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Marqui 3 of Anglesey , his companion-in-arms ; and that representatives from those foreign Sovereigns in whose armies his Grace bore the rank of Field Marshal will assist at the solemnity , each bearing the baton of the deceased . With a view of diminishing as much as possible the dolav inseparable from a long file of carriages , it is i n tended to make the procession as much as possible a walking pne , and to dispense , as far aa consistent with the solemnity of the occasion , with an unnecessary train of vehicles . It is also hoped that the good sense and good taste of the City will , oh this occasion , consent to wave its claim to precedence , and that the Lord Mayor , after meeting the cortege at Temple-bar , will fall into the procession after the Prince Consort . ¦
Finally , it is not intended to line the streets through which the procession will pass with military . The guardianship of the thoroughfares will be left to the police , and to the good feeling of the public , who will thus have an opportunity of beholding the mournful spectacle without the interruption of a line of soldiers , and of testifying their respect for the mighty dead by their decorous and orderly demeanour . The accommodation for those who are admitted into the interior of St . Paul ' s will be provided by means of four galleries—one running from the western entrance along the central aisle , two others in the eastern and western aisles , and a third in front of the entrance of the chapel . This last is intended for the exclusive accommodation of a
very large choir . The gallery running along the central aisle will be forty feet in height , while those on the eastern and western wings will be upwards of sixty feet ; and the latter will be so arranged as to form an amphitheatre round the space underneath the dome—in the centre of which the remains of the late Duke will be lowered to their last resting-place . The whole of the galleries will be hung with black cloth , and the number of persons they are intended to contain is upwards of 10 , 000 . The whole of the cornices above the galleries , and round all the aisles , will be illuminated by a line of gas jets , not following the architectural lines of the building , but running in a straight row , and immediately under the " whispering gallery , " a complete ring of gas jets , two or three deep , will be formed . This has been thought the more
necessary , as the weather may not on the day of the funeral be very favourable ; and even if it were , the immense surface presented by the black hangings and fronts of the galleries must materially tend to absorb any light which may find its way into the edifice . The gallery intended for the choir will not be so high as the rest , being only 30 feet , hut it will be constructed so as to contain a very considerable number ; it will be surmounted by the organ , the position of which is to be changed , in order to present its front to the place of sepulture . In order to carry this out , a portion of the stone work which supports it will be removed ; but this of course will be replaced when the instrument is returned to its situation , after the obsequies have been performed . In order to secure the various monuments within the Cathedral from
injury , they will be covered with boxes of strong planking ; and this alone will require , aa we are informed , upwards of 50 loads of boards . The Statues of Nelson and Lord Cornwallis will , however , be left exposed , being merely encircled with black drapery , which will tend to bring into full relief the white marble of these exquisite sculptures . In the centre of these galleries will be erected , so us to occupy as little room as possible , the machinery for lowering the coflin , and over the chasm in the pavement will be a gorgeous catafalque . The nature of tho decorations to the canopy have ; not been ascertained , ; is no orders have , as yet , been issued to the ( inn of Dowbigfjin and Son in relation to it . The width of the central aisle is upwards of 40 feet , and of this space 1 T > feet on
each mill ! will be occupied by the bases ol the galleries , leaving a width of 120 feet for the cort-i-t / c to advance through . The galleries themselves will extend hack beyond tht > square columns , nearly to the side windows , and thin , of course , would he a great obstruct ion to the light , and will render it necessary , in addition to the rows of jets overhead , to establish ro \ vn of burners along the fronts and round the columns . The long pendant lamps at present used in the edifice will be removed pro te-m . The structure of ( be galleries themselves will be very niirq ) le all endeavours ; at embellishment being dispensed with . They will be supportod by strong hcaniH , morticed to heavy timbers running along the floor , and supported
by the columns anil wnllH of the cathedral . It in cHtimuted that upwards oi' 7 OO wagon loads of timber will be required to complete there works , which will occupy a month in their execution . It is not intended ( as we arc informed ) to admit the . public to tins whispering gallery , nor to the two Hiuull galleries over the terminal . ions of llm central aisle , as it would be impossible to see from such uri elevation , especially when Hie rows of / 'as jels ur <; lighted , A temporary pulpit will be creeled near the jiluee of interment ; but . the precise locality has not . yet been decided on . There will Ik ; a . gallery separated by harriers from the rest , for those members ol the Upper and Lower 11 oust 1 who will all end I lie funeral .
