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might be rendered more visible to 
the spectators. ‘There was an ex- 
cellent contrivance for letting down 
the body into the grave. A bier 
rose from the oblong aperture under 
the dome, for the purpose of sup- 
porting the coflin, This bier was 
raised by invisible machinery, the 
aparatus being totally concealed. be- 
low the pavement of the church.— 
The procession departed in nearly 
the same order in which it arrived. 
_ When the duke of Clarence as- 
cended thesteps of St. Paul’s, he 
suddenly stopped, and took hold of 
the colours that were borne by the. 
Victory’s men, and after conversing 
with one of the gallant tars, he 
burst into tears.—On the entrance 
of the tattered flags within the com- 
munion rails, the prince of Wales, 
after conversing with the duke of Cla- 
rence, sent and requested they might 
be brought.as near the grave as pos- 
sible, and on observing them, al- 
though at some distance, the tears 
fell from his-royal highness. 
8th. In the afternoon, about 
three o’clock, the mansion-house oc- 
cupied by Lord Lowther, at Cot- 
tismere, near Grantham, was disco- 
vered to be on fire, occasioned by 
some defect in the flues under the 
apartment in which his lordship, the 
viscountess, and the hon. Miss Low. 
ther, usually slept; all of which 
were destroyed before the flames 
could be subdued: the rest of the 
house was fortunately preserved, 
Oth. As a young girl, named Ca- 
rey,’ was returning from the market 
of Drogheda, to her father’s house 
at Talleyesker, with bread, tea and 
sugar, she was waylaid by. some 
villains, near Mr. Davis’s lime-kilns, 
on the north.road, who dragged her 
into a field, and after debauching 
her, abused her in so shocking a 
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manner as to leave her for dead. — 
Early the following morning, as 
Mr. Davis’s man was coming to 
town to chapel, he heard the moans 
of a person in distress, and went 
into the field, where he found her 
Jying in a furrow, and nearly co- 
vered with water. Having procured 
immediate assistance, he brought 
her to his house; but she was so 
much exhausted that she could not 
give any account of the villains, She — 
_was afterwards removed to the 
house of a relative near town, and 
died the next day. A coroner’s in- 
quest was held on the body, who 
found a verdict of wilful murder 
against some person or persons un- 
known. She was not robbed of the 
articles she was carrying. 
Cambridge.—The rev. Dr. Clau- 
dius Buchanan, vice-president of 
the college of Fort William, in Ben- 
gal, has proposed a prize of 500. 
to bachelors of Jaw, masters of arts, 
and persons of superior degree of 
the university of Oxford, for the 
best work in English prose, em- 
bracing the following subjects, which 
has been accepted :—I. The proba- 
ble design of the Divine Providence 
in subjecting so large a portion of 
Asia to the British dominions,—--II. 
The duty, means, and consequences 
of translating the scriptures into the 
oriental tongues, and of promoting 
christian knowledge in Asia.—ILI. 
A. brief historic view of the progress 
of the gospel in different nations, 
since ifs first promulgation ; illus- 
trated by maps, shewing the lumi- 
nous tracts throughout the world ; 
with chronological notices of its du- 
ration, in particular places, The 
regions of Mahommedanism to be 
marked with red, and those of Pa- 
ganism with a dark colour.. 
Among the many extraordinary 
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