The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-20 00:00:00

3707 OOLLIOR

The extensive and important alterations at Eton
College Hall have just been completed, the interior loving
bon almost rebuilt from the designs- of Mr. Wanton:. The
hall we used fey the knit time since the kepeemenente ea
Sunday lad. The Kine. wholen assembled by helf-yeet
one. and after chanting Latin grace, cute preeskano, dinner
was swami, sad the hall once more opened. Ths old tad
has been removed, and a new open timber roof substitated,
of fine moportion, with • turret lentborn In tie onus. Toe
new windows, mat and west, well summated in Oars, line
been inserted; and at the wed end • light canopy of closes
dolga, in Gothic oak homework, replace the preview
heavy one. One of the moat elegant features of the re-
storation is at the east end, where a gallery has been meted
over the apse. dividing the hall from the buttery. It is of
carved oak, the front panelled with the .Melds of Wag
Henry VI. Beneath • small canopy in the mate ere Meow
of the college, surmounted by the full heraldic borings of
" ye pious loader."
The gallery is opported by • sonoicitieweleasped
arches, the upper pert sloe bang wen, hniegadekster
between the step ascending to the hall god them anseoirj
to the kitchen, breway Wohones dye. The ad
by • pair of gothic doois in the 'middle of this scum, hoeing
at each comer the monogram of Queen Victoria. la =
the iMpICIVION•t• e curious discovery we main
the whole of the hail roam • cradling of oak slot bat tot
in height, coesistiag of smell panels about the We ot-sehool-
. boys' slate., cut all over with the names of Etonian@ of
ewers' generations, one poet of partivuter intermit blaring
on it, carved in lettere outruigaUsbly of the period, the
following inscription
" Queen Elizabeth
Ann l) • October
X. gave 2 loves
in • mess.
HOS ;"
• ow base the supply allowed at nails to
fourh of the scholars. At the heck of the
im to tie north sad rue des, aad oleo et es
doh eel se re bell, went &corer ordos Ors erthplass.
Aar horses& is wide, thi issesevalorrapof owl twig
r polar se It be.. the rads of the sculptor tot te,.
la askew et ear vas tem say wet hr a chimney, or the
tftt dlibizirirsoirerzro.
win lohjs.sobtal kloses. Jae
.ong.ollelle Ora, Or st the torture part aussosc
Istf pays. .1 art est both of ol swis
_col-
leges (11711 W Lies Ceihge Cambridge he Allied of
the wet salnieiniel and bast abiding stalk et
15.., lade,
end bun, thel orty goon» be had sad purled thereto
sad Het thaw& of the sayde College et lasn, of the outer
comb, 'and rd the gordeas Wag the precincts, be
roe it bre altos of Kent." At Eton, hoot
one weeigibed ore, the entire nee of stone be
mainatien alsoimed, and brickm were used.
It le Ow& hp mos that when a leo costly moartaction
win tielswined en, the grepleces were panelkni over, soon
lOW the moodasseseM id the hreldifog, mad lases so re-

nisi _ re relent efluedera
XL Water dr inehlter ea r reitkard
big pre r to ride the agrees Is the dela, of
which therhattell fosse en forreetir erl se iron
, sad wier, es le Wooded, -
ear=ll rouret te added, Iles Care will pos-
a hall werby of its framer% Wirer equal credit
se the afraid architect for its sore *swedes, and on the
reseal sr for Its elaborate adornment.
The whole of the alterationr havalionsieted through the
renficree of the Rev. John Wilda ens of the fellows, who
Ire she neatly placed three besatifital aemorial windows of
eteird ghee la the south side of the repel.

CAIOOII VALLZT.—MANACIZ OF AN EMIGRANT
Tea te..--Tbe &um next. Mimi bee advice* from Placer-
ville, sarsaitabg the arrival of a brie number of overland
=rein
zzibe Wing the intelligence of the maesecre of a
amlatlng of mix men and three children. One
mama we. ebet through and scalped, and left for dead, but
was bend Mil aim by those who came up Are. She is not
expealed feign tins Y being brought Into Carson Valley
Beemberde Mete. TY Awls was also retorored from the
I ane, in dein which only one Indian was killed. The
etoek I. in obey of Roundtree's train, 150 head. Among
!bobtail were Holloway and his brother-in-law. The three
&ahem mere murdered before the faces of their parents, and
horribly mutilated. The emigrants, to a man, ate willing to
jean a company to exterminate these lends. They are all of
the opinion that It will yet ke six weeks before the emigrants
all pass that locality, and express their Indignation that eo
move lam been made to organise • force in Placerville, it
beig only 300 mike beyond. Wino-tent!. of the emigrants
esould volunteer that are daily arriving in Carson alley.
Three mea had been murdered at Gravely Ford.
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