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With Military and Masonic Insignia on the Coffin.

Relations of the Deceased.

Attendants of the Funeral.

No Brethren in office of the other Lodges wore their jewels, but only those of the Lodge to which the deceased belonged. The brethren were uniformly dressed in black clothes, with white stockings; aprons and gloves.

The procession then moved slowly from the dwelling-bouse of the deceased to Hereford Cathedral, where the body was received into the choir amidst the solemn peals of the organ. The funeral service having been read by the Rev. Brother Watkins, a sacred chaunt was given by the choristers, and the procession advanced to the grave, where the corpse was deposited with the usual Masonic rites. An excellent discourse on the principles of masonry having been read by Brother Bird, P.M. the Right Worshipful Brother John Allen, jun. Provincial Grand Director, addressed the Lodges assembled in a manner so feeling and impressive, that we conceive our readers will be highly gratified by its perusal, and we have taken some pains in procuring a copy of it,

"BRETHREN-From time immemorial it has been a custom amongst our fraternity, at the request of a brother on his death-bed, to accompany his corpse to the place of interment, and there to deposit it with the usnal formalities. In conformity with this ancient usage, and as Master of the Lodge, I have this day requested your assistance, in the last melancholy duty we owe to each other. It has pleased the Great Creator to remove our beloved and respected Brother from the cares and troubles of this life, and thereby to weaken that bond of union by which we are connected so closely together; but the principles of our order remain unimpaired, and their benign influence is strongly felt within us. That brotherly love which we have been taught as a first principle, has actuated n this day, and we are bere assembled, as Masons, to offer up before the world the last tribute of our fraternal affection. The body of our companion has been committed to the earth, but his memory will still be cherished amongst us; and though the grave be not the place of panegyric, still those who knew our deceased brother's worth, his benevolence of heart, his honesty of principle, may, I trust, be permitted, even here, to express their feelings and deplore his loss. As a man, as an officer, and a mason, he performed the duties of his life becomingly. His frailties shall be forgotten- for he blackened no man's reputation, he injured no man's character. In his nature he was generous and compassionate: his hand and his heart were open alike to the distresses of others. His good name will not be buried with him-it shall live in the recollection of his friends, and be as balm to the grief

of bis relations. In the prime of his days he has been recalled, the hour of his bodily trial has passed, and the spirit which animated him has fled to its account before his Maker. May we who survive him, mindfal that in life we border but on death, so employ our time, that hope may hover round our hearts in our last moments, softening the pangs of disease, and cheering us on to a blessed immortality. And may Almighty God, of his infinite goodness, at the grand tribunal of unbiassed justice, extend bis mercy towards this our brother, and all of us, and crown our hope with everlasting bliss. This we beg in thy name, O Great Jehovah! to whom be honour and glory, now and for ever."

This funeral oration was delivered in a mode so highly impressive. that the feelings of the audience were strongly affected, and many an eye and heart bore witness to its effect on their minds.

The military then advanced, and having fired three vollies over the grave, the procession returned in silence, and the Brethren retired to their lodge-room, where we understand that a vote of thanks, on the suggestion of the Rev. Brother Watkins, was unanimously given to Brother Allen, for the feeling address he had made, and the admirable way in which the whole arrangement of the funeral was conducted.

The vast concourse of people assembled on the occasion, testified by their manner, the deep interest they took in the scene before them, and the universal feeling of regret will be a source of infinite comfort to the relatives of the deceased.

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John Hay, younger, of Hayston and Smithfield, Esq. Senior Grand Warden.

Sir William Hamilton, of Preston and Fingalton, bart, Junior Grand Warden.

Sir John Hay, of Hayston and Smithfield, bart, Grand Treasurer.

Alexander Lowrie, Esq. Grand Secre

tary.

James Bertram, Esq. Grand Clerk. Dr. John Lee, Grand Chaplain. William Cunningham, Esq. Grand Jeweller.

Alexander Peacock, Esq. Grand Bible Bearer.

