The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23.

lt seems now tolerably situ that the funeral of the
Duke of WELLINGTON will take place on the lfith
ot next month. There remain, then-fore, tour weeks
between the present time and that appointed for the
celebration of a ceremony
.which contains within
itself materials for the exercise of profound thought
and deep reflection. Those who witness the burial
ot the Duke of WELLINGToN will be present at
the funeral of a great era. Thousand. who will
see, or at least who will wish to ace, and who might
to be allowed to see, this great sight—awakened into
political consciousness at the time when the Duke
was the great &cur in those transactions which, how-
ever pcwerity mar judge them, laid the foundations
of the history of Europe for the Iwt thirty years.
To these persons the fluke is the incarnation of that
past to which their recollections turn, as the period
when their minds were most active, and most thirty
busied with the movements of the great world
around them. They will see in the procession
which carries the great soldier to the grave the so-
lemn preparation for the entombment of an epoch
which was once Tilti with great deeds which were
the aources of their most lively emotions. They will
. feel us we, the heirs of the modern world, must also
feel, that many thoughts, sentiments, and tradi-
tions of a past age, sink into the earth with their
great representative, and that this funeral marks, at
least for chronological purpoaes, the division between
two great epochs. The old, the middle-aged, and
the young will in short all kel a deep and peculiar
interest in the burial of the great man.
There are only four weeksbcfore the ceremony will
take place. It has been delayed long enough, and
we shall therefore make no objection to the shortness
of the time for preparation. In the meanwhile, it is
quite right that this time should be employed as eco-
nomically as possible in suggesting and making ouch
arrangements as will give all portae facility for the
great mass of the nation participating in • solemn
national act. The question then is, do the present
arrangements, as far as they are known, appear to
have been planned with a due regard to those claims
which the nation in general have aright to prefer to
be allowed to take part in the ceremony P
In the first place, is not the distance which has
been named too short for the due presentation
of an immense procession. We have been told that
more than a thousand troops will take part in the
ceremony. When we consider the number of neces-
sary adjuncts that must be added to this portion,
we shall see that the length of the procession will be
enormous. Is the distance from the Horse Guards
to Bt. Paul's sufficient to display this with any effect
Bat leaving this out of the question, ought the num-
ber of spectators to be confined to those who can ob-
tain facilities for the view, in the short distance men-
tioned? With the exception of the open space about
Charing-crow, there is no poiat in the whole length
capable of affording a view to a large Number of
spectators at once. The remainder of the journey
between Charing-cross and St. Paul's is bounded by
the sides de narrow street, the pavements of which
will afford room toe a mere fraction of the popu-
lation. The meet important objection. however, to
this feature of the preparations is, that not only will
the number of the epetators be limited to a very
small properties dtbme who would wish to be pre-
sent, bet thet these vial be in a great measure com-
posed of the mumbies eta rime which will owe its
anew is apider geed lime to mere violence. The
savaged, Ibe meet brutal, the most careless of the
.11111.11111SOSS slithery, will be Wes who will succeed
IR &Webs the boat parities' we a narrow apace of
Wrisedeiposeemmt. Casaiewt, the sweep, would be
ewe rte Aida a right of the priesesion if he were at
ltieproiembo, therefore, ought to be spread over
a larger spews It is said that the body, after lying
in state for sagas days at Chelsea Hospital, will be
resod the sight
_bike the towel to the Hone
Owe. Its bisidy peasule% it is reported, will
shut from Ageley-hersa. Why should the body be
rimmed feels Melia before the ceremony takes
=ilfi Why net start on the morning of the
from Mabee, and let the family procession
blew at Arley-house? Shield this plan be
obtpled, thmismis who would inn dare to venture
WO
the .rower duvets would be embed to view the
117 them = thes past le t Ryispeek, which over-
-11. 0 km the Heron-park and fit.
Imola The_ pest_
_tipaee oared by these !lea-
ds, litahld died fedities which thorned, would be
jittsaarrieti.
as we do the convenience of the specie-
. hem Jo the street, es an important point—inasmuch as
Vs wiU esaetitate the enormous majority of those
• premat--we teapot help repeating a suggestion we
smile a lbw weeks back on this subject. We stated
thee that the beet plasm in the Mae would be occu-
pied
in b
their pride=
y poisons who w Obesidsio the ret prevented.
rema whale
thee of
11 Ithzmx7l2r if the
ee preeessiont,
114 that as blob looker"
ea wait be dirtied exayptilir re. sub of streets
il
the in& These pante mould emblem abealemelille imbue dekk
tlyo* sod aseteatios. Our
sa thet shor tart the paw eons-
bmeggeithad diPlidmesulb the ewe in the ebeele l=abo
be amble men is the erietevey elinostisi. By dins
mane ovety posses in the lime weld me every part
of the buserd eerier, and biddies *odd he con-
tinually aided lib the 'precooked new eemers. We
mod cienselei there to be eat dlibealty la the way of
effesdatede alai the polies mould set net over by
tirmesss ism Neva winat tie
can, the
ismre be r.
. Meld ergo spa a
skewuthorities the
-predeeler pelt I whisk we ha all directed
ationdseC limed a vert be eidimel. The asters
in it sneak nee be esedimdl le ote. T Garry out
, die the grist thieWall be repeseented,
and we reemersidilislittatroreand town meads gen e-
• rally Ode Aiwa Theehe MN= la which
theme bei tied hike part In the peemenp may
be a raw et diesuries. If_lbey do 'not, however,
ins pug el the geseserion, Omni would be no dill-
=l.s4lgettprectileir =st. Pdat'°ne, ifbYn not it
the dam tratkeg._ •
wit West diet these souridenthins, and others of
the mum abut*, will have ibip weight with those
with whom the eispeinibility iambi out the
ebbed the iremileey nets. and • dirt they wid be
• beamed M nonage the preemies le sash s meaner.
that it shad eves to be worthy ilk great • nation,
berrying a gnat man.

