The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-07-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIKTITEiiii:

In the HOUSE 02 Inns, June 30, Lord Granville, having
pronounced a brief but warm eulogium on the late Lord
Lawrence, asked whether her Majesty's Government pro-
posed that any tribute of public resp:et should be paid to
ilia Memory.
Lord Beaconsfield, in reply, said that everyone must be
con
scions of the merits of Lord Lawrence. Ile understood
ta7t an offer had been made that his Lordship should be
"rred in WeEtminster Abbey and his relatives had ac-
cepted that offer.
0151 reply reply to Lord Winmarleigh, the Duke of Richmond and
en stated that the Government had determined to
Her Majesty to grant a charter to a University in.
'‘Le North of England, to be called "the Victoria Uni-
"ersity.e
,v The Lord Chancellor introduced a Bill for extending Erni-
, e_raitY education in Ireland. He said it made provision
rounding and incorp,rating a University in Ireland,
cr. mishit of a Chancellor and a Senate not exceeding
,antraty six in number, the Senate to elect its own yiee
ncellor and appoint examiners for matriculation
4.1,1 degrees ; but it was not intended that thetre
7_ mild be any professors connected with the Colleges.:
tut
nthis respect following the example of the University of
don. Further, as the DEW University would perform the
rale functions as the Queen's Universities, it was proposed
I.9.clfssolve the latter, their members and graduates to be
attached to the new University. These being the plans of
Government he hoped their Lordships would read his
&first time.
Itorl Granville could not understand why the Bill was
:Plight in at so late a period of the Session, and asked if
.aiere Iva, a bead fide intention of passing it.
,Lord Beaconsfield said that the Government would make a
fide endeavour to get the Bill through the other House
the noble earl assisted them to pass it in their lordships'
Rouse.
a firs
Aftter some observations from Lord Grey, the Bill was read
time.
_ In reply to Lord Stratheden and Campbell, Lord Beacons-
nfn,..eld the Prince Imperial would not have "a public
to use a formal phrase, but at Portsmouth his re-
Would be transferred from the Orontes to another
'weasel, which would convey them to Woolwich; whence they
e5..„..°111d he escorted to the grave at Chislehurst by the Royal
-sulery.
Having forwarded some Bills a stage, their Lordships ad-
journed at thirty-five minutes past six o'clock.
▪ the HOUSE OP COMMONS, in answer to Mr. Fawcett,
B. Stanhope said the Military Commission in India
ruuld not be confined to the Native Army, but would also
nclude the cost of the European Army serving in India,
and it would sit at once.
ti„Mr- B. Ashley: Perhaps I may be allowed to ask a ques-
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to
;to interment of the late Lord Lawrence, whether her
7.1-slimy'l Government have considered the propriety of pay-
Vg some national tribute of respect to his memory, either
71 communicating with the authorities of Westminster
• as to his burial there, or in any other way that the
Government may approve.
d The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied: There can be no
foUbt of the very great services which the late Lord
evrrence rendered to his country. (Cheers.) I am sure
"re is no place in which those services would be more
IDDreciated than in the Houses of Parliament, and there are
1p Persons by whom they are more appreciated than by her
b;aiesty's Government. We do not consider that precedent
^,,"°Old justify us in proposing a funeral at the public ex-
.__'ose for Lord Lawrence; but I am happy to say that
angements have been in progress, and I believe are now
• nipleted, in accordance with which the funeral is to take
M
w"ice in Westminster Abbey. (Cheers.) I think this
anuouncement will give great satisfaction to the House.
(Cheers.)
answer to Sir G. Campbell, Mr. E. Stanhope said that
r4e British troops will remain at Candahar for the present
O r sanitary reasons.
In answer to Mr. Blrley, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Laid that the memorial for the establishment of a University
lu the North of England had been referred to a committee
of the Privy Council, which had reported that Her Majesty
Slaoald be advised to grant its prayer.
en the
House was again in Committee for the whole evening
~"'
`the Army Discipline Bill, and clauses from 67 to 12,
Were agreed to.
, Some other business was disposed of, and the House ad-
o:Mil:led at five minutes to two o'clock.

