The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-16 00:00:00

NT.' GEORGE'S IN TIIN EAST.

The evening service paved over yesterday in scow
parativequiet. There was an immense crowd, greater than
on an previous occasion, and the rumours of an intended
ce were pretty poem' amongst the htmdreds
greeted in in Cannometries keg before the gates were
veiled, but Nippily they were sumours and nothing
_mdse.
The rector had taken ample precautions for a vigorous defense
spinet any eventuality that might have been a
There was a polioupprce sufficient to maintain cori
the church, consistuig of 15 toostablee under the of
limpector Allison, a most efficient officer, whose judicious
arrangement of hie men, and the limners but at the seine
time conciliatory tact he evinced whenever any
em
alptoms
interruptioe took place, tended In no small to the
geeerally peaceful ehanseter of the proceedings. But in
addition to the polite Mr. King bad secured the service. of
a very large number of personal friends, or sympathisers,
'who, admitted by the private gate through the
house Wore the geaend public weruallowed to enter, filled
eastern end of the church, and monopolised the whole of the
free seats, two-thirds of the way down the centre Male. At
previoas services which we have attended there has always
been mooed the °coupon of the free-seats end the pews
next to the dunce!, who were present when the general
public were admitted, • fair proportion of ladies and ruing
females ; lest evening they consulted wholly ed the Warner
sex • and, judging from their appearance, persona of a
higher station in life than we generally find
occupying the sittings intended for the poor who
cannot afford to pay for pews—where pews exist.
There was some delay in opening the gates, oopsequent per.
upon the fear that the situldtaneona rush of so large a
body of people as were resembled ounide might result in
some accident, or be taken advantage of by those who were
really anxious for a disturbance to accomplish their object.
Nor was admission permitted to the parishioners until the
rector had satisfied himself by inquiries of the inspector,
through the medium of the sexton, that the polm froze
was what he considered powerful enough for all the duties
it was likely to be called on to perform. When at
length the doors were thrown open the church wee in-
stantly filled. Not only every seat, including pulpit, read.
ing•tiesk, and gallery stairs, but all the standing room, was
oocapied, and am the stream kept preens.' sir up towards the
east as fresh comers forced their way in, and as that was
the principal scene of attraction, aa the locality. of the
principal actors in the innovatioas of which the parinh.onen
Qom** and therefore the certain 'cane of arty riut, if
riot took place, the pressure in that part of the building
was something terrible. A way was obtained for the
entrance and exit of the choristers and clergy, who, as
I reis,.
, aiina in end windiest informal PreCearnuO, and forthe
officiating clergymen to pus from the eticrattioa; ~rte; .
where they take their seat, with the chair when not
aolaally reading or preaching, but it was with the greatest
dill:tiny, end mimed all the exertions of the united force
of the police and churchwardens, aided by Mr. King's
Mende, who were in the immediate vicinity.
The service, which was of the usual choral character,
cannot be said to have been entirely unudenopted, but
the interruption was of the slightest, being confined to
ocoaasonal taming, coughing, end an apparently systematio
attempt. to drown by power of lung the chanted impound; ef
the chow, which attempt, owing te the vastnere of the
congregation who were opposed to that mode of performing
divine worship, was frequently snareesful.
The Rev. Bryan King read the prayers from the reading
desk, and the Rev. G. F. Lee, the preacher of the
morning, preached the sermon. The letter was founded
upon the words in the 29th verse of the 24th chapter of
ER. Luke's gospel, " Abide with us for it is evening, and
the day is far spent." The theme was the necessity of
calling upon the Lord continually to abide with us, and it
was argumentatively and eloquently worked out,
nothing to be complained of on the
of orthodoxy. Once or twice when a sen-
t:no. 87—dropped from him which taken without its custext,
besapposed to refer to the religious differences in the
atud
the preacher was interrupted by hissing, and was
tenure. But the interruption was partial, and
he appeared to reoognise the right of the congreption to
their dimwit in this way, by telling them that they
him, and entering into au explanation of
what he really meant. Wises the service was over, and
the procession of priests and choristers was formed, and
proceeded to leave the church, the hostile part of the con.
pigsties no longer thought it necessary to opaline them-
selves within the rules of decorum. As the procession
began to move, a perfect storm of !times, groans, and yells
was raised, which ceased not until the Let white surplice
had left the church.

Tim New Bissor or Roasserss. —The Bishop
nominate of Rochester, as Reciter of SR Mary's, Sonthamp-
, too., presided at the Faster vestry meeting in that parish
last week, and in bit valedr!octioj speech said, with reference
to his elevation to the • bench, that "ail • sup.
porter of what were aped
oorniervetive principles, and the
brother of one who had recently withdrawn from the repe-
-1 seetation of the University of Cambridge, he felt tly
bewared by the dike being conferred by the
who bad selected him, without being in any way sought for
ce, his pert, upon one who differed from him w political
principles. It showed that that distinguished statesman
(Lard Palmerston) did not allow himself to be swayed by
meets, and his only cenditioe was the expression of an
political considerations in regard to ecrlctiluitical appoint.
seeertice, that he trusted to him (Archdeacon Wigram) to
=l7 anointment." The Rev. Canon Miller, of 'Ur-
ea the Rev. Mark Cooper, of Rrainshem, in the
New ghee* have each been mentioned as likely to receive
the sppointment of rector of St Mars's, South.
neetard by the bishop nominate. Yesterday mom.
whm mammas! corpomtiotrof Southampton proceeded in
Aoki to IL Yery's Church. The bishop met the corporate
body at the Awlithouse, and walked in the promotion
with Ole mayor sod high a.e.f. The sermon was preached
by the Mew. 13.Biails ,vr the stayer's chaplain. 'lh• 00i.
potation had not attended St. Mary's Church in state for
many years before yesterday. Is the evening the bishop
preached his farewell errems.