with a number of the tenantry and the domestics of the household, composed the other portion of the procession. On the arrival at the church (which, with the family pew, had been put into handsome mourning) the solemn service for the dead was very impressively read by the rev. incum. bent, during which the remains of the deceased were placed in the family vault, " in the sure and certain hope of a resurrection to eternal life ;" and all the last sad duties having been performed, the mourning attendants returned to the hall, or their respective homes. The present baronet was detained from the ceremony by severe illness.  RAlLWAYS.—Notwithstanding the great depreciation in the value and profits of railway shares, we are surprised to see that the di rectors of railway companies appear indifferent to the immediate adoption of every means, as they are from time to time invented or devised by scientific men, of effecting economy, or obtaining other advantages. Wc are led to make this remark from the fact having come to our knowledge, that a means has been devised of obtaining that important desideratum, the use of coal without smoke, in lieu of coke, in the working of locomotive engines. This invention was put into most satisfactory operation, and its advantages were fully ascertained, a year and a half ago ; and yet, strange to say, it is only adopted.at the present moment (arid that to a limited extent) by some three or four railway companies. we have been informed, that the working of the locomotive engines on the Midland Counties Line, with coke, cost upwards of 17,1 per cent. more than with coal; and no doubt a similar reduction of expense would be effected in all other railways. The wolf locomotive engine, with Mr. Samuel Hall's patent apparatus. was.%Le believe, got into work in May last ; and we are informed. that_ .1. running a distance of 1,310 miles, the average consumption of coke was 651 b. loz. per mile, and the average consumption in running 1,024 miles, was 561 b. 10oz. per mile;If this be being 7s. I Id. per ton., and that of coke 20g. Per thre chaime„ and the.eta of coal the case, we would ask, what are the motivesi of , directors of railways for neglecting to,,acva ul recommend all proprietors important a saving of expense ; and we . ' dithemselves of so of railway shares to make inquiry on the subject. Nothing but the most rigid economy, and the lieai means for the reduction of expendituraeP, Ption of every possible can realize any thing like a fair interest for the immense capital invested v this description of property.—Times.  Mr. Mack' anon has obtained leave to bnipg in a bill to prevent the interment of the dead in large towns. Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Guillamore has been chosen Aide-deCamp to the Queen, in the room of Colonel Dennie, killed at Affghanistan. Nearly 200 shipwrights employed in the ship building yards on the Tyne left their work last week, in consequence of an attempt made to:educe their wages. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against Henry Parsons, a lodging-house keeper at Bath, for the murder of his wife.