The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-23 00:00:00

The Canons of Windsor.

The Dean of Windsor—The Hon. and Very Rev. Gerald
D.D.
THE BATON, SWORD, AND HAT
Of his late Royal highness, borne upcn a Black Velvet
Cushion, by Lord George Lennox, Lord of the
Bedchamber to his late Royal Highness.
THE CROWN
Of his late Royal Highness, borne upon a Black Velvet
Cushion, by the Eail Spencer, Groom of the
Stole to his late Royal Highness.

The Controller in the Lord The Vice-Chamberlain cf
Chamberlain's Depart- Her Majesty's Household
ment Hon. Spencer —the Viscount Castle-
Ponsonby. rosse.
The Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household—
Viscount Sydney.

SUPPORTERS OF THE
PALL.
Col. the Hon. Sir C.
B.Phipps,K.C.B.,
Treasurer to his
late Royal High-
ness.

SUPPORTERS OF THE:
PALL.
Lord Waterpark, Lord'
of the liedcham-1
ber to his late
Royal Highness.

Lieut.-Gen. Hon. C.
Grey, Private Sec-
retary to his late
Royal Highness.
Major-Gen. Wylde,
Groom of the Bed-
chamber to his late
Royal Highness.
Colonel Francis Sey-
mour, C.B.,Groom
of the Bedchamber
to his late Royal
Highness.
Garter King of Arms—Sir Charles Young.
THE CHIEF MOURNER,

Colonel the Hon. A.
N. Hood, Clerk-
Marshal to his late
Royal Hight ess.
Lieutenant-Col. Hon.
Dudley De Ros,r
Equerry to his late 1
Royal Highness.

Major C. T. Du Plat,l
Equerry to his late
Royal Highness.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES,

supported by
His Royal Highnesss Prince Arthur,
and by

His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,
and attended by
Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia.
His Royal Highness the Duke de Brabant.
His Royal Highness the Count de Flandres.
His Royal Highness the Duke do Nemours.
His Grand Ducal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen.
Count Gleichen.
His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh.
Equerries Governor
To his Royal Highness to his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales— nines Arthur—
Captain George Henry Grey; Major Elphinstone, V.C.
Lieut.-Col. Frederick Charles Keppel.
Equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge—
Colonel Tyrwhitt.
Gentlemen in Waiting on his Royal Highness the Crown
Prince of Prussia—Lieutenant-General Baron Moltke,
Chamberlain Count Furstenstein, Lieutenant-Colonel
Von Obernitz, and Captain De Lucadou.
Gentlemen in Waiting on his Royal Highness the Duke of
. Saxe-Coburg and Gotha—Major Von Reutern and M.
Samwer.
Gentlemen in Waiting onhis Royal Highness the Duke of
Brabant—Count de Lannoy.

Gentleman in Waiting on his Royal Highness the Count
of Flanders—Major Burnoll.

Gentleman in Waiting on his Royal Highness the Duke del
Nemours—General Count de Chabonnes.

Gentleman in Waiting on his Grand Ducal Highness thel
Prince Louis of Hesse—Baron Westerweller.

Gentleman in Waiting on his Highness the Maharajah
D Weep Singh—Colonel Oliphant.

Upon arrival within the choir, the Crown and the baton,
sword, and hat of his late Royal Highness were placed:
upon the coffin. His Royal Highness, the chief mourner,
stood at the head of the corpse, with his Royal Highness,
Prince Arthur and his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-
Coburg and Gotha on either side. The other Royal per-
sonages stood behind his Royal Highness the chief mour-
ner, and their attendants near them.
The supporters of the pall were on either side of the
coffin.
The Lord Chamberlain stood at the foot of the coffin,
The rest of the procession, having previously advanced
towards the centre of the choir, stood on either side of the
chapel.
The opening sentences of the Burial Service were sung
by the choir while the procession moved up the nave.
The first part of the service and the Anthem (Martin
Luther's hymn) having been performed, the corpse was
lowered into the royal vault, and the Dean concluded the
burial service, upon which Garter King of Arms pro-
claimed the style of his late Royal Highness.
After which the Royal family and other royal personages
were conducted out of the chapel, and the others compos-
ing the procession retired, while the Dead March in Saul
was being played.
A guard of honour of the Grenadier Guards (of which
regiment his late Royal Highness was colonel) mounted
during the ceremony at the entrance of St. George's Chapel.
The following had the honour to receive the Queen's
commands to attend the funeral, and had seats in the choir:
M. Van do Weyer, the Belgian Minister; Count Kielman-
segge, the Hanoverian Minister; Count de Lavradio, the
Portuguese Minister; Count Vitzthum, the Saxon Minister;
and Count Brandenburg, the Prussian Charge d'Affaires.
OFFICERS OF STATE.

