The New York herald., 1849-04-17

Borne mems shoulders.
Theological Students Of St. Johns College, Fordham.
Relatives of the Deceased.
Sisters Of Charity to the number Of thirty.
orphan children to the number of two hundred and
Sunday School Scholars of St. Peters Church
Sunday School Scholars Of other Churches.
Congregation of St Peters Church.
Congregation of other Churches.
Citizens generally, Protestant and Catholic.
proceeded with measured tread and in silence up
clay street to Broadway Broadway to Prince street
and the Cathedral On arriving at that sacred edice,
found it and tSc streets adjacent crowded to
but through the admirable arrangements of Alderman
Carollan, of the Fourteenth ward there not the
slightest Inconvenience experienced in removing the
body to the interior and placing the coffin the large
eatafaque or temporary structure appropriately deco
rated in the usual way in funeral solemnites Of this
character where 1t remained until the solemn services
for the dead were concluded.
On looking around the church, we observed that
every seat filed and that hundredswe might say
thousandswere standing in the aislcs doorways and
other places from which they could get glance at the
solemn scenes before them The interior dressed
with the cmblcms Of mourning. The throng
great that but comparatively few enjoyed the melan
performed before the sacred deposite confded
the vaults the church The right reverend the Bishop
of diocese occupied elevated seat side of the
sanctuary and the Bishop of Albany one on the other
number Of clergymen ranged on both sides. Look
ing from the sanctuary the silent crowd Of worship
pers were distinguished at once the afflicted relatives
of the deceased the opposite side the devoted
Sisters Of Charity presenting ms 1t were before the al
tar Of expiation, group Of interesting orphans
second time orphans, bereft of parent. All Of the Sis
ters had grief and sadness depicted their counte
nance for they felt poignantly which they
tanned in the death of Dr. Power and well they might
for he their protectorthcr parent. Z" bequeath
you said the late Bishop Connolly of the diocese Of
Power bequeah to you, as legacy, the sisters and
the orphans Be to them father and protector lie
accepted the legacy and in the spirit in which 1t
given him. he fulfilled the injunction laid upon him.
The natural result was that he beloved by them,
it is to their and attention that DR. Power
spared to the church long. He was, have be-
for iufo
to his death and the watcfuness and the sstery
which he received from them, doubt prolonged his
life q great deal From them, eyes glanced more
than once through the aisle and everywhere fell
checks bedcwed with tearson countenances eloquent
with emotion We felt repeatedly that had not the
ligous sentiment regned supreme frequent bursts OF
feeling would have reechoed throughout the building
and interrupt the solemn rites The whole impression
was heightened when the supreme pastor Of the do
cese in the sacred and appropriate robe OF mourning
afterwards stood forth and foreb sketched the useful
and holy career OF his departed colleague
The cry Reverend JOHN LouGHLIs then read the
burial ritual, O6iciun Defunctorum, commencing
with the one hundred and fourteenth Psalm, in Latn
Diiead Quonidu eIdidet Domtnus rocem, ordtionts
49,
rocobos
And ending with
Beedictus Dominus Deus Israel qua rsitart ct feel,
rsdemonem peJis Et ereIit satis nobis; in
domo Barid rueri sui
Sieut iocufs per qui sccuo sunt Pro-
phefarua Gus. &c, &c.
The Right Rev. JoHs HuGHrs, Bishop Of New York,
arrayed in full pontcals then walked to the platform
Immediately in front of the coffin and spoke for about
fifteen twenty minutes to the thousands within the
Cathedral. After auding in appropriate terms to the
deceased he said that in the melancholy be-
fore hom involved the principles which distn-
rush Christianity from Pagansm regards the feel
ings of the survivors There occasion, he said
for friends relatives to weep like those who in the
words which St Paul delivered to his disciples "have
no hope'' With who have been enlightened by re-
yelation from uh death in the flesh is annihila
ton IL is not misfortune; II Is but brief separa
ton and 1t will depend ourselves to be reunited
another and better world with those whom loved in
this chcquered vale of earth The application of this
doctrine, he said very naturally found plea on the
occasion OF the departure of him whom we now mourn
lie has but gone to his reward. He Is not dead, but
eepeth,n as our Lord said Of Lazarus, He then
pdy skctchcd the early vocation and the heroic sacri
fees which the deceased made in the cause to which
he called, and to his jealous mission from Ireland
to the United States; his untiring and multiplied la
bors, which he said than equal to the cner-
gies of ordinary ministers. In conclusion, he gave
his audience to understand that another occasion,
solemn eulogy Of the deceased would be delivered
which would do more justice to his memory, in COM
momoraton OF his many virtues and eminent services
According to the prescribed forms of the Catholic
Church fragrant cloud of haowed incense pcrfumcd
the sanctuary and hovcrcd the catafaquc while
tn cofn successively sprinked with holy water
by every Of the attendant clergy, the organ
while pealibg forth In mournu swell the funeral rgc
At length arrived the awful hour Of consigning the