The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-22 00:00:00

THE NEW REREDOS AND ALTA.; AT
wESTMINSTEI: ABBEY.

*forting Intelligente.
THE NEWMARKET EASTER MEETING,

Thus Tat now opened out to view tray be thus
enumerated :—The new altar-table, the restored
reredos or altar-screen, the sedilia. an the new
tessellated pavement surrounding the aitar. The
old alt Ar-screen was a work of extreme richness,
and :LlT...ars to have been executed aisatt the time
Edward IV. It e.,,s the
time of Queen Anne to make way for a marble
altar-piece, originally intended for Whitehall
chapel, but which was presented by that Vueen to
the abbey. This altar-piece was removed in 1824,
when ahcient screen was found to have been
alinest cut to pieces, though enough could be
traced out to prove that its design was in many
respects the same with that of the eastern side of
the smote screen which faces the chapel of
King Edward the Confessor. Mr. Mathew Wyatt,
who was then the architect to the dean and chap-
ter, employed Mr. Bernasconi, the celebrated Ita-
lian plasterer, to restore the screen in his artificial
atone, a work which he certainly carried out with
great skill, however unworthy the material might
have been.

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The dummied altar is replaced by a new one of
very rich design, chiefly wrought in cedar, though
its slab is of rich marble, the old black marble
slab being worked up into it. The front and ends
of the amar table are enriched with appropriate
Script•:ro subjects in relief. This work has been
carried out by Messrs. Farmer and Brindley, the
well-known architectural carvers, and is very finely
executed.

The so-called monument of King Sebent (which
was of brick cement and tar-cord) has been re-
moved, and the seat of the sedilia found enclosed
within it. This is now restored. The pavement
in front of and around the altar was of modern
character, and had extended so far forward as to
bury a portion of the ancient mosaic pavement of
the sanctuary. This is replaced with a rich tessel-
lated pavement of coloured marbles and enamel
mosaic, and is brought back to its original dimen-
sions, so as to admit of the restoration of the
portion of the ancient floor which it had injured
and concealed.

During the progress of the works several curious
antiquarian objects have come to light, the chief
among which are the discovery of the bases of two
of the piers of Edward the Confessor's work buried
beneath the floor, and still in their places, and the
fact of the marble pillars against which the screen
had been erected having been, previously to its
erection, covered over with paper on which coats
of arms had been painted. These are pronounced
to have been the arms of King Edward 11. and his
Queen Isabella.

THE ENGINE DRIVERS' STRIKE.

DARLINGTON, SATURDAY EVEVIXO.

•
At the end of this the second week of the strike
the directors of the North Eastern Company and their
late sextants now on strike are pretty well enabled to take
a round estimate of their relative positions, both All regards
the present and the future. H'ith regard to the former,
the of at all parts of the line are unanimous in the
view that the company has withstocal the shock, and more
evilly repaired the disaster than the most sanguine of them
could imagine. On all parts of the line applications have
been received from men on strike to be reinstated. At
first these offers were refused, but yesterday and to-day
such men as have applied have been furnished with pease.,
and have gone to Newcastle to see the manager of the loco-
motive department, Mr. Fletcher. Some of these men
have been received back, but only after having signed a
new agreement, and promising to withdraw
from the union. From the prosecutions which
have been instituted at all is of the line
during the past week, and which have generally gone
against the men, the directors appear determined to give no
quarter to the union under whose dictation the men
turned out, and as the engines are now getting rapidly
filled up with new drivers they are not likely to consent
to arbitration, or, in fact, to hold any communication
with the men, unless the latter seek it, and seek it more-
over on non-union principles. The company are now fast
getting independent of their old hands. All the branches
except the Otley and Melmerby have been re-opened, and
the former is worked by the Midland Company, so that
little inconvenience results. As for the latter, it is of no
importance, anti the company would readily close it alto-
gether, as it forms no part of their general system.
To-day six men have been summoned by the Stockton
axd Darlington (the old Stockton and Darlington
Railway) at Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland. This section
of the line, which is under different management to the
North Eastern, failed in the only prosecution they have
before brought at Bishop Auckland. In this, however,
they succeeded, and the whole six men were convicted,
but the magistrates, the Revs. Messrs. Chapelow and
Simpson, withheld sentence until Friday next, strongly
urging upon the men meanwhile to effect an arrangement
with the company if possible. All of them were bound
over to appear again on that day. All these men bad
been engaged on a verbal notice.
A levy of 3e. each engine-driver and 2s. each fireman
has been made throughout the country to sustain the
1,500 men on strike.