Viscount Palmerston, K G, G C B, First Lord of the
Treasury.
Lord Westbury, Lord High Chancellor

Earl Granville, K G, Lord President of the Council
The Duke of Argyle, K T, Lord Privy Seal

The Right Hon Sir George Grey, Bart, M P, G C B,
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Earl Russell, Secretary of State for the Foreign Depart
ment

The Duke of Newcastle, K G, Secretary of Ltate for the
Colonial Department

The Right Hon Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart, M P
Secretary of State for the War Department

The Right Hon Sir Charles Wood, Bart, M P, G C B
Secretary of State for the Indian Department

The Right Hon W. E. Gladstone, 1.1 P, Chancellor of the
Exchequer

The Duke of Somerset, First Lord of the Admiralty
Lord Stanley of Alderley, Postmaster-General

Ilhe Right Hon Edward Cardwell, M P, Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster

The Right Hon Thomas Milner Gibson, M P, President oi
the Boatd of Trade

The Right Hon C. Pelham Villiers, M P, Chief Commis•
sioner of the Poor Law Board

The Earl of Carlisle, K G, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
The Right Hon William Cowper, First Commissioner 01
Works, &c

The Hon Charles A. Gore, First Commissioner of Wood(
OFFICERS OF THE QUEEN'S HOUSEHOLD
Viscount Bury, the Treasurer of the Household
Lord Proby, the Controller of the Household
The Earl of Caithness, Viscount Torrington, Lord Rivers.
Lord De Tabley, Lord Cremorne, K P, Lord Harris,
K S I, Lord Methuen, and Lord Byron (extra), Lords in
Waiting
The Hon Mortimer Sackville West, Colonel the Hon Georg(
Augustus Liddell, Captain Sir Wm Hoste, Bart, R N.
Lieutenant-Colonel R. N. Kingscote, CB, and Lieut-
Colonel W. H. F. Cavendish, Grooms in Waiting
Colonel Lord James Murray and General Sir Frederid
Stovin, G C B, Extra Grooms in Waiting
The Hon Charles A. Murray, C B
Lieutenant• Colonel Lord Augustus Charles L. Fittroy and
]Major• General Seymour, Equerries
Lieutenant-Colonel G. A. Maude, C B, Crown Equerry
Captain the Hon Joseph Denman, RN, Captain of her
Majesty's yacht
Mr Woodward, Librarian
The following also were invited :
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Buccleuch.
KG, the Duke of Atholl, KT (the Duchess being Lady 01
the Bedchamber in Waiting upon her Majesty) ; the Dukc
of Rutland and the Duke of Manchester, formerly Lords o:
the Bedchamber to his lace Royal Highness ; the Duke of
Wellington, K G (the Duchess being Mistress of the
Robes) ; the Marquis of Lansdowne, KG, the Marquis ol
Abercorn, KG, the Marquis of Exeter, KG, and Lord
Ebury, fcrmerly Gro, ms of the Stole to his late Roya
Highness ; the Marquis of Breadalbane, KT, the Earl at
11 Derby, KG, the Earl de la Warr, the Earl of Clarendon.
KG, GCB, his Excellency Earl Cowley, GCB ; the Ear;l
of Morley, Viscount Clifden, and Lord Begot, forrnerl3
Lords of the Bedchamber to his late Royal Highness
the Lord Bishop of London, Dean of her Majesty's Chapel(
Royal ; the Lord Bishop of Oxford, the Lord Bishop o:
Chester, and the Lord Bishop of Worcester, formerly Chap.
lains to his late Royal Highness; Lord Colville of Culross.
Lieut.-Colonel Commanding the Hon Artillery Company.
of which his late Royal Highness was Colonel and Captain-
General ; Lord Portman, Commissioner of the Duchy o'
Cornwall; the Speaker of the House of Commons; Lieut.-
General Sir George Bowles, KC B; Lieut.-Genera'
Bouverie,'formerly Equerry to his late Royal Highness ;
Colonel Lambert, Commanding the Grenadier Guards, at
which regiment his late Royal Highness was Colonel; th.
Rev James St John Blunt, vicar of Old Windsor ; the
Rev H M Ellison, the vicar of Windsor, &c.

