The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-03 00:00:00

THE OPENING OP PARLIAMENT.

Lord Great Chamberlain's Office, Feb. 2.
All peereeses wishing to be present on the occa-
sion of the °resin of parliament on Tuesday, the 6th day
of February, will have places reserved for them in the
House of Lords, if the annonseement be made at the Lord
Great Cbaarberkie's Office before 3 o'clock on Minden
the nth instant, sod tickehe, sot treusferabes, for the
peeresses' beech will be forwarded to them. Peers' eldest
sons will have tickets for the poets' eldest suns' hoz fee.
warded to them upon appliettiou at the office. No pigeon,
except those entitled to be present in the House of Lords,
can be admitted without a ticket from the Lewd Gress
Chamberleis. Tickets for the interior of the Howes aI
Leeds will be admitted at the peen' entrance. The doors
will be opened at twelve o'clock.— WILLOUGUBT De EnnellY,
G.C.
The following regulations are to be °bogeyed on gook
days as her Majesty shall corns publicly to the House of
Lords to open or prorogue Parliament. —The front benches
round the Hoes* of Lards to be ragweed for the lords, the
weer hawk, on the left of the throne, being the deka,
beech. Peeresses, who have gives due notice, to be shown
to their pieces on the bench reserved for peeresses only.
The benches behind the peeresses, on the left of the throne,
to be reserved for peers' deuehters. Scotch and Irish
peers, not being peers of parliament, and the eldest wen et
peers, to be directed to the peers' eldest sow' bOZ below
the bar. The space below the boy to be kept clear for the
members of the House of Commons. No pence whatso-
ever to be admitted at the peen" entrance without a ticket
from the Lord Great Chamberlain, excerpt peers, peers'
eldest sons, foreign mioitters had their attaches, judges.
ant other assistants summoned by writ. The officials con-
nected with the ceremony or the procereion will be directed
to their places. Servants 'Stippling the lords with their
robes to be directed to the bishops' entrance end staircase.
Doors to be opened at 12 o'clock.—Wrizotioror rs
&MB; am.

METROPOLITAN BOARD or WoRILL—The usual
weekly meeting of the board was held yesterday, at the
offices, Spring-gardens, Sir J. Thwaitee in the chair. Mr.
Freeman introduced a deputation from the inhabitant
householders of Notting-hill, in the pariah of St. Mary
Abbott, Kensington, and presented a memorial on the M-
enage of the number of vestrymen at the Kensington ves-
try. Mr. Itichtudson, one of the deputation, said they
claimed an increase in the number of vesttymen on the
wound of the number of houses in the ward and of the
' popu'atioe, which had inneased 20.000 in 10 years. The
complement at present was 84 members, but they claimed
the full number of 120 members. In the case of the
board re-apportioning the number of vestrymen to each
ward, but net increasing the number, the Notting-bill
district would be entitled to 36 members in place of 27. The
memorial was referred to the Main Drainage Committee.
A report was brought op from the Main Draluage Com-
mittee reporting "That io the opinion of the committee
it is expedient for the board to organise a system for she
protection of life from fire in the metropolis in conseetiee
with the Fire Brigade, and that having regard to the limi-
tation of the power of board in the prment act to make
a rate of only one halfpenny in the pound, it is expedient
to seek further taxing powers for providing for the expense
of such a system, and that it be referred back to the com-
mittee to take all the necessary steps for effecting that
object^ Alter some discussion the subject warn referred
beck to the committee for further cousideeatioe. Mr.
Bezalgette, the engineer to the board, presented his
monthly report on the prover of the Thames embank-
meet weeks and other weeks in course of construction, and
after the impaction of some routine bulimia the booed
adjourned.
Ties DOUBLE SUICIDE AT Pim/moron. —Teeter-
day aftentoon Dr. Leekeeter reamed an *airy at the
Hell Anne, Old Church-street, Paddington, relative to the
death of Ferdinand de Gahm and his mother, who com-
mitted suicide at their lodgings, Norfolk-street, Pladdington.
The coroner mid that since the last inquiry no farther
evidence had been received that would throw any light on
the ems. He regretted exceedingly that two letters in
French, which be had sot translated. bed appeared is me at
the morning papers without Ilia authority. - He bed received
a letter from the Consul-General of Feeney, which stated
then was no impediment to tee teem of the deceased
persoos to their native coentsy. He (the coroner) Unmated
to examine Inspector Williams, of the detective polio' form,
as to tbe state of mind of Du Calusie. Inepecteir Wil-
liams deposed that his attention was called to H. Da
Caine, is May last by Sir Richard Mays*, in maw
quence of certain communications Iles
ad
Est to that
gentlemen and to Mr. Wood, private secery to Sir
George Grey. IL Du Galilee thee lived in Reseell-villa,
Queen's-road, Paddington. In his letter to Sir George
Grey, the deceased stated that he was watched by Os
police, and In a subsequent eommueieation he alleged he
was necked by a soldier. Witeess's impression was that
the deceased was in an unsound state of mind,
and that his mother shined in his delusions. A
sergeant of the detective force deposed that he visited
the dammed persons at Chelsea, The gentleman informed
hies be had a very lengthy lawsuit in France and that the
solicitor be lad employed in the case neglected his inte-
✓mits. He said he bad instituted a pm:sweatiest against the
solicitor whieb reenheit in his dismissal from the bar sod
his being mulcted a heavy sum. Be also said he had
commenced the promedinp of a new trial. Be could act
in'orm witness who were the parties who preveoted his
return to Fiasco. His mother appeared to agree eith every.
thing her see said sad did, sad wits'se barred that moan
and son were labouring ender &Maims. The meaner,
having rid there was no further evidence to be addend.
reviewed the fade which had been deposed to, .14 sho jury
after half an boar's deliberation retuned a verdict 11, the
effect that the deceased committed suicide by 0181'001e-
tins while in an unsound elate of mind.
The convict Wineor, who is now in the condemned
cell of the comity gaol, as been oonstaatly attended by
the eleaplais. Rev. John Hellina, who has implored the
wyelehed culprit to seek for mercy where alone it can le
obtaised. Sae appears aware et her real position, and to
entertain are hove whatever of a reprieve. Elbe is now en-
tirely abandoned by bar relatives not a single cos
of whom has visited her tee some time past. She tams
her tootle regularly, and seems to enjoy them • dm also
oleo's @madly. The etormsion of opWoa by 'the Coast
of Queen's Beath as to the impropriety of Mr. Baron Chan-
mill admitting at her trial tea 'rid. not of her aressophoe
HAMS, has Wooed rainy to When that Mall the stranary
of the crown will be granted. The mention is axed toe
• Waft week.— Waters rims.

