Sir William Gull were present at the funeral. The members of the royal family and the principal members of the Corps Diplomatique and of the aristocracy have visited Camden House to evince their sympathy for the Empress.

The service was over by a quarter to one, having lasted quite an hour and a quarter. There was no return procession, but the way was kept clear till all who chose returned to Camden Place. The Prince Imperial was to hold a levée, as a fitting acknowledgment to those who had come so far to honour his father's grave. It was held first in the large drawing-room of Camden Place, and the ground floor of the house was soon filled by Imperialists of rank. When these had paid their respects, the great mass of the people who still crowded the walks and grounds-there was a little empire of perhaps 2000 Frenchmen within the precincts of Camden Place-were formed on the edge of the grass, beginning at right and left at the hall-door, continuing round both sides of the gravel sweep and to the lodge-gate, where the ranks of people met. The Prince, now attended by his father's household, the Duc de Cambacérès showing the way as Grand Chamberlain, walked along the line with Prince Napoleon and the rest. Directly he had passed the hall-door every hat was taken off, and he bore his part with dignity and selfpossession. Shaking hands with some and bowing to others, he passed along in silence. Close to the hall-door, at the end of this imperial progress, was posted the deputation of fifty ouvriers, bearing their flag. The spokesman of these said a few words to the Prince; just above was hanging the tricolour, and, as the ouvrier ended his speech with a "Vive Napoléon IV.!" the shout was caught up on all sides, the crowd rushed towards the group of Princes, and Napoleon IV. would have been literally carried off his legs by the loyalty of his new subjects if a way to the hall-door had not been immediately cleared by the desperate efforts of his suite. At the first shout the Prince put up his hand, but it was of no use, and for five minutes after he had entered the house there were enthusiastic cries of "Vive Napoléon IV. !" "Vive l'Empéreur !" "Vive l'Impératrice!" ending with a hearty "Vive l'Angleterre !"

The most perfect order and quietude were observed by the multitude throughout the route, and within an hour some thousands of the visitors had left Chiselhurst. Throughout the day there was not the slightest demonstration of any feeling other than those of sympathy or curiosity, and the police were of opinion that there were among the vast numbers assembled no elements of disturbance.

In Paris the news of Napoleon's death was received with profound indifference, and not a single shop was closed on the day of the funeral.

The following are the terms in which the event was announced in the Journal Officiel of the French Republic:- "Napoléon III. est mort hier, 9 Janvier, à Chiselhurst." The above appeared in the impression of January 11, no notice of the event having previously been taken by the official organ.

The Paris correspondent of the Times writes, on January 11, as follows, and his report is borne out by other testimony:

"One wandered about bewildered by the absence of any sign to denote that impressionable Paris was in possession of any fresh topic of common interest and talk. There could scarcely have been less sensation if it had been the Emperor of China whose death was just reported, instead of a Sovereign whose name, for good or evil, had been during twenty years ever in the mouths of these very Parisians, and whose goings in and out among them they had watched daily with eager eyes."

The following passage from a private letter dated Paris, July 8, 1821, attached to an obituary notice of the First Napoleon in the Gentleman's Magazine of that time (part ii. p. 87), suggests a curious analogy :

"Never has there been a more striking instance of the insubstantiality and worthlessness of popular affection than the effect (or, rather, no effect) produced by the account of Bonaparte's death here. The people who, but a few years back, either trembled before him in fear or hailed his appearance with shouts of enthusiasm, now listen to the narrative of his death with an absence of emotion nearly amounting to complete apathy; they even scarcely take the trouble of expressing their surprise on the occasion; and the principal and almost only remark on the circumstance is that he should not have gone to die at St. Helena, but ought to have died, as he lived, an Emperor, at Waterloo."

