The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-14 00:00:00

ride, while the rest of the persons eomprfing th
remained standing during the entire etremoriyebrilft,ad
chief mourner in the order in which they had
The other distinguished personage', including
Albert, the Duke of Camhridge the Duke of Wil;""'
ton, Lord Lansdowne, and Lord John Rowell, Z.
occupied stalls, also remained standing througlioe. tea--
service. None were allowed to be present in the dia.a --
beyond those distinguished persons named
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appointed mourners, while in the nave wets ea —"e„
seen only a military and naval officer, who attended he a;
discharge of professional duty. The royal desire that t 'el0;
pomp nor publicity should mark the mournful event
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therefore, strictly fulfilled, and the funeral made ar)
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had naught to do with it. •
aud the eeremontes connected with it as simple at if ?roil --
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Canes' of %a-
-' 13r, by whom the corpse wee received at its entrance jato
choir, having ascended the steps of the altar, Mr. gift.;
one of the lay canons, gave out the pill= of the
service, the 39th, " I said, I will take heed to my 4
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and the 90th, " Lord, thou haat been our rtl
' which being chaunted, the Most Rev, p"
read in an audible and impressive voice -is"
lessons of the day, let Corinthians, 15 ch., 20 T.
d by the chaunting of the Ist anthem by R-„;12
" Then the ear heard her," during which the prig ',as Aas.
moved, and the coffin, with the crown and cookies reed.
on it, was lowered into the vault. At this portion of treQ,
remony, which was extremely mournful and saltine,
of the ladies, the 1.9 rel Fitxclarsnee, Lord J. Knoell, 44
others, seemed much :Erected, and covered their frets for
moment with their handkerchiefs. " Man titre of sow
having also been chaunted with the organ, the Areldintar,,
Ceinterbgry deecehded from the alder, and, sesarieg
opening to the vault, repeated the ordinary prayer, Li;
much ae it hath pleased Almighty God." This was Weed
by the Lord's Prayer, in which all joined aloud, olorgA,.
U9d, with whom," the collect, "Oh, merci God
the 2nd anthem by Handel, " Her body is tukahi
peace." The most rev. prelate concluded the service eidi e
blessing.
Garter (Sir Charles Young) standing beside the greee,
then pronounced the style of her late Majesty in these treet
—" Thus it teeth pleased Almighty Goa to take out of the
transitory life unto His Divine Mercy the late MIA yLa
Most Blighty, Most Excellent Princess Adelaide, 'be
Dowager, Relict of his lute Majesty Kite WWII 41
Fough, uncle to her Most Excellent Majesty Vice** by
the Grace of God of the United Kinadons of Grid
Britain and Ireland, Queen, Dzfendr r of the Faith, shoe
God bli as and pet serve with long life, health, hosaar,,,l
all wurdly happiness."
The Lord Chamberlain and the Vice-Chamberlain of let
late Maji at) 's household, broke their staves of dig, ea,
her. ling down, deposited them in the royal vault,
liere terminated the sad and solemn ceremoey, whoa
lasted exactly an hour and a quarter. The distingunkedra
dividuals firming the procession or otherwise twisting gra
dually disappeared from the chapel, which was now
filled by the deep tones of the organ in the " Died meth
in Saul. '
The musical service was that of Dr. Croft in G mince
and it was admirably verformed by Doctor Elvey, ergeslug
the chapel and private organist to the Queen.
The coffin of her late Majesty the Queen protegee
placed beside that of her ro) hui band, King Within th,
I..urth, both bring in front of, but on the sane pedal e
platform, with that of his Majesty George the Feted). h
recesses behind and at either side of them are the coffin d
the Duke of York. G. orre the ThirJ, Quin Chulitte,
Princess Amelia, Prince Octavio., and Prince/1.11.d.
We were informed that the Lords Fitzclarince, with s
few others, descended to the vault to see the precise cc
where the royal body was deposited..

THE METROPOLIS —The greatest respect woe paid loth
memory of the late Queen Dowager by all clauses stmty
in the me copolis. At the West-end and in the City de
shops were partially closed, whilst the blinds of pang
houses were drawn down. the great hill of St. Pail
toiled minute time during the greater p^rtion of Medd.
The moment it commenced tolling the bells of the Cris
churches and of those on the cppo`•ite stele of the Inter tat
more distant parts followed. The whole ot the ships Mks
London-bridge had their flags half-mss high, RI vat AM
with the steam-boats plying above bridge. The teat
Christ Church, Blacktriars-road, after tolling mints tie
for several hours, struck with the hammers routd:d the set
of her late Majesty, and afterwards rang a muffi-d peal.%
Nuns were fired in the afternoon in St. James's•park sail
the Tower. The theatres and most places of public orate
ment in the metropolis were closed last night.