The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-15 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBIIII 16.

Tim authorities MID deitlTOinAd to give the
remains of tho Duke of WELLINGTON more than
Christian honours—to make • Pagan hero of him,
and slay human victims near his corpse. On Satur-
day the body of the veteran, lying in silent
state in the hall of Chelsea College, was honoured
by the killing, outside that building, of two
wretched women, whose career was cut short
in the uncontrolled crowd there assembled.
One had left her duties as a cook—the other her
home as the wife of a stablekeeper—to we the Lying
in State ' • both ventured into the path where, with
thousands of others, they had been bidden by the
authoritative promise of a noble sight. In that place
they lost their lives. Tho king of Dsuoitcv
was understood to be the only potentate living
in lzeil who honours the corpse of a dean
favourite by the immolation of human victims. The
king of Dsuolur pays the dreadful compliment by
cutting the throats of negro. captives. The plan at
Clielsea—u we now see—is to encourage the as-
semblage of a great crowd, which ends in crushing the
weakest to death. The African slavir-iielling King
catches his victims in open war; we bid them to a
solemn funeral spectacle. His slaughter is inten-
tional ; ours " accideut"— induced by imperfect

arrangements.
Perhaps the death of the two unhappy women at
Cliches College on Saturday will secure better
plans for to-day and henceforward,—otherwise
we stall asenredly have to chronicle a further sacri-
ficer if human lite. Those hitherto trusted with the
ardetting of the funeral of the Duke of WELLINGTON
have proved to be incompetent to the task. It is
clear they either greatly under-estimated the number
of persons likely to attend the Lying in State, or else
they made an equally false calculation of the means
necessary for ensuring the safety of the vast throng. In
either case the public condemnation are •s 4 pro-
nounced upon them is riehlieesrved. ThejWgmtnt
which fixed on Chelsea 'nil foe the ceremonial
was manifestly unsound, when a mash nobler,
and much larger, building was to be had in
Westminster Hall. At Westminster there would
have been the fine open square of Palace Yard for
the reception of those assembled ; there would have
been no need for "striking the flags" which the Eng-
lish soldiers had brought home from their many
battles—the Hall would have held twenty or thirty
times as many spectators as Chelsea Chapel—and
safe egress might have been bad into Abingdon-
street. Having made this first grand error, by re-
jecting the larger—and historically more interesting
—structure, and choosing in its stead the small and
inconvenient college at Chelsea for this long-delayed
ceremony, the persons charged with the duty of
carrying out the plan evidently made no due prepa-
rations for the safety of the multitude whom protracted
and stimulated curiosity was sure to draw to the spot.
The "private view" (a most indecent, unbecomingteem)
was so ill-arranged that hundreds—some say thou-
sands—who had been offered facilities fee attending
it were unable to gain admission. There had been
no proper calculation made to adjust the number
of those asked to the number which the ca-
pacity of the building could accommodate within
the prescribed limit of time. Then, again,
the hours fixed for the admission of the general
public to this national ovation were absurdly con-
tracted. Having determined upon paying to the
remains of the Duke of NVELLINGTON the
compliment of a Lying in State, and having
arranged the details of the ceremonial, it
would only have been neeeseary to relieve the
guard sufficiently often, and to renew the lights,
and the building at Chelsea might have been open
day and night from the commencement of this
national compliment (for such it is understood to be)
till the morning when all that is earthly of the pea
warrior shall be taken in state to its resting place in
St. Paul's. There would have been something quite
in keeping with what ought to be the solemnity of
each a ceremonial, in tens of thousands of him coun-
trymen flocking hoar after hour through the day,
and thee, on and en, through the still
watches of the night till daybreak, and then
still cm and on again in an enteeken enema, till so
many theemads oat el our peat sit/ of two and a
bait million made as thought St bad gratified their
and paid their tribute al here-weeehip over
the ecru or the dead soldier. Bat no. Them and
be a "private vine se the nobility and ratty
who acheget tickets; then only a portion of the
who got the emoted mem& of pasteboard mild be
admitted; and tiles an levitation to the kindred. of
thousands el Leedom to sew sad see this mat eight
▪ between 9 and /I delude Thus bidden, the pride
same and sues undl they into a
panting, shrieking, and =lands, inwitek
the weak were maimed and the weakest list their
lives.
It is said there were on Saturday morning only
130 patient's to keep the ground at Chelsea. Oan
this be tans ? If so, who made so fatal a miseistion
of what hires was required P And who wee
so criminally
_negligee* as to leave the theneeph•
fares up whisk the pospie wen) invited to seem
unprepared he the swedes P—who left these
Mash without a eneeneha of barriers ? If the
plies nod soilless bed bees entered to edeo *the
at haerag the pelvis oohed eightestea
ems die el the therseshara—setetipZegt
side dtele 'by, u UM, bet
ikon The ow first to steed Mt. ea
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Mike esesee seek hare been se bee ef
Ilk and seeet atithrtail beams a mink of '
open a*. by pales or soidime weed
bare a Mies awl mesas or retaiet
le those deed of waiting ke.bele tree. Bat it is
set one MINN to pate* id bow the fatalities of
Ilikedey het amid Mae lee availed, et r sake
Worths EARL MANI= sal theOlembiemse of
It was their deq te
_mere the safety of all
who th pahNe
elderledsa Se lbs Lying is
Mete; shut Mar sh& eseesesed" have
ansi—asi their eleist will of seem beams the

sabist failTs mesa wig
it is within the mope of ewe duty to retain &abet-
ter arreagemenb be made kw this dew fiffrawd.
The authorities have had their samisen am—as
the deed•heese et Chelsea Wailes. They haw by
this time the mistsbes they ham made. Are we we
they will take better care ia Mare? Acaradiag to
existing there isms very great bspe for
it. The Qty of Leads& is to oar an &Ural:160o
=dna tied sew et Chaim, and it is to have a
bemire at the sad of each thoroughfare
=11:::: Fleet-street, Ludgate-hill, and tit.
yard. St. James's-perls is also, the
Fr= MAMMAL says, to be closed against the
=rids who on the 18th will be flocking
to see the funeral cavalcade. We are told
that the railwa have already seemed three
hundred who mesa to be in
Leaden to me treamsgaserkraL Even if their
numbers are not swelled during the week, these,
added to the ordinary widen* will raise the popu-
lation of the modern DebyW to something wrestl-
ing three millions—sweet crowd which will esetainly
'apply sight-seers saccigh to risk any sweat of
widest, unless those with the polies
arrangements of the prove themselves
My equal to the ' ' of their position.
We want no more ham. @sallies@ over the gala
of the Duke.

J. A. Boum, R. lI.P.—We beer with regret
That the heath ef the hes. member ke Ilbellild is sot re.
establisheL Ile is it Imam seder the elln of *Lam
-odleal nes ; sad be be,.. to be shie Is aka Ws east is
"yeses of censor shot Christmas. It will as &slot
ire dinelpsistmest te kin sot to be silk to Mead
,t, woks sf the Imes, where seetteee of es sub
• daterami.—litas Merairy.