The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-20 00:00:00

RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.

Yesterday tho authorities of the South-Eastern
Railway completed their arrangements for the conveyance of
the main body of volunteers to Dover. The metropolitan
volunteers, who will be conveyed from the Charing-cross
and Cannon-street stations to Dover on Monday next,
ban been ordered by the War-office to be in attendance
at Cannon-street and Charing-cross stations respectively
at stated intervals, between 4.50 a.m. and 6 a.m. The
trains for the volunteer will be placed in position
a 'de a platform at each station, and be ready for
loading directly the several volunteer corps are admitted
within the station, and this will be carried out by a staff
officer' in conjdnctice with the company's officials. Eight
trains will start from Cannon-street and five from Charing.
cross. Each train will be made up of 21 vehicles (covered
carriages and one Ilrst-class), inchAng three brAkes. Meech
train will accommodate about 600 volunteers, it follows
that the South Eastern Railway Company will convey
from their metropolitan termini about 8,000 troops. The
specials by this line will start as under —From Cannon.
street, 4.5.), 5.2, 5.8; Uharing-ovves, &I% 5.16; Cannon.
street, 5.22; Charing-cross, .5.25; Cannon-street, 5.35, 5.50,
5.55; Charing-cress, 6.0; Cannon-street, 6.10; Charing.
cross, 6.15 a.m. These special trains will return from
Dover in the evening to Cannon-street and Charing-cross
about every ten minutes, from 6.15 to 7.45 p.in. Those
8,000 volunteers will be conveyed in about 300 carriages.
An early special train, with officers' servants and horses,
will leave Charing-cross at k 0 a.m., calling at Red-hill
and Aahford, and arriving at Dover at 6.15 a.m. This
train will run to, and unload at, the Dover-town plat-
form. It will not take horses from the country
stations. The special will return from Dover to
Charing-cross at about 11.0 p.m., calling at the
same stations as above. Two trains of hones may
be expected to return from Dover in the evening.
There will also be volunteer specials from country stations
to Dover. From the main line leaving Red-hill at 4.30
a.m. (empty) calling at Sdenbridge, at 5.0 Penshurst,
Tunbridge, Staplehurst &c., and arriving at Dover at
about 6.40 a.m. ; from the North Kent line, leaving Plum-
stead at 4.45 a.m., calling at Dartford, be., and arriving at
Dover about 7.25 a.m. ; keying Plumatesa at 5, calling at
Gravesend lac., and reaching Dover about 7.40 a.m.; leav-
ing Blackheath at 5.0, calling at Plemsteatl, be., and
arriving at Dover about &O a.m.' leaving Bricklayers'
Arms (empty) at 10 a.m., calling at New Crow, &c., and
arriving at Dover about 8.10 ant. Volunteer specials will
run from Hastings. vii Ashford, at 7.20 and 8.40 a.m. ;
from Tunbridge Wells at 7.45, Croydon at 8.30, and Guild-
ford at 8.0 a.m. _ _

Mr. C. W. Eborall, the general manager, and Mr. J. P.
Knight, the outdoor superintendent, have taken extra pre.
cautions to secure the safety and convenience of the volun-
teers and general public. Smeeth and Shorncliffe camp
stations will remain open throughout Easter Sunday and
Monday nights, and all stations on the North Kent line
between London and Maidstone, and on the Paddock.
wood branch, will also remain open on the same nights,
while the stations on the Ashford and Meetings and Tun-
bridge Wells branches will not close till all their specials
have returned. Temporary sidings for ten trains have
been laid onin the spare ground at the Folkestone end of
the Shakespeare tunnel. Extra signalling etations will
be opened, and work from noon to-day till Tuesday.
In the evening on the return the public will not be ad-
mitted to the Dover station till all the volunteer speculs
have left. The London specials will be started first,
and the two entrances to the station for 'hove
volunteers will be at the booking-office, Beach-
street, and at the large gates, near the locomo-
tive shed in Great-street. The departure and arrival
platforms will be used for these 'medals. The country
specials will be started from the Dover town platforms
and Middle-road. About 3,500 volunteers will be con.
veyed by the London, Chatham, and Dover line in trains,
each made up of IX carriages, and the despatching of these
will be under the supervision of Mr. Forbes, the
general manager. The South Western will also run vo-
lunteer special trains from Farnham at 7.20 a.m. ; Sun-
bury (Thames Valley), 5.20 a.m. ; Staines (Staines and
loop line), 5.20 a.m. ; Chertaey (main line and Chertsey),
5.20 a.m. ; Kingston, 5.35 11.111. ; and Waterloo (South
Eastern station), at 6.30 cm. This traffic will be under
the direction of Mr. Godson, Mr. Williams, and Mr. ye-
runder, and a staff. At a rough guess the total number
of volunteers expected to be present at Dover may be esti-
mated at from 15,000 to 20,000 men.

CHAPEL ROYAL, Savor.—To-morrow morning
this ancient chapel will be re-opened upon completion of
the decorations commandedby the Queen, and entrusted by
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to Means.
Clayton and Bell. The panelled roof has been much ha.
proved by the substitution of a colouring of azure blue, in
place of the dark tint adopted on the last restoration. The
walls of the chapel have been distempered throughout,
special richness and elaboration being reserved for the
sacrarium. A series of canopied angels bowing shields
charged with emblems of the Paasion fill the upper aides
of the chanceL The armorial bearings of the sovereigns
of England and Dukes of Lancaster occupy the spaces in
the nave. The reredos has been gilded with much good
taste, the central panel being filled with • cross of gold,
relieved on a cruciform field of red. The memorials to
Hilton and de Wint, the watercolour painters, have been
replaced by a richly-carved stone font and oak canopy.
The monument to Richard Lander, the discoverer of the
course of the Niger, and first gold medallist of the Royal
Geographical Society, is about to be restored. The resti-
tutiuu of other memorials for which the old chapel was
famous is in contemplation. Candles have been in part
substituted for gas in the lighting of the chapel. -The
beautiful garden surrounding it Wu been most skilfully
arranged by Mr. Broome, F.L.R., the gardener of the
Inner Temple. The chapel may be seen every day between
the hours of eleven and one o'clock.

~"Tat PAXSON AND SIGH" IN WIDITMORZLAND.
--Once it would not have been thought at all enlisters/
to say, as it has been said, of a graceless character :—" He
keeps vara' bed company, '1 parson and ',ch." Now, how-
ever, successful efforts are in progress for improving the
endowments, and for distributing men of good education
through the parishea—guarterly iierners, mew number.