royal highnesses the dukes of Cumberland, Sussex, Gloucester, and prince Leopold. Their mourning cloaks were richly embroidered, and prince Leopold wore a general's uniform. A dense mass of noblemen and gentlemen filled the body of the choir. Soon after the king was seated, the 39th and 40th psalms were sung. The dean of Windsor then read the first part of the service from the altar, and the conclusion from the right side of the vault. The performance of the psalms and anthem lasted nearly two hours, and when the anthem of "His body is buried in peace," was finished, his majesty rose from his seat, and retired by the door under the Queen's closet. After the king had retired, and at the conclusion of the service, sir George Nayler proclaimed the titles of his late majesty, and broke his wand of office into the grave. A solemn voluntary was then played by the organist; as it was concluded before the procession left the chapel, it was followed by the "Dead March in Saul," which was continued until the procession had returned into the open air. The coffin was lowered only about two feet below the aperture of the subterraneous passage; at which time the splendid pall was removed, and the state coffin exposed to view. As soon as the ceremony was over, the people of Windsor were admitted through the choir. The coffin was afterwards deposited upon the stone table of the mausoleum. In London, the lord mayor had called upon the citizens, by public notice, to show respect to the day of his late majesty's funeral and the call was not only readily and generally, but zealously and almost universally complied with;

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every shop and place of public business was closed, and in a great number of instances, the windows even of private dwellings. The streets, however, crowded with passengers during the day, partly in consequence of the cessation of all ordinary business, partly of the anxiety to witñess some part of the ceremony at Windsor, towards which numbers were seen hastening in the early part of the day. The continued tolling of the bells, especially in those quarters of the city which are thickly studded with churches, had an extremely solemn and mournful effect. The intervals of the tolling were, as regularly as possible, one minute each during the day. Sixty minute-guns were fired at the following places:-At Gravesend, from six until seven o'clock; at Purfleet from seven to eight; at Woolwich, from eight to nine; at the Tower of London, from nine to ten; at St. James's Park, from ten to eleven; and at Windsor, from eleven to twelve o'clock.

22. PRIZE-FIGHTING.-BUCKINGHAM ASSIZES.-Simon Byrne was placed at the bar, charged with feloniously killing and slaying Alexander M'Kay, on the 2nd of June, in the parish of Hartwell, by striking and beating him on the head, and knocking him down. with great force and violence to the ground. The means of death were variously stated in various counts.

George Ledbitter. I am a police-officer at Bow-street, and know the prisoner, and saw him fighting with a person who was called Sandy M'Kay, on the 2nd of June, in the neighbourhood of Hanslope. I was sent down by lord Euston to assist the commissioner of Crown lands in pre

venting the fight taking place on the Crown lands. I saw the middle part of the fight. There was a ring in which the persons were fighting. Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Storks.-I had never seen the other man till he entered the ring. I have heard him called Sandy M'Kay, or M'Kay, but not Alexander, except since the fight; but I understood Sandy to be the familiar name for Alexander.- Thomas Evans, constable of Hanslope. On the 2nd of June I was called out to assist to prevent a fight between two persons, expected to take place in the neighbourhood. I went, in consequence, to Hartwell, Northamptonshire, where I saw a vast body of people assembled, and two men fighting in a ring. I cannot say whether the prisoner was one. I had seen the other man before, and had heard him called Sandy M'Kay, and since then, Alexander; the man, whom I did not know, was called Simon Byrne. They fought in rounds. In the last three or four rounds of the fight, M'Kay was very much beat. In the last round M'Kay was knocked or fell down; but I did not see exactly what occasioned it. He was taken to the Wat's Arms, where I saw him, as well as the surgeon, and men whom I heard called Thomas Cribb and George Cooper. I saw him afterwards in bed.-Richard Monday, barber at Hanslope.-I saw two men fighting at Hanslope, on the 2nd of June. One of them was called Simon Byrne, and the other Sandy M'Kay, whom I believe I had seen the night before. I cannot swear to the prisoner as being one of them Their hair was short. I cut M'Kay's hair short three or four hours before the fight.

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afterwards saw the body of the man whose hair I had cut It had a good many bruises about the shoulders. He had a mark of a name on his right arm. It was "Alex. M'Kay." It seemed to have been done many years, and was what is called gunpowder. It was on his naked arm.- John Field. I live at Sherrington, and was at the fight. One of the men who was fighting was called Simon Byrne, the other Sandy M'Kay. I saw blows struck, and blood shed. I saw several rounds fought. In the last three or four rounds, M'Kay seemed to have his face cut a good deal. In the last round I saw him fall from a blow, as I thought, given by the other. He did not fall backwards, but rather sideways. His hands seemed to drop, when he received the blow; they were "well up" before. I saw the prisoner about a week after the fight, at Newport.-Benjamin Wellford.-I saw the fight on the 2nd of June. One of the men was styled Simon Byrne, the other M'Kay; the prisoner was one. I suppose I was about thirty yards from the fighters. There were many hundreds of people at the fight, and, perhaps, thousands. I had business that way, and thought I might as well go and see it. I have been at a fight before. Mr. Joseph Heygate, surgeon at Hanslope.-I saw the fight, and heard the fighters called Simon Byrne and Alexander M'Kay. They were occasionally knocked down. When the fight was over, I went up to M'Kay, and found him in an insensible state. I bled him on the field, and had him conveyed, in a kind of break, to the Wat's Arms, whither I accompanied him. The insensibility was caused by some