At the conclusion of the election, upon the motion of the Right Worshipful the Master of St. Luke, in a speech of much feeling and interest, seconded by the Right Worshipful Proxy Master of the Mother Lodge, Kilwinning, a respectful Address of sincere condolence was unanimously voted to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent and Patron of the Order, upon the Jate calamity which his Royal Highness and the country have sustained by the death of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta. As the last tribute of respect to the extraordinary merits of her Royal Highness, the Most Worshipful Grand Master had recalled the arrangements which bad been made for celebrating the anniversary of their tutelar Saint, in the usual convivial manner, and had issued instructions for assembling the brethren, and devoting the day to solemn and religious worship. In cousequence of these instructions, which met with the warmest approbation from the brethren at large, immediately after the election was concluded, the whole body, consisting of upwards of a thousand brethren, in deep mourning, walked in solemn masonic procession from Freemason's Hall to the High Church, where the Rev. Dr. Lee, Chaplain to the Grand Lodge, delivered a Inost appropriate and pathetic discourse, from the prayer of Solomon at the dedication of the Temple, Second Chronicles, chap. vi. 20th, 28th, 29th, 39th, and 31st verses.

After Divine Service the different Lodges returned in procession from the High Church to Freemason's Hall. The streets were Jined with a party of the Scots Greys, and the band of the 88th regiment accompanied the procession, performing sacred music, with their drums muffled. Though the Streets were crowded to excess, the utmost regularity prevailed. During the proces sion not a murmur was heard; the feelings of every spectator harmonized with those of the craft, and the sympathy at an event which fills the nation with such sincere sorfow and regret, appeared visible in the countenance of every individual, and gave a character to the scene at once striking and impressive.

The first half-yearly examination of the children of the United Parochial National Charity and Sunday Schools of St. Mary,

Newington, Surrey, in union with the National Society, was held ou Thursday 4th De cember, W. Clutton, treasurer, took the Chair. The meeting was attended by the Rev. T. T. Walmsley, secretary to the National Society; the Rev. W. Johnson, superintendant of the National Society's Central School, Rev. W. Carter, Slater, Judd, Robins, Hales, King, Holland, Horsburg, Hammond, Wye, Roffey, England, Richardson, Algar, Frith, and others of the Committee, and many of the most respectable ladies and gentlemen of the parish, suppor ters of the schools. The different classes went through an examination in spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, and in religious instruction, to the great satisfaction of the audience, and the unqualified approbation of the examiners. Those schools have only been established on the present plan little more than a year, and now contains 380 boys, and 180 girls, of whom about 120 are clothed.

On Wednesday the 10th, being the (49th) anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts, a general assembly of the Academicians was held at their apartments in Somerset House, when the following distribution of premiums took place, viz.

To Mr. William Scoular, for the best Model in Relievo (of the Judgment of Paris), the Gold Medal and the Discourses of the Presidents Reynolds and West, handsomely bound and inscribed.

To Mr. Charles H. Smith, for the best Architectural Design (a Royal Academy of Arts), the Gold Medal and the Discourses of Reynolds and West,

To Mr. Richard Carruthers, for the best Copy made in the Painting School, the Silver Medal and the Lectures of the Professors Barry, Opie, and Fuseli.

To Mr. Henry Wyatt, for a Copy made in the Painting School, the Silver Medal.

To Mr. C. G. Christmas, for the best Drawing of an Academy Figure, the Silver Medal and the Lectures of Barry, Opie, and Fuseli.

To Mr. W. Ross, for a Drawing of an Academy Figure, the Silver Medal.

To Mr. James Heffernan, for the best model of an Academy Figure, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures of Barry, Opie, and Fuseli.

To Mr. William Scoular, for a Model of an Academy Figure, the Silver Medal.

To Mr. Samuel Patterson, for the best Architectural Drawing from a Public Building, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures of Barry, Opie, and Fuseli.

To Mr. Sydney Smirke, for an Architectural Drawing from a Public Building, the Silver Medal.

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To Mr. William Behnes, for the best Drawing from the Antique, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures of Opie and Fuseli.

To Mr. W. Edwards, for the next best

Drawing from the Antique, the Silver Medal.

To Mr. Edward Lambert, for a Drawing from the Antique, the Silver Medal.

To Mr. Joseph Bonomi, for the best Model from the Antique, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures of Fuseli and Opie.

To Mr. C. Garrard, for a Model from the Antique, the Silver Medal.

