The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18 00:00:00

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EMAN CATHOLIO CATHEDRAL,

NOTTINGHAM.

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At Nottingham, on Sunday, the law. Canon fillsthorpe de-
livered a sermon at Si, larnabas's tome. Catholic OHM-
dral He show m his teat the. worths of Job, "1 ken I
'said, I shall di. in osy oat." Alluding to the death of
the Emperor, he said : "The lesson that was taught WAS a
national one. Napo'eon LIT. was once the bead of a
great, a mighty, and In some regrets a first-rate nation.
the was now husabled In her eireurestamen Not a cam
fury ago the rejeeted God and Christ in her eapital ; her
rulers became avowed Athoist4 and tho word of the
prophet had been fulfilled in her, ' Norasmuels SA thou
haat rejected the weed of the Lord, the Lord bath re-
jected thee After deluging other cations, else herself wts
dcloned with aloe& After hivadlag and spotting the modal.
of &tenet all the countrise of tenthern Homer her own had
been besieged and spoilt twim ; and, whet was very re-
markable, her rulers had not all 'died In theft own nests,' as
they might hens exposited. Louis XVI. might ones hove
said 'I shall die in my nest,' but he died upon the eoaffold,
and hie beautiful wife and innocent Auld entered every Ig-
nominy and Insult that could be heaped upon than. Louie
XV I I. fight ones have geld so, tea ; but amenster came sad
destroyed his religion, his merale, his health, and Ists life, to,
too, the eold-bieoded Robeepierre oldest have spoken, but he
died on the scaffold. The fast Napoleon, elm, bet he died In
exile. And passing over Late XVII , Charles 1., and Louis
Philippe might °nee have need Job's worth, but they also
died In exile. And, now, Dulls Napoleon had not 'died in
his nest.' His decease was a remarahle lesson to them all—a
lesson of thankfulness for their own Q teen and Royal family,
.d for their own government, laws, and Institutions, as
well as a tiately warning against those who would break in
upon these, and loin with avowed Repnlclicanani dirPet
p hiciples of • thane, Louis Napoleon had died In the faith
if the Catholic Church, and with her sacraments. Whatever
his failings, he had held fast the faith. Lit all Catholic.,
then, pray for him, and especially for his sorrowing widow
and eon."

The following is from the Supplement to the London
Gazette of Friday, Jan. 10 :
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Jan. 11.
Orders for the Conrt's going into monrnlng on Tuesday
next, the 14th mix, for ilia late Majesty the Emperor
Napoleon 111., viz

The ladies to wear black dresses, white gloves, black or
kite shoes, feathers, and tans, pearls, diamonds, or plain
rohl or silver ornaments.

The gentlemen aro to wear black Court dream, with black
,words and buckles.

The Court to change the mourning en Tuesday, the 21it
lint_ viz
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[he ladies to wear black dream with coloured ribands,
dowers, feathers ant ornaments, or grey or white (tresses,
with black ribands, dowers, feathers, and ornelaenta.
The gentlemen to continue the same mourrtlifg.
And on Friday, the 244 h Inst., the Court to go out cf
mourning.

In pursuance of as order honed by the Empower of•Austs is
the Court was to go into mourolog for twelve Mos.
Figaro reports that on the night of the Rmneiror's death a
gentlemsn living In the Rue de l'Elysee, near M. Rouher's
house, Illuminated his windows. The commissary of police
has summoned him before the magistrate for causing a pub-
lic scandal.

-E OB

l'he Municipal Connell el Rome welled so uldr," 1
dnlesee with the limpets tingled* ou the death of the
Emperor.
A small pamphlet, entitled "Illuelested Account at the
last moments of Sapolem III.," is noweciltot for one hell.
penny.
Leas,o to attend the funeral of the Emperor we,* refused to
many French officers in se Live service, and they were warped
that if they absented themselves they would be dismissed.

It is stated that 11se Halpern? jhas left two wills, one in
England In the hands of a solicitor, and she ~titer at purls.
The latter will be opened al the proper Sionista by the Pre.,
silent of aka tribunal of Eh. Wee.
The patty New Berlin Cirrripnedant has sent an shst-
of the views erne...Kt by the Leading newspapers of Or .ny
upon the death of NApoleon 111. lie noints out that in the
varkins articles which have appeared there is •017 little
hSterness, nut, Oil the c. nteary, tee Indication of a general
desire to excuse he Emperor by making Franey abaft, In his
faults 5..3 f anurea Ihe Germans have never thought tha'
the responsibility of the war should be tiquisferred by the
nation to the nation's accepted rulef, and they hews- aysti..d
themsolvem of the pn set °octalu to reassert this view.
They show no Inclination to deny credit to the Nlmp,ror for
statesmanship, and, especially admire his commercial and
Industrial policy.
A national subscription has been opened at Venice ter a
monument to Napoleon
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almtract
'Germany

The following are the terms In which the death Of
Napoleon 111 Is announced ni the Journal Oificrel of the
Frew* itepublic : 'Napoleon 111. est Mort her, iiJanyier,
Chlaelhuret' (Napoleon HI died yesterday, the 9,1 January,
at Chiselhulet.) The above appeared in urday's impreulon,
no notice of the event having previoualy been taken by that
official organ.

