The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-23 00:00:00

OBSEQUIES OP CARDINAL WISEMAN.
(This Day•)

The Solemn Funeral Obsequies of Cardinal
Wiseman began this morning at Ten o'Clock, in
St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Moorfields. The cere-
monial commenced with a Requiem Mass—the
Right Rev. William Placid Morris, Bishop of Troy,
being the officiating Priest, the Rev. Dr. Melia, the
Deacon, and the Rev.! Dr. Gloog, the Sub-Deacon,
arrayed in their violet chasuble and dalmatics. Eleven
out of the twelve suffragan Bishops of the Province,
of which his Eminence was Archbishop and Metro-
politan, assisted in full pontificals within the sanc-
tuary. Besides these, there were also present his
Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, the Catholic
Primate of Ireland, as well as several bishops
having sees is partibus infidelium, and many other
dignitaries of the Catholic Church. The whole
interior of the building was covered with black and
yellow draperies. The pillars, swathed in black,
were spirally called round with narrow yellow bands,
having about them, in the general effect of the
curving winding lines, a certain vague resemblance,
as was yesterday remarked by one of our morning
contemporaries, to that noticeable in Raphael's
Cartoon of the Gate Beautiful.

In the centre of the sanctuary—immediately in
front of the steps ascending to the high altar of the
pro-Cathedral—was placed the Bier or Catafalque,
upon which reposed, within a series of coffins, the
remains of the Cardinal-Archbishop. The inner-
most coffin of all, the leaden one, lined with white
and yellow satin (the pontifical colours) in which
lies the body of the deceased, arrayed in the gorgeous
vestments appertaining to him in his various eccle-
siastical capacities as Priest, Bishop, Archbishop,
and Cardinal. Among these ecclesiastical raiments,
the alb, for example—manufactured by skilful
young hands at the Orphanage of North Hyde—
has significantly embroidered upon it the words
" Father of Orphans."

The outer coffin, which is of very considerable
dimensions—being thirty-two inches across at the
widest part, and fully seven feet in length—is of
polished oak, thickly studded with embossed nails,
and richly adorned with gilded handles. Almost
entirely concealing the coffin itself, as it lay there
on the bier of violet cloth thickly bound and richly
embroidered with gold lace, was spread a magnificent
yellow silk and black velvet pall, known as the Bowyer
Pall, being the property of the hon. baronet the
member for Dundalk, the Cardinal's Cross-bearer.
Placed there upon the black velvet of this pall—
towards the foot of the partially concealed coffin
(the head of the coffin being in the direction of the
high altar, in token of the distinguished ecclesiasti-
cal dignity of the deceased)—lying there, we say,
towards the foot of the coffin, upon the black velvet
of this pall, was the broad-leaved scarlet hat of the
Cardinal, with its red tassels—long silken appen-
dages, broadest at their extremity—hanging down
conspicuously upon either side.

Conspicuously noticeable at, the extremity of this
pall fronting the assembled congregation, was the
embroidered escutcheon of the Cardinal Archbishop
with its very striking moto—Omnia pro Christ°.
The church was almost completely darkened—the
windows being concealed with black hangings, and
the interior lighted solely by the gas chandeliers
and the wax tapers around the catafalque, saving
alone where the daylight streamed from above on
the large picturesque representation of the Cruci-
fixion forming the altar-piece of the pro-Cathedral.
Some three or four hundred priests, from all
parts of England, Ireland, and Scotland,
crowded the sanctuary in a dense mass—dis-
tinguishable in their ecclesiastical character by
their cassocks, surplices, and doctorial hats
The music was throughout the simple Gregorian
chant. The mass beginning, as a matter of course,
with the "Kyrie Eleison." After the chanting of
the Epistle bythe Sub-Deacon, the sublime Hymn of
the " Dies Irm " was intoned most affectingly in
alternate solo and full chorus—that matchless hymn
of grief, the mere reading of which dissolved into tears
the voice of our great Political moralist, Dr. Johnson.
From the darkness prevailing within the building
it was difficult to recognise the throng of notabi-
lities there collected together in honour to the me-
mory of the deceased prelate. The ambassadors'
tribune was very fully attended—the Count Ap-
ponyi, the Austrian Ambassador, and the Prince de
la Tour d'Auvergne being distinguishable among
their diplomatic associates. The congregation con-
sisted of males and females in almost equal numbers.
It was not until close upon twelve o'clock that the
Right Rev. Monseignor Manning ascended the
pulpit, . from which he preached a most impressive
and eloquent sermon (of an hour and twenty
minutes duration) to a congregation listening to him
in breathless silence and streaming eyes.

