New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-09

! simply as between man and man, or formally WIN
the decorous solemnty and stately observance beht
| ting bodies which bear a relation TO the govern
ment tribute of honest grief was offered to the
| President and his family, and of honest sympathy
to his country. Steeple spoke to steeple, distant
| ci+es c,osned hands. The State, the Church, the
neone of England were atone together in their sor-
row and in their earnest wish to offer some sort OF
| comfort to their mourning brothers beyond the sea-
| You heard in every mouth the old cry, Blood Is
thicker than water" And the voice which Is per-
haps best entitled to speak for the whole Natioh
| added ayes, though the water be whole Atlantic
| Ocean"
| Numerous services had been held on the Sunday
| before the day of the funeral. Those most ire
ouented by Americans were at st. Pauls and west
! minister Abbey with appropriate selections Oh
| music. The crowds at both were OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
before so great | hear from one present at St.
Pauls. Every seat filed; all the standing room IN
the spacious TRANSCRIPTS the vast nave crowded lar
bevond the range of the preachers voice, and hun
dreds or perhaps thousands, unable to find entrance
into the building Mr. Conway gave one OF his
characteristic addresses at South Place Chapel
won't dwell on others 1t is enough to repeat that
not only in London but throughout the couh-
try. President Garfelds death was SUD-
iect of u Init eloquence The Friends, who
have no minister yet pulpit, dlscourSed on his
character and loss with no less feeling than other
denominations who rejoice i'll ordained clergy ana
set places for classical oratory. At the Meeting
House. near Trafalgar Square, Mr.. Arthur Pease' NJ
p was the Friend who spoke of the President
There was n great meeting wholly popular in char
acter at Alexandra Palace. | am not sure but II Is
still more interesting TO hear of sermon on the
President in st. Pauls, at White Chapel the East
End church for seamen. Most Interesting of all is
the testimony of reporter, that all through that
n or and populous district of London known as the
East End the feeling with regard to the death of
the President is most marked. "0n all hands," says
this good observer, lit is the only SUD-
ject of conversation amongst the sea1arlhg
population, and in walking the streets around the
docks Yesterday it was no uncommon thing TO see
a knot of men listening eagerly while the most
scholarly of them read aloud the full details oil the
funeral progress in America" Well did Mr.. Lowell
saw and say again, that, in describing the President
the phrase which came most readily to his lips was
He was so human" There is not a class nor rank,
no section of people, none so high and none so low
IN England as not to be among the mourners foI
President Garfield The Queen at Balmorll and
the sailor in the slums of Lmehouse, at the same
moment were breathing the same prayer for the
murdered magistrate who sleeps by the shores OF
Lake Erie.
"a
number of Americans that the Arc ibishop o. Cam
terbury undertook to hold service and deliver AT
address in the Church of ST. Northumberland
on Monday In this. in many other cases, the
hour was so chosen as to correspond, allowing foi
the difference in time with the period when it was
supposed The procession ut Cleveland would he IL
| motion St. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., which, for some
reason or other is called ROYAL church. is one of
| the most familiar objects in London to visitors
! standing as it does in the northeast corner oil
| Trafalgar Square, into which it looks cornerwlse
The church wardens with the considerateness which
marks every English act having reference t. PreSl
dent Garfield, set apart the body of the church fol
| Americans and opened the central doors under the
| columned portico to them half hour before ser
| vice began. The throng was so great that 1t is
| not likely this arrangement, which limited the
English to the galleries. could be observed.
The pressure for admission was irresistible Hun
dreds were turned away, or rather went away. The
wears own pew was invaded, that when he ar
rived with bis own guests there was no room for
them and with infinite trouble a place was found
far ND under the roof where seeing, hearing and
breathing were equally difficult. Mr.. Lowell had
been invited, of course by the churchwardens, and
a pew reserved for him. but when he reached the
church with his party, half his pew was occupied
Mr. Lowell wore his uniform, or whatever it's to be
full court dress which the State Department has pre-
scribed and the Queen, with a stretch of Royal po
liteness allows to pass muster In wearing it he
followed diplomatic custom. At the service for the
Car of Russia every ambassador appeared in uni
form: and such would be the custom in any Eu-
ropean country on any official occasion when honor
was to be done a sovereign her ruler. With In"
sole exception Of the American aistcr, those who
came after half-past had to stand I'm front OF the
altar was a cross, and upon the pulpit wreath,
both of pure white flowers. sort of programme
had been printed with a black border, giving the
order of service, beginning with the hymn, . God,
our help in ages past" The service of course
that of the Church of England. There set
down for the evening the Confession, the AbsOu-
ton the Lords Prayer, Versicles, Psalm 90, the
First Lesson the Magnifcat, the Second Lesson,
the Nunc Dimittis, the Greed, more Versicles, Col
lects then an Anthem " Behold, l tell you mys-
cry" Prayers, and then the hymn, Nearer my God
to Thcen chosen as having been n favorte with the
President. After this came the address by the
Archbishop. then another hymn, Now the laborer's
task is DER" the Blessing, and last the Dead March
in Saul, Oh the organ.
The Archbishop, who wore deep Grape his
episcopal robes avoided calling his discourse a
mon /; and avoided likewise, through the larger por
ton of it, the purely professional tone common in
the pulpit such occasions. He fell back upon it
at the end, but during great part Of his excellent
address, he spoke as anybody else might have
spoken of the manly side of the Presidents charac-
ter. He gave, moreover his own view of the reason
why all England has been so strangely moved and
he forebore to ascribe it 10 special PrOvidential
interposition. He was content to find his explana-
ton in the facts in the hearts of men, and not in
the arbitrary will of the Deity During the long
period of the Presidents suffering" said the Arch
bishop, we had time to think what manner of man
this over whom 50 great Nation was MOURN
ing day by day. We learned what a noble