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FUN ERAL OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRI DGE . The mortal remains of the Duke of Cambridge were interred at Kew Church , on Tuesday morning . The funereal arrangements were of the most unostentatious description ; and still further to insure the privacy of the ceremonial , it was ordered that the procession should move from Cambridge-house shortly after six in the morning , and that the interment should take place at the early hour of ten o ' clock .
As early as five o ' clock some few hundred persons had assembled on the brow of the hill opposite Cambridge-house . There was a strange admixture of character in the crowd ; but nothing could be more orderly or respectable than the conduct exhibited by all . Shortly after five o'clock the First and Second battalions of the Coldstream Guards ( the late Duke ' s regiment ) marched through Piccadilly , en route from St . George's Barracks to Kew , where it had been arranged they should form a guard of honour to receive the royal remains upon their arrival at the cottage .
... . „ ,, , At six o ' clock the number of persons assembled had considerably increased , and all the windows of the houses within view were occupied . The hearse and other funereal paraphernalia now arrived , and the marshalling of the procession was at once proceeded with . As the half hour chimed , the cortege left Cambridge-house , and moved slowly towards Hyde Park-corner , before reaching which one of the
most touching incidents of the day occurred . Seated at one of the partially closed windows of Gloucesterhouse was observed the venerable sister of the deceased Prince , the Duchess of Gloucester , apparently absorbed in grief . Her Royal Highness was attended by a X . ady in Waiting , whose aid appeared to be quite necessary for the support of the afflicted Princess at the moment when the hearse containing the body of her beloved brother passed the mansion .
The greatest possible respect was paid by the whole of the inhabitants along the line of route traversed by the procession . At Knightsbridge , Kensington , and Hammersmith , the church bells were muffled , and tolled minute peals , while many of the shops were closed , and business entirely suspended . At Kensington , the royal standard floated half-mast high from the church steeple , and the children of the parochial schools were drawn up in the churchyard .
When the cortege reached the middle of Kewbridge ( about nine o ' clock ) it was met by a smaller body of mourners , consisting of residents of Kew and of certain officials , who formed in order , preceding the funeral procession . Thus augmented and arranged , the procession reached the old house of the King of Hanover , and from there proceeded to Cambridge Cottage . Here a necessary delay took place until about ten o'clock , awaiting the arrival of Prince Albert , the present Duke of Cambridge , the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , and other distinguished persons , who were to take part in the final
ceremony ; and these personages , with their attendants and the Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty ' s Household , met the funeral at the residence of his late Royal Highness . A procession was formed at ten o ' clock which proceeded to Kew Church . The Reverend James Hutchinson , one of his late Royal Highness ' s chaplains , accompanied by the Reverend R . B . By am , vicar of the parish of Kew , met the body at the entrance of the church , and preceded the procession up the south aisle . The body of the late Duke was then placed upon tressels in front of the Communion Table , the coronet and cushion and the baton and cushion being laid thereon .
A pew in the south aisle near the communion table was enclosed with black draperies for her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge , and the Princesses , her daughters , who entered the pew shortly before the arrival of the procession . The adjoining pew was also enclosed with draperies for the Ladies in Waiting on their Royal Highnesses . Some of the Cabinet Ministers and several of the nobility occupied pews in the centre of the church near the communion table . The Duke of Wellington arrived at a quarter past nine o ' clock . Ho was dressed in mourning , and wore the Ribbon of the Order of the Garter , and the Ensigns of the Golden Fleece . Lord John Russell , the Marquis of Lansdowne , the Earl of Minto , the Earl of Jersey , Viscount Palmerston , and Lord Fitzroy Somerset , arrived soon afterwards , and were conducted , to the reserved seats .
The Reverend James Hutchinson having read that portion of the Burial Service appointed to be read icfore the interment , the Duchess of Cambridge left her pew , and was supported by her son , following tho body , which was borne from the front of the communion table down the north aisle to the vault at the entrance to the chapel . The Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and the Princess Mary followed , with Princo Albert and the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . The coffin was then gradually lowered into the vault , under the superintendence of the officers of her Majesty ' s Woods and Forests , and while descending , Major Baron Knesebeck p laced upon it the coronet of the late Duke . The body being deposited , the Lord Chamberlain notified the fact , and the Royal mourners then stood around the vault , while the Burial Service was concluded .
The chief mourners then left the church , as did also the members of the Cabinet and other noblemen who were present . At dusk , on Tuesday evening , the Duchess of Cambridge , with her daughters , Prince George , and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mechlenburg-Strelitz , proceeded to the church to take a last view of the coffin containing the remains of their beloved relative . Their RoyalHighnesses the Princesses were observed to strew a basket of flowers into the vault , after which the mourners retired , and the workmen were immediately summoned to close in the vault .
