The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-16 00:00:00

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NOTTINGHAM RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

The Cutler

The Bunney Park Stakes.

••• ••• ... walked over

The Nottinghcmshire Handicap.
Maid cf Masham
Maid of Tam Valley ... ... 2
Humphrey ... 3

FUNERAL

OF THE

DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.
(THIS DAY.)

The remains of his late Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge ware this morning removed from Cambridge
House, and deposited beneath the porch of Kew Church.
As early as four o'clock Picea began to assume a
bustling appearance, and long before six o'clock, the
hour appointed for the mournful ceremony, Cambridge
House was completely surrounded by crowds of well-
dressed people. A body of police, however, were in attend-
ance, and their good-humoured exertions secured order
and decorum. A guard of honour had been on duty the
whole of the night in the court-yard of the mansion,
but shortly after five o'cicck the guard was re-
lieved by the arrival of two battalions of the
Coldstream Guards, the first headed by. Lieutenaet
Colonel Codrington, end the second by Lieutenant
Colonel the Hon. Arthur Upton, the whole being under
the immediate control of Colonel Chaplin, the Com-
manding Officer of the Regiment. Some few minutes
before six o'clock all the noblemen and gentlemen who
were to take part in the gloomy procet dings had reached
Cambridge House, and directions were at once given
that the sombre mourning coaches to be used on the oc-
casion should be brought from a neighbouring livery
stuble-yard. No sooner had these awived, accompanied
by the hearse, than the order of ceremonial was ar-
ranged in accordance with the official programme which
had been previously prepared and published by the
Lord Great Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household,
which was as follows:—
Two Battalions of Foot Guards.

A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, containing
his Royal Highness's two Pages, Messrs. Thy re and

Ealing:
A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, containing
Drs. F. Hawkins, Watson, Bright, and Mr. Hollings-
worth, his late Royal Highness's medical att. ndants.
A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, containing
Drs. Keate, the Rev. Mr. Kuper, Rev. Canon Wood,
and Rev. Mr. Wulburn, his late Royal Highness's
Chaplain.
A :mourning 6610 'drawn, by four horses, containing
Colonel Liddell, the Equerry of tier Royal Highness
the,Duchess of Gloucester; Colonel Upton, the Equerry
of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent; and Major
Stepl.ens and Sir William Dount, two of his late
Royal Highness's Equerries. •
A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, containing
Sir James R icquiet, Col. Cornwall, Mr. E. Mildmay,
and three other Equerries of his late Royal Highness.
A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, containing
Sir Charles Thurston, Equerry of his Majesty the
King of Hanover, Count Kielminvgge, toe repre-
sentative of the Hanoverian Embassy, and Cul. Drum-
mond, and General. Pratt, tl,e Groom in Waiting, and
the Equerry of her Majesty the Queen.
A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, containing
Lord Camoys, Lord in Waiting to the Queen, Sir
James Macdonald, Sir Wm. Gomn, and Colonel

Buckley.
A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, containing
Lord Edward Howard, the Vice-Chamberlain of her
Majesty's Household, Sir Alexander Woodford, and
Sir Henry Bouverie.
The carriage of his late Royal Highness, drawn by six
bursts, containing the Coronet and Cushion, and the
Baton and Cushion of his late Royal Highness, and
carrying Baron linesebeck and Colonel Hay.
THE HEARSE,
Drawn by eight horses, and surrounded by a Troop of
Life Guards, under the command of Colonel Voyce.
In this order the mournful pageant moved out of the
court-yard, proceeded slowly and silently down Picca-
dilly, through Knight,bridge,.Kensington, Hammersmith,
and so on to Kew-bridge, where it arrived shortly lat fore
nine o'clock. Most of the hou ea on the live of road
through which the gloomy cavalcade passed had the
window-blinds drawn, while the pedestriat,s stood un-
covered as the hearse passed, and exhibited every mani-
festation of respect for the rank of the departed Prince.
The steeples and belfries of the different churches of the
various parishes through which the funeral wended its
way sent forth sepulchral knells, or displayed the
national standard half mast high where the edifice was
not provided with bells. At the Crown at Kew-bridge
a large addition was made to the procession by its being
here joined and preceded by the children of the
Queen's School, the labourers and others engaged
in the mansion or on the grounds of his late
Royal Highness, and the chief inhabitants and
tradesmen of Kew and Richmond, headed by the
the vicar, the Rev. R. Burgh By am, and Mr. Costello
and Colonel Gerado, the churchwardens of Kew. The
escort, thus increased, continued its course over the
bridge and across Kew green to the front of Cambridge
Cottage, where the coffin remained in the hearse till
about ten o'clock. In the mean time those who had ac•
companied it from London quitted their carriages and
zntercd the mansion, and now the principal officers of
stile, together with the nobility and gentry who were to
pay a last tribute to the memory of the illustrioua deceased,
began to arrive in rapid succession. His Royal High.
ness Prince Albert, who came in a carriage-and-four,
accompanied by his Roy al Highness Prince George
of Cambridge and Lis Royal Highness the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, did
not reach the green till near ten u'cicck; but his Grace
the Duke of Wellington arrived, alone, as early as nine
o'clock, and remained, seated, beneath the porch of the
church, near the grave of his late royal comranion in
arms, till the funeral rites were commenced, when his
Grace entered the church. Amongst the most
prominen; of the other noble individuals pre-
tent were, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John

Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Torrington,
Vismunt Jocelyn, and the principal officers attached
to her Majesty's household. The clock of Kew church
had scarcely done striking ten before the coffin was
withdrawn from the hearse. Iy was covorsd with mag-
nificent c inisori Genoa velvet, fringed wiih gold trap-
ping!=, and ornamented with a coronet and other devices
of a similar material, and bore the following inscription:
Deposit um
Illustri3 imi
ADOLPEI FREDERICI
do Brunswick-Lonenburg,
Ducis Can:ahrigw,
Comitia do Tipperary ac Baronis de Culloden;
Nobilissimi Ordinis Periscelidis
Ft
Honorabilissimi Ordrnis do Balneo
Equitis;
Patrui Augustissirta3 et Potentissimm
VICTORIA
Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regirm,
Fidei Def.nsork
Obiit die octavo Julii,
Anne Domimi N DCCCL.,
JEr. 61103 LXX V 11.

The funeral procestion was then refo7 mad in the fol-
lowing ordcr:—
Servants of his late Royal Hightess.
Piiges of his late R yil Hit; hot ss.
Medic .1 attend ints upon his Into Royal Highne3s.
Chaphins to his late Royal Ilighne,s.
Equerry of Equerry of
the Ducl.ess 1i.13.f1 the DUCI',O3d
of Kent. of GI uc stt'r.
Equerry of his The representative
M.Ljeoty the King of of the, Hanoverian
Hanover. Embassy.
Equerries of bis late Royal Highness.
&perry to f1.R.11. Prince Equerry to the Queen, in
Albert, in Waiting. Waiting.
Groom of the Bedchamber to Groom in Waiting to the
ILR H. Prince Albert, Queen.
in Waiting.
Lord of the Bedchamber to Lord in. Waiting to the
11.R.11. Prince Albert, Queen.
in Waiting.
Groom of the Stole
to H.R.U. Prince Albert.

THE BATON
of his late Royal Highness, borne upon a black velvet
eivhion.
THE CORONET

of his late Royal Highnes., borne upon a black velvet

cushion.

The Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household.
The Gentleman Usher of The Vice-Chamberlain of

the Sword of State. her Majesty's Household.
Pall-bearers. THE BODY, Pall-bearers.
Borne by Eight N-n-commissioned Officers of the
Coldstream Guards.
THE CHIEF MOURNER.

His Royal Highness His Royal His Royal Highness
the Hereditary Highness PRINCE
Grand Duke of Prince George, ALBERT.
Mecklenbu rgh now
Strelitz. DUKE OF
CAMBRIDGE,
attended by
His two Supporters
and
His Aide-de•Camp.
From the entrance to Cambridge Cottage to the
church door the ground was lined on either side by the
Coldstream Guards, who presented arms as the coffin
passed, which was carried into the portals of the sacred
edifice uncovered, and then leant their heads upon the
bottom of their inverted muskets in a mournful attitude,
which gave the whole scene an exceedingly effecting
appearance. The coffin having arrived in the church
it was placed upon trestles in front of the
communion table, and the coronet and cushion and
baton and cushion laid on the top. His Royal
Bighneas the Chief Mourner, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, and his Royal Highness the Hereditary
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, took their places
at the head of the corpse, the Lurd Chamberlain and
Vice-Chamberlain, and the Gentleman Usher of the
Sword of Sta►e, at the foot of the corpse.
The other persons composing the procession retired to
the royal gallery and to the pews which had been set
apart fur them.

- The pall-bearers were Sir William Gomm, Sir Alex •
ander Woodford, Sir James Macdonald, and Sir Henry
Bouverie.

