"The body of the Duke of Wellington will therefore remain,
with the concurrence of his family, under proper guardianship,
until the Queen shall have received the formal approval of
parliament of the course which it will be the duty of her
Majesty's servants to submit to both houses upon their
re-assembling.

"As soon as possible after that approval shall have been
obtained, it is her Majesty's wish, should no unforeseen
impediment arise, that the mortal remains of the late illustrious and
venerated Commander-in-Chief should, at the public expense,
and with all the solemnity due to the greatness of the occasion,
be deposited in the cathedral church of St. Paul's, there to rest
by the side of Nelson—the greatest Military by the side of the
greatest Naval chief who ever reflected lustre upon the annals
of England.
                     "I have the honour to be,
                          "Your most obedient humble servant,
                                                                  "DERBY.
"Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, M.P."

The Earl of FALMOUTH died on the 29th of August, at his
residence in St. James's Square, in his 44th year.

Joseph ADY, the notorious writer of letters informing people
of "something to their advantage," died lately at the age of 83.

Mr. R. G. PORTER, of the Board of Trade, died at Tunbridge
Wells, on the 3rd ult.

Dr. MACGILLIVRAY, Professor of Natural History in Mariscal
College, Aberdeen, died on the 5th inst.

Mr. Isaac WILSON, of Bath, a man of well-known mechanical
genius, died in that city on the 30th ult.

Mr. JOHN CAMDEN NEILD, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-law,
has died at the age of 72, leaving his whole fortune, of about half
a million sterling, to the Queen. He was of very eccentric and
penurious habits. At the death of his father, thirty years since,
he came into possession of about £250,000 which had not been
touched up to the period of his death. He was never known to
wear a great coat. He usually dressed in a blue coat, with
metal buttons, which he prohibited being brushed, as it would
takeoff the nap and deteriorate its value. He held considerable
landed property in Kent and in Bucks, and was always happy
to receive an invitation from his tenantry to visit them; which
he occasionally did, often remaining a month at a time, and he
was thus enabled to add to his savings. His appearance and
manners led strangers to imagine that he was on the lowest
verge of penury, and their compassion was excited in his behalf,
of which many instances might be related. A few days before
his death the deceased told one of his executors that he had
made a most singular will, but as the property was his own he
had done as he pleased with it. The executors are the Keeper
of the Privy Purse for the time being (Dr. Tattan), and Mr. J.
Stevens, of Willesborough. After bequeathing a few very
trifling legacies, the deceased left the whole of his immense
fortune to "Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria;
begging her Majesty's most gracious acceptance of the same,
for her sole use and benefit, and of her heirs," &c. The property
is estimated at upwards of £500,000. For some years past Mr.
Neild has scarcely allowed himself the common necessaries and
comforts of life; and he has left a poor old housekeeper, who
was with him for more than twenty-six years, without the
smallest provision or acknowledgment for her protracted and far
from agreeable or remunerative services.

Mr. Welby pugin, the eminent architect, died at Ramsgate
on the 14th ult.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

There is intelligence from Rangoon to the 31st of
July. The troops continued in good health. The
Proserpine had made her way up the Irrawaddy nearly to
Prome, and had performed signal service in intercepting
large boats of rice intended as supplies for the
Burmese army assembling round Prome. The rest of
the news is speculative. General Godwin, it is said,
demanded 12,000 more troops before he would undertake
to march on Prome; and Lord Dalhousie, anxious
to judge for himself, was about to proceed to Rangoon .
The cost of the war, up to the 1st of July, was estimated
at £500,000. From the north-western frontier the intelligence
has some interest. In consequence of repeated
differences between Sir Colin Campbell and the Military
Board, Sir Colin had resigned the Peshawur command.
He appears to have thought the force at his
disposal too small for effectually carrying out the wishes
of the Board, who desired that he should march on
Lallpoora. The latest news from that quarter would
seem to indicate that diplomacy had precluded further
war. According to the Mofussilite of the 16th July,
it is proposed to surrender the territory to the
Momunds, for which they have been fighting, on
condition of their paying tribute for it.

India proper is in a state of profound tranquillity.
The almost unexampled quantity of rain that has fallen
has brought the indigo season to a disastrous close, and
the crops upon which the natives are dependent for
support are also said to be alarmingly damaged or
destroyed.

Madras was visited on the 16th of July with the most
destructive fire that has ever been known there. It
occurred in the immense house in Popham's Broad Way,
occupied by the firm of Messrs. Oakes, Portride, and
Co., whose extensive warerooms, with everything they
contained, have been totally destroyed.

The intelligence from the West Indies reaches the end
of August. In Jamaica complaints are still made of
commercial distress, but the proprietors seem to have
abandoned all hopes of a restoration of prosperity
through protection. Thus the Colonial Standard complains:—
"Not a single parish except Kingston, as far as
we are informed, has come forward to respond to the
appeal made to them by the committee appointed at the
meeting of the 20th of last month, to endeavour to procure
further contributions, in order to enable our delegates
to remain in England to meet the new parliament,
and act in concert with delegates who might be sent
from other colonies." The Standard suggests that one
of the causes of this apathy may be that people think
the exertions of the delegates will produce no result.
Two English brigs had arrived at Jamaica to load with
emigrants for Australia. Two distinct shocks of
earthquake were felt in Kingston on the 20th ult.; but
without injury to property or human life. The smallpox
was reported to have considerably abated in Spanish
Town. A dubious case of cholera had occasioned much
alarm. There had been a few days' heavy rain.

In Barbadoes dry weather and scorching heat had
partially destroyed the ground-crops, upon which the
labouring population principally depend for subsistence.
Native provisions were becoming scarce and dear.
Prayers for rain had been read in the churches. Some
cases of yellow fever are said to have occurred.

In St. Christopher an improvement in the weather
had given a fair prospect that the crop for the ensuing
season would turn out well. The cane fields were
assuming a healthy appearance. The crop for the past
season had been all gathered in, and amounted to 6000
hogsheads, most of which had been shipped.

In St. Lucia the heat had been intense, notwithstanding
occasional showers of rain seemed to refresh
the atmosphere. The health of the island had assumed
a very unfavourable change during the last few weeks
before the sailing of the packet. Cold, diarrhœa, and
fever were to be found in almost every house. The fever, at
first of a mild type, had assumed a most malignant
character during the last fortnight, and had dealt awful
mortality amongst the shipping, taking off, in the course
of ten days, the master and three men of one vessel, and
the second mate and one man of another. The troops
in the garrison, however, were quite healthy.

There are accounts from the Cape of Good Hope
to the 3rd of August. At the seat of war, matters had
continued in much the same state. There are accounts
of cattle-seizures, successful and frustrated, small
engagements with the Hottentots by partisans, and a
general intimation in the journals that a large belt of
frontier was still infested with predatory bands.
General Cathcart has personally led several expeditions
into the Waterkloof; using shot, shell, and rockets,
with great effect, and astonishing distant bodies of
Caffres by his fire. In one instance the Caffres were
strikingly defeated. Colonel Buller, commanding a