The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-05-16 00:00:00

The Dreadful Murders in Ireland.

THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE LORD F.
CAVENDISH.

At Chatewarth the determination to make the event
• private ceremony wai throughtut passively adhered
to. No .ppositiou wee placed in the way of
individuals, &laxly or collectively, wishing to attend,
but at the same time there were no ticket.% or circulars
issued, nor any sort of organisation of outride mettles.
Under these circumstances, no idea could be formed
beforehand of the number of person. likely to be at
X tensor to.day, and DJ provieion WM made for an
uverwhelinlog invasion of strangers. As lists of
informal vieltare were not prepared, and there are n
direct mania of computing the number of persons in
Chatsworth-park. au eetimate can only be roughly
hazarded. To cute, however, that there were 50,000
ter,one present would certaiuly be under the mark.
Tan thousand excursiooists booked ia the Manchester
district alone. Such an extraordinary display of
public interest in a great event, and public sympathy
with a deeply ream :tied fa nily, has never been
witnessed in this part of the country. Yet there were
not a some of policemen to be seen at X lenoor •' and
that so m unexpected a ultitu le, in which were large
numbers of miners, labouring men, and some rouges,
should have prove 1 so tractable, was not the least
striking feature of the day.
There would be no more earnest b dy of men present
than the rep.mentatives id Lord Frederick Uavendiall's
Yorkshire constituency. Many of them could
remember kbe bright-eyed, shy young noblemen who
used, OD hiS entrance into public life, to a hirers them
in di. George's liall, Bradford, or some other each
place of assemblage, elsewhere; wha, during his too
brief political career, warn loyel to the petty he
represented, and heedful of the interests of the electors
who were proud to call him member, and who there-
fore steadily won and firmly kept a place in their
! affections..