The appearance of the metropolis was that of
deep mourning, nearly all the shops were closed.
and the great bells of St. Paul's, Westminster
Abbey, the Palace at Westminster, and all the,
principal churches tolled during the morning, and
minute guns were fired in the parks and at the
rower of London.

A PIECE OF GOOD LUCK.—As good fortune!
would have it, and in the midst of the heavy pressure on the!
Government, a large supply of many thousand unissued
stores, consisting of greatcoats, cholera belts, &c., arrived,
from China in the early part of the week, and having been
found in a perfectly sound state they have been made avail-
Able for immediate iseue,-4nny and Zravy Gazette.

LATEST NEWS.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA

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NE W YORK, DEC. 10.
(PER STEAMER CANADA, VIA BOSTON AND QUEENSTOWN.)
Further correspondence between Mr. Seward and
Mr. Dayton, the American Minister in Paris, has
been published.
Mr. Dayton writes that M. Thouvenel and Earl
!Russell had officially avowed that there was an un-
Iderstanding between England and France for a
!mutual action in American affairs.

On the 15th of June the English and French'

o\linisters had an interview with Mr. Seward, atl
;7.ti Washington, in which they both announced that)
ri
H Jhey were charged to read a despatch from their.
L''respective Governments. Mr. Seward, in reply,
r stated that, under the peculiar circumstances, he'
1

could not permit the official reading of the docu,
tnents without knowing their character and object.,
The Ministers thereupon delivered the despatches!
to Mr. Seward for informal examination. Mr.l
Seward, having ascertained that the despatches, by
taking cognisance of both parties as belligerents;
assumed that the United States were not one sove-1
reign power, stated that he could not allow the,
despatches to be communicated to the Federal
Government,

' The New York _Herald of the 9th instant, in an .4-
article on the arrest of Messrs. Mason and Slidell,,`J
says that, according to the opinion of the Britishl'''
law officers, as given in the correspondence between
Mr. Adams and the English Government, the case
is fairly and distinctly settled in favour of the Fede-
ral --•-:
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Government, and that there may have been fair
grounds for seizing the steamer in British waters.
The same paper on the 10th inst. says :
"We quote in another column important corres-
tondence
between Mr. Bancroft and Lord Palmer-
ston, which took place in 1847, when the former was i
our Minister at the Court of St. James's, and the
tatter Foreign Secretary. It refers to the cir-
cumstance of the captain of the British West
India royal mail steamer Teviot carrying from 4
the Havana to Vera Cruz the Mexican gene-
ral Paredez, the United States and Mexico being
then at war, and Great Britain occupying the posi-
tion of a neutral, Mr. Buchanan, then Secretary of
."
State, directed Mr. Bancroft to require satisfaction
for this breach of neutrality, and accordingly the
case was represented to him and inquired into by
the British Government. The result was that
Lord Palmerston : ultimately informed our b
Minister that, the matter having been investi-
gated by the Lords Commissioners of the Admil
'• ralty, her Majesty's Government had informed
~. the directors of the West India Royal Mail
Steam Packet Company that they were bound to
testify in a marked manner their disapproval of the
captain's conduct, in consequence of which the
latter had been removed from his command ;
and the company publicly and distinctly con-
demned any act of their officers which might be
regarded as a breach of faith towards the Govern-
:, went of the United States. This seems to esta
Wish clearly and incontestibly enough the illegality
of the act of carrying Messrs. Mason and Slid-
dell on board the Trent, a vessel belonging t.t:

the same company as the Teviot. Of all the
precedents quoted in our favour none appears to
apply so much to the case in point as this. It
justifies in every respect the conduct of the captain
of the San :Jacinto, and gives additional force to
the reported decision of the law officers of the
Crown with respect to the right of search, which
we published yesterday. If, indeed, the British
Government feel any disposition to quarrel with
this country, they will be unable to find a suffi
cient pretext in the action of Captain Wilkes.
'nd even had he gone further than he
iid, and seized the Trent, as well as the rebel
emissaries, he would have been justified under the
circumstances, for Mason and Slidell were contra-,
band of war, and known to be such by the
captain of the steamer. But England has too
many exposed interests at stake to risk a rupture.
• with the United States, even apart from the ques-
tion of right. We have therefore ample guarantee
For her future good behaviour. Canada is within
a little more than two days' railway ride of half it
million of armed men, and has a frontier that can
offer no resistance to the march of an invading force
From the United States. Moreover we have our own
formidable and rapidly increasing naval armaments
bristling before her eyes; and she well knows that
hostile interference with us would involve the loss of
her immense trade with the North. She will conse-
quently, we may rest assured, be in no hurry to
embroil herself in another American difficulty ; for
if she does the destiny of her power on this conti-
nent is predetermined."

The New York Times of the 9th instant, in an
article on the affair of the Nashville, says :

" While awaiting for a day or two the news of thel
manner in which the Trent affair has been received
in England, we have a most profitable study in the!
new revelation of the mysteries of British neutrality
presented by the case of the rebel steamer Nash-
ville. If it had been given us to control events so
ts to prepare England for the reception of the news
of our seizure of Mason and Slidell, we would hardly
have done otherwise than ask that this transaction
should take place, and that it would evoke the very
)I,inions it has evoked. Whatever might be the bel-
igerent rights of the Nashville to seize United States
vessels, she entered Southampton as a pirate, after
having, in the face of international law, wantonly
lestroyed her capture. There can be but one result
if Mr. Adams acts with adequate vigour, the con-
fiscation of the lawless enemy of commerce, The
bearing of this case on the affair of the Trent is
)bvious, It is evident the English consider their
londuct affords us, as it does, just ground of com-
plaint, if it does not present a casus belli ; even so
that it is not at all unlikely the British Government
will be very willing to quietly make the one casel,
in offset to the other."

The report of the Secretary of the Treasury has
been presented to Congress. 1

Mr. Chase states that the amount derived by
he Government from loans since July last is,
197,000,000 dols. He is compelled to reduce his!
3stiznate of the revenue from the Customs during
!the financial year 1862 from 57,000,000 dols. to
32,000,000 dols. He recommends that the duty
on sugar should be increased to 2-Ic., on clayed
sugar to 3c., on green tea to 25c., and on coffee to Sc.-
Other alterations in the tariff are also recommended.
He further recommends that the direct taxes in -;
1
the loyal states should be increased to 20,000,000 ,
, dols., and that duties should be levied on stills:
,
' distilled liquors, tobacco, bank notes, legaeks, car-
riages, and paper, sufficient to produce another
q
;120,000,000 dols. 10,000,000 dols. are expected to
l'i be derived from the income tax.

13 The estimated expenditure for the fi:ical year
(terminating in July, 1862, is 543,000,000 dols.;.
329,000,000 dols, have already been received, leav-1
64.
yng a deficit of 214,000,000 dols. to be provided for.l
''l The Secretary proposes to raise 150,000,000 dols!
• by substituting for the present bank currency of thr.'
1
states 2 Federal currency to that amount, redeem-1
able in coin on presentation, and secured by United

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