The New York herald., 1879-07-13
ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN.

Shortly after eight o'clock upward of thirteen
hundred members Of the Metropolitan Police
were disposed so as to control the movement of
the immense crowd. Several enterprising indi-
viduals had erected stands in the neigh
borhoOd Of the route of the funeral pro-
cession and around the Commons to enable
the prospective occupants to view the eortege.
An hour afterward and the troops commenced
ten o'clock special train from Windsor brought
Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by her
daughter the Princess Beatrice. Leaving the
train they entered close carriage and pro-
ceeded to the house of mourning. The Queen
brought many splendid wreaths of flowers.
Shortly afterward the Prince and Princess of
Wales, the Duke of Connaught the Duke of
Edinburgh, Prince Teck, the Duke of Cam
bridge, the Prince Christian, the Prince of
Saxe-Weimar, all in full uniform, passed
under the draped gateway of Camden House,
silently and respectfully greeted by the multi
tude. The bells of the Protestant Parish
Church and of the Catholic Church Of st.
Marys began to toll. At eleven o'clock the
first minute gun of the Royal Artillery battery
announced that the procession had started from
Camden House.
THE FUNERAL PAGEANT.
With some little delay the funeral pageant
bands of the Lancers and Of the Royal Artillery
had their instruments craped and their drums
mutfled. The cavalry formed on the lawn on
either side of the main entrance, and the ar
tillery limbered up the front gate. AS the
royal personagcs passed into the house they
were received with the royal salute. AS the
Queen, accompanied by the Princess of
Wales, entered the Empress boudoir the boom
of the first gun was heard, while the bands com
procession then emerged from the gates in the
following order First came the troop of Irish
Lancers, with lances in trail; then the Cadets,
with rifles reversed; then the band of the Royal
Artillery, playing the solemn march with
splendid effect. Then followed the clergy
bearing the cruciix and the inccnsc then the
Right Rev. Bishop Daniels, of Southwark,
supported by two chaplains Then came the
cotln on the six-horse gun carriage which had
borne it from Woowich to Chisehurst.
THE PROCESSION AND THE PALLBEARERs.
The tricolor of France enfolded the coffin, and
on the lid rested splendid cross of cameias,
violets and hcartseasc. Two gunners of the
Artillery held the immense wreath sent by Her.
Majesty the Queen.
The pallbearers were
The Prince of Wales.
The Duke of Edinburgh.
The Duke of Connaught.
The Duke Of Cambridge.
The Prince of Monaco.
The Crown Prince of Sweden.
The chief mourners were Prince jerome Ma
poleon and his two sons, Princes Victor and
Louis. Then came the dead Princes favorite
horse, ''Stag," led by groom named
Brown. The horse was draped in black netting,
bearing the imperial cyphcr "N.' worked in
silver This was the horse ridden by the Prince
on the day when he met his death in Zululand
Then followed Uhlinann, the Princes confdcn-
tial servant, and Lomas, the Princes English
soldier servant, who, when the body was found,
had lSnclt and wcpt like child, then the Princes
valet, Gamble, a Scotchman.
FOLLOWING THE COFFIN
Among those following the coffin were -
Princes Lucien and Charles Bonapartc, Joachim
son of Marshal Ney; the Dukes of P,ldua and
Mouchy, NJ. Paul do Cassagnac, Baron Hauss-
mann and young Conneau the dead Princes
playmate, Maitrc Laud Fcury, and many others
The procession was closed by horse artillery
and lanccrs Her Majesty the Queen witnessed
the procession, profoundly moved, from u little
black drapcd pavilion that had been erected on
the grounds. Thus with slow, lingering steps
the whole procession traversed the distance be-
tween Camden House ti,d the Church amid the
of profound respect, sympathy
and sorrow, the crash of bands and the roar of
the minute guns.
ST. MARY's CHURCH.
The churchyard and the chapel of st. Mary
was crowded hours before the time of the
ceremony. Mgr. Goddard, in purple robes,
were busy receiving the distinguished members
of the congregation. The Duke of Sutherland
Poniatowsk Nine. Canrobcrt, the Duchess
of Manchester and the Marchioncss of London
derry came next Then followed the Ambassa-
dor OF Germany, paying this last tribute 10 tho