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native sources) that he had joined and counte-
nanced a plan to overturn British rule and
authority in Bengal and Upper India, and
thereby restore the i'lussulman dynasties.
In carrying out this scheme, we are told that to
the titular King of Delhi was to have been
given the North-West territory. Lower Bengal
was set apart for the kingly sway of His Majesty
of 0 ude, and the hereditary possessions of the
family was to be bestowed upon his brother,
whilst the Nawab of Moorshedabad was to be
rewarded with other portions of our Indian
possessions. At present these are only presented
to us as rumours, but there cannot be a doubt
that if there has been any settled plan or
systematic i,-2ot at the foundation of the mutiny,
it is most likely to have proceeded from the
former rulers of India. As to the Rajah of
Gwalior, he is in a position not favourable to
England. All his troops are in revolt against
the English Suzerainate. He remains with his
army, but has not countenanced any attack upon
European officers, and sent in all the European
females. The disbanding of the Bengal army
has proceeded, so that, at last advises, it
existed only in name. No confidence can be
placed in it. The Sikhs at Benares remained
faithful, and hopes were entertained that their
religious antipathies to B rah in inism would keep
them so. We are. also told that, notwithstand-
ing the occurrences at Simla, the troops remained
loyal to the British flag. As far as we can per-
ceive, the Bengal and Bombay armies remain faith-
ful, but there were certain evidences of political
uneasiness in the Nizam's dominions and at Sat-
tarah. The accounts from Delhi are of a hopeful
character. Although no positive information
had reached the Bombay authorities, the capture
of that city was certain to be effected. To
show the extent of the mutiny, we may remark
that we have a list now before us which specifies
that no less than fifty-eight regiments of the
Bengal army had mutinied, and twenty had been
disarmed. These latter, if they can obtain arms,
will no doubt join the rebels. Such is a mere precis
of the position in which we now stand. No
doubt the details are gloomy enough, and cause
timid minds to fear for the final result. The
moment of peril is not, however, a time for
encouraging a feeling of trepidation or des-
pondency.
Without noticing the probable result of this
important entente, we cannot refrain from
observing that from what has already transpired,
the military system of the whole Indian Empire
has shown itself to be incompetent .and weak.
The revolt of the Madras army proves how short-
sighted our military administrators have been
when they proposed to bring Lord DALHOUSIE
home at once to the ministry of war, and to put
an Indian general, with a staff of picked Indian
officers at the head of the army.
The reflections arising from a perusal of the
details of the Indian news are such as to satisfy
any one that our military resources are quite as
hollow in India as at home, and that the black
spots of incapacity, want of forethought, decision
of character, and military corruption, spread and
penetrate into every country and every clime
where the British standard floats over armed
forces.

We can detect but slight difference between
the military reports from India and what we
received during the Crimean campaign. Now,
as then, want of foresight in the generals, an
absence of management on the part of the
subordinates, a vast arsenal left comparatively
unprotected, dangers of the most serious character
provoked, without due means of facing them being
provided, are everywhere conspicuous, In a
word, capacity in the ranks and incapacity in all
other grades seem to be the lea ling traits in the
Indian mutiny.

When we come to dissect the subject in all
its bearings we shall not find difficulty in
demonstrating that from the Court of Directors
down to a mere lieutenant in charge of a
company of native troops, that there has been
incapacity or unwillingness—in some instances
both combined—to perform a simple but
pressing duty. Should this be so, it will cause
the people of this country to consider whether a
royal charter should be given to a trading and
commercial company to rule the destinies, poli-
tical, social, and moral, of an Empire unequalled
in geographical extent and position by any other
un the face of the globe.

As in the Crimean campaign, we have every
confidence that the result of the struggle will be
the complete and permanent supremacy of
England in India, and that in re-organising the
Indian army care will be taken to do away with
the system of growing incompetence which has
penetrated every one of its higher grades.

