The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-27 00:00:00

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RE-OPENING A CIWRCIL—On Sunday last the
parish church of Burton, l'etworth, was re-opened for
divine service, after being closed for 150 years. Burton
House has been the scat of a Roman catholic family
for nearly two centuries. The parish church is situate in
the park in close contiguity to the mansion, and from the
influence of the priesthood was closed. The building was
' nearly gone to ruin, but the late intolerant spirit of popery
aroused the protestant feeling of the neighbourhood, and a
liberal subscription was entered into to renovate it, and
supply the necessary appliances for the carrying on of
public worship. This work having been eompleted, the
church was opened on Sunday last—Brighton Gazate.
SERRA'S DEE ALCATION OF A LIVERPOOL MER-
CHANT.—Fer some days past, rumours have been prevalent
that one of the members of an e ate nsive dry-salter), firm in
Liverpool, connected with some of ttr, largest chemical
works in the United Kingdom, has misappropriated sums
to the amount of 50,0001., and left the kingdom There is
reason to believe that the principal of one of the firms in
the west of Scotland, 'motel'', though not immediately,
connected with that to which the defaulter belonged, but
1 with whose house a considerable amount of business was
transacted, has generously offered to make good all defi-
ciencies, provided the defaulter will enter into a bond not to
return to this country. Of course many vague rumours
' are in circulation, but it is quite certain that as regards the
commercial standing of the houses referred to, the sum
above named, although considerable, will have scarcely the
slightest effect on their credit or future proceedings.
SALE Or RARE AND CURIOUS BOOKS.—MeaerS.
Sotheby and Wilkinson, of Wellington-street, have just
concluded the sale of some very curlew' books, of peculiar
interest at the present time. Among them may be enume-
rated as especially decrying attention, Lot 408, John
Davis's " The Worldes Ilydrographical Description,"
' wherein is proved that the warble in all his zones is habi-
table and inhabited ; and that from Eneland there is a
short and speedie passage into the South Seas (to China,
• I Molucea, Pbillipiva, and India), by northerly navigation.
T. Dawson, 159,5. The present copy of this rare work
claims additional interest from its being presented to Henry
Prince of Wales, the eldest son of James 1., whose arms aro
oa the vellum covers ; and also as possessing a folio sheet
•In the autograph of the author, containing " Motives for
ordering a project for the discoverie of th • North Pole
. terresteal, the Straights of Anian, into the South Seas and
coasts thereof." Bought for an American Collector, at 21/.
• I —Lot 281, " The Holy Bible, with Cranmer's Preface, !
called the Bishop's Bible," 1568, imperfect, SI. lie. fad.—
Lot 282, " King Edward Vl.'s Second Book of the English '
• Liturgy," by Grafton, 1552, wanting one leaf, and with
another in MS., 191.—Lot 283, " Common Prayer," being !
, the second edition of the Liturgy published in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, as far as when first issued from the press
of Jugge and Ilawood, in 1559, and in the original binding, I
281.1 x.