The Sun. — 1850-01-07 (London, England)

CONSECRATION OF THE NEW GREEK CHURCH.— Yesterday the first building erected in London, or indeed in England, in connexion with the Greek Church, was consecrated with unusual ceremony. The edifice, which has been recently erected, is situate in Londonwall, opposite to All Hallow church, and is designed for the accommodation of the families of the Greek merchants resident in London, numbering between 200 and 300 persons, almost all of whom were present at yesterday's ceremony. The church, which presents a remarkably handsome exterior, is internally in the Byzantine style of architecture. The exterior is a sort of composite style, the Corinthian and Byzintine predominating. Hitherto the members of the Greek Church have assembled for the performance of their religious services at No. 9, Finsbury-circus, the back drawing-room containing the altar, and the front being set apart for the congregation. The officiating priest was the Rev. M. Morphinos, who, after the altar service and the act of consecration, ascended the pulpit and delivered an animated and impressive sermon in the modern Greek langauge. He remarked that the day selected for the consecration of their new temple was peculiarly appropriate, inasmuch as it was the day on which they were called upon by their Church to commemorate the birth of the Saviour of the world. The Greek Church had not adopted the new style, so that it was twelve days later in its observance of Christmas-day than any other Church. The edifice has been erected at a cost of nearly 10,0001. On the front there is an inscription in the Greek language, which sets forth that the church was erected in the reign of Queen Victoria, in the midst of the Great British nation, to the honour of God She Saviour, and in the veneration of the custom of their fathers. The interior is richly ornamented, and in general appearance is not unlike the chapels of the Roman Catholic body. It is intended that there shall be one service every Sunday, commencing at eleven o'clock.  THE PROTECTIONIsTS.—Who, of the old playgoing world, does not remember and laugh at the remembrance of Liston's Apollo Belvi, in Killingn Murder, attired as a mourner, with most preposterous hat-band, scarf, and weepers, announedinegunheitsocsnde cease, and explaining that the lamented f had all his life been carried off by sudden death, to whielit throughoutewith true th Li country,stonian face,very subject.are and with every appearance of unimpaired vitality, proplainTgLAe pPolrlr Protectionists, is proclaim that deadtheyaasrebeenr e apa t ed toweariness, and gone. B But the and w farce is ae very ohl one, has not call to mind the time when agriculture was not cp3enrishing, so subject has it ever been to the chronic corn. plaint of Liston's character, sudden death. For so it is that agricultural man never is, but always to be, ruined. He has been poisoned as often as Dickens's Mantilini, and is no whit the worse, or nearer his end, after all. What is it that makes rural calamity of so long a life ? How is it that it is ever sinking, and never gets to the battom? When are we to come to the promised wilderness ? When is the plough to be deposited in the British Museum as a curiosity belonging to a past and destroyed world ? How much longer are sowing and reaping to go on, just as if farmers thought of selling and living by something different from a loss ?"—Examiner.  To To To To  To To To To