the scene was still more picturesque, as the bank rises gradually till it comes to a double tier of terraces, and is then surmounted by the beautiful cluster of trees which crown St. James's-walk. Every accessible point in this direction was occupied by ladies and gentlemen of the first families in Liverpool. The north side was at this time unoccupied, and in that direction I could only catch a glimpse of the multitude peeping through the rails. To prevent the decorum of the ceremony from being interrupted by individuals passing and repassing to and from different sets of galleries, boards were erected at various places to stop the usual communication between them. The whole mass of people in the Cemetery was therefore nearly immoveable. Their numbers must have been nearer twenty thousand than fifteen thousand persons. It is impossible for me to convey to you any adequate notion of the effect of the spectacle thus exhibited to my eyes, in a spot where art and nature have combined together to produce one of the most picturesque and imposing scenes that the imagination of man can possibly conceive.

At a quarter past ten o'clock, the firing of a signal gun, which was stationed opposite the new Custom-house, gave us notice in the Cemetery that the procession had begun to move from the Town-hall. I am informed that twenty-five minutes elapsed from the time when the mutes started, to the time when the last persons in the procession left the Town-hall. The distance which the procession traversed is about two thousand yards, and its own length was nearly half a mile.

"The head of the processsion reached the Cemetery at a quarter before twelve o'clock, and at that moment the view from the gateway down Duke-street was most striking. In the centre of the street, but not occupying its entire width, a long dark column of men, plumes, horses, and carriages, was seen advancing slowly through an immense crowd

ranged in the most perfect order, and observing the deepest silence on each side of it. The turret of St. James's church, the wall skirting its yard, the windows and roofs of all the houses, were almost groaning under the weight of the spectators seated upon them. As the hearse advanced, all this vast crowd uncovered, and the dark appearance of the moving procession, and the mottled appearance of the bareheaded and immoveable multitude, which was gazing intently upon it, formed a very marked contrast to each other. A small piece of cannon, which had been previously stationed on St. James's Mount, was fired as a signal to the town, as soon as the procession began to enter the Cemetery.

"The mutes on horseback took their position one at each side of the entrance. The gentlemen of the town, instead of proceeding into the chapel, filed off to the right, breaking their lines of six, into lines of three deep, and descended without delay into the Cemetery. Part of their path ran through an arched passage or tunnel cut through the solid rock; and to a person standing on the neighbouring heights there was something very romantic and picturesque in the manner in which they alternately appeared and disappeared from view. They then proceeded to range themselves on the serpentine walks which skirt the centre grassplot, where the vault was dug for Mr. Huskisson's remains. At a distance they appeared to have grouped themselves in the shape of a diamond, a vacant space being left at the angle nearest the spectator for the bearers of the coffin to carry it to the grave.

"Whilst this arrangement was taking place in the Cemetery, the Committee and the Clergy were employed in forming along the road between the entrance of the Cemetery and the door of the chapel. The different pall-bearers then ranged themselves in order to receive the coffin and to take the pall, and as soon as they had done this, and the mourners had taken their place in the rear, the Rev. J.

Brooks, who had previously met the coffin, began to read the funeral service, and to move into the chapel. As the pall bearers and mourners passed them, the clergy and the Committee filed into the procession, and thus the funeral party entered the chapel. Immediately afterwards the gates of the Cemetery were closed, and the gentlemen who had followed the hearse filed off to the gate at the top of Hopestreet, where accommodation had been previously prepared for them.

"The chapel was arranged with the most simple and beautiful elegance for this melancholy occasion. There is on each side of it a single row of pews. These were hung with black cloth, both on the inside and on the out. So, too, was the reading-desk. It was likewise ornamented with Mr. Huskisson's escutcheon, splendidly emblazoned. The coffin having been placed on trestles under the readingdesk, the mourners took their seats in the different pews previously assigned to them. The funeral service then proceeded. When the clergyman came to that portion of it, which is usually read by the side of the grave, the parties left the chapel in nearly the same order in which they entered it. On quitting the chapel, which is only visible from a small part of the Cemetery, you face the dell in which it is situate, and look down upon it from a precipitous and isolated projection of rocks several yards high. The cortège, having ranged itself on the brink of this rock, became an object of intense interest to such spectators as could command a view of it. After the pause of a few moments, it was again put in motion, and winded slowly down the serpentine tunnel through which the gentlemen of the town had previously "wound in solemn march their long array." At the same moment the gentlemen who had followed the hearse obtained admission into the north side of the Cemetery, and thus all its four sides were crowned with a living mass of anxious spectators.

"As the body was proceeding from the chapel to the grave, the weather, which had been most unfavourable during the whole of the morning, suddenly changed, and a bright gleam of sunshine flung its radiance over the moving train. In a few minutes it reached the vault. As the bearers left the walks and entered upon the turf of the grass-plots, the gentlemen extended their line and filled up the space in the walks which they had previously left vacant. At that moment, the head of every man in the immense assemblage collected in and about the cemetery was uncovered, as if by general consent. There was a moral sublimity in the spectacle, which all who were present felt, but which I am afraid is not communicable to those who were absent. I have seen more than one public funeral, and I know something of the gorgeous pageantry so lavishly displayed in the burials of our Monarchs; but though I saw the ashes of Grattan and Canning deposited in one of the most august of Christian temples amid the vain regrets of men the most distinguished for rank, talent, and genius, and though the interment of Royalty takes hold upon the imagination from its necessary connection with the most sumptuous display of human pomp and greatness, I never witnessed any spectacle so impressive as the appearance of this vast multitude, standing erect under the open canopy of Heaven, and joining in one spontaneous tribute of respect to the memory of their late Representative. All eyes were then turned upon the vault, and Mr. Brooks proceeded to the conclusion of the service for the dead, amid the deep attention of his hearers, and the uncontrollable emotion of some of the mourners. At a quarter past one o'clock the melancholy ceremony was brought to a close, and another signal gun was fired to communicate the tidings to the people in the town"

If the circumstances of Mr. Huskisson's death were such as to excite in an unusual degree the feelings of the Public, the posture of affairs at the moment when his career was so suddenly terminated, tended greatly to enhance the measure of the calamity, in the eyes of all thinking people ; and heavily and mournfully as his loss pressed upon the nation, in the first hour of grief and horror, it may safely be asserted, that it was still more heavily and mournfully felt, when the events which ensued upon the meeting of Parliament produced the resignation of the Duke of Wellington.

It is probable that in the arrangements for the new Government, Mr. Huskisson would have filled an important station; and with all the respect which is justly due to the talents, and with all the confidence which is placed in the intentions, of the present Administration, it is impossible not to feel-not to see daily and hourly-that the absence of the long practical experience and consummate abilities of Mr. Huskisson has left a vacancy which we vainly seek to supply with any living statesman. It may be, perhaps, true, that there are many who possess some one or other of his various acquirements, and that the same portion of knowledge and intelligence still survives, diffused through Parliament; but where shall we hope to find the individual who combines within himself all the various qualities by which he was so extraordinarily distinguished-a genius for