The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-14
Burial and Buria. Place Of Prince Albert.

burial aIu Surl2l GlaC3 OF ETluCo AiDeIT.
We take the following interesting details from
lac English papers, relating TO the burial Of
Prince Albert's remains in St. Georges Chapel
Windsor -
"Tho opening sentences of the burial service
having been sung by the choir, and Martin LII
theirs hymn having also been sung with great
effect, the corpse was lowered into the royal
vault, and the Very Rev. tho Dean read t. G re .
mainder of the service. Garter King OF Arms
having proclaimed the style Of his late Royal
Highness, the procession moved out of the Chap
Ell, DR.. Elyy, who presided at the organ. play
6 The Dead March, in Saul The Giobc says
8 The service was very grand and impressive. The
Prince OF Wales bore the ceremony with great
70. ti;ude, whilst Prince Arthur cried and sJhbed
bitterly. The Prince Of Prussia Was also much
moved.
With scarcely an exception, the mournors
were dressed in black and white crayats
The procession vas picturesque, Oniy two or
three hundred privileged pei SONS were admitted
within the Castle walls, while scarcely one thou-
sand persons assembled outside.
aszsPrircc Arthur was dressed in Highland COS
tune, and his tears and sob. excited the creates.
sympathy.
When I'll was over, ald the last of the lorg,
lingering Train OF mourneru had departed, the
attendants descended the entrance to the grave
with lights, and moved the bier ana coffin along
the narrow passage which leads to the entrance
to the royal vault. At the bottom Of the grave
down which the bier was lowered is a stone pas
sage, about six feet broad and some eight or nine
feet high. On the right, in little niche.
stands the very simple machinery used fer low.
erins the blers, and little beyond this, in an
other niche, a row Of very tall black, gaunt,
looking, two-arnled wooden candcabra, cup!ov
ed for torches when the royal vault itself is
opened. For some twelve or fifteen feet beyond
this the passage con inues descending, an turn
ing little to the left till further ingress is cut
on by two plain, rusty, wide-barred iron gates
lhls is the entrance to the royal vault 1t is
difficult without strong lights to pierce the in
tense gloom which always envelopes this last
resting place OF royalty, and even when its som
bre contents are revealed, there is, alter ALL but
little to be seen. 1t is "A very plain, wide, lofty
stone vault, with II groned rool springing from
stone columns. On either side, supported by
these columns, are iour tiers Of marble shelves
IN the centre are three very wide and massive
slabs OF marble raised some two feet from the
ground. The side of shelves arc destined for
the members of the royal famiiy-lhc centre
marble biers for the collins Of monarchs only.
AS light slowly penctrates this dismal cham
Der, two purple collins, looking almost black in
the gloom, can be distinctly seen, at the farthest
end, brightly Rejecting back the rays of light a.
the beams fall upon their richly gllded orna-
ments, which shine as though affixed but YES
terday. These are the collins of George III and
Queen Charlotte. Above their heads, but shin
ing out warmly with "a bright crimson glow, are
the c.ihns OF three Ut their children, who died
young. AT their leet but some distance apart.
ana quite alone, lies the gorgeous coffin of Geo
~. on the centre slab, and nearest to the
gates, the collins of William ". aud Queen Ad-
Glade rest side by side, the Queen beng on the
lett. lhe light distinctly shows tAes3 collins
ana the Veivet Is as soft an rich, and the gilded
Plates and handles as bright, as on the dav
wien tney were first laid there, many years
ago Not even dust seems to have soiled their
funeral grandeur; and, except lew straw bits
OF gravel on and round the centre plates, where
the earth was thrown at that solemn nass,op
which commits the body. to the ground. and
tells how we are all alike before the sight Of
God, there is nothing to show that all the re.
mains had not been carefully watched and tend.
ed since the day of their interment
There are NJ collins on the right side of tho
vault, but on the left are those Of the Duke Of
), YORK, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke OF
hcnt' ana the Duke of Cambridge. Strangely
eno1gn' the colin nearest to the gate is that Of
the Princess OF Wales. 1t is crimson coffin
close IN view, and, like the the rest, as bright
az that which. alas has been so lately aid
mere. Along the passage we have described.
the DER OF the late Prince was wheeled, till the
loo' oi inc eolhn WAS at the gates of the royal
vault lhere 1t remains, though it was not
LETT 10 the gloom OF Its dark and narrow hama !
till some dear memorial OF love and fond regret |