French Government gave instructions that nothing
shall be done to Interfere with the funeral services In honour
of Napoleon 111 ao long as they do not degenerate into
political manifestations in public places. All the officers
who were attached to the person or the swilitsamammehoM
of the Emperor Napoleon 111, including those not now in
active service or provided with a military command, received
permission to he present at the funeral at Ghiselharet. '
Marshal Sisc-Mahon intimated his intention of writing a
letter of condolence to the *uprose, and received an usar-
mice that the Govern mentwl/1 trot 'van appears hie jgoing,to
Chiselhurat if he desired to do so.
The nevrePePere at idlers Opened a sabacrlption for a
monument to Napoleon 111., to be erected In Milan, as being
the first city delivered from Austrian rule by the French
arum. The tint list of subscriptions for the monument, pub-
lished by the Pars•Oeranz•, exoeeded £l,OOO, and subscrip-
tions were tut pouro g In. A solemn funeral service was
rdered to be celebrated in the Cathedral. The Manperola
death prof'uced• gamma impressirm of grief. .
"Napoleon 111, has filled so large a space in the view o
the woad ; the Os*, the.camle, WM political methods, the
social system whfirts represented, have made Up no much
of the public life ot_Europe In our time, that It requires
's,iiissabhig or an ellaMilo realm that he la gmee and that
Mistrials "Machu to hie nue* may now be a phaetons of the
past. Al,pu Puger whits pardonable curiosity on the close of
such a -Titc and such a period. ,Eveu the trifling details of
Visite and 011reieOlsiel Una SO interest, as marking the posi-
tion which the dethroned Chief of the Bonaparte' held in
ruin and exile with respect to parties In France ILA to the
European community in general." The Leader in 2he
Timm.

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The Petrie wry, that orders resekod Perta from London for
150,000 immortal., crowns.
A considerable number of shops were closed in the OM.
mercial quarters of Pads when the news of the liniperor's
death spread. More than 8,090 person• are said to have
called at the home of 11. &oldie, and left their name. as an
expression of their sorrow at the event.

The New Yolk Poet, compering the adulatory notices in
the English press upon the E bperor Napoleon, with the
notice of the American p•iper., prefers the remarkable
unanimity of the latter, which condemned the caner of the
Emperor fr in beginning to cud.
• corre,poudent of The Timer suggested that on the part of
the English public it would be an er•oedingly graceful com-
pliment to the memory of the late Env -cur Napoleon, who
on all 000aalonli we, so good a friend to this country and her
intereAt., if they would copy the example given by Her
Msjesto's Court, and go into mourning for. week
The Faris papers reported the presence of the Dim diurnale
and the Die.- de Montpensier at the first performance of the
Cocotte aus mils der, at the Menus. tialsirs The Gaulois
remarks thereon :—" the Queen Marie-Amelia died at there-
moot loi the 24th March, lth 6. A grand dinner we, to be
given that day at the Tuileries. The Emperor immediately
counternmided It and went into mourning, We leave our
readers to draw the moral."

A spacial service was held on Sunday night in the nave of
Gloucester Cathedral, which waa fully attended by pereons
to hear • sermon on Napoleon, by the Itlship's chaplsin. the
Rev. Denali, Spence. hiveuliiiiivd the ex Emperor, who, he
said, had (testi, yed lb. trio lice which had existed 500
years in Pianos towards England.
By an arrangement published In the French papers, persons
of the poorer classes who wished to be promo. at Ike Em-
peror'. I uneral were offered to be conveyed from Paris, second
and third clove, at the rate of 35f. and 211. respectively.
Frill, an English point of view nothing can be tib re natural
than that !also rrrrr and artisans who remember the good
times moiler she Empire, aud whose though*e Sr. still aocoril.
lug to the votes they gave so often, should.wlali to roes the
Channel to pay • last tribute of respect to the Emperor.

