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      Tiik Funioral Of Tiik Dukkl Of Wellingto...

      Marauis of Anglesey , liis companion-in-arms ; and that representatives from tlioso foreign Sovereigns in whose armies his Grace love tho 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 delay inseparable from a long file of carriages , it is intended to make the procession as much as possible a walking one , and to dispense , as far as 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 , on this occasion , consent to wave its claim to precedence , and that the Xord Mayor , after meeting the cortege at Temple-bar , will fall into the procession after the Prince Consort .

      l'inalh / , it is not intended to lino 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 aline 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 he 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 arc 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 iets , two or three

      deep , will be formed . This has been thought the more neaessary , as the weather may not en 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 bo so high as the rest , being only 30 feet , but 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 jiortion of the stone work which supports it will be removed ; but this of course will be rep ^ cod 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 , as we are informed , upwards of 50 loads of boards . The Statues of Nelson and Lord Cornwallis will , however , be left exposed , being merel y encircled with black , drapery , which will tend to bring into full relief the wliile marble of these exquisite sculptures . In the centre of these galleries will be erected , no as to occupy as little room as possible , tin ; machinery for lowering the collin , and over the chasm in the pavement will be a gorgeous catafalque . The nature of the decorations to the canopy have not been ascertained , as no orders have , us vet , been issued to the firm of

      Dowbiggm and Son in relation to it . The width of the centra ] aisle is upwards of 4 <) feet , and of this space \" i feet on t'uch side will be occupied by the . bases of the galleries , leaving a width of ' 2 O feet for the n > r / ct / r to advance through . The . galleries themselves will extend back beyond flic . square columns , nearly lo the . side windows , niiil fin ' s , of course , would be a great obstruction to the li ght , and will render it necessary , in addition to the rows of jets overhead , lo establish rows of burners along the fronts and round the columns . The long pendant lamps tit present used m I lie edifice will bo removed pro tan . The struct urc- of ( Iki galleries themselves will Ik ; verv . simple all endeavours at , embellishment being dispensed with . They will be simporlod by . strong beams , morticed

      to heavy timbers running along the lloor , and supported by tin : columns and u alls of t he cul hedral . It is estimated that upwards of 700 wagon loads of timber will be required to complete these works , which will occupy a month in their execution . I I , is not intended ( as we are informed ) to admit the public to the whispering gallery , nor lo the two small galleries over the terminal ions ( if the central aisle , as it would he impossible to see from such an elevation , especially when the rows of gas jets are li ghted . A temporary pulp it , will be erected near the place of interment ; but I hit precise locality has not , yet been decided on . There will be a gallery . separated by harriers from the rest , for those mciiilx'r . s of ( lit ! li pper and Lower llou . so who will a ! lend the funeral .

      1010 The* Leader. [Saturday ,

      1010 THE * LEADER . [ Saturday ,

      Tiik K A Kilt Wak. Accounts From The ('A...

      TIIK K A Kilt WAK . ACCOUNTS from the (' ape of ( Jooil llopelmve readied us by the Hosphortis , which arrived a ( . Plymouth on Saturday , up to the ( Jf . li of September . ( Jciiend CatbcMi'l . had successfully insult ; Mitt groat , expedition beyond ( be Kei , and , as lie promised , Ik had taken " Kreli's great place , " or camp , burnt , if , jind driven oil" upwards of 10 , 000 herd of eaftle and horses . With ( his liooty lie reerossed flic Kei , and returned to ( iruhnni ' s Town . The burghers , culled out . on the coimiutntl system , liutl performed the main ol tht ) work , . supported by the regulars , dleneml

      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 colonists , 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 Uithaalder , 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 sulphuret of iron . The coal strata near Cape Town was thought to be not altogether fictitious .

      The State Of Cuba. Havannah Is Still Muc...

      THE STATE OF CUBA . Havannah is still much disturbed ; and arrests seem continuous . Facciolo , one of the editors of the clandestine T oice 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 llosamond , a British war steamer , went out of 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 expected to break out daily .

      News Feom South Australia. We Clip From ...

      NEWS FEOM SOUTH AUSTRALIA . We clip from the South 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 JBosjphorus : " 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 . lhe 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 sit 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

      506 , 000 / . " The banking returns showed a very groat expansion of business operations subsequently to the passing of the Hullion Act ; and , as there was very little of merely speculative enterprise , this increase : of commercial activity was thoroughly substantial . Tint fact might have , been presumed from the other broad evidences which are . before us . Our own private letters are not so simple as usual ; but the r I u ) w . s supplies si

      statement which we anticipated—flint slocks of imported goods in tint colony are very low—all but exhausted . I' ] very species of commodity , therefore , was in active demand . Tint investment , of capital in land was proceeding rapidly but steadily . The current of migration lisul set strongly in tint reflux direction ; the returns before us indicate that the number of persons entering South Ausf . mlisi exceeded those leaving it . in the ratio of three and : i lialfto one .

      Two other facts let us mention among f , he current signs of the times . Hurra Hurra shares were again rising , and stood ut 120 . " When tint hall w ; is given at Government-house , some time before the last , nisiil , 400 invitations were issued si tolerable sign of social cultivation when there artt 400 persons in the young city eligible for the ' palace halls . ' Hut , a considerable number could not . go not , buying domestic servants whom they could leave in chur ^ e of their households . Mow m uch tloes that fact indicate , both of the comfort ,, anal yet of l / ta local waul , of Adelaide !

