The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-10 00:00:00

TIIE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S FUNERAL.

(1,11011 AVIS ?.i10117.11 GAZT.IIIO.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S °EWE, Nov. 9.—Notice is
hereby given that the remains of the late Field Mar.hal his
Grace the Duke of Wellington, KM.. &c., Bc., &e., will
lie in state, at Chelsea Hospital, on Friday the 12th, Sa-
turday the 13th, Meuday the 15th, Tuesday the 16th, and
Wednesday the 17th instant. The Lord Chamberlain has
received her Maj.ly's commands to confine the admission
on Friday, the 12th instant, to the Foreign amba, idors
and ministers, peers and peeresses, members of par lament,
officers of the army and navy, and such other person. as the
Lord Chamberlain may deem entitled to the pris liege
Application for tickets of admission must be made to the
Lord Chamberlain, at his office in St. James's Palace. No
tickets will be required upon the other days named in this
notice. The admission will be general on each day between
the hours of 9 and 4 o'clock.

The preparations at Chelsea Hospital, the more
immediate point of interest, are rapidly approaching com-
pletion. The hangings of the vestibule and the hell are up,
and the niches in which she soldiers are to stand prepared.
The gas mains and other means of illueninatim are in a
forward state, so that little remains to be done but the
catafalque and dais. These last and most important por-
tions of the work will tax the energies of the workmen !O
the utmost to get them ready in time, the more especially
as, from the costly nature of the materials employed, they
could not be introduced into the ball until all the dust and
dirt of the carpenters had been cleared away. The " flag "
question had been n subject of some perplexity to the
decorators, but not from the cause hinted at in some
of the papers. There will be colones u'etl in the
decorations, but not in such arrangement as in
any way to syrnboliae the Duke's victories. They
will be those which have always hung up in the ball,
but have necessarily been taken down to make room fur the
sable hangings. The authorities commonly supposed to be
learned in soch matters have been consulted as to the his
tory of the various tattered banners, but little information
has been elicited ; and a singular proof of how small is the
national interest in military matters may be inferred from
the fact that the undertakers have bad the greatest difil
culty in obtaining a royal standard. We believe that they
have actually been obliged to call into temporary requisi-
tion the one used to intimate to her Majesty's loving sub-
jects the fact of the Royal sojourn at Buckingham Palace.
The workmen will he employed until late on Wednesday
night, and the public will not be admitted until Friday.
The police authorities have their hands lull, organising their
arrangements for the free transit of the public. The passage
through which they Ore to pass will admit of four
passing up abreast, and supposing them to proceed in re-
gular order, an approximate calculation may be made of the
number who will obtain a sight of the lying-in-state during
the week preceding the funeral. Supposing them to pass
the dais eta foot-pace, say two miles an hour, and allowing
a yard to intervene between each visitor and bis successor,
a single file of 3,500 could pass in an hour. This multiplied
by four, the number who can proceed abreast, would give
14,000, and that number multiplied again by ten, the pro-
bable number of hours during which the ceremonial will be
open during the day would amount to 140,000 per diem.
Six
,slear days will intervene between the first open-
ing and the funeral, during which time, if our
calculations be correct, 840,000 persons may have
passed slowly through the hall at Chelsea, and leisurely
inspected the funeral decorations. Should the hall be left
open through the night, the numbers of course will be pro-
portionately increased. The police anticipate that the first
day will be the least crowded, so many will be kept away
by fear of the pressure, and that their principal trouble will
arise from the country visitors, who, coming up from all
parts with their wives and families, and their return tickets
In their hands, will, to WO their own expression, "go
through a stone wall" to get their sight•seeing done in
time for the train. It is hatred, however, that the experi-
ence in the management of large masses acquired during
the Great Exhibition will enable the police to perform their
arduous labours at once gently and efficiently.

ITHE LYING IN STATE AT CHELSEA HOSPITAL.
The following official notice hu been issued to the public
respecting the ceremony of the'remains of Field-Marshal,
Arthur Iluke of Wellington, K. 0., lying in state " Re-
gulations to be obaerved by all rreous going to witness
the ceremony : All persons are to come to the hall along
the Queen's-road from the east, or side towards London
and enter by the covered way in the Queen's-road.—Csr-
elope setting down: Carriages are to set down at the
covered entrence in the Queen's-road, with the horses,
heads towards the west, and draw off into Smith-street.
The carriages coming to the entrance will be formed in
line along the Queen's-road to the eastward, and (heave-
nor- row ; carriages may also come along Slosno-street and
the Asylum-row ; these will be formed in order and admit-
ted into the line on the Queen's-road at Franklin's-row.—
Taking up : Carriages are to take up at the exit door in the
Queen's-rood, with the horses' heads towards the west, and
go away along the Queen's road, Wnt.—Waiting : Car-
riages are to wait in Smith-street, Green's-row, and Bt.
Leopard's-place, as directed by the polioe. No person can
be allowed to remain near the entrance or exit doors by
which obstructions may be caused ; places for the servants
of visitors to wait will be pointed out by the police. On
Friday the 12th no one will be admitted but with a card of
admission from the Lord Chamberlain. On Saturday the
lath, and Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday following the
public will be admitted from 9 ti 4 o'clock each day, sub-
ject to such regulations of police as may be necessary to
prevent danger or disorder, from pressure of too great
'numbera—littliaun MarNs, Commissioner of Peliee of
the Metropolis. —Metropolitan Police-utiice, November
9, 18.52."

