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they were most deeply affected, and it was not without
some ditticulty that they were induced to quit the vault.
Upon the slab covering the tomb in which the coffin was
deposited, was placed the subjoined inscription, surmounted
by the arms of the Orleans family and the
royal crown of France:—

                Depositiæ jacent
                  Sub hoc lapide,
                Donec in patriam
             Avitos inter cineres,
      Deo adjuvante, transferantur
                     Reliquæ
        LUDOVICI PHILIPPI PRIMI,
               Francorum Regis,
                Die Augusti xxvi.
         Anno Domini MDCCCL.
                    Ã†tatis 76.
             Requiescat in pace.

The following inscription was engraved upon a silver
plate on the lid of the coffin:—

                   LOUIS PHILIPPE PREMIER
                         Roi des Français,
                             Né à Paris
                      Le 6 Octobre, 1773;
                        Mort à Claremont
             (Comté de Surrey, Angleterre),
                      Le 26 Août, 1850.

The Will of the late Sir Robert Peel contains a codicil,
dated the 24th of March 1849, bequeathing to Lord
Mahon and Mr. Cardwell, as trustees, all the unpublished
letters, papers, and documents, either of a private
or public nature, in his possession at the time of his
decease. The following extract explains the testator's
views, and is strongly characteristic of the lamented
statesman;—" Considering that the collection of letters
and papers referred to in this codicil includes the whole
of my confidential correspondence for a period extending
from the year 1812 to the time of my decease, that
during a considerable portion of that period I was employed
in the service of the crown, and that when not
so employed I took an active part in Parliamentary
business, it is highly probable that much of that correspondence
will be interesting, and calculated to throw
light upon the conduct and character of public men and
upon the political events of the timeI give to my trustees
full discretion with respect to the selection for publication
of any portion of that correspondence; I leave
it to them to decide on the period and on the mode of
publication, in the full assurance that they will so exercise
the discretion given to them, that no honourable
confidence shall be betrayed, no private feelings be
unnecessarily wounded, and no public interest injuriously
affected, in consequence of premature or indiscreet
publication. I am especially anxious that no portion of
my correspondence with Her Majesty Queen Victoria,
or with his Royal Highness Prince Albert, should be
made public use of during the life of either, without
previous communication with parties who may be
enabled to ascertain that there is no objection whatever
on the part of either to the use proposed to be made of
such correspondence. I authorise my trustees to sell or
dispose of the copyright of any of the said documents,
if the case in which publication should be determined
on by the trustees should be one in which
pecuniary compensation for such copyright could be
fairly and equitably made, not meaning, however, in
any way to fetter their discretion in respect of the giving
of gratuitous access to the document whenever they
think such access advisable. In the case that any
moneys should arise from the publication of any of the
said letters, papers, and documents, I authorise the said
trustees to apply the said moneys in paying the costs and
charges of such publication as far as the trustees may be
justly liable for such costs and charges, or other the
expenses attending the execution of the trusts hereby
reposed in them, and to apply the residue to the assistance
or relief of deserving persons being in need of such
assistance or relief, engaged, or who have been engaged
in pursuits of art, literature, or science; or to apply such
residue, or any part of it, in aid of institutions established
for the relief or benefit of artists, or literary and scientific
persons: and my said trustees shall not be accountable
to any persons whomsoever for the application of any
such moneys. With these views, it is my desire that
the trustees shall, with all convenient speed after my
decease collect together all the said letters, papers, and
documents, and subject the same to such examination
as they in their uncontrolled discretion shall think fit.
I give them the fullest power to destroy such parts
thereof as they shall think proper, and to provide for the
immediate care and custody and ultimate disposition of
all or any part of the said letters, papers, and documents."

On the 4th instant, three foreigners, one of whom
wore long moustachios, presented themselves at the
brewery of Messrs. Barclay and Co. for the purpose of
inspecting the establishment. According to the regular
practice of visitors, they were requested to sign their
names in a book in the office, after which they crossed
the yard with one of the clerks. On inspecting the
visitors' book, the clerks discovered that one of the
visitors was no other than General Haynau, the late
Commander of the Austrian forces during the Hungarian
war. It became known all over the brewery in less
than two minutes, and before the General and his companions
had crossed the yard, nearly all the labourers
and draymen were out, with brooms and dirt, shouting
out "Down with the Austrian butcher," and other
epithets of rather an alarming nature to the General.
He was soon covered with dirt, and perceiving some of
the men about to attack him, ran into the street to
Bankside, followed by a large mob, consisting of the
brewers' men, coal-heavers, and others armed with all
sorts of weapons, with which they belaboured the
General. He ran along Bankside until he came to the
George public-house, when, forcing the doors open, he
rushed in and proceeded upstairs into one of the bedrooms,
to the astonishment of the landlady, who soon
discovered his name and the reason of his entering her
house. The furious mob rushed in after him, threatening
to do for the "Austrian butcher," but fortunately
for him the house was very old fashioned, and contained a
vast number of doors, which were all forced open except
that of the room in which the General was concealed.
The mob increased at that time to several hundreds, and
the landlady became alarmed about her own property
as well as the General's life. She accordingly despatched
a messenger to the Southwark police-station, and in a
short time a party arrived, aud with great difficulty
dispersed the mob and got the General out of the house.
A police galley was at the wharf at the time, into which
he was taken and rowed towards Somerset House amidst
the shouts and execrations of the mob. At Waterloo
Bridge a cab was procured, and he was conveyed to
Morley's Hotel. On the evening of the 6th, he left
London for the Continent.

The Council of the Queen's College, Cork, has formally
rescinded their former act, Suspending M. de Vericour
in consequence of the work published by him; M. de
Vericour having announced that he had already given
directions for the alteration of the titlepage of his work,
so as to convey that it was written by him as "Professor
of Modern Languages," and not in his capacity as
Professor to the Queen's College. The council also
resolved that any professor should be at liberty to publish
any work so that he did not in any way connect its
publication with his collegiate duties and position.

Lord Viscount Feilding, who took a leading part in
the proceedings of the recent Gorham meeting in St.
Martin's Hall in July last, has gone over to the Church
of Rome. The Rev. Eyre Stewart Bathurst, Rector of
Kibworth in Leicestershire, and formerly Fellow of
Merton College, Oxford, and the Rev. Mr. Allies, Vicar
of Launton, have taken the same step.

Some of the Irish papers have been telling astounding
stories of apparitions of the Great Sea Serpent. A Mr.
T. Buckley, writing from Kinsale on the 11th instant,
informs the Cork Reporter that he was induced by some
friends to go to sea, in the hope of falling in with the
interesting stranger, and that he was not long kept in
suspense, for "a little to the west of the Old Head
the monster appeared." Its size, he truly avers, is
beyond all description, and the head, he adds, very like
a (bottle nose) whale. One of the party fired the usual
number of shots, but, of course, without effect.