"The committee of arrangements and pall-bearers attended at the late residence of the deceased, at Gadsby's Hotel, on Pennsylvania Avenue, at ten o'clock A.M., at which time the remains were removed, in charge of the committee of arrangements, attended by the sergeant-atarms of the House of Representatives, to the hall of the House.

"At eleven o'clock, funeral service was performed in the hall of the House of Representatives by Mr. Slicer, the chaplain of the Senate; who, having made an impressive prayer, and read the twelfth chapter of Ecclesiastes, Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth,' delivered an appropriate discourse upon the occasion, from Ecclesiastes, chap. ix., 5, For the living know that they must die.'

"After these services the procession moved to the railroad depôt on Pennsylvania Avenue in the following order:

The Chaplains of both Houses.

Physicians who attended the deceased.
Committee of Arrangements, viz. :
The Family and Friends of the deceased.
The Members of the House of Representatives and
Senators from Maryland as mourners.

The Sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives.
The House of Representatives, preceded by their
Speaker and Clerk.

The other Officers of the House.
The Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate.
The Senate of the United States, preceded by the
Vice-president and their Secretary.

The other Officers of the Senate.
The President of the United States.
The Heads of Departments.
Foreign Ministers.
Citizens and Strangers.

"The corpse was placed in the car provided for the purpose, and carried to Baltimore, attended by the chaplains and physicians, the committee of arrangements, the pall-bearers, the delegation from Maryland as mourners, and some of the members of the two houses of Congress, for whom cars were provided."

In this order the procession came over to Baltimore, where is was met by a great concourse of the inhabitants, who accompanied it to the place of interment, and the following is the official report of the proceedings here.

"FUNERAL OF MR. M'KIM.

"The body of Mr. M'Kim arrived at the Mount Clare depôt yesterday afternoon at about four o'clock. It was attended by a committee of members of Congress.

"It was met at the depôt by an immense concourse of people, who attended it in procession to the burial-ground belonging to the congregation attached to St. Paul's Church, where it was interred. The bells of the several churches were tolled during the procession, and the flags of the shipping and at various public places displayed at half-mast during the day. The following was the order observed in the procession:

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.
Officers of the Corporation.
Reverend Clergy.

FUNERAL CEREMONIES.-PUBLIC CHARACTER.

Members of the State Legislature.
Judges and Officers of Circuit Court, U. S.
Judges and Officers of Baltimore County Court.
Judges and Officers of Baltimore City Court.
Judges and Officers of the Orphan's Court.
Members of the Bar.
Gentlemen of the Faculty.
Officers of the Army and Navy.
Civil Officers of the United States.
Civil Officers of the State of Maryland.
Foreign Consuls.
Strangers.

Masters of Vessels and Seamen.

Citizens.

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"On arriving at the depôt, the procession halted and formed a line on each side of the road, facing inward. The committee of Congress and other members of the government who accompanied the corpse, with the relatives of the deceased, passed through the procession, which immediately followed them in reversed order.

"At the conclusion of the ceremonies, an invitation was given from the mayor to the members of Congress to remain and partake of some refreshments, which was declined by Mr. Adams on behalf of the committee of arrangements, in consequence of their desire to return immediately to Washington."

Though Mr. M'Kim was a supporter of the present administration, and therefore called a Jackson or Van Buren man—and, as such, opposed by all the Whigs, who here, as elsewhere throughout America, include nearly all the wealthy mercantile classes-yet all parties joined in showing respect for his character in this last act of consigning his remains to the tomb. I never remember to have seen in any country more general or apparently more sincere sorrow evinced at the loss of any public man, than in the present instance of the unaffected mourning for Mr, M'Kim. The worth of his character-though he was denounced by his political opponents while living as a "Loco Foco," a term equivalent to "Ultra Radical" in England-and the real nature of his services, may be judged of by the following testimony, given by one of the most influential of the Whig papers, which constantly opposed his politics. It is from the "Baltimore American" of April 3, 1838.

