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THE VISIT TO CHERBOURG . Louis Napoleon left Paris by the Rouen railway , on Tuesday morning , on his journey to Cherbourg , accompanied by the Ministers Baroche , Rouher , Lahitte , and Desfosses . The affairs of the Government are entrusted during his absence ^ to the three Ministers who accompanied him on his journey to Lyons . MM . Fould and Parieu are absent on leave . He intended on his way to stop at a village near the
station of Meulan , called Juziers la Ville , to partake of a collation at the country residence of M . Baroche . This seems to disprove the reports that have been circulated during the last day or two , to the effect that the Minister of the Interior was about to resign , owing to a difference of opinion with the President and his colleagues respecting the line of policy to be followed by the cabinet on the re-assetnbling of the Legislature .
The reports from Cherbourg give flaming accounts of the preparations making to receive the President , and of the arrival of holiday folks from all parts of the country . Every coach and steamer that arrives brings nn accession to the number to the great aggravation of hotel and lodging-house tariffs . The Cherbourgians appear to perfectly understand the importance of making hay while the sun shines , and this visit of the President and the fleet will be a
regular God-send , for them . The programme of the fetes is a very elaborate one , consisting of boat races and sailing matches , in addition to the evolutions of the fleet , grand naval sham fight , banquets , illuminations , and all the other customary shows . The President , it appears , has resolved , in compliance with some pressing invitations , to remain three days in Cherbourg instead of two , as originally designed . The Princess Mathilde Demidoff , the President ' s cousin , has promised to accompany him to Cherbourg , to attend the ball to be given by the city . M . de Niewenkerke , the director of the museums of the state , will also be of the presidential party . The Czar is said to have ordered Count Demidoff to increase the Princess Mathilde ' s
allowance , which already amounts to 200 , 000 f ., by an additional sum of 300 , 000 f ., which will make her pin-money £ 20 , 000 a-year .
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LOUIS PHILIPPE'S FUNERAL . The remains of Louis Philippe , ex-King of the French , were removed from Claremont on Monday , and were deposited in the vault of a Roman Catholic chapel attached to the residence of Miss Taylor , in Weybridge . The obsequies of the ex-Monarch were conducted with the utmost simplicity , and there was an entire absence of that pomp and state which might almost have been expected to mark the funeral procession of an individual of such distinguished rank . Indeed , the arrangements for the funeral scarcely differed from those which would have been observed in the ca 6 e of a wealthy country
gentleman . The seven-o ' clock train on the South-Western . Railway conveyed from London many gentlemen , most of them foreigners , and several ladies , who were anxious to pay the last sad tribute of respect to the deceased ex-Monarch . The train debarked this portion of its freight about half-past seven o ' clock at the Esher station , and every available vehicle was at once placed in requisition to convey the pilgrims to their destination . The carriage accommodation was , however , but scanty , being confined to some halfdozen " flys ; " and , as these were at once engaged ,
from forty to fifty ladies and gentlemen were compelled to perform on foot the journey from the station to Claremont , a distance of between two and three miles . This inconvenience , which was , however , rendered less irksome by the fineness of the weather , was cheerfully submitted to , and by half-past eight o'clock the travellers had assembled in the entrancehall of Claremont , where they were received by Generals Dumas and Chabannes , and other gentlemen connected with the household of the ex-King . Here
they remained , their numbers being augmented by others who arrived by a later train , until nine o ' clock , the time appointed for the commencement of the religious ceremony . Among the gentlemen present were the Prince Castelcicala , the Sicilian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ; M . Isturitz , the Spanish Minister ; M . Ribeiro , Portuguese Secretary of Legation ; M . Van de Weyer , Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for Belgium ; the Count de Jarnac , Mr . Raphael , M . P ., and Mr . CooperQ . C .