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The Ministerial mean, Ike Bten Publts, has printed aa
aridele, which, after advertiac to the vete of the National
'Mum esebriaroteing the Impire. sas I that the Govern-
ment admits the title of Napo'em II I g yen to the Into co
Emperor, which title was confirmed by the popular vote, but
it n gulls as iilcjtl the appellation of hapoleea IV, for I.is
son, and ....Were that the use of such • title la an offence
again• t the legal Government established by the National
Assembly
-There have been times, perhaps, when everyman'', of
the Parisian l'ress would have destred nothir g more than the
opportunity of pronouniug a perfectly unfettered judgment
on the character and career of Napoleon ill. That <moor
Whit, hap cadge, tut sanideply, and-tinder ogrcometatica
quite oh eltilissidfla 6 au t ft6.1.10.161s hnn-the freedbfn
of the Press. . . The Journals are forced, in spite if them.
selves, to r.-cognize In the late Emperor some good qualities
which militate somewhat against their complete c nit-mile-
lion of his political career They hue to admit that he was
kind, dignified. and ready of accus that he adherents were
devoted that he had grand lieu and honest Intention.:
and that he started fair, even when he allowed himself-to be
diverted, or stopped, or involved. They are fore dto admit
a mission.' even when they do not snitch approve IS or
when they conceive themselves tuatill.d in doubting the
tio tight of a mission in the Emperor's mind."—Leatter In
The Tilash.
~,nbiaildeeltie let been 611c6 Affiabid 1t). isi6a4
ti. Einptror, and his doct h.oi to he sent for ou Sunday.
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" Anther theory of the hee of the Emperor was, that he
had strut hed at power for personal and self.itidulgent ends :
the splendour of his Count and the luxury that followed the
growth of French prosperity eeemed to give • colons to the
tale. More dispessionateobservers taw that in toe centre of
the Pala •e sre.rked the hardest toiler in France ; but it needed
the clear light of adversity to show us that he who had for
years commanded the gold of a truly IMperial liresenry left
France a poor man, and lived in exile supported by the for-
tune t,f his wife. It wee also found that his equanimity on a
throne was not due to auccess ; for, hurled front hi. great
eminence, he we, as courteous and as calm its when he was
the arbiter of Enrope; be litre with steady hand the full cup
of prosperity, and endured with perfect temper the bitter-
ness of defeat. Nor cam we forget the favourite Calumny Of
his foes—that he was personally and physically a coward
his falsehood he disproved UT ever as he rode calmly and
slowly amid the bursting shells at Sedan."—Leader In Daily
Telegraph.
T,.e tinulont and the rnivert both record a touching tort
dent In connection with the arrival of the Prince at Camden
Place shortly after the death of the Emperor. We quote the
words of the correspondent of the Oatiloie:—• When the
Prince drove up he darted at once from the carriage, ex-
claiming •My father!' Count Deciliters took him by the
hand and said, 'Monseigneur, we need courage the Em.
peror is very ill—very ill ' At this moment the Prince ob-
served that the parish priest was present; he becsme fear-
fully pale and staggered at first: then, by an effort, he re•
Meted thin first effeA of sorrow ; his look became fixed, but
was painful to see. 'Tell me the truth,' said lie, with •
feeble voice .1 am able ti bear it' Sighs were the only re-
anomie At last the Empress was able to tell him, amidat
her team and pressing him closely In her arum, • Louis, my
poor child, t have none now hut thee'' Not s tear left the
eyes of the Prince, who, without offering a writ, rushed
Into hie father. room There he threw himself upon his
knees and said !aloud, in Latin, • Our Father, who art in
Heaven' Thy will be done.' When the Pater Sorter was
finished he cried, to accent, of the deepest sot row, • I cannot
hem it! I cannot bear it !'"