"THE DEATH OF MR. M'KIM.

"Our form was opened on Sunday night, after the arrival of the cars from Washington, for the purpose of announcing to our readers, in yesterday morning's paper, the melancholy intelligence of the death of our late representative in Congress, the Hon. Isaac M'Kim. In referring to the demise of this valued citizen and estimable man, we feel that something far beyond the ordinary expression of regret is due to the memory of one who, while living, discharged the duties devolving upon him with a propriety and correctness that must long be remembered.

Whether we regard him in the relations of social life, or observe his course throughout his business transactions, as one of the most enterprising and wealthy merchants of our city, we find him alike distinguished for kindness and urbanity of deportment and liberality of spirit. "Unlike many men-who, after having acquired riches by perseverance and activity, withdraw themselves from the busy pursuits of the world, and are contented to spend the residue of their lives in ease and quiet-Mr. M'Kim continued to make his immense fortune the means of affording support, in an extended degree, to honest industry. When, so far as he was personally concerned, all motives for active exertion must have been taken away, this valuable citizen persevered in his praiseworthy course of furnishing employment to hundreds of his townsmen, through the various operations of manufactures and commerce, kept in steady motion by his capital.

"As a ship-owner, the commercial marine of Baltimore is particularly indebted to him for the liberality displayed in engaging the services of those among her naval architects who were conspicuous for talent, and by suggesting to them such judicious improvements as were the results of his own experience, enabling them to produce some of the most perfect models in ship-building of which our city can boast. As a manufacturer, his services have not been less important, through the facilities afforded by his ample means in introducing the preparation of articles for which we otherwise would have remained tributary to other places. "In point of active beneficence and open-handed charity, few persons have surpassed Mr. M'Kim. As an instance of his well-directed munificence, we would point to the beautifully classic building for a freeschool, erected on East Baltimore-street at his own expense, and, it is believed, liberally endowed by him. It is by this and similar acts that Mr. M'Kim has left behind him a fond and lasting estimation among his fellow-citizens, many of whom, at present young, will, when their heads shall have been silvered over by the frosts of age, remember with heartfelt gratitude the philanthropist whose kindness bestowed upon them the lights of education.

"For many years past Mr. M'Kim represented the City of Baltimore in Congress, and to the extent of his ability exerted himself in the promotion of what he conceived to be the best interests of this metropolis. Whatever feelings may have been produced by party asperity in reference to his views of national measures, those sentiments were never permitted to invade the sanctity of the private relations in which, to the end of his life, he continued to possess the warm affection and unlimited confidence of all who enjoyed his friendship.

"As a token of respect and indication of the regret of his fellow-citizens generally, and particularly the commercial portion of them, the flags of the shipping in port, and all the public places, were during yesterday displayed at half-mast, and will, it is understood, continue to be so throughout this day."

The two opposing candidates named by the respective parties to fill the vacancy in the representation occasioned by the death of Mr. M'Kim were, for the Whigs, Mr. John P. Kennedy, a lawyer well known in England as the author of "Swallow Barn" and "Horse-shoe Robinson," and on the part of the Democrats, General W. H. Marriott, both men of good talents and high respectability; for universal suffrage does not lead here, any more than it would

do elsewhere, to the selection of representatives from any other class than that which the voters believe to be a much higher one than the average of their own.

Of newspapers in Baltimore there is no deficiency. There are four morning daily papers: the American and Chronicle, Whig; the Republican, Democrat; and the Sun (a paper selling at one cent, or about a halfpenny English, per copy, and issuing 12,000 daily), neutral; and two evening daily papers, the Patriot, Whig, and the Transcript, neutral. In addition to this, there are three weekly papers, chiefly literary the Athenæum and Visitor, the Kaleidoscope, and the Monument. These last supply the place of larger periodicals; and in the Athenæum of April the whole of the February number of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine was published entire, and sold for six cents and a half, or about threepence sterling; a competition against which no English periodical could stand.