THE adjourned debate on the Divorce and
Matrimonial Causes Bill was resumed in the
House of Commons on Thursday, and again
on Friday, and for once the mini,try has
manifested energy enough to determine to
carry through the Bill this Session. No doubt
the opponents or the measure have been induced
to endeavour to strangle it, from the fact that
Lord PALMERSTON and his collegues have ex-
hibited on several occasions an extraordinary
amount of pusillanimity, and dreaded to en-
counter an earnest and determined opposition.
As we remarked last week, the motion for a post-
ponement of the further progress of the bill for
a month, was urged upon grounds flimsy and
fallacious in the extreme, and if the arguments
advanced by Mr. GLADSTONE and others, in
favour of the amendment proposed by Ur
•• ,

HENLEY, be good for anything, they would cer-
tainly plead an ample justification for their re-
jecting and refusing to deal with every question
brought before them. These very same gentle-
men do not generally chose to be led by the
House of Lords, or to recognise
;71 right of the
Peers, spiritual and teranejrab to take the initia-
tive in a measure relating to the social and moral
elevation of the people. The debate of Thursday
showed clearly that the opponents understooo
all its provisions with accuracy, and as it
proceeded the good sense of the majority of
members present compelled a discussion on the
merits of the bill, and not on points of fan-
ciful technicalities, or objections urged by a
species of special pleading, alike derogatory to
the matter in hand, and those gentlemen who
had recourse to them. Having been com-
pelled to debate the question in its entireity,
the opposition led by Mr. HENLEY censured
the Government for adopting such a strong
line of policy, but at the same time they
shrunk for assuming any line at all in op-
posing the Bill. What is the answer of
Government to this charge ? They declare that
they do not seek to create facilities for divorce,
and merely aim at transferring a class of causes,
which, unfortunately, frequently occur, from the
final decision of the Legislature to a properly
constituted legal tribunal. They do not seek to
infringe upon the principles of the marriage
law, by which the continuance or cancel-
ment of the marriage bond is decided, but
merely desire that a law which dates back full
two centuries ago shall be administered before
properly qualified and selected judges.
Crina. con. cases, that are a public scandel, they
desire to abolish, and to give every facility for
redress which man or wife can desire for the crime
of adultery, and offences akin thereto. Now,
read the speeches of Lord JOHN MANNERS,
Mr. DRUMMOND, Mr. BOWYER, and Mr. MALINS,
and analyse their respective arguments, and
what do they amount to, simply that they
admit the necessity for a change in the
administration of the marriage law, but do
not contend that marriage is indissoluble;
at the same time they will hold the advocates of
the Bill responsible for all the results which
may arise from putting its provisions in force,
and lay to their doors the blame of all adulteries,
fornications, bigamies, and poligamies, &c.,
which may hereafter take place. Such a mode
of attempting to defeat the Bill is childish—it is
political cowardice without the smallest fraction
of reason. It is somewhat singular that the
opponents of the Bill, whilst they cannot or will
not prove the indissolubility of marriage, will deny
facilities for releasing a man from a bad wife or
vice versa. In admitting that there should be
divorce, Messrs. HENLEY, GLADSTONE and Com-
pany would perpetuate the old, cumbersome, and
costly tribunal, the House of Lords, and the
Ecclesiastical Clourt., Iu raw, Lney would make
the Church the dispenser of laws regulating the
social and domestic concerns of families. The
more the opposition to the Bill developes itself,
the more do we detect priestly intolerance and
ecclesiastical arrogance. Hence, we cannot
wonder that Mr. BOWYER, the great advocate of
the Roman Catholic persuasion in the House of
Commons, should designate the Bill as one
infringing upon the very foundations of society,
and the fundamental principles of the Divine law.
We presume to differ with this learned gentle-
man. We hold that there is nothing in the
Divine law to compel a man to live with a
woman who is an habitual adulterer ; nor for a
woman to spend her life with a man, whose
conduct towards her is cruel and beastly in
the extreme.

We have somewhere read in the inspired

pages—" Be ye not unequally yoked together."
The very phaseology of the text shows that it
partakes of the character of a command ; and,
when we consider the miserable consequences of
a union where the habits, thoughts, and feelings
of the man and woman are diametrically opposite,
we cannot wonder that the supreme ruler should
positively prohibit such unnatural contracts. It
would be easy to argue, from both the Old and
New Testament, in support of the Bill, and in
contravention of what Mr. MALINS and Lord
JOIIN MANNERS advanced, but a reference to the
laws of England now existing. show that parties
divorced may marry again. We hope that now
the House of Commons has virtually assented
to the principle of
.the Bill, no more factious
opposition will be offered, and that the advocates
of the doctrines propounded by :the Bishop of
OXFORD and Mr. BowYER will find no further
sympathy. The measure is a just and necessary
one, and we trust Government will push it
forward with energy and determination.

