The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-11 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS D'AUMALI?.

The funeral of herßoyal Highness the Duchess d'Aumale
took place on Friday in the little chapel at Weybridge,
which is the property of Miss Taylor, and where rest the
remains of the ex-King and Queen of the French. The death
of the Duchess was somewhat, though not entirely-, sudden,
and took place at two o'clock on Monday, at Orleans
House, Twickenham. On the previous Saturday the
last Sacraments of the Church were adminis-
tered in the presence of the Duke, Lis son,
Madame Clinchamp, and the physician of the Duchess,
Dr. Guemeau de Mussy. Marie Caroline Augusta de
Bourbon, the late Duchess, was the daughter of Prince
Leopold of Salerno, and was born April .26,1822. Her Royal
Highness married the Duc cl'Aumale in 1844, shortly after
he had directed the expedition against Biskra. The late
Duchess had two children : Prince Louis Philippe Marie
Leopold d'Orleans, Prince de Conde, who was born at St.
Cloud, Nov. 15, 1845, and died in June, 1866, and Francois
Louis Philippe Marie d'Orliens, Due de Guise, born at
Twickenham, sth January, 1854. The report of those
who are not unacquainted with the private history of the
family circle at Orleans House is to the effect that
the shock inflicted by the death of the elder
of the above named sons was one from which
the Duchess never rallied. That she was a lady
possessed of a singularly kind and generous nature was
made clear to anyone who mingled with the crowd
through which the funeral procession passed by the
many expressions of regret that fell from the lips of the mem-
bers of the humbler an d poprer classes. Another testimony to
the good name she had won was borne by the appearance of
general mourning which, in its closed houses and shops, the
town of Twickenham wore. Everywhere there weresigns cf
grief, and many were the tales of the unvarying benevolence
of the Duchess which were poured into the ears of stninge re
who questioned the inhabitants about the family at the Park.
Orleans House, a large, irregular red brick building, stands
in pleasant grounds, jealously walled round their entire ex-
tent, and is approached on the road leading from Richmond
to what is known as the town, but is really the village,
of Twickenham, by a lengthy winding avenue. At the
gates is a stucco lodge, whose aping of a Swiss
chalet architecture is rendered the more absurd by the
introduction of Chinese blinds, which were on Friday
drawn down at every window. In the immediate
vicinity of this lodge is the local Post Office,
flanked by a hostelry which is pretentious enough
to display a regal crown as its sign. As the best,
and indeed almost the only point at which the general
public could hope to obtain anything like a sight of the
funeral proceedings, the lodge iu question formed
the great point of attraction. Immediately oppo-
site to it a considerable crowd had assembled as early as
half past nine o'clock, and though the pathway was a see.
of mud, and the air was as raw as it has been at all
during this present month of December, r atiently waited
for the best part of a couple of hours. During this inter-
val there was little to see beyend the cupid arrival of
private carriages containing the mourners, and the I'
file of mourning coaches, with their sable steeds capari-
scned in velvet, drawn up down the country read as far as
the eye could reach. In accordance with the rites of the
Roman Catholic Church, the coffin was not placed in the
hearse at the door of the house, but was borne, after the per-
formance cf mass in the chapelle un!ente, down to the
entrance of the l ark, preceded ly priests end acolyte.
with lighted tapers, swinging censers, and the crucifix
carried aloft. After the coffin followed the mourners,
the long procession being closed by the retinue of
the household. The husband of the deceased, the Du
D'Aumale, and her only living son, the Duc de Guise, a
youth of about 15 years of age, followed
as chief mourners. The only mourning coaches
admitted within the entrance gates were those pro-
vided for the clergy, to which they were conducted
immediately before the high road was reached. .A 3
these carriages, headed by two outriders and the chief groom
on the Duke's favourite grey horse, and followed by the
hearse, bearing its proper heraldic adornments, at-
tended by two mounted pages, turned out of the park, the
other coaches drew up in rotation, and were entered by the
mourners. The procession, when formed, after some
delay, mustered twenty-nine mourning coaches and about
twenty private carriages, and proceeded, followed for
some distance by a considerable crowd to Weybridge
Here a large addition was made to those who desired
to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased,
and also to those who were attracted thither only by
curiosity. The coffin was removed from the hearse, an,'
the procession of mourners formed on foot before the little
chapel was reached. The capacities of this building beine
limited, a section only of the mourners could be admitted
whilethe remaining portion of the sublime office for the
dead was completed. After the functions of the priests
had closed, and the coffin, covered with black velvet,
and sprinkled with holy water, rested quietly in the vault,
those who had been hitherto excluded found their way
into the chapel, and reverently and lovingly gazed upon
it. The officiating clergy were Mgrs. Weld and Guella.
Amongst the mourners were the Comte de Paris.
Duc de Chartres, Duc de Nemours, Dec d'Alencon, Prince
de Joinville, Due de Parthierre, the Ambassadors of
Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Brazil, Belgium, United States,
Spain, and Italy, Lord. Clanricarde, Lord Granville, Lord
Russell, M. Van de Weyer, General Peel, Marquis d'Azeglio,
Sir E. Antrobus, Baron de Cotto, Duc Descagos, Comte de
Porters, Comte de Jarnac, Baron and Baroness L. de
Rothschild, Sir A. Panizzi, Comte Reger, Comte de Benin&
Comte de Grave, Comte de Bondy, Baron Trigueti. Their
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cam-
bridge, Prince Christian, and Prince Teck joined in the
ceremony at Weybridge. Her Majesty the Queen was
represented by Lord Charles Fitzroy.
The Twickenham Vestry have passed a resolution,
expressive of the great sorrow and regret felt by the whole
body of parishioners at the death of H.R.H. the Duchess
d'Aumale ; of their high appreciation of the public and
private worth of the lamented Duchess ; and of their con-
dolence with her family in their bereavement.

During the late Mdme. Griai's London operatic
career, extending over a perio.l of twenty-seven seasons,
she sang some 925 nig‘its.

ORDERS RETURN ED.—At Windsor Castle, on
Friday, the Marquis of Westminster delivered up tha
insignia and Order of the Garter lately worn by his father
Lord Derby at the same time delivered up the insignia
and Orders of the Garter and St. Michael and St. George
worn by the late earl.
A carter named M.Govern, at Liverpool, who has
been in the habit of taking opium at night to make hirustlf
sleep, so that he might be able to rise early in the morning,
a few days ago experimcnt;ilis.d on his child with fatal (.1-
ffect. The child croFs, gave, it some epium
Convulsions ensued, and tLe child died. The father is ir.
custody.

Pk.e Hyacinthe-0 use the name by which the
ex-Carmelite is best known—seems t•o be trying tau
churches of the different dencminaticns in America. We
leans, by a private letter from New York, that on Advent
Sunday he heard the early seven o'clock Kass in the
French Church in that city, an:l then crossed the river be
Brooklyn, to hear Mr. Beecher deliver one of his politico
religious discourses, cf which he di ,1 not understand a
word. Being under sentence of excommunication, he can-
not, of course, either obtain faculties to say M.:ss in
America, nor can he approach the sacraments of confession
or Holy Communion. But, notwithstanding this—as our
informant writes:—he hears Mass every Sunday, and gene-
rally upon week days. He also recites his breviary regu•
laxly, and declares that nothing will ever persuade him t'
leave the Church.