IMPENDING STRIKE or JOURNEYMEN TAILORS.
The negotiations entered into between the committee of
master tailors and the committee of the journeymen
tailors have proved an entire failure, and an immediate
strike is imminent. On the 16th inst. the London Ope.
rative Tailors' Protection Association issued • circular to
the masters, stating that the association, recognising the
vital importance of a universal time log, must request
the masters to pay to a ribed log until a proper log
could be mutually agreed upon. This course was adopted
in consequence of the refusal of the masters to continue
to diacuas a universal time log, in the place of which they
offered to discus. a London time log. On Saturday, at
two o'clock, was the time fixed for receiving answers to
the peremptory demand contained in the circular. The
answers received up to that time were comparatively few
in number, but all these contained decided refusals to pay
to the time log submitted. Active steps were at once
taken to call the men out on strike, and a general meeting
of the trade was summoned for to-day, when resolutions
deciding upon an immediate strike will be proposed. In
anticipation of the result of this meeting a levy of 2s. per
man has been made by the operatives' association to defray
the cost of calling the men out.
SEAMEN'M WAGES. —At the Liverpool Police-
court on Saturday Thomas Cooks, a seaman, summoned
Messrs. Leech, Harrison, and Forwood for 14!. 14s. 10d.
wages alleged to be due to him. The complainant was
boatswain of the ship Sultana, formerly belonging to Messrs.
James Baines and Co., of Liverpool, but of which the de-
tenants became the mortgagees and owners. Cooke
signed articles for a voyage from Queensland to Valencia,
in Spain, and thence to any port in the United Kingdom,
at wages of 51. per month. The Sultana sailed from
Queensland in May last, and arrived at Valencia at the
end of June (or July,i and was wrecked in port some time
afterwards. Purely out of compassion, Messrs. Leech,
Harrison, and Forwood paid to the widows of the seamen
lost in the Sultana certain sums of money equivalent to
wages due to their husbands. Having done that, it was
contended on behalf of the complainant that the defen-
dants bad rendered themselves liable for the wages of the
survivors. The summons was dismissed on the ground
that the mortgagees were liable only for the wages of the
seamen from the time they took possession of the ship
until she was wreckei, the bench adding that the com-
plainant must proceed against the mortgagors.
THE VALUE OF CITY PROPERTY. —The value of
the property comprised within the area of the City is the
best poesible evidence of the initial character of the
locality. During the past fifty years the number of houses
in the City has been reduced to the number of 5,581, yet
the value of the remainder has so increased that the pre-
sent few far outbuy the former many. During the paid
ten years only the annual value of the City has increased
no less than a million and a half sterling, or at the rate
of 273 per cent. The 17,413 inhabited houses of
1811 had decreased to 13,431 In 1861 ; but the
rental of 1811, which was 565,2431., had increased
to 2,109,9351. in 1866. Therefore the fewer houses
of 1866 are worth more by 1,544,6921. than the more
numerous houses of 1811. We do not value cities by the
gross number of their houses or their sleeping keepers,
any more than we estimate the half-acre on which a lunatic
asylum is situated as the most populous and influential
half-acre in the world. The houses of the City in 1811
were worth 321. per house annual value ; they are now
worth 137/. each per annum. They were worth, to capi-
talise them at twenty-five years' purchase, in 1811,
14,131,075/. ; they are now worth, by the same process,
52,748,3751., equal to the total revenue of Great Britain
only a few years since, and equal to five-sixths of the pre-
sent revenue.—City tPrees.

Mr. 'Alley, of the Surrey Circuit, was summoned
last week to recover the fee of five guinea. paid him on a
brief to defend a prisoner at Maidstone, but which he bad
to hand to a brother banister. The judge ruled that, the
fee being an honorarium, plaintiff could not sue, and non-
, suited her, with 21. coats.
HEALTH RESTORED BY Do BARRY'S FOOD TO THE
STOMACH. nerves, Men, and liver, curing dyspepsia (tuft's-
don), coostipation, diarrhoea, acidity, headache, neuralgia, bye
&aria, palpitation, sleeplessness, debility, wasting, cough,
asthma, fevers, consumption, low spirits, 60,000 annual cures
which bad resisted all medicines, Including that of OM Holiness
the Pope.—Tins, at Is lid.: 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 121 h., 225. ; UM. 400.
—Du Sun and Co 77, Regent-street, London ; also at Fortnum
sod Mason's: and at 61, Oracechurchetreet ; 4, Cheapside ; 69
and WA Oxford street and all grocers and aliannata.—(Adver
and

THE EXPRESS. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1867

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,omparb..nbeine eOOO to ioo F., en mnoey was also betting both
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betting for the Chester 'up, those having an advancing appear
o. s. leans Lucifer and Ikcswing, while on the other land,
bracken looked anything but healthy, while Archimeoes in the
count of the morning went clean away to the knocking out
melee of 100 to 1, and although at the finish offers did nest exceed
leee :o X, hr .101 generally acenunted "gone (1,11,4 Nice,

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