The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-27 00:00:00

The Chapel Royal of the Savoy.

Yesterday this Royal and very ancient church,
which has just been restored by the munificence of
her Majesty, and with which so many interesting
historical associations are connected, was again
opened for Divine worship, and the Dean of West-
minster, Dr. Stanley, preached a sermon on the oc-
casion. It will be recollected that the fabric was in
great part destroyed by fire in July, 1864, and that
all the more interesting parts of it, especially a very
beautiful ceiling and some fine monuments, perished
in the flames. The disaster was generally deplored
at the time, particularly by the inhabitants of the
ancient precinct of the Palace of the Savoy, to whom
the chapel was an object of peculiar veneration. No
time, however, was lost in its restoration, and the
fabric has now risen again from its ruins at the cost
of the Queen, as Duchess of Lancaster, to the great
gratification of the parishioners and of persons of
archwological taste. It has been rebuilt at a cost of
about £5,000, under the superintendence of Mr.
Sydney Smirke, the eminent architect ; the roof has
been embellished very much after the design of that
which was destroyed, but with greater splendour ; the
great Tindow over the altar has been magnificently
painted, and a fine organ erected at the southern end
of the chapel. Over the window is a Latin inscription
to the effect that it was presented by the inhabitants
of the precinct in 1843, destroyed with the chapel
in 1864, and restored by Queen Victoria in me-
mory of the Prince Consort in 1865. A beauti-
ful font has been contributed at great cost by
Mrs. De `Vint, a parishioner, in memory of her
husband and brother, the water-colour painters, and
in place of a mural monument of them which perished
in the fire, and Mr. Burgess, an inhabitant of the
precinct, has given an oaken pulpit of chaste design
and elegantly carved.

DEATH AMONG THE AUTHORS.—Mr. Sala writes :
'Whom the gods love die young they say ; but in our age
it would seem as though the most intellectually favoured
were permitted to arrive at maturity, and were then, with-
out preparation, smitten down. Lord Macaulay, William
Makepeace Thackeray, Albert Smith, David Roberts, Eliza-
beth Barrett Browning, John Leech—all died with awful
suddenness. Now it is Mrs. Gaskell. Who next, and
next ?"

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The annual
meeting of the members will take place on Tuesday next
the 28th inst., at 2 p.m., at Exeter-hall ; Viscount Ranelagh
in the chair.

MARRIED OR NOT MARRIED.—WhiIe a couple
were being married in Preston Church the other
morning, the mother of the young lady, who was under
ago, rushed into the church and forbade the wedding. The
officiating minister !at once stopped the service, and the
bridegroom had pronounced the words "With this ring I
thee wed," declared that no legal marriage had taken place.
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before the Lord Advocate. Meantime a new distribution
of handbills has been ordered to be made throughout the
city and county. On Monday last the mother and grand-
father of the child made a visit to Irvine, from which they
walked back as far:as Glasgow, inquiring at all the police-
stations on their way, but the clue they supposed they had
in that direction turned out unsuccessful. The suspicion
is entertained by the police that the child must have been
taken away by some woman who desired to establish a claim
for aliment as a mother - a suspicion more probable than
that the infant was taken for purposes of meadioancy.—
Edinburgli Courant.