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Burthen in tons, 1,049. is divided into five water-tight compartments, and her engines are of 450 horse power.

Her construction is entirely novel, and, according to designs prepared by the surveyor of the Navy she is considered by competent judges to be superior, in point of beauty, buoyancy, and strength, to any other description of steam-vessel ever produced in this country. Her keel was laid on the 9th of November, 1842, the anniversary of the birth of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, by Mr. William Edye, the master shipwright of the Royal Dock-yard and the greatest praise is due to Captain Superintendent Sir W. O. Pell, an officer of distinguished service and merit, and to the respective authorities, for the skilful arrangements and extraordinary exertions made in building this ship in the winter months in the short period of only twenty-three weeks. The symmetry of her hull, and the peculiarly neat style of her rigging, render her one of the most beautiful steam-ships that this or any other country has ever produced; and the Queen of a powerful maritime nation, will now have a fitting vessel in which she can visit the more distant parts of her sea-girt dominions.

Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence was the officer appointed to command her; and the officers and crew of the Royal George were to be turned over to her.

by four ballastmen, floating in the water, after it had been submerged for more than three weeks. Mr. Busfield was the brother of Mr. Busfield Ferrand, the Member for Knaresborough, and the nephew of Mr. Busfield, the Member for Bradford. He was twenty years of age, and an Under Graduate at Cambridge. He had arrived in London on the 3d instant; and early on the morning of the 4th, he was about to embark in the Vulcan revenue cutter, which lay at Blackwall, its commander, Lieutenant Crispin, having promised to land him at Weymouth, whither he was proceeding on a visit to his mother. For that purpose, about four o'clock he came down to the Blackwall Pier in a cab, and alighted to see if it could pass on to the pier, it being very dark at the time. He had been there in the day, when a dock lighter is usually moored close to the pier, but at night the lighter is moored further out; and it is supposed that Mr. Busfield stepped inadvertently between the dock and the lighter, in approaching the water's edge to hail the cutter. As he fell, he cried for help; and the cabman, with a policeman, searched for him, but without avail. The jury returned the following verdict

That Benjamin Ferrand Busfield was accidentally drowned, by falling from the Blackwall Pier into the Thames, on the morning of the 4th of April; and the jury regret that the owners of that pier should be so regardless of the safety of the public, as to have allowed the pier to be open at nine o'clock at night, in perfect darkness, and so that any person walking upon it must do so at the im

1. REMARKABLE CASE OF CONSCIENCE. It has not unfrequently happened that advertisements have appeared in the daily papers acknowledging, on the part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, certain payments made by anonymous persons, who, having defrauded the revenue, make this restitution, and it is called 'conscience money.' A remarkable instance of this kind lately happened. An individual wrote a letter to the Exchequer office, saying, that although he had returned his income-tax correctly on his ostensible business, yet that he was extensively engaged in smuggling, and as his returns from that source were very great, he had it on his conscience that he had not made any return of that, and he therefore enclosed, as the amount of three years' tax, 14,000l.! Every effort was made to discover the conscientious contrabandist, but without effect.

(Great applause.) They told him at once that on many points they differed with him, but that when they took the office they were determined conscientiously to discharge its duties; therefore he could not wish for better churchwardens than those he had, unless they favoured him with those belonging to the Established Church. Perhaps they would give him a few? (Never.) few? (Never.) Dr. Hook then put to the meeting the names of the various candidates, when the Chartists were carried by large majorities. The rev. doctor recommended the churchwardens for this year to pay the expenses by subscription among their friends, and not by a church-rate, as on the subject of church-rates there was an action pending.

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3. LYING IN STATE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.-The public were admitted into Kensington Palace to see the body of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex as it lay in State; the admission being given to all persons who were dressed in "decent mourning." From eight till ten, the inhabitants of Kensington were admitted; from eight till four, the public at large. The crowd was immense but the excellent regulations of the police kept good order; and, being marshalled in ranks five abreast, and three abreast withiu the palace, the people performed the circuit arranged for them without inconvenience. They entered the great gate, went through the Clock Court, up the grand staircase, where stood the Duke's piper in state uniform, and other attendants; through an ante-room hung with black, lighted with wax tapers, and guarded by more attendants; into the saloon which con

tained the body. This room was hung with black cloth with escutcheons of the Duke's arms emblazoned upon it, and dimly lighted with wax tapers. Fronting the entrance, and raised a few feet from the floor stood the coffin, covered with a pall of black velvet with white silk facings. Upon the coffin was placed the Duke's coronet, and over it upon the wall was a large escutcheon with the Queen's arms emblazoned. On either side of the coffin were three massive silver candlesticks with enormous wax candles, by the light of which was seen the chief mourner, (one of the Duke's Equerries,) who sat in a raised chair at the head of the coffin; on either side of the coffin stood a Herald and a Page. After passing quietly through the room, the visitors were directed to go through other rooms hung with black, and passed out by a wooden staircase built for the purpose, into Kensington Gardens. The great gates in Kensington were closed at four o'clock; but it was a quarter past six before those who already had been admitted had passed through the Palace. The number of visitors was estimated at 25,000. The coffin bore the following inscription:

"Depositum Illustrissimi Principis Augusti Frederici,

Ducis Sussexiæ, Comitis de Inverness ac Baronis de Arklow, Antiquissimi et Nobilissimi Ordinis Cardui et Honoratissimi Ordinis Militaris de Balneo Equitis, Patrui Augustissimæ et Potentissimæ Victoriæ,

Dei Gratia Britanniarum Reginæ, Fidei Defensoris.

Obiit die Vicesimo Primo Aprilis, Anno Domini MDCCCXLIII., Etatis su LXXI,"

4. FUNERAL OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE LATE DUKE OF SUSSEX.-This being the day fixed for the funeral of his Royal Highness the late Duke of Sussex, at a very early hour in the morning all the avenues leading from the metropolis towards the neighbourhood where the funeral ceremony was to be performed and the line along which the mournful procession was to pass, were thronged with multitudes anxious to behold the last tribute of respect paid to the memory of the illustrious deceased; and London itself was comparatively deserted. As early as seven o'clock the morning had a very gloomy appearance, but before the funeral procession started the sun broke forth, and the weather throughout the day was very fine. In conformity with arrangements previously made, the public were admitted into Kensington-gardens through the gate at Kensington. The persons permitted to enter were limited in point of number, so that every one was able to see without the slightest inconvenience the funeral procession as it passed along; and, in consequence of the excellent management of the police, a strong body of whom were in attendance at this spot, the most perfect order and decorum were preserved.

The distinguished persons who had been invited to attend the funeral began to arrive at Kensington Palace before seven o'clock in the morning. Among the first was the Duke of Wellington; who did not alight, but remained sitting in his carriage. Lord John Russell and Lord Howick arrived in the same carriage; Lord Palmerston and Lord Morpeth soon after. The Duke of Cambridge, the chief mourner, appeared at