RE-DEDICATION OF KIRKBY STEPHEN CHURCH. The noble old Church of Kirkby Stephen - Cathedral-like in its proportions, design, and arrangments - was on Tuesday last (the Feast of the Epiphany) solemnly rededicated to the service of God. Few parish churches in the North afford worthier evidence of the ideas our ancestors had of the sort of temple which it became them to rear for the worship of their Master and Redeemer; but a succeeding generation, barren in taste, and we would almost imagine in reverence, defaced the original plan by all manner of squalid patch-work; and the undertaking which has now been completed had for its object little more than the restoration of the design of the first builders. This has been done in a way which attests emphatically the devotion and liberality of the parishioners. Between £5,000 and £6,000 has been spent upon it; but even this, without the archaeological knowledge and enthusiasm of the Vicar, DR. SIMPSON, would have failed to produce the effect which hundreds admired on Tuesday last. The chancel was re-built about five and twenty, or thirty years since by the exertions of the REV. H. KING, the late vicar, but the body of the church was still in a most ruinous and dilapidated condition. It was also disfigured not only by large square pews, with narrow and uncomfortable benches around them, but with two unsightly galleries, one across the nave, supported on the capitals of the pillars, the other across the north transept. Two of the bays, out of the seven of which the nave arcade consists, had been cut off by a wall built across the nave and north and south aisles, and thus the noble proportions of the building had been utterly destroyed. The roof, owing to the decay of the timber, was in an unsafe condition, and the north transept, separated from the body of the church by a partition of lath and plaster, was roofless; and the clerestory, built at a bad time and of bad material, with not two windows alike, was in a ruinous condition, as was the wall of the north aisle, which had long threatened to fall. The alterations, so much needed, effected by the restoration, are a new north wall of substantial masonry, a new north transept, built out of old material, a new north transept arch to correspond with that on the south, and an additional bay added to the arcade on the north side of the nave, a new south transept with a window of elaborate design and excellent masonry, filled with stained glass by CLAYTON and BELL, at the cost of MRS. KING, to the memory of her husband, the REV. HENRY KING, the late vicar of the parish; a new porch of good design and solid masonry, a new clerestory higher than the old one, and pierced with windows of the perpendicular period. The wall of the south aisle, which, with the exception of the tower and a portion of Early English work at the west end of the north aisle, is the only work remaining outside the Church, has been under-pinned in a strong and substantial manner, and the windows renewed; and new mullions have been placed in the windows of the tower. With the exception of the south aisle, the whole of the Church has been re-roofed and covered with lead, the wood-work being of a substantial character. The seats are of oak, the ends carved with the linen pattern, &c., and the benches are of good width and convenient for sitting. The floor is tiled, the steps to the chancel as well as the threshholds of the doors being of Shap granite.