Lord Cowley, Lord Hatherton, the Marquis of Douro, the hon. and rev. Gerald Valerian Wellesley, D.D., Mr. Charles Curling Smith, the rev. Henry Wellesley, the hon. Gerald Wellesley, Mr. R.Wellesley, and some other intimate friends and dependants of the deceased. The coffin, upon being taken into the choir, was set in the centre aisle upon trussels, upon which was placed the coronet of the deceased, the illustrious relatives of the late Marquess taking their seats in the stalls appropriated for them near the coffin. The whole of the Etonians (between 600 and 700) had previously entered the chapel and taken their places, with the numerous friends of the college authorities, who were admitted by tickets, and by whom the chapel was nearly filled. At the conclusion of the lesson from the 15th chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, the body was removed to the vault (in which were deposited the remains of the deceased's old and esteemed friend the late Dr. Goodall, Provost of Eton for upwards of thirty years) prepared for its reception in the ante-chapel. As soon as the mournful cavalcade had left the chapel, the whole of the Etonians who were present during the sermon in the choir, proceeded to the grave to take a last farewell of the remains of one of the brightest and most illustrious sons of old Etona. Shortly after the conclusion of the ceremony the whole of the illustrious members of the Wellesley family, and the other mourners and attendants, left the college for their respective residences in town, proceeding to Paddington by the Great Western Railway from Slough. As a tribute of respect to the memory of the late illustrious Marquess, Her forming a capacious dock; and a company was formed, to consist of 170,000 shares at 1007. each to carry the plan into operation. In 1835 the dock was commenced. The area it occupies is twentyfour acres, a portion of which is to be laid out with warehouses, &c. The dock is 795 feet by 240 feet, and is capable of affording accommodation to upwards of fifty vessels of the largest size; a reservoir of the same dimensions adjoins it, and it is intended, should the expectations of the company be real ized, to convert that into a second dock, or to throw it into the first. The depth of water is thirty-seven feet, and the gates are sufficient to admit a ship of any size, being sixty-four feet in width; the length of the lock is 200 feet from gate to gate. The Dock Committee, headed by the chairman, R. Blakemore, Esq., M.P., and accompanied by Sir C. Morgan, Bart., Capel Hanbury Leigh, Esq., Lord-lieutenant of the county, the Corporation of Newport, and all the public bodies and associations, formed a procession through the town, and it is supposed that more than 20,000 persons were present, the ground being kept by the 73rd regiment. 11. LANCASHIRE SPECIAL COMMISSION. LIVERPOOL.-The special commission for the trial of the rioters and Chartists connected with the late outbreak in the manufacturing districts was opened by the three learned judges, Lord Abinger, Baron Alderson, and Sir C. Creswell. Their lordships attended Divine service in the morning. The calendar contained the names of 117 prisoners, thirty-seven of whom were charged with riot and putting out fires under steam-boilers; four with VOL. LXXXIV. riot and turning out workmen; eight with riot and conspiracy; seventeen with riot and assault; twenty-eight with riot; eighteen with seditious libel; three with assault; and five with riot and plug-drawing. 12. The fine steamer the Brigand was lost on the Scilly Islands. She was one of the largest and most beautiful iron steamers ever yet built, being of 600 tons burthen, and 200 horse power, and was remarkable for the beauty of her workmanship, the splendid fittings of her saloon, and her extraordinary speed. She cost in building 32,000l. Having taken in upwards of 200 tons of coals, and a large quantity of patent fuel for her consumption on the voyage to St. Petersburgh, she sailed from Liverpool for London, and proceeded safely on her voyage until near St. Agnes Head, when, owing to the haziness of the weather, she ran on a rock. The weather, fortunately, was particularly moderate, and the crew were landed at St. Mary's, Scilly, without the loss of a single life. 14. TRIAL OF A CHARTIST LEADER. In the Stafford Special Commission Court, Thomas Cooper, a Leicester Chartist, was arraigned, on a charge of conspiracy and sedition. He traversed to the following assizes. He was arraigned on a third indictment, charging him with seditious language, and with inducing the people to cease from labour. Being asked whether he was guilty or not, the following colloquy took place Cooper: "If I am charged with inciting persons to cease from labour until they obtain the Charter if that is illegal, and if that be a