The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-27 00:00:00

the victim. Watch over the elections, for to fail there
would now be disgraCeful to me." Messieurs de Curvoi-
zier end de Chabrol left the Council Chamber. M. de
Monthel, after having been successively Minister of Public
Instruction and of the Interior, passed to that of Finance,
and thus the Cabinet was modified. A shocking circum-
stance in this modification that it was not considered
in Council, and was executed without the concurrence of
the Ministers who were retained in office. This was de-
dared by M. de Renville on his examination. There is,
besides, written evidence of it in the letter already quoted
from the Prince de Polignac to M. de Chantelauze:—" I
have no necessity of telling you that the greatest secrecy
must he preserved as to the contents of this letter, which are
only known to the two august personages which are named
in it." Thus it was a determination from without the
Cabinet—it was an act without the knowledge of some of
its members, and only to be known to them through the
Mon ite r.

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

PUBLIC FUNERAL OF MR. HUSKISSON.

(From the Times.)

LIVIMPOOL, FILIDAY, BKPT. 24.

The funeral of Mr. Huskisson has just taken place, and
with such marks of public respect, regard, and sorrow, as
must soothe the grief of his surviving friends, and animate
the exertions of future statesmen. Though the day came
in with hail, and wet, and gloom, and storm, and every
other disagreeable incident of bad weather, there was
scarcely a single person of opulence, talent, and respecta-
bility in Liverpool, who was deterred by it from attending
the melancholy pageant, of which I have been anxiously
watching the progress and termination. Had I not seen, I
certainly could not have credited the deep feeling of regret
which prevails amongst all classes in this place fur the loss of
their late able and active representative. The people seem
to feel it as if they bad lost a friend and a brother;
and though much of their attachment may be fairly attri-
buted to their conviction of the private virtues of the man,
it is impossible to deny that much is also owing to their
admiration of the industry, sagacity, and wisdom of the
Minister. Perhaps, also, the lamentable and unexpected
accident which deprived him of life in the midst of a scene
of general mirth and festivity, and upon an wrcasion so
peculiarly interesting to the town of Liverpool, has con-
tributed in some degree to increase the general sympathy
created by his lows. But be that as it may, never did I
see at any of the public funerals which I have attended of
late years, such sincere sorrow, and such unaffected regret,
as I have witnessed this, morning on the countenances of
thousands during the celebration of the funeral obsequies
of Mr. Iluakisson.

The bells of the different churches, which began to toll
at en early hour this morning, and which continued to toll
at intervals during the day, reminded the inhabitants of
Liverpool, in very audible tones, of the melancholy duty
which they had undertaken to perform that day. I was
in the streets soon after eight o'clock; but though they
were then much crowded, all the shops were closed, and
all the private' houses had their blinds down. The vessels
in the docks and in the river had their flags half-mast high,
but their crews had mostly deserted them to evince their
sympathy with the melancholy feelings of their brother
townsmen. On the line of streets through which the pro-
cession was to pass, strong bodies of special constables were
patrolling, in order to prevent any interruption to its pro-
gress, after it had once started. But the excellent temper
of the people, and the provident precautions of the com-
mittee in railing off the centre part of the street for the
purposes of the procesrion, rendered their duty almost a
sinecure. There was no fighting or struggling for places,
nor any thing but the utmost decorum of language and
behaviour in the immense multitude which lined the way
from the Town-hall to the cemetery.
It was perfectly well known to be one of the arrange-
menu of the committee, that the procession should start
from the Town-hall as soon after ten o'clock as it could
be conveniently marshalled into form. For the purpose of
ensuring regularity, the committee agreed to assemble at
the Town-hall at sight o'clock this morning ; and exactly
at that hour, two mutes, on horseback, took their station
in front of its doors, and six mutes on foot were placed in
in the vestibule, and on different part of the great stair-
case. At nine o'clock the doors were thrown Open for
the reception of such gentlemen as had previously an-
nounced to the committee their intention of being present
ut Mr. Huskisson'e funeral. The punctuality of their at-
tendance was most praiseworthy. On reaching the vesti-
bule, the first object which attracted their attention must
have been the coffin in which the mortal remains of Mr.
Hualtision were enclosed, attended by mutes and numerous
truncheon-bearere. It stood upon trestles, on the left side
of the room, and was covered with a pall of black velvet,
edged with satin. Upon the pall the arms and crest of
`the deceased were emblazoned in all the empty and un-
availing pride of heraldic ornament. After passing the
coffin, the different groups of gentlemen were ushered, as
they arrived, into the splendid suite of apartments which
render the Town-hall of Liverpool so famous, and by ten
o'clock the whole of them load made their appearance.
At that hour Mr. Wilson, the undertaker employed by
the committee to superintend and conduct the funeral,
began to carry into effect the preliminary arrangements
for its proceeding to the grave. Wishing to see the state
of the streets through which it was designed to pass, I
walked along them to the cemetery. In spite of the driz-
zling rain which had been falling for some time, they were
crowded along the whole line. The children of the dif-
ferent charity schools were assembled in the yard of St.
Peter's Church ; and upon its belfry and steeple, and in its
windows. numbers of children of a larger growth were
also stationed. The limp-posts were also tenanted by a set
of raoed urchins, urged to the feat by curiosity rather
than respect for Mr. Iluskisson. The trees before the Ly-
ceum and in St. Mark's churchyard had their strength
well tried by the nowhere who in every direction were
clinging to their brandies. The ascent up Duke-street to
the cemetery was made through One dense mass of men,
• women, and children ; and it would have been impos-
Ode to have travelled along it otherwise than by walking
through the space railed off from the street for the pro-
cession.

