The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-24 00:00:00

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was received with marks of profound respect. At
least three-fourths of the shops along the line of
route were closed—the streets were lined with sper-
tators, and every window and balcony_ .was thronged.
Altogether the feeling among the public seemed--
deeper than one of mere curiosity—a wish, perhaps,
to forget old differences with the late Cardinal, and
render respect to his memory as an eminent Eng-
lishman, and one of the most learned men of his
time."

AMONG THE ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS who were
ex
in attendance, or represented The
-Queen
of the French, Marie Amelie, the widow of
Louis Philippe, was represented by her cham-
berlain, Count de Chabannes, who sat on the
north side of the choir. In the ambassadors' seats
were the French ambassador, Prince de la Tour
d'Auvergne ; the Minister from Belgium, the
Spanish Minister, and the representatives of nearly
all the Catholic Powers in Europe. Among the
nobility and persons of distinction present were—
the Marchionesses of Londonderry and of Lothian,
the Duke of Sutherland, the Earls of Courtenay,
Malmesbury, Kenmare, Orford, and Buchan ; the
Dowager Countesses of Buchan and Newbury ;
Viscounts Feilding, Campden, Southwell, and
Castlerosse ; Lords Edward Howard, Stafford, Petre,
Lovat, and Harks ; Count Torre Diaz and Count
Eyre ; Sir G. Bowyer, Sir Hungerford Pollen, Lady
Catherine Berkeley, Lady Milford, the Hon. Mrs.
Agar Ellis, the Hon. Miss Caithorpe, the Hon.
Montague Mostyn, Mr. Justice Shee, Mr. O'Reilly,
MP., Mr. Pope Hennessy, M.P., Chevalier de
Zuluetta, Mr. Justice O'Hagan, Dr. O'Connor, &c.
THE " DIES Irt.E."—At this portion of the cere-
mony an extraordinary effect was produced by all
the great choir of priests and dignitaries lighting
candles to read and follow the music of the Dies
Irx, which was next to be sung. Without such
extra aid it would have been difficult for any in the
gloom to read at all, and the effect of this sudden
illumination, which showed distinctly the features
and rich dresses of the whole throng of superbly
clad ecclesiastics, who rose to recite the hymn, was
one of the most singular and impressive features of
the whole ceremony. Then for the first time the
magnificent vestments could be fully seen, and as
the assemblage of every rank in the Church of
Rome, from mendicant friars to Bishops and Arch-
bishops, stood around the coffin to join in that great
chant of mournful praise, the scene became one of
such grandeur as almost approached the sublime of
stately religious ritual. The magnificent chorale of
this great song of fear and entreaty was given as it
has certainly never been given before in England,
and there was a positive murmur among the con-
gregation as its long, sad, wailing chorus closed at
last in intervals of melancholy sound.
THE BISHOPS AND PRIESTS IN THE SANCTUARY—
TO THE NUMBER OF THREE HUNDRED.—AII the
Bishops wore mitres, not the costly and magnificent
head-dress which is usually assumed, but the mitre
of plain white and gold used on these occasions at
masses for the dead. All, however, were alike at-
tired in the most gorgeous vestments, wearing
superb copes of cloth of silver shot with violet over
all. In the dim and misty gloom of the interior and
amid the silence with which they passed slowly and
noiselessly in front of the carpeted altar, they
seemed more like shadows or a vision of some bye-
gone pageantry of Rome than anything one might
expect.to see in London in the midst of this prosaic
19th century. Yet, strange as the scene was to the
eyes of Londoners, none could deny the grand and
mysterious solemnity of its effect, and the most breath-
less silence reigned ,throughout the building as the
rich crowd of ecclesiastics, now nearly 300 in num-
ber, wound slowly and silently to their places in the
gloom of the sanctuary, where at last their presence
was only dimly indicated by the pale gleam of the
mitres and the glitter of the copes as the glare of
lights from round the coffin reached them.

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