I..PT Or PASSENGRRI PER B.M.S. ARAMA,
YORK To LIVEn.OOI'..—MiSS C. Guerin and friend, Mr. an.]
Mrs. DI, Miss Stewart, Miss M. L. Weaver, Mr. and
Mniel G. hay, Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Brown, and
servant, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Ransom, two Mires Goner,
Mr. N. P. Stewart, Miss M. Mitchel, Miss P. Swift, Mr.
and Mrs. J. S. Powel, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Eseher, ju*
two children, and nurse, Mrs. Ash, Mr. and Mr-
Walker, Miss Bates. Miss Gere, Mcs:rs. Yourg, J.
Charles Green, Charles Mason, J. A. Sr 'nalana,
daughter
Liters and, Messrs. J. W. Owens, Lauton,
Bernlie, S. Rock', Colonel Grasser
Walter, James Caugbey, E. Saparta- 'lllll3' •
D. Kuusf, J. Vasherg, James Pinta. , Fran is Valcz.
S. W. Alvood, J. 0,
Me. Torice, sister,
Strut, James Bichan, B. W. jr ,
nee ,
Master Biagi, Messrs.
anA. dommaiipdb,
oAnlsre.
nN,raEl
!ant iannsdlloll
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n, Mrs. Gener Lud servant,
E. Seers, Master Georg,: M.
KMire.anT.
aLnedv ta;
Lees, ' liar,ckhill, Livey, F Messrs. P. Ge- Jrice and infant, Mr. and Mrs. W.
R
der, Henry Alderhy: J. Leinan, H.
jnn., M. Ts• "Tissandier, J. H. Martin, Andrew Law,
Romagosa Bev' George Pantos, Mr. S. B.
John Far _dad two sons, Mr. Manuel Romagosa, Rev.
Bancrc.` D. 11., Mr. and Mrs. Strachar, Messrs. J. G.
Vero •,t, F. E Parker, Osborne Chambers, L. Loreng,
T. - Fos'er, J. B. Payon, J. Goiner, R. Propley, Mr.
• ()rice's man servant, Messrs. Barzelo Howes, M. Steel, J.
iWright, Meat-H, Lear, S. F. Edwards, Ferguson, Mr. Lee's,
servant.

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THE REV, MR. MARTINEATJ'S FAa.. SWELL

SERMON.