The character of the newspapers of Baltimore does not differ much from those of New-York. The neutral papers appear to give, honestly, fair and impartial reports of what really happens; but they are too impartial to please any party in politics, and their circulation is not so extensive as it would be by embracing either side. The party papers, on the other hand, can neither of them be relied on. As an instance, it may be mentioned that, during our stay here, a public meeting was held in Monument Square of those who' were opposed to the Registry Law. It was attended by three or four hundred persons, and the proceeding was a manifest failure, as more than as many thousands usually attend such meetings; and the evening was fine, and everything in favour of a large assemblage. All the Whig papers passed it by in entire silence, which was a dishonest suppression of a fact that ought to be known, namely, that some, at least, were opposed to the Registry Law, and that it was not approved by all parties. The Republican, on the other hand, came out next day with a most exaggerated statement of the triumphant success which attended the meeting, and would lead its readers to infer that the Registry Law was execrated by the whole community. On looking over what I had previously written on this subject of the New-York papers, I had sometimes hoped that I should find it true only of them, or at least that the journals of other cities would not be so extremely partial and one-sided in their statements. But I find, in an article which has just appeared in a New-York paper, and has been transferred

to the columns of the neutral journal here, that this truth is beginning to make an impression even in the city where the evil is most conspicuous. Whether the calm exposure of this practice, in the candid spirit in which it is done, will lead to a correction of the evil, time alone will show; but it is an evil of great magnitude, and one that needs speedy and effective correction. The following is the article referred to:

The following sensible remarks on the practice of Washington letterwriters, of eulogizing, without discrimination, their political friends, and heaping anathemas upon their opponents, are from the New-York Commercial Advertiser. The practice is in the highest degree reprehensible, and we are glad to see that the political press is beginning to think so.. "The greatest fault on the part of the correspondents of the press at Washington, in our opinion, is to be found in the practice of bestowing universal praise and universal disparagement upon their political friends on one hand and their opponents on the other. We have inveighed against this practice of indiscriminate eulogy or praise in our private correspondence, and in conversations with various writers for the press; but the evil exists-to a much less degree, however, in regard to our own correspondence than in relation to that of most other journals on either side of the house.

"The natural consequence of these partial reports is to shake the confidence of the public in the general accuracy and tone of the Washington letter-writers. Not, in our opinion, that they wilfully misrepresent; but they allow their feelings, their partialities, and their animosi ties too frequently to mislead their judgments. Hence, whenever a leading Whig member of either house lays himself out in a set speech upon a great subject, we are quite sure of hearing that it is the ables: and most eloquent speech ever delivered. All his opponents who have spoken before him have been of course overthrown, used up, and annhilated; and all who attempt to answer him come off with miserable failures. On the other hand-to judge from the correspondents of the Evening Post, and of the other Post erected in Boston, the editorials of the Globe, and the general correspondence of 'the party'-there is reither statesman nor orator at Washington save those in the ranks of the administration. Messrs. Wright, Niles, and Benton, according to these authorities, are the most able and profound men in the Senate, and Mr. Cambreleng the most eloquent and sagacious statesman in the House. "We might illustrate these positions by examples at length, were it necessary. For instance, Mr. Clay's speech in reply to Mr. Calhoun, the other day, was extolled by our friends as almost transcending human effort; and, by the unanimous vote of the Whig letter-writers, Mr. Calhoun was utterly prostrated, overthrown, torn to tatters, and used entirely up. Now we know the great powers of Mr. Clay as a clear logician and as a most eloquent rhetorician. He had, moreover, the right side of the question, and we doubt not that he was victonous in the argument. But Mr. Calhoun used up! We know that gentleman too well to believe it. He may use himself up, politically, by his waywardness, and by pursuing the winding mazes of metaphysical abstractions. But a man of his splendid intellectual faculties, of his vast and varied learning, of his vigour of mind, acuteness and power in debate, is not so easily used up,' even by such a man as Henry Clay.

"These things ought not so to be. The correspondents of the press