The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-10 00:00:00

TEE SUNDAY EVENING BIRVICBS.

Yesterday the second of the new series of Wed.
minter Abbey services took
with
the neve of the Yang's
building which wee filled with vimitors. Full choral lance
was performed, end the sermon wee preached by the Vete
ruble the Archdeacon of St. Alhat's (Dr. Anthony Grin,
vicar of Romford), who selected for his text the Ilth chaps
of St. Luke's Gospel, let verse :—" Acid it came to peer Mit
ea he was preying in a certain place, when he ewer d. and
his disciples said unto him, ' Lord teach us to pprvay, ' boa
which he delivered en eloquent and practical dfsooons spos
the object and mode of prayer.
The seventh evening service at St. Paul's took place in the
area beneath the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. Owing la
thetxtreme fineness of the day the number anemone who al.
senibled eras as large as on either of the previous occupier,
end in the space allotted to the general public who have not
the privilege of an admission t the resetved seats there were
scantly any women, nearly all being respectable erns=
and persons of that clue. The service was choral through.
out, end the sermon was preached by the Rev. Thome
Dale, M.A., canon resideatiary of St. Paul's and vim of St.
Pancras. The sermon on Sunday next will be preached by
the Rev. Dr. 11'Neile, incumbent of St. Jude's Church,
The The mond of the series of Exeter Hall services, undertaker
by clergymen of the Church of England, was conducted Ey
the Rev. Thomas Nolan, S.D., Minister of Regent-Nun
Church, the Rev. Edward Garbett, M.A., Incumbent of St.
Bartholomew's, Gray's Inn, who was to have °Metaled, beieg
unable through illneae to fulfil hi, engagement. The no.
gntleman selected for hie text the second chapter of St. '
Paul's Epistle to Titus, venues I 1 sod 12, •• For the grace of
God that bi ingeth salvation loath appeared to all men,tesehiag
us that, denying ungudl Clem nd'uorldly huts. we &mkt lire
soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world." The
mermen wee marked by great eloquemos, end was listened ts
throughout with deep attention.

The Archduke Maximilian d'Este, uncle of the
Duke of Modena, rod of the Countess de Chambord, wr•s felt
days ago attacked with inhumation and meules, at Ebert-
weir, but, at ording to the lest accounts him Imperial Iliefe
nue I. recovering. The Duke of Modena, who.. arrival d
Vienna has been announced, had left that city to visit ha
Archduke.

A letter from Cannes, of the 2nd, says: "Were
the mend England, France, and Germany calkd upon lo
elect three representatives who should personify high menu'
power, widow, pure philanthropy end patriotism, the
choice could not t oseibly fall upon more worthy objects thus
on the three dietiogoishtd men whom circumstances him
brought together in this petty tiwn. I brit of Henry
Lord Brougham, who radiantly stare" time out of corn•
tamales; of Ales 4 de Tocqueville, laid low by disease, bet
daily pattylng with greater vigour the smolt of the fatal
scythe; of the Chevalier de Bunten, who has deserted hit
favourite retreat end abandoned his below d occupations in
order to bestow his entire attention and affectionate core ea
the stricken Mewl."

The St. Louis Republican, of the 24th tilt., an-
nounces the arrival there of Lord Cavendish and hi* friends.
The Canadian government about a year since appointed
Professor Hind and Menu. Dickinson, Fleming, and Hied,
Commissioners to explore the Red Ricer Valley. They
wen joined by Lord Cavendistie party, who since then
have occupied the time in hunting and exploring the country
' from the mouth to the source:l of the Red River. The party
left Selkirk on the Red and luainibuine Rivets on the 29th
of November, with a train of seventy dogs for Crow Wing,
which point they reached in 15 days travel. They have rations
trophies of the chase, each es buffalo and other km, the bide
and horns of a magnificent buffalo bull which was near billing
Lord Cavendinh, Indian unmade& and a dog of the Rua.
mum breed, need for droning sledges. They deecabed the
life they had been living as thoroughly romantic—hunting
and [Mies, chasing Sioux Indians and chased by them in
return, and enduring hardsbipe not altogether unpleasant
from the novelties attending them.
In the University of Moscow recently, one of the
profeeurs addresaed some pointed remarks to the rtudents ea
their preference fur the habit, and customs of Western
Europe. The class wait immediately a scene of uproar, when
the professor wee required to leave the hall where he had
been unable te maintain his authority ; and subsequently,
when the curator wee unfortunately induced to interfere, the
whole university was roused into open rebellion, and mature
have proceeded to such extremities that M. Kovalisfeki, tha
Meister of Public Inatroodon, bus been compelled to leave
St. Petersburg and proceed to Moscow, personally to inroad-
gate the subject.
The Aberdeen herald states that the late Thema
Edmonstoma of Duna, Zetland, " has surprised most folks
—particularly bin relations—by leaving nearly the whole of
his wealth, landed property, and 30,000 f. in cash, to his
natural daughar."
On Saturday Professor Faraday delivered the last of
hie short Christmas cause of lectures at the Royal Institution.
The chemical affinities of metals, and the transference of the
former, formed the principal subjects, which were illustrated,
in the Ant instsnce, by alloys.
FIRE AT WINDSOR Casna.-0o Saturday night
the son of the 11ev. Lord Wriuthevley Rumen nneussionsly
left his candle horning on retiring to bed, and was awoke by
his bed-clothe. ittchfag Sr., fortunately just in time to
maks hi escape and give the alum. The house in which
this young gentleman wu sleeping belonged to the Rey.
Frederick Anson, canoe, and is situated in the cloisters
I! the lower ward. By the energetic exertions of thole who
heard the alarm given, the An wee got under before ni-
• tending to another apartment; but the whole of the fort&
tare of the bedroom was consumed.