The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-02 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY•

WINDSOR CASTLE, Sunday.

The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Helena,
Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold,
and Princess Princess Beatrice, attended Divine
Service this morning in the private chapel.

Autograph Letter of the Queen to Mr.

Peabody.

The following grcceful letter has been written by
.he Queen to Mr. Peabody :
Windsor Castle, March 28, 1866.

The Queen hears that Mr. Peabody intends
shortly to return to America, and she would be
sorry that he should leave England without being
assured by herself how deeply she appreciates the
noble act of more than princely munificence by
which he
_has sought to relieve the wants of the
poorer class of her subjects residing in London.
" It is an act, as the Queen believes, wholly
without parallel, and which will carry its best re-
ward in the consciousness of having contributed so
laigely to the assistance of those who can little help
themselves.

" The Queen would not, however, have been sa-
tisfied without giving Mr. Peabody some public
mark of her sense of his munificence, and she would
gladly have conferred upon him either a baronetcy
or the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, but
that she understands Mr. Peabody to feel himself
debarred from accepting such distinctions.
" It only remains, therefore, for the Queen to
give Mr. Peabody this assurance of her personal
feelings, which she would further wish to mark by
asking him to accept a miniature portrait of herself,
which she will desire to have painted for him,
and which, when finished, can either be sent to him
to America or given to him on the return which, she
rejoices to hear, he meditates to the country that
owes him so much."

The late Queen Marie Amelie.

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All the arrangements connected with the funeral
of this venerable lady have now been completed. As
was stated in The Sun of Friday, the hearse, drawn
by eight horses, and preceded by mounted mutes
bearing wands, will leave Claremont Palace at a
quarter past 11 to-morrow. All the mourners will
follow to the park gates on foot. Only the Princes
of the House of Orleans will wear cloaks, all others
who are invited to take part in the ceremony will
be in plain evening dress, without either cloaks or
hatbands. Outside the park gates, and drawn up on
the left to precede the hearse, will be two mourning
coaches and four, one for Bishop Grant and the
clergy of his diocess who may assist, the other for
the late Queen's private chaplains. Immediately
following the hearse, three mourning coaches will
convey the Princes of Orleans—namely, the Comte
de Paris, the Duc de Chartres, the Comte d'Artois,
the Prince de Joinyille, the Due d'Auma]e, and
other members of the family. The rest of the pro-
cession will be arranged in the following order, the
diplomatic corps being in the carriages immediately
following those of the Princes.
First Carriage—The Austrian Ambassador, the
Prussian Ambassador, the Belgian Minister, the
Bavarian Minister.
Second Carriage—The Italian Minister, the Por-
tuguese Minister, the Saxon Minister, and the Spa-
nish Minister.

Third Carriage—The Brazilian Minister and the
Mexican Minister.
Fourth Carriage—General Count de Montesquiou,
General Count de Houdetot, General Count Dumas,
and General Count Chabannes.
Fifth Carriage—The First Belgian officer, Gen.
Baron Chabaud Latour, and Mr. Elion.
Sixth Carriage—Count de Jarnac, Lieut.-Gen.
Sird Edward Cust, the Second Belgian Officer, and
Capt. Morlain.
Seventh Carriage—MM. Guizot, 'riders, Ducha-
tel, and Remusat.
Eighth Carriage—MM. Dufaure, Dumon, Hebert,
and General Changarnier.
Ninth Carriage—M. Bocher, Count de Gronsfeld,
and MM. Fortuuato and Trognon.
Tenth Carriage—Dr. de Mussy, MM. Octave
Barul de Bretzil, Brison, and Asselia.
Eleventh Carriage—MM. Regnier, pore, Gauthier,
Fauvel, and Langel.
Twelfth Carriage—MM. Colleux and Allaire,
Fleury, and A. de Latour.
Thirteenth Carriage—MM. Jolly, Regnier, file,
and Mesnierd.
After the procession has started from the park
gates the Princesses and the ladies of the household
will leave the Palace and proceed to Weybridge by
another and shorter route through Walton and
Oatlands-park, so as to be in the chapel before the
arrival of the hearse. This part of the cortege will
consist of five carriages, conveying the following
distinguished mourners :
First Carriage—The Countess of Paris, the
Duchess of Chartres, the Princess Marguerite, the
Princess Joinville.
Second Carriage—The Duchess d'Aumale, the
Duchess of Wurtemburg, the Princess Salerno, the
Countess Aueroper.
Third Carriage—The Marchioness de Lastigne,
the Baroness Finquerlui, the Countess de Chaban-
nes, the Marchioness de Beauvoir.
Fourth Carriage—Mdlle. Maser, Mdlle. Boeris,
Madame de Porquet, Marquis de Beauvoir.
Fifth Carriage—Mdlle. Bernard, the Countess
Barnels, the Baroness Wangenheim, and Mdlle. St.
Aubin.