In the HOUSE or LORDS, July 1, Earl Stanhope moved the
lenond reading of the Public Healtb Act (1875) Amendment
qUestion
(Interments) Bill, which he thought would settle the burials

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zarl Granville, in moving the rejection of the Bill, said
hit title was misleading, as it did not refer to questions of
Phhlic health, but solely to the Burial Law. It passed, it
Would enable local authorities to establish denominational
2etueteries out of the public rates, and there might be, as far
r he could see, two rival cemetery authorities in the same
13eallty.
r.Lhe House divided immediately, and carried the second
7414 of the Bill by 116 to 65 votes.
th4aord Kimberley said that as their Lordships had not heard
views oi her Majesty's Government on the Bill he begged
've notice that on the motion for going into C3nrnittee
would move that the Committee on the Bill be deferred
or three mouths.
?Lord Truro asked her Majesty's Government whether the
'Luce Imperial was himself iu command of the troops sent
°Ut to reconnoitre for a camping ground, and in putting the
question strongly expressed his opinion that there had been
LlR3anifest want of foresight in sending out the Prince with
wlaat clearly was an inadequate escort.
14rd Bury, in replying to the question, submitted that the
Roble lord ought to have deferred it and his strictures until
'IlLe conclusion arrived at by the Court of Inquiry as to the
e'rcurcstances attending the death of the Prince Imperial
Zaelled this country. As the Prince held no commission in
,5 British Army, It was not possible that he could have been
eolumand of the party.
Lsrd Kimberly said that they could suppose it was not
gaible that the Prince could have been in command of the
; but had Lord Bury an authoritative reason for stating
',alit he had not been in command ot it?
Lord Bury replied that the Prince had not borne Her
rial",,tY's commission, and therefore he thought he was
13h,t 'll laying that his Imperial Highness had not exercised
,17 command.
_The Orders of the Day having been disposed of, their
a,ordships adjourned at twenty-five minutes past six o'clock.
entir The Morning Sitting in the HOUSE OF COMMONS was
ely occupied with the consideration of a private Bill to
!laable the Government of India to purchase the property of
I:he East India Railway Company, namely, the line Zrom
ualcutta to Delhi and a branch to Jubbulpore.
Mr. Parcett moved a resolution with a view of preventing
the terms of this purchase becoming a precedent in the
Inirchases which may follow, as he regarded them as oppres-
'live to be people of India.