The procession started from Moorfields at about
half-past two, in the, following order :
Horsemen to clear the way.
Three mourning coaches and four, with deputations from

religious confraternities, in their habit.
Mourning coach and pair, with archiepiscopal cross,
acolytes, and master of ceremonies.

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Fifty mourning
Coaches and four, with tho clergy in
surplices.
TIRST CARRIAGE.
Rev. Canon John Walker.

Rev. Dr. Russell, of litaynooth College.
Very Rev. Canon 13dward Hearn, D.D., the Cardinal's
Vicar-General '

SICOND CARRIAGE.
Rev. Canon John Mohis, of Spanish-place.
Rev. Canon Frederick Oakeley, of St. John's, Duncan-
terrace.
Very Rev. )ionsignore Canon Francis Searle, the Cardinal's

_
Secretary. _
Rev. Canon William Weathers, of St. Edmund's College,
Old Hall Green.

CARRIAGE.
Very Rey. C anon James O'Neal, Vicar-General,
Rev. Canon George Hall.
last, of Ingatestone
Rev. Canon William Hunt, of Spanish-place.
Rev. Canon John Maguire, of Manchester-square.

FOIIRTII CARRIAGE•

Right Rev. Monsiglior;ia;;;lng, C. Provost of Wost-

minster.
Right Rev. Robert Cornthwaite, C. Bishop of Beverley.
Right Rev. Francis lierril Amherst, C. Bishop of North-

ampton.
Right Rev. and Hon. William Clifford, C. Bishop of Clifton.

PITTII CARRIAGE.
Right Rev. William Vaughan, C. Bishop of Plymouth.
Right Rev. Alexander Goss, C. Bishop of Liverpool.
Right Rov. Richd. Butler Roskell, C. Bishop of Nottingham.
Right Ray. James Brown, C. Bishop of Shrewsbury.

SIXTH CARRIAGE.
Right Rev. William Turner, C. Bishop of Salford.
Bight Rev. Thomas Grant, C. Bishop of Southwark.
Right Rev. William Bernard Ullathorne, C. Bishop of Bir-
mingham. _ _ _

Right-Rev. Thomas Joseph. Brown, C. Bishop of Menevia
and Newport.

SETENTU CARRIAGE.

Right Rev. William Bernard Allen Collier, Bishop of

Drusipara.
Right Rev. William Wareing, Bishop of Retimo.
Right Rev. William Placid Morris, Bishop of Troy.
Most Rev. Paul Cullen, C. Archbishop of Dublin.
Mourning Coach and Four, containing Mr. Newman and
Mr. Roper, of the Cardinal's Household.

Twelve :Attendants, with Crape Armlets, and Cardinal's
Monogram on Medallion.

Relatives, Executors, Medical Men, and Solicitors, in Threo
FIRST CARRIAGE.

Rev. W. Burke, Mr. Burke, Justice Slice, and Mr. N
Wiseman.
SECOND CARRIAGE.

Monsignor Thompson, Mr. Bagshavre, Dr. Munk, and Mr.
C. Hawkins.
THIRD CARRIAGE.
Mr. Tegart, Mr. Tegart, jun., Mr. Harting, and Mr.
Bagshawe.

Carriage and four, with the cardinal's hat on a cushion of
cloth of gold, borne by Monsiguore Boone (private
chamberlain to tho Popo), supported by Sir
George Bowyer (knight of Malta), and
Mr. Waterton (Papal chamberlain).
THE BODY,
Covered with a pall of cloth of gold, on a car drawn
by six horses.
Mourning Coaches and Pour.
Cardinal's Private Carriage.
Queen Amelie's Carriage.
Ambassadors' Carriages.
Private Carriages.
The whole arrangements of the funeral were
entrusted to Mr. James Taylor, of Lower Seymour-
street, Portman-square, in conjunction with Messrs.
Garstin and Co., of Welbeck-street, who supplied
the fittings and furnishings.
Upon leaving th: Pro-Cathedral at Moorfields,
the procession—haling at last been formed with
great difficulty in consequence of the immense
concourse both of carriages and footpassengers—