The General Assembly afterwards proceeded to appoint officers for the ensuing year, when Benjamin West, Esq. was unanimously re-elected President. The New Council consists of J. Jackson, J. Flaxman, J. Yenn, and A. W. Callcott, Esq. Old Council, W. Mulready, A. E. Chalon, T. Phillips, and M. A. Shee, Esqrs. Visitors in the Life Academy, new list, H. Fuseli, T. Phillips, M. A. Shee, and J. Ward, Esqrs. Old list, Sir W. Beechey, W. Mulready, W. Owen, R. Smirke, and H. Thomson, Esqrs. Visitors in the Painting School, new list, W. Mulready, M. A. Shee, H. Thomson, and D. Wilkie, Esqrs. Old list, Sir W. Beechey, Sir T. Lawrence, J. Northcote, and J. Ward, Esqrs. Auditors re-elected, G. Dance, and J. Farington, Esqrs.

William Hone has been tried for blasphemous political libels on the Creed, Lord's Prayer, &c. in the Court of King's Bench. He conducted his own defence, and was pronounced by the Jury, not Guilty. A more innocent publisher is now in Winchester gaol for twelvemonths, being condemned for the same offence in an infi. nitely less degree.

Very recent accounts have been received from India. The Madras army is about to be put in motion; but on the other side of the peninsula, tranquillity is restored.

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AN UNPRECEDENTED OCCURRENCE.By the election of Mr. John Saunders as Common Council for Candlewick Ward, there is now a Deputy and his four sons in the Corporation.

It is with great concern we have to record the occurrrence of one of those tremendous visitations, a hurricane, in the West Indies. The accounts have been received via America, and are, we sincerely trust, exaggerated; but still there is enough of misery to afflict every heart. The storm took place on the 21st of October, and swept the whole region for two hundred miles, ravaging in its course Antigua, Barbadoes, St. Vincent, St. Lucie, Martinique, Dominique, and Guadaloupe. The scene of greatest horror, however, seems to have been St. Lucie, where the Government house and the barracks were overthrown. In the former, Governor Lieutenant-general Seymour, his wife, family, and household, to the number of fifty souls, perished. In the latter 200 military were destroyed. Where such consequences ensued, the situation

of the whole island must have been dreadful. The shipping has suffered to an unknown and appalling extent; but as the particulars are not ascertained, it would be barbarity to guess at the probable desolation.

The intelligence from South America continues to be contradictory and fallacious. We are glad to hear a rumour that the mediation of the European Sovereigns has been offered between Spain and the Colonies; and trust it will be effectual in restoring tranquillity on terms honourable and advantageous to both. The King of Spain has issued a decree granting immunities to settlers in Cuba. It has strangely enough been taken up fiercely as an English party question; though we can conceive nothing less connected with British feelings or interests. With not only the Americas, but the Ionian Islands, the Cape of Good Hope, &c. &c. inviting our emigrants to colonize them. It is surely altogether improbable that five British subjects should think of choosing Cuba.

A general bill of all the christenings and burials from December 10, 1816, to December 16, 1817.

Christened in the 97 Parishes within the Walls 1044.- Buried 1085.

Christened in the 17 Parishes without the Walls 5429.-Buried 3939.

Christened in the 23 out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey 12716.-Buried 10108. Christened in the 10 parishes in the city and liberties of Westminster 4940.-Buried 4836.

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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE.

OV. 19.-The Rev. James Collett Ebden, late Fellow of Caius College, is appointed Junior Tutor of Trinity Hall, in the place of the Rev. Thomas Smart Hughes.

Dec. 6.-Richard Formby, Esq. of Caius College, was on Wednesday last admitted Doctor in Physic.

Robert De La Cour Beamish, Esq. of St. John's College; William Sharp Mac Leay, Esq. of Trinity College; and the Rev. Henry Poynder, of Christ College, were on the same day admitted Masters of Arts.

Dec. 18.-The Hulsean prize for the present year is adjudged to Mr. John Weller, B.A. of Emmanuel College, for his dissertation on "The probable causes of the apparent neglect with which some celebrated writers of antiquity treated the Christian religion."

The following is the subject of the Hulsean prize dissertation for the ensuing year:-"The probable influence of Revelation upon the writings of the Heathen Philosophers and the morals of the Heathen World."

The subject of the English poem for the Chancellor's third gold medal for the ensuing year is" Imperial and papal Rome."

OXFORD.

On Tuesday, the 18th of November, the following Gentlemen were admitted to Degrees:

Master of Arts.-Mr. John Anthony Cramer, Student of Christ Church.

Bachelors of Arts.-Mr. George Henry Curtois, of University Coll.

Francis Baring, Esq. of Christ Church. Mr. Ichabod Charles Wright, of Christ Church.