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After 110113 e discussion in which Mr. Freshfleld, Mr. E.
Stanhope, Lord' G. Hamilton, and several other hon. mem-
bers took part, the resolution was azreed to, and the con-
sideration of the Bill fixed for Wednesday.
On the second reading of the East Indian Marine Bill
l'ethE moved, Sir C. Mike objected, and Mr. Biggar and Mr.
.arnell supporting him, Mr E. Stanhope, who was in charge
°' agreed to the adjournment of the debate. In the
same manner the second reading of the Poor Law Amend-
Ment Bill was stopped by Mr. Dillwyn.
At the Evening Sitting, Mr. H. Vivian called attention to
!,',ll.re deficiencies in the provisions for higher education in
ales. After describing to the House the existing means of
Cr education open to the Welsh people at Jesus College,
oxford, at Aberystwith, and Lampeter, Mr. Vivian con-
tritste,_d expenditure on Scotch and Irish Universities with
i neglect of the claims of Wales. If grants were
rPaue the Principality on the same scale as to these two
-('gdoms, she would receive from £B,OOO to £lOOOO for
.vpiversity education where now she received nothing. Mr.
..,tr,an next reviewed several historical points in connection
ti‘.:u.v.,the subject, and insisted on the separate nationality of
" "elah people, and mentioned, among other coutem-
Doraneous facts, that out of 686,000 worshippers, 36,300 wor-
tippPed in the English language. He dwelt also on the absence
le "me in the Principality, on the peaceable character of
er People and the gallantry of her soldiers, and concluded
r_a extremely interesting speech by saying :—" It he wished
r dilate on their bravery he would only have to point to the
utsroic doings of the 23rd Regiment, the glorious record
°T whose deeds was embroidered on their flags. The
24th
Z— regiment, too, he might speak of. That regiment
ad bas now quartered at Brecon. At Isandlana they
een cut to pieces; but they died shoulder to
bee Cr. Since the days of Thermopylle there had not
et" a more gallant defence than at Rorke's Drift,
:▪ hod that defence had been mainly conducted by Welsh-
lie asked then, upon what ground could Govern-
Matt resist the demand for the higher education of the
W,?elah people He trusted they would not put them off
Sot be non possumus or a n,on vo/umus The question could
;Z..Put off—justice must be done. The Government had
opportunity, by a small pecuniary grant, to
—▪ cnre for ever the gratitude of a devoted, a loyal, a long-
h;glected race. He begged to move,—" That in the opinion
IL:1, this House it is the duty of the Government to consider
e best means of assisting any local effort which may be
V,ade for supplying the deficiency of due provision for
du
`l4Eher ecation in Wales.''
„elf, r• Paleston, in seconding the motion, pointed out that
long neglect of the claims •of the Principality the
uf young men going to the University from Wales
wa3 ranch below the average of England.
,11r. Tracy, in supporting the motion, denied that it in any
"437 Partook of an exclusive character.
..laul)4titodn Eral"' while favourable to the objects of the
suggested the omission from it of all reference to
local effort.
L.sldr. Gladstone preferred the original motion, but was ready
Vese''llleeept the amendment if the Government desired it. The
„
oeh members he held were perfectly justified in pressing
n ; House claims which had been too long passed
Parliament had not only done nothing for Wales,
State by its ecclesiastical policy had driven
lVelsh people from the enjoyment of the only public en-
V•
_lnent open to them. To promote higher education in
would bring a larger number of young men from
Zu*Les to the Universities, and he strongly urged on the Go-
'?r,urnent the necessity of doing something to carry out the
ernects of the motion.
v _ln the course of the debate which ensued Mr. B. Williams,
ie'gril G. Hamilton, Mr. O'Nf organ Mr. M. Lloyd, Mr. H.
en au. took part' after which the Chancellor of the Ex-
Thetiner said that the Government recognized the claim of
i'flat'es and the importance of developing higher education,
ti"on he deprecated putting on record a vague reeoln-
th;e .w.ehluifl might prove embarrassing at some future
an • it was undesirable that there should be any appear-
°f a difference of opinion on the subject, and he hoped,
efore, that the motion would not be pressed.
antfter roma observations from Dr. Playfair, the motion, as
nded at the suggestion of Lord Emlyn, was negatived on
" uividon by 105 to 51.
The Other business was disposed of, and the House ad-
Journed at twenty minutes to two o'clock.
CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.
A Nevada miner, whose claim had been "jumped,"
remarked to his lawyer, "I am a quiet and peaceful-man ;
j want is peace and quiet, and I'll have them if I have to
Awl three or tour men to obtain them."
There is one impertinence which Washington society
_villa no longer tolerate. We do not refer to the unseemly
bit of asking a mature single lady her age. That is inso-
lent, but may be forgiven. But to ask a society " colonel "
,ef his regiment fer the date of his service—that sort of thing
nas gone far enough.

An Englishman writes to the Philadelphia Telegraph
that at least 90 per cent. of the dogs he has noticed in that
City curl their tails to the left—.. an evidence of low breed
and danger."
The Sttn Francisco News Letter, Writing the
biography of afellow-citizen, rays :—" Mr. Jones relodeseed
this morning zncae,sfuny. He hymeneated three years ago,
and he will be sepulchred to-morrow."
A Pittsburg wife informed her husband, the other
Ittclui:Ag, that she was working herself into the grave for the
want of a servant, and as he went out she leaned back and
fell to weeping' The children were making a noise in the
hall as he pass.l, and he called out—" You must stop this
racket I Your mother won't live a week, and when you get
a stepmother here, next spring, she won't put up with any
such fooling." When he went homa to dinner, his wife met
him with a smile, and said, "Isn't ours a cosy home,
Itichard, with only our own little family to look after?"
An American tourist was visiting Naples, and saw
yesuvins during an eruption. "Have you anything like that
PI the New World ? " was the question of an Italian spec-
tar.toz. No," replied Jonathan; "but I guess we have a
Itubdam that would put it out in five minutes."
She stood on the corner smiling sweetly as he passed
"er the crossing. Ile didn't know her, but she was very
Pretty, and supposing she must be a lady to whom he had at
2ine time had a passing introductl44„ hsi,„rais4 hich_tyt.
tWith a bow of grace and courtesy.' Tti retTriPkbe ,*ffthYd''
er lip with a look of scornful contempt, and looking back,
e saw to his chagrin that her smile had been manufactured
expressly for a lady friend a few steps behind him. And
when they kissed, and giggled, and peered after him in
Valli% be telt 000 as comf9
rt4ble qs a man does who
MI Meath with salt mlitaltim I'6 sugar.

