The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-07 00:00:00

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great expense, the services et the renoweed RIM DIN, the Hess
ad Wagers. for SIX NIGHTS ONLY, previotui to his Sea de-
frost Ragland. if. will have the honour of appearing
ratters from
and during the week, in his marvelloue
testa on the 111011 HOPS. as performed by him at the Crys-
tal Palace : he wtil Moo appear at sash Day Performance.
SWUM' sad MALLOL. the celebrated Spanish &Mita, in their
eitraoMnary Gate on the Trapev, 'eremites all that has ever
been seen In this country, In maJanetion with the whole of the
taleuted troupe of aide and female acting of this vast eetab-
lisluseat. selected from the Cirques of Spain, Portugal, St.
Petersburg, Berlin, and the Hippodrome of Parts. Trench. Ger-
man, ltalian. Spanish, and duel= Clowns. Mr. Oeerye New-
comb, the Li= Tam= with the wonderful group of per arming
tioes. The largest awl best stud of highly trained school bones.
fighting ponies and educated mules In Europe.—The free list
and season tide= entirely =upended daring Hicadites sno
meet, the public press excepted.

THE OXFORD.-oRPHKIE AUX ENFIRB
and MASANIILLO, 1. whisk the succeestal Irmask Team,
Malabar Wisdom from the Theatre Lyrlquo, Parlu will make
slorsalswes. Rlrira. Was Russell, supported by the whole
operatic compauy of the establidimcnt.—Director, Mr. 7. Jonah.
um= —THLS RTININO.

THE LONDON PAVILION.—The DON.—
The wonderful DON PATIOS, the otte-legged Dancer and
only rival to Donato, IV=lf ILVFICING . la conjunotion with
the admired Vance, Arthur Lloyd. he Brothers Mills, Operatic
Selections, and every description of talent.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7.

Timm is an unusual interest about the opening
of the Session which begins to-day. It does not
very often happen that a Parliament sits in full
view of the people, awaiting its end. It does not
often happen that the public can observe how its
representatives feel, and how they boar themselves,
when the day draws near for their settlement of
accounts with their constituents. On this occasion,
thee, when the present House of Commons has
nearly finished ita term, it is not surprising that
every group of its members is looked at in the
street with the sort of interest with which persons
about to undergo a trial or to meet death are re-
garded. These gentlemen have not always found
it easy to render their regular autumnal account
to their supporters, though, on those occasions,
they could arrange the procedure and choose their
topic pretty much as they liked. Much more
serious is it to meet the day which is at
hand, when they must not take the lead, but fol-
low it, and when they must not only present their
own course in the most favourable way, but see it
brought to the ultimate test, and stand or fall by
it. They will have something more to do than to
account for their votes on half -a-dozen questions
of the preceding session ; they must treat of the
whole period of the parliament, and face the ques-
tions which are almost too large to belong to a
single melon, but which must be fully discussed
by every candidate for re-election. As they will
M a few hours enter their House, they will be ob-
served, MO by one, by both comrades and strangers,
with a kind of speculation about what they will
say on those unsatisfactory and perplexing great
questionswhen the day of reckoning comes; and how
they sire now planning in regard to that day. Are
they in any dread of the difficultyof reconciling their
constituents by their conduct in this closing session?
or are they sager for its opportunities of recover-
ing the old ground, and regenerating the hopes
with which they were sent to Parliament ? It is
to be hoped that they feel, to a man, that in this
session there can be no shirking of troublesome
questions, as in ordinary years. All must take
some part—must commit themselves to some prin-
ciple in each case, if they wish to appear in the
House again. It is no nee saying that it cannot
be a practical session because it is the last of the
Parliament. It must, on the contrary, be an
eminently practical one, because it must be one
of general committal on all great questions ; and
especially on the greatest of all--the question
whether we are to have a Ooveranzent with a
policy. If It is ever true that "the constitution
" is in danger," it is true now, when, for a *Grim
Of years, the Goventment has been backing put of

