Show BURIAL OF GRAND DUKE Elaborate Funeral of Czarowitz at st Petersburg WITH POMP AND SPLENDOR 4 LAID TO DST I CLOT GOLD LINED WITH ERMINE + Remains Were Folowea By Dues Duchesses Princes zud rncess4 es Together With Generals and Representatives of All ranches of BoyaityAU TheatresClosed New York July 26Th St Petersburg correspondent of the Held describing the funeral of the czarowlz says The dowager empress accompanied by the grand dukes and grand duchesses and attended at-tended by Mite Ozerof her maid of honor hon-or COunt Benketdort and Admiral Lo man arrived on the 19th Inst at Novo Rosleysk and embarked on the Ironclad St George The vessel left for Batoum followed by a convoy of the Black sea fleet On the arrival of the vessels at Batoum the St George alone entered the harbor the other vessels remaining outside The entire Back sea fleet had assembled to pay the last honor to the defunct hered ltl grand duke The vessels were drawn up In a doule line that extended all the way from Batoum to 1ovoRosle sk and the St George with her august passen gent and the body of the prince passed down the center The shroud was of cloth of gold lined with bordered ermine The military service around the coln at the train and at Sl was performed by Generals Bblcof and Icolalfthe later a colonel of the regiment ot the Chevalier gardsand by otcers and noncommls cloned officers of a delegation sent to Abbas T l by t ed regiments of which the hereditary grand duke was chief and by sailors belonging to the Grand Duke Constantine lcolale1tchs marine corp who accompanied him to St Petersburg 01 the arrival of the imperial traIn at St Petersburg at j ocock on Monday evening the emperor and grand dukes In person carried the coffin to a catafalque or cloth of gold drawn by eIght horses that awaited I Four generals laid over It a shroud of cloth of gold covered with ermine The entire court and administra ton took part In the procession which also i4clttded detachments ot marine guards and reprctenatves of all Insttu lions member of which the late grand duke was a An Imposing Display In front of the catafalque mas carried on a cushion of cloth of gold the numerous numer-ous decorations of the deceased prince His Hag oflicer from tile imperial stables led his favorite horse clad with black cloth trappings A large boy of clergy among them the grand dukes almoner preceded by the choir of the Imperial chapel beating lighted tapers walked Im mediately In front of the catafalque the cords bt which were held by the highest state functionaries Immediately behind the ctafalque came the emperor followed by Baron Freer Icksz the court marshal and General Hesse the head of the emperors military household The Grand Duke Michael Alcxandrolch came next walking alone Then came the Grand Duke Alexis Scr gins Paul Michael Nlcol and his sons the Grand Dukes Alexander Gorge dP 5cr I r gins 1 the I Grand Dukes Nicholas l and Peter lcolahich the Grand Duke Constantine and Dimitr Constantnovlch the Duke Eugene and George of Leuchteberg Princes Alexander and Peter of Olden bur amI the Prince ot Alenburg These wee followed by the suites of the emperor em-peror the grand dukes and the princes After the mourners on foot there came In Afer pen carriage draped In black cloth attired In deep mourning and attended at-tended by two cosacks of the chamber in black cloth liveries the emprcss mother wIth her two daughters the Grand Ditch l duE essea ema anti uiga I eses In a second carriage rode the Grand Duchess Marie Paulovena the Grand I Duchess Elizabeth Feorovna the Grand Duchess Alexander Josefovna and the I Grand Duchess Elizabeth Iariklevna wife of the Grand Duke Constantine Con stantinovitch The third carriage contained slanUnovlch tamed the Grand Duchess Iltza Nica lena and the Grand Duchess aldemar mlrovna In the fourth carriage were the Princess Anastasia lcolana Romanof sky the Duchess of LCchtenberg Princes Prin-ces Eugene of Oldenbur and Princess Helena of Atenburg Ladies and Maids Then came a long Inc at carriages containing con-taining grand ladies of the court and maids of honor of the empress and grand duchdssOs LaStly on foot two by two were members of the guard who accompanied accom-panied the funeral procession to the fortress Here the metropolitan alere or St Petersburg and Ladoga celebrated a solemn sol-emn funeral mass In the presence of the imperial family and court To emperor ImDeral and grand dukes carried the coln Into the church and deposited It beneath an Immense das which was covered with cloth or gold Four generals aides de camp removed the lid or the coffin and cmll laid It on a table covered with cloth ot silver specially prepared They then covered the lower part of the body of the ermine grand duke with cloth of gold lined with A guard at honor consisting of a generals gener-als aide de camp an aide de camp to the I emperor two chamberlains and two gen empeor tiemen ot the bedchamber four officers and two noncommissioned officers of the guard will watch the coffin day and night while the body lies In state during three days All the theatres and places of amuse den mont will be closed and all music forbid |