The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-26 00:00:00

OFFICERS OF STATE AND OF THE ROYAL
HOUSEHOLDS.

The Earl of St. Germans, 0.C.8., the Lord Steward.
The Marquis of Aileahury, the Master of the Berm.
The Marchioness of Ely, Lady of the Bedchamber is Wait-
ing to her Majesty.
The Hon. Mn.s tnmpbell, Be&hamher Woman is
Waiting to her Majesty
The Bon. Miss Kerr and the Hoc. Miss Banes', Maids of
Honour in Waiting to her Majesty.
The Counter de Bruhl and the Countries de Hohenthal,

Ladles in Waiting upon her
'loyal Highness the Crown Primers of Prussia.
The La Geraldine Somerset, Lady In Waiting upon
her Royal Highness the Dwaine ofCambridge.
The Lady Caroline Barringtas, the Lady Superintendent
Colonel the Hon. tlir Charles Phipps, K.C.8., the
Privy Purse, and the Hon Li* Phipps.
The Hon. Mrs. Charles Gray.
Colonel Biddulph, the Mader of the Household, and
the Hon. Mrs. Biddulph.
Colonel the Hon. Alexander Nelson and the Lady Mary

Hood.
Major-General sad the Lady Emily Seymour.
The Has. Mn. Wetleal”'.
Sir Jamie Clark, Rub, sod Lady Olark.
Mr. Woodward, the Librarian.
Roland, the Libra:lea to hie Royal llkhans the Priam
Ormeowt.
OTHER INVITATIONS.
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The General Corot Dumi;:aindriesOL;in:Waitirig to the
Marie A mElie.
The Duke of AthelZ.T., and the Duchess of Athell.
The Ladies Mary and Victoria Howard.
The Right Hon. R. A. C. and the Lady Mary Hiked
Hamilton.
The Lady Charlotte Looker.
The Lady Anna Maria Dawson.
The Lady Charlotte Dandas.
The Lord Maw of Oxford.
The Lady Digby.
The Hon. James K. Howard.
The Hon. Thomas Bruce.
IN PROCESSION.

General Sir Robert Gardiner, G.C.8., and Lady Clardiaer.
Oolouel Vernon Harcourt.
/dims Victoria Stuart Wortley
The Rev. H. K. F.yisor, the Vicar .Windier.

The iieviieroe; St. John Moot? Vicar of Old Windom
Rer. A. Walbaum, Acting Chaphun at the German Chapel,
St. James's Palace.
Mr. Runny Cooper.
Dr. Robertson, of Belmont

It was whispered iu the chapel that an illustri-
ous personage watched the sad ceremonial from a
closet on the right of the communion table ' • and
the sorrow which the recent bereavement has
created amongst the surviving members of the royal
family renders it not improbable that this last
opportunity would have been seized to bid, as it
were, a final farewell to one who in life bad been
so tenderly loved and venerated.
The coffin having been lowered into the vault,
Garter King-at-Arms proclaimed the style of her
late Royal Highness as follows :

Thus it bath pleased Almighty God to take out of this
transitory life unto Ilia divine mercy the most illustrious
Princess Victoria Maria Louisa, widow of the most high,
most mighty, and illustrious Prince Edward Duke of Kent
and Strathern, and mother of her most Excellent Majesty
Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith,
whom God bless and preserve with long life, health, sad
honour, and all worldly happiness.

This was the last act of the solemn pageant.
The Chief Mourner, the young Princes, and the
other distinguished personages were conducted
slowly out of the chapel ; the organ sent forth
another solemn peal, and the few spectators de-
corously retired from the chapel.

(THOU TB! COURT CUICUL&TO.

The remains of the late Ducheee of Kent,
attuned by Colonel Lord James Murray, Equerry to her
Ws Royal Highness, and the Hon. Spencer Ponsonby,
Comptroller in the Lord Chamberlain's Department, were
removed from Fromm House at 4 o'clock yesterday morn-
ing to St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and placed near the
tomb of the late Princes Charlotte. Four of the members
of the late royal Duchess's household followed in a second
mourning roach. Vimonnt Castle Roes*, Vice-Chamber-

lain of the Queen's Household, received the body.
At half•past 10 o'clock, those who had the honour of
receiving the Queen's commands to attend thu ceremony of
the funeral were conducted to sesta in the choir. The
Belgian, Hanoverian, Portuguese, Prussian, and Suns
Ministers, Earl Granville, Viscount Palmerston, and Lord
John Rums% were on the north side ; the Earl of St.
Germans, the Duke of Atlioll, and the Marque of Ailes-
bury occupied mats on the south midis of the choir.
The remains of her late Royal Highness were moved, at
10 minutes before 11 o'clock, to the nave, and shortly after
the royal family and other royal personages were conducted
by Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain, from the chapter
room of St. George's Chapel to their places in the mom-
don. The remainder of those appointed to take part in the
procession passed from Wolsey's Chapel to their place'.
The Canons of Windsor present were the Hoe. and Rev.
Edward Moore, the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, the
Hon. and Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay, and the Rev. Fre-
derick Anson.

The openiog sentences of the Burial Service, a chant
adapted from Beethoven, were sung by the choir while the
procession moved up the nave to the choir of the chapel•
The body wee planed in front of the altar at a quarter-pad
11 o'clock. The coals, of crimson velvet, was covered by •
pall of block velvet bearing eight escutcheons of the arms el
1 the late Amber et HeaL

The Hee. sod Very Bev. Gerald Wellesley, the Dean