The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-07 00:00:00

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hear that our Court thus proffered
British hescsitality to the reyst lady who white our • land
for Asap of air, sad, perhaps, for • little bc•lthy dio
*mike.

I fibe cas maid whether mice would come to Wiadaor for
• !ow dam cc whether e►e would merely ru dews sod
lapel.

The shomilives tieing thus distinctly tendered, what
should re common sense of broadiog do but accept the
lesser bidding!

It Wm:lstit. wished to welcome the fair guest sod
we will trust it was so—the welcome, to remount an
English one, should smelt' not have been at this sigpsdly
hue.-1 sal, de.,
A BRUITLE UPON THE BACK
Loudest, Die. 6. OF JOHN BULL.

CONSECRATION OF STANTONBURY CHURCH,
WOLVERTON.

Yeaterday the Bishop of Oxford consecrated the
now chunk st Btaatonbury, which ban rims* been erected
for the KOMI madation of the hiss population colosectod
. . .

with the works of the Loudon and Keith Western Railway
at Wolverton. The edifice is sinned about three-quarters
of • mils from the Woiverton nation, on the west side, and
is built le stone, in the demented Gnhiestyle of arehitectum,
from the designs of Mr. Motet, of London. Rxternelly,
the church has a very elegant and pleasing aspect, thougt
its beauty is somewhat toured by the fact of the tower sad
spire, which are intended to be raised to • height
of 136 feet, being kit uslaished for wain of fends.
Strength sad simplicity, combined with as anions taste is
the rather sparingly introduced carvings and ether doors.
tions, mark the interior ; which, being wail=
en and having °pea timber roof, with aisles. an .
meta, basted of pews, has almost the appmeame el •
miniature cathedral. The walla are of Oempare Mask with
Ancestor dinesiage, the marble *ohm cceppochle the
archesinogt a dark red colour, which matraii• with
perm
the hoe amend. The emil, amli, arid only
slightly elevated stone pulpit essephe • kid of ,is on
one side, sad hears aa iasorlpliew belle Mai that it woe
by the feeemea and weekmmi at the
=writ feelicey. Mire Is she a limideeme edam-
vier stews fast, the glib of. the Yerehieeess of
Chemins, the wife of the &ahem of the North Western.
The satranoss eon face are paved with Maim& tiles, mad
durability seem to have bees the prevailing chisel I. the
whole of the ether internal ter. Mr. 1111/s, of
tionford-co•Avon, is the bander the church, which, it
may be added, 000ilaill sittiap for nearly. 500 peewee
The cost of the streciare, so far as it is now completed,
has been 4,4301., al which mm the sharebolden of the Lan-
don and North Western Railway have contributed 2,0401.,
and persons locally interested sad others 1,11701. A further
SUM of 1,0001. will be required to complete the spire mid
the upper part of this tower.
A burial-ground surrounds the church, and nearly conti-
guous to it are the opinion and Inell-oonstructed school.
rooms, lame "Sough for 400 cluldresi, which have now been
in use far • eierablei period. Within • few hundred
yards al le the little saw of Stantonbury, consisting of
about • Imbed pretty sad eseafartable %eking
erected by the ecompaey for the me of their servants,
for each of which • real of &Id. • week is paid. Toy stand
upon a gentle slope frame the river Ones, which yesterday,
owing to the late heavy mills, bed doodad • great part of
the surround* °pastry. Additional cottages will shortly
be built, sad as the somber of sees dos the company's factory,
which now exceeds 2,000, iecannently increasing, there ameba
no doubt thus habitatisat will not remain long uaoccupied.
The consecration berries baps shortly before 12 o'clock,
a special train having previously brought • large company of
persons, including several of the directors, from Loudon, to
attend the oweisoey.

We regret very much to Luau, by the In
mail Met arrived, that air Hoary Davies. the Chief Justice
of Madras, died at °demeaned of dram is the 3rd or 4th
of Nmenther. The inedligenee wee reiolved by telegraph
ea the ith at Bombay, where Me Homy had formerly filled
the dice of Chief Justice His death will mate deep
regret in mem Loudest desks. mow width, as wall as his
own pidemina, he was mod popular.
Repo= rot vsm DVii or Nottror.x.—Ou
Tuesday • the Roman catholic chapel, St. Mary's,
Neordelde, was the Deem of a " solemn man of requiem
for the repose of the seal of Henry Granville, Duke of
Norfolk." The chapel was completely draped in black
cloth, sad the daylight carefully excluded by thick, dark
curtain.. in the centre of the floor stood a lofty catafalque,
containing the oofEn of the deceased, his cordial and other
ins4nia, and surrouodell:ly a number of tali wan mak%
Cardinal Wi nee isemaa his throne, and Dr. Morris, the
bishop coadjutce, maw-
T THE DCILI OF NIT/CASTLE AND 1112 KINGSTON
01ASUINST. —The "Orange difficulty" is still exciting
great leered in Klegaton, whim the °n'afr° c".
template meth( as equestrian statue of King ilea is
the public park, provided the city council will past the
site, which dose ma seem likely, as the proposition created
great excitement when laid before that body. Oa the other
Mad. the Ammo eatleibes and °peasants of the °raw
lentatudie talk of erode( as equedren statue of the
Doke et Nowea—Ceeediali Nam.
Kr. Mi*&'s tIONTITAL —The Lord Mayor has be-
come the perident of this charity for the year ennuien,
thus billowier the example of his prof...ed.,. in odes
L Mee the futuadation of the harped, is the year 1835.