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seeiie and revive a splendour. The hall light gloomy
corridor and darkened rooms, the sound if such names a -
• Carnbaceres,' ' Moskowa," Murat,' make the scene a
sort of noulile dream of two Empires, and the dream has
some realit,) in it as Prince Nap,leon panes with eyes and
brow, and stoop if the head that renal the countenance
what has bnnit itself into history deeper them auy other
human face.
Frain the Empress, nerving herself to receive the English '
Princes, to the footman in snourning livery who stood at a
doorway, all MI that sad as the occasion wan, yet ft was
great, and each took • mournfui pride in acquitting himmli
with exact and Benumb,us care in the part assigned Si' 11,,n.
-the lint point of duty and vignette week) bring Shiftier).
Imperial from the house of goin•e Clary. lid, was a task
for the Pineeli of Deleon to iii od, and at I,a I past t,
Prin. Napoleon, Princ,-, Lucien, Prlnee (11 ales, SIOI
the .Prinees Almost, attended I y their sena, men, sot et*
on foot, wearing great-coats over their evening dress and
..ecorations. A little after eleven they returned, Prince
Napoleon walking by the side of the Prince imperial,
next behind these the two other Bonaparte Minces,
then the Murat Princes. Though the sun of the Second
f:m Ore had set, this Am the day of the final
vaniabing of It. shadow, and one false step in etiquette
or precede°. ea. irretrievable, for it never could
be corrected. - 'The Princes enter at the side door, the
only door of entrance throughout the day, end turn
through an open doorway on the Left hand, leading to
the two saloons of the house, one beyond the other.
he dour is left open, and the colourA curtains and panels
of the rooms look • range and out of keeping to those who
cluster in the black corridor. The saloon is only La the
Princes, and they seat themselves silently according to their
rank, the Prince Imperial sitting In the centre, his tined
figure with the rgd riband across it, thrown into she+
relief against the far window. All are bow waiting the
coming of the English Princes. The ante-rooms to the
right of the date& passage are crowded, but the principal
penning are wafting in the passage itself. Here one notices
M. Rouher, looking very worn, in his grand cordon ;
Pieta wills a cross at his button-hole who, as the
Xroperor's Prefect of *tole*, drew many strings. The
Comte d'Avfiliers,'Fllve Eitherry ; the Luc de Banana,
Grind Chamberlain, and the Disc as Canbaceres, both wear-
' leg steed Lord Sidney, oar own lewd Cambewhini, in
stri.,l) unofficial dress, is waiting to receive the Pringe of
Wales. General Fleury, Grand buyer, the Dug de Grawont,
thinking, perhaps, of his book of revelations IL For'
cede de Is Roimette—these are some Ins rig many
famous names. Worn the Prince of Wales is near arriving
the wearers of whltesters and red ribands constellate and
msteh their splendonrs in a group, leavhtga pamage for
the Princes in the salon. The Prince of Wales anti the Duke
of Ziltnillirith step from their carriage, and exactly at the
digit Inollient the Prince imperial rise/ from his chair and,
followed in due order by the other Princes of his House, Meets
the Prince of Wales exactly at lailisigfit moment and at the
right spot. Taking the band of the Prince Imperial, the
Prince of Wales leans forward and blue. him on the
cheek. The Duke of Edinburgh gives • kiss on esoh
cheek, and after a sbehing hands >Myelin the vießmrs end
Pilo. Napoleon and the other Princes, the eight scions
of imperial and Rival COMM enter and lest themselves in
the inner drawing.rooni We aliguld not like to take a less
weighty opinion then Lord Sydney's, east. whether this kisis
leg was royal or merely oontinental,. and whether the differ-
ence between the one kiss of the Prince of Wales and the
two of the Duke of Edinburgh was due only to accident or
to etiquette aforethought There was j sad contrast between
the robust health and app arance of the Prince of Wale.
and the pale-wore look, the delicate frame, and the alight
stoop of the Prince Imperial.

Prince airbtlan also arrived and joined the Print*
Imperial is- the dretsing-ro,m, and a few momenta &Hee-
walla the English Prime's were conducted along the draped
corridor to the front at the lighted chamber in which the
Emperor lay. Tile curtains had now bcen drawn back for
the day, the single cord %latch remained stretched across the
entrance was removed, and the Prince of Wale' entered,
stood by the coffin a few momeetu and palmed batik
Into the corridor. He was followed by the Duke of Edin-
burgh and Prince Cluistoan, and then the Princes were con-
ducted to the apartments of the Empress, and after a short
visit to Her Majesty they left Camden Place. We be-
lieve the English public have been aa much gratified
as the Imperialists themselves by the warm sympathy
shown by the Queen and our Royal family during the
past week At the same time Co sensible person
will attach the slightest political significance to Huse
graceful acts of courtesy, which are intended as an ac-
knowledgment of person Al I, iendehic and sincere feel-
ing, fully shared by the Kimbell people We should, for
our own part, he glad if the Prince of Wake and his brothers
could attend the cortmony of the funeral, since we are per-
su vied that even such a mark of respect would not he
mbinterprePd I.y the present French Government. But
there ic a precedent, and it seems to us to be ter>
prop-rly binding. King Lends Philippe, as well as
the Kuperor, died in this country. If. also Mu
intim•Aely kcrrrwrc and respected in England, ago
th, r, can be no possible objection from any side urged
against our acting now as we acted then

The funffiral of the rdr Napoleon took place on Wed
ad 'y morning, it. at ..earys c.aiaolic Chapel, Chiselemrst.
flee early Veins from Laadon and other sur.ounding places
rought down enormous mowds of persons, b Mx hreueh alto
uglish.
Plus privileged atteudeSto, to the number of several Mtn
tired, assene.led in the gronnds ci Cam 'en Place Amon
these were a numb r of PIO.. workmen, who attended as a
deputation from th. It class to lay a wreath of flowers on the
tomb of the late Ein,,eror. The hearse, drawn by Maid
horses, having the imperial arms and cipher emblazoned co,
Ito-panels, were drawn up lea front of Camden Place.
Zarb, in the morning the weather was somewhat gloomy,
but as the hour for the oeremouy approached the can shone
forth, and lent some brightness to the otherwise sombre
case.
Among the crowd assembled In front of the house were
Manhal Caurobert, Marshal Leboalf, Prince Napoleon. SI,
Pad di tkagaargnae, and a host of Frouch uotatiaULles.
o 'bury and civil, manyof whom wore decorations conferred
by the late Emperor.
At eleven o'clock the coffin, preceded by a group o.
ecclesiastica, was brought out and pi .ced in the 11,arse. the
Empress took a hot look at the coffin from a partially oar.
tamed window. luimethately the procession moved slowly
away.
Alone, next after the hearse, walked the Prince Imperial
with head uncovered, and an expression of deep asdnesa On
his face. Immediately after him wele the Prince Jerome
and Lucian Bonaparte, Marshals Card,bert, and Lei.omf, seed
a procession a quarter of a mile in length.

