portunity which this exhibition affords of studying | practical teacher of the Dignity of Labor, the Trithe human countenance under very peculiar circumstances. Our uninitiated readers have no conception of the pretty face which a man makes when he produces the sound of a cymbal, by twitching up the corner of his mouth, and a puff of one cheek. The repertoire is very large, comprising solos, overtures, dances, in great variety, which are all played in the singular manner above described, and are occasionally relieved by a little regular singing, which is not of first-rate excellence. With all respect for the talents of the Organophonists, we would suggest that they should rather contribute their share to a miscellaneous

LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.-No. 451.-8 JANUARY, 1853.

From the Morning Chronicle, 19th Nov.
THE FUNERAL.

THE stately pageant has passed. The solemn words have been spoken, "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, and dust to dust"-and all that could die of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, reposes in the dim vault of our cathedral. Ilicet-ire licet.

They belong to the history of the nation for which they fought, and which has placed their tombs where they may be constantly before its eyes. When, therefore, it becomes a duty to speak of the day which saw our lost hero laid by the side of him who had gone before, it would seem that that duty were not unfitly fulfilled by extending in Hardly, with the sad splendors of the funeral some considerable degree the treatment of a fresh upon the eye, with the ear filled with the subject so interesting to all who speak the English noise of the mighty multitude still thronging the language, and whose heart swells with pride at the highways of our city, and with the mind strug- remembrance of English heroism. It cannot be gling to reduce to form the mingled and overpowdeemed superfluous to have remembered, on such a ering impressions of such a scene as that of yester- day as yesterday, that other days of kindred charday, can adequate justice be done to its massive acter had preceded it-to have recollected that the features. The event of Thursday, the 18th of No- ancestors of yesterday's crowd had crowded the vember, 1852, is henceforth an era in the life of highways in their time, as the heroes of that time every spectator among the myriads who yesterday were borne to their grave-or to have, for a moformed that mighty human avenue along which ment, repeopled our thronged metropolis with the was borne the dead body of the hero. For the ma- throngs of by-gone years. It has been thought not jority of that vast concourse it will be the one great amiss to associate the historical event of yesterday event of life. Comparatively few have seen-it is with some similar historical events which have not too much to say that none will see a cere- preceded it; and, in prefacing a detail of the monial to be paralleled with that which yesterday pageant, now the theme of all tongues, with some concentrated the attention of a kingdom. Each reminiscences of pageants which in their day who beheld it will characterize it in his own way. shared similar fame, it is not conceived that an The noble array of soldiery will be the dominant altogether unacceptable addition is made to the reminiscence with one. The illustrious gathering narrative it is our duty to render. It will be seen, of intellect, valor, rank, and wealth which adorned however, that we subjoin a minute account of all the funeral train will be long remembered by that took place yesterday, from the setting forth another. The massive and trophied car, with its of the procession to the termination of the cerebronze and its gold, and, above all, with its hon-mony, and that there is also added a report from ored burden, will be the point in the long line to which the recollections of a third will rush; while, with a fourth, will probably remain an impression of a magnificent march, in which military glitter was toned down by certain mournful symbolization. All, however, who witnessed the ceremonial will naturally approach any description of it with demands at once large and special, and these requirements it is, from the nature of the case, far from easy to fulfil.

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each locality through which the procession passed. And we cannot but hope that, whether regarded as a combination of records, or as the presentment of certain historical tableaux, the older of which were naturally suggested by the most recent, this treatment of the subject will be approved, both by those who find an intrinsic interest in the past, and by those who value it chiefly as a means of estimating the present.

