The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-20 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S.

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The short opera season at this house has ended
somewhat abruptly, and the lessee has returned to the vul-
garity of Mies Adah lemon Mimicker'. Not content with re-
putting an exhibition which, though sanctioned in London
by the Lord Chamberlain, was ooudemned in Liverpool for
indecency by the common police authoritiee, he has used wit
as a vehicle for degrading Mr. Harrison. That old and
well-tried eel cant of the public i • now harueseed to the car
of a woman who has nothing to trade upon but her noto-
rious impudence.
After hiarapps has tumbled about in her short shift front
eight o'clock notil ten, Mr. Harrison is allowed to appear in
• fragment of the Beggar's Opera. Such debasing and un-
fair management is deserving of the strongest condemnetior,
and if the fools who nightly fill half our theatres had any
feeling for art, Mr. E. T. Smith ought to be punished with
empty benches.

NATIONAL AMIOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF
SOCIAL MCIENCIL—Last evening the annual meeting of the
Department of Jurisprudinos and Amendment of the Law
was held at the offices of the asseeciatne Adam-street,
Adelphi ; Lord Brougham in the chair. The report of the
standing committee on the pre seedings during the year
was read by Mr. G. W. Hastiogs, general secretary. It
congratulated the members of the society atom the BOCCC-11
they had achieved during the past session. One of the
questions selected for the forthcoming Sheffield meeting
related to the law of bankruptcy, on which so much hod
been done both by this association and the Law Ame-dment
Society. It was a matter of great s Ai/fiction to the owe-
mittee to be enabled to second the enactment of measures
for concentrating on one rite the rapet:or courts and offices
of law in London. A bill having been introduced by the Lord
Chancellor for the purpose of conferring a limited jurisdiction
in equity on the county route the commute err sniped the
provisions of the measure, and reported to the council
that several of the suggestions made by them had been em-
bodied in the bill during its program through the House of
Lords, and they hoped that their obeerystiooe in respect to
the unsatisfactory mode of payment proposed for the county
court judges would sot be without effect before the bill
passed into law. Another ball, which it was hoped would
pass lonian, and which, after considerable debate, received
the support of the committee, was a measure for the amend-
meet of the law of partnership. The adoption by the bar
of the scheme of law reporting recommended bye committee
of that body induoed this committee to hope that the evils
, of the multiplicity of reports of judicial decisions would be
THREE bills were withdrawn last night, two at length decreased. The result' of the recent improve.
meats in the treatment of criminals bad been in the highest
by private members and one by the govern- degree satisfactory. The mark mean wan in operation in
ment. Sir Charles Wood stated that it was all the roaming/A prisons, sad superfluities diet had
not his intention to proceed with the Bishopric of b." "awed, the "wilt. it wee estimsteds being • saying
of 25,000 f. this year. After referring to the recent establish-
Lahore Bill ; Lord St. Leonards withdrew his meat of refugee for females, there port concluded by stating
Railway Passengers Bill, and Mr. Adderley his that the committee bad tneelysO to recommend to the
onset that this department should in Wore be divided
Companies Workmen's Education BilL We cannot ink. ebraa, ...aim., with a want...mt., for each, the
mourn over this sacrifice of measures in the phrase several sections being for iet°lo•4l°•*l law, inunieiDa
law
and the treatment of criminals. Mr. Joseph Parkas moved
customary at this season as a " slaughter of the the adoption of the report, and along discussion mined,
innocents," for each of the bills was marked by after which Lord Brougham addremod the meeting, and
amirmaad a hope that Sir Fitzroy Kelly's bill upon the law
radical defects of character. That of Lord
of evidence would he brought forward seat session at a
St. Leonardo would have relieved railway period sufficiently early to enable those who took part is
companies of great responsibility, by transferring it the dieoussion to enter folly nes the oonsideration of all the
questions iovolved is the entemplated changes. The
to Parliament, a change which would not we fear mort then adopted and the mown separated with a
contribute to the pafety of railway travelling. The , vote of thanks to the noble chairman.