The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-14 00:00:00

THE FUNERAL OF LORD LYNDHURST.

The interment of the mort remains of Lord
Lyndhurst will take place next Snta•day, at the Highgate
Cemetery. The funeral procession, consisting of a hearse
and several carriages, will, it is expect A, have his lordship's
residence, No. 25, George-street, Hanover-sqoare. about
9 o'clock is the morning. The body lies rained
in the house .in George-street, where several
members of the family of the deceased prer are at
present residing—Lady LyndSurst, Miss Copley, sister in-
kw to the deceased ; and the three dart/liters and sons-is-
law, the Hon. Mr. and lira &ivy M-. sod Mrs. Beckett.
and Mr. and Mrs. Du Cane. The funeral arrangements
have been intrusted to the (harp of Mr. T. Pike, of 29.
Duke-street, Grosvenar-square.

PROROGATION OP PARLIAMENT.-{THIS DAY.)

This morning the Lord Chancellor attended "1
the House at Lords for the purpose of formally proroguing
the Imperial Parliament. It is almost anneeemary to state
that very little interest attached to the proceedings, and
that when Sir Angnstue Clifford, the Usher of the Black
Rod, proceeded to summon the Hones al C./MUMPS he found
that distinguished body represented by a c ruple of clerks.
Notwithstanding this be proceeded with due obeisance
along the hones, and addressed the chair as though
the Speaker had been sitting there is full state.
The House of Commons, thus c mastituttd. appear i
at the her of the Homes of Lords, Sir J. G. Lefevre then
advanced to the table, and read the royal commission,
commanding the commissioners present, lir the name of her
Majesty, to farther prorogue per] timent until Tuesday. Dec.
I. As the significant words " for the despatch of divers
urgent and important affairs" were not added, the meeting
on the& day will spin be of • purely formal character. The
royal eomnsimioe having been serer, the roman; wieners rose
from their seats, sad the Lord Chancellor, who was habited
in his full robes, said that by virtue of the Lammission jest
read, he, in the name of her if sjesty the Queen, declared
parliament proregui I until Tuesday, the let of December
next. His lordship then declared the house adjourned,
and the ceremony terminated.

The Prince and Princess of Joinville have passcd
some days at Amsterdam, at which place they arrived from
the Hague in striotinoogatto.

The Duke of Newest tle has left Thomas's Hotel,
Birkelity-sqoare, for hi seat, Clamber, Nous.
The marriage of the Hon. and Rev. George Her-
bert, third sou of the late, and brother of the present. Earl
of Powia, and Miss Sykes, daughter of the late Sir Tattoo
Sykes, is appointed to take place to-morrow.
The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P.,
arrived in town oe Monday night from Drayton Manor,
near Tamworth. Laly Emily Peel has left Gomm for
Pada, on her way to meet the right hon. !wapiti in London
before going to Ireland for the winter.

The preparations for the Leipeic festival on the
18th and 19th inst. begin to assume a greater appearance of
activity. Various towns have voted money and resolved
to send deputations, to Coburg and Gotha, by order of
Duke Ernest, the celebration will be very generaL Leipeki
will be illuminated on the 18th. The women of Berlin
have subscribed for a banner, which it is feared, however,
that there will not be time to complete for the day in
question, and it will have to be exhibited afterwards. It le
a memorial of the women of 181.1, who showed themselves,
in Innumerable instances, so prompt in sacrifice. On one
side of the banner will be an oil painting by Dleibtreu. a
highly esteemed artist. The picture will be surrounded
by red velvet and gold embroideries, with heavy gold
fringes, and the inscription will be, "To the German
women of 1813, the women and maidens o, Berlin, 1863."
The King of Denmark is still at Gluckeburg
Palace. On Wednesday lest, the day after his Maiwatea
birthday, the Royal Ride Association of Copenhagen held •
meeting, at which the president, in proposing the health of
the Kusg, poiated out bow pregnant with great event' were
the times, sod how zealously the King laboured for the
welfare of the conatry. Re also observed that in Den-
mark, as at the restoration of the Temple at Jerusalem, it
was necessary to labour with the sword at their side. The
Malt wee drunk with so much entbusium that the coo•
gratalatione of the society were sent to his Majesty at
Glackstarg. The King mot a reply, and after returning
his thanks thus expressed himself :—" Yes, certainly, we
meet labour at the work of freedom as well as at the Dram-
wirke with the sword at our aide."