THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE SIR EVERARD HOME.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 868, 26 November 1853, Page 4

THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE SIR EVERARD HOME.

From the Sydney Morning Herald, November s.]' Yesterday the funeral of the late very generally respected Sir Everard Home took place, in accordance with an announcement in a Government Gazette Eztraor dinar y, published on Thursday last, in the following terms :—: — Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, November 3, 1853. His Excellency the Governor- General, with feelings of deep regret, announces to the public the decease, on the Ist instant, of Captain Sir James Everard Home, Bart., C.8., commanding Her Majesty's ship CalUope; and senior naval officer on the Australian station. The Funeral procession will move from the Circular Quay to-morrow, at half- past ten o'clock a.m.'; and His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, with a desire to show every possible respect to the memory of' the deceased, directs that the public offices be closed, and invites all officers of the Civil Government to attend. By His Excellency's command. E. ; DEAS THOMSON. The regret expressed in the GoverndriGeneral's announcement appeared to be very generally shared in by the citizens of Sydney.' The hope we yesterday Ventured to' express/ that due respect would be evinced on this'oc'casion was fully borne out; Almosi without' exi ception,'not only the shops and ordinary places of business were shut, but we were glad to' remark that the houses of entertainment were 'almost'universally closed in the' whole line of" the way to the cemetery. ' ' ,^ The inhabitants of Sydney assembled in far greater numbers than we ever remember to" have witnessed on any other occasion, to see this interesting ceremony. Throughout the whole' course of the piocession,- the streets" were : lined with people', and the windows, balconies," ?arfd even the roofs' of many houses were- thronged. Every decorous propriety, and every manifestation of respect were evinced throughput'; 1 and attributing as we must on all such 'occasions, a considerable portion of the excitement exhibited to the spirit of curiosity,'* which wilPever prevail in popular communities when such-popular'de-monstrations are made, x we' cannot'but consider the general demeanor of tbtfCity'y'estfrilay, -as most appropriate and f becoming— deserving *of the Occasion, and worthy of itself. 1 .*-''•• ' Comparatively little' known"™ the popular ienseofth'e word, the late ;Sir li Everard cbm^' mandea "deep and 'even affectioriafe is teem'; from .those who knew bitf'.weft This feeling .ex--' tended very widely in the Jower/janKs I 'of those' over whom ne held ; coramW^ ( and, • through' ■their ag'enpy, an almost'^^uWersal rtntiment J '6f reereV was" experienced* 'on the' announcement of his 'decease. , r . - It is satisfactory to know that such a feeling' should exist here —that the quiet mefjt;" t'Ke sterlWg worth of tbeflate lamented officer' stiduld meet with" the 'appreciation 1 of a' community -like' this. I't'isVmaUer ;of;itiliygreaier J satisfaotiqn' (and ' would ' be so,' we'^are sure^in the mind, of the* deceased, 1 if he' were yet amongst 1 us)/to see. how'>eartily;' how' cordially when genuine worth is concerheiJ', the spirit of, this- cornrnpnit"y f recpgnises^ the "services ( of .officers of the' British' Gdvernment^'andJ respects even the' long ( accustomed pomp and.'ceiiemdny' of British customs. . t ■ , I „, . - . j . -, , „ The' funeral, of , yesterday", was as a.who^e fraught with instrpction , to the.c'qlony. f^"o lose

