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THE event of the week, the Royal Funeral, has tended to interrupt all ordinary movements at Court. The Queen's progress to recovery has been uninterrupted; and the last bulletin was issued on Thursday— "JAMES CLARK, M.D. CHARLES LOCOCE., M.D. ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D. " Her Majesty's recovery is so far advanced that no more bulletins will be

issued."

The calls and messages of inquiry at the Palace have been as nume- rous as ever.

Yeste rday, Prince Albert visited the exhibition of the Royal Aca- demy.

The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal have daily been carried out to take the air.

Visits have been exchanged between the Dutchess of Kent, the Queen Dowager, the Dutchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Cambridge, and Princ .. George.

The funeral of the Duke of Sussex, though conducted in what was called a private manner, converted Kensington for three days into a place as bustling as London. Even on the first day, Tuesday, crowds went to see the carpentry outside the Palace, in preparation for the spec- ticle—the lying-in-state and the funeral. The public were allowed to view the body as it lay in state on Wednesday ; the admission being given to all persons who were dressed in "decent mourning." From eight till ten, the inhabitants of Kensington were admitted ; from eight till four, the public at large. The crowd was immense; • but the excellent regulation of the police kept good order ; and, marshalled in ranks five abreast, and three abreast within the Palace, the people performed the circuit arranged for them without inconvenience. They entered the great gate, went through the Clock Court, up the grand staircase, where stood the Duke's piper in state uniform, and other attendants ; through an ante-room hung with black, lighted with wax tapers, guarded by more attendants ; into the saloon which contained the body. This room was hung with black cloth with escutcheons of the Duke's arms em- blazoned upon it, and dimly lighted with wax tapers. Fronting the entrance, and raised a few feet from the floor, the coffin, covered with a pall of black velvet with white silk facings. Upon the coffin was placed the Duke's coronet, and over it upon the wall was a large escutcheon with the Queen's arms emblazoned. On either side of the coffin were three massive silver candlesticks with enormous wax can- dles, by the light of which were seen the chief mourner, (one of the Duke's Equerries,) who sat in a raised chair at the head of the coffin ; on either side of the coffin stood a Herald and a Page. After passing quietly through the room, the visiters were directed through other rooms hung with black, and out by a wooden staircase built for the purpose, into Kensington Gardens. The great gates in Kensington were closed at four o'clock ; but it was a quarter past six before those who already had been admitted had passed through the Palace. The number of visiters is estimated at 25,000.

Thursday opened like a national holyday, , with a spice of gravity suited to "the mournful occasion "; the full sense of which probably fell almost exclusively on those officially concerned, includiug the re- porters of the daily papers. A slight lowering of the clouds early gave place to sunshine, vexation to radiant satisfaction. All London was out of town : Kensington became like Chcapside on Lord Mayor's Day ; a resemblance increased by the seats prepared for hire in the shops, and the closed shutters, or goods of business removed from the windows ; and all round the North-west of London along the line of the procession the same characteristics were observed ; while the fields abutting on the Harrow road were dotted with tents and refreshment-booths among the seats for spectators so that some fair seemed to be going forward: In London, the partially-closed shops, and crowds bent out or in as the hour was early or late, imparted a holyday air; and in the City, on the recommendation of the Lord Mayor, the tradespeople very generally closed their shops. The aspect of the multitude was typified by the procession itself: the long line of mourning-coaches, brought up by the hearse, formed a black patch in the cortege ; but in the dragoons who went before, with their military band, and in the Royal carriages behind, glowing with scarlet and gold, and the richly-caparisoned pri- vate carriages with their gay liveries, black was lost amid the brighter colours. No condition was imposed on admission to the streets; and mourning was any thing but predominant. The Police arrangements to keep in order the expected crowd of eager sightseers were admirable and perfectly efficacious. A strong body of Police was drawn across admirable, high-road on the London side of the en- trance to the Palace-avenue ; and on each side were stationed Policemen at intervals of ten yardsor less. The body of Police beside the entrains, "Buckingham Palace, 4th May, Nine a. m. " The Qtmen is convalescent.

