The King is dead—a gallant soldier and brave monarch fell when King Humbert of Italy wes foully assassinated. Tu Europe there is stately sorrow—purple mourning, as who should say—and the expression of this sorrow extends far. has _not been wanting in Shanghai, for on Thursday morning solemn mass for the repose ofthe dead King's soul was performed at St, Joseph's Church, French Settlement.
The occasion was sombre—sombre a9 the heavy hangings that draped the church. Only against this stond. out the gay eoloars of the Italian flag which covered the cata fal que, and the vestments of the priest. The Italian residents in Shanghai were there, headed by their Consul, Chevalier E. Ghi: but beyond them were numbers of other ities, crowding the building. The were other Consuls present too—Mr, Pelham L. Warren (Great Britain), Mr. John Goodnow (United States), Mz. N. Laptew (Russia), Comte de Bezaure (France), and Mr. F. Hagberg (Sweden and Norway), in addition to whom were Mr. E. A. Hewett (Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council), Major Brodie A. Clarke (Commanding'S.V.C.), Major Cecil Holliday, Caprain Heyn (German Ca.), Lieut. F.'S, Jacoct (U.S. Ca.), Taotai Yi, Mr. Wong (Magistrate), and the officers of the Mised Court, and many others. Italian bluejacket: ined the nave of the church.
No jot of the full solemnity and ben: of the Roman Catholic requiem was The fine band of H.IM.S. Fieram cA played Pergolesi's '*Siciliana" Funer March, and thus introduced came the mass, Sung by a full choir, the Rev. F. C. Colombel ofticisting. Finally, as the service ended, came Verdi's lovely " Religiosy, played by the band, and those who mourned fora King came out again into the sun,
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