hours. The Bishop of Gibraltar, (the Reverend Dr. Tomlinson,) a very old friend of Sir Robert's, was now sent for to administer the last offices of the Church. On the arrival of the Prelate it was intimated to Lady Peel and the members of the family that they might now, without risk of increasing the dangerous condition of the patient, be admitted to the apartment in which he was lying. In a few moments the whole family were assembled in the presence of their beloved relative, whose exhausted condition at this time scarcely enabled him to recognise them. Lord Hardinge and Sir James Graham, of whom Sir Robert spoke repeatedly during his wanderings, were now admitted to the bedside of their dying friend, and were deeply affected. At 9 o'clock Sir Robert had become so exhausted as to be callous to all external impressions. The members of his family still remained near him, with the exception of Lady Peel, whose painfully-excited feelings rendered it absolutely necessary to remove her from the apartment. Sir Robert ceased to exist at nine minutes after 11 o'clock. Sensibility to pain had ceased some time before death, and his last moments were not disturbed by any physical suffering. After death, an examination of the body was made; when a most important fact was for the first time discovered, viz., that the fifth rib on the left side was fractured. This was the region where Sir Robert complained of suffering the greatest pain, and it was probably the seat of the mortal injury; the broken rib pressing on the lung, and producing what is tech nically known as effusion and pulmonary engorgement. It is impossible to exaggerate the feelings of profound emotion with which the intelligence of Sir Robert's death was received throughout the country. All remembrance of the political offences of his earlier career were forgotten; nothing was remembered but his great practical reforms, and the power of mind and strength of purpose which made him the leading statesman of Europe, and the master-mind of English polity. In all parts of the kingdom marks of respect, such as are usually reserved for occasions of royal ceremonial, were paid to the memory of the departed. In the House of Commons, the scene of his activity, a marked tribute of respect was paid to his memory-the House, on learning his decease, immediately adjourned without proceeding to any further business. The French Assembly gave a remarkable testimony of their appreciation, by entering, with the general consent, a minute of the fact and of their sympathetic regret on the official minutes of their sittings. The remains of Sir Robert Peel were interred at the quiet villagechurch of Drayton Basset, with little funeral pomp, but amid the respectful grief of attending thousands, and the universal sorrow of the nation. parties whatsoever, in contraventon of these orders, will be most severely punished." This order produced the most inconvenient consequences and great complaints. The provincial merchant frequently did not receive his letters until the third day after they were posted; persons sickened and died, ere their Lawang order. nearest kindred could be summoned; bills were protested from non-receipt of remittances to cover them; the Judges could not commuricate concerning criminals tried before them; the proprietors of Sunday newspapers were wellrich ruined. In short, such sere-rious and manifold inconveniences arose, that the Government were enabled to withdraw the obnoxious order amidst universal satisfaction. ་ Smáis, is at present, vis the country, and at the chef des maråk: 1 being many miestad i let ters digested in the reiting icles shall remiz moned and Inwoched anal the Moby; and that there shall be no attendance et postmasters or their clerks at the window of the postcžice on Sunday, The present practice of detaining letters addressed to the metropolis itself, when posted on Saturday, until the dispatch on Sunday, will not be disturbed, with the exception that the bags containing such letters must be closed on Saturday night; and as the mails will be transmitted on Sunday in the usual manner, it will be necessary that some person shall attend to dispatch the bags alluded to, as well as to receive or forward those bags that have arrived from other offices. "Postmasters taking upon themselves to deliver letters to any - General Post Office, August, 1850. -The instructions, No. 21, 1550, which have been in force since the 23rd of June last, relative to the Sunday postal arrange ments, are now cancelled; and the regulations laid down in the previdus instructions, No. 1, 1850, a copy of which is annexed, are to be reverted to on and from the 1st day of September next, and must be carefully observed in every particular until further orders; all modifications on points of detail being reserved for subsequent consideration.” WRECKS IN THE ICE.