TRH LATE PRINCE IMPERIAL AND
, THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.

The Times of Monday says :—" The Empress did
not sleep on Friday night, and Saturday's bulletin
stated that Her Imperial Majesty required calm. On
Saturday, however, she had some sleep, and there was
no unfavourable change in her strength. The follow-
ing bulletin was issued at nine o'clock :

29 Juin, 1879.-9 henres du matin.
n'y a point de changement defavorable dans lee forces
physiques. Cette cult Uyaen du sommeil.
'Baron CORVISART.'
"At ten o'clock the Empress was well enough to
attend Mass, which was celebrated at Camden-place
by Monsignor Goddard, chaplain to Her Majesty. It
was also 'attended by Prince Charles Bonaparte, the
Duchess& de 31,D:itchy, Madame Le Breton-Bourbaki,
Comtesse Aguado, Baron Corvisart, the Duo de
Bassano, M. Pi4tri, M. de Prinoli; At five in the
afternoon of yesterday, the Duke and Dunham of
,Connaught visited Camden-place. By the same train
travelled Princess Frederica of Hanover and the
Grand • Duchees of Mecklenburg - Strelitz. Their
Royal Highnesses were received at Chislehurst
station by the Duo de Mouchy ; and drove in
tke Empress's closed carriages to Camden-house.
In the first carriage were the Duke and Duchess of
Connaught and the Due de Mouchy. the s'econd
were the Princess Frederica and the Grand Duchess,
Their Royal Highnesses stayed an hour at the house.
The Empress sees only the Duehesse de Mouchy and
Madame Le Breton-Bourbaki. The sight of fresh
faces' of those who knew her son only excites new
outbursts of grief. The Duke and Duchess of Con-
naught, and the two ladies of Royal rank who accom-
panied them were received by the Princes and ladies
of the Imperial household. Prince Lucien Bonaparte
had now also arrived, travelling by the train which
reached Chislehurst soon afteir three, with Madame
cl'Arcos, and joined in the reception."

About eleven o'clock on Monday morning a bulletin was
issued, to the effect that the Empress got up on Sunday to
hear miss'in the late Prince Louis Napoleon's room, and
went to bed at eleven at night. The night was disturbed,
but there was no other change of importance. In conse-
quence of the quietude insisted on, very few people visited
Camden House during the day. The Duke and Duchess of
Teck arrived ab,nit four o'clock, and left at five o'clock.
They were met at the station by the carriages of the
Empress. In reply to an inquiry at Camden House, it was
stated that the Empress had heard the gist of the news
from the Cape that morning, but that no great prostration
had occurred, though she was still grieving sorely.

The following bulletin was issued on Ttiasday :—" The
Empress had a quiet night without artificial means. The
alimentation is in progress since yesterday. The delivery of
papers has been suppressed in order to maintain the neces-
sary calm in her Majesty's mind."

The following bulletin respecting the health of the
Empress Eug6nie was issued on Wednesday morning 'at
eleven o'clock:—" Her Majesty's state is the same as } ester-
day, but rather more satisfactory. —CORTISART."

It is understood that the Duke de Gramont com-
municated the tidings of the death of her favourite
grandson to the Countess de Montijo. The aged lady
—she is now in her eighty-third year—is bedridden
and almost blind, and this new stroke of misfortune
coming on the deaths of her daughter, the Duchess of
Alba, and her grand•daughter, the Duchess de Medina-
Cceli (both of which occurred within a few years)
caused her very deep affliction.

