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PRICE 4d.
STAMPED M.

was the Prince of Saxony, the Grand Duke William
of Baden, Prince Louis of Hesse, and his Royal
Highness Prince Arthur. The fourth Royal car-
riage contained the Prince Auguste of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, the Duke de Nemours, the Prince de Join-
rine, and the Duke D'Aumale. In the fifth and
last of the carriages allotted to Royalty were the
Prince Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and the Duke of
Cambridge. , _

Before the carriages had left the Palace the great
bulk of the procession was well on its way to
Laeken, leaving a long train of ambassadorial,
Ministerial, and official carriages still to follow. The
whole cortege was more than a mile in length.

As it issued into the streets beyond the Palace the
marks of respectful sympathy with which the funeral
car was received were remarkable. All, even of the
great crowds in the streets, were more or less in
mourning, all the draped windows were crowded
with ladies in black, and every head was uncovered
as the body passed. It was 1 o'clock before the
head of the procession reached the bridge across the
canal that in a manner divides Laeken from the city
of Brussels. The representatives of the different
corps of the Belgian army arrived here in somewhat
straggling and broken order. There had been fre-
quent and very tedious intervals of delay along the
line of march, and at this point there was a pause
of more than a quarter of an hour before the head
of the procession was joined by its main body, led
by the judges in their robes of State. The members
of the Senate and of the Chambers followed with
the Council of 'Ministerg ; behind these was the
funeral car, the tripod fires of which were then all
burnt out, but about which there was some anxiety
as to whether the huge towering chariot could be
got safely across the steep bridge of the canal. No
mishap, however, occurred ; and the rest of the way
—a broad open thoroughfare as far as the church--
was traversed speedily. The route from here was
deeply lined with troops, both regulars and volun-
teers, and backed on either side by dense and eager
crowds. On either side as soon as the State carriages
containing the royal family and the distinguished
relatives taking part in the ceremony had passed,
the deputations of municipal, military, and public
corporations with banners and badges endeavoured
to follow them. But here the spectators had entirely
broken through the line of sentries, and the greater
part of the end of the procession was swamped by
the pressure of the multitude.
Just within the royal domain stands the very old
but not not the less poor-looking church of Laeken.
It can only, however, be regarded as a temporary
Royal chapel, for close beside it is rising a hand-
some structure. At the end of the Avenue de la
Reine stands the new church of Lacken, roughly
blocked out in outline, and imperfect both outside
and inside. Passing to the left of this, the funeral
cortege approached the old church, in which the late
Queen is buried, and where the vault had been pre-
pared for the remains of King Leopold. In order
to obviate any question which might be raised by
the Catholic clergy as to the performance of a Pro-
testant service in an edifice consecrated according
to their rites a temporary chapel- had been prepared.
The chief dignitaries of the Roman Church, how-
ever, held a meeting, at which it was agreed to
waive any objection of this nature, but, as the tem-
porary chapel had been prepared, it was used for
the concluding service, and there the chief mourners
and the rest of the company assembled before the
coffin was carried to the vault. The Rev. Mr.
Vent, one of the most distinguished ministers of
the Reformed Church of Belgium, read the prayers,
and a chant specially composed for the occasion was
sung with much feeling by the Lyric Society of
1 Brussels.

The procession was then reformed and passed
through the church to one side where the vault was
opened, and the coffin was deposited therein amid
the hushed and solemn silence of the spectators. In
future the grave will be approached by a gateway
opening from the cemetery, so as to give access
without rendering it necessary to enter the church.
Before the procession had left the Palace,—in-
deed before the funeral car was out of sight—work-
men were busy tearing away the scarcely-finished
mourning draperies in which the Palace was half
hidden. Other of the principal residences at once
followed the example, and the torn crape and mor-
tuary emblems revealed behind them festive illumi-
nations and latent transparencies to burst forth in
their full glory of rejoicing to-morrow. It is the
old story of "Le Roi est mort ! Vive le Roi !"
Mourning is forbidden to-morrow, as the new King
accepts the throne.

r'TWSPAPER

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The Industry screw storeship arrived at Spithead
on Sunday morning from Rio and Ascension, hav-
ing sailed from the latter place on the 12th of Nov.
She brings to England a quantity of useless stores,
and a few naval invalids and pensioners. The latter
were transferred to her Majesty's ship Victory on
Sunday morning, and in the course of the day she
sailed again from Spithead for Woolwich to dis-
charge her cargo.

Private letters received at Portsmouth from Ai-
cension, dated November 8, state that her Majesty's
ship Archer was lying there with her officers and
crew suffering from fever. The healthy and con-
valescents were on shore at Comfortless-bay, the
sick being retained and undergoing treatment on
board the ship. The paymaster, assistant-clerk,
and the colour-serg. of Royal Marines had died from
fever prior to the vessel arriving at Ascension.
Three officers on board, with 85 of the crew, were
on the sick list with fever at the time the letters
were written, and the surgeon was dangerously ill
with jaundice. The assist.-surg. caught the fever,
and died in the midst of constant and unrelieved
duty in attendance upon the sick. Commodore
C. 8., visited the Archer -at Ascension on

the sth November, and ordered her to leave the sta-
tion for England at the earliest possible date. The
Commodore left for Sierra Leone immediately after
his visit to the Archer, to wait there the arrival of
his successor from England, Commodore G. P.

Hornby, in the Bristol frigate.
On the Rattlesnako arriving at Ascension on the
2d November, accompanied by the Lee gunboat,
Lieut. 0. T. Lang, the officer in charge of the lat-
ter, while giving orders to bring his vessel to anchor,
fell from off the bridge to the deck, and received
such severe injuries that he died immediately after-
wards. He was buried on the following day on
shore with military honours, the Rev. C. Chapman,
chaplain of the Rattlesnake, performing the funeral
'service.

At the examination of candidates for assistant-
clerkships in her Majesty's Navy held on board the
Victory at Portsmouth during the past week, and
concluded on Friday last, the following successfully
passed their examinations :—James A. Bell, first-
class certificate ; D. A. L. M'Alpin, Edmund Hick-
son, George J. Long, E. W. P. Edwin, Joseph
Barnes, W. H. Rae, J. G. Gordon, H. S. Basker-
ville, and J. A. Ramsay. There were 22 candidates
for ten vacancies. The following candidates also
passed their examinations successfully :—Mr. W. F.
Crosthwaite, for paymaster ; Mr. G. B. Collier, for
clerk ; Mr. A. Murray, for clerk ; Mr. W. H. Why-
ham, for clerk ; Mr. H. D. King, for clerk ; and Mr
S. H. Acroffs, intermediate, for clerk.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Stopford C. Tracy, master, to the
Malacca, vice Hinvest ; Francis Chalmer, midship-
man, to the Malacca ; and Arthur W. Pearson, as-
sistant-clerk, to the Spiteful ; Lieut. John Ingles,
to the Cambridge ; Lieut. Francis C. R. Baker, to
the Achilles ; Chas. H. S. Douglas, master's assis-
tant, to the Dee ; John H. Woolvard, master's
assistant, to the Oberon ; and Charles Harvey,
clerk, to the Victory, for secretary's office.