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London, England, 1825-11-04 00:00:00

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On laying the friumlttion stone of the new Church is
Great Oxford-street North, Liverpool, on Friday last,
the Lord Bishop of Chester, on receiving the: trowel (a
very beautiful instrument of silver), n.ade the followirg
eloquent and appropriate address:--
" I have very great satisfaction in officiating upon this mealier.
It is an occasion of awful interest which assemhies its for the gar.
pose of lieginning a work that is to make provision fin the spiritual
wants of our poorer brethren. I bless God that the spirit a bid! has
influenced this individual act here, namely, a regard for there
gious itthrests of the pour, is strongly revived, and greatly active
every where throughcut the , kingdom, and in all classes of the
wealthy. Much has bean don by individuals, and much by Os
government, to meet the spiritual wants of the Nor. It is the
duty of a govemtnert to do so, and I rejoice that the governtnon
of this country is fully alive to the obligation of that duty. Tte
liberality of individuals has conspired with the liberality of the
body alio so well preslde over the wealthy estate of this borough,
in the promotion of this work. Both' are worthy of all manic
The view of the building that is to arise upon this spat, rith the
necessarily accompanying thought of its usefulness, will be at
once a recompense to those to whose exertions and lilaVtlfite spa
poor owe it, and an incentive to further similar ef. ,:a. I mi
pleased too in the thought that this structure will be treopspleue"
object in the eyes of the numerous seamen belonging tome pan.,
meeting the seaman's eye when he leaves his native pb tlfor 46.
Mot countries, and when he happily returns, the idea of tune, in
both circumstances, will he associated with the idea of religion. 1
give thanks tolGod that the strong word which I see optirging
up for the spiritual well-being or the poor, which pervader-r-
-vemment and subjects alike, is simultaneous with the artsiar
diffuse religious education among the poor, .Religion sup Iko.
ledge ought never to be disjoined. I now proceed, wit gent
pleasure, to do the office of laying the foundation of the building."
The Bishop having spread the mortar, and the conning
stonebeing lowered into its place, when it was settled, his
Lordship took a mallet anti struck the stone, and corn.
plated the form of laying the foundation. His Lordship
then made an itnpreasive prayer, the attendant crowd
standing uncovered ; and having pronounced the usual
benediction the ceremony was concluded.
The churchwarden, who had held the trowel timing the
prayer, new presented it to his Lordship, calling his at.
tension to its inscription, which is as follows ;
" This trowel, with which the Right iZererend Charles Jame.,
Lord Bishop of Chester, laid the foundation stone of the rational
church, in Great Oxford-street North, was presented to him by tit
parish of Liverpool, 28th October, Iffiri."
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His Lortlshrip said lie was 'highly gratified to receite
from the parishioners such &pleasing memento of the occa-
sion, and that it would at all times give him sincere plea•
sure to be instrumental in promoting their welfare.
In the evening his Lordship, the clergy, churchwarden,
and other gent:emcn, dined with the Mayer iu the Tone.
hall.

We are not a little gratified to find that several clergy-
men have attended to the recommendation of the Bishop
of Chichester, at his primary visitation, to promote sale
scriptions amongst their parishioners, in support of that
ancient and highly useful society, denominated the " So-
ciety for promoting Christian Knowledge." IVe hope this
example, in conformity with tbe recommendation of the
Bishop, will be followed by every parish in the diocese.—
Brighton Gazdte.
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WINDSOR, THURSDAY, Nov. 3.

The Princess Augura arrived at Frogmere yesterday,
from Bagshor Park, wh-te her Royal Highness ha beau
staying on a visit to the Duchess of Gloucester for some
41a) s.
The Duchess of Gloucester has left her residence a: Bag-
shorfor Brighton.

. The Duke of Viourester is on a shooting excursion is
Dorsetshire.

The Duke of Devorshire arrived at the Castle in a roach
and four from the yal Lodge, where his Grace bad Nen
staying on a visit to the King. Mr. Wyattrille was in
waiting, anti attend, cl hia Grace over the works at die
Castle.

The royal standard was blown down from the top of the'
!blind Tuner this morning; another standard has been
put in its plac.

There continues to prevail mach speculation as to the
prebabilityof the King's visiting Brighton this winter ; for
ourselves we have no doubt whatever that his Majesty will'
res:de here during the winter menths.—Brfghtnn Gazette.
The Duke anti Duchess of Clarence left their residence
at Bushy yesterday, and proceeded to the residence of the
Duchess of Kent. at the King's Palace, Kensington. übe•e
the Duchess of Clarence alighted. The Royal Puke sr
rived at his residence in Charles-street, Berkeley-square,
about 11 o'clock. His Royal Highness left town abotit
three o'clock for Kensington, from whence the Duke ard
Duchess of Clarence returned to Bushy.
The Duke of Cumberland visited the Prineas %phis
yesterday.
The Princess Augusta paid a visit yesterday afternoon to
the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, at their residence st
Bushy.

