The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-31 00:00:00

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CEEEMONLLL OPENING OP TBE WELLINGTON
COLLEGE BY THE QUEEN.

Her Majesty arrived at the school on Satur-
day at about 1 o'clock, accompanied by the Prince
Consort, the Prisms Alice, and tbo youthful Prince
Arthur, the latter being dressed in the full High-
land costume. His Royal Highness the Commander-
im Chief was ales in attendance on her Majesty; and the
royal suite comprised Lady Dame Miss Cathcart, Lords
Crofton and Colville, Colonels Liddell and Ponsonby, and
Major Elphinstone. The royal party had travelled scums
the country from Windsor by post. Her Majesty, who ap-
peared in excellent health, wee received at the entrance by the
governors, who wore a costume somewhat like that of the
elder brethren of the Trinity-house, and was conducted over
the building, which she minutely Inspected. As the Queen
pained along, the bey, were most fervid in their loyal de-
monstration'', and her Majesty frequently and good-humour-
edly returned the salutes of bee young subjects. The address
was presented in the dining-ball, in which a few hasty pre-
parations, not requiting any detailed description, had been
made for the royal presence, and which was quite filled, ex-
cept the date, by the governors and their friends. Amongst
the company were the Duke and Duchees of Wellington,
the Prime Minister and the Countess of Derby, and Lady
Emma Stanley, Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of Ox-
ford, Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Lords Cranworth,
J. Russell, and Gough, Earl of Ellenberough, Marquis of
Salisbury, Mr. J. Walter, M.P., 6cc. Her Majesty was
attended during her inspection of the building by the Nev.
Mr. Benson, head master, Mr. Shaw, the architect, Mr.
Holland, the builder, sad the officers of the college, by
whom she was ultimately conducted to the dais, accompanied
by the Prince Consort, and the young Prince and Princess.
The Prince Consort wore the uniform of a governor of the
institution. Altar the usual formal preliminaries :
Lord DERBY dewed to the foot of the dais, and read
the following address—
" May it please your Majesty,
"We, your Majesty's most dutiful subjects, the Viee-Prest-
dent and Governor of the Wellington College, beg pennis-
kion to offer to your Majesty the assurances of our heart-
felt loyalty and attachment, and of the satisfaction and
gratitude with which we hail your Majesty's presence on this
occasion.
"It is little more than Biz years since the first subscript ions
were asked for towards the foundation of this noble matt-
tenon, in honour of the great man whose name it bears. It
is not yet three since your Majesty graciously condescended
to lay the first atone of the building, within the walls of
which we are now assembled.
" Dining the wholeitgress of the undertaking we have
thankfully to acknowl the unceasing support with which
we have been honoured y your Mejesty and your illustricus
Consort; and your Majesty's gracious attendance upon the
formal inauguration this day of the infant institution consti-
tutes a new claim upon oar gratitude, In addition to the
many favours which it has already pleased your Majesty to
bestow upon it.
We are the more grateful for this mark of your Majesty's
favour, inasmuch as it has been awarded at a moment of
deep personal anxiety now happily dispelled by an event
which has been hailed 'with heartfelt satisfaction by the whole
body of your Majesty's subjects, and on which we trust we
may be permitted to offer toy our Majesty our respectful and
affectionate congratulation.
" We now beg leave humbly to submit for yourMsjesty'aggrraa-
dons approval sad sanction the standing rules and regulation
by which, subject to such amendments as it may from time to
time be foiled advisable to introduce, it is proposed that this
allege should be governed. We trust that It may speedily
afford such evidence of its usefulness, as may subtannate its
claims to yet further liberality on the part of the public, and
that the governors may thus be enabled to extend, more
widely than is in their power at present, to themeless= for
whom It Is especially intended, the benefits of this noble
charity.
" It would be too much to hope that it should ever boast
ol one kom among its pupibi, who might emulate the fame
of the great warrior and statesman in whose honour it bee
been erected ; but we may trust that, by the Mewling of
Almighty God upon its teaching, it may send forth many
deeply imbued with the lofty principles which regulated his
conduct; and prepared, whatever may be their station in
life, to follow the great example which he has left of un-
swerving loyalty to the throne; of devotion to Me country's
service, and of strict and unhesitating obedience to the calls
af pablic duty."
Mr. Walpole, the Home Secretary, then handed to het
Majesty the following reply, which was read by her Majesty
with her usual clear and impressive elocution:
" My Lode and Gandemen,—l thank you for your loyal
and dutiful address, and fur your congratulations on an
event, for which, if anything had been wanting to complete
my jay and gratitude it would have been found in the oven-
einem. expremion which hie bean elicited of the sympathy
and affection of my people.
It gives me sincere pleasure to inaugurate the formal
opening of this admiroble intonation, of which I was glad,
on a tamer occasion, at your request, to lay the foundation
atone.
" Front that time to this I have watched its progress with
unceasing satisfaction. I have seen how difficulties
Insepa-
rable from such an undertaking have been gradually over-
COW., and I hail with thankfulness the completion of a work
(a nation's tribute to the meinery of one of her greatest
men) destined to furnish the moons of a religious, moral,
and intellectual education of the brat description to the
children of many deserving officers welch they could not
otherwise obtain.
" In the students now before me I am Fled to recognise
the first fruits of this benevolent work, and I trust they will
by their steady industry and honourable conduct, their
cheerful obedience to those who are act in authority over
them, and their behaviour to each other earn a character
for the college worthy of the name it bean.
I pray that the divine blessing may ever rest on this in-
stitution, and that it may lead all those who may be bete
educated to imitate, in their firm determination at all time*,
and on all occasions, to do their duty in that nine of life
unto whet it may phalli, God to call them, ono of the chief
characteristics of the Duke of Wellington."
The paragraph alluding to the recent auspicious event in
the royal family was introduced by the Earl of Derby sub-
sequent to the preparation of the add, us by the governor',
and it elicited a tex dal bow of recognition from her Majesty.
The Primate, at the conclusion of the reeding of the address
and reply, offered a short and appropriate prayer, and the pro-
ceediegs tomb:ski with the signing of the rules and regu-
lations by the Queen. According to her Majesty's inva-
riable custom when inaugurating a beimvolent institution,
the royal purveyor attended from Windier Castle, with
suitable refreshments, in order that the royal visit might be
no tee on a charitable fund, but the governors and their
(needs had a magnificent collation, supplied by Messrs.
Staples, of the Albion Tavern.
The following are the closest particulars that have been
obtained as to the exact position of Wellington College :
The college is distant a tow minutea' walk from a station
which has been termed on the Reading, Reigate, and Guild-
ford branch of the S otth Eastern Railway; it is about 12
miles teeth of Windsor; Wokinghara may be seen north-
wards; toward, the south Is a part of the county of Hank,
kerma as the Ilartford-bridge Sete, and beyond these, in the
distance, is Sttathaddeaye, the seat of the illustrioue Duke
to who's memory the college has bees raised.

