The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-04-25 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.

The following description of the funeral f this distin-
guished traveller and missionary is from The Times

- On Saturday David Livingstone was added, with
every token of a nation's profound sympthy and
reverence, to the long bead-roll of England's worthies
who now repose in Westminster Abbey. All ranks,
from the very highest to the humblest in the land, vied
in paying him honour. The long journey of his lifeless
body from the central wilds of that mysterious conti-
nent whose secrets even he was permitted only par-
tially to unlock, had a tit ending in the grave around
which fondly gathered so many distinguished sharers
of his toils and associates in his fame, together with the
representatives of foreign Powers, the digs of many
learned and philanthropic bodies, members of both
branches of the Legislature, prelates, clergy, and
ministers of different denominations, and the dele-
gates of various municipalities.
The funeral arrangements devolved on a special
committee of the Royal Geographical Society. The
remains had lain in the Map Room of their House in
Savile-row since they were brought from Southampton.
There they were transferred from the rough coffin of
Zanzibar wood in which they came home by the Malwa
to a coffin of English oak, very simply ornamented,
and bearing the concise but sufficient inscription :

" DAVID LIVINGSTONE,,

Born at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotlan'd, March 19. 1813;
"Died at 11010, Central Africa, May 4, 1873."

On Saturday morning a beautiful wreath of azaleas
and other choice flowers, with the inscription " A
tribute of respect and admiration from Queen 'Victoria,"
was sent by command of Her Majesty to deck the bier,
already adorned by similar tributes from Lady Burdett
Coutts, Lady Frere, and others. The chief mourners
and representatives of the various British learned
societies, together with Vice-Admiral Baron de la
Ronciere le Noury, who came over from Paris specially
to represent the rench Geographical Society, of which
he is President, having assembled in the Map Room,
formed a semicircle round the body, when a short pre-
liminary religious service was performed by the
Presbyterian Minister of Hamilton, the parish in which
the family of the ilw,eased reside. Then the procession
was duly marshalled, twelve mourning coaches follow-
ing the Hearse, drawn by four horses, in this order :
First Coach—Mr. Thomas Livingstone, Mr. °swell Living-
stone, son.; Dr. Moffat, and Mr. James Vavasseur.

Second Coach—Lieutenant-General Sir T. Steele, Dr. Kirk,
Mr. W. F. Webb, Jacob Wainwright (negro), and Mr.
Stanley's boy, Kalulu.
Third Coach. —Rev. Horace Waller, Mr. °swell, Mr. K
Young, am! Mr. H. M. Stanley.
Fourth Coach—Sir W. Fergusson, Rev. H. W. Hamilton,
Dr. J. Loudon, and Mr James Hannan.

Fifth Coach—The Duke of Sutherland, Right Hon. Sir
Bartle Frere, K.C.B. President of the Royal Geographical
Society, Sir H. C. Rawlinson, K.C.8., and Sir. Kenneth
Murchison.

ThifitiC-6Z;lich. —General Rigby, Colonel J. A. Grant, C. 8.,
Mr. John Murray, and Mr. J. Young, Jun., of Kelly.

Seventh Coach..—Vice-Admiral Baron de la Ronciare le
Noury (President of the French Geographical Society), Dr.
Hooker (President of the Royal Society), Lord Houghton, and
Mr. IL W. Bates (Assistant-Secretary of the Royal Geo-
graphical Society.
Eighth Coach. The Provost of Hamilton, Mr. J. B.
Braithwaite, and Mr. C. R. Markham and Mr. R. IL Major
(Secretaries of the Royal Geographical Society).
Ninth Coach—Rev. Dr. Stewart, Mr. T. Nicholson, Mr.
Ralston, and Mr. J. Young, of Kelly (friends of the family).
Tenth Coach—The Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Mr.
Mliaren, M.P., Mr. J. Cowan, M.P., and Mr. Josiah Living-
stone.

Eleventh Coach.—The Lord Provost of Glasgow Dr.
Watson, President of the Faculty of Physicians, Glasgow ;
Baillie Walls, Chief Magistrate of Glasgow ; and Baillie
Baia

Twelfth Coach.—The Mayor of Southampton, Mr. Edwin
Jones , Sir Frederick Perkins, U. P. ; and Mr. Arthur Laing,
who brought the body from Zanzibar.

Behind the mourning coaches came a long line of
private earriages, headed by those of Her Majesty, the
Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sutherland, Lady
Burdett Coutts, Lady Frere, Lady Franklin, &c. The
procession went through St. James's-street, where a
deputation of working men obtained permission to add,
in the name of their order, a laurel wreath, with an ap-
propriate inscription, to the other decorations on the
coffin. It then pt,oceetleil by Pall-mall, Charing-cross,
and Parliament-street to the Broad Sanctuary, the
large concourse which had gathered in the streets to
see it, and which gradually grew densest towards the
end of the route, reverently uncovering as it passed.