Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-14
DISTINGUISHED HONORS.

DISTINGUISHED HONORs.
The Landing Of the Body of the Prince I'm,
pertal in England.
A London dispatch of the 18th gives the
following particulars of the prince imperial'E
body: The coffin was borne along between
the double line of troops. The solemn pro.
cession moved toward the temporary mortu.
airy at the river side. The temporary NOR
tuary is small isolated structure, with an
octagonal dome. used chiefly as an armory.
In front of this building the troops formed
in square and the mourners grouped
about the door. There, within the gloomy
edifice, made more SO by the trappings of
mourning, the body of the dead prince four
its first resting place on English soil. After
an interval of half an hour the
royal carriages clattered into the
arsenal grounds. The royal standard
was run up at half-mast on tho great
flagstaff. 1t announced the arrival of the
Prince of Wales and the duke of Edinburgh.
They came in carriage drawn by four
horses with positions, preceded by a single
outrider. The princes were in deep mourn
ing. Descending amid signs of universal
respect from the mourners and crowd, the
prince of Wales, the dukes of Edinburgh,
Connaught and Cambridge, and the crown
prince of Sweden entered the mortuary.
Large and brilliant groups of officers of the
horse and foot artillery remained without.
The roofs and caves of the buildings near b y
were crowded with masses of workmen in
shirt sleeves and bare arms. At haif-past 4
the members of the English royal family ar
Prince Napoleon came ont from the NOR
tuary, conversed and exchanged salutations
with officers and acquaintances. A
screen of white muslin was put
up across the doorway shutting
out the interior of the chapel from view. AT
half-past the horse artillery escort troop
took up position massed on the east of the
mortuary. Then the gun-carriage, drawn
by six magnificent troop horses, wheeled in
to the open space. The curtains at the en-
trance of the mortuary were drawn aside
and the coffin wBs brought out aud borne on
the shoulders of officers of the horse artil-
lery There was triple-muf1ed roll of
drums with grand cresendo followed by the
dead march as the coffin was placed on the
gun-carriage. The horse artillery forming
the escort brought up the rear. At the
procession moved slowly out of the arsenal
gates through the long lines of foot artillery.
On either side the road from the arsenal to
the barracks, thence skiriting the famous
parade ground on Woolwich common to
the royal military academy, was lined with
dense masses of people and soldiers of the
garrison, off duty. The greater part of the
shops were closed. The balconies of the
officers residence werecrowded with ladies'
and children. A battery of artillery fired
minute-guns while the cortege passed the
academy. The escort of artillery was under
the command of Maj. Ward Ashton, in
whose battery the prince served in South
Africa.
After the departure of the princess, the
African coffin was opened for the purpose of
permitting the Identification of the corpse,
and its transferral to a sumptuous casket
that had been prepared in England.
The body was re.embalmed in the
mortuary, then inclosed in leaden and
oaken collins and the casket with an outer
covering of violet velvet. Among the French
notables present. and who were permitted to
view the body of the dead prince, were
Princes Lucien and Charles Bonaparte,
Joachim and Louis Murat, the Duke de 10
Moscova, son of Marshal Nay, the Dukes
of Padua and Mouchy, M. Paul de Cassag-
nae, Baron Haussman and young Conneau,
the dead princes playmate. The striking
likeness Of Prince Bonaparte to
THE GREAT EMPEROR
was universally commented on by the crowd,
the general remark being that they could
have known him from the picture of the first
Napoleon. NJ. Rouher came out of the
mortuary with eyes red from weep
ing. I spoke with the noted imper-
ialist. He said that he was present
when the coffin was opened, and the
body examined. The latter was perfectly
recognizable, but the face, he said, had been
much dis6gured by terrible wound. M.
Rouher said that he had found six wounds
on the chest of SO terrible nature that
death must have been instantaneous; also
one on the loft arm, evidently caused in the
attempt to parry the thrust of o Zulu as
sagai. The body, he said, had changed
color but little. Prince Napoleon remarked
that it was extraordinary how the prelimi-
nary embalming process performed in Africa
should have been done so we'll. M. Rouher
and Gen. Fleury carried the pail.