shipping at the wharves and in the harbor displayed their colors at half-mast.  Never did a more general, spontaneous, heartfelt sadness oppress a whole people, or manifest itself in a more touching manner.  The news was telegraphed in all directions, and from every part of the State came back responses showing that the whole people felt as deeply as the citizens of San Francisco, the loss they had sustained:  But sorrow was not suffered to expend itself in respectful but unsubstantial mourning emblems; and while a great multiture, from five o’clock in the afternoon to a late hour in the night, were slowly and sadly passing through the room in Montgomery Block in which their friend lay cold in death, taking a last look at that face long so familiar upon the streets, but soon to be seen no more on earth; a Committee was appointed by the citizens, consisting of Messrs Macondry, Park and Patterson, to receive subscriptions for the benefit of the widow and six young children of Mr. King, left but slenderly provided for.  The object was nobly accomplished, and the sum of thirty thousand dollars placed in trust for them.  The claim for the widow and the fatherless having been thus met; a sterner duty was believed to rest upon the citizens of San Francisco.  Formal and deliberate trials of the two prisoners in the hands of the Vigilance Committee were held by the Executive Committee as provided by the Constitution; and the evidence introduced and the result arrived at were laid before the Board of Delegates for its concurrence or disapproval.  Extraordinary precautions were adopted in and about Head Quarters.  The number of men on duty within and outside of the building was largely increased.  A full company of horse patrolled Sacramento Street day and night.  At a block or two above the Rooms, a company of infantry was drawn up in double rank across the street.  Any one wishing to visit the Rooms for any purpose, was required to pass to the centre of the company where two soldiers with crossed muskets barred the way until he had given the password.  Everywhere evidence was presented that the measures to be adopted had been thoroughly matured; the means abundantly provided, and that the results would be wrought out with quiet but inflexible determination.

On Thursday, the 22d of May, the day broke in clouds over the City; but by ten o’clock, the clouds had dispersed, and amid sunshine and soft airs the hours stole on.  The funeral of Mr. King was appointed to take place at twelve o’clock.  Great crowds had poured into the City from all parts of the State, and the streets were black with the masses.  Preparations were making by almost every society in the City for attending the funeral; and but for another call upon the citizens, it is probable that full two thirds of the men of San Francisco would have taken part in the procession, or looked on from the sidewalks.  No such demonstration of profound mourning was ever before witnessed in California.  The services