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SCHLESWIG- HOLSTEIN . — THE ANGLO - RUSSIAN PROTOCOL . The protocol of the 4 th instant , signed in London by England , France , Russia , Sweden , and Denmark , containing a formal recognition of the independence and integrity of the Danish monarchy , has been received at Berlin , and , in fact , throughout all Germany , with the liveliest indignation . All parties condemn its unjust and arbitrary interference with the rights of Germany , and the Berlin press asserts that Prussia will absolutely refuse to sign the protocol . Already the Prussian Minister in London has not
only declined the invitation to attend the conference , in which the document was to be previously signed by initials only , but addressed to Lord Palmerston a protest , couched in strong , if not threatening , language against the protocol which was about to be signed . It also appears that Chevalier Bunsen , on the following day , sent in another protest , with renewed energy , against the whole protocol , and especially against the article concerning the maintenance of the present status of the possessions united under the crown of Denmark , declaring that the provinces of which the King of Denmark is now the head never had been considered or admitted by Germany to be
parts of the Danish monarchy . We are now to learn whether the language of the Prussian Minister held in his two protests will be confirmed by his Cabinet . If we consider the unanimity in this respect of the Berlin press , now under control of the Government , we may infer that it will . The cause of the Duchies is more generally favoured in Germany than seems to have been believed in England ; and the Duchies themselves are at present glowing with enthusiasm for their country : they even desire to be attacked by the Danes—an event which seems highly probable after the encouragement with which the protocol must necessarily have inspired them ; and it is expected that the Danish troops would enter Schleswig after the 17 th instant .
We are strongly inclined to believe that the Germans are justified in their indignation and anger , for the protocol interferes directly with the right of succession in two German principalities , namely , the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg , which are part and parcel of the Germanic Confederation , and as such the sovereign duke of both , the King of Denmark , possessed a voice in the plenum of the Frankfort Diet . Now , as the latter has no family , his immediate successor will be his uncle , a man bordering upon sixty , having no male children , on whose death the Danish throne , —with the kingdom of Denmark only , —reverts by right to while the Duchies of Hol
Prince Frederic of Hesse , - stein , Schleswig , and Lauenburg revert to the ducal families of Augustenburg and GHicksburg . The legitimate rights of these princes are clear ; but the protocol approves of tho negotiations which the King of Denmark has initiated for the purpose of settling the question of succession . These negotiations , which are well known to have been commenced at the instigation of Russia , will , if successful , tranfer the Danish throne and the duchies to a member of the ducal house of Oldenburg ( who , by-the-bye , is a general in the Russian service , and a relative of the Emperor Nicholas ) , without the slightest regard for the and
the prior claim of Augustenburg Glucksburg families . Now , Holstein and Lauenburg are German ; the greater part of Schleswig is likewise German ; the Dukes of Augustenburg and Glucksburg aro Germans : it is , therefore , quite natural , that the German nation should feel indignant at a protocol which tramples under foot the rights of ono of its component parts ; but there is one thing that puzzles us in this protocol transaction ; indeed , it seoms to be a diplomatic riddle which futurity alone can solve , viz ., tho perfect harmony of our British Cabinet with that of Russia , whilst nothing but disaccord appears to prevail between them in the eastern , affairs .
