The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-25 00:00:00

THE GREAT EAST WINDOW IN CARLISLE
CATHEDRAL.

During the past week the great east window
in Carlisle Cathedral, justly said to be the finest in England
of the date, has been filled with stained glass iu memory
of the late Ik. Percy, Bishop of Carlisle. The cathedral
being situated so neer the harden of the two kingdoms had
▪ iffered much from the ma4:ar, and in the begianing
of the present century the east, window shored in
the general dilapidation, plate glass was substituted for
the " storied window, rightly dight," which had adorned
the venerable pile from the 14th century. The change was
often lamented by the inhabitants of Carlisle, who were not
without reason proud of their cathedral, but the expense
of restoring the stained glass made it such an
sacenorms undertaking, that even the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners, when they spent some 15,0001. in
works of restoration in 1854-6, shirked the task.
When Bishop Percy died, however, in 1856, his friends
set about collecting subscriptions for a memorial to him, and
a large sum having been raised, it was thought that no
better moment could be reared to the right rev. prelate
than to 611 with stained glass the maviffont east window
of the cathedral in the see which had has the scene of his
episcopal labours. The execution of the work was entrusted
to Messrs. Hardman, of Birmingham; and it was one of
some difficulty, as the stained ems in the eracieful tracery at
the top of the window still remained, having pulsed almost
unscathed through the conffagrations and ravages of cen-
turies, and therefore the lower part had to be hanseelsed
with the top. They have accomplished their task very
satisfactorily, and the elapse of every year will assimilate
still more closely the new to the old part. The
in the tracery is illustrative of the Last Jiidgineetelt
usual contrasts of the happiness of the blessed and the,
misery of the lost. The story of the new part just c0m..1
pleted is the life of Christ. The window us divided into
nine longitudinal lights by slender mullions, and the antral
i light, being rather breeder than the others, contras the
principal features of the design. The three principal grasps
,are—The Crucifixion, with the Mariee at the foot of the
cross, and angels at the top and on either side ; the Reser-
rectioo, with the Roman soldiers guarding the tomb; end,
topmost of all, the Ascension, with the apostles below sad
angels above. The other lights contain rumor groups inns-
' trative of passages in our Saviour's history. Bach group is
surmounted by an ornate canopy, and there are two rows of
medallion heads of the prophets sad salute. The metalling
' tone of the colomine b blue, which has the desirable effect
of subduing the brilliance of Mr. Owen Jones's gorgeous
mum calling. The general effect of the " dim religious
light" which is now diffused through the sacred edifice is
excellent, and such as to lead to the wish that the other
windows may also, before long, be maimed to their pristine
spisadonr.—Noccoatie Chronicle.

THE DEFENCES or Livr.aroor..—We understand
that the Liverpool corporate officials have received the
most satisfactory assurances from the government authori-
ties relative to the question of the defences of the port of
Liverpool.
ANOTHER FATAL CRINOLINE ACCIDEWT.—TCOAH'
day afternoon Mr. Rallies IValthew, the deputy cm roger,
held an inquest at the London Hospital, respecting the
death of Sarah Williams, aged 31 years, the wife of a
tailor's cutter, in the service of Messrs. Moses and Com-
pany, wholesale clothiers, of Cannonetreet Piet, City. On
S.iturday evening last the deceased, while in the act of
reaching a piece of paper which was behind a picture
hanging over the mantelpiece, her dress ignited, and she
immediately became enveloped in flames. She ran scream.
ing down the staircase and was followed by a lodger, when
the flames were with difficulty extinguished, but not until
her body and limbs were fearfully blackened and charred.
She was placed iu a cab and removed to the Hospital, where
she shortly afterwards expired. The deceased had on at
the time of the sad occurrence a very large crinoline petti.
coat. The deputy coroner remarked on the dangerous
practice of such decoratioes, when the jury returned a
verdict of "Accidental Death."

TRADE OUTRAGE); NEAR SHIPTIELD.—Two trade
outrages were committed on Saturday night at the village
of Thorpe Healey, • few miles from Sheffield. A number
of nail mskern, reading and occupying .hope in the village,
are is the employ of lir. Fayell, of Rotherham. A portals
of Mr. Farell's nom have been on strike for some weeks
ors question of wages, and great efforts have been made
to jades* the " knobsticks," es they are called, to join M
the strike, but without success. Amongst the men who
have continued to work are John Ilattersley, the foreman,
and Charles Butcher, both occupying shops iu the vil-
lage, in one of which a number of rues were employed.
Butcher occupies a house adjoining his shop, and shout
eleven o'clock on Saturday night was startled by a
loud report. He ran out and found his shop in rides.
The roof was setirely blows off ; the gable sod wag
nearly down, and the bellows and other internal fittings
were wholly or partially destroyed. The fragment. of Rom
which had been filled with powder were found with • striag
attached, from which it is inferred that the "infernal
machine" had been let down the chimney. While Butcher
and his neighbours were examining the ruins a second re-
port wee heard, and it was found that a similar explosion
had occurred at Hattersley's shop, but attended with some-
what lees damage. The nail makers having left work some
bourn before, no personal injury was sustained. This, how-
ever, has not resulted from any wish on the part of the
"retteners to limit their vengeance to • destruction of
property, for a few days ago a can of powder was found sus-
pended in the chimney of a butcher's workshop, on a work-
man going to light the fire in the morning, the object evi-
dently being to blow the shop down while the men were at
work, by leaving the powder to be ex pluded by the fire. The
criminals have as yet escaped detection.
The area of the quartz-bearing rocks at Victoria,
is Australia, is estimated at 25,000 square miles. The total
area of the extort of land at present mined upon is
that colony is 1561 square miles. Thus 89.920 square
acres have produced gold to the amount of 92,787,1361, es
an average of about Li 0321 per acre, and there yet remise
upwards of 15 million acres almost everywhere intersected
by quartz veins of roister or less thickness, which are age
yet intact by the pick of the miner.
The hare has been acclimatised in Australia,
aed is now running wild there.
The African mail steamer Armenian sailed
from Liverpool yesterday with the mails and a number et
passengers.