, Soon after Louis Philippe became the occupant of Claremont a temporary chapel was formed for celebrating the services of the Roman Catholic church , by partitioning off a portion of an apartment whichhad been previously used as a picture-gallery . The dimensions of this chapel , which is of an oblong form , do not exceed thirty feet by twenty feet , and considerable space is taken up by the altar with its paraphernalia . In the centre of the chapel a platform was raised , ascended by two steps each about half a foot in trestlesthe
height , upon which was placed , on , coffin containing the body of the ex-King . The coflin was surrounded by twenty-four lighted wax tapers , and was covered by a black velvet pall , fringed with silver , and in the centre of which a cross , extending the length of the coffin , was worked in silver . The walls of the chapel were hung with black cloth , and the external light was carefully excluded . On one side of the chapel a bench was placed for the accommodation of the Countess de Neuilly and the female relatives of the ex-Monarch ; hut the iraace within the chapel was so limited that
none but the members of the late King s family and their immediate attendants could be admitted withui its precincts . Seats were , however , placed in an adjoining room , into which a small door opened from the chapel for the strangers who attended the solemnity ; but they could merely catch a glimpse of the tapers burning on the altar , and hear occasionally the low tone of the officiating priest chanting in solemn cadence portions of the mass for the dead .
At nine o'clock precisely the celebration of mass commenced . Three masses were celebrated , the last being said by the Very Reverend Dr . Whitty , in which the Psalm Miserere was chanted , and the ex-Queen , the members of the Royal family , and the other persons present in the chapel , passed round the coffin , sprinkling it with holy water . The attendants then retired , and the Queen , with the Prince de Joinviile , the Dukes de Nemours and d'Aumale , and the immediate relatives of the late King remained
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THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO EDINBURGH . Friday was observed as a close holiday in Edinburgh ; and the shops being shut from an early hour , the town would have worn rather a sombre appearance than otherwise but for the crowds of welldressed people that thronged all the principal streetsthe principal stream of the population setting in towards Holyrood , in the hope of seeing her Majesty drive out , as it had been intimated that she meant to do .
At an earlier hour , however , than most people calculated upon—soon after ten o ' clock—the Queen , the Prince , and the four Royal children , accompanied by the Marchioness of Douro and Colonel Gordon , left the palace in two carriages , and drove round the new carriage drive that has within these few years been formed through the Queen's-park , and which has been named the Queen's-drive . They proceeded to the highest point attained by the road , at a place called Dunsapie , where the whole of the Royal party clambered up to the topmosfr peak of Arthur ' s Seat , and under a clear and brilliant atmosphere surveyed the magnificent panorama that was spread before them . They returned to the palace about half-past eleven , and fortunately their ascent to the summit
about 800 feet above the level of the sea—was not generally known , or at least the inhabitants had the good taste not to interrupt them , as very few persons at the time were about the hill . In the course of the day , while Prince Albert was laying the foundation-stone of the New National Gallery , the Royal children were taken in a carriage , accompanied by the Marchioness of Douro and Sir James Clark , to the Castle , and visited most of the objects of interest in that grim fortress . About four o ' clock in the afternoon , the Royal Family and suite again left the palace on a visit to Donaldson ' s Hospital—a magnificent new building , which was erected from funds left by a gentleman of that name , for the education of children .
Craig , Prince Albert addressed the Lord Justice-General and those more immediately around him .: — " Let us hope , " said his highness , " that the impulse given to the culture of the fine arts in this country , and the daily increasing attention , bestowed upon it by the people at large , will not only tend to refine and elevate the national tastes , but will also lead to the production of works which , if left behind us as memorials of our age , will give to after generations an adequate idea of our advanced state of civilization . It must be an additional source of gratification to me to find that part of the funds rendered available for the support of this undertaking should be the ancient grant , which , at the union of the two kingdoms , was secured towards the encouragement of the fisheries and manufactures of Scotland , it affords most leinproof that these important
as a pasg branches of industry have arrived at that stage of manhood and prosperity that—no longer requiring the aid of a fostering Government—they can maintain , themselves independently , relying upon their own vigour and activity , and can now in their turn lend assistance and support to their younger and weaker sisters , the fine arts . Gentlemen , the history of this grant exhibits to us the picture of a most healthy national progress : the ruder arts connected with the necessaries of life first gaining strength ; then education and science supervening and directing further exertions , and , lastly , the arts , which only adorn life , becoming longed for by a prosperous and educated people . May nothing disturb this progress , and may , by God ' s blessing , that peace and prosperity be preserved to the nation , which will ensure to it a long continuance of moral and intellectual enjoyment . "
This concluded the ceremony , and his Royal Highness almost immediately after returned to the Palace , followed by the acclamations of the multitude . The Royal Family left Edinburgh for Balmoral on Saturday morning . Her Majesty and Prince Albert descended the steps to the railway station arm-inarm , the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal walking by their side . The two young princes wore Glengarry bonnets , and were dressed in tartan kilts and
The only proceeding of a formal and public character which took place was the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the proposed National Gallery on the Mound . This ceremony was performed by his Royal Highness Prince Albert at one o ' clock , and drew together an immense concourse of spectators . The ceremony was a very fine one . Prince Albert was loudly cheered as he passed in procession along Prince ' s- street , attended by an escort of cavalry . On alighting at the Institution , a royal salute was fired from the frowning battlements of the castle , and with grand effect . The halfmoon battery opened its fire , and from that point battery after battery took up the salute in order , the flash of each report being visible several seconds before the sound was heard ,
plaids . Some change in the arrangements were ^ made on this journey—the two younger children did ^ accompany their Royal parents , but were taken in a separate carriage in the train by the Marchioness of Douro . Some uncertainty seemed to prevail respecting the particular compartment which they were to occupy , and they had occasion repeatedly to pass the royal carriage in search of a place , evidently to the amusement both of her Majesty and Lady Douro .