great and serviceable men involves, An t the * ent *" ments it inspires one of those' prrnciple*, by the observance 6f which the British GonJtitation has been gradually established and maintained ; and to recognise worth, morally, intellectually, or socially, is a forward step iri'the path of in»italion of. the 'glorious institutions ofjthe mother, country. , r :••,<• In addition, therefore,, to. the memory of hi^ own worth, . Sir Everard Home, baa bequeathed to us ,an additional legacy, in tbeoppprtunity, he afforded as of manifesting how .deeply we , can appreciate the value of tboie institutions of. our fatherland which assist and advance us, and which in this instance we have made our own. There are many phases in which this subject might be viewed and considered ; but the, dis-. cussion of them would be out of place here, and .we would not throw any divergent thought into, the prayer beartfully .offered ,up by throngs of spectators of the ceremony of yesterday. — " We give Thee hearty .thanks for that it has pleased" Thee to deliver .this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world." The morning of the funeral broke most beautifully — all the signs of inclement weather which had been exhibited the previous night bad disappeared, and the< waters of the harbour placid and übd undisturbed, reflected only the bright sun, and mirrored their sister shining firmament above. There were few, we may almost say no boats, afloat to witness the ceremony of the deportation of the corpse of the gallant officer from the vessel, but this is to be accounted' for from the anxiety which prevailed every where to view the land procession. Strictly to the moment the boats of the naval squadron had assembled round 1 the Calliope, and the reflective and serious deportment both of officers and men were unmis-' takeable tokens of the respect in which he was" held, whose funeral rites they were called on to' assist in. Precisely at ten o'clock the coffin of the late Sir Everard Home was, lowered into the pinnace of ihe Calliope, 'and the procession on the water assumed the following order in slow time to the Circular Quay :— - , Calliope's first<cutter, c «{*.£> , «;:§« & ' !lS?|g ' •"** I|J;IJ . a ** fc^ 3! ' a j< a> jj *-§ J- £•$ , Valliope't Pinnace, IS, g % g-g, •■ S S"-"g« with the.Coffin. | .*• .* 5a „, *. . ? Fantome'si galley. . *•*• . •, The water procession was' brought up by the galley i of' the 1 - Faritome, with Captain- Gennfs,' who baa taken the command of the squadron' here, as senior'officer, ; and as" the boats cleared her broadside, the Calliope commenced 'to fire a salute of twenty guns. The Calliope's boats were under command of Lieutenant Morgan, the Fantome's under Lieutenant Compton.' ' •f , . . The serenity of the weather allowed the boats to form with beautiful" precision ; and although certainly a large attendance of ships boats 'might j have been expected, but which however did not take place, its progress from the Calliope} to the Circular Quay was solemn and imposing. 1! Drawn up in file to iTeceive'the corpse was a large body of the military with' colours folded and the military band with drums muffled. ' Amongst those who proceeded to the wharf to receive the corpse we noticed the hon. Colonial Secretary; Major-General Sir Robert Nickle, the hon, the Speaker of the Legislative Council, the officers of the Commissariat and Ordnance Departments, Colonel Bloorafield,ahd the Officers of the Garrison,' Colonel Barney, Captain M'Lean, and many other civil officers ; — the various foreign consuls (in uniform), and the chaplains of the' Calliope] supported by the Rev. Messrs. Walsb, Milner, and Druitt. ; The police arrangements for ' keeping the ! ground clear for the reception of^ the' body, and' forming the procession, were admirable, and large as the crowd' assembled ,was,' no unseemly ,inter-", inter-" ruption or disturbance took place. , ' ' , ' . The gun carriage on which tb'e coffin was to be conveyed to its place of^interment^ was a light one belonging to, the ship, and was' stationed ai the" WatermWs Stairs', "at the 71 Circular' The tide f beirig at its height," there was npJifficulty in removing the coffin from' ,the pinnace to the carriage,' after which the pioqession iramedi-' ately formed in' the following' order:—. v' ) \ !,' ■' •, I T3T 3 " o ?^' ' M "i ■'' i »» ' f |' '; ■ "' "Faring party. _ \, "/'>.. , | ' Bandrof 11th Regiment, 'J' -, - : Chaplains and Surgeons/ - 5 > i . 1 f Pali^bfearers.^^ i . _, „ , , . . ,m, « I Lieutenant -lies- ■ M bearers. The Corpse, Royal MaMr. Weaver.Pay- with hat and j ri^ a J , master of the Iswordandordara .^-j^ 'jjaal Calliope., j drawn by twenty- 1) ■, ter < , ,orf 'r Lieut. Ward > , four seamen of , Calliope - * ' Lieut. Morgan ' | the Calliope. J Liiit J,, Acheroni -•. I . - '. . .Field Piece. -• . '-"-•• RelieTing .party of twenty-fouri setmen of < the Calliope. I ' Chief Mournprs. , Midshipmen of the' ship'Calliope. ' Marines/ four abreast. "■ ' ,' Seamen of the Calliope, four abreast. - Seamen of the .Pantpme, .font abreast; ■ ' > ,-{ Seamen ofjthe Torch, four-ahreast. , t , , i. i Warrant Officers of the- Calliope, f twoj abreast. -j , Officers 'of tKe ,Army and -Nary, two, abreast. , r ' The Junior Officers "first. ' \*\ Civilians. ' ' ' ' '; *i ; J , - Carriages.' 1 '/ '- ■> ■.> <"> -'■ Amongst those- who' joined'- in the prbcessioni we"'may "'mention, 'in addition ' to the names' we H have 'already- recorded, nis' Honor* Sir' Alfred' 'Stephen, Chief Justice ;''his hotfor'-Mr'. : Justf; cc ' Th'erry/ T tKe r honorable- Attorney. Genera) f ' c l-'SolicitbriGfeneral, the Colle'ctbr'of Customs, '^he "Postmast'eri and seve'ral^oT tKe leading irierchaiiis. r bf the city.; ; l ' -" : \,;' \'- "1 "'"'^\~^ The procession haying' b^.'en t formed' iq, l du^ order,, the' 'Military Bahd'Tsomra'enced to play^tne'. Dead' March in Saiil^ whioV was, continued .at intervals' throughout, the progress, of the solemnity^ On' arrival at Cb'r/ist Church,!the corpse ,yas carried in by a rJafty t 6f the ' appointed .bearers' SQppo: ting the pall 1 . ' , /', " f. The vChurcb, under the excellent' arrangements , yimde, though Veil filled.^yfasnojroy^rcrowded. \" TheßevJ Cannon .Walsh^iajmed l]ne jfuneral psalms, ( whicH; we're "chavnted by, ' Vte choir^of the; church ; and. the lessons were read very impres-, 'sively, by tttfe Rev., George Carwi'then, chaplaiii.of \ht T 'CaUiojpe. f ' , r^ ." , ; , " f ;} ( , , The service having, been concluded, <( tjie coffin, was conveyed out'pf Churci, the- oxgan,playjijg ,

the bead MaTcb \\n Saul, arid the original order df the procession was resumed.' " ' J , At the Cemetery the congregation , of people, was immense, although, the strictest order and propriety prevailed 'throughout. ' " The service was read' at the. gf are (a plaiiv. oue, amidst many simple , tomb* decked butjtf; the rough bewn stone,, or mouldering, heaps, and theflowers that kind and lbting hands badplanted,> by the Her. G: Garwithen; chaplain of the * -ease], who evidently laboured tinder^deetfemotion^ Amongst the rougher portion of the.crowd too we couk' not but hear the tokens of distressful grief, and Si Everard Home did uot at least go to hi* Ion? resi' ™ Australia, withoat many "a tear to Se his obsequies." Three volleys were fired over the « »w by the military, after which the; ttoops naval /^d aiKhfy returned to garter, in^ the same order «» *bich they The flags of V»e ves*?l>» the. bafbour were.at half-mastaill tt- ceremony vr3so^er,»n* W Government office* were ,« lb»6.ghout tbs-