The procession wound slowly through and out of the
grounds, passiug between the line of well-dressed and svm
pathidog spectators, Many of whom manifested their grief
by sobs aunt tears
The chapel, which Is • quarter of a mile from Camden
place, was reached in about 15 minutes.
- As coos as the principal relatives atol friends of the de
ceased, to the number of 180 had taken their places Itt the
Chapel, Father Goddard mad a number of priests, attired in
the sombre vestments prescribed for such occasions by the
Cath die Church, preceded to celebrate mass

The collit, was ladd near the front of the altar, and the
Prince imperial, with his Immediate relatives, were grouped
near the only vaoant places in the little chapel, those lately
occapted I y the Cr and the Ernpreee, who remained
alone in her &panatella, at 0/Auden lieuae

Many rf the spectators returned at once to their homes,
hu, rum mn, le remained to wait for the procession at the cludi
of the cemmony,

The Correspondent of the Standard gives the fol-
lowing dvtsiled account of the funeral :--
As the morning wore on the sombre vestibule running
right and left of the death chamber, which was hidden from
view by the folds of black cloth, became gradually filled try
gentlemen—for the most part Frenchmen—wearing full
evening dress, and wearing the red ribbon of the Legion of
Honour. Hall-past ten was the hour named for the depar-
ture of the funeral earr,fle, but it did not leave the house
till eleven o'clock. Then Pi cams in the folowing order :
A large in tiro!' Preach workmen led the way, cerr)ibtt the
tricoloured flag, which was mounted on is long branch
el • linoe, and sminsonsited by s. yellow intmertalle. The
men who, It is hardly neves& try to say, walked un-
covered, wore the yellow iu.mortells in their button-
holes; tbantellowed the canons from St. Dottie, bearing a
gdiden crucifix; a second rood) of men, French employes,
came next in order, succeeded try Mr Bunting arid his iliac,
wear.ng silk hatbands S next in order followed the hearse,
covered with black velvet, embossed in brilliant colours
with the Imperial crown and armee! Franie. Black feathers
were fixed at intervals alen.g the top, b dween which were
interwoven yellow immorteiles. The hearse was drawn by
debt horse., and as it passed by every hat was raised with
a profound reverence.

01 the many picturesque spots with which the county of
Kent abounds, rerhaps not the least picturesque is that road
.00ftssitr&.elueiiii$or,ow 7 the late Emperor during his
brief period of exile, which leads front Camden place to tile
little Roman Catholic Church of et. Mary, nestling peace-
fully and unpreteudinglyvi he centre of a clump of trees On
the south-eastern side of the cqrnmi n wherein the mortal
remains of his Imperial Majesty were to-day deposits
hut to the majority of those whose torte.ar it is
to dwell in cities, the attraction at a country tad, even
though the road he through the garden of England, most,
in the depth of so Inundating a winter as that ,th which
we have been blemed, he small Indeed; and the large
number of persons who assembled in the neigh, iourboot of
Chiselhurst this morning may, therefore, he taken as
another evidence that • British people are not to be
deterred by atmospherical influences, tither from
pursuing their o Airs. of pleasure or from paying a
last tribute of respect to the dead. Trutt there were many
drawn from London out of mere curiosity, or with the Lope
of turning the occasion to their pecuniary advantage no one
will venture to deny ; still, it was evident that by tar the
majority were Oct mere sightseers, hot hut corn* far the
purpose of pa trig that respect which most Eiiglishmen feel
to be due to the matt whom they at least honour.

Immediately behind the hearse walked the Prinre TM-
peria lie wore a mournees cloak, vita the Grand Cordon
of the Legion of Bonne Then 10110 Wed L set Suffield, who
represented the Prince of Wales, Prince Napoleon, Lord
Sydney, and the three other Princes of the Bonaparte
family ; these six noblemen walked abreast, and were fol
lowed LII the muse order by between 5 hand 800 gentlemen,
most of whom wore the cordon of the Legion of if ,11,011.,
and were bare-headed, notwithstanding the bleak wind
that blew acme, the uimmon. The route, as already
stated, from Camden louse to the Lttle churchyard was
thickly lined on both sidei by pe lestria, s and vehicle. of
every dtseription The erowd, a. the cortege approached the
chtd,hyard was immense, and, though orderly and re. beet-
ful in tv, ry particular, inch was the eagernes. to catch a
glimpse of the corn as it was taken from the hearse, that
s,riuus conseque,ioes might have ensued had it not be n for
an Ade:arable organitiatum of the police, and the perm.
live tirmnes. of Mr. superintendent and Inspector Darning.

