Masonic Funeral At Hartlepool.

MASONIC FUNERAL AT HARTLEPOOL .

The remains of Bro . Dr . T . E . Stamp , one of the oldest and most , respected medical practitioners in Hartlepool , who died rather suddenly on Sunday morning 12 th ult ., were interred at the cemetery of the town , with Masonic honours .

Literature, Science, Music, Drama, And The Fine Arts.

LITERATURE , SCIENCE , MUSIC , DRAMA , AND THE FINE ARTS .

Dr . James Hunt , who kept an establishment for the cure of stammering , but was not so well known as President of a society called the Anthropological Society , died lately . He had taken his usual part in agitating in the Biological Section at the meeting of the British Association at Exeter , but on this occasion with such ill-success as was attended with great

excitement on his part . On going into the street he fell down—as some supposed from the effects of sunstrokeand became delirious . He was with difficulty removed to his home , where he died within a few days . Sir Titus Salt , the new baronet , is a great patron of artists , particularly of Thomas Milnes , the sculptor , of whom he has lately commissioned the four lions ,

originally designed for the Nelson Column at the request of Lord John Manners . The Altona police have ordered that no female singer under twenty-one shall appear on tho stage . Figaro reports the establishment of an English theatre in Paris where the works of Shakspere will be performed .

AJIEEICAU ExGLisir . —The Netu York Sim states that Mr . Ripley , of the Tribune , has lately " interviewed with Mr . Carlyle . " It is said , with what truth we know not , that the Emperor of the French whiled away his sick hours in finishing his " Life of Cffisar . " The Orchestra states that Mclme . Pafcti , who had been

singing at Homburg , has lost her voice , and the opera house has had to be closed in consequence . A French provincial paper states that a German astronomer has just written a " pamphlet" of 2 , 000 pages to

prove that we shall shortly have a second moon . "The Odes and Epodes of Horace , " translated into rhymeless metres , with introduction and commentaries by Lord Lytton , will shortly be published . Mr . Dymond , who has been connected with the Morning Star from its commencement , is about to retire from that paper , with the intention of settling in

Canada . It is again on the tapis to light up all the street lamps in Edinburgh by one coup from an electric battery . Mr . Hart , an experienced electrician , has indicated the practicability of the scheme . Mr . Tom Hood is engaged on a new novel , tho right of publishing which has been secured by the proprietors

of the South London Fress , and it will shortly be commenced in that journal . A recent invention in Newark is calculated to work a great change in photography . By it all kinds of photographs are taken under the gaslight as successfully as by the aid of the brightest sun . Listz is engaged at the present time on three works ,

viz ., his cantata for the anniversary of Beethoven's birth , an oratorio entitled " St . Stanislaus , " and another " The baptism of fire ancl water . " The post of Mr . Thos . Watts , the late Superintendent of the Printed Book Department of the British Museuum , will probably bo conferred upon Mr . Bulleu , the present Superintendent of the Reading Room

. The New York Herald understands there is a new and remarkable invention , an electric system of self-telegraphing power , which will supply eight or ten times the facilities of telegraphic communication over the present system .

Literature, Science, Music, Drama, And The Fine Arts.

A curious new press regulation has just been issued at St . Petcrsburgh . The Minister of the Interior forbids newspapers to publish any extracts from literary periodicals , on the ground that the latter often contain matter which , though it may be harmless when read b y educated persons , is very prejudicial to the masses . The New York Vigaro informs us that Miss Elise Holt

, late of the Strand Theatre , finding the criticism in the San Francisco News Letter unsatisfactory , armed herself with a cow-bide , and called four times at the office for the purpose of administering a thrashing to Mr . Marriott , the editor . Hitherto Mr . Marriott ' has avoided an encounter .

An explosive compound termed "lithofracteur" has been invented by M . Kreps , of Dentz , and its effects are now being tested in a large scale at Cologne . The nature of the composition is kept a profound secret , but it is stated to have greater exolosrve power than nitroglycerine , small production of smoke , and freedom from danger of exploding during transport .

Prince Napoleon is the head o ? the commission charged by the present Emperor to publish the correspondence of the first Napoleon , with , adds the Daily News , dircretionary powers to suppress everything in it of a nature to drag the hero of the Napoleonic legend from his pedestal . It was in connection with this work that the Prince lately visited afresh the scene of the campaign of

1 S 15 . The ( American ) Citizen says : — " At Niblo ' s Gardens ' Formosa' is in active preparation . The London Athenceum objects to the new play , on the ground that it is the first attempt to introduce an English ' Traviata' on the English stage . This objection will not be of much weight with our playgoers . In factthe accusation of

, immorality will prove rather a recommendation with certain classes . " The New York Star has these personals on the New York press : —Mr . Bennett is the tallest editor , Mr . Dana the fattest , Mr . Greeley the slouchiest , Mr . Erastus Brooks the solemest , Mr . Tilton the Shanks marest , Mr .

De Nyse the shortest , Mr . Van Buren the reddest , Mr . Rosevelt the politest , Mr . Oakey Hall the wittiest , Mr . Winter the touchiest , Mrs . Stanton the prettiest , Miss Anthony the prettiest , Mrs . Sheppard tho prettiest , Elenora Kirk the prettiest , Nellie Hutchinson the prettiest . Mr . Thomas John Penn , the last descendant of the

celebrated Penn family , was buried in tho churchyard of Stoke Pogis last week . It is just a century since the Penns commenced their residence at Stoke , the estate , on the death of Lady Cobham in 17 G 9 , having been purchased from her executors by the Hon . Thomas Penn , Lord Proprietary of Pennsylvania . The late Mr . Penn was 64 years of age . He sold the original painting by

West of " Penn Treaty with the Indians . " The picture was bought by Mr . Catlin , and is now in the town hall of Philadelphia . Three female doctors—one French , one Russian , and the other American—have just passed successful examinations before the Paris Faculty of Medicine . The American lady was the most brilliant of alland

asto-, nished her judges by her profound knowledge of anatomy dissection , pathology , and hospital practice . At the Lyons University , last week , a Mdlle . Carohne Sibert , of Vienne on the Rhone , took a Bachelor of Arts degree . Out of a list of 22 candidates , this young lady came out first in French and Latin compostion , and second in Latin translation

Masonic Life Boat Fund.

MASONIC LIFE BOAT FUND .

At the meeting of the Prov . G . L . of Cumberland and Westmoreland , held on the 8 th inst ., at Maryport , the sum of £ 5 was voted to the above fund .