The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-19 00:00:00

711 E LATE PRINCE CONSORT.

(From the Court Circular.)
WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 18.
The mortal rAhrains of the beloved and revered Prince
Consort were privately removed early this morning from
the entrance of the Royal vault in St. George's Chapel,
where they had been temporarily deposited, and conveyed
to the Royal Mausolem at Frogmore.
At 7 o'clock precisely, their Royal Highnesses the Prince
of Wales, Princes Arthur, Leopold, and Prince Louis of
Hesse proceeded to the chapel, where were assembled the
Hen. and Very Rev. the dean of Windsor, the Rev. Lord
Wriothesley Russell, Canon in Residence, Viscount Syd-
ney, Lord Chamberlain, Lieutenant-General the Hon. C.
Grey, Colonel the Hon. Sir C: B. Phipps, and Colonel Bid-
dulph. Mr. Lolein and Mr. Mayot, the valets to the
Prince Consort, also attended.

The procession left the Chapel for Frogmore shortly
after, and on arriving at the Royal Mausoleum the coffin
was placed in a sarcophagus and covered with a massive
stone, in the presence of the Prince and the gentlemen who
had the privilege of being present on this sad occasion,
when the earthly remains of the best of fathers and masters
were consigned to their final resting-place. His Royal
Highness and the gentlemen then returned to the Castle.
The plaster oast of the recumbent statute of the Prince
Consort, now being executed by Baron Marochetd in
marble, was then placed on the sarcophagus.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon her Majesty the Queen, ac-
companied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Helena,
Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and
Princess Beatrice, walked from Frogmore-house without
any attendants to the Royal Mausoleum, near to which
were assembled the members of the Royal household imme-
diately in attendance on the Queen and Royal Family,
and a few persons who had been honoured with invita-
tions to be present.

The Dean of Windsor, when her Majesty, the Royal
Family, and others, had taken their places, read a selection
from the Holy Scriptures and offered a short prayer appro-
priate to the melancholy occasion.
The Queen and Royal Family, after placing wreaths of
flowers on the foot of the tomb, retired.

Her Majesty, though much overwhelmed with grief, has
been enabled to bear the trying evexts of these last days
without any additional injury to her health.

The whole of the household were afterwards permitted
by her Majesty to visit the Mausoleum.
Besides the members of the Royal Family, there wera
present—Eirl Granville, the Dowager Duchess of Suther-
land, Countess Blucher, the Rev. Dr. Stanley, Mr. Arthur
Helps, and (in waiting) the Duchess of Athole, Lady C.
Barrington, Lady A. Bruce, the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, the
Hon. Horatia Stopford, &c.

7IIE BISHOPS OP ROCHESTER AND

NATAL.

The following letter has been addressed by the
Bishop of Rochester to the Bishop of Natal :
My dear Bishop of Natal,—l am led to address you with
real sorrow, and under a painful sense of duty to make a
request that you will not, un'ler any circumstances, be in-
duced to take part in the religious services of the Church
within the limits of my diocess. I have read and carefully
considered your recent publication, with intense regret that
you have been so grievously misled from the truths which
you professed to hold at your ordination and subsequent
consecration ; and I see no other course to be pursued for
the protection of the congregations and parishes intru-ted
to my care than to submit this remonstrance against your
officiating in any church of my diocess. Neither the inti •
mation given in the preface of your book, p. 27, that you
cannot comply with invitations to preach, &c., nor the con-
fidence which I feel that no clergyman with whom I am
officially connected, who have read your book, would invite
you to minister in his parish, supersedes the necessity I feel
for this letter. In no other manner can I divest myself of
the responsibility I should incur it I heard of your officiat-
ing in these parts than by a knowledge that I h•ad emphati-
cally protested against your doing so. I ought to add that
it will not be possible to avoid some measure of publicity
attending this communication, because it will be my duty
to send a copy of it to my archdeacons for the information
of the clergy.—l remain, &c., J. C. ROCHESTER.
Danbury Place, Chelmsford, Dec. 9.

The Princess Mathilde, the day before yesterday,
received Baron de Budberg, the new Russian Ambassador.
" We learn," says the France, " that the Hon. Mr.
Elliot, charged with a
mission to Athens, having missed
the packet of the lath for the Piraeus, has been obliged to
remain at Marseilles, and will not embark for his destina-
tion until the steamer of this day."