its functions and biding with its ilia,' ley *win
no policy which can nowt Hasid epd ismer, general
recognition. If it be true, as the Conservatives
allege, that democratic principles and ideas are
endangering the constitutional balance, the
most fetal of all weaknesses is to give away, with-
out even a demand for a surrender, the preroga-
tive of a Government of forming a policy, and the
dignity of inviting its support from the nation.
For some years the personal feelings of an aged
Pauiza ►ave been allowed, almost without pro-
test, to swamp the duties and honours of the
Administration by looking no further than the
passing year, and leaving the future to take care
of itself under the changes of the personnel of the
Government after the old men of the present have
given their work into younger hands. The coun-
try has been under a merely provisional rule too
long ; and the proper time to assert the neces-
sity of an enlightened, far-reaching, consistent
policy is this very session, when the most import-
ant branch of the Government is on the point of
being renewed. It is true the Conservatives have
evidently no inch scheme to propose ; and if the
Liberal Administration has not either, the country
will show by the coming elections and otherwise
that this paltering with the function and honours
of Government can be borne with no 'longer. If
in the midst of avowed alarms at the

increasing weakness of government, the task of
government is imposed on the country, the
country will respond—not by proffering de-
mands in detail to a waiting set of officials, but
by requiring that the powers of government shall
be consigned to statesmen who will undertake to
do what the State needs and will be the better for,
and will unite their powers in a strenuous mom-

mendation and pursuit of a definite policy. The
coming session may be used to better purpose
than many preceding, if the House gives Ministers
due warning that there must be an end of their
provisional method, and intimates what are the
leading points to be considered in the institution
once more of a government worthy of its place
and time. _

Of those leading points, the first is, u we need
hardly say, that of an extended representation of
the people. The vigour with which this great
question has been recently treated by some of the
most important constituencies is • sufficient security
to the reforming ministers of the future that their
work is ready to their hand, and that the country
will support them in its fulfilment. At
the moment, the proximate certainty is that the
pledges under which the present Parliament was
elected will be dealt with, in one v. ay or another,
at its dose. Honest reformers will not listen,
more or ➢ess, to the treacherous allegation that
nothing can be done about reform in the last ses-
sion of the Parliament, and that therefore the less
that is said the better. They know well that
next to the session which shall extend the fran-
chise must rank that which shall bring home to
the country and its representatives the fact that
every party in the State, and every conspicuous
member of the (:overnment in all its branches, has
admitted that an extension of the suffrage was
reasonable, desirable, and even necessary. Now is
the time for calling up every member of either
House who countenanced reform at the time of the
last election, or has done so since, to avow and
stand by his declared opinion. We shall not get a
Reform Bill this session, but we may secure one
early in the next Parliament by disposing of the
shifts and excuses and dispelling the silence by
which it has been put off. No new difficulties have
arisen since the pledges were given ; and instead
of any disclosure of mistakes in the estimate of
the fitness of the unrepresented citizens, every
new light, for years past, has shown • greater
fitness and a constantly improving quality in the
higher order of working men. The Parliament
could in no other way so dignify its end as by a
final testimony that the pledges on which the
House of Commons was elected are justified by
all the experience of the character and intelligence
of the unrepresented class which has since accrued.
Another great point is our financial policy, and
the present session may serve as well as any
other, not only for particular retrenchments, but
for indicating to the next House the principles on
which our chief retrenchments must proceed. The
modes and measures of national defence must be
decided on before long, and they must be carried
out through an effectual organization of the War-
office and the Naval Administration, as the grand
sources of waste and misrule, and of other depart.
manta in turn.
We must have a distinct policy of law-
reform, and of public improvements which are
beyond the reach of any other power than that of
Government, such as the railway system, and that
I vital national interest—the total drainage of the
country. The greatest immediate benefactor of
his ()wintry would be the minister who should pro-
pose and carry a reform of the river systems of
Great Britain and Ireland. By no other means
can so much death and sickness be precluded, so
much waste cured, and so much wealth created ;
and the first really great minister we shall have
will be the statesman who shall accomplish this.
In all these provinces of action, the coming session
may do something ; and in many more. By their
treatment of questions as they arise, and of mea-
sures as they are brought in, the members of the
Commons will show infallibly what they think,
how much they understand, what may be expected
of them if they return, and whether it will be
beet that they should return or yield their place
to others.
Thus, the session of 1865 must be a very in-
teresting one ; it must be • very enlightening one ;
and it may be a practically useful one. Let no-
body say that it cannot be of any great interest or
value, because it is breaking up and done with.
It cannot but open glimpses into the future, which
we shall one day see the importance of if we do
not now ; but whoever may be blind to this, there
are eyes wide awake, and judgments keen and
ready, all over the country, to mark what our
representatives do, in this last stage of their trial,
and what they are.

