At eleven o'clock the imperial family and court proceeded to the Kasan church, where a solemn service having been performed, the funeral procession set out for the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, in the same order as on the 18th, the only alteration being that the same individuals did not in every instance take a share in the ceremonial. Between one and two o'clock, they reached the cathedral—when the coffin having been borne into the choir, and placed on a catafalco, the funeral service according to the rites of the GrecoRussian church, commenced; and solemn dirges were chaunted. The metropolitans of St. Petersburg, Novogorod and Kiev; the archbishop of Yaroslav and Tversk, and several other distinguished ecclesiastics, officiated on this mournful

occasion.

The affecting solemnity of these obsequies was rendered more impressive by the deep grief depicted in the countenances of all the members of the imperial family, and every individual admitted to witness the ceremony. At length a discharge of the artillery and musketry announced to the inhabitants of the capital, that the mortal remains of their late sovereign were deposited in their final abode, on the right side of the altar, in a line with the tomb of his father, the Emperor Paul. On the same day the vault was closed up, and a marble sarcophagus placed upon it, similar to those over the graves of other individuals of the imperial family.

The ceremony being ended, the Emperor, the Empress, the grand duke, the princes of Orange and Prussia, the duke of Wellington, and a numerous suite immediately retired to the Winter Palace.

Thus terminated one of the most imposing funereal pageants ever witnessed, as remarkable for the unfeigned expression of sorrow and attachment on the part of the people, as for the magnificence with which it was celebrated. The funeral convoy set out from Taganrog on the 9th of January, accompanied for a considerable distance by a countless multitude of all ranks; and not only all the principal towns and cities through which it passed in its way to the capital, but even the smallest villages endeavoured to show every indication of respect to the memory of the deceased Emperor. The procession reached Moscow on the 15th February, when the body was placed in a magnificent funeral car provided for that purpose, and conveyed in solemn procession to the cathedral, where it was laid in state on a catafalco, amid the demonstrations of the most sincere and lively grief on the part of the inhabitants.

20. John Diggles was executed at Lancaster, for the murder of Benjamin and Alice Case. On Sunday afternoon he acknowledged that the murder was perpetrated by himself only; that his sole object was plunder, and, being well known to both the old people, he murdered them, in order that no testimony might rise against him from them; that he searched as much as he could for money, but the appearance of the old people after their murder so terrified him, that he seized the first article that came to hand, and then fled; that he was determined to deny his guilt, till legally convicted, and that now, having disburdened his mind from the load, he felt more tranquil.

morning a fire was discovered in the warehouse of Mr. Price, shipchandler and roper, Duke's-place, opposite to the Duke's Dock. The fire commenced in the cellar, and burnt so rapidly, that by two o'clock the warehouse, which is six stories high, was on fire in every part. The wind blowing strong from the north-westward, fanned the element into destructive fury. Soon after two o'clock, the front of the warehouse was one complete sheet of flame. Great alarm was excited in the neighbourhood on the falling of the roof, by the burning brands and fragments blown by the wind, which literally covered the adjoining yards and houses. The West of England Fire-office engine was first on the spot, followed, in about ten minutes, by that of the Norwich Union-office, and they began to play with great effect upon the building. The flames, however, after destroying the warehouse, caught the shop of Mr. Steele, optician, the interior of which was entirely destroyed, as well as the valuable stock of that gentleman. The two engines continued to play upon the burning pile and the adjoining premises. From the want of a supply of water, four or five other engines, which were upon the spot, were totally

useless.

CESSION OF LUXEMBURG. Hague. The federal fortress of Luxemburg was given up on the 13th to the German confederation. The following are the particulars which preceded and accompanied the ceremony:

