The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-23 00:00:00

THE CATHEDRAL YARD.

irriage at

every part of the metropolis up to the hour of nine, when
the Cathedral-yard had become a busy scene. Orderly
officers were continually riding in with messages and in-
structions ; but it was not until 20 minutes to eleven that
the first announcement of the approach of the procession
reached the eager ears of the assembled multitudes. The

word to fall in was given ; the muffled sounds of drums
rolling an accompaniment to the " Dead March" was
borne upon the wind. Soon was seen that agitation of
spectators from afar, which announces the coming of some
long expected procession ; and then might be seen coming
up the hill a heavy column of troops, and the bright sun
glancing upon their helmets, betokened the advance of a
vanguard of horse soldiers. On reaching the outer en-
trance they filed off to the left, and made way for the
advance of the band of the Ist Grenadier Guards, who
came up through the churchyard to the western entrance.
They were followed by the regiment, and separated to the
right and left outside the railing, and halted with t'ueir
arms reversed.
Through the opening thus made, there came up unex-
pected, with that briskness and vivacity which seems pe-
culiar to their entrance as a body to all public places, the
500 members of the House of Commons, who, having met
in their palace at 10 o'clock, as pre-arranged, had come
down to Paul's wharf by water in Citizen steam-boats, and
had thus contrived to be just in time to be too late to take
their places so as to receive the opening part of the pro-
cession in due and proper form. The military halted to
make way for them, and they speedily bustled up the steps
and down the nave into due decorum. The Grenadiers
then, still with arms reversed, marched off with arms
reversed, and the band of the Artillery next appeared,
followed by nine guns of the field battery—in themselves
a grand spectacle. The band of the 17th Lancers, the
13th Light Dragoons, the Bth Hussars, and the Scots
Greys, each followed by squadrons of their regiments,
successively crested the hill, and tiled off to the right. It
was impossible, in looking upon the latter regiment, as
they came into sight, not to think of, under such circum-
stances, the reluctant admiration which their gallantry
had rung from even Napoleon himself when he saw them
advancing in fatal charge upon his infantry at Waterloo.
Deputations of public bodies immediately followed, in-
cluding the East India Company, the Corporation of the
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Trinity House, .Jtentenant anu
Dover Castle, the Captains of Deal, Walmer, Sandgate,
and Sandown, the Board of Ordnance, the Common
Council and the University of Oxford. Next followed the
Guidon, carried for Sir Howard Douglas by Lord Arthur
Cunningham ; and a brilliancy unusual in a funeral cor-
tege was imparted to the scene by the carriages of the
sheriffs. the banner of Wellesley, the Duke of Northum

the speaker all gildings, paintings, and plate glass, fol-
lowed by the splendid equipages of royalty, containing his
Royal Highness Prince Albert and suite. The funeral car
was now seen to the greatest advantage as it ascended the
hill, and the effect of the lone sweeping line taken by the
twelve magnificent horses, with this gorgeous catafalque,
as they drew up to the entrance, is one which those who
have seen can never forget. His Royal Highness Prince

trance to meet the last remains of his n

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INTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL

Ane Foreign Ministers and members of the nristoc
began to arrive about half-past nine o'clock. His Ez
lency 'Baron Brunnow and his Excellency C"levalier I

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tuong the earliest arrivals. The Earl and