breach of the peace-then I am M bound in honour to admit that I did urge them to do so, and that I am guilty." The Solicitor-General requested that some legal gentleman would advise Cooper. Some person here made a communication to him in a whisper. Cooper (in a loud voice): "No; I shall not tell a falsehood." The Chief Justice: "You will use your own discretion as to whether you will plead guilty or not." Cooper: My Lord, on this charge I say guilty.' I did urge the people to cease labour until they obtained the Charter." Mr.Waddington: "That is only a part of the charge; there are three other counts in the indictment." On that statement, he pleaded "Not guilty," and traversed to the next assizes. Joseph Cappur, described as "the well-known Tunstall blacksmith," was tried on a charge of sedition. The first witness against him was William Smallwood, a grinder, of Smallhouse, near Henley. He described the nature of Cappur's language:"The prisoner is a blacksmith, living at Newstall. On the 28th of February, I remember seeing a number of persons in Pepper's house. It was on a Monday night. I heard first a hymn, and then Cappur stood up next the window. I was looking through the window from the street. He said, "the words of my text to-night shall be, To your tents, O Israel!' The meaning of that is, to be ready in your own houses." He twice cried out, 'Are you ready-are you sure you are ready?' Some cried out, "Yes, yes.' He said, 'Have you got your guns, your swords, or bayonets? Some people laughed at him; and he said, I suppose you think Cappur is come with his physical force again: it is no laughing matter; we shall have a severe fight, but it shall be a short one. What will you do when you have got the Charter? As I am to be one of your leaders, I'll tell you what I should recommend: we shall take the bishops and clergy and hypocritical Dissenters, and put them into a vessel and transport them into Affinger, or something like that, to be assassinated among the Hindoos.' I have seen him two or three times at that house and in the open air addressing the people. I heard him speaking to a number of women in the same house, on another occasion. There were men also present. He said, 'If you can't fight you can torch. You see what they have done elsewhere by clamming the people and starving them, and driving them to madness.' He then referred to the firing of several cities and houses; and, as far as I can recollect, he mentioned Nottingham and Bristol." Smallwood admitted in crossexamination, that Cappur had sued him for a debt. Other witnesses, however, deposed to similar language at other meetings. Cappur called evidence in defence. His first witness, James Nixon, spoke thus:-" I was chairman of the meeting on the 24th June. I know you (Cappur) these twenty years. I often heard you speak. You are a very unconnected speaker. Your phraseology is not the most polite, but I never heard you use any violent language. I heard the people say you were an old fool, and that your conduct was harmless. (Great laughter.) They used to say, 'It's only old Cappur.'" (Renewed laughter.) Cappur was convicted, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment in Stafford Gaol. 15. CLOSE OF THE STAFFORD SPECIAL COMMISSION.-The trials of the persons concerned in the late riots in Staffordshire terminated after a fortnight's duration. The following is a summary of the results. Of the whole number of prisoners tried, no fewer than fifty-four were sentened to be transported. Out of these, eleven were to be transported for life, thirteen for twenty-one years (among them William Ellis, one of the most dangerous men in the Potteries), nine for fifteen years, eighteen for ten years, and three for the term of seven years. A very large proportion of the remainder were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour. There were in all 146 prisoners who had to undergo this kind of punishment: nine of them were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour for the term of two years, one for twenty calendar months, nine for eighteen calendar months, six for fifteen calendar months, thirty-three for one year, three for nine calendar months, seven for eight calendar months thirty-three for six calendar months, eight for four calendar months, fourteen for three calendar months, fifteen for two calendar months, one for one calendar month, six for fourteen days, and one for ten days. Eight were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment without hard labour; and among these were Linney and Cappur, the Chartist agitators, the former of whom would have to remain in prison two years and three months, and the latter two years. Fiftyfive prisoners were acquitted, two were discharged on entering into recognizances, six were discharged by proclamation, and three traversed till the next assizes these three being O'Neill, Cooper, and Richards. The whole number of prisoners for trial was 274. 