" To take up the thread of the curative where we dropped
it, the Prilic,s of the House of Bonaparte, escept only the
Prince Imperial, were conducted along the corridor as anon
as the Itatiolsh Princes bad passed oil to the Ewpress's apart-
mentg. I'Whenathe B napartist Princes, too, had passed,
it was the turn of the son to visit his father, and the
Prince Imperial was ushered along the corridor. Enter-
mg the _dumber alp* l knelt and
.peayed by the
coffin, and pa.sed on to Ilia mprenee apartments,
white he renamed with the oilier Princes. Prin-
cess 111,111111 e, Princess Clothilde, the Empress's devoted
attendants, and many Other ladies whose faces looked pale
in their h. avy crapes, next passed. Nearly all wept, and
paused to kneel and pray. Then came the general body of
eminent Imperialists, then others wbk had been ad-
mitted within the gates before twelve Crenate, and among
thew we noticed many Enclish men and women of
rank. Needless to say that all were clad in de:3p
mewing. Soon after twelve the lodge gates were
•apenad Ii ii grold oilcloth hid, keg collecting be
fore them for several hours. Vine lines Wearrium stood
In the roads which ran ilieloag Chiselhurst Common, and there
was soon a crowd of several thousand persons, men and
women. all in mourning, waiting to be admitted. They
were admitted 200 at a time, and it took about a quar-
ter of an hour for this number to pass through. Between
a line el, puttee sentries they passed up the atraight
drive, arched over by the bare arms of ant avenue
of beech. entered at the side:door, passel along the
corridor pekes the moven* chamber, and Co on
through the dining-room, down the atom from the wilt-
dow, the guile., and along a dive legnig through shrub•
*ryes to 9 tee_ %volts 4 oat at which they
yhteo thert;A:• was? st • a raLK trero Fr•-hchine,
and there eat we, ping mud col big h as well
aa women oppeene the chamber in which tie gray.
. haired priests said prayers for tle rest f Napoleon's
anal, and In which the motionless Chamberlains kept
watch by the side of a figure still more motionless
than they They lusii seen hint ofteu ride down
' the ranks in the Champ de Mars, or out of the
archway of the Tuileries, while the drama rattled, and
the guard kirned •nt-e'and there ha was ! gee ish tears
were not wantine, and the people looked pale nod serious
as they left the house. They recovered themselves when
, they came to a table with pen and Mk, and books in
which they were expected to write their signatures, and
, the genuine English love orleaving that eternal record
lin every possible place asserted itself. There were plenty
I of whoa but their aerviees were only wanted to keep
the people off the grass and to regulate the crowd
lat the gate. This soon beeame serious or as the day
wore on people arrived from Woolwich anal Deptford
I on foot in great numbers, and train after train brought
• its load from town. All wore mourning, anti the roads from
' Chiselhurst station to the Lodge Gates were black as with
I an interminable funeral proceanou of going and return-
: lag people. The crJeel at the Lodge Gate became
enormous and unmmageeble. Frauchmen eonld have
. formed themselves Into a queue. but an Englishman's only
Idea is to pasta doggedly towards his point line
police were numerous and energetic, and, solar as we have
heard, there was uo accident woree than bruises. For every
person who entered the gate several must have gone away
disappointed, for the crowd of well-dressed people was at
one time so large that they could not have parsed through
the corridor in twenty-four hours."

• THE CHAPEL.
Than the inside of the little Roman Catholic chapel
nothing could have been more simple. The windows were
dressed with the pintnest blAck curtains, and at the west
end was a tribune covered with black cloth, erectei for
the accommodation of the choir. "

Over the altar
.was

"lii canvassing the life and character of the late Emperor
the Saturday Itmete justly remarks that it, no Not toss of
the substantial merit of a public man just dressed whether
the g obi or the evil he has done more promptly and spon-
taneously occurs to the Mind. There is no doubt that in the
present rase this test is favourable to the dead. Setting
aside the small number of those—very few in England—
whose sympathies with continental Radicalism are so ye.
heinent and so rooted as to govern all their judgments on
foreign politica, and to whom Napoleon 11l is simply the
destroyer of the Republic and the repressor of Socialism, the
great majority of the peranns who think for themselves on
political questions recall for more easily and naturally the
good than the evil aote of the ex-Emperor of the French;
and this not only because England benefited lanely by his
virtues and suffered little by his sin, not only, because tip,
gOrni that he (lid survives him, while Me worst design. mere
signal failures, but also because many of his best demi• were
purely his own, while his worst were breed upon him by the
difficulties of hi. situation. It la impossible to forget or
wholly to forgive the coup treat ; but we must fairly allow
that it might present itself to the mini of Nepoleon in a
very different light from that which English morality and
English constitutionalism shed upou it."--/ he Standard.
-- • - -

