"Who? Who?" asked the old Duke, as, hand to ear, he strove to identify the unfamiliar names, and "Who? Who?" became the title of the new Government. Weak as it was, however, and holding office as it did on sufferance only, the Derby Ministry was able to prepare and carry a Militia Bill which satisfied even so critical an expert as the Iron Duke himself. [Illustration: _Louis Haghe._} {_From the Royal Collection._ THE FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON PASSING APSLEY HOUSE, November 18, 1852.] [Sidenote: Death of the Duke of Wellington.] Brief as was the duration of the Derby Ministry it outlived the days of one of its warmest friends. The Duke of Wellington drew his last breath at Walmer Castle on September 14, 1852. To say that he was the most popular individual in the United Kingdom would be to apply a term which perhaps, of all others, he would have relished least; but without doubt "the Duke" was the best beloved. The first soldier in Europe, thirty-seven years of peace had not dimmed the lustre of his great renown in war, nor prevailed to make the nation forget his services in the hour of England's greatest need. If, as a statesman, he could not command the same unanimous meed of "Well done!" he had established a standard of public life too often obscured in the heat of party strife. Vittoria, Salamanca, Talavera, Waterloo--the radiance from those far off conflagrations still glowed round that venerable head, but it was the honest purpose, bluntly spoken and fearlessly acted on, that won for Wellington a place in the hearts of his countrymen far more enduring than the reward of any commander, however successful--of any orator, however powerful. [Illustration: _J. Leech._} {_From "Punch."_ THE PROTECTION GIANT. "Fee, fi, fo, fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman! Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread!" (Mr. Punch's idea of the policy of Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli.)] [Illustration: THE WELLINGTON MONUMENT IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, AS IT IS TO BE WHEN COMPLETED. From a Photograph taken in the Cathedral, to which the statue has been added from the sculptor's model in the Architectural Court of the South Kensington Museum. The lower illustration represents the sarcophagus in the Crypt which contains the body of the Duke; the Funeral Car is also preserved in the Crypt. The tomb in the background is that of Nelson.] [Sidenote: The Haynau Incident.]