Orders hare been issued for the Foot Guards to
famish aGuard of Honour, consisting of 1 lieut.-colonel,
1 csptain, 1 subaltern, 4 sergeants, 4 corporals, and 98 pri-
vate., at Chelsea, on Thursday, at 11 o'clock, to receive the
remains or Field-Marshal his late Grace the Duke of Wel-
lington, to be relieved daily by the battalion furnishing the
public duties of the day. Four drummers will be con-
stantly on duty, and sometime the whole number belong-
ing to the battalion.
'The office of the Lord Chamberlain, Saint
James e, hu been since Monday a scene of unusual bustle
and activity, and thronged by applicants for cards or ad-
mission to the lying in .tats at Chelsea Hospital. As seas
the case with admittance to the House of Lords, applicants
are required to enter their names and addresses in the first
instance In a book kept fur the purpose, but no tickets hare
as yet been issued.

WALMER, Nov. 9.
The inhabitants of the Cinque Ports and the surrounding
diatriet of country were to-day gratified by obtaining
peimisaion to visit the remains of the Duke in Widow
Castle. They bad made several applications for this per.
pole, feeling, as they did, a very natural desire to testify
their n speet for the memory of the great man who had died
among hem, and whose residence in an official connesion
with tlas neighbourhood certainly gave an air of propriety
to their wishes. Their requests, however, would probably
have been refused but for the exertions of Mr. Kendal, the
duke's valet, who represented the matter so strongly to the
new Duke, and through him t t the Lord Chamberlain, that
the leave sought for was obtained. The preparations made
by Meters. Dowbiggin and Holland at the Castle aro of a
simple and unpretending character, there being no means
for any great display, nor indeed was it wanted. In the
Ismail, irregularly shaped room when he died lies the body

of the Duke, inclosed is an outer coin, cu near
after the holden of royalty, witk trine*
and with handles and learnt decorations riatly telt it.g
the lid, near the heal, rests the ducal coronet, and Is;
it the pall, gathered back to give visitors a complete
The coin rests on a low stand, coveredwith Leek thee. and protected from intrusion by airmail railing, mad .1, 4
candelabra with huge was lights and plemes iva:4";',..
are arranged. The wells and roof of the small apartre'
int
arc of course hung with black cloth, the single die
erased window closed, and bracket caeilles chel
silvered sconces barely relieve the gloom of the seeti,„'..;:,:i
pery. Visitors entering at one door pass by the led et 'le; coffin, and then out at another without interruptien,
anteckembers and corridors fur egress are else ;
hang with black, and lighted with candles eland at here
r.
trills on the side walla It would be vain to attempt y
minute description of the arrangements, fo: irre4lat;'
the interior construction of the Cindy that no clique,
of them could be conveyed. It appears o have Is
originelly a round tower, and in the arlaptatiellS red ale re
thou welch it has since uudergone, Its rat noel!lvory m.
savvy still show themselves in the small, low ref. e,
shaped, and ill-lighted rooms, with
ecalorainfrf of a battery, and walls thick ,n•
to he bomb petrol. There is one I age Nea,te,,,,,,
in
which all dist remains of the illustrious ,
beet, sees, to much better elven:age ; but the t, eieed was
considered incept dient or contrary to enstme, e,„,
attempted. Its warlike uses having fallen tutu
Widmer Castle betrays, on an inspection of the • e e.,e,
curious traces of the purposes to winch, it, ;its r
has been applied as the metier residee, •,
power. A kitchen garden has been eete1,11.1.,1
and the open causeway which once led to r, • .
covered with a light roof of glees. Windows ere, , .
tr
pierced through the old walls, look out pro. • 'n
chief seaward battery, which e unnia,.us o, •,,,
spec% aed is quite as well adapted for a ne..hhr I pr
whereon to inh,le the In•sh air an for gulp. t•,
voiding fleet. Through the low snow' Itc•ta.,y
entrance to-day the visitors passed, fir•t, alon, e •
glees-covered passage alluded to, then op st t, I
battery, then through dimly lighted aet. ,
chain tar of death, and then along ~.orti,:ur. are .;
CAMS and arrnia the garden on to the A , tee "
at a few piens' distance from each ether I r .
gland of honour of the Hide brigade e ere ;• ~ .
with his arms reversed, and leaning in a .nlr ,etu
on hie musket. Along the beach, a. ..•
reach towards Dial, a lung train el ~, „, ,
in mourning, passed and repaeeed thr,,ure .•
while from greater distances ceriveyan •• r,,,. •
their departure in quick aucceosion. I 1 .•• • „
being struck with the reapec,dble spin r •
visitors, and the evident care which even the :. •
them had taken to present themedves , see „.
the castle on such an occasion. There sth• ••,
or confusion of any kind, and no uhlt.en,:) ~ •tt t • 'l'o-morrow!
o.morrow it is expected that the num,' „ .
be much larger than they were to-ney, I •r e •
rally known that permission had been al I •
.e
dude's remains. The r, stiiction, Mire
sons preecitUng themselves for admiesien to to:, •
ing, will prevent any inconvenh.ne end te, re., •
which might be usefully followed during • • • •••• at
Chelsea Hospital. The removal e
to-morrow night by special train in the qua:, 14.0eiCT
possible. A military escort will .11;,•,, I
way to the nation, and on its arrival in t ,e .!
Duke's oldest and must faithful ilooheths or, .
tablishment that [WM remain at the castle. tee•
a line 0,,l veteran, is the eergeant of tie ;.o
disastrous siege of Denten-up Zoom r, uto • .e.t,„!,
with the net of the troops, and with Id tour
expending ~very cartridge, made an sawn: naractdo,
cape in thu face of the enemy,

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