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T 1 IK K A I'M It VVAK . Accounts from the Cnpe of ( loud Hope have readied us by the Hosphorus ; which arrived ut . Plymouth on Saturday , up to f . ho (!( . h of September . ( lenerul < ! athcart » had successfully inndo 1 . 1 m great expedition beyond 1 , 1 m K ' ci , and , us he promised , be had tiiken " Kreli's great place , " or camp , burnt , it , and driven oil" upwards of 1 () , <)()() herd of vallle and hoi-Ken . With thin booty ho recrossed Mm Kei , and returned to ( Jraham ' s Town . The burghers , culled out on the command system , had performed Mm main ol the work , supported by Uio regulars . ( Jcsneral diihcurt hud . exprosHed greut Butiufuction with tho conduct
of the burghers , and had declared the objects of the expedition fully attained . Nevertheless , in his absence , rebel Hottentots and Kafirs , from their fastnesses within the colony , had evaded the troops and the mounted police , and , issuing from their strongholds , had committed the usual depredations upon the cplonists , of cattle-driving and murdering . Another soldier had been shot near to quarters , and altogether matters were not a whit better within the colony . It was reported that Uitliaalder , the Hottentot rebel chieftain , had sent a flag of truce to the general . The specimen of supposed gold found in the Waterkloof , turned out to be siilpburet of iron . The coal strata near Cape Town was thought" to be not altogether fictitious .
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THE STATE OF CUBA . Hayannah is still much disturbed ; and arrests seem continuous . Facciolo , one of the editors of the clandestine Voice of the People , was executed by the " vile garrotte" on the 28 th of September . The severity of the government against suspected ships coming from the United States was growing inconvenient to American commerce . Two ships had been boarded ; one passenger arrested ; the letter bags taken , and the letters read . After this despotic freak , two Creoles , high in office , were arrested . Newspapers from the United States were entirely prohibited ; so much so that the American Consul cannot get any . It is alleged that the Rosamond , a British war steamer , went out ° the harbour without hoisting her flag on the 28 th—the captain being disgusted with the severity of Governor Cafiedo in executing Facciolo ; it being alleged that the judges were equally divided , and that the government cast for death . Surely this is playing the game of the " Lone Star" men . At all events it furnishes some ground for the rumour that either a civil or a servile war was expecte d to break out daily .
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NEWS FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA . We clip from the Sout 7 t Australian Chronicle , a journal devoted generally to colonial matters , and especially to the colony from which it derives its title , a summary of the news brought by the SospTiorus .-" The facts which are happening in South Australia exceed our anticipation of what the colony could do under the crisis , not indeed in the extent of what has been achieved , but in the promptitude of the rallying
from discouragement . The measures of establishing the Assay-office , and the escort from Mount Alexander , have been most successful . The escort has now become monthly ; and , if a large proportion of the amount conveyed to Adelaide is the produce of South Australian hands- ut the diggings , the fact only proves the allegiance which binds the South Australians to their own colony . The total amount deposited at the Assay-office in Adelaide to the 25 th of June including , exceeded
500 , 000 / . " The bank ing returns showed a very great expansion of business operations subsequently to the passing of the Bullion Act ; and , as there was very little of merely speculative enterprise , this increase of commercial activity was thoroughly substantial . The fact might have been presumed from the ; other broad evidences which are before us . Our own private letters are not so ample as usuiil j but the Times supplies u
statement which we anticipated—that stocks of imported goods in llm colony arc very low—all but exhausted . Kvery species of commodity , therefore , was in active demand . The investment , of capital in hind was proceeding rapidly hut steadily . The current of migration bad set strongly in the rellux direction ; the returns befhre us indicate that tlm number of persons entering South Australia exceeded those leaving it in tlm ratio of three mid a half to out ; .
Two other facts let us mention among the current signs of the times . Burru Buna , shares wen ; again rising , and stood ut 120 . " When the ball was given at ( Jovernmont-house , some time he for *; tlm last mail , 400 invitations were issued--a tolerable sign of social cultivation when there an ; 400 persons in tlm young city eligible for the ' palace ; balls . ' But a . < -on . si < lcriil > h ; number could not go not having domestic servants whom they could leave in charge of their households . How much does that fact , indicate , both of the comfort , and yet of the local want , of Adelaide !
" Certain facts in the intelligence from tlm other colonies help to explain the state of South Australia in a manner the most , hopeful . In Melbourne tlm last week ' s escort had brought , in 100 , 000 ounces of ^ ohl , which then stood at OO . v . ; leaving 40 , 000 ounces in t . h *; commissioner's tent . It is calculated thai , a tintlion stvrliny of iiiietiipfo i / i'd inoncy nuts in the hands of labourers . They won ) ho rich , they did not cart ) to push their ^ old upon the market , nud were , if we may
say so , reposing on their ore . In the game colony «*> Victoria , however , we note the utmost alarm for th next season ' s crop of wool : labour will not be availab ] to shear it—labour is too dear for that ; but the shee * have acquired a new value , as mutton for the diqaer The wool and tallow will probably be burned . Th" *' exactly reversing the old order of tilings , when th * wool alone was used , and the carcase destroyed- and now even the more modern plan of boiling down th carcase for the tallow is superseded . e
" But observe the twofold moral of this tale of sheep .. The rough-and-ready mode of obtaining butchers' supplies for the di ggers proves how suddenly yet substantially the value of the purveyor ' s trade ad vances ; and the bulk of that purvey trade will pro ' bably fall , as we have always calculated , to South Aus- " tralia . Secondly , the trade of growing wool , which ' for a time at least , is likely to fall short In "Victoria * must be made good in South Australia . Here are two vast branches of colonial activity suddenly , in great part at least , surrendered to South Australi a by her most formidable rival . From a survey of these facts we can understand why trade was so rapidly recovering .-in Adelaide , and why the sale of land was again proceeding so satisfactorily .
