The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-21 00:00:00

THE INAUGURATION
_OP THE MIDDLE

TEMPLE LIBRIBY.

The Middle Temple Hall has not been the scene
I of any banquet at which royalty has been present slime
I the time of Queen Elizabeth, upon which occasion, as it
is understood, Shakspere read to her Majesty his "Mid-
summer Night's Dream." The Prince of Waive and suite
will enter the Temple from Fleet-street, at the Sate loading
to Middle Temple-lane, and alight at the steps on the
eastern side, which communicate with the area in the front
of tho hall. The Middle Temple Volunteers will form the
guard of honour on the occasion. The proossaion will
here form, and proceed to the Library, and thence to the
venerable old Temple Church, where • short choral envies
will take place. As the hall will not accommodate
more than half of those expected to be pre
sent at the banquet, • marquee, 132 feet by 36
feet, is being erected upon the area in front of the
hall, with tables and seats for the accommodation of 500
parsons ; as also a temporary room 135 feet by 20 feet, both
of which will be floored lined with Iscariot and white dra-
pery, and tastefully decorated. la addition there is to be a
linen covered awning, 2110 feet by 9 feet, leading to the
library, and similar awnings from the carriage entrance to
the Temple Church. The whole will be lighted with gas.
One, but by no means the least interesting, portion of the
gay scene which may be expected, should the weather
prove favourable, will be the beautiful chqlaritheniums
as and pompouss in the Inner well air the o Temple
Gardena, and which, from meant appearances, wiU, there
is not the slightest doubt, be in full perfection by the day
appointed.

The conservative electors of the northern division
of Ewa held their annual gathering on Friday evening at
Castle Hedingham, where the county members were pre-
sent, and delivered addresses. Mr. Ducane explained and
defended the course of the conservatives through the last

session, pointed to the success which had crowned their
efforts, and far from agreeing with Lord Robert Montagu
that party spirit was effete, and au evil, be said it wee
only now that the principles of the different parties were
becoming clearly defined, and that conservatism was seen
to be the genuine interest of the country.

We are requested to state that the National
Portrait Gallery, 29, Great George street, Wadi:Muster,
will be closed from Saturday, November 2, to Wednesday.
November 20.

OPENING OF THE LIVERPOOL FAZE PCBLIC
MUSEUM. —pt oonsequence of lb. mat amount ol_Ia-

boar required in the arrangement and claidfica-
tion of the lIIISHROUS specimens of which this
institution consists, the Public Museum, in connexion
with the library, was not opened until Thursday morning. At
10 o'clock Mr. Wm. Brown, Mr. T. Airier, deputy-chairman
of the Library and MuestunConimittee (In the absence of Mr.
Picton, chairman), and other members of the committee,
formally opened the museum, three hearty cheers being given
for Mr. 'William Brown when the company entered the build-
ing. Upwards of 1,300 persons parted through the rooms
during the first day, and about 2,000 on Saturday. The por-
tion of the building to which the public were admitted mi-
llets of the great hall, coetaiuiug the statuary, the gallery of
the hall, and the suite of five rooms on the upper floor of the
museum wing. Four of thee* rooms are devoted to the
Derby collection of birds, arranged in wall cases ; the fifth
contains the reptiles, fish, &c. ; the central portion of the
rooms being occupied by table cases for the invertebrate
animals, such as shells, corals, &c. At one end of the
gallery a number of small aquaria are temporarily placed,
peoding the fitting up of a room in the basement on •
larger scale for the same purpose. The arrangement
of the other portions of the museum will be proceeded with
as expeditiously as possible, but the arrangement of the col-
lections, at present far from complete, can henceforth be
carried on without interfering with the convenience of the
public. The nitiontm will, as heretofore, be open on Mon-
days, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, from ten in
the morning till iinek.—Lieerpool Albion.
THE BISHOPRIC or COLOMBO. —The Duke of
Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies, bee nomi-
nate& the Right Rev. Piers Calveley Claughtoo, D.D., of
BRISSINSIB College, Oxford. Bishop of St. Helena, to the
Bishopric of Colombo, rendered vacant by the resignation
of the Right Rev. Dr. James Chapman. His lordship
paginated at Oxford in Dr 3.5, when he took a first -elms in
deems. The bishopric of St. Helena will, we believe, be
conferred upon Archdeacon Welby.

The Rev. G. H. Arkwright, of Sutton Hall, has,
in consideration of the unfavourable harvest of last sesecee,
decided upon presentiog to his tenantry a large quantity of
linseed cake for cattle.—DerOysitire Courier.