National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-05-02
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IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
eCorrespondnnce Of New York Herald
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This morning, Saturday, the mortal remains
of the great traveller and missionary IN the
cause Of humanity, David Livingstone, were re-
moved from the house Of the Gsorraphical
Society, in SaTille row, where they have lain
since their arrival in London, and were depos-
lied in Westminster Abbey among the sshes Of
thedeparted great. The funeral corfegs was
timed to start at quarter past twelve, and,
passing down Waterloo place about that hour,
found & small fringe Of crowd lining the
street, while the statue Of Charles the First at
Charfng Cross was beset with intending on
lockers. Trafalgar square, being little out
Of the route was empty, and there were, for
tunately, no London gamins astride the Land
seer lions, which wretched animals have already
been seriously indented BY hobnailed boots. A
few police sufieed to keep order, and though
most Of the shops were half closed, there was
no Official recognition Of the ceremony--no
military, no Gags halfmast high on the various
Government ofices-nothing to lead a stranger
to imagine that any public duties were being
discharged. ~ :, ~
s The procession consisted Of the hearse and
twelve mourning coaches, the private car
riages Of the Queen, the Prince Of Wales, the
German Ambassador, Baroness Bufdett Coutts,
Lady Franklin and others.
: 1t did not reach the Abbey until past one
O'Clock, and long before that time all eayails-
Bile space IN the neighborhood of the grave was
occupied, and there were even persons in tine
clere story and ladies on the top of the screen.
The space around the grave, which Is in the
centre Of the west part Of the nave, was COW
cred with black cloth.
L-1r THE GRAVE IN THE SUNSHINE.
The grave itself Is very shallow, the soil be-
ing so sandy that IL Is unsafe to dig deep In It.,
and, as it was, the sides had to be shored up to
prevent them from clipping in. In its imme-
date vicinity are the last resting places Of
Telford and Stephenson, the engineers. The
busts of outram, the great Indian soldier, and
of General Wade, who commanded IN Scotland
in George the Thirds time, and of whom the
distich was written
II you'd seen these roads before they were made
You'd have learned to be grateful to General
Wade
look down upon it. noticed, too, that during
the performance of the service g ray Of sun
light, parttcolored in its passage through the
magnificent stained glass window erected to
the memory Of Brunei, the engineer Of the
Thames Tunnel and the Saltash Viaduct, fell
upon the coffin.
Five minutes past one and Dean Stanley, in bis
full robes, with purple cap on his head. and
the red ribbon Of the Order Of the Bath, Of
which be Is chaplain, round his neck, is stand
ing at the door Of the west nave, attended by
the sub-dean and canons, waiting for the body.
Nov we see the procession slowly fling through
the cloisters.
First came the silver mace bearers, then the
choristers, then
THE COFFIN,
new one, Of brightly polished oak, in which
the metal shells have been inclosod. On the
brass plate Is the inscription:
1000
David LIVINGSTONE, !:
Born at Blantyre, 1anarkshire, Scotland,
i 10Th March, 1913.
Died at Muilala, Central Africa,
9TH Nav, 1878, .r-,: