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the public papers that so far from the last solemn 

 rites to the departed being conducted in that quiet 

 and unostentatious manner which our Society has 

 ever held to be in accordance with the simplicity of 

 the Gospel, and which we believe would have suited 

 best with the feelings of the deceased philosopher, 

 pomp and pageantry, and the outward semblances of 

 sorrow, were made to follow the remains of the highly- 

 gifted, yet simple-minded man. ' The body,' sa>-s one 

 of the papers, ' lay in state in the Town Hall, which 

 was hung with black cloth, and numbers of persons 

 came to view the coffin.' Then follows a detailed 

 account of the long train of carriages, mourning 

 coaches and mutes, and the array of plumed horses 

 and craped mourners and supporters of the pall that 

 attended an unassuming Quaker to his last resting 

 place. Would the proofs of grief have been less sincere, 

 the respect intended to be shown less real, had those 

 who took upon them the conduct of this funeral 

 arranged it in some degree in accordance with the 

 views of the deceased ? It is to us a serious thing, 

 and an instance of which we do not recollect a pre- 

 cedent, that the ashes of a man, who, through a long 

 life, supported certain important principles, should be 

 made to participate in their violation. We iiear that 

 the nearest relatives of the deceased, who were mem- 

 bers of our Society, objected strongly against the 

 pompous ceremonial ; and we are glad to find that 

 some of the Friends of Manchester Meeting signed 

 and forwarded a strong protest to the executors on 

 the subject, and that they have likewise made a public 

 avowal of their objections in one of the Manchester 

 papers. We understand that the so-called Church of 

 England burial service was read over the remains, and 

 whilst we are very far from desiring in any wa)' to 

 judge our brethren, and can readily sympathise with 

 their desire to show respect to one so honoured and 