TiIS POOR LAW BOARD'S HOCSELESS POOR
&it mgr.—At a weekly meeting of the Maryleboue Repre-
sentative Council, bold on Saturday, • report wee brought
from the joint committee of the vestry and directors and
gu radians on the subject of the rebems of the Poor Low
(loud, for providing district nightly asylums for the bonen-
loot poor, • circular in reference to which appeared in our
columns. The committee stated that they had not considered
it necessary to enter into all the various points embodied its
the circular, but eve of opinion that, with reference to the
principal sugzeution for district solitaire for the houvelese
poor, such plan Is not desirable, and that speaking for thu
p..rticultr pedlar they represent the accommodation afforded
to that elms of poor in ht. Elarlybons is in every way Palk.
dent, and that relief is admicietered with • due regard to the
wants of the poor themselves sod the Interests of the rine-
' payers. The report was fully discursed, and ultimately
adopted.
TSB DENTAL HOSPITAL OF LONDON.—The first
animal general meeting of this inmituthve, whi poorwas opened
on December Is, for the gratuitous rebel of persons
suffering from climates of the loth, was held on Friday, in
the board room of the hospital, Sobs-square. C. D. Morgan,
Esq., presided. The reports (medical and general), which
were unanimously adopted, referred to the necessity for such
au hospital, which was highly apparent, not merely from the
number of poor applicants for relief, but from the requirements
f pupils and junior members of the dental profession, as •
school of instruction, for, at this hospital, a more comprebsne
sive knowledge of this special branch of surgery would be
given, which would be particularly advantageous to army
mid navy surgeons, and more t Mew:ions than could be ob-
tained in the ordinary hospitals. The hospital not having
been established more than two month,, the number of
patients in that period was nmesearily small, but the applica-
tions for relief wars greatly on the increase. The receipts
had been 47W. lls. Id., and the balance to hand was
2071. 13s. 2d. The Sari of Denbigh, Lard Stanley, Lord
Somerton, the Bishop of London, end Sir C. Trevelyan, were
unanimously elected trierpresidents. Thanks were given to
the respective committees, ma also to the treasurer, kc., and
to the &airman of the meeting, and the proceedings concluded.

