procession; the escort due to the rank of Field-Marshal.
Eighty-three veterans from Chelsea Hospital, the number
corresponding with the years of the Duke's life; and a
body of marines will also assist. The bâtons of Field-
Marshal held by the late Duke will be borne by the
Marquis of Anglesea, and the accredited representatives
of foreign armies. It is recommended that the procession
be as much as possible a walking one, to avoid delay
and a train of carriages. The streets will be kept by
the police, and not by the military. The body of the
Duke will be buried under the centre of the dome of
St. Paul's. Over the grave will be constructed a
"gorgeous catafalque." The interior of the cathedral
will be profusely lighted up with jets of gas in all parts.
Four huge galleries, intended to accommodate 10,000
persons, will be erected; three for the privileged
spectators, and one for the choir; and these will be
hung with black cloth. All the statues will be covered
up, except those of Nelson and Cornwallis, which will
be partly shrouded in black drapery. There is to be a
separate gallery for the members of parliament who may
attend.

Lord Medwyn, one of the judges of the Court of
Session, has resigned. Mr. Marshall, Dean of Faculty,
is mentioned as his probable successor.

Dr. Macpherson has been admitted and inducted to
the Professorship of Divinity at King's College, Aberdeen,
and has received the right hand of fellowship from the
meeting.

The Will of the late Mr. Neild, which has excited so
much interest and curiosity, is now in Doctors'
Commons. It is written by the deceased himself, in a clear
bold round hand, and only occupies the front of a sheet
of foolscap. The will begins by saying, that he, James
Camden Neild, of Lincoln's-inn and Chelsea, in the
county of Middlesex, wished his body to be interred in
Battersea Church, and in a vault as near as may be to
his beloved father, James Neild. He bequeathed to his
executors £100 each, and directed them to pay all his
just debts (which were very trifling), and hereafter he
gave and bequeathed all "real and personal property to
which I may be entitled at law or in equity unto Her
Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, for her own private
use and advantage, and her heirs, executors, and assigns."
And he expresses a hope that her Majesty will be
pleased to accept of the same. He appoints as his executors,
the Hon. the Keeper for the time being of her
Majesty's Privy Purse, the Very Rev. Henry Tatton,
Archdeacon of Bedford, and Mr. James Stephens, of
the county of Kent. The will is attested by Charles
Shadwell, of Gray's-inn, aud George Tatton, his clerk.
The will was proved on the 21st inst., by the Hon.
Charles Bowman Phipps, Keeper of her Majesty's Privy
Purse, the Archdeacon of Bedford, and Mr. Stephens,
the executors appointed under it, and the estate sworn
to as under £250,000.

Obituary of Notable Persons.

VICE-ADMIRAL BULKELEY MACKWORTH PRAED died on the
6th inst., at Acton Castle, Cornwall, at the age of 82.

LORD ROLLO died at his seat of Duncrub, in Strathorne, on
the 8th inst.

MrR. THOMAS WILSON died on the 9th inst., at Hackney, in the
85th year of his age. He represented the city of London in two
consecutive Parliaments, from the year 1818 to 1826.

LORD DINORBEN died at his ancestral mansion, Kinmel Park,
on the evening of the 13th inst. He had long suffered severely
from epileptic fits, and was attacked in an alarming manner on
the Sunday previous, from which attack he never rallied.

COLONEL SIR DIGBY MACKWORTH, BART., died on the 23rd
ult., at Glen Usk, county Monmouth, aged 62.

DR. TOWNSEND, Bishop of Meath, died on the 16th ult. at
Malaga, whither he had proceeded for the benefit of his health,
and where he had only arrived the day before his decease. He
had been suffering for some time from a pulmonary affection;
and latterly there had been little hope of his recovery.

THE BISHOP OF ST. ANDREW'S, DUNKELD, AND DUNBLANE,
the Right Rev. Dr. Patrick Torry, died on the 3rd inst., at his
residence, Peterhead, N.B., at the age of 89.

