MALLING, EAST. – CONSECRATION OF NEW HITHE CHURCH. – This new church, of which the foundation stone was laid some sixteen months ago, has recently been completed, and was consecrated for divine worship by the Archbishop of Canterbury, on Wednesday last. The edifice is small, capable of seating about 300 persons. Its architectural style is early English, plain but imposing from its massive simplicity. It comprises a nave, with one side aisle, chancel and vestry, together with a handsome porch; and eventually it will be ornamented with a turret to contain three bells. The total length of the building is 81 feet, the breadth of the nave about 21 feet, and of the aisle 10 feet. It is lighted by five large pointed windows, an oriel, and the windows of the clerestory, and the roofis supported by a series of round pillars sustaining neat Gothic arches. The ornaments of the interior are wholly of amediæ val character, sprinkled in every direction with texts from scripture, painted on scrolls in Gothic characters, and sculptures and carvings illustrative of scripture history. The church furniture comprises an elaborately carved oak pulpit, a carved prayer desk, lectern, credence table, altar table, covered with embroidered crimson velvet cloth, font of Caen stone richly carved, with carved sedilia and plain open seats, The fabric was erected by Messrs. Sutton and Billing, of West Malling, from the designs of Mr. Pope, architect, of London; the cost being defrayed principally by J.A.Wigan, Esq., and the various members of his family. A large assemblage was present at the consecration, comprising representatives of most of the clergy of the surrounding parishes, with W.Lee, Esq., M.P., and his family, Mrs.Whatman, (Vinters), and a number of the neighbouring gentry. The Rev. D.D. Stewart, of Maidstone, officiated on the occasion as the Archbishop’s chaplain. A party of about 200 guests afterwards partook of a luncheon in a tent erected in an adjacent field, provided by the Rev.W.L. Wigan. The collection made at the doors of the church amounted to about £ 90.