The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-15 00:00:00

PLAISTOW MISSION.

Yesterday the Bishop of Rochester consecrated
the new church of Holy Trinity, Barking-road, the care
Teeny being witnessed by several of the clergy of the diooese
and a large number of the inhabitants. The spiritual
wants of the large and increasing district in the midst of
which the new edifice is situated first received attention
ten years ago, when the Plaistow and Victoria Dock Mis-
sion was started by Mr. Antonio Brady. The work of
the mission was begun in a bowling alley, but it soon cc-
tended its operations, and in a period of four years schools,
school churches, and ministry were provided for the labour-
ing poor throughout the wide areaof the Plaistow Marshes,
The Victoria Dock portion of the district in the beginning
of 1861 was taken in band by a separate committee, and
it has since been formed by them into a distinct perish,
with its own churches, schools, and resident clergy. Thus
relieved, the mission dropped the part of its title that
referred to Victoria Dock, and under the present name
has since confined its operations to the district of Ho:y
Ti :silty, which will also be henceforth an independent
pariah. The new church, which is • building aslmintbly
adapted to the locality, contains provision for 1,029 sittin3s,
which are to be free and unappropriated forever. The archi-
teeter. is what may be termed a no red style, and the design is
by Mr. Charles Barry. After the consecration the ordinary
morning service was proceeded with, and his lordship
having preached • sermon suited to the occasion, the
Holy Communion was administered to a considerable
number of communicants. The clergy and friends of the
mission subsequently adjourned to the adjoining school-
rooms, where an excellent lureheon was served. Mr.
Antonio Brady pres‘ded, and speeches advocating free and
unappropriated (+arch sil .ings to meet the requirements
of the working classes were delivered by the Bishop of
Rochester and the Archdeccon of Ely. Mr. Brady's
health was drunk amidst warm expressions of approba-
tion, and the services of Mrs. Brady, who has nobly
seconded her busbard's persevering efforts in aid of the
mission, were acknowledged with equal warmth. The
Rev. Mr. Meyrick is the incumbent of the new church.

THE RITUAL COMMINIIION.—It is understood
that the ritual commission will adjourn to-morrow for '
the vacation, and, in fact, for the present, their labours
are ended. We rejoice to know that, at all events, the
exceptional legislation in regard to vestments, reco
mended for parochial churches, has been disallowed, and
that the attempt to exempt private and proprietary
chapels from the obligatious of uniformity has been
also defeated, although by a smaller majority.
We presume that the Archbishop of Canterbury
will feel it right to make some statement to the
House of Lords to-morrow, before Lord Shaftes-
bury intimates his intention of leaving his bill on the table
of the house. To proceed with it during the last days, or
rather hours, of the passing session would be vain ; but
his lordship has also put a notice on the order book of the
House of Lords to the effect that he means at the same
time to call the attention of the house to the state of the
ecclesiastical courts. These have been strongly. hut not
inaptly, compared to an Aegean stable, and vsricns at-
tempts have failed to disturb a system round which there
cluster so much episcopal patronage and ecclesiastical
sinecures.—Betorel.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Miss Jane Myers, the
young lady who fell over the rocks at Craighall, Scotland,
on Thursday week, died at Blairgowrie on Saturday. The
most serious wound she appeared to have sustained was
on her right leg, the ankle-bone of which was dislocated
and protruding several inches through the flesh ; but her
whole system had received a shock from which recovery
was impossible. The lady stated before her death that,
having wandered up to the cliff, intending to proceed to the
waterside, and being fond of botanical specimens, she had
stooped to gather a fern, when some loose earth gave way,
and she was precipitated through • bush into the chasm
below. Something had caught her, however, and borne
her up fora time. hut ultimately that, too, gore way, and
allowed her to fall to the bank. She had only a dim re-
collection of being sorely tormented with flies and other
insects, swarms of which bed gathered round her as she
lay for five or six hours in that dreadful piece ; and in this
plight she was discovered by some visitors. A line hung
over the edge of the crag to the bank where the lady fell
was found to mesunire 170 feet. the remaining distance to
the water making the *odes height of the precipice almost
400 feet.