Widnes Examiner. — 1884-04-19 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GLORIAM DE' ET IN HONORER S. MICHAELIS ET MOULIN ANGELORIIN HIINC LAPIDEM ANGI7LAREM POSDIT J. C. OREED, ARELIGER, XVII. DIE APRIL'S, 1884."  Major Orred, in a short address, expressed his very great pleasure and satisfaction in having been permitted, through God's mercy and by their kindness, to perform this most solemn and interesting ceremony they had just seen taken place, the first he had had the oppertunity of assisting at. He begged to thank the ladies who had held Btalls, to whom so much of the success of the baz ear was due. He earnestly trusted that when this beautiful building wee, by the blessing of God, completed, it migh,t form a haven of rest to many a poor weary soul. In these days of open and avowed atheism, and when so many clever but misguided individuals tried to argue themselves almost out of their own existence, and seemed to find it impossible to accept anything in simple faith, or which they could not prove by hard and fast mathematical rules, he as a small landowner in the County of Chester felt it a peculiar privilege to have been enabled to give a site for a building entirely devoted to God's services and to the spintual needs of 4 000 emits on on this site of the bridge. He WAS , bound to thank their kind friend and good vicar Canon Barclay, following him to dedicate this church to St. Michael and All Angels— " God's soldiers "—having had the honour of serving in the army of a good, thorongh earthly sovereign and it bring possible for him to make a free gift of the site, he trusted the title might not be deemed inappropriate. This beaotiful memenito so kindly presented to him by Lady Brooke on behalf of the stall-holders' should always be t-easured and paced by the side of three others given to his father when he laid the foundation stones of St. Paul's Chtplch, Tranrnere, Church of England Schools at Tranmere, I and Church of England Schools at Weston, the latter 21 years ago, in the hope that his children, should they be I spared and have the opportEnity, migot, on seeing them, be ' urged to do what in their power lay towards promoting our Christian religion and doing good to those around them. In conclusion, he asked for their kind offerings towards the buildin fund, begging them all to remember that the widow's inite was quite as acceptable in the eyes of our Blessed Redeemer as tbe offerings of the rich and great. He expressed a hope that before the completion of their present contract the committee would be in a position to proceed with the chancel and that toe nave and chancel might be opened together. The "offerings" placed on the stone amounted to £57 7s 3d, in this being included £2O which the children at the mission had collected by means of cards dnring the past month. After singing and prayer the proceedings concluded. In the evening a special service was held in the Parish Church, but there was only a moderate attend ince. The prayers were read by the Rev. C tun Barclay and the Rev. R. Edwards, the Rev. T. M. Armson reading the first lesson and the Rev. J. J. Bryant the second. The Very Rev. Dean of Chester preached an oppropriate sermon. The anthem, " floe Lord is King," was rendered by the choir daring the evening, Mr. J. J. Johnsen being the organist. A collection was made on behalf of the building fund.  Mr. Parnell, preslding ite meeting of the National League in Dublin on Wednbsday, said the emcees of the organisation was evidenced by the flow of funds and the nurnber of branches.  The third trial. of the Westmeath murder conspiracy case, fixed to commence in Dublin, on'Thursday, has ben again PostPoned in consequence of the procurement At the last moment of additional evideece on the part of the Crown. Mr. Joseph Arch, addrersing an agricultural labourers' gathering at Evenly. fkorthampton, on Thursday, said that when they obtained the vote they !Mould urge the abolition of the law of settlament and the tiD _r action at a Med/51UP for the compulsory cultivation of land capable of producing food. Thomas Roe, of Lower Trinity -street, BirminL;ham, was returring from Pour Oaks Park Races, when, on alighting from a train before it had stopped. he Flipped between the platform and the carriage. He was terribly craebed, and I-wee conveyed to the General Hospital, where he died yesterday morning.