Yesterday the Rev. James Martineau delivered his
farewell sermon to the congregation whose minister he
`,ad been for 25 years. The Hope-street church was
densely crowded in every part, add gnat numbers belong.
ing to other congregations and religious denominations
were among those present. The Rev. Mr. Martineau
selected as his text, the seventh verse of the third chapter
of St. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians—" Neither is he
that planteth anything, neither he that watereth, but God
tae:t giveth the increase." Sinking deep into these words
of the ai.e estle said the rev. gentleman, he touched the
~.
ranchorage in that agitating hour. He
only ground is. .
's all. Let him hold to that rock, and
was nothing..-.t get
e grief, fear, and love, sweep by.
let the passionate tide
re glad to merge ourselves
There were times when WC Ws, end lessen the size of
away into a speck of insignifleatieoe eestness of the
all things mutable and sorrowful, by the in that
Divine light and space. So let it be 'with Mtn „,f
hour. He desired to escape from hineeelf into Mee
whose husbandry he was the transient instrument, wbo
gave the seed to plant the field, and the showers to water
It, and who never ceased to provide the increteee. , Even
from his friends around, whose parting looks, if they were
seen alone, would too much move him, he would fait;
escape into a more august presence. He would fain
steady his uncertain eye by fixing it on those who once
were with them, but who had passed to the service of a
higher world. The seats of the church were far from
including all who were among them that day. Behind
the visible congregation to whom he spoke, there was an
invisible crowd. The comrades who once mingled their
voices with those now present ; the elders who had laid
their burthens down among them ; the children snatched
from the threshhold to the very crown of life—all of
whom death had promoted from their company—seemed
among them now, and from their shadowy ranks many a
well-known face seemed to look towards h'ne, and many a
familiar tone to be heard. Yet these times were, alas,
but the echo of his own feelings. The cloud of witnesses
around them could shed the truest light upon their paths,
could they but know whether those who were gone yet
thought and cherished any love which was born with
their worship herel whether any snatches of the earthly
strains, still blended with their soundless prayers ;
whether they had, w:nout a change of gospel, entered
upon a change of worlds, he would fain take courage and
believe that when that congregation joined to-day in a
parting hymn, the dead and the living would swell the
sound. The twenty-five years of service which had now
reached their close, were, no doubt, much in any indivi-
dual life, and were fraught with the spoils of an entire
generation. For each individual they had, doubtless,
written a long story; and, in the cabinet of memory, had
set many a tragedy wrung from their hearts. But in the
life of a church, and still more in the history of humanity,
such a period was but a little spot, barely enabling them
to trace the course of a movement, and forbidding even
the presumption to take its measuse. Changes, however
—perceptible changes—there must have been during an
interval so considerable. Such a period could not pass
over a society and a denomination such as theirs without
altering the proportions, if not shifting the centre of its
development. Whoever had lived with them through that
period, whoever could transport himself back in memory
to the commencement of it, must surely be aware that the
seasons were somewhat altered for their faith; that the
lights and shadows of their religious life, fell not precisely
as they did once ; that the words and thoughts which
stirred them to their depths wore not exactly the same ;
that their relations to Christendom were more general;
and that they were passing from outward courtesies to
something like inward sympathy ; so that upon the whole
if it were possible exactly to reproduce the administration
of religion which adequately served for the last genera-
tion, it would scarcely serve to assuage the living thirst
to bed the prooont socrct of their souls. Let them leave
it to narrow-hearted men to treat this change as a
reproach to the age, or as its pride, and to dispute
whether the morning twilight of God's truth was fairer
than the evening, and the spring of the northern hemi.
sphere than that of the southern. Let them rather recog-
nise the season which God adjusts at will, and sees that it
is good. His truth, they might depend upon it, was
something infinite, which could not be rounded off. His
light was an everlasting stream, which cannot cease fliw-
ing ; and so long as faithful men would humble themselves
to be his organs, he would not want for true interpreters.
Nay, even reaction was but part of a Providential law of
osciliation in completing the beat of each movement of
progress. Into the spaces of thought which were left
cold and vacant in one age, rushed the enthusiasm of the
next. By leaving perhaps dry and stranded some deserted
truths, the reflux of a third age might yet reach them.
We are all of us the children of our own time. Its tem-
perature reaches, whether we know it or not, to the very
pulses of our hearts. Against the truth, as it had been
committed to others, he did not in any degree presume to
measure the truth which they had received. Each one
must speak as he saw. He would speak of what had pos.
sensed him from the beginning, and which would hold him
until he could perceive better than as through a glass.
Darkly, the one deep faith which had determined his
whole work and words among that congregation, was a
faith in the living union of God with our humanity.
Long did that faith live obscurely within him, ere it
could find its way to a clear joy. It was not enough for
him to believe that God exists. ~,It did not satisfy him to
believe that God was the living king of all, who stood
aloof from all. It was very hard to believe that he
dwelt and never stirred in the universal space ; that
he restricted all to an inexorable law which could never
hear the most piercing shriek, and look with strong eye
upon the upturned face of agony. It seemed to him to
stain the very Heaven to charge God with the origin of
human guilt, to represent him as moulding man into sin,
and then punishing him out of it. A mere constructive and
legislating God, satisfied to adjust co-existence, and to
establish successions ;2 who filled the cold sky, and
brooded over the waste sea, and watched upon
the mountain head, and embraced the waxing and
the waning moon, and suffered the tide of history to
sweep by him, unmoved by its most passionate and sur-
ging waves—a God who wrung from us thousands .ot
sighs which never touched him ; who drew forth from us,
by day and night, millions of prayers which he never

answered—puch a one it was vain ever to attempt to I
trust and to love. ,Nay, at times, faith] in such a being,
seemed but to turn the darkness of Atheism into flame.
Nor could he believe the stillness and inaccessibility of
God att all compensated by exceptional miracles. An
oce_a,ssional message rather served to render more sensi-
ble and undeniable the usual absence and silence; nor
could the sender say to his servant, " You go back,"
without implying, " I stay hero." Merely to add to the
Deists' God of nature, an historical fragment of miracle
did nothing to meet the exigencies of human piety. We
pine as prisoners until we reach the air of that supernatural
life, where he lives eternally. We are parched with
thirst until we can approach the running water of that
quickening and filling affection. We seek for him imme-
diately—him in person—him in the whispers in the day—and
eye to eyein the night—him ready with moistening dews for
every dried heart, and breathing hope for every sorrow.
Does the incubus of nature press ? Enter into his spirit
and you will throw it off. Are you haunted by the con-
stancy of law ? Balance it by the perpetuity of inspira-
tion. God's presence in the lower realms of the universe,
would seem to him but a cold unreality—a Pagan dreary,
if he could not trace him in the highest realms of all the
consciences—the spirits of /415 childroh, Surel;;: tba