The Duke de Bassano has handed her Imperial
Majesty two letters from her son, written four days
before his death, probably the last time he laid his pen
to paper. Prince Joachim Murat has received a letter
from one of his companions in arms, relating how they
ha el dined the previous evening with Lord Chelmsford,
and that the General appeared quite surprised at the
topographical knowledge of the Prince and his clear
views on the campaign.

Among the wishes expressed in the Prince's testa-
mentary dispositions are, firstly, that M. Pietri should
be retained at his mother's side and in her full confi-
dence, and, nextly, that in case of anything happening
him that an annual allowance should be made to his
valet. This faithful servant is a native of one of the
annexed provinces, and was an old soldier of the
Empire, having I:Wen-in the famous charge of the
cuirassiers at Reichshoffen. Gifts of arms and books
have been left to Messieurs Conneau and Espinasee
among other',

The Estafette (French paper) gives the following as the
full text of the MS. prayer, with many erasures, found in the
Prince Imperial's missal :

"Mon Dieu, je vous donne .mon cur, male, vous,
donnezmoi la foi. Sans foi il n'est point d'ardentes
prieres, et prier est un besoin demon ame. Jo vous
prie non pour que vous 6cartiez lea obstacles qui
s'eievent sur ma route, male pour que vous me
permettiez de lee franchir. Je vous prie non pour que
volts desarmiez mes eunemis male pour que vous
m'aidiez hme vaincre moi-meme ! Et daignez, 0
Dieu, exaucer mes pribres. Conservez h mon
affection lee gene qui me sont chers, accordez leue
des jours heureux. Si vous no voulez r4pandre
sur cette terra qu'une certaine somme de joies,
prenez, 0 Dieu, la part qui me revient. R -
partissez•ls. parmi les plus digues et que lea plus
dignes soient rues amis. Si vous voulez faire aux
hommes des repr4sailles, frappez moi. Le malheur eat
couverti on joie par la douce pens& que ceux que Pon
;dime sont heaureux. Le bonheur eat empoisound par
catte pensda amere, je me rejouis et ceux que is cheris
mule fois plus que moi sont en train de souffrir. Pour
moi, 0 Dieu, plus de bonheur, je le fuis enlevez-
.
le de ma route; la Joie, je no puts la trouver que dans
l'oubli du pass. Si j'oublie ceux qui ne sont plus, on
m'oubliera it mon tour; at quelle triste pens& que
cello qui vous fait dire le temps efface tout !
La seule satisfaction que je recherche c'est cello qui
dare touj ours, cello qui donne une conscience tran-
quille. 0, mon Dieu, montrez-moi toujours c se
trouve mon devoir, donnez moi la force de Faccomplir
en toute occasion. Arriv6 au terrue de ma vie je
tournerai sans crainte mes regards vers le pas Ed. Le
souvenir n'en sera pas pour moi un long remords, alors
Jo serai heureux. Faites, 0 mon Dieu, poSnkrer plus
avant dans MOll ccettr la cottilictfon que ceux qua j'aime
et qui sont:morte-sout los Unioins de toutes roes
actions. Ma Tie Sera digne vue par eux et mes
pewees lea plusintimes no me feront jamais rougir."

The following Is the translation of the prayer :
"My God : I give to Thee my heart, but give to me faith.
Without faith there is no strong prayer, and to pray is a
longing of my soul. I pray, not that Thou shouidest take
away the obstactes on my path, but that Thou mayest per-
mit me to overcome them. I pray, not that Thou
shouldest disarm my enemies, but that thou shouldest aid
me to conquer myself.— rilear, 0 God! my prayer. Preserve
to my affection those who are so dear to me. Give them happy
days. If Chou only givest on this earth a certain sum of joy,
take, 0 God, my share, and bestow it on the most worthy,
and may the most worthy be my friends. If thou meekest
vengeance upon man, strike me. Misfortune is converted
into happiness by the sweet thought that those whom we
love are happy. Happiness is poisoned by the bitter.
thought while I rejoice those wham I love a
thousand times better than myself are sufferieg. For
me, 0 God I no more happiness. Take it from my
path. I can only find j I in forgetting the past.
If I forget those who are no more I shall be for-
gotten in my turn, and how sad the thought which makes
one may, 'Time effaces all I ' The only satisfaction I seek
Is that which lasts for ever, that which is given by a
tranquil conscience. 0, ray God I show me ever where my
duty lies, and give me strength to accomplish it always.
Arrived at the term of my life, I shall turn my looks fear-
lessly to the pant. Remembrance will not be for me a long
remorse. Then I shall be happy. Grant, 0 God! that my
heart may be penetrated with the conviction that those
whom I love and who are dead, shall see all my actions.
My life shall be worthy of their witness, and my innermost
thought shall never make me blush."