13. TRADES' UNION CONGRESS.-The sittings of the Fifth Annual Trades' Union Congress were commenced at noon in the new Assembly-Rooms, Leeds. A hundred and thirty delegates represented various trades and societies from all parts. After the formal matters had been disposed of, Mr. Howell read the report of the Parliamentary committee, which stated that the year just closed marked an era in the history of trades' unionism. It proceeded to detail at great length the proceedings of the committee. Foremost amongst these (says the report) must be named the agitation that has taken place among the agricultural labourers for better pay and more definite hours of work. Starting at Leamington early in the year, the movement has spread throughout nearly the whole of the agricultural districts, and vast organizations have arisen, which will greatly contribute to the emancipation of the English peasantry from the feudalism still attaching to the Land Laws and the social life. connected with the soil. The nine-hour movement, which originated with building trades in London in 1859, had sunk into a state of lethargy until the engineers of Sunderland and Newcastle gave it fresh life, and secured their great victory in the autumn of last year. This was soon followed by an active agitation on the part of the engineers all over the country, and January of 1872 opened with a general concession of the nine-hour day in all the leading engineering establishments of the kingdom. The building trades of London followed with a similar demand, and, after a severe struggle, won.

The nine-hour day now bids fair to become general all over the country. The bakers, whose long hours and short pay have often been the theme of philanthropic sentiment, have eagerly and earnestly taken in hand their own work, the result being that in many places they have obtained the concession of a better-defined day together with a substantial rise in wages. Your committee have seen with much pleasure the great growth of trades' unionism during the year; the increase of members has been unprecedented. With regard to the Mines Regulation Act, the committee state that that great measure has now become law; and, referring to the Arbitration Act, 1872, they say that no more important Act passed the Legislature last session, if the provisions of the Act be put into operation, and conscientiously and fairly worked out; for by its provisions all questions affecting labour can be adjusted-and the Masters' and Servants' Act, 1867, can be rendered inoperative as far as criminal prosecutions are concerned. The report then details the proceedings of the committee on the Factories' Nine Hours Bill and the Masters' and Servants' Wages Bill, Workmen and Servants' Compensation for Injuries Bill, and the Criminal Law Amendment Acts. Appended to the report was a paper on the Criminal Law Amendment Act and other laws affecting labour, prepared by Mr. Henry Crompton, barrister-at-law. Mr. Crompton sketched the grievances which trades' unions suffer, and offered suggestions for a scheme of practical reform upon the subject.

20. MESSRS. ONSLOW AND WHALLEY IN THE TICHBORNE CASE.A charge of contempt of Court preferred against Mr. Guildford Onslow, M.P., and Mr. Whalley, M.P., in reference to speeches made by them at meetings held at St. James's Hall in December, to raise funds for the defence of the claimant to the Tichborne estates, was heard in the Court of Queen's Bench. Both the hon. gentlemen were in attendance.

On the part of Mr. Onslow, Sir John Karslake expressed his client's unfeigned regret that he had been betrayed into the course complained of, and for which he desired to make the amplest apology. He also made an unconditional undertaking that he would not in future attend any such meetings as those recently convened at St. James's Hall.

Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., then, on behalf of Mr. Whalley, argued that that gentleman entirely disclaimed any intention of prejudicing the forthcoming trial, and that he had acted from a sense of public duty, and after taking the sense of his constituents at Peterborough. The indirect effect of the speeches made might, no doubt, be to prejudice the trial of the claimant; but the direct purpose of the speakers was to raise funds for the claimant's defence. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., on the part of the Crown, read to the Court extracts from the speeches of both honourable members, in order to show that the Crown had only discharged its duty in asking that they might be punished for contempt.

The Lord Chief Justice, after conferring with the other judges,

addressed the defendants on the enormity of their offence, and said that the Court was unanimous in thinking that a contempt had been committed. As both defendants had, however, by their counsel offered a full apology for their conduct, and promised not to repeat it, the sentence would be only a very moderate pecuniary penalty. His lordship then ordered each of them to pay a fine of 1007., adding that in their case it would not be necessary to inflict the usual sentence of imprisonment until the fine should have been paid.

