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The arrangements made for Cardinal Newman's funeral are very simple.

By his own request, he is to be buried in the vault at Rednal (a few miles from Birmingham), by the side of his old and dear friend who worked with him during the cholera attack of 1848,—Father Ambrose St. John,—the colleague whose death wounded Cardinal Newman's profoundly affectionate heart more deeply, perhaps, than any loss he ever incurred, and plunged him into the deepest grief. From Tuesday evening to Wednesday evening, the Cardinal lay in state in the Oratory Church, in his full pontifical robes. The funeral sermon is to be preached by Bishop Clifford, of Clifton. Let us hope that it will be marked by the simplicity and reality of Cardinal Newman's own thought.

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