      " ( . ertain facts in the intelligence from the other colonies help to explain the state of South Aiistniliu in si manner tint most hopeful . In McIIhmiiiic the last week ' s escort , had brought , in 100 , 000 ounces- of gold , which then stood at- <> 0 . v . ; leaving 40 , 000 ounces in the coinniissioner ' ri tent . II , is calculated thai , < i million , sterliiHj of ¦ unemp t-oi / ud h / oi / ct / tons in I fie hands of labourers . They were so rich , they did not care to push their gold upon the market , and weiv , if we may

      say so , reposing on their ore . In the same colonv of Victoria , however , we note the utmost alarm for th next season ' s crop of wool : labour will not be available to shear it—labour is too dear for that ; but the sheen have acquired a new value , as mutton for the dinner ] The wool and tallow will probably be burned . This i " exactly reversing the old order of things , when the wool alone was used , and the carcase destroyed ; and now even the more modern plan of boiling down the carcase for the tallow is superseded .

      " Bat observe the twofold moral , of this tide of a 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 advances ; and the bulk of that purvey trade will pro . bably fall , as we have always calculated , to South Australia . Secondly , the trade of growing w ool , 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 grea t part at least , surrendered to South Axistralia- 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 pro ^ ceeding so satisfactorily .

      " Another fact shows the opening opportunity . Bricks at Port Phillip were selling at 10 Z . 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 hrickmrikers would be the most economical and beneficial . "

      A Story Of The Passport System. We Find ...

      A STORY OF 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 be easily recognised . The letter is written from Milan , under date October 1 st : — " On a fine morning last month I was going down the Saone from Chalons , on board one of the river steamers , in company with a gentleman 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 hia pocket , and tumbled 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 havo 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 becamo 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 chef of the passport department of the police . Jle . re several clerks were busily engaged in taking passport daguerreotypes of several poor men and women , who went patiently holding up their faces while the operators peered into their very Lyonnais features , while the chef—an arid little inonkeyfaeed man , with a seedy black velvet skullbuttonhole

      cap on his head and a bit , of red riband in his - —was busily occupied in defending himself from the assaults of a wasp with a ruler . My friend briefly staled hw business . Mad he been a llont / e who had just swam lroni Cayenne , the little chief could not have regarded him with more distrustful astonishment . ' Monsieur must he aware —K ' c-r-r-e b ( Ue ! ' ( here tho wasp received a squashing blow , and was laid lifeless in the ink-bottle ) - ¦ - ' Monsieur must be aware he . stands in a very painful position . I' , is a grave misfortune—a misfortune of much impor tance . Tho ease must , be referred to the authorities . nil groaned inwardly , for we knew what that liieiint —something between ' travelling in Italy by diligence arid getting into tho -Court of Chancery . ' I ' "'

      sir , T want ' to get , on as speedily as possible— I >"" going to Savoy , and have no intention to remain an hour in France . ' ' " Yes , that might be Monsieur's intention - indeed , hit was hound to say he believed Monsieur « as nor a . suspect nor a criminal hut still ho' ( and he lookcti proudly at the vanquished wasp ) ' he had a duty to the State ' to l- ' rance- to ' perform , and Monsieur iiiiihI , resL there , till ( lie authorities were satisfied . ' -My friend grew desperate . lie knew how literature was respected n > I ' Yunce . and so ho made another at lack . ' . Hut , Sir , ims t «

      *!«*¦«« ^ 4 ^ ¦ ¦ ^ 4 ¦¦• ' *»¦¦ *•«• ' pair « ' ¦ ** ' ¦ ¦* , » ' *¦•» - — — - ' . assure you 1 have an object in view in gelling on ( ieneva . uh quickly as possible ; we want , to jnake the- nio .. of the lino weather in Switzerland , where wo are going '" tourist ,-. 1 am Mr . . It was I who made Hie " * ' ' "' of Mont Itliuit ; last , year . ' ' Ah ! ' the chef mud , ' <¦<'•' ; bii'ii possible ; vest usscz tlrolv ; but , meant imo v > e ' »! ' ¦" obey ' the instructions . They are mom tluin ever . M' ! '"' ' because tho Prince President in coming lo lhe . sou " 1 M

      day or two . ' It was evident that tho bhick Hkull-e > q > *' . j implacable . lie would show uh no morn mercy "" (( , wo werowusp . s ; and ho , yielding to fate and to I ho o ><¦¦' chef wo nskod what was to hit done . ' Well , ' hiikI m "'\ -r taking a pinch of unulf , ' first Monsieur must l"' " identity and the facts ho states . ' ( My lri . ' »« l l !" ' , fv at bin fegn , ami ran his hands throug h his linir , <<> ^ ^ himself he bad not suddenly evaporated ) . ' I" """ ] j ( , thin , Monsieur will repair to I ho I ' releoturo ol whore he will bo furnished with a proper iorin _ oi tvst « Uon ; an otlieer will attend bun ; i >»« 1 " , ,, ( bowed . Wtt felt tho necessity of our position , null humbly , und retired from tho bureau ; all tliontuul / « ww * y

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23101852/page/6/