New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-09
FROM LONDON.
The Death or Cardinal Wissman-His
Lying In state and Funcral-Rsman
Cathelicism and Prosclys isma in Eng.
land-Whe IL 60 be the Cardinals Sac.
ecssor-Thc Anniversary Dinner ~ -.
James's Hall on Washingtsn's Birth.
dny-The Qween--Items.


LONDON. February 81 1865.
| have still less to communicate to the readers
OF The TRIBUNE this week than last both having been
extremely duh periods and deficient in news proper
for expectation. As shall not endeavor to extend my
items by verbiage, you may expect but short letter
The topics most talked about by Londoners are the
funeral obsegues OF Nicholas late Cardinal wisemar
and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster
They were conducted. the daily pers will inform
you, with all that extraordinary pomp and magnificent
symbolism. and perfection Sof sepulchral upholstery
with which the Romsh Church delights 10 excite and
crafty the maginations Of its worshipers. The OBJ
lect Of them who died of complication Of diseases
the proXmate cause being the frghtful ament known
as carbunce which necesstated more than agoniz
ing application OF the surgeons knife and which had
reduced the body OF the porty prclats TO sick
ening state of cancellation and partial corruption. lay
In state as 1t Is called at his house in York Place.
Baker.st., "attred in the splendid traplings OF an
Archbishop, with the insignia Of his high office. the
jeweled hands casping crucifx bis veT gloves en-
brodered in gold with the glory and L. ST. etc, etc.
Admission to the spectacle was accorded BY tickets
given away In such profson to render the presence
Of the police indispensable to preserve order On
Thursday uhe odd tho funeral occurred. beginning at
tho Roman Catholic Chuch Of ST. Mary's. Moorfelds
Din an obscure corner Of the city where fifty years ago
there was nothing but barren waste. worthy Of its
oresent name laxar house and YUM for madmen)
and ending after n seven miles procession through the
mud at the ground set apart for the clergy Of the Ro
man Catholic Chuch at the Cemetery Of Kensa Green
All was done, we are informed in scrupulous accord.
anco with the decretas appropriately eulogSed by one
pbv Of Nh ieh
has never changed. which viii not change aud which
perhaps cannot change" and London has enjoyed no
such spectacle for 800 years. when Cardinal Pole
died in Lambeth in the year az Queen Mary ofsan.
culinary memory and was buried with similar honors
Then the rising OF "that bright occidental star Queen
Elizabeth as the dedication Of the Bible has it, ccpsed
Popery and thcre arc those, DR.. Cumming among tho
uunber who will be inclined to think that the culmna
ton Of scenic effect soemnizng the decease of Nicholas
Wiscman csly worthy and rather popular personaec)
augurs good deal for the progress Of his creed in
these islands. 1 believe 1t 10 increasing among the
Orthodox believers in theology and the greatest misery
for the greatest number and logically large pro.
norton OF the episcopacy. headed by SOapy Samuel
Wilberiorce Of Oxford (who lost an archbishopric
desplte the Queens liking for him, In consequence OF
his OF that excellent rite called con-
ssIon who dsapproyes Of "a multitude Of cheap poor
miserable churches and classes Methodist chapcs and
beer shops in the same category)-yearns toward Ro
maaisn; nsy tho very thin spare. ascetic Monsig
more Who in colarless surpce Strengthened sleeves
purple rochet and quadrangular b1cO Of sable pro-
uouneed the eulogum Qt was nothing else) over the
dead Cardinal Of Moorfeids Is sx.archdeacon OF the
English Church who once wore the gown and bands OF
an Epscopal clergyman But with the best intellect Of
Europe travelling inatosaly opposite direction, !dont