The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-18 00:00:00

PORTRAITS OP THE DUKE.-It would be rather
difficult to enumerate one-half of the engravings of the
great Captain issued even of late years by the print-
sellers, and all of them purporting to be likenesses.
H. B.'s:equestrian sketch, reminds us of him as he ap-
peared some time back, when riding in the Park of an
afternoon. Sir Thomas Lawrence has portrayed him
variously in the days of his maturity—now enveloped in
his long military cloak, standing on the field of Water-
loo—now, as he looked in full regimentals, and holding
in his hand the Sword of State, at the renowned
" Returning Thanks," at St. Paul's Cathedral. Clau-
det's wonderful daguerreotype has preserved to us the
most life-like representation of him as he was in his old
age, particularly of late, immediately prior to his disso-
lution. Besides these we have had the busts of Chantrey
in middle age, and the one by Noble more recently.
His equestrian statues have started up at the Tri-
umphal Arch, Hyde Park Corner, at the end of the

Poultry, directly opposite the Royal Exchange, and in
the public places of many of the principal cities of the
United Kingdom. Among those colossal monuments
of the Duke on Horseback, incomparably the finest of
all is the one by Stele, erected at the east end of Prince's-
street, in front of the Register House, Edinburgh.
About the latest, and not the least interesting
of all the pictures of our hero, was the one
painted by the late lamented Count D'Orsay,
engraved by C. E. Wagstaff, and published by Mitchell.
It represents the Duke in evening costume, as we have
so often seen him at the Opera House. Another plate
from the graver of Wagstaff (and this one published by
McLean) is taken from the familiar hero-head painted by
B. R. Haydon. Besides these may be mentioned a
lithographic drawing of the conqueror, sketched by G.
B. Black, and published by Ackermnan.
THE FIRST OF MAY.—Although researches in old ma-
gazines and parish registers have proved beyond further
doubt that the departed hero was, contrary to the gene-
ral impression, born on the 29th of April, 1769, in-
stead of on the lst of May—the latter must still be

regarded as among the happiest of his many happy
anniversaries. It was on the Ist of May that the nobility
and gentry in the metropolis used annually to call, in
hundreds, at Apsley House, to congratulate the old
warrior on the continued vigour of his constitution. It
was on the Ist of May, 1850, that the last of the young
princes of England was born, and that he was christened
Arthur, in honour of his godfather, the Great Duke of
Wellington. It was on the Ist of May, 1851, that im-
mediately after the completion of the ceremony of the
inauguration of the Crystal Palace by her Majesty, the
veteran Captain went to Buckingham Palace, to see his
little godchild, and in the presence of Queen Victoria,
and Prince Albert, presented to the infant Prince
Arthur, a casket of jewels as a souvenir. It is this
interesting incident which has been very recently cele-
brated by the hand of F. Winterhalter, in the charming
picture painted by him for the state apartments at
Windsor—and which has lately been exquisitely en-
graved by Samuel Cousins, and published by Paul and
Dominic Colnaghi.
THE SEA SERPENT.—BOMBAY, Oct 16.—The sea
serpent has again been seen ! Captain Vaile, commander
of the ship Barham, which has lately arrived at Madras
from England, states that the serpent was seen by him
and by all on board, in a high latitude, in the course of
of the voyage. The head and about 30 feet of the body
were distinctly visible at times ; a " mane " was also
distinctly seen, and fins under the quarter ' • and the
length of the animal was estimated at from 130 to 150
feet, with a girth about the size of a barrel. It is added
that the serpent spouted water occasionally. The Bar-
ham gave chase, but the animal made off, and was
never within 350 yards. The commander, officers, and
passengers of the vessel express their conviction that the
monster was a sea serpent.

RUNAWAY BANKRUPTS.—On Monday, at the Court of
Bankruptcy, out of a list of only five cases, two of the
bankrupts had absconded to Australia. One of them
was under liabilities to the extent of about 3001., and
the other was the partner in a firm, the debts of which
were 8,000/. Cases of absconding bankrupts have been
of more frequent occurrence within the last dhree months
than during any similar period for the last 20 years.

THE TEETH AND BREATH.—HOW often do we find
the human face divine disfigured by neglecting the
chiefest of its ornaments, and the breath made disagreesT
able to companions by non-attention to the Teeth
Though perfect in their structure and composition, to
.
keep them in a pure and healty state requires some little
trouble ; and if those who are blessed with well-formed
teeth know how soon decay steals into the mouth,
making unsightly what otherwise are delightful to
admire, and designating unhealthiness by the impurity
of the breath, they would spare no expense to chase away
these fatal blemishes. But although most ladies are
careful, and even particular in these delicate matters,
Yo
feta
vf eowi d ianr; alsulffin noxioustly or awmarieneoraf thel substancesimperati of an
imperative necessity
nature, and of which the greater part of the cheap tooth-
powders of the point ten day are composed. It is highly
satisfactory to point out Messrs. Rowlands' Odonto, or
Pearl Dentifrice, as a preparation free from all injurious
elements, and eminently calculated to embellish and pre-
grateful fragrance
serve the dental structure, to impart a
to the breath, and to embellish and perpetuate the graces
of the mouth.—Court Journal.