"The subscription suggested by the Gaulois for taking
to Chialehurst a sufficient quantity of 'French soil ' to bury
the Prince in native earth is very seriously taken up.
French marble for a sarcophagus is also proposed, and this
clashes with a statement in some London papers that marble
from Scotland is already ordered.—Paris Correspondent of
the Daily News.

Her Majesty's ship Orontes conveying the remains of his
Imperial Highness the Prince Napoleon, is expected to
arrive in England on .Jaly 9.

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The Army and Navy Gazette publishes the following
extract of a letter recently received from an officer with
General Wood's column :—" The Prince Imperial is very
wishful to see some real service, and would rejoice heartily
could he show his gratitude to the English nation by con-
scientiously earning a British decoration, he being fired with
all the necessary martial ardour. The Prince is as charming
and cheering a companion as one could wish to meet—full
of spirit, and without any self-cunceit. It may safely be
said of him that he is the most popular young officer of all
those now attached to the force in the field, for he spares no
trouble, and always has a pleasant word and a smile for
everybody.

The New York Herald of June 20, speaking of the death
of the Prince Imperial, says :—" Fate is sometimes merciful,
while being Just. The young man who for years was Prince
Imperial of France, and who ever since the founding of the
Republic was by general courtesy allowed to retain his title,
has met a soldier's death. 01 the three men of his family
who have claimed the French throne, he alone had no real
taste for war. He was entirely irresponsible for his awn
political position, being from the cradle the creature of his
father's ambitions and intrigues; yet of the three, he is the
only one who has died on the battlefield, and died in a
manner and with surroundings that will enhance whatever
lustre his name may have had." _

REQUIEM MASSES FOR THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.
A solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated on Monday
morning at 11 a.m., in the presence of Cardinal Manning, in
the Pro-Cathedral, Kensington, by the Bislike of South-
wark (the Right Rev. Dr. James Daneil), for the late Prince.
It was attended by Prince Lucien and Prince Charles Na-
poleon, the Due de &touchy, the Due and Marquis de
Bassett°, Dec d'Huescae (son of the Due d'Alba
and nephew of the Empress), the Comte de Tnrenne,
the Italian Ambassador, Countess nenabrea, and Signor
Silveatrelit, Attache ot Legation; the Brazilian Minister and
Baronets Penedo, the Spanish Ambassador, the Netherlands
Minister, the Earl of Denbigh, Lord Archibald Douglas. Mrs.
Washington Hibbert, Sir J. M'Kenna, M.P., Mr. O'Clery,
m P., Mr. O'Byrne, M.P., and by a very numerous con-
gregation. The sanctuary was draped in black, and black
drapery concealed the form of the canopy under which sat,
on his ecclesiastical throne the Cardinal Archbishop in the
embroidered robes of a Prince of the Church, wearing at
different parts of the service the lofty mitre and the purple
skull-cap. Before the golden cross in black above the altar
.etx tall candles burnt under the stained glass windows.
The canons of the diocese occupied their stalls within
the sanctuary; the clergy in white surplices were ranged
In 'the upper part of the nave. The aisles were tilted
with wozehippers in black. In the centre of the eastern
end of the nave was the funereal catafalque built up and
covered with a violet and- golden pall, round which a
hundred yellow candles burnt in the bright noonday.
On the left of this sat the. Princes of the Imperial house
and gentlemen of the Imperial household. None of the
ladies were present. The Cardinal began the Mass,
which was continued by the Bishop. Toe choir from the
far end of the church chanted the responses and the Dies
Irce. The verse from the Psalm which has given the name
to all such celebrations was many times repeated. "Re-
quiem zeternam dona eis Domino: at lux perpetua luceat
eis: A prayer was said commencing "Dons cut proprium
est inhered scalper at parcere : te suppliees exeratnus pro
anima famuli tut Napoleon Louis Eugene." (God whose
attributes are to have mercy and to spare, we pray to Thee
as suppliants for the soul of thy seevant Napoleon Louis
Eugene," At the end, the Cardinal Archbishop descended
In procession from the high altar and sprinkled the cata-
falque witit holy Incense.
.beigemi
The last of the great solemnities preceding the funeral in
memory of the late Prince were solemnised on Ttlesday,
when mass was sung at St. George's Cathedral by the Bishop
of Southwark, in the presence of the Princes of the Imperial
lionse. Peace Lucien, Prince Charles Napoleon the Dec de
aftessinoj the Marquis de, 4.• • ot tll3. „le cie Twit
Caltifti Primo% indlet, IN a • • -• .K 0 o • tenth A

