The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENIING, OCTOBER 27, 18b5.

LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 27,
.1865.

To-day will long be memorable as witnessing the
last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful
history," in the career of one who will hold an
honoured place in the history of his country. The
feelings that will pervade those who attend the
grand ceremonial of to-day will be of a mixed
character. They will partake alike of triumph and
regret, of joy and sorrow, of proud memories and
sad reflections. The funeral array that will make
splendid the passage to the grave, and the long train
of honoured mourners that will follow the Premier
to his last hcme, are significant proofs of the esteem
in which he was held by all ranks and classes, by
all shades of politicians, and by men of divers
employments and distinct interests. A moral may
thus be drawn by those who study the pageant, and
by those who dwell upon its purport from a dis-
tance, that not alone in this great metropolis will
the obsequies of Lord PAL3IERSTON be the theme
of attention and the centre of thought. His name
will be the one uppermost in men's minds, and he
will thus be vividly associated with the stirring
scenes and active ways of a world that shall hence-
forth know him no more. He has, however, left
an impress of his steps on the way he trod so long,
and his countrymen cannot easily or readily forget
him. To-day, for the last time, he seems almost
to linger among us as a living presence, as the
sad cortege proceeds on its way to deposit
its honoured burden in the precincts of that
time-honoured edifice where rests so many of the
great and glorious, and close to where the most ex-
citing and eventful hours of his life were spent,
whose grave now awaits him with all the pomp and
circumstance of woe. No attribute is wanting to
make the funeral of to-day appropriate and fitting,
and it is with such satisfaction as can possibly
attend the sad affair that we reflect upon the honour
and homage that are paid to the memory of the de-
parted. The young Prince appears to render a last
tribute of respect to him who served in the Cabi-
nets of Sovereigns, and swayed the councils of
Europe long before his august mother began her
glorious reign, and who has yet survived to be her
most successful statesman and her most popular
minister. The colleagues who leant so much on
his wisdom, and always turned to him as a resource
in difficulties and danger, perform the last office
that friends can render, and bear the pall that
covers all that is mortal of their departed chief.
Many public bodies are represented in the funereal
train, and the dignitaries of the land muster in
strong force to witness the scene. In this grand
display there is a deep meaning, for it is no mere
form that takes place to-day, and no empty show,
but a general feeling of regret fills the assemblage,
and a universal sentiment of respect pervades
all within and without the walls of the Abbey, and
at a time like this the most volatile may pause to
reflect, and the most ignorant seek to be informed
as to the chief features which make this day so re-
markable, and this funeral an occasion for national
mourning. Lord PALMERSTON was a thorough
Englishman, devoted to his country, and faithful
to her interests. Throughout a long career in its

working capacities, far beyond the limits of human
energies and exertions, he was found firm at his post
.and true to his calling. The appreciation of the
great body of the people of England has always
been through his life his most earnest support, and
his most cheering assurance of success, and the
sorrow and sympathy of that people who will follow
him to-day as he is borne to his honoured resting-
place. Foreign States have already been able to
comprehend in some measure the feelings that made
Lord PALMERSTON so popular among us, and now
they will find, though he has been called to the
land where all things are forgotten, we are not
willing to forget his devotion to all interests, his zeal
to exert himself for the general welfare, and the
genial spirit which influenced and animated his
career. Rising statesmen may derive a useful
lesson from the 'event of to-day, and discover that it
is not always the most remarkable men, the most
shining, and the most gifted, who do the most
for their fellow-men, or who are the most
notable in their day and generation. It is not for
splendid gifts of oratory, or wonderful feats of
statesmanship, that Lord PALMERSTON was famed
in his life, or islamented in his death. It was more
in direct acts than positive works that he did
amongst us, and yet who can deny that he filled a
position all may well have aspired to, and has left
vacant a place that none living can fill among his
renowned contemporaries.