iT BEQUEST TO THE CITY OF
LONDON C amunst •

Miss Suet Hartbrieke, the 4nteghter of a citizen •
1.111 611 Med year on the
et of
het July, *She AWlelb hrodteVerp et the
Oity of • ewe et_ mew enesedleg MAIM Ile
Me lady es panned el fre obeli peeserd pre.
enestpally et meg it 101 tale, sad
• eispesiesigailwie essestrie MVO. led heed lir seven!
=k is a eon home at Cheseivelld, attended by one
wryest rive ideas, wino are her next et itts mad
belerat-law' survive bey ; but some differences haviag
enkes• betvese them and their loot, ;so intercourse had
lama he several reel calculated to tercore the elute
In the year 1140 Mies Ilardwicke consulted
' bra istidta r•s tn the disrstition of her property and save
kfti lesertmilleas to prepare her will in csinformity with the
• Mita is !Midi it waa 'Dented
It is endlystand that the emits(' will promptly carry
MaM WIN MI Windom. of the testatrix.
• •

, WOMZET OT IMITATION. The following att whisk is alike remarkable for its novelty, and cregatabiri;
~ bump eatnut, has he= (Sr some tiampact • pleat* Ispie
of ecovensiims ea 'Chanel :—A few rain age a mentliant
in this town unfortunately became bankrapt, owing to his
neaten about 10,000/. He recommenoad basins'', mad •
few weeks ago, by fortunate dealisge in eon, he shied a
gnat of 40,0001. As soon as this gratifying circumstance
was afoot nerompli, be lent a circuity to his erceitors, *fer-
ia( to pal them the whole of the 10,0001. in fail, with ro-
ts* op to the promos time.—Liverevei Tows.

