The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-20 00:00:00

TIIII WINITIILIIIYIB ABBEY SPECIAL SISEVICI/L
Yeartarday seising the owe of Westminster Abbey was
densely crowded is consequence of an announcement which
had bees made that the sermon would be.preaehed by the
Bishop of Oxford. At half•past six u clock the great
western doers were thrown open, and at a quarter before
seven the building had become au thronged that it was
found neosrary to close them egein, and many hundreds of
persons were disappointed in their hops to °beaus admis-
sion. There wee a full choral service, the prayers being
chanted by the Its.. Precentor Haden, and the lessees
read by the Very Rev. the Veen. The bash:, preached
Irma the words of St. Paid to the Ephicsaans, • Ones* not
the Holy Spirlt, whereby ye are mated to the day of re-
demption." After an exposition of the pint !Monads
la which the aura 'steroid at this season of the
year, 6u lordship made as appeal to the osegregation on
behalf of the funds of the Society for the Propagation of
I the Gospel in tavern Yana, directing particular attention
teas attempt just made to extend the of the Gospel
amongst the islanders of the Podia by plea a body of
taissioneries there under the recestly-cemeserated Bishop
Pitlesoe. His lordship's weed appeal was reepooded to by
a liberal collection.

EICCRAION or THS GIOLOGUIIIe AFMOCIATION FO
OXFORD. —The committee of the Geologiste' Association
bare made arrangement. for as exclusion to Oxford this
day at special fares, under the guidance of the Rev. T. Wilt-
shire, M.A., president, ad Professor Tennant, for the pur-
pose of slamming the geology of Use districk Members
ard their friends leave the Great Western railway station,
Paddington, he the eight excursion train. The party,
after.liiutting the train, will assemble at M.igilaleu.bridge,
Oaf and will thence
roceed to Shotoverh distant about
two mi es. Oo the mad to this pima will be pointed out the
I Oxford clay, the cakereone 1, the wallies °old., the Kim-
meridge clay, the PbrWnd swede, the lower green-
mod, which latter forms the summit of the hilL Sections
of the foregoing strata will be observed in the quarries in
the immediate neighbourhood. A cold collation, at a
moderate charge, will be provided for members on their re.
I turn to Chace& The party will thee visit the new museum
by the permission of Professor Phillips, who has kindly
promised to call aUsaties to the chief objects of Interest
which are them collected. The excursion train will leave
Oxford for London at 7.15 p.m.
THS FICTITIOUS BUIRIAL CAiL—The three per.
eons, Mr. and Mrs. Higgins sad De•OrrILI, the etkeicey's
clerk, who were brought up at the heed police-aSse, Dab.
lip, on Monday last, nod rescinded Gs a charge of eon.
spine; to defraud the Court of Chancery, wen again
brought up on Saturday for further 'amnesties. 'The
charge was, that the mile prisooer Higgins, reprenseted
his wife to be dead, awl honed in Olasuevin Cemetery, and
on the strength of that representatioa, and oe the produc-
tion of • duly attested will made by hi wife, drew a SUM of
5001. out of the Court of Chancery. Devereux was charged
with assisting in the commission of the offices. It was
lately discovered that lire. Higgins was alive, and that
the coffin which abe was supposed to bare occupied eon-
Ward only a tag of mod and seem stases and rap. The
evidence even on Saturday tended to tourism the shone of
fraud against the three prisoners, and also to iocalpate at
least one other party. The ease, which has been very pro-
' party token up by the crown, wee farther remanded.