EARL SOMERS died on tke 6th inst., at his residence in
Grosvenor-place, in his 65th year.

JOHN BENETT, ESQ., late M.P. for Wilts, died on the 1st inst.,
of apoplexy, in his 80th year.

MR. THOMAS THOMSON died in Edinburgh on the 2nd inst.
He was a coadjutor of Jeffery, Sydney Smith, and Lord Brougham
in the establishment of the "Edinburgh Review," and was a
prominent member of the Liberal party at the Scotch bar. He
held for many years the office of Deputy Clerk Registrar, and in
that capacity rendered the most valuable services to the public,
by collecting the national records, and making them available.

MR.WILLIAM FINDEN, the celebrated engraver, died on the
28th ult., of disease of the heart, to which he had long been
subject, but which was aggravated by a violent cold. He was in
the 66th year of his age.

MAJOR-GENERAL COLBY, of the Royal Engineers, died at
Liverpool, on the 2nd inst., in his 79th year. His name will
long be associated with the Ordnance Survey of this kingdom, at
the head of which he was placed by the Duke of Wellington,
when Master-General of the Ordnance.

MR. BARNES, the engineer, who was the director of the
construction of steam-engines and vessels for the service of the
Messageries National of France, died on the 24th ult., at La
Ciotat, near Marseilles, France, in the 54th year of his age.

PRINCE GUSTAVUS, Duke of Upland, and second son of the.
King of Sweden, died at Christiania on the 24th ult. He landed
there on the 16th ult. with their Majesties, and complained of
indisposition. On the following day he was seized with violent
fever, which ended fatally.

GENERAL CASTANOS, Duke of Baylen, died at Madrid, on the
24th September, in his 95th year. The sole military feat of the
aged General was the capture of Dupont and a French army, at
Baylen in 1808, with a body of regulars and patriot levies. For
this service, which roused the despairing insurrection, he was
made a duke.

MRS. PATERSON, one of Burns's heroines, died at Mauchline on
the 15th inst. She was Miss Morton, one of the five "Mauchline
belles" commemorated by the poet. She was in her 87th year.
Almost to the last she retained her faculties unimpaired; and
on one of her grandsons asking her a few hours previous to her
decease if she still remembered Burns, she at once replied, "Ay,
brawly that."

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

Tke India Mail brings intelligence from Bombay to
the 15th of September. At Rangoon preparations were
making for an advance by detachments up the Irawaddy
as far as Prome: using the steam flotilla. Reinforcements
were hastening to join General Godwin's army;
which would, when complete, amount to 16,000 men,
exclusive of the flotilla men, who muster 3000 strong.
As yet there were no cavalry in the army of Ava. The
Marquis of Dalhousie, when he returned from Rangoon,
countermanded the orders for the advance of some of
the Madras regiments named on the receipt of General
Godwin's requisition. This is taken to indicate that the
Burmese will be more easily overcome that it was at
first anticipated.

Captain Tarleton had been superseded in the
command of the steam flotilla by Captain Shadwell of the
Sphynx.

Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope to the 23rd of
August have been received. The news is unimportant
and consists of the usual information respecting isolated
frays with the Caffres, rebel Hottentots, and the colonists.
In one of these it is said the rebel Hottentots
used Minié rifles and conical balls, supposed to be those
captured at the Konap from the detachment of Sappers,
some time before. Military patrols continued, but no
engagements are recorded. General Cathcart was
encamped on the Ox Kraal River on the 4th of August,
preparing for the Trans-Kei expedition. He had been
joined by the cavalry. It is stated that the turn-out of
the burghers will be small. The Craddock men say
they cannot turn out if unsupported by the Graaf
Reinet men in their rear; and the Albert burghers
object that the Colesberg men will not join them. But
there had been some arrivals at the camp from Port
Elizabeth and Albany. A frontier rumour stated that
the enemy had driven off his cattle in the direction of
the sea-coasts and the forest of Bashee, burning the
grass in his rear.