From Marlborough-house, Pall-mall, is about to It has been thought that, in endeavoring to issue the coffin of the victor of Blenheim, Raproduce as full and exact a picture of the scene of millies, and Malplaquet. Spectators, who have yesterday as possible, it might be well to adopt assembled from all the provinces of the three kingcourse which should depart from the mere com- doms, crowd the streets, the park, and every portion monplaces of narrative, and that, while seeking to of the long line arranged for the procession. Some of those nearest the house, while awaiting the preserve and present a faithful record of the proceedings of the day, the subject might be treated spectacle of the day, beguile their time with anecin some degree as a portion of the history of the dotes of John Churchill and Sarah Jennings. Probcountry-a dignity which, assuredly, none will be ably some of the better informed on the gossip disposed to refuse to concede to it. The event of of the day point out the Pall-mall entrance to the yesterday has a significance beyond that of ordinary mansion as a very bad one, and remind each other spectacle, or ordinary ceremonial. We were not that the duchess was very desirous to purchase the burying our dead out of our sight. The hallowed neighboring property, in order to improve her house, mausoleum of Nelson and of Wellington is no dis- but that Sir R. Walpole, discovering the circumtant and secluded shrine, to be sought in pilgrim- stance, interfered, and, in order to spite her, bought age, and to be remembered only by those who have up the leases she wanted. They may be mentionthe pilgrim-spirit. We have laid their mortal re-ing, too, that the house was built by the great mains in the very heart of the heart of our city. We make their names household words, and their images our Penates. Daily the hurrying tide of metropolitan life passes

architect of St. Paul's, employed by the duchess, less, perhaps, in admiration of his genius, than to vex Vanbrugh. They may be whigs or tories, and in accordance with their political views may dwell upon the splendid military career of him whose body is about to be borne forth, or upon the treachery of his early years and the avarice of his

whole life. Their talk may be of the "handsome pronounced him the fittest man in England to be Englishman," as Turenne called him, whose fight- consulted on all occasions. On comes the procesing began at Tangiers, against the Moors, and who sion-heralds, officers at arms, mourners, and ashad served under the Duke of Monmouth, in the sistants-and among them is borne aloft the army of France, while France and England were standard of Woodstock, exhibiting the arms of allies, and who actually received the personal France on the cross of St. George, and being the thanks of Louis XIV., who had, in after years, so flag annually presented by the holder of the honor little to thank him for. Or they may speak of the and manor of woodstock, in memorial of Blenheim. generalissimo of the allied army, who, immediately The king has granted express and royal warrant to upon commencing his campaign, drove back the John Anstis, Garter King, commanding that, as enemy from the Dutch frontier, took Liege, and his majesty is desirous that the funeral of the duke earned his dukedom-of the wonderful military shall be solemnized with all the circumstances of skill which so masked his movements and designs honor his high merits have deserved, the heralds that while the French and Bavarians, alarmed on should set forth the said standard. In the centre all sides, were preparing defences at every point of the cavalcade is an open car, bearing the coffin, but the right one, the English general penetrated which is surmounted with a suit of complete to the Danube, and fought the battle of Blenheim armor, and lying under a gorgeous canopy, -or of the campaign in which he provoked the adorned with plumes, military trophies, and French to fight him at Ramillies, and the surrender | heraldic achievements. To the sides shields are of Louvain, Brussels, Mechlin, Ghent, Ostend, affixed, exhibiting emblematic representations of Bruges, and Dendermonde followed his victory. the battles the duke had gained, and the towns he Or their discourse may be of the last of his fields had conquered, with the motto," Bello, hæc, el -now, it is reckoned, some fourteen years ago-plura." On either side are five captains in miliwhen Eugene and Marlborough fought side by tary mourning, bearing aloft a series of bannerols, side, and the Great King learned that, at Tournay charged with the quarterings of the Churchill and and at the terrible Malplaquet, the star of the in-Jennings families. The Duke of Montagu, hus vincible Villars had paled before that of the Eng-band to the great duke's daughter Mary, is chief lish hero. Not such is the talk of that knot of mourner, and he is supported by the Earl of sneerers. They, too, have their biographical chat, Godolphin, but not the lord treasurer and gambler and it turns upon one Arabella Churchill, and a who broke the white staff some years ago. He has brother who thought it no shame to secure the died at one of Marlborough's seats, and has favor of a king at the price of a sister's honor- preceded him to the Abbey. With Montagu, too, upon a subject who had received every kindness at is the Earl of Sunderland, who has this year only the hand of his sovereign, and who was one of the succeeded to the title of the intriguing, unprinfirst to make overtures to the prince who was cipled man, for whom the Duchess of Marlscheming that sovereign's dethronement-upon a borough, after the Sacheverell folly, begged on general who accepted the command of troops in- her knees to Queen Morley, and in vain. Four tended to act against the Dutch deliverer, and who other earls bear the pall, and the carriages of the then deserted to the cause of the latter-or upon King and Prince of Wales head a long train of an adherent to the new régime, who kept up a those belonging to the nobility and gentry. Cirsecret correspondence with the king he had be- cuitous, indeed, seems the route the procession trayed, and promised, by a second treason, to takes, but the line has no doubt been arranged to atone for the first. Or they may speak of a wealthy afford a sight to as large a portion of the peonobleman whose miserly habits were so strong ple as possible. The cavalcade moves along St. that, as is related by one of the party who has James' Park to Hyde Park corner, and thence come up from Bath to see the funeral, he would, through Piccadilly and Pall-mall, by Charingif he won sixpence .at cards, literally dun his an- cross, to Westminster Abbey. The body is retagonist until he obtained the money, on the plea ceived at the great west door by the dignitaries that he should want it to pay the chair that took and members of the church, in splendid babilihim to his lodgings-and would then walk home ments, and the venerable pile blazes with tapers to save the sixpence. And one of them hints that and torches. The haughty Francis Atterbury, though no doubt the departed general won a great Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, many battles, he found his account in keeping up reads the service for the dead, for he has not yet our wars, and pocketed large sums of money there-found his way to the Tower-it will open for him by. To this they assent, but hardly like to do so, when a still meaner creature-whose address, if he would give it, would be found to be in Grubstreet-adds that winning a battle and being a brave man are two things, and that if he were to speak his mind he should say-but the gates open, and the eager buzz of the multitude drowns the pitiful scoff.