On the following day the Lord Chief Justice, when he entered the Court, said he was desirous of saying a word with reference to this case, because he found an impression had gone forth that in remitting that part of the judgment which provided that until the amount of the fine was paid the parties guilty of the contempt should stand committed, he was supposed to have done it in consequence of his anticipating some difficulty with reference to the imprisonment of members of Parliament, from some privilege they might possess as members of the Legislature. It was an entire mistake to suppose so. Imprisonment was only pronounced in these cases as a means of insuring the payment of the fine, and he was reminded at the time by his learned brother, Mr. Justice Blackburn, that the payment of a fine might be enforced without having recourse to imprisonment; and it occurred to him at once that unless it was necessary, as part of the judgment, that the defendants should be imprisoned till the fine was paid, it was useless to impose the condition, as, looking to the position in society of the defendants, their ability to pay, and the means that existed of enforcing the fines, there was no necessity of having recourse to the alternative. It was on that ground alone that that part of the judg ment was recalled or removed. He intended to intimate at the time, and he thought he had done it in the judgment that was pronounced with the full concurrence of the other members of the Bench, that if there had not been perfect submission by the defendants to the Court, and the fullest and most positive assurance that there would be no renewal of the offence in question, the Court would have thought it their duty to have added the punishment of imprisonment to that of the pecuniary fine imposed. The possibility of coming into collision with the House of Commons did not appear to them to be a thing that they could possibly believe would ever occur, for he was quite sure the House of Commons would not desire to interpose the privilege of its members in the way of preventing punishment by imprisonment, if necessary, for contempt in the administration of justice in that Court.

The Claimant addressed a large meeting at Brighton on January 21, when he stated it to be his intention to petition Parliament that Lord Chief Justice Cockburn should not preside at the approaching trial.

On their Lordships taking their seats in Court on January 22, the Lord Chief Justice, addressing the Attorney-General, said:

"Seeing you in your place, Mr. Attorney-General, I desire, on the part of my learned brothers and myself, to place in your hands, as the representative of the profession, and the head of it, certain newspapers which I have received this morning, and which contain an account of a public meeting held in the matter of the Tichborne trial in the public assembly-rooms of Brighton, with reference to the course the Court took, and the sentence pronounced on Monday last. If the report of the proceedings is correct, and it seems to be the same in the different newspapers I hold in my hand, the authority of this Court has been set at utter defiance, and reflections made on the conduct of the judges who constituted it, which if true cannot be looked upon in any other light than a gross aggravation of the contempt of this Court in commenting on matters to come under our consideration in the approaching trial. We cannot on mere newspaper reports take any step in the matter, but we think we have a right to claim from you, as the head of the profession, that you shall cause steps to be taken to ascertain whether the reports so contained in these newspapers are correct reports of what took place at the meeting in question, and if so, that you shall take the proper steps to bring the matter before the Court."

In pursuance of these remarks proceedings were taken against the Claimant himself, and a Mr. G. D. Skipworth, of Caistor, near Leicester, a barrister who had made himself prominent at Brighton and elsewhere. The charge was heard on the 29th, and the accused defended themselves-the Claimant with conspicuous ability and moderation. Mr. Skipworth received a sentence of 5007. fine and three months' imprisonment; the Claimant was discharged on giving security to be of good behaviour for three months.

22. WRECK OF THE "NORTHFLEET."-A terrible accident has occurred off Dungeness, on the south coast of Kent, by which a large outward-bound emigrant-ship, with more than 300 human beings, was sent to the bottom of the sea. The "Northfleet" was a fine old ship of 940 tons, built some years ago, at a cost of 25,0007., at Northfleet, near Gravesend. She was originally built for Mr. Dent's China trade, afterwards became the property of Mr. Duncan Dunbar, and at his death was sold to Messrs. John Patton, jun., and Co., of Liverpool and London, of whom she was lately chartered by the firm of Edwin Clark, Punchard, and Co., of Victoria-street, Westminster, contractors for the Tasmanian Main Line Railway, to convey 350 railway labourers, with a very few women and children under twelve years of age, to Hobart Town.

The "Northfleet" left the East India Docks on Friday, the 17th ult., with her full complement of passengers, the officers and crew numbering about forty, and completing a living freight of about 400 persons. There were not more than 450 tons of cargo on board, chiefly iron rails and railway material, which was stowed in the lower hold, the entire range of the ship between decks having been fitted up for passengers. Almost at the moment of the ship