Prince Leopold left town yesterday, for his res'Lltm at
Claremont.

NU Frt.% ts OF Tli E Ilfatatrta WILLEgt. LY.—We Stat. d
yesterday such particulars of the marriage of hie Excellency
the Lord Lieutenant as Fad transpired. There was no
official rlitort of the ceremony, as it was conducted with sr
much of the forms of a-private celebration, as was at all ern•
sistent with the elevated rank of the illustrious Marquis.
Mr. Blake, the Chief Remembrancer, has ordered rive
hundred yards of silk, of the richest description, to be
manufactured in the liberty, for hangings anti furniture
for his splendid mansion in S:ephen's-green, preparatory
to a street rtion of grand entertainments, which he putp to;
giving in consequence of the rem; inarrisge.—Dahlia Fru.
man's Journal.

Madame Vestris is engaged at Covent-garden Ti e.
She will perform on Monday next.
Beolh has been engaged at the Brighton the t "for
two nights." He is announced in the bills as 8' that cd,.
hratel actor, Mr. Junius Brutus Booth, of the I.ll,suf
Royal, Drury-lane."
The departure of Martrier has made it blank at tl3:
Porte St. Martin, which i: will be didieult to fill up. 'lht
manag rs hare had recourse to Terpaichoret and la} t 6
aside h:asts. hare got from Louden a number of chilt!ret.
Young masters and misses jumped about on the vast star
of the Porte St. Ma-tin, but the experiment did not ti:
ceed, and the little dancers were but coldly received ba !Lc
audience.—Pares Parr.
A feat, which we can scarcely credit, but wllich .5 tr.
ported to us by good authoti,y, is said to hare Ivei Pt'
formed at Newmarket, on Thursday last, by a 1-',! 0/
Commoner of Cambridge. For a wager of a t

sum this geneman itnrilertook to walk fiy mil's.
fifty, and drive fifty, within twent five! mini : 01'6
Herculean task he performed in two sr three 110112 S nit'
his time. The pedestrinn part cf the fro lie ICI .'I "I
tirst, and for the other two, it is stated, he had twc.%c 'e
lays.—Bury lte.
It is said that the man and wornsn servant to
lets in Glonecster-plrc?, are the Wellies; re!! •r‘ tae ar•
ciattd in the nice catladty to another part of !) c e
long ahoct a :welveconth 41, in B•tturuont-slt.vt.