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of the avenue, having once taken up their station, prevented the advance of the crowd behind ; and as the rear of the procession moved forward, the Policemen ranged on either side followed it, until, at an interval of some fifty yards, they formed a new barrier to prevent the advance of the crowd. Thus all spectators were limited to a short space about the station which they had at first taken up, and were in turn protected against a pressure from behind ; while a decorous ease and room were maintained for the procession itself.

The distinguished persons who had been invited to attend the funeral began to arrive at Kensington Palace before seven o'clock in the morning. Among the first was the Duke of Wellington ; who did not alight, but remained sitting in his carriage. Lord John Russell and Lord Howick arrived in the same carriage; Lord Palmerston and Lord Morpeth soon after. The Duke of Cambridge appeared at half-past seven, and by that time the arrivals became frequent. The arrangements for the ceremonial were under the direction of Earl Delawarr, Lord Chamber- lain, Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain, and the Garter King-at- Arms, assisted by Superintendent May, of the A Police Division. In front of the door were drawn up a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards, Blue, and a company of Foot Guards. The coffin was borne down the grand staircase by sixteen undertaker's assistants, and placed in the hearse. The procession began to be formed a little before eight o'clock; and it proceeded in the following order ; the band of the Dragoons playing at intervals the Dead March in Saul, and other solemn strains—

An advanced guard of the Royal Horse Guards, Blue. Four of the Queen's Marshalmen. en foot. in scarlet aufforms. Four Mutes on horseback, with silk scarfs and hatbauds.

A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, caparisoned with black velvet and feathers ; containing Messrs. Barnard and William Beckham, and Rangoon, three of his late Royal Highness's Pages. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses similarly caparisoned ; containing Mr. Ben- jamin Beckham, Mr. Hunnemann, and Mr. Dennis, three other of his late Royal Highness's Pages. A mourning coach, drawn by six horses; containing Mr. Savory and two other medical attendants of his late Royal Highness. A mourning coach, drawn by six homes; containing Doctors Chambers, Holland, and Copeland, Physicians to his lett! Royal Highness. A mourning coach, drawn by six horses: containing the Reverend John Sinclair, and the Rev. Harry Bober. Vicar and Curate of St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington. A mourning coach, drawn by six horses; containing the Honourable and Reverend Ainslie Gore, and two other Chaplains of his late Royal Highness. A mourning coach. drawn by six hoi ses; in which were two of the Equerries of the Royal Family. A mourning coach, rlrawu by six homes; containing Sir Andrew Barnard, Equerry of the Queen Dou neer.

A mourning coach, drawn by six horses; containing Colonel Grey aud Lord Charles Wellesley, Equerries of her Majesty the Queen.

A mourning coach, drawn by six horses ; iu which were Captain Sir W. H. Dillon, R.N. and Sir A. M•Donald, Bart . Equerries ot his late Royal Highness. A mourning coach, drawn by six horses; containing Messrs. J. Putman. Richmond Herald, Robert Laurie, Windsor Herald. Walter A. Blount, Chester Herald, and Albert W. Woods, Lancaster Herald.

A mourniug coach, drawn by six horses; containing the Marquisof Exeter and Colonel Hoover's, the Lord and Groom iu Waiting on his Royal Highoess Prince Albert. A mourning coach. drawn by six horses; in which were Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice' Chamberlain, and tire Lord and Groom in Waiting on the Queen.

The state carriage or his late Royal Higness, drawn by six horses.atteuded by grooms. the servants in deep mourulug. and wearing crape hatbands; in which was the coronet of his late Royal Highness, borne on a rich black velvet cushion, by Colonel Wild- man. K. H., one of the Equerries of his late Royal Highness, and accompanied by two Geutlemen Ushers to the Queen.

The band of the Royal Horse. Guards, Blue, followed by a troop of the same regiment, with their swords drawn.

