The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-04-26 00:00:00

THE LATE LORD BEACONSFIELD.

REMOVAL OF THE CORPSE.

As at present arranged, the Queen wil be represented
at Tusesday's ceremony not only by Prince Leopold,
but by Viscount Etridport and Geoeral Pionaiwhy. it
being considered by her Majesty that tha ahtento&ac.
of the two latter, who were erect friend,' of deceased
noblem in, would be • special mark of r ty al oiler&
Tne Prince of Wales and the Duke of Conuaught will
be present. and every other member of the Royia
family will be represented. The general public will be
adoutte.d to the grounds of Htlghellalta Nitiotl,r, It Is
noteworthy that a great number of the fi oral tributes
forwarded to iluraon-etr at are sew by children, who
my:pulps'', their fresh-culled offerings with simple
lines of affection and reverence. Many of the yowls
and other similar decorations aro of the most beautiful
character, and to the prawent time almost sufficient to
load a moderate-sized Milgoll must have beta tig.iived
at the hones. A great number of the donors have mad•
application to be allowed to place their offerings upon
the coffin, but, of coarse, this had to be courwouly
though firmly refined. The preparations for the
funeral are in progress. At a quarter to one on Sunday
morning, • beams, drawn by a single horse, arrived at
19, Curzon-street, with a coffin to which the shell
oontainiug the remains of Lord Beaconsfield were to
Ibe placed. The coffin waa at once carried into the
hones. A short time afterwards the hearse drove off,
! but it WM soon followed by another vehicle, drawn by
two horote, and at a quarter to two o'clock the c iffin
containing Lord Bisaconsfield's remains waticwried nut
and placed in the hearse. It was covered with black
I cloth, and after it had been placed in the carriage a
1 number of floral wreaths were laid upon it. tiespite
the lateness of the hour, a small crowd watched the
Hags, land took • last look at the coffin before it
rergrorrinestreet. only person in addition to dime
in charge who accompanied the remains woe Mr. Baum,
the confidential •rvoint oof the late earl, who followed
the hoarse in cab, The cartage, if such it could be
called, passed down Park-lane, the Edgware-road, and
Praisd-street, to the cheat Western terminus at Pad-
dington. A s,tecial training here Ia waiting,and without
delay the hearse was placed on a carriage truck, and the
train left at twenty-fiva minutes past two o'clock for
Wycombe, whi it it reach' i about an hour later. Mr.
Alfred de • liothschild, Mr. Baum steward to the
deceased nobleman, and the undert•ker, travelled by
the same train. There was no demonstration at High
Wycombe station, whence the hearse was driven to
illighenden Manor, a distance of two miles followed
by another vehicle coated ing those who had travelled
from Lon on. Lord Rowtoo, Sir Nathaniel de Roth,.
child, and Sir Philip Rose receive I the holy as it was
borne inta the entrance-hall. The coffin wai then
transferred to the saloon, whore it awaits interment
in the family vault in flogheadeo Chorch to-morrow
(Tuesday). The body will be borne by the tenantry
and friends of the late Earl from the Macor-boom to
the family vault.
Sir Philip Rom and Sir Nathaniel de Rothschild
have is it an invitation to Mr. Gladstone to attend
the funeral. It is understood that the Premier in.
tends to liven himself of the levitation.

wealth of the
ileceased earl has been secured to Coninesby
now seed shout 14. It is said that six years aeo
Lord Beaconsfield remarked—" That boy will come to
the front. I will, when the time CJMIIIy give him a
otart."

-7The doubt as to the exact date of Lord Beacons-
field's birth is now removed by an extract given in
oiie or two of the papers of the following entry is the
register books of births kept at the Spanish and
P 'dogma° Jews' Synagogue, Bevis Marks : 'Child's
name, Benjamin father, hair; mother, Marl,;
surname. U Israeli; day in the week iif chitd's birth,
Friday; Jewish date, 19th Tebst, 5565; Christian
era, 21st Dec•mmr, 1804; circumcised by D. A.
Lind°, 26:11 Tibet, 2565; attested by 1). T. de
Ultimo." Lord Seaponsfisid wa., therefore, in his
seventy-ssventh year.
The death ot the noble earl was alluded to yesterday
Sunday) in a large number of pulpius throughout the
king ions.
The day on which Lord Beaconsfield died was the
corresponding day in last Baiter week, when the
Indication first came from the polling booths that the
Conservative party waa dooms I. n4ber curious
coincidence is that Lord Beaconsfield died on the sem*
day as one of his favourite posts, Byron.
It now appears tact there was practically as in.
superable obetscle to the burial of Lord Beeconsfield
In Westminster Abbey. In the will of the late lint.
Brydgm Wiliyams, of Torquay, who bequeathed him
her fortune of £40,000. there wee a condition that skis
should be buried side by side with him. He remains
were laid in Hughenden Churchyard, in the tomb
where Lady Beaconsfield was sulmequently interred,
and in which a vacant space was reserved for his lordship.
As further proof that Lord Beacionsfield designed that
Hughenden should be his place of sepulture, a mem-
ber of the firm which supplied the granite work tor
his wife', tomb states that when carving the central
clonal, space was left for his lordship's name by special
Instruction.

--"Co-r71—liTerton sod Lord Beaconsfield's executors left
Hushenden for London this (Monday) morning to
complete the funeral arrangement.. The work of
opembig the vault is being prooseded with to-day.