All preparations having been completed , the train started about twenty-five minutes to nine o ' clock , amidst the acclamations of the assembled crowd . A few hundred yards brought them to the central station at the north bridge , where they entered upon the Edinburgh and Glasgow line , where the Lord Provost was in waiting on the platform with several of the officials of that railway . In a few minutes the train entered the tunnel on the Earthen Mound amidst the cheers of the crowd assembled in that
and the smoke of the discharges as they took place being swept athwart the stern and warlike mass of the lofty old fortress till the mimic cannonade seemed to grow into a reality . On all sides , wherever the eye turned , countless multitudes of human beings were assembled . The whole space southward sloping upwards to the many storied houses of the old town was filled with a perfect sea of heads . On the flat roof of the Bank of Scotland , and on the graceful galleries of the Scott monument and far up on the battlements of the Castle , —in fact , everywhere whence
neighbourhood , and who gave the Royal party a parting cheer as they left the Edines . The train arrived at Greenhill , where it turned upon the Scottish Central Railway , at half-past nine o ' clock , and then proceeded by way of Bannockburn to Stirling and Perth , and finally arrived at Cupar-Angus , about half-past eleven . Here the Royal party entered the carriages which were there in waiting to receive them , and proceeded on their way to privacy and retirement at Balmoral .
a commanding view could be obtained , groups of spectators were clustered . The enclosed space had several stands erected within it ; one at the northern extremity of the new building connected with the Institution by a canopied passage , and set apart for the board of trustees and their friends . Through this , after the members of the board , and those of the Board for Fisheries , had been presented to him , his Royal Highness passed to the foundation-stone , recognizing and shaking hands on his way with Eteveral of the distinguished personages assembled there .
the success of the j > roposed edifice . Ihe Lord Justice-General then advanced , and , taking up the trowel , which he afterwards presented to the Prince , accompanying it with an address , in which he assured him that the people of Scotland rejoiced to 6 ee the Queen and her children reposing in the ancient palace of her ancestors , and to know that his Koyal Highness continues to manifest his predilection for { Scotland and its sports by his recent acquisition of n pmtion of its Highland territory . The usual masonic ritCR having been duly complied with by his Royal Highness , who was assisted by his O ]» ee the Duke of Bnucleuch , Sir George Clerk , Sir J « hn , Watson Gordon , and Sir William Gibson - ¦ A ' *
stoou lorwara , ana ottered up a iervent prayer ior On the west side of the area was another stand , capable of containing 1300 persons , and within which were also seated the magistrates and town-council , and the professors of the University in their robes . There was a platform south of this for the students attending the School of Design , and beyond some galleries left nearly untenanted , from the extravagant price charged for admission into them by a set of hungry speculators who bought up the tickets . Such being the preparations for the ceremony , the Prince Consort entered the area , and , amidst loud cheers , took his position close to the foundation-stone . The Reverend Dr . Lee , Principal of the University , then Btood forward , and offered up a fervent prayer for
The royal party arrived at Balmoral at a quarter to seven in " the evening . Coming after the bustle of Holyrood , the retirement of Balmoral cannot faU to be grateful to her Majesty . The district is thinly peopled , and the coming of royalty , therefore , failed to attract a large number of persons . About a dozen people were stationed at the entrance gate to greet her Majesty , a very few domestics were within the enclosures , and half-a-dozen , men in the Highland costume upon the lawn made up the whole assemblage .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 7, 1850, page 554, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1852/page/2/
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