ALLA SACRA MEMORIA DEL RÈ GALANTUOMO

The piazza in front of the church presented a grand coup d'œil, with ail the houses hung in black and white, the national colours waving from the balconies, great flagstaffs planted as thick as forest trees ail round the square, which was lined with a picked body of military, among which were the king’s Life Guards in their picturesque white uniform with mail breastplates and helmets. These formed a hollow square round the processionists as the principal bodies filed into the church, and the rest who could not enter filled the great piazza to overflowing.

A fabulous sum had been spent on the décorations of the Panthéon for the occasion, and the resuit was beyond ail doubt impressive in a high degree, notwith-