NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Oralcran and courtly habit forbade the nerve requisite for car- rying out Queen Adelaide's simple request., to be interred without pomp or state : the copy of her request to that effect was published in the Gazette, and followed by a programme of the "procession," no doubt with abated pomp, but still with some remains of state. It was a compromise with the Queen's wish. The ten sailors of the Royal Navy whom she desired to "carry" her coffin to the grave were allowed to push the platform on which the coffin rested ; the guard of honour was not absent. Nevertheless, the unbidden pomp did not prevent a very general expression of the spontaneous public feeling, which eagerly manifested respect for the departed. In the striking and affecting declaration ap- pended to her will, she says that she died at peace with all the world, grateful for the kindness she had received : certainly all the world reciprocated those feelings.