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LITERARY GLEANINGS::
No.
vow LA CtlAttlt —I have Deem few things more touch-
mg than tneglected he cemettry of I'ere to How different
be , deserted appearance of oar church-
s .
In them the dead appe tr uneared-for and forgot-
...7whik bete there are daily tokens of their still living in
,--'mebranee and erection. In the piece of rank grass and
Foul weeds springing round the graves, and giving token
pti
_f the corruon below, arc garlands hung on the tombs,
0,, e gr
vet we e owing around them. There is something
'" e
wag in this custom. Deep affliction, it is true,
net bear to be brought so strongly into contact with
the memorials of the loss which has caused it ; but when
rief tees its character of despair, and becomes softened
into melancholy, it loves time to weep over and adorn the
/these whom we have dearly loved and bitterly la-
ses c
mond.
hoe) the anxiety concerning the manaer of burial,
which is so common, to he a very pitiful feeling ; and I
st„, in szy own person, wholly cerviess of what becomes
of ere areas when the spirit is gone ;—but that is very
,hgerent from feeling similarly with regard to those we
10„. Beason is wholly powerless in such cases—we cannot
best ee think that what imnaina of them should not have
eery respect and homage. It is in this spirit, that it
wed me to see how carefully all the graves at the Pere
chnee were railed round ;—that the dust with which a
ere feral is covered, and of which it is so quickly become
pert, should not be carelessly or wantonly trae.pted bj
letbairent or irreverent feet. Some of the chaplets, it is
„„e, !tad withered, anti the flowers were foiling away ; but
mat,—in many even whose dates were of some years'
.„eing,—the plants were carefully tended, and the gar-
lose frequently changed. This, perhaps, may be done be
note who are paid for doing it ; but one loves, in such
to deceive oneself, and to think, that there are Nom*
affections which will stand the test of death, and even of
time itself.
I was struck with the number of tombs of young peaple
young women especially: from fourteen to nineteen were
th; insctiberi on numberless
,graec-stones. Among
these, I Was csceesively touched with accidentally Hewing
vn the tomb of --- I did not even know that she hnd
died Xi Par's. I had thought it was a: Tours ; so that
wet surprised as well as affected to 11:01 mysel standing
et.r bar grave. The stone simply tells you her name.
web that of her father, and of his place in SCOTLANS: it
" she died on the ?xi of May, 1819. aged nineteen
vest" There never was a mote simple and touching
:deg! than these last wools—" aged nineteen years," What
a 131: do they tell of crushed hope and blasted expects- 4
tiati—ofthe broken-heattetincss of parents anti family, and,
is may be, f a still more vivid sine ion. And yet my
sorrow Intr. the ,grave of a young peraou. more esptcially
one of high taleeit and war:a feeling like this. is never
unmieed. 1 always call to mind the touching and true
eietepli Quoted, or more probably cote fosed, by MADAME t
At St•AL—" err me pl,;tignr2 pas-31. Lulls Aarietrombien
de pines re tombeau rri.t lost km II)w few, indeetl, see'
dm chows such a pesson so&sesses of happiness hereL-•
hew many of rnisfortuttel
.This poor girl's tome ba& no flowers round it, like the-
reat; the disfiguring Weeds were, beginning to cover it.
lice boots lie in a elfin& land, and the hearts and hands
of affection, which weitdil have " het humble grave
adorned," are far sway. It is strange that I should have
felt so much—for I did feel much—at the grace of a per-
son whom I never saw, and of whom I had hearth but
i"tuk. But that little was of so interesting a nature—l
knew her to be so gifted, and I had hoard she W/1210
stmlile and lovely, that I could not help being touch
sand it finding myself thus suddenly and unexpectedly
beside her gave. Her fate is the mere melancholy, as she
is wither the fast nor the last of ha family who have
recliel that interesting age, when the power of 'natured
person and intellect is added to, without impairing, the
trrshaen and charm of extreme youth—and then have died.
Elle coit tie ce monde ei In plus bells chases
Ont le pine destin—
Et, wee, elle a MU Ca 90e vivent les roses,
L'ospace dun maim!
'fire incriptions of the tombs, generally, are in good
taste: there are more expressions of affectidn, and fewer of
eaaggerated panegyric than is usual in one sepulchral in-
scriptions. The Froseb have an infinity of expressions of
tontines of great simplicity and elegance ; and these are to
be net with at every turn. How different is "Te
CAI execnt—to es ncort,on &ideate from our cold, common-
place, " he lived beloved, an) died regretied ;" and the
Empleexclametion "Ire repose Marie! would in English
i.e crude and bald, if not affected. I need scarcely quote
tie fo:losiug well-known and b.autiful eeutence, so full of
tom and deprivation .
A man seta soli I—II feoit men Pere."
1 was s isprised to find here the tomb of MILLARD and
Noels?; I had never Leant, or I had forgotten, that it
had been removed from " Paraclete's white walls and silver
springs;" though since that it has undergone two changes
of plsw, as it was till lately in the church of .the Petits
Augustine. It bears three inscriptions, all on the some
sek:—those at the two extremities are the following:
• ie tombeau tr ABELARD n stet runtporte de TEttise de At.
Jf leeffes, Chalons-sew-Saone, en Tan 9."--" I.es rtatesl
e. McLean': et d'Assztreitv song reenis dins re tombeau."
lie centre one Is very long, mid purports to have been
placed there by Cat'eerine de la Roeltefoneeld, Abbess,
S. Join, 1701. It conveys the novel infurmaul in that Ans.-
lint sad Usloise were married !—and calls their letters "ks
tfaatradreset les plus spit :turtles." It further intimates
that A)elard, by way of tes:ifying his penitence for having
PlOlOllll a Treatise on the Trinity, which a council of
Soigne. held to be heterodox, caused three figures to be
very ill carved on the same stone—which atone forms part
s 4 Ife Lomb. This capueinaec of on inscription is sadly
eat ef keeping with th: ass.:ciations with which one visits
this celebrated tomb. " The stone where their cold silica
le" vught not exile disfigured by such trash as 'hie.
In addition to all the interest of this place, it is a spot of
gee: actual bewa. It is of considerable extent, along
ape rise of a gentle hill ; and the variety of cypress, willow,
fe, end ?entering shrubs of all kinds. tningted nil the
Nile and monuments, which are in great number, and of
mem farm sod size, gives it the appearance of a pieturerque
eartieu, as agreeable to the eye as its associations are lute-
:ream, to the beset and mind. I quitted it with great regret.