FUNERAL

OF THE

DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
(THIS DAY.)

THE FUNERAL OVATION.

November the eighteenth will long be remembered as
one of the most remarkable among the national anniversa-
ries. After all the busy preparations of the last fortnight,
nothing seemed to be fairly completed on the very eve of
the interment. Throughout the whole length of the route
to be taken by the procession, the streets were con-
tinuously thronged by multitudes of workmen engaged in
erecting seats, graduating back from the windows up to the
ceilings of the front apartments. The activity displayed in
our metropolis last year on the occasion of the Great Exhi-
bition, was absolutely as nothing contrasted with that
visible in the present instance—more particularly along
Ludgate-hill, Fleet-street, the Strand, Pall-Mall, St.James's-
street, and Piccadilly. The excitement of yesterday attained
its climax about midnight—the sound of the hammer lasted
even until late in the morning. In some places the temporary
structures erected for the use of chance spectators being
scarcely finished on the arrival of the funeral train
from the Horse Guards. Torches flamed in front
of Temple-bar after nightfall, displaying most pictu-
resquely its tasteful though melancholy decorations.
Several of the club-houses were entirely hidden by an
artificial frontage, hung with black drapery. In the public
places, such as Trafalgar-square, and around the pedestals
of the various monuments, boarding was rapidly knocked
up, and every available spot monopolized, as likely to afford
a glimpse of the great pageantry. Charges for seats rose con-
, siderably as yesterday advanced, but fell off again as the
hour of the ceremony approached. It may even be affirmed
with truth, that such was the anxiety to obtain a view of
the proceedings that several of the more eager and deter-
mined sight-seers passed the night coolly (in two senses) by
perambulating the principal thoroughfares. Nor can it be
matter of surprise that ordinary arrangements were for once
neglected, in order that no opportunity might be missed of
beholding the last solemn testimony of popular gratitude
England would pay in her bearing the actual form of
the Duke of Wellington. Barricades of considerable
strength were raised not only along both sides of
the line allotted to the procession, but likewise at the
end of every street opening upon the central avenues of the
metropolis. In consequence of these, and other admirable
arrangements made by the police authorities, the utmost
attainable regularity was observed in the circulation of the
populace. It would be a great satisfaction to us if we were
enabled to speak in equal terms of commendation of the
order of affairs within the walls of the Cathedral. Nothing
could have been more disgracefully mismanaged than the
whole of the regulations entrusted to the Earl Marshal and
his subordinates—regulations, the disorder of which was,
however, considerably modified by the courtesy of the very
Rev. the Dean, Dr. Milman. The circumstance of this extra-
ordinary absence of regularity in the arrangements, is the
more earnestly to be regretted, since it deprived a consid-
erable portion of the ceremonies of that decorum which
should surely have been preserved upon an occasion of such
peculiarly solemn import to the population.

Apart from every other consideration, the obsequies
witnessed this day by so many thousands, pos-
sess the interest attached to an event the like
of which can never be witnessed by the present
generation. Scarcely, we might say, even in the next,
occurring after the lapse of another half century. In order
to appreciate that, it need only be remembered how much
has been requisite to build up a colossal reputation like
that of the Duke of Wellington. That reputation required
the wars of the Mahrattas, the wars against the Sultaun of
Seringapatam, the wars, in fine, waged by coalition
after coalition against the armies of the great Napoleon.
It resuscitated those years of troublous and sanguinary
conflict which followed almost immediately upon the out-
break of the first French Revolution. It needed for its
completion the development of the memorable struggle be-
tween reform and retrogression, between ultra-Liberality
and ultra-Conservatism—the struggle superinduced by that
elder one between despotism and democracy, which in its
first cry gave the key-note to the new civilisation. Another
warrior like that of Arthur Wellesley cannot, for all these
reasons, be regarded as barely possi6le within the lapse of
many years to come—so that it is nothing less than a grand
privilege denied to our posterity this which has been to-day
afforded to ourselves of offering the last tribute of respect
to the manes of the great soldier, the great citizen, and the
great statesman, Arthur Duke of Wellington. It was incum-
bent upon the authorities of the British empire therefore to
accord all the honours within the gift of the State to the
remains of the redoubtable conqueror of the Peninsula.

