the remodelled procession started, with a chimney-sweep driving the hearse advised by the regular driver, who was perched beside him, under close inspection, for the purpose and with a pieman, also attended by his cabinet minister, driving the mourning coach. a bear-leader, a popular street character of the time, was impressed as an additional ornament, before the cavalcade had gone far down the strand; and his bear, who was black and very mangy, gave quite an undertaking air to that part of the procession in which he walked.