Mr.John Wither Awdry, of Christ Church. Mr. Frederick De Chair, of Oriel Coll. Nov. 25.-The following Gentlemen were admitted to Degrees:

Charles Lewis Meryon, M.A. of St. John's Coll. was admitted Bachelor, and to practise in Medicine.

Master of Arts.-Rev. Thomas Hodges, of Balliol Coll.

Bachelors of Arts.-George Thomas, of St. Alban Hall, Esq. Grand Compounder. Thomas Fownes Luttrell, of Exeter Coll. Esq. Grand Compounder.

John Jones, of Trinity Coll. Esq. Grand Compounder.

Mr. Charles Hodges, of Queen's Coll. Mr. William Hale Hall, of Oriel Coll. Mr. Rowland Thomas Bradstock, of University Coll.

Mr. Rice Hugbes, of Jesus Coll.

Mr. Samuel Ellis Garrard, of St. Edmund Hall.

Mr. Henry Compton, of St. Edmund Hall. Mr. John William Hughes, of Trinity Coll.

George Cuncliffe, Esq. of Balliol Coll. Mr. John Hughes, of Pembroke Coll. Dec. 2.-The following Gentlemen were admitted:

Doctor in Medicine.-Charles Lewis Me. ryon, of St. John's Coll.

Bachelors of Arts.- Mr. Charles Herbert Martin, of Exeter Coll.

Mr. Thomas Johnson, of Merton Coll. Mr. Thomas Le Quesne Jones, of Queen's Coll.

Dec. 6.-The following subjects are proposed for the Chancellor's Prizes for the ensuing year; viz.

For Latin Verses-" Titus Hierosolymam expugnans.'

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For an English Essay-" Biography." For a Latin Essay-" Quam Vim in Moribus Populi conformandis exhibeant Rerum publicarum subitæ Mutationes ?"

Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize-" The

Coliseum."

Messrs. Henry Washington, Robert Grant, and George Robinson, have been admitted Fellows of New College.

At the election at Balliol College, Mr. W. D. Longlands, Rev. C. A. Ogilvie, and Mr. C. T. Collins, were admitted Actual Fellows; the Rev. W. M. Tucker was chosen a Probationary Fellow; and Messrs. Masters, Plumer, Matthews, and Williams, Exhibitioners of that Society; and Mr. Daniel Jones, B.A. of Jesus College, wag admitted Scholar of that Society.

Also the following Gentlemen were admitted to Degrees :

The Rev. William Davies, M. A. of Magdalen Coll. Rector of Rockhampton, in the county of Gloucester, F.A.S. a Magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant of the County, was admitted Bachelor and Doctor in Divinity, by accumulation.

Master of Arts.-William Hanmer, Esq. of Queen's Coll,

Bachelors of Arts.-John Andrew Me thuen, Esq. of Christ Church, Grand Compounder.

Mr. Henry Hey Kright, of Exeter Coll, Mr. Robert Strong, of Wadham Coll. Mr. William Moss King, Student of Christ Church.

Mr.JamesMure, Student of Christ Church, Mr. George Henry Glyn, Student of Christ Church.

Mr. Charles Ranken, Student of Christ Church,

Mr. Henry Pearce, of Christ Church, Mr. Owen Owen, of Jesus Coll. Mr. John Jones, of Jesus Coll. Mr. John Morrall, of Brasennose Coll. Dec. 13.-The names of those candidates, who, at the close of the Public Examination, this term, were admitted by the Public Examiners into the first and second Classes of Litere Humaniores and Disciplinæ Mathematice et Physicæ respectively, according to the alphabetical ar.

rangement in each Class prescribed by the statute, stand as follow:

In the First Class of Literæ Humaniores.
Baring, Francis, Christ Church.
Greswell, William, Brasennose Coll.
Henderson, Gilbert, Brasennose Coll.
Knight, Henry H. Exeter Coll.
Mure, James, Christ Church.

Sanderson, Stephen, Pembroke Coll.
Shuldham, John, Christ Church.

In the First Class of Discip. Mathemat, et

Phys.

Baring, Francis, Christ Church.
Glyn, George H. Christ Church.
Powel, Baden, Oriel Coll.