-Disastrous accounts have been received in the past fortnight of wrecks by the Arctic ice, which has this season floated unusually southwards into the Atlantic. Upwards of a dozen vessels have been entangled, crushed, and sent to the bottom, and it is said that more than 100 persons have perished. A ship bound from Londonderry to Quebec, with more than 80 passengers on deck, was spoken by the Oriental, from Liverpool, on the 17th April; and was supplied with water, of which her store had run short. On the 27th, the Oriental was beset by the ice, with two other vessels, and they saw the Londonderry ship similarly beset about 10 miles westward of them. For two days this vessel was seen making signals of distress, which could not possibly be answered; and then she suddenly disappeared. Afterwards, a great number of bodies were found in the ice, and fragments of wreck which showed the ship's port of departure and destination. It is believed that not a soul escaped, as portions of boats were discovered among the floating wreck. On the 29th March, the Signette, from Alloa to Quebec, saw beset a heavily-laden English brig with painted port-holes; the ice cut her down, and stove her in; the men were seen working at the pumps, in hope that assistance would reach them before they went down; but in vain-all perished. Three other vessels, names unknown, were seen to founder, after being nipped; all their crews went down with them. The Ostensible, from Liverpool to Quebec, was fixed in a field of ice five days, and was then pierced through by huge spike-like points of ice. Captain Welsh, of the brig Duke, heroically worked his ship through the icebergs, till he got at the crew of the Ostensible, and brought them safe out: the rescued crew had not left their ship 20 minutes when she went down. Among the other ships lost were the Conservator and Acorn from Liverpool, the Hibernia from Glasgow, the Collector from St. John's Newfoundland, the As trea from Weymouth, the Wilhelmina from Aberdeen, the Gossnell from Newcastle, and the Sylph from Leith: the crews of all these were saved. ANTIQUITIES AT LYMNE, THE PORTUS LEMANIS. The precise locality of the Roman portPortus Lemanis-has been matter of much discussion among the learned, though most agreed in placing it near Lymne in Romney Marsh. Recent excavations have not only determined its site, but even its dimensions, fortifications, and entrances. Some fragments of walls were known to exist, protruding above the soil, on the declivity of a hill below the medieval fortress of Lymne Castle. These remains are called Stutfall Castle. By the excavations of a few zealous antiquaries, the whole circuit of the ancient walls has been uncovered. The curtain wall is 10 or 12 feet thick, and has been flanked by at least 12 semicircular towers of great solidity and strength. The Decuman Gate has been completely uncovered; it is flanked on either side by a small round tower, the whole placed on a platform of an extraordinary extent and Cyclopean character. The stones comprising this platform and the entrance are many of them of extraordinary size, some weighing at least a ton each; many are remarkable for the lewis holes by which, with the aid of machinery, the stones were raised and lowered into their respective places. There are also no less than four postern entrances, near some of which were four sculptured stones, which appeared to have been used for other purposes previous to having been applied as corner or foundation stones. The most striking feature presented by these re mains is the positions in which the walls and towers are fund. On one side, for at least 100 yards, the entire wall has en outwards; on the opposite sute it has taken an internal direction: the towers have fallen boch inwards and outwards, and in some few spots large pieces of masonry have sunk downwards at least 10 feet. Strange as it may seem, these extensive and massive bold ings have been dislocated and removed by land-slips, but at what date cannot be guessed. From Saxon and Norman remains which have been found, it would appear that the castrum was occupied long after the Romans abandoned it. The coins hitherto discovered are chiefly of Carausius, Tetricus, Constantine, Probus, Valens, and Gratian, the latest being of Eigar. At present the area of the castrum has not been touched. ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERIES IN CALIFORNIA. - The American papers announce the discovery of vast regions of ancient ruins near San Diego, and within a day's march of the Pacific Ocean, at the head of the Gulf of California. Portions of temples, dwellings, lofty stone pyramids, (seven of these within a mile square, and massive granite rings or circalar walls round venerable trees, columns and blocks of hierogly phics-all speak of some ancient race of men now for ever gone, their history totally unknown to any of the existing families of mankind. In some points, these rains resemble the recently-discovered cities of Palenque, &c., near the Atlantic or Mexican Gulf const; in others, the ruins of set Egypt; in others, again, ements of Phoenicia. JULY. 3. RAILWAY ACCIDENT-Literpool.