From the steps of the Palace to the park gates,
and from Weybridge-heath to the vault, the hearse
will be attended on each side by General Count
Montesquiou, General Count Houdetot, General
Count Dumas, and General Count Chabannes.
The body, as we have stated, will not be taken into
the little church, but direct through the church-
yard to the external entrance to the vault in which
the remains of Louis Philippe are laid. This little
mausoleum is so narrow that it has had to be en-
larged to admit of Queen Marie Amelie's coffin being
laid by the aide of that of her husband. In the
chapel itself their Royal Highnesses the Prince of
Wales and the Duke of Cambridge will meet the
mourners, and remain during the funeral service_
When this short ceremony in ended, the members
of the Royal family will go down to the vault, and
after they have left the members of the diplomatic
corps will also pass round the coffin, and after these
the members of the late Queen's household. Gene-
ral Count Dumas will stand ac the head of the coffin
till all have passed through the vault, and will re-
main to see it finally closed.

DEATH SCENES OF REMARKABLE PERSONS.
Mary, Scotland's great beauty, met the " gloomy king "
with a degree of resolution not to be expected from her
misfortunes, so numerous were they deserted by every
friend, except her faithful little dog. Sir Thomas More
remarked to the executioner, by whose hands he wan
about to perish, that the scaffold was extremely weak. "I
pray you see me up safe," said he ; "and for my coming
down, let me shift for myself." Chaucer breathed his last
when composing a ballad. His last production is called "A
Ballad made by Geoffrey Chaucer on his death-bed, lying in
great pain." " I could wish this tragic scene was over,"
said Quin, the actor; "but I hope to go through it with
becoming dignity." Petrarch was found dead in his library',
leaning on a book. Rousseau, when dying, ordered his at-
tendants to remove him, and place him before the windovf
that he might look upon his garden, and gladden his eyes
with the sight of nature. How ardent an admirer ho was
of nature is poetically told in Zimmerman's Solitude."
Pope tells us he found Godfrey Kneller (when he visited
him a few days prior to his end) sitting up forming the plans
for the erection of his own monument. His vanity was
conspicuous even in death. Warren has observed that
Chesterfield's good breeding only left him with death•
"Give Drysdale a chair," said he to his valet, when that
person was announced. Gayle, when dying, pointed to
where his proof-sheet was deposited. Clarendon's pen
dropped from his hand when seized with palsy, which put
an end to his existence. Bede died in the act of dictating'
Roscommon, when expiring, quoted from his own trawls-
tion of the Dies !me. Haller, feeling his pulse, said, "
, artery ceases to beat," and immediately died. When the
, priest whom Alfieri had been prevailed on to see con.,,
. he requested him to call to-morrow—" Death, I trust,
. tarry four-and-twenty hours." Nelson's last words -w,s,r
"Tell Collingwood to bring the fleet to an anchor,
Illuminated &gaunt'