Frequently already the duty had devolved upon the
English Government of yielding evidence of the national
respect to the departed heroes of the United King-
dom. It was thus with reference to George Monk, the
Duke of Albemarle. It was thus in regard to John
Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough. It was thus
in the instance of Horatio Nelson, the sharer in the
gorgeous tomb now awarded to a greater than Albemarle
or Marlborough—to an equal of the immortal Nelson—to
the hero of Assaye, the conqueror of Spain and Portugal,
the victor of Waterloo—Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wel.
lington. Conscious of this—conscious of the eleva-
tion of that grand renown which has to-day been
celebrated under the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral—
conscious that they were about to enter in an historic
grave, and worthy of partaking of the awful glory sur-
rounding the tomb of the vanquisher of two races at Tra-
falgar—the Parliament of the three Kingdoms has acted
throughout the preparation for these memorable obsequies
with all becoming promptitude and munificence. The
truth of this was rendered visible indeed at the first
glance this morning on entering the porch of the
metropolitan Cathedral. The grandeur of the spec-
tacle even before the arrival of the procession —it
would be scarcely possible in a measure to exaggerate by
any description. Never upon any occasion, were the archi-
tectural beauties of this noblest of our sacred edifices,
more conspicuous than upon the present, with the prin-
cipal lines glittering with a profusion of gas flames ; the
light Of which was, however, considerably bleared
by the unexpected admission of the sunlight. St.
Paul's was perhaps never more wonderfully crowded,
every nook and corner being filled by the throng of specta-
tors, among whom the soldiers were conspicuous by the
sprinkled splendour of uniforms dotting the mass of human
beings, with sky-blue and scarlet lavishingly bedizened with
silver and gold embroideries. Such was the motley and
curious concourse awaiting patiently for hours the long-
delayed
approach of the funeral procession. i

THE FUNERAL.
History presents no parallel to the scene which we have
to record to-day. Great and varied as were the feverish
incidents that attended the brilliant career of the mighty
warrior who has just been committed to his last resting-
place,
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passed in his days of life, either on the eve of
a terrible battle, or the opening of a momentous political
struggle ; but these can hardly come up to the excitement
that pervaded the metropolis during the last twenty-four
hours. It is indeed beyond our power to convey an adequate
idea of the spectacle which the streets of London presented last
night from St. Paul's to Hyde-park-corner. The districts
embraced by that space we were familiar with throughout
the whole of 1851, but vast as were the attractions of the
world's fair at that period, they sink into the shade when
compared with the sublimity of to-day's proceedings.
Where do the people come from ? How are they kept in
order without the assistance of military force ? were
the questions asked by foreigners ; but, if he could
have been present with us to-day to see the order
and decorum observed• by the myriads of British sub-
jects who lined the route from Apsley House to St. Paul's,
while the mortal remains of "the greatest man of a great
age" were being conveyed, with majestic solemnity, to a
laurelled tomb, he would have acknowledged that the
answer must be looked for in the glorious Constitution
which Wellington defended and Englishmen enjoy.
The night was raw and wet—a nasty drizzling rain
falling from eve to morn—but this was not suffi-
cient to deter countless multitudes from rambling to and
fro on the north side of the Thames. From one end
of the line to the other, there was a ceaseless rattle of the
carpenter's hammer, and the men
.who were. engaged in
• barriers, seats, or scaffoldings having to Work
erecting
in the glare of huge flickering gas lights, the scene
upon the street occasionally partook somewhat of
the supernatural.
The suburbs of London presented a
similar appearance. The roads leading towards the line of
procession were only passable one way. From Hampstead,
Islington, Highgate, Finchley, and the surrounding places,
one continual stream of persons were working their way
towards the Cathedral. What we have said of the north,
may be repeated of the south, from Deptford, Greenwich,
and Chatham. All poured o f rth their thousands to witness
the last tribute of a grateful nation to the great departed
warrior, Arthur, Duke of Wellington. As the short hours of
morning drew near, the crowd became more dense, while
the various metropolitan railways having run special trains
throughout the whole of the night, there was a constant
deafening roar of cab and omnibus traffic. The two bridges
nearest St. Paul's, namely, Waterloo and Blackfriars, were
also besieged with visitors. St. Paul's with its illuminated
windows looked grand in the extreme, as seen in the dis-
tance, from the latter bridge, and the toll-takers had conse-
quently much difficulty in persuading the loiterers to move on,
but there was an utter absence of anything like levity or
disorder, and people moved about to the different points
of view without the least difficulty or inconvenience.
Temple-bar was in a state of wild commotion all night long.
It was late before the workmen had put the finishing
touches to the chaste ornaments that now surround this
venerable structure, but when the work was com-
pleted, its toute ensemble was exceedingly fine, and for hours
and hours, people on foot stood gazing upon it in earnest
admiration. The approaches on either side were choked