Perhaps the chief secret of Lord PALMERSTON'S
great success was that he did not aim at doing too
much, and he studied general results more than he
followed out particular purposes. In fact, he never
gave one the impression that he was monopolising
power to himself, and in this he formed a
striking contrast to Sir ROBERT PEEL, whose
weight in the Cabinet was considerable, but also at
times oppressive. Lord PALMERSTON never inter-
fered in a conspicuous manner with any of his col-
leagues, but if they got into trouble they were sure
1 to find a ready aid in him, and he was known
never to desert a friend. The last time he addressed
the House of Commons on a leading question was
in the debate that occurred concerning the doings
of Lord WESTBURY. Although unsuccessful in his
efforts, the noble lord strove to shield his colleague
with all the energy and all the dexterity which
characterised his palmier days, and Englishmen
will not be sorry to have such a characteristic recol-
lection for the closing scenes of his parliamentary
career. The character of the late Premier was
almost totally devoid of selfishness, and this quality
rendered him universally a favourite. Sometimes
men of the greatest genius and the most talented
capacities are too much wrapped up in themselves,
and too dictatorial in their manner to be popular
among their contemporaries, and are quite out of
the run of ordinary minds, and therefore those who
would make themselves most useful in their voca-
tion, and most regretted at their departure from this
fleeting stage of mortality, need not think that it is
an indispensable necessity for popularity to possess
particular abilities. Lord PALMERSTON was be-
yond doubt a great statesman, and enjoyed
many advantages through his facile mode
of dealing with complicated matters ; but
it is no exaggeration to state that his claim to
popular support, and his large share of public
favour, did not rest on his skill and his attainments,
but chiefly depended upon his public spirit and his
personal qualities. It was this rare combination of
political eminence with social attractions that made
him welcome everywhere, that insured him a cordial
reception from the palace to the cottage, from the
senate to the marts of industry and the halls of
learning, that broke through the trammels of con-
ventional distinctions, and put down the barriers
of political reserve and prejudice. It was
thus that with a particular regret we
see this great Minister gathered to his rest, for all
will miss the genial qualities and gracious manner
that served to adorn and soften the rugged road and
harsh aspects of official and Parliamentary life.
As was said by a distinguished man of a departed
worthy of last century, "An awful knell has inf ormed
us that the ashes of our revered statosman are pass-
ing through our streets to that sepulchral house where
our kings, our heroes, our statesmen, and our poets
will be honoured by an association with his mortal
remains, and in the hush that such a solemnity
casts upon material things, the fiercest strife of
political• aspirants are forgotten, and men only re-
member that the vanity and vexation of earth are
over for the departed, and that he has entered
on another and a better existence." It has been
said by a poet, who was great in his descriptions,
that " even in our ashes live their wonted fires ;"
and surely Lord PALMERSTON could have desired no
better tribute to his memory than the general
mourning that was witnessed throughout the land
when he died, and the spontaneous desire that has
been expressed that he should lie down to rest among
our noblest and our mightiest, where distant foot-
steps echo through the corridors of time, and where
lives are written in the histories of nati3ns. Our
great Minister may well be left in such fitting com-
pany, and it softens the regret of his departure from
among us to know that in the days to come, when
all who now witness this pageant have passed away,
the future generations of his countrymen may point
out his grave to those who come from afar to see
the honoured fane where England deposits her most
famous sons, leaving their fame in the safe keeping
of their survivors.

The addresses delivered at the Conservative ban-
quet held on Wednesday in North Warwickshire
were naturally chiefly occupied with the great topic
of the day, the death of Lord PALMERSTON, and no
more remarkable tribute could bo paid to the talents
and achievements of the lamented statesman than
the cordial unanimity with which men of the most
opposite opinions unite in the expression of admira-
tion and sorrow. It must be deeply gratifying to
the immediate friends of Lord PAL3IERSTON to re-
ceive such evidence that the great popularity which
he enjoyed during his lifetime was not a mere
evanescent sentiment, created by his ready tact, his
happy adaptation to the public temper of the hour,
but was based upon a deeper and more abiding feel-
ing, a perfect confidence in his paramount devotion
to the interests of his country. Mr. NEWDEGATE
observed that some of the foreign journals, in pass-
ing judgment on his conspicuous career, have denied
th 4 Lord PALMERSTON was a great man, but the
hon. gentleman might have noticed that the almost
unanimous declaration of the Continental press is
that he was before all things an Englishman, that
he sought - above any other advantage the welfare
and greatness of his couutry. The general tribute
is, in fact, similar to the spirit of Lord It ussELL's
famous declaration, that his colleague was the Minis-
ter not of any foreign Power, but of England espe-
cially and exclusively. Mr. NEWDEGATE said justly,
in referring to the statement that Lord PALMER-
STON was not a great man, that a man who could
pass through such an ordeal as tried Lord PAL-
mEr.sToN and end the most popular Premier of his
day, must have have been a great man. For 51
out of the 57 years that he took part in public life
he held office, and he died leading an Administra-
tion whose views and opinions were, for the most
part, discordant from his own. Yet, as Mr. NEW-
DEGATE truly observed, in remarking upon the
1, somewhat anomalous position of affairs, in which