The soldiery march out from the court-yard-a detachment of artillery precedes the commanderin-chief of the time, Lord Cadogan-and with his lordship are several general officers, personal adherents of the duke, who have shared in the persecutions he endured both from brilliant and from stupid factions. For though the king had restored to Marlborough the offices of which he had been deprived by the foolish Mrs. Morley, George I. has not thought proper to let his voice be heard in the cabinet, notwithstanding that William III. had

before the year is out; and the Garter King-atArms, advancing to the edge of the grave, declares that thus it has pleased Almighty God to take out of this transitory world, into his merey, the most high, mighty, and noble prince, John, Duke of Marlborough. The Westminster vault has received, but will not retain, the embalmed body, which will speedily be removed to the chapel at Blenheim, to repose under Rysbrach's magnificent mausoleum. The crown gets credit for the magnificent obsequies, but the proud Duchess of Marlborough knows better, and will cause it to be put on record, which there is nothing to refute, that she herself is at the whole charges of the obsequies. And so, in his seventy-second year, and in possession of his faculties (poetical exaggeration to the contrary unheeded), has passed away the handsome Englishman. Bolingbroke has not as yet been able to obtain the pardon which would have en

abled him to return from exile and witness the | elsewhere demanded. The arrangement of the ceremony; but now that the duke is gone he will music for the funeral service occasions much disbear testimony to his wonderful merits, and when cussion; and the Rev. William Earl Nelson, the the proud bishop, who has read the service to-day, fortunate successor to the hero, and the grateful shall be setting out a banished man next year, he protector of his child, reports that some music will meet the returning St. John, and at Calais they which the conqueror heard performed at Naples will compare their reminiscences of the conqueror before the court-and with which he was so deof France. lighted as to obtain it, declaring that it should be played at his funeral-has been examined by the Eighty-four years have passed, and England best musical authorities, and found far "too light" again assembles her thousands round a hero's bier. for so solemn an occasion. So, in this matter, as But this time there is no party feeling, no divided in that of the place of his tomb, the hero's will sentiment-the nation loved the man. He was is set aside. Naturally, there is much debate also struck down, in the moment of splendid victory, as to the kind of monument which shall be erected and in his fall has so fearfully crushed the foe that to Nelson, and, even in these days, there are found his countrymen have ample time to turn from the critics of sufficient boldness to find fault with the thoughts of conflict, and to carry their champion to heathenish groups which modern taste erects in a his grave. Not that the war is over-for on the day Christian church. And some of these strictures before the obsequies of Nelson we read a fierce call out Mr. Bacon, the sculptor, who has conmessage from Vienna, apprizing us that England trived a figure of Sensibility mourning over Genmust buy peace from Napoleon at the price of her eral Dundas, and who writes to explain his moncolonies. The emperor has conquered half the ument a monument requiring explanation being Austrian empire, we are told, and shall he be a truly English one-and says, that as sensibility expected to give up his prey for nothing? "Shall had not been previously represented in marble, he England,' ," asks the Viennese despatch writer, thought it a happy idea to testify it by a girl holdskulking behind her dirty channel, encourage ing a sensitive plant. The coffin of Lord Nelson the continent to war?" But twenty of the ene-being at Greenwich, great crowds go down to see my's ships struck at Trafalgar, and we can afford it, and many are crushed in a dreadful manner to think of the funeral honors to Nelson, while and trampled upon, and some are not expected to Bonaparte superintends the