changes of time and season, the day and night, the Arctic
frost, could better spare him than the overcharged heart
and fevered life of our humanity. In Christ alone there
was a reconciliation, perfect between the human and the
"vine. We all find in Christ God's ideal purely
a..
1. but the two natures which are in him meet inrealise...
only an exemplar of the living and constant
unionall,
and
of he
Godb'
wu _ h
our humanity. Such was the faith
t
(the preacher) as the very
which always possessed him.
principle of life. How far he ;lad been able to awaken it
in his hearers, and by its power to stir in their hearts the
waters of healing and consolation, only the discerner of
hearts and spirits knew. Necessarily it had affected all
his teachings and instructions, and imparted to them.
perhaps a character of more intensity and breadth.
Hence the urency with which he had aspired to rise with
them out of the regions of obedience into the regions of
communion, not only to leave behind the calculations of
spiritual prudence and self-interest, but to emerge even
from the necessities of moral seledepenaance, anjt
fully to pass into the hand of God. Service is for the
distant—sympathy for the near. We should not blame
those who cannot shape themselves to order, but who are
-eoulded by the gentlest pressure of reverence and
freely — e
-elution is weak
love. In spiritual things zee_ , and soon
drops the Labouring oar, but Faith, spreading her sheet,
flies beforethe winds of heaven. Purely ethical, weking
under the moral law, gives' a Jewish hardness to our
individuality. liis aim was to loose the rersonal will, lAA
the ties of the Divine affections, and to be reconciled by'
becoming one with the living spirit of holiness. Surely we
had enough in the rough world to secure self-respect, and
we might be able to bear something of the humble and
modest trust which flows from the conscious presence of
God's life in our hearts. Hence, also, he had ever striven
to foster among them what he might call the lesser
attachments of our inner life. The genuine admiration
which flows into hearts genial and pure from objects short
of the very highest. The huge chasm which Protestant-
ism placed between the Creator and the created, between
human loves and the divine affections, was painful to him.
He would rather cling to the Catholic veneration for the
saints, as a minor form of love, akin in type to that which
passed f nite bounds. Nature, art, and character thus
presented to the eye thousands of resting-places for the
upward toil. Resting-places there were which were far
from detaining the progress upwards, but which carried the
vision upwards by an ascending attraction to the light of
lights. Unaided by such assistance, men were apt to carry
on at once two lip es, which never mingle the ideal and the
actual, the devout and the secular, and to dip in and oat by
the force of influence or of reason, conscious of a mechanical
mixture without any blending of identity. Again, the same
sences of the living union of God with humanity would
relieve from all fear and anxiety respecting the issues of
enlarging knowledge, scientific and historical. The vanity
of progress and the shrineing of conservatism were egotist
both, which should lose themselves, their fancies and their
fears, in a full trust of God's infinite realities. The spirit
which, in relation to other questions, and as to his indivi
dual course of ministration had guided him in that con-
gregation, the rev. gentleman further explained, and
then proceeded :—But these lingering words must have an
end. He had only desired once more to count over the
stored up fruits of 25 years, and then to turn upon them
the key of sacred memory, and depart. The past time
had been rich in precious friendships, chastened with
some holy sorrows, but darkened, thank God, by no
shadows of estrangement. He had had an asso-
ciate possessed of a large mind and a genial
heart, one loved and honoured beyond most
living men, and another to whom it, would be a pure joy
to leave his charge in that church, that fair and stately
house of God, whence, indeed, many faithful had been
called to one yet statelier, but where a congregation still
assembled. They had had schools created for the Sunday,
and vastly increased for every day, They had classes for
the young, whose ranks were never better filled. Thep
had i
erovsiee:h of ore of bOOO Co.:1,11e atudliuuS eye, and
discussions for the enquiring mind. They had the
festival of communion attended by large numbers, the
traces were everywhere of a successful brotherhood of
Christian labours. These were blessings from which it
needed a very importunate season of duty to call him.
Yet these evidences of outward encouragement, were they
ever so great, would not at all answer his prayer for
some vestige of benediction upon his labours. Far more
sweet to him would it be if, in all that time, but
a few souls, nay one here and one there, were
reborn into, a diviner faith, love, and trust; if,
above all, he could think that any of those
who has exchanged their communion for a better one
still felt the tones which they had received here not out
of tune with the higher harmony which they now
enjoyed. In conclusion, the rev. preacher said--And now
the last word must come. It was human to wish not to
be forgot. Yet they might believe him, that to bo lose
from their memory, and to die away by the dawn of what
was higher, was his most present and inmost wish. Could
he indeed fear, that hereafter heedless change and fading
reverence might betray into a lower mood ; that instead of
taking up the beauty of the place:and the afil tence of their
opportunities as simple organs of expression, for their own
prayers, they should degrade them into a mechanism of
attraction, into the rhetoric of a sect canvassing for
worldly but not real worship—then, indeed, it would be a
bitter thing to be thus forgot. But for the rest, the
sooner and the further a greater and a holier spirit
snatched them away, and left the years of the past
unshadowed and traceless, the intenser would be his joy,
that his work had reached its end, that he had been poured
out and lost upon the offering of their faith, and that the
sacrifice was paid and completed.