FRANCE.
.
rARie, FRID#T
The Prince Pre-ident will go in state to the
Theatre Francais this evening accompanied by his
ministers, great officers of state, the general officers
of the army of Paris, and a large number of Pune-
I tionariea. A state-box has been splendidly fitted up
for the occasion. The play selected is " Ger-
twine's " Caine, or the Clemency of Augustus,"
to be followed by a comedy, which in these
times of ooth-taking does not seem, so far as the title
core, to be a very appropriate *election, " /I nefauf
perer de riets." but the great event of the evening—
one that in the words of the government organ will
form an " epoch in political and aristocratic Aosa
monde, as well as inyhat of the arts," will be the
recital, by Mademoiselle Rachel, of some verses C 3131•
posed by M. ArsiMe lioussaye, with the title of
L'Empre, c'est la Pair." Those who ate fortunate
enough to remember the last political performance of
the great tragic actress four years ago, when slit., sang
the ,Ilarseillaise before Ledru Rollin, will entertain
no doubt of her triumphiut success on the present
occasion.

The members of the Corps Legislatif have been in-
formed by M. Billuult that the President of the Re-
public will receive them at St. Cloud to-morrow
evening at eight o'clock in plain evening costume.
Readcrs in the Bibliotheque Royale have observed
of late a number of persons in the employ of the go-
vernment, carefully studying all the works relating
to the coronation of the Emperor.
A country paper, the ludepertslant of Sainte., states
that the shabSiuess of the decorations displayed on
the ocasiou of the President's visit to that town was
the subject of general remark. It, however, throws
*e responsibility upon the Parisian contractor, whose
duty it was to provide proper and sufficient symbols
of the joy of the population throughout the line of
the President's tour. It appears that at Sainte.
there was no deficiency in the quantity of flags,
streamers, oriflammes, &c., but the complaint is that
they were faded and torn. if this were so, the
fact is wry excusable, considering that these
ideutical properties had travelled in advance of the
Prince all the way from Paris, and had been exposed
daily for nearly a month to all sorts of weather in
the different towns where they were used, and to the
necessary wear and tear of hurried packing and
unpacking.
The Ceurrier du Nord states that a rumour pre-
vailed at Valenciennes of its being the intention of
Louis Napoleon, after the deliberation of the Senate
oa the empire, to make a tour in the northern de-
partments, and visit Amiens, Arras, Douai, Lille,
Valenciennes, Cambray, and St. Quentin. The Pro-
ves du Pas do Calais also mentions the rumour, and
even states that preparations to receive hint have
been commenced at Amiens.
Communication by means of the electric telegraph
has just been opened between the Palace of St.
Cloud and the central telegraph office at the Ministry
of the Interior, in the Rue Grenelle St. Honore.
The police are making strict search for copies of a
work published against the President of the Repub-
lic by M. Sehcelcher, the ex-representative of the
people , the title of which, the French papers say, is
too offensive to be printed.
An important foist upon the construction of the
decree of 17th Fetwenry, 1842, ece7sypensecu-
tions against the prom was decided by the
Court of Appeal. By that acres protesties of
a jury was withdrawn from the was. and the bibs-
, nal of correctional police was to tekem
Mant* of all carom of mid&empeweeed jeoremis might be
accused. An aftmept hoe been made by the podia
prosecutor to drain the demo as M to make it ap-
plicable to all alma in the nature apolitical libels,
although committed by word of mew*. The pollee
tribunal, acting in aelardmose with the maxim that
the part of a good jedv is to Weed hiejoriedistko,
de6 in farm e their owe seamMeoey. But
this decision has teen overruled by- the Coast of
Appeal.
At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents.. rose
40c., closing at 107 fr. 10c. The Three pee Cents.
roes and closed at 82. Bank of France shares
rase 43. St. Germain. Railway rose 23; Western of
France, 30; Bale, 28.73; Rouen, 20; Northern, Paris
to Caen, and Bordeaux to Taste, 12.50 each; Havre
and Strasburg, 10 each ; Lyons, 7.80; Bordeaux and
Cette, 7.50; Dieppe, 6.25 ;Iyons to Avignon, 8.