a large white cross, and on either side of the--tab-e-r-
-nacle the usual lepers. The altar itself waa draped in
black, with a little white cross on the frontal, and in the
middle of the flier stood a bier flanked with tapers. Ladies
in mourning itecupied the front seats, a few in prayer, most
in c..versation. Kneeling chairs were provided for the
Imperial party, while there was nothing elite conspicuous In
the interior except a plaster ten ige of toe Virgin, backed up
with black, and a proceasionai crops lyitig ready for use in 41.
ehanoel. Lip till a quarter to lithe chapel was n it one-fourth
tilled, but at that hour a few gentlemen began to drop in, and
were ushered to their seats by a ggitleinan wearing the creed
it the Legion of 11, iier. l'be little bell 11811 e,unifeil mourn-
fully at minute intervals. he teL minutes to eleven the
alt,r tapers were lighted. The whispered conversatt in grew
es*. lower, and until the arrival of (Iv preoesse in there was
nntblog to break the monotony of almost absolute idletee
tut the booming of the death bell.
During the perio I occupied by the service—upwards of
two hours—the throng whitih had gathered round the church,
to the numh, of several thou•ands, remained patiently
waiting the termination ; end as the Prince Imperial left the
church he was greeted with loud and prolonged cheering,
end so enthusiastic was the crowd, that it required the i on,
bitted efforts of police to prevent them following the carriage.

The Prince Imperial returued from the chapel in a car-
riage with Prince Jerome.

On Wednesday morning, the band rf the Grenadier
Guards at the guard mounting of the let liattalloh of the
regiment at St. James's Palace, played the '' Deal &Larch" in
Saul.

lour Mars after the death of the Emperor, Stguor
lirtledani and his malstases arrive at Chloetheist to Sake •
mask of his face for I.lss meet Alss aosiptos--poesthly Siamp
lirtiehtni—to whem Use Empress should srestually entrust
the 'escudos of the Emperor's bust in maible Neither the
Empress nor the Penis Armorial, nor any' of the'linPerial
household, was present while the mutt was taken The ',rely •
of the Emperor was arranged on the little camp bedstead which
stands at the side al it. latiorate be usually slept on, ono os
which the awaited operations liad been performed, and the Em-
peror breathed his task,. Xut before the inink was taken, the
affection. of the Emlwrega..Ohlch would have tato Isstrefied'the.
verdiet of the Phratlase, suggested that • mirror sherd/
he placed near the Emperor's mouth to test whether or
not a spark of life remained. A small hand mirror was
sent by the Empress for the purpose, anti applied accord-
ing to her Majesty's desire, bat as was expecte; the glam
remained tudisruishad by • breath., and so the impress
was informed. But her solicitude went further, and she
sent two quids, with the desire that they might be inserted
In the nostrils prior to the pouring on of the plaster, as la
the custom when a mask Is tsken from • living model. On
a respectful intimation being conveyed to the Empress
that such an arrangement was untieee•eary, she waived her
desire, and permitted Signor Breeden' to proceed with hi,
with, and the preparations for the Pepresslon of the wholt
of the head and the upper part of the breast of the Emperor
were quickly made. The memive moustache was carefull3
waxed and brought down over the points of the mouth to-
wards the chin, and the imperial was also waxed and pressed
close to the chin. These and other minor arrangements re-
sulted In the production of a most faithful Ilk exists. The
cast since taken from the mould shows the Emperi t's face to
he very round and full, and marked with the most peaceful
expression, atm it does not bear a trace if pain.

The Italian Minister f War sent General Caselll with three
officers to represent the Italian army at the funeral, the late
Emperor having held the chief command of the Italian army
in 1859.
. . _ . .

It is state I from Paris that over fifty thousand people have
called at the reel knee of SI Rouher and left their names as
a mark of respect to the memory of the late Emperor,
A Reuters telegram iron, Bucharest stated that funeral
services In honour of the Enperor Napoleon would he held
in all the churches in the country on Wednesday, ant the
Court will go into mourning for fifteen days The entire
Roumanian press oontaln sympathetic obituary notices of
the deceased Emperor.

As a mark of respect to the deceased Emperor, the
blinds of many private houses at the West end of Loudon
were drawn on the morning of the funeral.
The committee of the Army and Navy Club, In the name
of its members, having sent • letter of condolence on the
death of the Emperor, received a reply from M Inert, Stat-
ing that the Empresa has been profoundly touched by this
expression of their sympathy,. The bliodr c' e:
drawn on ths worlds, of t 1 •"u

the Lumber of the se se ho went to Chiselburst ote Wed-
nesday, to view the him; lo State of the Emperor, Is °eti-
olated at between 20,000 and 30,000 persons.
A Vet-miles telegram says that Admiral Rigault de
Genoui ly, Count Nitta°, Marshal Car robett, and fleneral
he Beard w, ra aut'o vise I to attend the funeral of the Em-
peror Napoleon. Two Majors on active service. formerly
officers of the Emperor's staff, Were refused permission to
to Chisethurst.

