Glasgow Courier. — 1860-12-27 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FUNERAL OF THE LATE EARL OF ABERDEEN—The mortal remains of this distinguished nobleman were on Friday consigned to their last resting-place in the family vault at Stanmore. The funeral was conducted privately, but this did not prevent her Majesty from conferring the greatest mark of respect a Sovereign could bestow on the late Earl's memory, while men of the highest political eminence, who had been associated with the deceased during life emulated each other in a desire to show their regard for him in death. The procession was formed at ten o'clock, and left Argyll house in the following order:—Four outriders mounted on black horses, and wearing mourning cloaks, followed by two porters on horseback,in the usual funeral garb. The State horse. came next, richly caparisoned, and ridden by a page, who bore the late Earl's coronet upon a velvet cushion. Two grooms followed immediately preceding the hearse, which was drawn by six horses, and emblazoned with escutcheons of the deceased Earl's arms. The first mourning coach conveyed the chief mourners—Colonel the lion. Alex. Gordon, the Hon. and Rev. Douglas Gordon, and the Hon. Arthur Gordon, sons of the deceased; and Admiral the Hon. J. Gordon, his only surviving brother. The second coach conveyed the Hon. George Gordon (now Lord Haddo) and the Hon. Jas. Gordon, sons of the present Earl, the Marquis of Abercorn, and Lord Claud Hamilton. In the third coach were the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sir J. Graham, and the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. The fourth coach conveyed the Earl of Dalkeith (attending for his father the Duke of Buccleuch), the Right Bon. Edward Cardwell, Colonel Charles Frazer, V iceLieutenant- of Aberdeenshire, and Mr Alex. Thomson,Convener of the County of Aberdeen. In the fifth coach were the Earl of Morton, Viscount Hamilton, Colonel the Hon. Douglas Pennant, and Sir Henry Holland. The sixth coach conveyed Admiral Bailie Hamilton, Dr Stone, Mr Jamieson, and Mr Noverre. The members of the late Earl's household, Messrs Wilkinson, Jones, Dalbertson, and Faulkner, were in the seventh coach, which was followed by the late Earl's carriage, after whichcame one of her Majesty's State coaches, drawn by six horses, with postilions and grooms in dress liveries. The procession closed with the carriages of intimate private friends of the deceased Earl. On arriving at Stanmore the procession was received at the entrance of. the churchyard by the Lord Bishop of Oxford, who, assisted by the vicar of the parish, performed the religions service over the body. The pall was borne by the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir James Graham, the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, and the Earl of Dalkeith, acting for his father, who was too much indisposed to bear the journey from Scotland. The ceremony, which was witnessed by nearly all the inhabitants of Stanmore, was exceedingly impressive.  Margaret Hannah, the young woman recently sentenced to death at Edinburgh for the murder of her infant, will not be executed, and her Majesty has been pleased to commute the sentence to penal servitude for life.  The Earl and Countess of Southesk are to spend their Christmas at Dunmore, after which they will take up their residence at Kinnaird Castle. Lord Panmure will now become Earl of Dalhousie —the title of Marquis falling with its late possessor. The Dalhousie estates, to which his Lordship succeeds, are valued at about £5,000 a-year.