he and his colleague avowedly supported the head
of a Radical party, Lord PAL3IERSTON could be a
member of any Cabinet without losing caste. He
mentioned his own relations with Lord PALMER-
STON as a proof that the great statesman was
always ready to encourage rising talent. When he
first entered the House Lord PALMERSTON took no
notice of him, but when after many years he ap-
pealed to Lord PALMERSTON for assistance in pro-
curing some official information necessary for the
completion of a report on the Tariffs of all nations,
which he was then engaged upon, Lord PAL3IER-
STON'S manner changed, and thinking, said Mr.
NEWDEGATE, " that I had won my spurs," and ever
after he showed him kindly consideration. For
many years after Lord PALMERSTON'S own entry
into the House, he was, said Mr. NEWDEGATE, no
speaker. He worked his way up in silence,
having always been distinguished for
his close attention to business and for
the great amount of work which he got through.
The long peace which succeeded the passing of the
Reform Bill was, Mr. NEWDEGATE considered,
principally due to Lord PALMERSTON'S foreign
policy, cultivating a close alliance with France,
while maintaining the old prestige of the country.
Mr. NEWDEGATE'S words on this subject are worth
notice in these days of timorous and vacillating
councils, when Englishmen are not ashamed to de-
clare that they are afraid to offend continental
nations, and reckon up the millions of their popula-
tions in a manner that assures us that the days of
Poitiers and Agincourt are indeed over. " Depend
upon this," said the speaker, " those are no peace-
ful councillors who would allow the prestige of
England among foreign nations to decline—who
would degrade her to the position of being a fol-
lower of any other Power, or of any other State, in
the councils of nations. We are too influential in
England, we are too wealthy, we have been too
great a nation to take such a position with safety ;
and I honour the memory of a man who was the
embodiment of a policy sustained with prestige, and
who, by sustaining it, maintained the peace of Eng-
land and all the world through a longer series of
years than any Minister before ever held the seals
of the Foreign-office."
Mr. BROMLEY, Mr. NEWDEGATE'S colleague,
spoke in much the same terms, and an incident
which he mentioned as having occurred to himself
illustrated very forcibly what had been said by the
previous speaker about Lord PALMERSTON'S prestige.
While travelling in a remote part of the Continent
he had great difficulty in getting admittance to a
frontier town. In vain he presented his passport,
duly signed by Lord ABERDEEN. The absence of his
servant and one or two other trifles made the offi-
cials hesitate. Fortunately for Mr. BROMLEY he
remembered having in his pocket an old passport
bearing the magic name of PALMERSTON. He
showed it to the refractory official, who at once
said, " Oh, PALMERSTON ! that's enough." Mr.
BROMLEY, quoting the well-known lines on the
dotage of MARLBOROUGH and SWIFT, observed that
it was a matter of congratulation to all persons
that the late Premier died in the full possession of
all his vigorous faculties ; and while it is a melan-
choly thing to see the wisdom and experience so
valuable to the country go down to the silence of
the grave, yet it is a satisfaction to reflect that the
faithful public servant died in harness, and has left
a name no less honoured than renowned.

Comparatively little was said on general subjects
at the Warwickshire meeting, though Mr. NEWDE-
GATE, in proposing the health of " The Electors,"
touched upon the two difficult subjects of the fran-
chise and the game laws. As might, perhaps, have
been expected, Mr. NE wDEGATE supports the prin-
ciple of the game laws, but considers that all diffi-
culties may be avoided by special and definite
agreements being made between landlord and tenant.
But so long as the landlords retain their present
power over the land .and the leases, there will,
we suspect, be always fresh troubles springing
up under the game law system. As for the fran-
chise, Mr. NEWDEGATE is again on the unpopular
side, but his arguments against the:unmanageable
nature of large constituencies would apply to the
present arrangements, and do not certainly rebut
the assertion that a far larger class has the right
to be represented than now possess it. Even Mr.
NEWDEGATE, however, - confesses that prior to the
Reform Bill the Tory party made grave mistakes,
and deserved their subsequent exclusion from power.
The mistakes then made are not possible in the
present state of political feeling and enlighten-
ment, but let their descendants take heed
lest they repeat under another form the errors
and the blunders into which passion or prejudice
led their predecessors. Mr. NEWDEGATE gave
utterance to a truth which certainly the Tories
of the old school would have been slow to admit.
"England," he said, "cannot afford to stand alone."
If she would be safe she must propagate those great
principles cf civil and religious freedom which have
been at once the growth and the fruit of her own
experience and of her native power." Further, Mr.
NEWDEGATE declared that England should be ready
to hold out the hand of fellowship to every nation
that is struggling for that freedom which she herself
possesses, a duty which, of late years, our statesmen
have been too apt to overlook. Altogether the
Warwickshire addresses, if not sufficiently liberal in
domestic policy to meet the wants of the time or
the requirements of the people, were srtaightfor-
ward and manly declarations of opinion, while the
tributes of respect and admiration paid to the
memory of the great man who is this day laid to his
rest, spoke at once to the hearts and the sympathies
of their hearers.