THE announced retirement of the veteran Sir
Dr LACY Evsss from active life places the Liberal
party in the constituency of Westminster under
the necessity of selecting a candidate for the repre-
sentation of that city. We may safely assume that
gentlemen eager to grasp the distinction will be
found in abundance, and we may soon expect to
bear of their pretensions. It may be hoped, how-
ever, that the preliminary choice of the electors
will be made with caution, and that on their part
no moves may be made inconsistent with the
gravity of the business or the dignity of the con-
stituency. We unhesitatingly repel the Tory
reproach of inferiority brought for obvious
purposes against Metropolitan Members generally;
but we would especially remind the electors of
Westminster that it is no common honour, but an
eminent position, a coveted prize, which they have
to bestow. In former days men of the highest
political rank have sought their suffrages ; we
wish we could forget that in our times men in the
lowesthave very nearly succeeded in attaining them.
At pliant no great pa/Umlauts:7 notability

may be available as their representative ; but if
there are among our rising public men some more
evidently than others fashioned to honour,
it would be • wise and spirited thing
to claim their services. Why should not Lord
Amsramr, whose political manifesto is just now
occupying public attention, be asked to fight the
battle of the Liberals of Westminster ? The
honour of such an invitation would not lie
all on one side, and there would be a certain
propriety in placing the son of Earl RITIBILL
in what was once the seat of Cukaxxx Janss Fox.
At all events, we may hope that in choosing their
candidate the people of Westminster will rise
above merely local considerations, and choose their
candidate in the spirit not of householders shirting
to a parochial othoe, but of citizens of a great con-
stituency set in the very eye of the empire.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE PRO.
TASTANT MISSIONARIES IN THE SOUTH
PACIFIC.

In addition to the appeal made to our own govern-
ment in the ease of the protestant mfesio•ary opmatioos in
tb.Loyalty Islands, South Paola°, and the suppression of
these labours by M. ()IMAM, Governor of New OsWeak,
is the month of June. 1864, the representatives of the
English missionary societies, associated with the Dean of
Westminster, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and the Emboli
of London, made • brief statemens of the proceedings to tha
Emperor of the Enoch, accompanied by • memorial re-
spectfully requesting his Majesty's attention to the entire
sec The Emperor has just returned • reply, of which the
following is • translation :

" Jas. 24, 1845.

Gentlemen,—l have received the complaints which you
have addressed to me relative to the recent promiedinp of
the Governor of New Coledosia, in the Loyalty Islands.
I have caused a letter to be written to Commandant
isoadanniug any measure which might impede the
free exercise of your ministry in those distant coun-
tries. I am certain that, far from raising difficulties in
the way of the representatives of the French authonty, the
protestant ails/dons, like the catholic, will aid it in spread-
ing amongst the aborigines of that archipelago the benefits
of Christianity and civilisation.
" Ramiro, gentlemen, the assurance of my distinguished
sentiments. " NAPOLLON."

,-(THIS DAY.)

