MiurAHY Fcjnerai/ — Tlig lemains of Uiquhait Cnspe, late soi geant in No. 7, orP.iinell company, of the Auckland Militia, wcie inteiiecl yesteulay afternoon, with the imhtaiy houoius clue to the rank he boie as a non commiSbioned officer. The funeial inocession left his lesidence, Yoik-street, Parnell, nt about five o'clock. It was headed by a flung paity of foiutcen, with arms icveised, followed by the Rifle Band o£ 24 peifoimers, under Mi Beale, playing a funeral maich. The coffin was borne by members of the Painell company, and the pall w.is cat lied by foiu sergeant? On the pall weiethe aocoutiements of the deceased, and the coflin was followed by Ins fuends and a good mustu of the Paiuell company. >Tc\t followed Seigeant-Major Ilealey , Quaitei-Mastei Seigeants Cottinghain and Chapman, and thutj one seigeants of the militia fence. The rear was bi ought up by a laige number of office! s, amongst whom we noticed Ensi<;us Nation, Smith, Wjnn, McClond, Heion, Not ton, and Watt ; Lieutenants Gdfillan, Jackson, Holding, Hnyne, Stewart, a.n,d Hfobbg j Captains &Tacfa]lni]c, Djnntnjj, McDonne], and C>irr, Captain and Adjutant Bockliun, Colonel Nation, and seveial othen On the amval of the piocession at the Congregational giave yaid, spivice was peifoimed by the Rev. T. llamer, ministei of the Albeit-stieet ConglLgational Clm-.ch, and at the clo-,0 tho -eoffln was loueied into the giouiul, arid a volley filed over tho giave The men foil m, the ofßceis lesumed tlieir foi mei plaue^, and mait-hed home to a lively qmckstep maich, under the command oE Ciptam Macfailano It may be inteiesting to our leadoi^, at this time whin military affairs occupy ao much attention, to know that at miUtaiy fmieials, the usual older ohseived on pirado and match lsentnely reveisert The aims aie leversed, the beat of the dium is on the light foot instead of the left, tho officeis take position in the real instead of at the head of then companies, and this mle is obse,vi'd thioughour. The whole is most itr\i s i as.ivo, and cal culated to make men who aro fieriiiently exposed to danger thoughtful and reflective.