AN AX.

" Thero are Giants In these days."

A Great Man yesterday paid us the honour of
a visit—Monsieur Jean Joseph Brice, the Giant of
the Vosges Mountains. There may be doubts en-
tertained as to the Greatness of other Great Men,
---but as to his there can certainly be no mistake
whatever ! Anak is the name this truly Great
Man is now known by, and as Anak he will on
to-morrow (Saturday) make his public appearance
for the first time before Londoners, in St. James's
Hall, Piccadilly. Then, of course, the public will
be enabled to judge for themselves. But in the
meantime having seen his Highness M. Brice, or
rather that High and Mighty Personage, the modern
Anak, now newly arrived amongst us from the
Vosges Mountains, we can speak very positively as
to his stupendous dimension. Beside him—Chang
is dwarfed by four inches ! For--Anak, standing
on the soles of his feet, measures to the crown of
his head more than Eight Feet in height—measures
fully Eight Feet and one inch! Introduced to
us yesterday afternoon by that Master of Mysteries,
" The Wizard of the North," known to ordinary
mortals by his professional title and patronymic, as
Professor Anderson, Anak has fairly astounded us
by the magnitude of his proportions. Professor
Anderson, although himself owning to the goodly
height of six feet, looked, when by Anak's side, of
no importance of height whatever. And, while
the frame of the Vosges Giant is thus gigantic, his
features. and the expression of his features, are
agreeable to look upon as those of a good-humoured
comely man—upon an immense scale—but per-
fectly in proportion.

FRENCH FISIIERIES.—The tunny fishery in the
Gulf of Lyons has been very productive during the last
few days, and the fish are now selling at 21d. per lb. iu
the markets of Marseilles. Other kinds of fish are also
abundant and cheap.

FUNERAL

or
LORD PALMERSTON

FOURTH CARRIAGE.
Lord Ashley.
The Hon. Lionel Ashley.
The Hon. Cecil Ashley.
Viscount Jocelyn.
FIFTH CARRIAGE.
Viscount Sudloy.
General Sir G. Bowles.
Sir G. Shee.
Mr. Charles Barrington.

SIXTH CARRIAGE.
H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge.
Viscount Bury.
Tho Lord Chamberlain.
Tho Archbishop of Canterbury.
SEVENTH CARRIAGE.
The Right Hon. the Speaker.
The Lord Chancellor.
The Earl Russell.
The Earl Granville.
EIGHTH CARRIAGE.
The Duke of Argyll.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.
The Right lion. Sir George Grey.
The Right lion. Sir Charles Wood.
NINTH CARRIAGE.
The Earl of Clarendon.
The Earl de Grey.
The Duke of Somerset.
Lord Stanley of Alderley.
TENTH CARRIAGE.
The Right Hon. E. Cardwell.
The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.
The Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson.
The Hon. Henry Brand, M.P.