THE HEARSE, containing the body of the late Duke of

Sussex, drawn by eight black horses, richly caparisoned with velvets and feathers, and adorned with the esco- cheats of his late Royal Highness's arms, having the motto, " Hoed soit qui oral y pease," and " Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos?"

A troop of the Royal Horse Guards.

A mourning coach, drawn by six horses, containing his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Chief Mourner ; attended by his two supporters, the Marquis of Lansdowne and the Marquis of Breadalbane.

The private state carriage oi her Majesty the Queen, drawn by six horses. The carriage or her Majesty the Queen Dowager, drawn by six horses.

The carriage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, drawn by six horses. The carriage of her Royal Highuess the Dutchess of Gloucester. drawn by six horses. The carriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, drawn by six horses. The carriage of her Royal Highness the Dutchess of Kehl, drawn by six horses. The carriage. of her Royal Higness the Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester,

drawn by six horses. A mourning coach, drawn by tax horses ; containing Colonel Tynte and Mr. Walker, Controller of his late Royal Highness's Household, two of the Executors named in the will of his late Royal Highness. A pr-hate carriage, containing Sir Augustus D'Este. Then followed, in their private carriages, his Grace the Duke of 'Wellington. the Earl of Arran, the Marquis Clauricarde. the Earl of Rosebery. the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Yarborough, the Earl of Zealand, Earl For' league. Lord John Russell, Lord Howick, Viscount Palmerston. Viscount Morpeth, Lord Frederick Gordon, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord Duucanuon, Lord Nugent, Lord Cottenham, Lord Dunmore, Lord Marcus Hill, Lord Scarborough, Lord Templetown, Lord Dinorben, (one of his late Royal Highness's Executors,) Baron Rothschild, Sir Moses Montefinre. Count Kielmansegge, Sir Isaac Golds. mid, Lord Dudley Stuart, Lord F. G. Hallburton, Earl of Carbery, Hon. H. Mur- ray, Hon. E. Ellice, Hon. C. Tennyson D'Eyuecourt, Chevalier Hebeler, Sir Ben- jamin Hall, the Dean of Ely, Colonel Fox, Major Meade. &c. The procession was closed by a small detachment of the Ros al Horse Guards.

The procession was about a mile in length. Its progress was slow and measured, with occasional stoppages ; but towards the end of the Journey it was rather more rapid. It passed by the prescribed route along the High Street of Kensington, up Church Lane, back along the Uxbridge Road, down Black Lion Lane, by Westbourne Green, into the Harrow Road, and so to Kensal Green. The ground in front of the Cemetery Chapel was railed off, and some two or three thousand spectators were congregated at the spot ; the road without the ground being occupied by a multitude. A party of Grena- dier Guards was stationed as a guard of honour under the colonnade of the left wing of the chapel. At nine o'clock the bell began to toll; and soon afterwards arrrived the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharnaffe, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, Mr. Goulburn, Lord Delawarr, the Bishop of Norwich, Sir Edward Knatchbull, the Earl of Jersey, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Sutherland, the Earl of Denbigh, Lord Ingestre, Sir William Martins, and others. They were received in an ante-room erected for the occasion. Prince Albert ar- rived at twenty minutes to ten, in a carriage and four, with outriders in scarlet liveries: he looked pale and ill. Prince George of Cambridge, the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Prince Edward of Saxe- Weimar, followed. *

Escort of Royal Horse Guards.

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Escort of Royal Horse Guards.

About half-past ten, the funeral procession entered the main avenue; the cavalry forming on each side of the portico. Half an hour elapse before the mourning coaches set down their freight. The coffin was removed from the hearse, borne to the portico by sixteen attendants, and covered with black velvet pall blazoned with the Duke's arms. The procession was then formed in the following order the Pages filing off as it entered the chapel ; which was too small to admit the whole num- ber—

Pages of Isis late Royal Highness. Medical Attendants of his late Royal Memos. The Curate of Kensington. Vicar of Kensington. Secretary. Librarian, Re. of Isis late Royal 1 li;Imess. • Chaplains id' his late Royal Ilighness. Equerry of her Royal Highness the Dutehess of Kent (Sir George Cooper. Bart.)) Equerry of her Royal Highness the Dun:hese ot Gloucester (Sir Samuel G. Giggles, K.C.H.) Equerry of his Royal Highness the Duke. ef Cambridge. Equerries of the Queen Dowager. Equerries of the Qrreeri.