17. FEMALE POLITICIANS.-A meeting of female Chartists was held at the National Charter Association Hall in the Old Bailey, to form a female Chartist Association to co-operate with the original society. On the motion of Miss Susanna Inge, seconded by Mrs. Wyatt, Mr. Carey was called to the chair. A Mr. Cohen created some dissatisfaction by speaking against the interposition of women in political affairs: he "put it to the mothers present, whether they did not find themselves more happy in the peacefulness and usefulness of the domestic hearth, than in coming forth in public and aspiring after political rights?" Miss Inge asked Mr. Cohen, did he not consider women qualified to fill public offices? it did not require much "physical force" to vote! Mr. Cohen replied with an argumentum ad fœminam:-He would, with all humility and respect, ask the young lady, what sort of office she would aspire to fill? ("Order, order!") If she would fill one, she would fill all? He was not going to treat the question with ridicule. But he would ask her to suppose herself in the House of Commons as Member for a Parliamentary borough, and that a young gentleman, a lover in that House, were to try to influence her vote through his sway over her affection: how would she act? whether, in other words, she could resist, and might not lose sight of the public interests?" ("Order, order!") He wished to be in order. He was for maintaining the social rights of women: political rights, such as he understood that meeting to aspire to, she could never, in his opinion, attain. This drew forth an energetic speech from Miss Mary Anne Walker: she "repudiated, with indignation, the insinuation, that if women were in Parliament, any man, be he husband or be he lover, would dare be so base a scoundrel as to attempt to sway her from the strict line of duty." Miss Walker was much applauded; and after the business of the evening she received the thanks of the meeting. 18. SINGULAR CASE.-At the Leicestershire Quarter Sessions, Louisa Wykes, a rather good-looking girl, about nineteen years of age, respectably attired in black, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing fifteen sovereigns, the property of John Taylor, at Belgrave; a second indictment charged the prisoner with stealing a pair of breeches, leggings, and other male attire, the property of Henry Smith. Prisoner pleaded guilty to both indictments, but the Court, being unacquainted with the circumstances, requested Mr. Taylor to give a relation of them, when it appeared that the prisoner entered the service of the prosecutor about ten months since, during the whole of which time she conducted herself with propriety. A few weeks since Mr. Taylor had occasion to remain at another of his houses in Leicester, leaving the prisoner and three men in charge of his house in Belgrave. During the night the prisoner proceeded to a bureau, in which she had seen her master place some gold, and whence she took sixteen sovereigns out of a sum of fifty; she then cut her hair off so close as to resemble that of a man, after which she proceeded to the men's room, and dressed herself in Smith's clothes, when she left the house. Being overtaken by the carriage of Mr. Hunter, of Brooksby Hall, his lady ordered the coachman to stop, as she perceived that the prisoner had a singular appearance, and was crying very much. Upon some questions being put to her, she acknowledged that she had committed the robbery, and disguised herself in men's clothes to avoid detection. The mother of the prisoner, having been put into the witness-box, said she could account in no other way for her daughter committing the robbery than that she was pregnant, and stole the money with an intention of providing herself during her confinement, and thus avoiding the exposure to which she would otherwise have been subjected. The chairman, Mr. W. Meyrick, said it was one of the most unheard of cases that had come within his experience; and had not the prosecutor recommended her to mercy, and some alleviating circumstances appeared in her favour, he should inevitably have passed a sentence of transportation upon her. The prisoner was afterwards sentenced to twelve months hard labour, three weeks solitary. A terrible boiler-explosion occurred at Middlesborough, near Scarborough. At a quarter past nine o'clock in the morning, the steam-boiler of Messrs. Bulcho and Co.'s iron railroad manufactory burst, and blew off the roof of the building; which fell upon a great number of men who had just returned from breakfast. Two (Michael M'Ewan and Philip Kelly) were killed on the spot; the latter having been blown under the fire, was literally roasted be |