It Is sani-ofholally announced in order to avoid misfit.
prehension " that to the arrangements with reelect to the
term and character of the Oturt mourning f. r the late Eta.
peror Napoleon, aod the partiepation of the ILn
by their representatives, in the funeral ceremonies, the pit.
cadent' set on the death of King Louts Philippe have bean
strictly followed.

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7 adulated to toe pressuse of tee en- nesd nary Bonapartism.
ievslis ready aad k tat edir-eve It,,r
Bunlong prior to this mecond failure, the sabers of
hoessetort, tne eltarotteclain sin here, brocwi,
s cone of the Brinapertists. in an Informalat,.!quite
ie. Pb... Is tree Teasel* -orroterndsin in EngliM. ,
the presence ea tee actors r, auomporial,mtie manner, bad come to live mder
no
't inrht of the the Inane roof. About kris miles due north troto
triontmorency—that combination for the Parisians
,f Eppiug Forest aid Hatupstead—beyond
Margency and el outlienon, there nice the church
spire of Napoleon St. Lou. On the elope above
the village there onoe stood a chateau, now demo-
lashed. About the year 1803 there came hither
to reside, first at intervals, afterwards permanently
until 1815, a lady whose maiden name had
treen Hortense Iteauharirais, and who had been
wedded, as it was said, unwillingly, by Louts Bowe
parte, a younger brother of the great Emperor.
Her budwid had been made King of Holland
—with as novo reluctance, k was sail, SS
he had taken Hortense to wife. But Hretense
emblem acoompanted her spouse on such flying visits as
he ma let. Hell nd, and preferred to remain in or
about Paris, lied, g now at the Tuileries, now at St. Leo,
now at Foutaimbiur now at ALI! Illaitioll. It WI. at
St. Lou that her eldest boy, Napoleon Charles, died
in 1807, a year before hie brother, he who died on
Thunday, wan bora. Napoleon Charles, the little
Prince Royal of Holland, warn buried in a mausoleum
in the Park of the tariateen of St. Lea. Thither, too,
King Louis had fetched from Montpellier' where
the old follower of Paoli had died in 1785, the
body of his father, old Charls Marie Napoleon, of
Cors ca, the father of the whole stock. After the
second restoration the Chateau of St. Lent passed
into the hands of the Duke of Bourbon, who nrudged
house-room in him park to the relatives of him at whose
inistance the Duke of Enghien was shot. So he bun-
dled the coffins outside, and palled down the mauso-
leum ; but charitably interposed no obstacle in the
way of the Curd of St. Len, when that worthy man
would find a refuge for the oatcake in the vaulta of his
church—vaults not unworthy of any ashes, tor they
were the burial plans of the Montmorencies. The two
Bonaparte. dead already in St. Lou were joined later
.ey two more. L ruin Philippe, although he would not
tolerate within France the living firebrand Louis
Napoleon, did not objeot to the interment in St. Len
of the dead Napoleon Louis, his elder brother, when
that ardent young Republican died at Emit in 1831,
after the abortive raring in the Papal States in which
the two brothers took part. Nor was sepulture with
his fatoer and children dallied to ex-King Louis, who,
having abdicated in 1810, died at Leghorn in 1846.
Thus, when Sr.. Denis refused for the second time to
tMerate within it a lir 'oaf-artist vault, the remains of
four members of the family already lay in the Church
of St. Len, So the late Emperor, accommodating
himse f to t ircuostanws, deter mined to adopt St. Len
be the family resting plan,.. He altered the name of
the villiage to Napoleon St. Lou; rebuilt and enlarged
the church at great expense, and had constructed a
special vault in the chancel, which was hanselled by the
removal into it of the coffins contain ng the remains of
the four members of the family who were already in
occupation. He issued too, in his turn, a decree that
this vault wan thenceforth to be regarded as the burial.
place of the dynasty. The pillars, roof, and walls of
the church are stud ted thickiy with Imperial bees, and
in the lecess behind the altar is an imposing moue-
meet of *hes marble, surmounted by a painting of
St. Napo'eon in rather an uncomfortable attitude on,
cloud. The monument is crowned by a life statue of
ex King Louis, and lrelow, in parallel niches. are the
busts of the other three occupsms of the vault, with,
brief biographical inscription in gold letters below.
There can be no doubt that the remains of the late
Emperor will ultimately be placed in the vaul . of the
church of Napoleon St. Lem in the place of irepulture
which be himself chose and erected. It would be •
magnanimous act on the part of the President and
Assembly of the French &public to convey an intim*,
tion to the Bonaparte family of their willing sanction
that the roloaius should be at once consigned to their
permanent resting place there, and to prefer a free
permission to the whole of the members of the exiled
family to visit France on the last errand of devotion to
its late head. It is eeemly to bury all etunitien in the
grave; and since in the came tomb that hold the late
Erineror Iroperiali-m must be buried also, the courtesy
ould be eon BM 118 it would be graceful.

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