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the Mass. In spite of the wet weather, the larie cathedral con-
tained a numerous assemblage, many of them very poor people,
who joined fervently in the prayers. Five absolutions were
said, a ntimber only observed at the obsequies of every illus-
trious persons. The Prince Imperial often attended wor-
ship here on great occasions, and the prie-dieu on which he
had knelt at the requiem mass for Pius IX was now occu-
pied by Prince Lucien. At tha 'entrance of the church
stood the colossal bronze statue cf the Crucifixion which
came from Malmaixon, and had been placed in this
English cathedral by those to whom it came after the
death of ' the Empress josaphine. The stone pave-
mint below is channelled by the knees of worshippers.
In front of the sanctuary, under the great gold cross,
three centuries old, which surmounts the rood-screen,
the catafalgue was placed, with a few great tapers
beside it. The pall of red, gold, and black was that re-
se7ed for Rayal and Imperial state.On its right, beyond the
Lady Aisle, was a reliquary which contains the body of St.
Victor, martyred in the let century, and buried in the cata-
combs by the pious care of his son Florentine, as the inscrip-
tion on the blue Sicilian marble below the relics of the saint
rdcords. The catafalque stood on a beanifful mosaic pave-
ment, made in P Iris, end put together by Italian work-
men, on which the symbols of the Evangelists, the lion, the
eagle, the bull, and the man, orange!, are depicted. Within
the double Gothic screen which parts the raised sanctuary
from the body of the church, where high candles burnt
before the altar and the golden pinnacled throne, the
Bishop stood in hlack vestments and his episcopal mitre,
with Monsignor Goddard, wearing the purple of the Court
of Rome, and the canons of the diocese in white cottas and
scarlet and ermlee capes. Without the sanctuary sat the
, elergy of the diocese in white surplices, and just before the
mass began there passed in to places here three monks wear-
ing the rough cowled coats of the Capuchins. Besides the
Franciscan confraternity, the monastic Order of the Bone-
dletines and the monks of the Charterhause were also re-
presented. These and other brotherhoods of the regular
clergy exist within the diocese. The requiem was then
sung and the prayers offered. When the time came for the
absolutions the Bishop, wearing the cope instead of the
chasuble, descended from the sanctuary, preceded by
white-stoled acolytes, above whose heads towered a
silver cress. The canons followed. The Bishop stood
Upon the steps of the sanctuary, the cross • bearer
in front of the catafalque. The choir chanted the
antiphon. Then there was silence, broken only by the clash-
ing of the silver chain of the censer as the Right Rev.
Monsignor Goddard made the circuit of the catafalque,
sprinkling it with holy water and with :,incense. He next
repeated the prayer in a loud voice. Canon Bamber, Canon
Doyle, Canon Drinkwater, and last, the Bishop of the diocese,
gave the like sprinklings and prayers, and so the mass was
finished. More than fifty priests took part in the celebra-
tion.