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Groom in Waiting Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness to his Riled Hislmess Prince Albert. Priuce Albert.

Groom in Waiting to the Queeen. Lord in Waiting to the Queen. herald.

The Chaplain to the Cemetery. The Bishop of Norwich.

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The Master of the Horse to the Queen The Lord Steward (Earl of Jersey.) (Earl of Liverpo 1.) Ilerald.

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Gaiter Principal King of Arms, (Sir C. Young.) carrying his sceptre.

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in a long black cloak, with the star of the Order the Garter embroidered thereon, and wearing the collar f that Order. His train borne by one of Iris Royal Higliness'a Equerries.

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in a bug black cloak, with the star or the Order of the Garter embroidered thereon.

and wearing the collar of that Order, attended by his Royal Highness's Groom of the Stole, (Marquis of Exeter,) and Treasurer. (Mr. G. E. Anson); the train of his Royal Highness borne by one of the Equerries of Iris Royal Highness, (Colonel Bouverie.)

Mrs ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE GEoRGE OF CAMBRIDGE,

in a long black cloak, with the star of the Order of the Garter embroidered thereon, and wearing the collar of that Order. his train home by a Gentleman.

His Royal Highuess Prince Frederick, HeiediLary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-

Strelitz ; his train borne by a Gentleman.

The Executors named in the will of Iris late Royal Highness, (Lord Diuorben. Colonel Tynte, and Mr. Walker.) The Duke of Wellington. Sir Robert Peel, Duke of Bucelench, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Stanley. Earl of Haddington, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey, Earl of Ripon, and the other Cabinet Ministers.

Personal Friends of his late Royal Highs.ess ;

Among whom were the Duke of Somerset, Duke of Bedford, Duke of Devonshire. Earl of Zetland, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Duiscannon, Lord John Russell, &e.

Staff of the Artillery Company.

The Duke of Cambridge took his seat on a chair at the bead of the corpse, with supporters on each side. The Princes of the Royal Family, with the Hereditary Grand Duke of Meeklenburg-Strelitz, sat near the chief mourner. The Lord Chamberlain took his place at the feet of the corpse. The supporters of the pall stood on each side of the coffin, on which was placed the coronet of the late Duke, resting upon a black velvet cushion. The executors and the trainbearers stood be- hind the Princes of the Royal Family. The Officers of State and others composing the procession were arranged on either side of the chapel. The usual burial-service was read by the Bishop of Norwich ; the Chap- lin of the Cemetery repeating the responses. At the conclusion of the second lesson, the coffin was lowered, by machinery used for the pur- pose, several feet into the vault prepared for its reception ; leaving the coronet, which rested upon it, only visible. At the conclusion of the ceremony, Garter King of Arms pronounced the sty le and titles of his late Royal Highness, as is usual at the interment of Princes of the Blood Royal.

The ceremony completed, the private carriage of the Duke of Cam- bridge was called, and his 'Loyal Highness entered it with his sup- porters, and departed for town. Prince Albert followed : it is observed that he seemed the most affected of any at the funeral. The Duke of Wellington walked down the hill to his carriage. The Bishop of Nor- wich next departed ; and then the rest of those who had taken part in the procession, but in no order. The whole was over by a quarter to twelve o'clock.

The return of the crowd towards London was checked by the Police until the whole of the persons composing the procession had repassed. By that means, the day went off without accident or mischance of any kind ; many of those who had been drawn out of town remaining to finish their holyday with what amusement they might. On the whole, though not mournful, the behaviour of the multitude was sober and de- cent throughout.