The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-15 00:00:00

rIE FUNERAL.

The correspondent of the Telegraph, writing from
Cannes, thus describes the funeral, which took place there
on Sunday :—" The number of English now at Cannes is
comparatively small. The season' has been over for
some weeks ; but enough were left to form a full congre-
gation for the little church. Every seat was occupied
when, about half-past five o'clock, through the open doors,
the voice of the clergy without was heard pronouncing the
solemn sentences with which our funeral services begins :
I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord ;' and
then, drawing nearer, -know that my Redeemer
liveth and so, as the body was borne slowly up the
church, ' The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ;
blessed lie the name of the Lord.' The solitary chief
mourner for the great man, who Las left no children to
inherit his name and honour, was William Brougham, his
brother. Carefully, and so quietly that no harsh noise
jarred upon the ear, the coffin, covered with a plain black
pall, and adorned only with two simple.wreaths of immor-
telles, was set down within the church. The officiating
clergyman, the Rev. B. F. Neville Rolfe, a gentleman
who has long lived and labOured at Cannes, was
assisted by the Rev. P. L. D. Achtnd ; and the
noble service lost none of its simple grandeur in
their hands. Solemn and impressive as it always is, it
seems to come home to the heart with even greater power
and meaning when it is heard away from England. To
that sense of human brotherhood which even the most
V10410(283 can hardly help feeling beside an open grave,
there seems to be added a still closer and more intimate
sympathy when a little company of English, many of
whom have themselves been driven tone south by sickness,
meet together to bury their dead ; and none of us
could well forget that we were burying one whose name
will he honourably remembered for many generations
in the history of our land. No voices could be graver or
more earnest than those which joined in the responses,
the prayers, and the hymn. To that hymn a peculiar
interest attaches. It was a special favourite with Lord
Brougham whilst hia faculties were still unclouded ; and
it was at his particular request that it was added by Mr.
Rolfe to the Christ Church Hymn Book

" 'Let not your hearts with anxious thoughts
try nbled or dismayed
But trust in Providence divine,
And trust My gracious aid.
'" I to my Father's house return ;
There numerous mansions stand,
And glory manifold abounds
Through all the happy laud.'

It was in simple strains like this that he had learnt of late
years to find much comfort. When the homely melody
had died away Mr. Rolfe entered the pulpit. If any of
our French friends had expected an oraison fun,!bre, after
the French fashion, they must have been disappointed.
The voice faltered, the speaker was moved, and it would
have been strange indeed if he could have spoken without
visible and audible emotion of ' a seat now vacant,' and of
' a familiar face which we shall never see again.' lie was
not there, he said, to deliver a panegyric ; and so, with a
few earnest words concerning the great man whom he and
many of his hearers knew also as ' a most kindly and
courteous neighbour,' he passed on to speak of the old
sacred themes—of the uncertainty of life, of its real
brevity even when prolonged.to four score years and ten,
ofGotdh.e. rlftaiiiloem, ords i:
i,t, tY u
commentary, tvas there not
one close at hand in that plain coffin ? Until its final
destination shall Le made known, the be placed
needed a g us to consecrate i t all to
the crypt of Christ Church.; so that there was no
lowering into the grave, no casting earth upon it. With
tltecxectes, however, P tii°o sr, thehuo'efthe I:rotile o enlaf'' Pa,,sag-e referring to
those acts, the burial service was
r crrormed."

An inquest has been held at Monk Bretton, near
Barnsley on the body of Thomas Henry Muckle, son of
Mr. J. Muckle, of Monk Bretton House, engineer and
manager of the Mount Osborne Collieries. The deceased,
who wes only 5 years of age, had escaped from the care of
his nurse and got into the street. A man in the employ of
Mr. John Stocks, farmer, was passing at the time with a
large roller drawn by horses. He did not observe the
child, who was knocked down, and the roller passed over
his body and crushed it to dep,th, The jury reiurueS
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MAJESTY'S OPERA.
(THEATRE-ROYAL, DtIURY-LANE).
Titiens--Nilsaon —Kellogg.
" D Don Giovanni." •
TO•NORROW EVENING (SATURDAY), May 16, Mozart's
Opera,
IL DON GIOVANNI.
Donna Anna, Mdlle. Titiens ; Donna Elvira, Mdlle. Christine
Nilsson; ,Zerlina, Mdlle. Kellogg; Don Ottavio, Signor Bettini;
Leporello, Herr Rokitansky; Masetto, Signor Zoboli; II Cora-
me ndatore, Signor Folic and Don Giovanni, Mr. Santley.
Conductor—Signor A rditi.
Doors open. at Eight o'clock; commence at half-past Eight.
Stills, One CI-nines; Amphitheatre Stalls, 7s, and 55.; Reserved
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Boxes, stalls, and places may be obtained at the new Box-
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QIGN OR ARDITYS GRAND MORNING
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of Her Aiajesty's Opera.
Commence at Two o'clock precisely.
lit,R mAjEgrj"S OPERA.

THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Enetstone._

THIS EVENING. A CO-OPERrITIVE MOVEMENT
Messrs Compton and Kendal: MesdaroeS Chippendale, Dalton,
To be followed by A HERO OF ROMANCE. Characters
by Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Compton, Chhypendale, Rogers,
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Dalton, Laws, and Daubigny.
Conclnding with INTRIGUE. Mr. Howe, Mr. Xendal, Mr.
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