The carriages of Viscount Palmerston, of her
Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Duchess of Inverness, the French, Rus-
sian, Prussian, and Bavarian Ambassadors ; the
American, Belgian, Austrian, Italian, Turkish,
Danish, Spanish, and Portuguese Minister ; Greek,
Hanoverian, Netherlands, Persian, Swedish, Saxony,
and Hanseatic Chargé d'Affaires; the Hon. the
Speaker, Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, Duke of Argyll, Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone, Sir George Grey, Sir C. Wood, Earl of
Clarendon, Earl De Grey and Ripon, Duke of
Somerset, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Right Hon. E.
Cardwell, Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, Right Hon.
Milner Gibson, Viscount Sidney, Lord Chief Jus-
tice, Master of the Rolls, Sir R. Kindersley, Sir J.
Stuart, Sir W. P. Wood, Sir J. L. Knight Bruce,
Sir G. J. Turner, Sir IV. Wightman, Sir C. Black-
burn, Sir J. Mellor, Sir W. Erle, Sir C. E. Williams,
Sir J. B. Byles, Sir 11. Keating, Sir F. Pollock,
Sir J. Martin, Sir G. W. Bramwell, Sir W. F.
Channell, Sir G. Pigott, Sir W. Shee, Right Hon.
L. Sulivan, Duchess of Wellington, Duchess
Dowager of Somerset, Countess of Jersey, Earl of
Rosebery, Earl of Arran, Countess Dowager of
Lichfield, Lady Molesworth, Miss Burdett Coutts,
Admiral Sir G. Bowles, Sir G. Shee, Sir Moses
Montefiore, Baron Rothschild, Lady Dinorben, Earl
Spencer, Hon. H. Elliott, L. Cuningham, Esq., Dr.
Protheroe Smith, Miss Lane Fox, Lady Middleton,
Bishop of London, Countess of Fife, Countess of
Lichfield, Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Lyveden,
Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, Sir H. Holland, Lord
Wenlock, Sir R. Murchison, Major-General Mal-
colm, and Mr. D. Williams.

The procession moved along Piccadilly, down St.
James's-street, along Pall-mall, by Charing-cross,
down Parliament-street, to the western entrance of
the Abbey, in the choir of which the following long
list of eminent personages had seats apportioned to
them :—W. P. Adam, Esq., the Marqus of Ailes-
bury, the Marquis D'Azeglio, Sir F. Baring, M.P.,
T. G. Baring, Esq., M.P., Rev. E. Berthon (Rom-
sey), Lord Brougham, Right Hon. H. A. Bruce,
M.P., Sir John Boileau, Bart., Earl of Bessborough,
Lord Broughton, Viscount Castlerose, M.P., H. E.
Childers, Esq., M.P., Sir R. Collier, M.P., Sir
Augustus Clifford, Charles Clifford, Esq., Duke of
Cleveland, K.G., Earl Cowley, Sir W. G. Craig,
Chief Justice Cockburn, Earl of Derby, Right Hon.
B. Disraeli, M.P., Hon. Ralph Dutton, M.P., Sir
Jyhn F. Davis, Bart., K.C.8., Earl of Dalhousie,
Hon. George Denman, Dr. Drage, Viscount Enfield,
M.P., Viscount Eversley Hon. Henry Elliot, Sir
Charles Eastlake, Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue,
M.P., Sir Thomas Fremantle, Lord Glenelg, Earl
Grey, Hon. Charles Gore, Hon. Charles Gore, Hon.
Charles Harris, Arthur G. A. Hamilton, Esq. (Trea-
sury), Marquis of Hartington, M.P., Sir W. Hayter,
Lord Houghton, Hon. James Howard, Right
Hon. T. E. Headlam, M.P., Right Hon. W.
Strutt, M.P., Colonel Jervoise, Hon. Arthur
Kinnaird, Kennard, Esq. (Dublin), Colonel
Kingscote, M.P., E. H. Knatehbull-Hugessen, Esq.
M.P., the Bishop of London, Lord Lyveden, Right
Hon. J. A. Dawson, M.P., A. H. Layard,
M.P., Right Hon. R. Lowe, M.P., Lord Monck,
Sir Roderick Murchison, Earl of Malmesbury, Right
Hon. J. Moncrieff, M.P., J. Murray, Esq. (Foreign
office), Nicholl, Esq. (Lincoln's-inn), Lord C.
Paget, M.P., Sir R. Palmer, M.P., Right Hon. Sir
Robert Peel, M.P., Lord Proby, M.P., A. lianizzi,
Esq. (British Museum), Hon Spencer Ponsonby,
Lord Alfred Paget, Captain Powell, Lord Charles
Russell, Dr. Prothero Smith, Sergeant Sullivan,
M.P., the Master of St. John's, Cambridge, Earl
Spencer, Sir Hamilton Seymour, Earl of St. Ger-
mans, Earl Stanhope, Lord Taunton, Sir Henry
Verney, Lord Westbury, Dr. Watson, Lord Wens-
leydale, Mr. Waddington, Under Secretary of State,
Home Office ; Hon L. White, Right Hon. Spencer
Walpole, M.P., Dean of Winchester, his Grace the
Archbishop of York, and the Earl of Zetland, &c.
Lithe gallery set apart for the invited peers and
commoners the following were amongst those who
arrived early :—Thomson Hankey, M.P., J. A.
Roebuck, M P., J. Ayrton, M.P., J. A.
Smith, M.P., Mr. Crawford, M.P., Dr. Brady,
James Stuart Wortley, the Duke of Buckingham,
Marquis of Salisbury, Serjeant Gazelee, M.P., Mr.
Newdegate, Lord W. Russell, Gen. Peel, Sir G.
Bowyer, Earl Harrowby, Hon. F. Byne, Harvey
Lewis, M.P„ Lord Naas, Vice-Chancellor Page
Wood, Justice Keating, the Recorder, Russell Gur-
ney, Danby Seymour, and Lord Ernest Bruce.
Shortly before the arrival of the funeral proces-
sion the vergers, choristers, and officers of the
Abbey proceeded to the great west door to receive
the corps and accompany it to the choir. The pro-
cession walked slowly along the nave, the singing
boys in black scarfs, the choristers with black silk
over their white gowns, and the High Bailiff of
Westminster had his silver staff and insignia of
office covered with black crape. In a few minutes
afterwards the members of the various corporations
were conducted to the places assigned them, and im-
mediately the notes of the organ broke forth, and the
funeral moved up the nave in the following order:—