-A most disastrous accident harpened to a railway train at the station in Lime Street. An excursion train left the Caixeter station on the North Stafordshire Railway, for Liverpool, at an early hour. It consisted of 2 carriages, and contained about 600 people. When it arrived at Edgehill the engine was detached, and the train was dispatched down the tunnel, in charge of two of the breaksmen of the London and North Western Fallway Company, and the guard who came with it. The tunnel is a steep incline, and the duty of the three men would have been to have used their breaks, so as to keep the train under control and stop it when it emerged from the tunnel. These persons had not suficient power to control the velocity of the carriages, and the consequence was, that the train came down the tunnel at a tremendous speed, and running into the sta tion, was brought up by a collision with the stone wall which faces Lime Street. The buffers, which were once placed here, had recently been removed, so that the train ran without a check against the stone wall at the end of the line, fracturing the stones, and cutting up the flagging and paving of the station by the recoil. Fortunately no person was killed, but some fifty passengers were most severely cut and bruised. 5. ATTEMPT то ASSASSINATE LOUTS NAPOLEON.-An attempt, or what has been called so, to assassinate the President of the French Republic, at Paris, was anticipated and prevented by the 66 police. A youth named George Alfred Walker, son of a compositor, was observed waiting about the Palace, with a preoccupied air. His movements attracted the attention of the secret police. As a carriage passed, he was observed to search its interior with his eye, and to step forward, holding his hand in his bosom as if grasping something; but observing that the eye of an agent was upon him, he suddenly drew back; and then, as suddenly, he fronted the agent and gave himself into custody, with an exclamation admitting that he was waiting the opportunity to kill the President. A pistol, loaded, capped, and on full-cock, was found inside the breast of his waistcoat, and he avowed that this was to have been the weapon of death. Official inquiries have demonstrated that Walker is undoubtedly insane. 8. DEATH OF H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.-This kindly and popular prince, seventh son of George III., and uncle to Her Majesty, died this morning at Cambridge House. The following bulletin announced the event:"Cambridge House, July 8, 1850, 10 P.M. "His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, after passing a tranquil day, expired somewhat suddenly, and without suffering, at 20 minutes before 10 o'clock. FRANCIS HAWKINS, M.D. THOMAS WATSON, M.D. RICHARD BRIGHT, M.D. ROBERT KEATE, Ch. HENRY S. ILLINGWORTH, Ch. EDWARD H. HILLS, Ch.” The remains of His Royal Highness were interred at Kew Church, on the 16th. The funeral cortège left Cambridge House at 6 A.M., which early hour a large concourse at of respectable persons had assembled round the gates, and lined the road. As the procession passed through Knightsbridge, Kensington, and Hammersmith, the muffled church bells tolled minute peals, the houses were shut, and business suspended. At Kew Church, the procession was joined by H.R. H. the now Duke of Cambridge, chief mourner; H.R.H. the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, son-in-law to the deceased; and H.R.H. the Prince Albert. The burial service was read by the Rev. J. Hutchinson, domestic chaplain to his late Royal Highness. When the coffin was removed from before the altar, the widowed duchess and her daughters advanced, and attended the remains to the vault, their temporary resting place. The Duke of Wellington, Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and many other noble persons, attired in mourning, were present in the church, in token of respect to the departed Prince. The funeral ceremony was conducted by the Lord Chamberlain ; the Earl Marshal and College of Arms had no share in it, nor was Garter King-at-Arms there to proclaim the style and titles of the deceased. It is said that a mausoleum is to be erected in part of the royal grounds adjoining, to which the remains will ultimately be removed, as to a family vault. These arrangements were by the express wish of the Duke, who desired that the more imposing part of the ceremony of royal interments should be dispensed with, and that his remains should rest among his fellow-parishioners, with whom he had so long dwelt in harmony and good-will. |