--The ;;;,„, train of 14 firstroleas saloons conveying
the Ministers and members of Parliament left Si.
Pancras at twenty minutes to ten, and arrived at
itoweley station shortly before one o'clozk. Phone
were over 300 gentlemen brought by this Parliament-
ary train. Mr. Gladstone was aeciomonnisd by Mrs.
Gladstone, the Spoke:, and Lord Granville,
Gladstone havinij arrived previously. The Q Men woe
represented by Lord Elwerd Pelham Clinton, the
Prince of Wales by Colonel Kingsoote, and the Duke of
Edinburgh by Colonel Colville. No list of the members
attending seems to have been prepared, but it was
stated that nearly all the Ministers were Fescue. The
better known members, and notably the numbere of
the Ministry. wore frequently recognised, as they
puled along, by a general lifting of the hat on the
pert of the people. 'rho entire party were entertained
as Chatsworth House previous to the funeral.
Lost looks were taken of the doomed by his family
before they retired to rest last night. Early on
Friday morning • special envie* of I:mayor wee held
in the chapel, the Hon. and Rev. B. falbot officiating.
The funeral professed°. left Chatsworth at half-pest
two. The lady members of the family had driven in
advance to the Church. The venerable Duke of Devon-
shire at first walked alone behind the hearse, but • ter
• while the Marquis of liartington and then Lord
E lward Caveman& &dropped to his support. rho
funeral woe one of complete simplicity. There were
no swerves, drooping hatbands, plumes, or mutes
There was not even • pill for the coffin. f he pro.
fuse use of crape was *Anted by both ladies and
gentlemen. The hearse misht be described as re-
sembling an oblong c for 4 dull bloat wood, with
deeply-Gated columns at the four corners. Ovine in
high relief on the ponds iduitrating aroriPtrurel Inth"
Sets, and carved work oil the root nested of the
pompous adornments once common. The only plums
nodding as the procession wound slowly along the
road were the boughs of the trees, as the breeze
rustled the bright green leans. The epoctstors on.
covered while the heares went by. Each of the four
harm was beld by • groom drooped in black livery,
sad the cartage was preoeded by siz policemen wait-
ing in eines file. me family mourners, besides the
Duke and his sons, were Admirel Egerton, Major
Lyttalton, Lady Edward Cavendish, and Colonel
Cavendish. Mrs. and Miss Gladatone and Lady
Lamella were with the ladies at the chtuah. Mr.
Gladstone, Lord Granville, and the Speaker walked
together, the general body of members following four
abreast. The procession, taking the lower road as
the learnt hilly, arrived at the thumb shortly before
three onlock. On the approach of the Procession
Lady Frederick Cavendish and the other ladles came
Into the porch of the church. Mr. Gla istone de-
tached himself from hie colleagues, and thoorted
Lady Frederick tq the Duke, and Imtly Ediard
Coven lish to Lord Harlington. In this order, closely
followed by the whew mourner', the party entered the
church. The coffin was placed in the chancel, with
floral cross and wreaths upon it, conspicuous above
them being a wreath of rico crimson roe.,, sent ex-
pressly this morning by the Queen. The officiating
clergymen were the Rev. Mr. Talbot, Canon
Humphreys, Archdeacon Balaton, and the Bev.
J. dali, Vicar of Edensor. The pathway
loading up to the crest of to. dope where
• few members of the Cavendish family sleep under
unpretending monuments WU thickly bordered on
either side by rem t lents on the Chatsworth estate,
selected individuals holding at regular intervals the
Iworere wreaths forwarded to Chatsworth daring the
That sent by the Queen was carried by the
ihmeased's widow. A specs around the grave had
been planked over for the accommodation of the
principal mourner,. Beyond this limit the portions of
the procession which had been unable to find roan' in
the church ranged themselves: Looking tokards lbS
church the first intimation they had of the dose of the
lint half of the services was the appearance of the
up-berne coffin eloely advancing shove the uncovered
heads of the lane of people. Tao stumbles 'seated to
concentrate nixes the black velvet and g Aden handles
of the coffin, and to rest softly upon the white, green,
aed crimson of the fiord tributss. On thyse.d4tt of (he
grave stood the Duke, Lady
Loutes Wsrerton end Lord idettiaveadish. The
Martinis of Harkintoo, Admiral 'Egerton, and Lady
Edward Cavendis were oa the opposite aide,
with Lord Granville and the Duke of Sutherland
ohm by. At the head of the grave stood the four
clergymen in their white surplices and academia hoods.
Within this thole, at the grave's brink, waited the
tenantry selected to lower their young lord to his long
home. The sad interest attaching to the spectacle
probably absorbed the attention of all for some
suomeots alter the Rev. Mr. Talbot commenced his
offing. Prominent in the group was the Oahe, ism.
tag on his atick6te eyes ever Azad upon the wan, and
his white hair wit about by the wind. Hs and him
sons bore but too obvious traoes of the grief that has
come upon idiom but though their lips quivered now
end then, they succeeded in the effort of eelf-oontrol.
The ladies, too, were tom calmly through the try.
beg ordeal. Behind the clergymen stoood Kr.
and Mrs. Gladstone, and the right hon. gentle-
man's protsruaturelkl Pallid face attracted not
• little anxious notice. It we. only when the
hymn "Brief life is hers our portion" was sang
by the neatly-dressed villsge children (wearing
no other mourning than • ban I of white round
the arm) that Mr. Gladstone, joining in one or two of
Ike versa", Gowned ho runes from his apparent lifeless-
was.. Al. the' body was bommitted to the earth slid
the mould sprinkled oiXthe lid th typN the hita.„
dtodaettbereiig kles amid. Is

Is often said, and truly that the Church of Ragland
Burial Service is & beautiful one, and that it is int.
prowl's seen whoa Wooed provea that It is beautiful
indeed.
The servile over, Lay Frederick Cavendish dr•PP•d
upon the flowers lowered with the coffin the wreath of
rung man by the Qtaess. Other wreaths were added
at the time, sad many during the afternoon, when
thousands of person' looked into the grave. The
mourners Rased out of the ohurohyard into the vicar-
age garden, where the Chatewoitli carriages were
drawn up. The Duke and his s roe walked back to
Chatsworth, while the members took to their convey-
same, and hurried to Bowsley, from which the Govern-
ment special started shortly after four o'clok. The
coffin•lid being q rite covered with &wen oven barg.
leaving Char...worth, the public had no oworttnity of
reading the inscription :—" Lord Frederkk G.
Cavendish, second .on of the Duke of Devonshire.
Born 30th November, 1.36; died 6th May, 1882."
In many provincial Wwas on nuncio bella were
tolled duririg the time fixed for the funeral of Lord
Frederick Cavendish. Flags were hoisted balf.mant
high, shop were closed. wholly Of partially, blinds were
drawn, and other maadestations of sympathy took
place.
The followlog extract from a letter of Lady F.
Cavendish wadi on Friday read in Dublin by Lied
SPcncer to • deuutatlo• l—" I should be very glad if
there Can be any means of lotting it be known in
Ireland so as to lays sone good effect that I would
never limnlgs th• sectrifite of my darling's life if only
II brads to the puttiog down of the invalid spirit of
evil in the haul tie would never bare grad/god it if
be egad hays hoped that his death would do more
than hie Ids."