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oracles. liouthera English Channel and Bay of Biscay.
Masten] ollostward Yogland and North Bea.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, amempaaied by the Prince of Lsiniagee, honoured
the Royal English Opera House with a visit last night, and
witneesed the performance of the new opera, COIMIGIVA
and the pantomime, in which Donato danced. Their royal
highball's@ remained till the elms of the entertainment.
His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and
the Countess Bernetcalf entertained at dinner last evening,
at Prussia Home, hie Excellency the Italian Minister, his
Excellency the Saxon Minister, his Excellency the Hen.
matte Minister, the Hanoverian Charge d'Affaires and the
Batmen Biome, Moue. sad Madame de Katt*, Prince
Yesnburg, Marquis de Tamisier, Berm FreideritiM, Baron
Moletsie, and Mons. G. °recheck.
It is understood that the Duke of Cleveland is
prevented by a family &Mellott from moving the address in
the House of Lords, and that Lord Houghton will fulfil
that duty in the duke's stead.
_ _ _ _

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The House of Lords will, it is understood, cons-1
menu hearing appeals on Monday next. The list contains
61 ceases and sight peerage oases. There are nine appeals
from the Court of Chancery, England ; 14 from the Ex.
chequer Chamber ; two from the Divorce Court ; the ado
beated cause of " Doglioni v. Crispin," the Portuguese will
case, from the Court of Probate, which is expected to last
for several days ; 14 from the Court of Session in Scotland,
and five from the Irish Court of Chancery.
The court-martial on such of the officers and
crew of her Majesty's late ship Bombay as the Lords of the
Admiralty may direct will assemble on board her Majesty's
ship Victory, at Portsmouth to-morrow at 9.30 a.m., un-
der the presidency of Rear-Admiral Sydney Colpoys Deems,
C. 8., the commander-in-chief of the Channel fleet.
The Edgar, 71, screw line-of-battle ship, Capt.
Geoffrey T. B. Hornby, flagship of Rear-Admiral 8. C.
Dames, C. 8., is preparing at Portsmouth for a voyage to
Lisbon on special servic►, understood to be the investiture
of his Majesty the King of Portugal with the insignia of the
Most Noble Order of the Garter. It is stated that the
Fart of Sefton goes out to Lisbon in the Edgar as the repre-
sentative of her Majesty end the bearer of the Garter to the
King of PortugaL
The presentation to Dr. Guthrie of a sum of
money exceeding 5,0001. will take place shortly at Edin-
burgh.
A correspondent of a contemporary writes :
" I suppom the city of Glasgow contains from about 300,000
to 400,000 inhabitants, and how many of these does the
reader of the Star suppose are taken up yearly as drunk, or
drank and disorderly, or drunk and incapable, and conveyed
to the polioe-office! No lees than 27,181, being, as the
Scotsman expresses it, '1 in every 14g of the population ;
lin7 of the adults ; 1 in 3 of the men. It might thus
appear that about every third man in Memoir had, during
the year, been taken oars of by the police, as being either
helplessly or riotoualy drunk ; but it is only fair, though
very unpleasant, to say that a considerable portion of the
total amount of the offence was perpetrated, not by the
gentlemen, but by the ladies. The number of the latter
taken care of when in their cups was 9,755, leaving as the
number of gentlemen, each with a glue too much, 17,425.
Patting aside children and youths, it would appear that in
Glasgow lin every 10 women, and 1 in every 5 2-3 men
are taken drunk to the police-office every year.'"
We (Post) hear that the Countess Danner, the
morganatic wife of the late King of Denmark, is about to
marry Count Bilfwerstolpe, descendant of a very anoint
Swedish family, and that the marriage will take place at
Nies.
Letters from Sicily mention that the eruption of
Yount Etna continues without copulating any damage.
Two hundred Breton peasants left St. Nat:sire
last week for Suez, where they are to be employed on the
works of the canal. They came chiefly from the depart-
ment. of Finietshe and Morbihan. Another detachment le
soon to follow.

The Opinion du Midi gives the following explana-
tion :—" Many persons may have asked why the letter
written from Rome by Mgr. Pleader to the Minister of
Public Worship woe headed with these words, ' Outside
the Plaminian Gate.' Hare is a very simple explanation of
the fact Out of respect for the jurisdiction of the Bove.
nip Pontiff, every catholic' bishop who hippos, to be in
the Eternal City, and who has to write in his ephieopal chis•
raster, elands date hie letters from Rome itself, but it
obliged to write from the gate of the city which lade to his
&owe