A telegraphic despatch from Hamburg , dated Saturday afternoon , announces that the SchleBwig-Holstoin army had crossed the Eider , and that the advance brigade was moving with all despatch upon Eckcrnforde . Although this intelligence wants po-
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bound to coroe forward and testify their sympathy for the loss sustained and their approval of virtues rarely found in public men . ( Hear . ) The House of Commons paid to this great and honest man an honour never before paid to a commoner by Parliament , but the precedent was well deserved ( hear , hear ); and whilst all over the country there were loud expressions of regret for our loss , it would become the city of London , of which he was enrolled a citizen ( hear . hear ) , in combination with
the general metropolitan community , to perpetuate the memory of his services by some useful and honourable testimonial . ( Hear , hear . ) It was to be hoped that besides a statue means might be found of forming some memorial by which , in all time to come , the country would be benefited , and the example held up for imitation of an honest and straightforward career . ( Hear , hear . ) It was a melancholy satisfaction , but still a satisfaction , to pay the tribute due to such a man ( hear , hear ) , and doubly so when his private character did so much honour to him . "
Mr . HenkyDrtjmmond , after stating that he stood there by the invitation of the committee , and at the request of the Lord Mayor , said : — " I am not sorry , I confess , to have been thus invited . I was the schoolfellow of Sir Robert Peel ; I was at college with him afterwards ; we entered the House of Commons together ; I heard the first speech he made there , and I listened with attention to every word of the last . [ The honourable gentleman was so much moved with this recital as to be almost unable to proceed . } Our paths in life lay wide asunder ; but at no time did we ever meet when we found that the intimacies of our childhood were impaired . ( Hear , hear . ) We always met
with the same cordiality , even to the last ; and up to the latest period did I have the honour of enjoying his uninterrupted friendship . ( Hear , hear . ) The points in his character which I call upon you to remember this day shall be such as serve for a useful example to ourselves . ( Hear . ) For it so happens , that , with the exception of one great political event , I believe there is not a remarkable occurrence in our history for forty years back to which the name of Sir R . Peel is not emphatically attached . ( Hear . ) You remember that it was under his administration , when quite young , that the constabulary force was established in Ireland ; you remember it was he , shortly afterwards , that condensed your criminal law and abrogated hundreds of useless statutes ( hear ); you remember that it was he that acted so ably in the repeal of the Test Laws ; and you remember , down to acts associated with
the very last , how many similar are his name . ( Hear ) . But there is this remarkable circumstance connected with another series of public events to which I beg your attention—that , in pursuing what he believed his country ' s good , he violated some of his dearpst private affections . At the time , for instance , of the Bullion Report , he was put in by his patron , Lord Liverpool , to watch the proceeding on the part of the Government , and he came out of the committee deciding against the Government . Afterwards , when he brought in , in 1819 , the famous bill which goes by his name , he was opposed in the House by his own father . Then , when he carried the Catholic question , you remember now he sacrificed his friends at Oxford . And again , if you take the very last act of his life , you know how bitter it was to his party associations . But in all these he had hut . one obiect in view—his country ' s good ( hear , hear ) ,
and that he followed to the end . ( Hear , hear . ) A remarkable circumstance about Sir R . Peel was this , too , that , from the day he entered the House until the last , he not only read , but marked , learnt , and inwardly digested every report that was presented to that House ; and the consequence was that he had a mastership over subjects that no other man ever had , knew more than any other individual in the House , and could always bring forth out of his well-stored mind a mass of information which settled debate . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , every one of you may labour—and , above all , if you are young representatives , I would call upon you to imitate his example , and labour for your country as he did . ( Hear , hear . ) There is another point very remarkable in Sir li . Peel ' s character . The honourable member for Montrose ( Mr . Hume ) is old enough , as well as myself , to
remember how violent party rancour ran when we were young . At that time persons of opposite factions hardly associated together . Happily those evil days are at an end . ( Hear , hear . ) "We can now oppose one another , and still unite in all the intimacies of private society . ( Hear , hear . ) But Sir R . Peel , more than any other man within my remembrance , was the victim of private personalities ( hear , hear ) , and , of all men I ever remember , he is the man that replied to them the least . ( Hear , hear . ) He 1 commended himself to Him that ju'lgeth righteously , ' and did ' not answer again . ' ( Hear , hear . ) 1 he way in which he was enabled to do this was by keeping the good of his country steadily in view as the pole-star betne inenu
fore him ( hear , hear ); and whether waves pi - ship or of opposition tossed him on the one side or the other , he never lost sight of that object . ( Hear , hear . ) By conduct like this , not undervaluing the testimony which you will raise , and which shall be raised in many other parts of the country , I feel that Sir Robert Peel might say , « Excgi monumentura cere pcrenmus . ( Hear , hear . )' The following are the resolutions , which were passed unanimously : — " That this meeting desires to give expression to tho profound and universal regret which pervades all ranks and conditions ot this
the people at the irreparable loss which country «»»» " » - tained in the decease of the Right Honourable 8 ir Bobert Peel , and feels that , in seeking- to perpetuate the record of his public services and his private virtues , it commands the sympathy ana enjoy 9 the cordial coiiporation of all . " That the Lord Mayor and the other gentlemen on the platform ( Jo form a committee , with power to add to their number , to collect subscriptions , and to devise the best means of carrying into effect the resolution of this meeting ; and that the Lord Mayor . Mr . Masterman , Sir J . Duke , ana Baron L . do Kotnschild , be requested to act as treasurer * , "
In admiration of the character of Sir Robert Peel , and as being the founder of the police system , the various members of the city of London police force have voluntarily subscribed half a day ' s pay towards such testimonial . Nearly £ 50 has been already received . A similar collection will be made throughout the police districts of the metropolitan force .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 20, 1850, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1847/page/3/
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