making of the "new survive the effort to get into the funeral chamber. crown," of which we hear so much. So England The Princess of Wales has been among the visapplies herself to the work with a zeal which itors. On the Thursday, the day of the funeral, shows how genuine and hearty is the love and the political readers of the journals are gladdened admiration she bore to the departed. Let us take by hearing that Alexander of Russia intends to the incidents of the day, and the day or two on adhere to the general treaty, but are depressed by either side; they are, no doubt, beneath the dig-learning that a separate peace between Austria nity of history, but they cannot be uninteresting, and France is to be expected. The great Goveven to an historian. Solemn or common-place, we ernor-General of India, the Marquis of Wellesley, will have them all. The lord mayor has been has arrived at Portsmouth. The body of Lord alarmed for his dignity, and complains that in Nelson was brought up yesterday with great state the procession, he, the chief magistrate of the from Greenwich, and the Dukes of Clarence and city, is to follow the mere chief justice of England, Sussex were among the spectators of the procesand he claims and obtains the right to follow the sion. Among other beholders was a lady in a blood royal. The father of Lord Lyndhurst is boat upon the river, who became so affected at the advertised to be painting a picture of the death of sight that she went into fearful hysterics, and Nelson; nor is Mr. Singleton Copley the only speedily expired. The coffin was brought to the artist so engaged-Mrs. Salmon, of historical fame, Admiralty, and placed in the chamber called the announcing that she is about to exhibit "an in- captain's room, where it has remained, with the teresting dying figure of Lord Nelson. Com-coronet on a cushion upon it, surrounded by fortyplaints are made that the lying-in-state at Green- six wax lights in sconces, six large candles being wich Hospital will afford but a few, comparatively placed on each side of the body. The crowds on speaking, the opportunity "of partaking of the the Thursday are tremendous, and the mournful sentimental feast," as the sight is called, and procession to St. Paul's occupies so long a time Westminster Hall is suggested as a fit locality for that the winter day begins to close in before the ceremony. Oxford gives "Trafalgar" as a sub- the rites can be completed. We need not advert, ject for a prize poem, and is much lauded for so fortunately, to the worse than hideous car which doing-while another Trafalgar poem, now utterly the researches of historical undertakers have enforgotten, is declared by the press to be the one which abled them to construct, and which bears along will be quoted so long as the maritime glory of the coffin to its final resting-place. May such Britain shall endure. The construction of the another monstrosity be never again seen deforming triumphal car on which the coffin is to lie on its a solemn procession! The array of mourners way to St. Paul's, is daily announced, and the comprises the Prince of Wales, the Dukes of Clarvarious blunders and shifts of the undertakers are ence, Kent, Cumberland, and Sussex, the Earls of duly recorded; these persons are stated to be ex- Moira, Sheridan, and Tierney. The service in the amining with great care all that can be found in cathedral is well performed, and the coffin is lowreference to the funeral cars of Sir Philip Sydney, ered to its appointed place by invisible machinery, Lord Sandwich, and the Duke of Marlborough. the effect of which is befitting; and the scene is Seats are advertised at points all along the line-rendered more striking by the gloom which settles one of them described as an excellent place "for down upon the cathedral, and which makes it necseeing the procession on that awful occasion," and another advertiser informs us that "none need apply who will not offer handsome sums;" one guinea per head, "with refreshments," being

essary to have recourse to artificial light. Mr. Wyatt, the architect, has foreseen this need, and has provided an octagonal contrivance, by which 130 lamps shed their light over the body. And