Since the 10th the Netherland Authorities kept more together, in spite of the endeavours of the other party. Neither the civil governor, nor the major-general Van Goe

decke, in his character of military governor, and of commissioner of the king of the Netherlands, accepted the repeated invitations of the military government, which daily give all sorts of entertainments. His excellency the civil governor, M. Willmar, gave, on the 11th, a grand entertainment, at which none but Netherland functionaries were present. The commissioners of the German confederation several times waited on general Van Goedecke, who firmly abided by his instructions. On the 13th his highness the prince of Hesse Homburg, governor of the fortress, acquainted general Van Goedecke, that the solemnity of giving up the fortress would take place at eleven o'clock. Every thing was prepared for this purpose; the three regiments of the line, viz. the 30th, 39th, and 40th, composing the Prussian garrison, made themselves ready for the parade, when an aide-de-camp of the general presented to the prince governor, a protest on the part of the king of the Netherlands, to which the prince replied, "It is now too late." The ceremony now began; the keys of the fortress were presented by the major de place to the commandant; the latter gave them to the prince governor, who delivered them into the hands of the commissioners of the German confederation; and an oath in the name of the confederation having been administered to the commandant, the keys were returned to him. All this took place on the parade, whence his highness, accompanied by the generals and many inferior officers, proceeded to his hotel, before which the three regiments above mentioned twice defiled in grand parade.

NEW COMET. M. Gambart

discovered a comet on the 9th of March, from the observatory at Marseilles. He has calculated its orbit from observations which comprise a heliocentric arc of seventeen degrees, and has found the following results: passage in the perihelium, 1.627, March 18th, 3 hrs, 2 min. 47 sec. afternoon; longitude of the perihelium, 102 deg. 41 min. 30 sec.; longitude of the node, 247 deg. 31 min. 20 sec. inclusive of the orbit, 15 deg. 1 min. 20 sec.; perihelium distance; 0,976 (that from the earth to the sun being taken for unity); motion direct.

M. Gambart marked a striking resemblance between this comet, and two comets which appeared, one in 1772, and the other in 1805. If the identity were proved, we should have another period of a comet ascertained, which would seem to be about 63 years.

21. CASE OF MURDER.-Thomas Lovett, and Johanna Lovett, his wife, were indicted for the wilful murder of Thomas Creane, the late husband of the prisoner Johanna, at Gallerus, in the county of Kerry.

John Creane examined Believes he is about ten or twelve years old. Is son to Thomas Creane, who was murdered. Recollects to have seen the prisoner, Thomas Lovett, frequently at his father's house during his life time, when his father, who was a carpenter, used to be in the country at work. Witness saw the prisoner, Thomas, in bed with his mother two or three times before his father was killed. Witness recollects the night on which his father was murdered. In the evening of that day the prisoner came to their house. His father desired Lovett to go home, saying,

it was too late for him to be in the house, as he wanted to go to bed. The deceased at the same time desired the prisoner Johanna to prepare for bed. She answered that there was time enough. The deceased went to bed, leaving the prisoners together. Before the deceased went to bed, Thomas Lovett said, in answer to the deceased, who wanted him to go home, that he would not-that he would remain there as long as he liked. The deceased, after he went to bed, finding that the prisoner Johanna was not disposed to come to bed, and that the other prisoner was still in the house, came from the bed-room into the kitchen, where they were, and threatened to go to the brother of his wife, and inform him of her conduct. He went out accordingly, but he soon returned back. The deceased was angry and uneasy, and he attempted to go out a second time, but was prevented by the prisoner, Thomas Lovett. The deceased again asked Lovett, whether he would leave his house. Lovett refused, saying, that he would remain there as long as he thought proper. The deceased then left the house. Before the deceased went out, he came to witness in the bed, and desired him to go into his bed until the deceased returned. When the deceased left the house the prisoners sat down together at the kitchen fire. Witness could see them from the bed. The candle remained lighted in the kitchen for some time. They conversed with each other in so low a tone, that witness could not hear. In some time after, the deceased came into a bed-room where the witness lay, through a window from the outside, and stood concealed at the room door,

where he remained for some time listening to what the prisoners were saying. At this time the candle was extinguished. He desired witness not to speak, that he might hear them. He remained a considerable time there, and desired prisoner to go home instantly. Lovett refused. After this, while the deceased was standing in the kitchen near to where the prisoners were sitting, Lovett got up and laid hold of the deceased and tripped him, by which the deceased fell with Lovett over him. The deceased repeatedly called out to the prisoner to let him go, and not to kill him. At this time witness came from the bed to the door of the bed-room, and cried out. He called to the prisoner to let go his father. Lovett said that his father had got a cholic, and that he was taking him off the ground. The other prisoner desired witness to go to bed, and not to remain in the kitchen. As the deceased lay on the ground, with Lovett over. him, in the act of choking him, she went to the other side of the body, and squeezed his throat under the ear. Lovett was lying upon the body, with his knees pressed upon the stomach. The outward door was fastened. Witness became frightened, and did not endeavour to go out to give the alarm.