Oa reaching the cemetery, I found the whole outer area
surrounded by an expecting multitude. Between Hope.
street and Rodney-street, and also in Hope-street itself,
there are several lofty houses not quite finished. The roofs
and windows of these mansions were all occupied. Plc
cards had been very generally circulated throughout the
town, stating that the rails which surround the cemetery
were not strong enough to support the pressure of a
crowd, and requesting the people, as they wished to avoid
accident, not to stand upon the stone wall, on the top of
which the rails are fixed. The caution was nut unattended
to--e fact which speaks volumes as to the tractable spirit
and chastened feeling of the crowd. Some idea of it.
numbers may be obtained from a knowledge of the fact,
that thecircuit of the rails amounts to nearly 1,000 yards.
The grass plat or lawn at the bottom of the cemetery was
at this time nearly empty, There were only a few work-
men in it, and these were near the vault. I had the cu-
riosity to approach and examine it. It is twelve feet
deep, and the six nearest the bottom are cased all round
with iron. A heavy lid of the same material was
reclining against one of the walls of the cemetery, and
was to be placed over the body as soon as the funeral cere-
mony was fiuished. After I had gratified my curiosity, I
looked up at the scene around and above me, and nothing
could be snore imposing and magnificent than the coup
trail then before me. I was at the bottom of, a doll,
about sixty feet below the ordinary level of the streets of
Liverpool. On the east I saw before me a solid mass of
masonry, with four different tiers of galleries diverging
from a centre nearly opposite me, and running one above
the other to the two extremities of the cemetery on that
aide. Each of these tiers was filled with respectable
people habited in deep mourning. Above them were the
people outside the railing; and above them again were
ouses and scaffoldings covered with spectators. Turning
to the eolith, I beheld a double gallery filled in a assailer
manner. On the west, the rime was still more petit-
rogue, as the bank rises gradually till it comes to a double
tier of terraces, and is then surmounted by the beautiful
cluster of trees which crown St. James's-walk. Every
at:email& point in this direction was occupied by ladies and
gentlemen of the Ant families in Liverpool. The north
aide was at this time unoccupied, and in that direction I
could only catch a glimpse of the multitude peeping
through the rails. To prevent the decorum of the cere-
mony from being interrupted by individuals pluming and
repotting to and from different sets of galleries, hoards
Were scented at various places to stop the wand communi-
cation, between them, The whole mites of people in the
cemetery was therefor. nearly immovable. Their num-
ber* must have been nearer eo,Poo than 15,000 per-
sons. It is impossible for me to convoy to you any ade-
quate notion of the effect of the spectacle thus exhibited
to my eyes, in a spot where art and nature have cum-
Wood together to produce one of the most picturesque and
imposing acmes that the imaginetion of man can possibly
conceive.
At a quarter pitst Mn o'clock the firing of a signal gun,
which was stationed opposite the new Custom-house,
Pee us notice in the cemetery that the procession bud
begun to move from the Town-hail. I em taformed that
V) minutest elapsed from the time when the mutes started,
to the time when the last persons in the procession left
the Town hell. The dirtettee which the procession Otis