" Another fact shows the opening- opportunity , Bricks at Port Phillip were selling at 10 ? . a thousand A commercial writer observes that it would even pay to import bricks from England—from the antipodes Now , we remember that there is admirable material for bricks in Australia itself , especially in South Australia ; and it occurs to us that the export from England of hrickmalcers would be the most economical and beneficial . "
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A STORY OP THE PASSPORT SYSTEM . We find the following : amusing story in the Times , and ! it is no doubt an authentic record of the great continental nuisance . The hero of , the lost passport will beeasily recognised . The leSter is written from Milan ,. under date October 1 st : — " On . a fine morning last month I was going down the Sa 6 ne from Chalons , on board one of the river steamers , in company with a geatdeman who is one of the most successful of the lighter writers of the day , and his brother . It so happened that his pocket-book , containing his money , letters , and passport , fell out of his pocket , and Wnblcd into the river , where it was churned round by the paddlewheel , and at once disappeared . One would think that this was an accident which would have secured the sympathies of the police , and that no criminality could attach to the unfortunate person who was the victim of a small hole in the deck of the steamer . But , no : he at once
became- a suspected nonentity—all his citizenship , blood , bones , and muscle , lay tumbling about in the muddy water of the river . Perfectly unconscious of the fact , however , his first proceeding on landing at Lyons was to wait on the ehef of the passport department of the police . Hew several clerks were busily engaged in taking passport daguerreotypes of several poor men and . women , who were patiently holding up their faces while the operators peered into their very Lyonnais features , while the chef—tin and little monkeyiacod man , with a seedy black velvet skullcap on his head and a bit of red riband in his hutton-holo —was busily occupied in defending himself from the assaults of a wasp with a ruler . My friend briefly stated his business . Had ho been a Itouqe who had just swain ironi
Cayenne , the littlo chief could not have regarded him witli more distrustful astonishment . ' Monsieur must be aware -.-s ' e-r-r-e' bete ! ' ( hero the wasp received a » i [ n > i » hw £ blow , and was laid lifeless in the ink-bol tie )"' . Monsieur must bo awaro bo stands in a very painful position , n > a gravo misfortune—a misfortune of muc ; h important . The caso must bo referred to the authorities . we all groaned inwardly , lor wo knew what that meant —something between travelling- in Italy by < hhg < ' » and getting into the Court of Chancery- i «« v ,- " . " . . 1 : 1 — -.. ... I . <> — -I 111 " 1 and getting into the Court ol Chaucer } . ¦"" ; want to possible — 1 «
sir , I get on as speedily as going to Savoy , mid have no intention to remain an now in France . ' ' Yen , Hint might bo Monsieur ' s in tention indeed , lie was bound to say ho believed Monsieur was no ¦ a suspect nor a criminal but still ho' ( and he ( >'" j proudly at the vanquished wasp ) ' he had a duty t <> i < State ' to France to perform , and Monsieur iniisi , i *< there till the authorities vvovo satislied . ' My I ' " ' " * j ; i | . desperate . He knew how literature was rcHpert . fi' i ^ Franco , and so he made another allaok . ' Hut , hir , in getting 'Ji
assure you I lmvo an object in view » ^ ( Jeneva . us quickly as possible ; wo want to make 111 \ ' of the line weather in Switzerland , where we are ¦ g •'¦* "' » , tmiristn . I am Mr . . It was I who mad . " the um n of Mont Hlanc IiihI , year . ' 'Ah ! ' the < 7 / , . / said .. •<• Men possible ; c ' mf . ¦ msrz tlruto ; but meantime i «»'» - obey the instructions . They an ; more than ev . ; i , h ¦ - because the l ' ri . ice President is coming to the hmihj day or two . ' It wiih evident that the black nI ; iiI >« -i !> ., implacable . lie would show us no more meny ¦ , ( , we wore wasps ; and ho , yielding to fat . ; am Mo I li «; ' . chef , wo asked what was to bo done . ' Well , hum . I «< ' £ taking a ,. inch of hiiiim ' , ' lirst Monsieur must > identity ami the C . cts ho states . ' ( My lnen < I ; k ^ ^ at his legs , ami ran his bands through '"•' 1 ' " ' , „ f ,, himself h <; had not suddenly ovaponito . l ) . " > |> o ) j ( , ) this , Monsieur will repair to the I reiecluro ' . ,. „„ . where be will bo furnished with it proper »«"" ,. /„ , /• Usttitiou ; an olli .-er will attend him ; an ' „ , „ , ( bowed . Wo felt tho necessity of our I '"" " "" ' \ . mmtry humbly , and roLirod from tho bureau ; all Uio » wu
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1010 T H E ' L EA D E R . [ Sattoday , u :,... — . ' ' " i- . " .: -.,.,. m \ _^___— ^^^ —— ^^^^^^^^ . ^ —_^
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1852, page 1010, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1957/page/6/
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