MEMORIAL SERVICE IN LONDON. April 10.—An impressive memorial service for Cecil Rhodes was held in St. Paul's Cathedral in the afternoon, coincident with the hour of the burial of Mr. Rhodes in the Matoppo Hills. The cathedral was packed, and large, quiet crowds of people who were unable to secure admittance gathered outside the railings.

King Edward was represented by Gen. Godfrey Clerk, his Majesty's groom-in-waiting, and Lieut. Col. Carington represented the Prince of Wales.

United States Ambassador Choate, J. Pierpont Morgan, the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, (Colonial Secretary,) the Duke of Abercorn, (Chairman of the British Chartered South Africa Company,) Earl Grey, (a Director of the South Africa Company,) Viscount Knutsford,(ex-Colonlal Secretary,) Earl Roberts, the Duke of Fife, Lord Tweedmouth, the Right Hon. St. John Brodriek. (Secretary of State for War,) the Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, (ex-Home Secretary,) Lord James of Hereford, (ex-torney General,) the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, (Government leader in the House or Commons,) the Right Hon. Charles T. Ritchie,(Home Secretary,) Lord Halsbury, (Lord High Chancellor,) and other members of the Cabinet and of the nobility; Lady Sarah Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Stead, Gen. Booth of the Salvation Army, the Vice Chancellor of Oxford, and the Dean of Oriel College, (representing the university) and the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London, the corporation officials, and all the Colonial Agents General were present to pay their last tribute of respect to the dead.

Preaching in the City Temple, Dr. Joseph Parker said people had always been accustomed to think of Mr. Rhodes as an adventurer, an unscrupulous financier, and a shadv character. But now opinion had changed. Though it was difficult for him to understand so gigantic a man, who thought in mllliions and summed up his calculations in astronomical and bewildering calculations, he admired Mr. Rhodes's honestv in making no profession of religion in his will. Thirty or forty vears must pass before Cecil Rhodes would be completely understood.

The Mining Department of the Stock Exchange closed for an hour yesterday while the service at St. Paul’s, which was attended by many stock brokers, was in progress.