In the Second Class of Literæ Humaniores.
Glaister. William, University Coll.
Graves, John S. Brasenno-e Coll..
Hale, William H. Oriel Coll.
Kekewich, Samuel, Christ Church,
Morrall, John, Brasennose Coll,
Owen, Owen, Jesus Coll.
Pitt, Joseph, Christ Church.
Sullivan, Frederick, Brasennose Coll.
Tristram, Henry B. Christ Church.
Walker, John, Brasennose Coll.

In the Second Class of Discipl. Mathemat. et Phys.

Hale, William H. Oriel Coll.

Litera Humaniores.

Cleaver, Henry, Christ Church,
Colson, John M. Balliol Coll.
Duncombe, Charles, Christ Church.
Glyn, George H. Christ Church.

Grove, William, Oriel College.
Hall, James, Wadham College.
Hewitt, Hon, John P. Christ Church.
Hughes, John G. Trinity Coll.
Johnson, Thomas, Brasennose Coll.
Jones, John, Jesus Coll,

King, Moss, Christ Church,
Lewis, David, Brasennose Coll.
Merewether, John, Queen's Coll.
Noble, Robert, Brasennose Coll.
Ranken, Charles, Christ Church.
Shapeott, Thomas L. St. Alban's Hall.
Sydenham, John, Exeter Coll.
Troughton, James, Christ Church,
Discip. Mathemat.

Crabb, George, Magdalen Hall. Yesterday the following Gentlemen were admitted to Degrees:

Doctor in Divinity.-Rev. George Augustus Lamb, of Magdalen Coil.

Bachelors of Arts.-Mr. Baden Powell, of Oriel Coll.

Mr. Matthew Grey, of Oriel Coll. Mr. John Shuldham, of Christ Church. Mr. Heury Baker Tristram, of Christ Church.

Mr. Cornelius Cooper, of Magdalen Hall. Mr. John Lindsay Young, of Brasennose Coll.

Mr. William Joseph Walker, of Brasennose Coll.

Mr. James Hall, of Wadham Coll,
Mr. Henry Sissmore, of Wadham Coll.

BIRTHS.

LATELY, in Connaught place, lyde

park, the lady of Robert Wigram, Esq. M.P. of a son.

DEC. 9. At Mansfield Park, the lady of Sir John Shelley, Bart, M.P. of a daugh

ter.

MARRIAGES.

No Powerstock, Dorset, to Jemima,

[OV. 2. The Rev. S. F. Statham, vicar

daughter of Joseph Travers, Esq. of Highbury Grove, Middlesex.

At St. Luke's, Chelsea, Lieut.-colonel Forsteen, 12th regiment, to Eliza Fitzherbert, only daughter of the late Thomas James Cotton, Esq, of Sloane street.

9. Uvedale Corbett, Esq. of Lincoln'sinn, second son of Archdeacon Corbett, of Longnor Hall. Salop, to Mary- Anu-Jane, only daughter of the late Joseph Lyon, Esq. of Bloomsbury-square.

10. Robert Francis Jameson, Esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, to Isabella, daughter of B. Blackden, Esq. of the Green, High Wycombe.

11. James Henry Henderson, Esq. of Verulam-buildings. Gray's-iun, to Mary, daughter of Mrs. Mellor, of Dunstable.

Mr. Thomas Cornock, of Orange street,

Red-lion square, to Susanna Bemrose, daughter of Joseph Morris. Esq. of Northumberland street, Strand.

14. William Salkeld, son of Thomas Salkeld, Esq. of Woodbridge, to Elizabeth,

daughter of Richard Jones, Esq. of Ald

gate.

20. Stewart Crawford, M.D. of the city of Bath, to Caroline, daughter of the late P. A. A'Court, Bart, of Heytesbury House, Wiles.

27. By special licence, at Rochetts, the seat of the Earl of St. Vincent, Captain Edmund Palmer, of his Majesty's navy, to Henrietta, great niece of his Lordship, and youngest daughter of the late Captain Jervis, R. N.

DEC. 9. At Fulham, Francis Travers, M.D. of Newark, Nottinghamshire, to Martha, daughter of the late Jeremiah Sutton, Esq. of Frieston, Lincolnshire.

II. Thomas Josling, Esq. of Broadstreet-buildings, to Miss Butler, of Nor

wich.

16. At Exeter, by the Rev. George Tre velyan, Archdeacon of Wilts, John Melford, jun. Esq. of that city. to Eliza, youngest daughter of John Neave, Esq. a grand-daughter of the late Sir Richard Ncave, of Dagenham, Essex,

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