The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-27 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LOINDON, MONDAY MORNING JUNE 27: 16'70.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

First on the list of the orders of the day for to-day
comes the re-committed Elementary Education Bill, on
which progress was reported by the committee on Friday.
Next comes the University Tests Bill, as amended to be
considered, and several bills of less importance, such as
the Extradition Bill, the Gun Licensee Bill, and the
Clerical Disabilities Bill, are also down for con=
sideration in - committee. Second readings of
the Game Laws Amendment Bill, the Proces-
sions (Ireland) Bill, and the High Court of
Justice and Appellate Jurisdiction Bills, are fixed. Ques-
tions will be put to the Secretary for War by Mr. Dent
and by Sir P. O'Brien respecting the deaths from sunstroke
on the march to Aldershot. —On Tuesday the Ballot Bill
comes on for second reading, and the Burials and Public
Prosecutors Bills, both of which are re-committed, are
also on the list. Mr. Sclater Booth will move that the
Public Prosecutors Bill go into committee on that
day three months. The Attorney-General has a similar
notice against the Married Women's Acknowledgment
Bill which is down for the second reading. On Wednes-
day the Sale of Liquors on Sunday Bill is to be read a
second time, and the adjourned debate on the Medical Acts
Amendment Bill will be resumed. Mr. Alderman Law-
rence has a notice of motion against the first, and Mr.
Brady against the latter. On Thursday the orders of the
day are comparatively uninteresting to the general public
except the New Zealand loan. The Factories
and Workshops Bill is on the list for the
second reading, Mr. Potter moving its rejection.
On Friday the order of the day is the Mines Regulation
and Inspection Bill for re-committal, while among the
notices of motion are two naval ones. Mr. Hanbury-
Tracy will call attention to the report of the committee
on the Naval Reserve, and Sir John Hay will have a
motion on the great loss of men which has resulted from
the enjoyment of the Flying Squadron.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bart., of The
Abbey, Amesbury, Wilts ; Lower Cheam, Surrey ; the
Terrace, Piccadilly ; and 59, Strand, was proved in the
London Court, on the 10th inst., under £300,000
personalty. The executors are his sons, Sir Edmund
Antrobus, Bart., and Hugh Lindsay Antrobus, Esq.,
The will is dated October 4, 1861, and a codicil, June 24,
1864. The testator died, at his residence, Piccadilly, on
May 4 last, aged 78: To his wife he has be-
queathed an immediate legacy of £2,000, with a residence
and an annuity that will, with her settlement and other
provisions, maks up £4,000 a year. To his sons, Hugh
Lindsay and Robert Crawford, he leaves each a legacy
of £lO,OOO, in addition to like sums previously given
to them, and also leaves like legacies to his
daughters, in addition to similar sums given to
them on marriage. Having, in. conjunction with
Mr. E. Marjoribanks, some time since purchased of
the Duke d'Aumale the domain of Chantilly, and the
forest, woods, and residence at Clermont, in France, be-
longing to his Royal Highness, he has devised his right,
share, and interest in such estates to his son Hugh
Lindsay Antrobus, and has also bequeathed to him
his estate at Cheam. He has left to Miss Burdett
Coutts, as a mark of respect, a legacy of 100 guineas
to purchase a ring. He has bequeathed to each of
the partners in the banking-house a legacy of £5OO, to
each clerk a suit of mourning, and legacies to his
servants. The residue of his property, real and personal,
he leaves to his eldest son, the present Baronet. The
will of Charles Holland, Esq., merchant, of Liverpool,
and of Liscard, was proved at Chester, under £200,000
personalty.—The will of Mrs. Frances Drake, widow,
formerly of Walthamstow, and late of Harlow, Essex,
was proved in London, on the 9th inst., under £60,000.
personalty. The will of Edward Wilson, Esq., of Rigmaden
Park, Westmoreland, was proved under £350,000 person-
alty.-171ustrated London News.

REFUSAL TO CONSECRATE A CHURCH.
A most unusual scene of excitement occurred on Friday
forenoon at a new and elaborately finished church at
West Derby, about three miles from Liverpool, which
has just been erected at the sole expense of Mrs. Reade,
a wealthy lady in the neighbourhood, and which was to
have been consecrated by the Bishop of Chester. It had
been officially announced for about three weeks that the
ceremony would take place on Friday, which was the
anniversary of St. John the Baptist, the patron saint to
whom the church is dedicated, and the highly ornate
character of the interior and the elaborate painting, gild-
ing, and general decorations had the effect of attracting a
very large number of persons who wished to be present at
the ceremony. At the last moment, however, in conse-
quence of what is explained below, the bishop refused to
consecrate the edifice ; but this determination on the part
of his lordship was only officially made, known to the
general public in the local newspapers in the morning,
and it was too late to prevent considerable numbers
of persons making their way to the church.
Shortly before the hour announced for the com-
mencement of the proceedings a large portion of the
intended congregation arrived in rapid succession in
carriages. On arrival, however, they were unexpectedly
disappointed on reading a notice which had only an hour
or two before been placed on the church doors, simply
stating that the consecration had been unavoidably post-
poned. It appears that the cause of the postponement is
a visit which the bishop, in company with the archdeacon
and some of the local clergy, has paid to the church
within the last day or two. As already stated, the walls,
roofs, and almost every other part of the church are most
artistically decorated, together with full length paintings
of the apostles, prophets, and other characters in Scrip-
ture history, as well as large numbers of allegorical
figures. The nave is divided from the chancel by a mag-
nificent oak screen, which is richly decorated in gold and
colours, whilst the roof and walls of the chancel itself are'
evon still more elaborately decorated, and the altar-
piece, which rivals in its' costliness and beauty
the best works of mediaeval times, consists of
richly-carved and gilt wood-work, with scenes from
the Passion of our Lord, from His betrayal to
the visit of the Marys to the Sepulchre. The
bishop is said to have expressed his strong disapprobation
of these decorations, as out of place in such an edifice,
more especially the altar piece, to which he strongly ob-
jects, and refuses to consecrate the church until it is
removed, as well as several other portions of the decora-
tions. The course taken by his lordship has been a general
subject of conversation, and it is stated that the donor
of the church declines to permit any of the decorations,
to be removed, and threatens to resort to measures to en-
force the consecration of the church as it now appears.
It may be stated that the cost of the edifice amounts to
about £30,000, and has been erected from designs fur-
nished by Mr. G. F. Bodley, architect, of London. •

THE FENIANS IN CANAD t..

Some of our Canadian neighbours are exercising them-
selveS in a rather unnecessary manner about the duty of
the United States in regard to the late Fenian "invasion."
It is difficult to see what these gentlemen would have be-
yond what was effected by this Government in their be-
half. The interposition of Union troops would have been
improper before the commission of some overt act, and
indeed might have roused a feeling along the border from
which greater trouble might have arisen than actually
was created. We on this side think we did our best for
the D6itinion people, and the complete collapse of the
expeditions is a sufficient comment upon the measures
taken by General Grant and the War Department. The
probability, however, is that the complaints we hear of,
chiefly at Montreal, proceed from some political motive in
connection with future independence. At least, the scold-
ing administered to Mr. Thornton for thanking President
Grant, looks like striking at the Imperial Government,
and is, perhaps, intended to prove the existence of a de-
sire to break loose from. it, Why not say as much in plain
English ?—Nev.' York Timed.