New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-22
LAST HONORS TO THEIRS.
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where All Paris was clad in one uniform hue OF
TIE PROCESSION TO THR GRAVE.

The route of the procession liked by tho family in
consultation with and partly in obedience to the
Project of Police was not through the rue Lafltte,
which would have bee the most direct way 10 the
bouevaris, but down the lie Peletier, the street
where formerly stood the Opera House, and which
was the scene of the OrsIni attempt to execute
wild justice on Napoleon Third. The rue Le Peetier
ends in the boulevard DIES Itaens, the social centre
of Paris; along which, and along the succeeding
main bouleyars through tie heart OF the city, as far
as the Place Chateau d'Elu, the procession moved.
There three bouleyards diverce. That which leads
most directly to Pere La Chaise is the boulevard DIES
Amanders, but that chosen for the procession was
the boulevard Voltairc, which is a little wider. All
the last halt of the road les through the artisan
quarters of Paris; leaving, however, the Faubourg
ST. Antoine and the QUARTER du TempoOn one hand.
and Belieyille on the other. OF The police
thousands were on duty and the liIe was well kept
by them, with the help now and then OF the military.
No violence needed only regulation.
1t is the business OF the authorities to keep order,
and they kept il. But the people would have kept
IT if they had been left TO themselves. have seen
Paris under many aspects under none rore impress
than that of yesterday. The soemnity which
rcigned everywhere can compare to nothing hut
that which fell upon the city in the last days of the
seige in 1871. Ientered it then just after the ar
,
north, and traversed the whole city lying be-
tween that gate and the Are de Irompho. Thore was
gas for there was coal, and there no car
rages the horses winch drew them having been by
that time all eaten. The silence and the gloom were
appalling and it was in the midst OF silence and
gloom like those OF that dreary Winter that the
funeral of the first citizen the Great Commoner, OF
France passed yesterday through the most splendid
and the most populous quarters of Paris from the
Church of Notre Dame de Lorette to the cemetery OF
Pere La Chaise.
Standing in the porch of the church, looking
south, along the rue Lafitte, east and west along
the rue Chateaudun. looking down on the pave
ments, looking before you, looking up to the win
dows from story TO story. and above the windows
to tho overhanging caves. and higher than the
caves 10 the steep slopes of the roofs and above
even the roof to the chimney tops, you saw masses
of silent human faces. There were troops and po-
Ice al the angle of every street, bayOnots, uniforms
cannon much Of the grim panoply of war, in the
space Just about the church, but the one
thing that struck you, the one impression
that made its way into your brain through the
sense of sight, that of crowded humanity where
ever il was possible for men and women and chill
dren to gain foothold or perch Turning into the
rue le PGlctier ii the same and it was tho same
along that street. and all the engh of the bouleyards
ed whore thecortege turned into streets, and
the police and the troops barred the way. As We
drove at a foot-pace what we saw we moved was
ike nothing so much as the slow Inroiling of
immense panorama Of faces. They moved slowly
past us changing every moment but every moment
the same types renewing. so long as we were in the
same quarter. There faces Of every class, the
bodies belonging to them clad in every cos
ume and on every face the same expression
of respectful silence and OF eager interest
in the component parts OF tho procession
They manitestly wanted to distinguish the mourn
ers 10 know who the people Oh foot and in the
carriages On the bouevards, which, in some places,
are 30 feet wide or more the spectators who stood
on the pavements were packed soldly from the car
rage-wheels to the shop-windows. In other places
the ranks were less dense, but nowhere, ! should
say, less than twenty deep and there was nowhere
a break. All the shops were closed, but all win
dows filed. / have already said enough to
indicate the demeanOr of these mui,itudes.
but may add single fact, "a striking perhaps, as
any other. not see a single lighted cigar or pipe.
Tho workman in his blouse, and the sh0pkecper and
the gentleman were alike in that. The character Of
sbe crowd changed advanced. 1t was in some
sense aristocratIc along the boulevards DIES ltaens
and Montmartre, then became more markedly
middle class and when the Place Chateau dEau
had been left behind the blOuses were iii the ma
iorty
There were, it is said, some cries of give Ia Re-
publique," as the Deputies passed, and of give
Gambetta" rs that popular hero recognized.
But they were hushed as raised. There
had been some talk of an outbreak of sedi-
tlous cries. Of manifestation against the Govern
mcpt. II Inust be said that the Government and
the Ministerial organs had done their best to pro-
woke an expression of popular indignation, but
they had failed. The Republicans are too well
organized and too well disciplined TO play the
enemys game to do anything TO arouse the fears OF
the tlmid or give excuse for severity. The garr-
son of Paris under arms; the troops consigned
TO their barracks; but there no more occasion
for them in Paris than in Ncw-York. Not an arrest
was made How IL might have been if the Govern
ment had taken part. and the long suffering
Parsians had recognized the Due de Brogle,
or VI. de F0urtou, | Will not undertake TO
say. 1t is possible these gentlemen might have
heard what their fellow citizens think of them.
Nor was any demonstration desired attempted
at the cemetery. The gates closed, and no
admitted who was not in the procession. We en-
tered on foot. The tomb Is, perhaps, quarter of
mile distant the road winding NJ hill, tombs on
either hand. The families of Dosne and Theirs
share the same sepulchre Byzantine structure OF
stone standing in q shaded avenue, beneath ilill-
side covered with trees. The coffin was deposited
at it's door, the thrOng gathered about, and the
speecbes usual in France on such occasions, were
delivered ri. Gr6vy, NJ jules Simon, Admiral
Pothnan NJ. Vuitry and NJ dc Sacy all spoke.
Their addresses were brief, and in good taste, but
not otherwise remarkable. When they had been de-
livered the ceremony was over, and France had
paid all the honor she could to the memory of Louis
Adolphe Theirs
ANTI-REPUBLICAN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.