On Tuesday the King laid the foundation-stone of the new
Cathedral at Liverpool. After twenty years of waitiug, the second city in England is about to have a religious edifice worthy of its size and importance. The building is to stand 155 ft. above the river, and will be one of the first sights to those who approach the city by water. In area it will exceed any other in England, being capable when completed of holding eight thousand people. The height of its nave up to the vaulting will be 14 ft. more than Westminster Abbey. The design, it will be remembered, is by Mr. George Gilbert Scott, a grandson of Sir Gilbert Scott., who was selected for
the work at the age of twenty-two. Mr. Bodley, has been associated with him in carrying out the plans, and there seems every reason to believe that the new building will be, in the King's words, " a noble addition to the architectural adornments" of the country. On Wednesday the King arrived in his yacht at Swansea, and inaugurated the building of the new King's Dock. On Thursday, at Rhayader, in Radnorshire, he opened the new water-supply for Birmingham, returning to London on Thursday evening after a remarkabl' strenuous week.
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