Year: 1861

The London Neps, of the 22d ult., re.
marks:


The Chapel Royal of ST. George is now
crowded with workmen busy in the prepara-
tion for the interment of the late lamented
Duchess Of Kent, which will take place at
eleven o'clock on Monday morning next. A
platform of several feet extending along the
nave, and also the north and south aisles,
and gradually ascending over the stone steps
TO the entrance of the choir, is being erected,
the whole of which will be covered with
black cloth. At the northwest corner of
the chapel, fronting the beautiful cenotaph of
her late Royal Highness, the Princess Char
lotte, a temporary chapel lined and covered
with black cloth, will be erected for the re.
ception Of the corpse which will be privately
brought to the chapel in the course of the
night previous to the day of interment and
an erection is also being made at the south
door Of the chapel, where the coffin will be
removed from the hearse and placed on a
bier, and conveyed to the temporary chapel.


The floor of the choir and stalls of the
knights of the Garter will also be covered
with black cloth. The royal mourners will
assemble in the chapter-room, and the other
mourners in Cardinal Wolsey's chapel.
Shortly before the funeral the officers of
state the dean and canons and ohoristers
will form procession in the south aisle, and
just previous to the commencement of the
burial service the coffin will be brought from
the temporary chapel and placed at the west
end of the nave. The procession formed in
the south aisle will then take their position
in front of the corpse, when the mourners
will leave the chapter'room and Wolsey's
Chapel, and proceed along the north aisle
and on their reaching the corpse, the process
sion will slowly move to the choir, while a
! portion of the burial service is being chanted
by the choristers.


After those in the procession have taken
seats, the remainder of the solemn service
| (CIoft's and Purcelps) will be performed,
and Martin Luther's hymn sung, and the
coffin lowered into its temporary resting
place by means of some new machinery.
| The grave, which is about sixteen feet deep,
| is being made Immediately below the open.
ing to the royal vault for the convenience OF
reinternent of the remains of the Royal
| Duchess in the new mausoleum in Frogmore
Gardens.


AS the ceremony of lying in state will be
dispensed with, the other cofins which con.
tain the remains of the Royal Duchess will
be put into the state coffin to morrow, and
placed in the principal drawing o
Frogmore House, where they will remair
until early on the Monday morning. The
principal mourners will, we understand, bt
His Royal Highness the Prince Oonsort ant
iiis Royal Highness the Prince Of Wales.


In excavating for the temporary grave,
small opening was made into the vaul


which contains the cofins of Henry VIII ant
one of his Queens, the Lady Jane Seymour
also the coffins of Charles l and an infant
child of Queen Anne. The coffins, and ever
the crimsons on which are placed the coro.
nets, were in tolerable state of preserva
ton, and the spear-hole in the coffin o
Henry III, said to have been made by ont
Of the soldiers of Oliver Cromwell, wa!
clearly discernible. ------