The burial service was read by the Rev. Mr.
Hutchinson, in a most impressive manner, while the
Vicar of the parish occupied his place at the communion.
The peat of the service before the interment being
read, the body was borne to the vault at the
entrance to the church, followed by his Royal
Highness the Chief Mourner, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, his Royal Highness the Hereditary
Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, the Lord
Chamberlain, &c., where it was fically deposited. The
vault is not a new one being in fact as old as the church
itself, but it is intended only to serve as the temporary
tomb of his late Royal Highness till a hand-
some mausoleum can be erected on a piece
of ground contiguous to the church. The
Royal mourners after taking a farewell glance at
the gorgeous ct ffin in its earthy abode, quitted
the church, and with the other elevated personages, they
immediately returned to town. The morning-was in-
tensely hot, and what rendered the cccaeion still more
gloomy and depressing was the circumstance of numbers
of the Coldstream Guerds laintitg from fatigue, and
being carried away in an exhausted state.
The green Led neighbt urhood of the church wrs
thronged with well-dressed people, who seemed some-
what disappointed that the funeral was much
divested of the pomp and splendour which
has hitherto characterised the funerals of England's
Princes, but though the majority expecte I more
than they saw, no doubt there were not a few present
who roust have felt gratified at the absence of every-
thing like unnecessary ostentation at the funeral obse-
quies of a Reyal Duke whose character and virtues,
and not bis great deeds, had endeared him to his
countrymen.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
_ _ (THIS DAY)

The adjourned July Sessions for the county of Mid-
dlesex were commenced this morning, before Mr. Ser-
geant Adams, at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell.
James Gilmoor, who was found guilty last t, esbion of
petty larceny, was placed in the dock and sentenced to
seven years' transportation.
Eliza Layer, who has been four times convicted of
petty larceny, was sentenced to 12 months' imprison-
ment in the Westminster House of Correction.
The JUDGE, in passing sentence, said that at the ex-
piration of her last t. eatence the Ladies' Committee
had given her money to place her in a respectable posi-
tion e f life, and here she was again.

HER MA JEST Y'S THEATRE.
As the Lord Chamberlain has issued orders for
closing all the theatres on this (Tuesday) evening, a
performance took place at her Majesty's Theatre last
evening. The opera was I Puritani, and Madame
Frezzolini sustained the character of Ellira for the
first time in this country. The Elvira of Madame
Frezzolini is one of the most charming of her perso-
nations ; her vocalization was exquisite, and her ren-
dering of the far-famed Polacca delicious—it
'commanded an unanimous encore. She looked
and acted the " Vergen vezzola" to the life.
In the last act her singing and acting were
full of expression and feeling. Baucarde was
the Arturo, Lablache the Georgio, and Coletti the
Riccardo. The superb " Suona la Tromba" was
never more superbly rendered than it was last even-
ing by Coletti and Lablache. Between the second
and third acts of the opera, Carlotta Grisi danced the
" Truandaise" in the most piquant manner imaginable,
and was, as a matter of c.,ul se, rapturously encored.
After the opera the celebrated Donna Maria Loretto
Martinez, the Black Malibran, made her first appear-
ance before an Eoglith audience in a divertisse-
ment composed expressly to introduce her, entitled
Les ()dices du Serail. The scene represents the
interior of a harem, and the various Sultanas are
dancing to amuse the lord and master, who is seated
on a musnud. After the performance of several
dances (one of which, a pas de deux, by Mademoiselle
Amalia Ferraris and Madame Petit Stephan, is de.
serving of especial commendation), the Donna Mar
tinez is introduced veiled. The veil baying been re-
moved, we saw before us one of the most handsome
negresses in the world, attired in a superb Spanish
costume. She was led to an ottoman,
on which she took her seat, and a Spanish
guitar having been handed to her, sho
struck a few notes es a prelude. It was evident from
the first that she was dreadfully nervous—she
trembled exceedingly as she took the guitar—but it
was also evident from her manner of touching the
instrument, and of stopping, that she was a first-rate
guitar player. She then commenced one of her
Cuban melodies. It was full of character, and not-
withstanding her highly nervous state, which pre-
vented her from exhibiting the full powers of
her voice, and acted evidently as a pain-
ful restraint upon her, there was something
so quaint, so original, so characteristic in her style
of singing and acting, that she elicited loud ap-
plause, and at the conclusion of her performance
(she sang three songs, in one of which she was en-
cored), she was called on. The performance of the
Black Mllibran is a perfect musical curiosity, and
we shall very much like again to witness her per-
formances.