The sermon, of which tho above is but a necessarily
imperfect abstract, was listened to with the deepest
attention, and amid many evidences of irrepressible emo -
Lion on the part of the hearers.

THE COUNCIL AIBETING.—ThI Council meeting on
Wednesday will be held in the small Concert-room, St.
George's-hall, in order to ascertain whether this room is
more suitable for the purpo e then the N-ventilated, and
in many other respeCs inconvenient, chamber where the
Council Mao transactyd their business up to the present.

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DEATH FROM EXCESSIVB DRINKING.-13etween three
and four o'cicck on Saturday moraine, a sailor was found
drunk, near the Custom-house. ge was lying on the
ground, and was quite insensible. He was :taken to the
Northern Hospital, but never rallied, and he died there on
Sunday. Au American protection ticket, bearing the
name of J. Wells, was found on him. -An inquest will be
held on the body this clay.
NEW CHURCH AT HIGHER BEBINGTON.—On Satu•
the foundation-stone of a new church was laid at T .relay
Bebington 197 Mrs. W. V. Willis, the wife of „‘f, igher
Valiant Willis, of bighei Bebington. The , --31 r. W.
be called " Christ Church." and the finer church ia to
.4
foundation-stone explains its history. IP ription on the,
holy and:Tilef blessedoundatio ion-ssatovneuro,f thi3 churn. !s as follows :
was laid ..
..-t..)., dedicated to our
year of grace, 1857, by Eliza 711.,1ta..!"6” Day, in
.the
Valiant Willis, Esq. The 1.a,,d
0""'11!;15" 'de of liam
r.fisiderel '
was erected was the r..eft of 1v,.0 .ch this building
Higher of Woodcy„h, a„,, the Rev. Joshua
of Pebington, aied the fur!' - George King, Esq.,
.ds were contributed by a
to erect a church to„ the
~,,js„. et a privilege to be enabled
few individuals who e
lof God in this place. Wal-
ter Scott, arcbitact; Jae -
church is to be. in the .eel Routledge, builder." The
arehitectue, and is 11, first or pointed style of English
will
consbt
or a ; , accommodate about 400 persons. It
witnhave, north and south aisles, chancel.
organ chapel) •
length of 0. cnr:s and sacristy ; and the total
e nave will he 84 feet 7 inches, and of the
chancel 1'
-8 feet—in all 112 feet 7 inches, with
awid9'. of nave, including the aisles, of 57 feet. Be-
fore 'ale ceremony of laying the stone, the Rev. George
Troughton, LL.B., Incumbent, delivered an appropriate
P .ddress. Among the other clergymen and gentlemen
, present were—Rev. Mr. Coxon, Rev. J. King, Rev. P.
1 Robin, Rev. Mr. Wiltink, Rev. Mr. Franks, and Messre.
w. V. Willis, M. Willi,, V. A. King, J. Clint, and B.
Troughon. n the course of time a tower and side aisles
will he added to the building.