TEE SPECIAL SUNDdY IVICNINO SIEVICLS.

ST. PM:el.—The extreme fineceas of the weather
drew together en enormous uurnbcr of persons last night, all
undoes to obtain admission Into the cathedral, in onicr to
join In the special service under the dome. The prcattur
wee the Ike. D,. Arthur Peathyn Stanley, Regius Profe-sor
of Ecclesiastical History in tLe University of Oxford, and
Canon of Christ Church. Fall choral service having been
performed, Dr. Stanley ascended the pulpit, and self cted fur
his text the Ist verse of the Ilth chapter of St. Paul's First
Epistle to the Corinthians (the second lesson for the evening
service)—.. Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of
Christ.' Thu scimon, which w..s delivered with great ani-
mation, was listened to with deep attention. Mr. pre-
sided at the organ, and Mr. G. W. Martin led the deem. of
600 voices.

WEbTNIINSTER AIIBET.—The Very Rev. the Dean of Can-
terbury, so well known in London as the Rev. Henry Alford,
minister of Quebec Chapel, Porteman-wputre, was the
preacher at ihe fifth of tbb special Sunday services held last
night in Westmiruder Abbey. Although tho congregation
was cotopeed mainly of working people and persons Leh:ag-
ing to the rabid!e ranks of society, there were present a large
number of persona of a superior clue. The ordinary choral
Berries having been performed, the dean selected for Ms teat
the 34th verse of the Bth chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel—
" And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus
and when they saw him they besought him that he would
depart out of their coasts." The earnest and eloquent appeal
of the dean to his ecargregeticn appeared to have a great
effect on those who heard It.

Ex ETER•ki ALL.—The great ball was well tilled last night,
but was not so densely crowded as on some previous occa-
sions when popular preachers h*ro been announced. The
Litany service of the church of Hoglund wee read, and a
MU extempore pram refaced the einem The preacher
of the evening was the Rev. Samuel M DLA., minister
of Percy Chapel, Tottenham.court.road, who selected for
his text the 9th reeve of the Sth chapter of St. Paul's Second
Epistle to the Corinthiane—" Fxr ye know *grace of our
Lord Jeans Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your
ashes be became poor, that ye, through his poverty, might
be rich." The memos neat Sunday evening will be
reached by the Rev. W. Hill, M.A., of Trinity College,
Dahlia, Incumbent of Trinity Church, Lehman.
Sr. Jaxames-liat.i.—The fifth of the series of serviees

andertak® by eminent nonoonformiatministeredrewtogether
largo crowds of persons who assembled long before tl,u hour
appointed for the commeccement of service. In a few
minutes after the doors were thrown open the hall was do-
ctored to be full, and a vast numLir of persons were disap-
pointed in their hope of obtaining admission. The Rev. John
Stoughton, of Kensington, officiated. He 'elected for his
text the 33rd Psalm, verse 3: "Ks restoreth my Bout."
The rev. gentleman made a very forcible application of the
arguments axiaing from the text, and deduced from it several
sound practical kseoas, which he tugcd with greet auntie-
was and eloquence. The sermon next Sunday evening will
be preached by the Rev. Henry Allan, of Islington, and that
on the following Sunday by the Rev. France Tucker.

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