The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-15 00:00:00

Funeral of M. Dupin.

The obsequies of M. Dupin were celebrated yes--
terday in the Church of St. Clotilde, with all the
pomp and circumstance usual on such occasions.
From an early hour crowds thronged that part of;
the Rue, du Bac where the deceased resided, and -
those who were specially invited to attend with
difficulty' made their way to their destination. The
body, which had been exposed the whole morning,
in a chapelle ardente, erected in the courtyard of the
house, was removed at 11 o'clock to the church,
which was hung in black drapery. The approaches
to the church, and the enclosed gardens in front of
it, were filled with groups so numerous as greatly to
impede the circulation of carriages. A stranger
might suppose, from the number of troops on the
ground, that they were the obsequies not of a great
citizen essentially pacific by pursuits as by tempera-
ment, but of some distinguished soldier. M. Dupin
was a Knight Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
for near 30 years, and, as such, was entitled to have
his remains escorted by a large body of troops. The
privileges of a member of the Legion of Honour are
not many, but still there are privileges. A- simple
knight when wearing his cross—the riband alone
does not suffice—is entitled to the military salute
from a sentinel at his post and from every soldier •
who passes, and at his funeral to a military escort.
This escort is numerous in proportion to his rank
in the Order. There attended, then, to do honour
to M. Dupin, two battalions of infantry of the 58th
tagt of the Line, with their full band, and two
companies of Sappers and Firemen, who opened
and closed the procession from the house to the
church. The hearse, displaying all the trappings of
woe, black drapery, tall plumes, and silver em-
broidery, and drawn by six horses richly caparisoned,
received the coffin at 11 o'clock. It was covered
over with the Senator's mantle, and was surmounted
by the toque or cap of Procureur-General. Behind
the car a master of ceremonies carried on a velvet
cushion all the decorations of the deceased. The
chief mourners were the Count de Lentilhac, son-
in-law of Baron Charles Dupin, the deceased's
brother (who is said to have fallen seriously ill on
the news of the death reaching him), and by MM.
Charles Andre Dupin and Eugene Dupin, sons of
the youngest brother, Philip, long since dead.
The pall-bearers were the Minister of Justice and
M. Troplong, who is at the same time Pre-
sident of the Court of Cessation, in which M.
Dupin long held the office of Procureur-Gene-
ral and President of the Senate. The Minister
of State, Marshal Randon, Minister of War, M.
Vuitry, Minister President of the Council of State,
M.Duray, Minister of Public Instruction, Marshal
Canrobert, commanding the army of Paris, and
several other great functionaries were present in
their official capacity. The Emperor was repre-
sented by M. Newerkerke, Director of Museums.
Among those who swelled the cortege were the de-
putations of the Senate, the Legislative Corps, the
Council of State, the Court of Cessation, the Cour.
Imperiale, the Tribunal of the Seine, the Council
of Public Instruction, the French Academy, the
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and the
Paris Bar. Besides this goodly array of the most
eminent
in Law, Science, Art, and Literature, there
were crowds of others, private friends or acquaint-
ances of the deceased, bound to him by no official
tie, but who met to honour the memory of one who
held so high a place among his countrymen.
On the coffin reaching the church it was placed
on a magnificent catafalque in front of the high
altar. The mass was celebrated by the Abbe Van-
hout, and the " absolution" was given by the Arch-
bishop of Paris, who attended M. Dupin in his
last moments. When the religious ceremony was
ended, the coffin was taken down from the cata-
falque and laid in a vault, from which it was con-
veyed an hour afterwards, to the Lyons railway
terminus to be transported to Raffigny, in the
Nievre, for interment by the side of her whose me-
mory the deceased cherished to the last, and who
desired as her only epitaph these words, " Here lies
the mother of the three Dupins."

DEATH OF SIR RICHARD BROOKE.—Yesterday
morning intelligence was received of the death of
Sir Richard Brooke. The deceased baronet, who was
born in 1785, is succeeded in his title and estates by his
son Richard, who was born in 1844, and is married to
daughter of the Hon. Sir Alexander Duff, G.C.IL The
new baronet was formerly a lieutenant of the Ist Life
Guards. The first baronet was appointed Sheriff of
Cheshire in 1644, and filled that office on three successive
occasions during the Civil War and under the Protectorate
of Cromwell.

CONSERVATISM AT GREENIVICII.—Last night, at
8 o'clock, a gathering—which was designated as an
aggregate meeting of the leading Conservatives of the
three towns comprising the borough of Greenwich—was
held at the Crown and Sceptre Tavern, Greenwich, to ex-
plain the principle and objects of a'newly-formed Conser-
vative Association, and for the enrolment of members. The
chair was occupied by Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart., and about
150 were present, for whom no chair or other sitting ee-
commodation had been provided. The chairman, after
alluding to the defeat of the Conservative candidate at the
last election for the borough, advocated the necessity of a
more complete organisation between the Conservatives of
Woolwich, Deptford, and Greenwich, and he did not de-
spair of success on another occasion. On the motion of
Mr. Wilson, of Charlton, seconded by Mr. Hearn, a notion
pledging the meeting to-support the association was unani-
mously adopted. Other addresses were delivered, and the
meeting separated.
A CURE FOR CANCER.—It is stated in the Lancet
that M. Bitot has proposed perchloride of iron as a cure
for cancer. The French savant considers that this salt

a specific reins y, and that its action is somewhat similar
to that of iodine in cases of scrofula.