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S. Stark, A. R. Taylor, F. W. McMaster, Thomas Taylor, C. R. Bryce, W. K. Bachman, J. G. Gibbes, B. W. Means. Next came the family and connections, among whom we recognized the venerable form of Judge King, of Charleston, and Gen. Waddy Thompson, of Greenville; then the physi cians, Drs. Trez.evant and Gibbes; then the servants; then the trustees, faculty, and students of the college; next the citizens, followed by a long line of carriages. When the procession reached Trinity Church, al ready a large number of persons had there assembled, and it was utterly impossible that all could be accommodated. Not only were the seats occupied, but the aisles were filled by persons standing. The solemn service was performed by the Rev. Mr. Shand. The whole ceremony was a pro foundly impressive one. The beautiful and touching hymn ' I would not live alway,' was appropriately selected. On no occa sion could it have been sung with more of solemnity, because of the peculiar propriety

of the application. It was a requiem over one whose earthly career had been brilliant and illustrious. There was none of his great compeers who, in the combination of burn ing eloquence, cultivated and refined appre ciation, and eloquence of diction, was his equal. He had lived a life much beyond that allotted to man. He was loved, honored and admired by those who knew him, and honored and admired by those to whom his name only was familiar. Disease had inca pacitated him for further usefulness as a public man, affliction had blasted his nearest and dearest domestic ties, and religion had allured him from life and smoothed his path to the grave. The requiem fell upon the ear of all who heard it with solemn and soothing symphony, for they felt that life's battle was over with the wearied warrior and the boon of peaceful repose had been granted him. After the ceremony, the body was then interred in the family burying-ground, where rest also his two wives and his daughter."

AT PETTY SESSIONS. By Edwako Porr11t.

ONE of the smaller towns is the place at which to see the English county magistrates at work. Such a town is not large enough to have a borough police force and a bench of borough magistrates. It is consequently policed by the county con stabulary, and summary justice is adminis tered by the county magistrates. 'In a town of this character the county magistrates meet once a week or once a fortnight in what are known as petty sessions, and when so assembled deal with offenders under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, and act as a court of first instance in respect to graver charges which have to be determined at quarter sessions or assizes.

These duties in petty sessions are now the only important ones left to the coun ty magistrates; for in recent years the county magistrates have been deprived of some of the functions which were ex clusively theirs, before democracy became supreme in all departments of English local government. Until 1888, the local government of counties was in the hands of the magistrates. They met then in quarter sessions to administer all the civil affairs of the county. They had charge of the county jails, of the insane asylums, of the county police force, and of the main roads and county bridges; and in their hands was all the official" patronage con