Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-12
The Burial OF ESe.cDnst field.

A London correspondent of the
New York Tribune gives the follow
ing account of the burial of Beaco
consfeld:
There was no choral service; the
vicar read the service for the dead,
and the parish clerk made the re
sporses, and within ten minutes the
bier was again on its way TO the
tomb, while the organ pealed forth
- rest in the Lord" The mourn
ers followed, but there was no order,
and statesmen and diplomatists,
great mobiles and humble civil ser
vice clerks rubbed shoulders in the
last brief stage of this supreme jour
ney. Through the church-yard,
between the tiny parterres of bloom
ing primroses and variegated hya-
cinths the coffin was borne to the
vault. It rested for a moment on
the edge Oh une luUlluo, cpna Ill.,,
all respondent in it's coverings of
snow-white bloom, it slowly de-
scended to it's last rests
ing-place. The mourners gath
cred round. There was no order,
but naturally each one fell into his
place. Mr. Ralph Disraeli, and his
son Coningsby, the princess, Lord
Rowton (the faithful Monty, and
Lord Darlington stood at one edge
At the head was the tall figure il
black skull cap of the Marquis of
Salisbury, with Lord John Manners,
the Harry Sidney Of "Coningsbg,"
and one Of it's authors earliest polit-
zeal friends. Beside them were the
Dukes of Richmond, Marlborough
and Buckingham, his colleagues,
with Earl Cairns, Sir Stafford North
cote, and the other members of the
late Conservative government and
behind this celebrated group were
the late earls supporters, in
Guiding the dukes of Portland
and Norfolk, the Marquis of Ex-
eter, and q number of leading Con-
servatives in the House of Commons.
At other points in the crowd We're
Lord Henry Lennox, the Earls OF
Derby, Lytton, and Dufferin, tie
Marquis of Harrington, Earl Percy
representing his father, the Duke Of
Northumberland, the Earl of Dal-
keith representing his fatheE, the
Duke of Buccleugh), Lord Iaming>
ton, (better known as Mr.. Baillie-
Cochrane), the original Buckhurst OF
"Coningsby,' and Sir William Har-
court, the personal friend, though
political opponent, of Lord Beacons-
field, and with whom he used to
walk so often, linked arm in arm, in
, this very park at Hughenden. In
this illustrious assembly Of all that
is great and titled in Britain gather
, ed to do honor to the great English
l man, there was one figure wanting
4 that Of the Prime Minister. Surely
Y however, no one can complain that
: the memory of Lord BeaconsfeI6
has not been done sufficient honor
II The burial of Palmerston at tht
e Abbey, or Lord Derby at Knowsley
n did not attract so noble a company
:. as stood round yonder open tomb
!, When the last few words had bees
said by the vicar at the grave, anC
. the coffin placed in the tomb, til,
e principal visitors passed down into
= the vault in single file to view th,
t coffin. They then dispersed, some
to hear the will read in the Mano
:, House, others to their carriages
while some, like the Duke of Rich
n mond, the Marquis of Salisbury anC
9 Earl Cairns, trudged among tn
9 crowd along the dusty road to Wy
= combe.
The great company gone, tn
II country folks, who had waited pa
a tiently for SO many hours, were free
a ly admitted to take last look at th
O tomb where sleeps in "Peace wit
, Honor the mortal remains Of tn
u great man who had made their local.
n ty famous.
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