After they had so killed his father, Lovett raised the body and placed it in a corner of the kitchen, having desired Johanna to go and call in the brother of Lovett, who lived the next door to them. The head of the deceased, when Lovett raised him, was down on his chest. The woman accordingly went out of the house, and in a few minutes returned with James Lovett, the prisoner's brother. They lighted a candle. James Lovett came to

the body and raised the head, and discovered some marks on his neck. He asked what scraped the neck of the deceased; to which one of the prisoners answered, that the deceased had fallen during the night, and received the scratches. James Lovett made no further observation. The prisoner, Thomas Lovett, shaved the deceased preparatory to their laying him out as a corpse. At this time day was approaching. The witness would have told T. Lovett's brother of what had occurred, but he was in dread to do so, Johanna having cautioned him not to tell any one what he had seen. Witness is the second eldest child of the deceased. There were four children: the eldest is rather an idiot. The child next in point of age to witness was about four years; another was still younger. In about a week after the deceased was interred, the prisoner Lovett, and the prisoner Johanna, told witness, and Michael, the idiot, that they could not remain with them; that they should go and live with their uncle, Thomas Moriarty, but that the two youngest might remain with them. Witness accordingly did go to Moriarty. Moriarty, in a few days afterwards, asked witness if he knew whether his father died a natural death, or otherwise? Witness then detailed to Moriarty the circumstances of the murder who said that his mother was a bad woman, but cautioned witness not to tell the matter to any person but his uncle, as she might be hanged if he did so !

the deceased: witness, at the request of that woman, went over the body, and removed the cravat from the neck: witness discovered upon the throat of the deceased a red circle, and there was a mark upon the chin, as if the deceased had been slightly cut; at that time the witness made no observation, not having had any suspicion of the cause of the death.

Michael Creane.-Witness was brother to the deceased. He died four weeks before last Christmas was a twelvemonth. The deceased was married about fourteen years before. He was married to Johanna Moriarty, the prisoner, now the wife of the prisoner Thomas Lovett. Witness recollects having been sent for to go to his brother's wake; it was the first intimation witness had of his death. Witness, when he was at the wake, saw some woman looking at the body, on the neck. Witness looked at the neck also, and he observed a black stroke under the neck. Witness slept with his brother three nights before his death. The deceased was not in bad health. He did not complain of being ill, when the witness and he slept together. They slept in the house of witness.

The Jury retired for a short time, and returned a verdict of Guilty.

21. PRIVILEGES OF FREEMEN OF THE CITY. A curious question came on before the court of aldermen.

In the year 1782, sir Francis Drake, admiral of the Red, was, in consequence of a victory gained over the enemy in the West Indies, with other officers under lord Rodney, presented with the freedom of the City of London, by a vote of the court of common council,

and was in pursuance of that vote made a liveryman of the company of grocers, and sworn in a free

man.

Sir Francis Drake took the several oaths which are required to be taken by all persons who are honoured with the freedom of the city-he was not free by birth, nor servitude, nor purchase, nor otherwise than as aforesaid. He married Pooley Onslow sometime afterwards, and settled upon her the sum of 15,000l. in the 3 per cent consolidated bank annuities, in lieu of dower. In the year 1789, he died intestate, and without issue, and the rev. George Walcot Onslow was constituted executor to the estate. His relict some time after married Mr. Sergeant Onslow. She had received under the statute of distribution the share of the property to which she was entitled as the widow, and for some years it was supposed that there was no further claim upon the part of the learned sergeant. It however occurred to him, that the privileges of a citizen of London, which he believed extended to his wife as the widow of a freeman, might be made available in obtaining an increased share in the property, and he accordingly claimed, in opposition to Mrs. Fuller, who was a near relative of sir Francis Drake.

The case came before the vicechancellor, who, after having heard counsel, ordered that the lord mayor and aldermen should be applied to, to certify the custom of the city of London on these points:

First, whether sir Francis Drake, having been presented with the freedom of the city under the abovementioned circumstances, was a freeman of the city of London in the sense, meaning, and operation of the custom of the said city of London, relating to the distribu