The Precentor.
Canons.
The Deans Verger.
The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster:
The Funeral Feathers.

The deceased Nobleman's Coronet, on a crimson

velvet cushion.
TIIE COFFIN,

covered with a black velvet pall, emblazoned with
the arms of the late lord, borne by the fol-
lowing Cabinet Ministers :—Lord Chancellor, Earl
Russell, the Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir George Grey, Sir
Charles Wood, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl de Grey,
and the Duke of Somerset.
Chief Mourner, Relatives and Friends of the
deceased.

Immediately upon the entrance of the body within
the Abbey, the organ pealed out and the choristers
sang the words, " I am the resurrection and the
life," which have been so beautifully set by Croft.
By the time this was finished the choir was reached,
and the coffin was placed under the screen, while a
portion of the Burial Service was read and chanted.
The Psalm was the 90th—the music by Purcell—
" Lord thou hast been our dwelling place in all
generations." It was chanted with unusual effect
by the choir. Then followed the Lessons from
Corinthians, chap. xv., " Now is Christ risen from
the dead and become the first fruits of those that
slept." Then came another beautiful anthem by
Handel, which was sung to perfection—not a note
of which was lost in the sacred building.
The service in the choir having been concluded in
the procession, was again formed, and it entered in
the North transept in the following order :

Choristers.
The Canons.
The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster,
Having on his right
His Royal High'mess the Prince of Wales,

And on his left
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
Mutes and Pages.
Feathers.
The Coronet.
THE COFFIN.

The pall • borne as before. The organ
pealing out the funeral march by Beethoven.
The dean and clergy stood at the head, while
on the sides or foot of the grave were
grouped the large body of mourners. The impres-
sive language of the Service for the-Dead was then
proceeded with. The anthem of Purcell's " Man
that is born of a Woman" was sung, and the coffin
was lowered into the grave ; and the Rev. Dean,
with a voice distinct and clear—heard over the
suppressed sobbings of the mourners—consigned
" Ashes to ashes, dust to dust."
Before the last echo had died away in the cloistered
pile the organ pealed through the sacred edifice, and
the choristers sang Ilandel's " Funeral Anthem,"
composed for one of our Georgian Queens, the words
being altered to suit the occasion—

" His body is buried in peace,
But his name liveth for evermore."

To the music of this anthem one might apply,
without exaggeration, the description that it is " fit
for martyrs to play and angels to hear."
Then followed the Benediction, and the mournful
procession passed away from the grave as Dr.
Turle played the magnificent Dead March in
" Saul."

An effect too solemn to be described was caused
just as the last words of the benediction passed
from the lips of the Dean. The sun had been
shining gloriously during the early part of the ser-
vice, but at the moment we are mentioning the
sky became intensely overcast, and the north
transept, with its sorrowing. Multitude, was filled
with a deep gloom that had an effect of magnificent
solemnity but rarely if ever witnessed before.
It was during this peculiar period that the Prince
of Wales, and the Duke of Cambridge, and the
Cabinet Ministers, and friends took their last look
and fare Well of one whose whole ambition through
life had been to serve his sovereign and advance
his country's greatness.