Eh, vrprexiAi.

TO CORRIMPONDIDIIIL
Ldrertbionanin Intondod for The Iwo= • London Ironing
oilM, must be at the Moe, 10, Bonvertiontrsol, by Two
k on Um day of pabllcation.

HAYMARKET.
Tuz ihrearma, BROTHER SAM. Mews. Sothern, Buck-
stone, and Compton • Walla Nell, Moore. Snowdon, &c.—
ORPHEUS IN THE HAYMARKET. Hewn Fenno & D. Flabet ;
Edam Keeley, Howard & Wright —FISH OUT OF WATER.

PILINCZBBII.
THIS SVIIN/NO, QUM LODGINGS.—After which 11' 18
MIVILE TOO LATE TO MEND. Messrs. Vining, G. Mehra*
T. Mead, D. Murray, b. Calbasm, P. Villiers. J. G. Shore, G. Mer-
sey, sad R. Otihmai ; Wow L. Moore sod K. lodgers.

LYCII7II.

Tars Emma. THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.. Mr. H.
Widdloomb.—THE MASTER OP RAVENSWOOD. Messrs.
Pechter, Jordan, Vezln, Emery, Widdlcomb, Mrepatrlek, Evans
Mesdames Teresa, Elsworthy, Wen; C. Leelercq.

BRITANNIA.

Tins amain, OLD DADDY LOW/LEOS AND SIR REGENT
CIRCUS.—IL and Ydme. Btertzenteeh. --Signor Bevaol—The
Golden Raln.—Johnny Survivors from the Crew of the
Internship London will appear.—Olmar.—And BILTRE COLD.

MGR WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE.
T DAY —. Morgue, at. 1eak..... Afternoon, Rs. 32m.
To4loaaow —. Moiratag, 412. 61m.....Afternoos, M. 811.

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3.

TEE " clothes philosophy" which Mr. CARLYLE
propounded more than a quarter of a century
ago has at last, through the interposition of Mr.
BRIGHT; found its way, as all great questions
sooner or later do, into Parliament. The vest-
ments controversy will no longer be confined to
the Church. Swords and knee-breeches, silk-stock-
ings.and lappetleas costa, will divide public interest
with chasubles and albs and amices ; and we may
expect a fierce fight over them. The importance
which the member for Birmintham attaches to the
right of free dressing was indicated by the time
and manner of his introducing the subject.
Men of less courage would have scarcely
ventured to intervene between the SPEAKER and
the House, while the former waited to return
his acknowledgments for his elevation to the posi-
tion of the first Commoner in England, and to the
presidency of the most illustrious and powerful
legislative assembly in the world. On an occasion
of this sort, the question of costume was perhaps
a little below the level of the situation. Following
closely upon Mr. MONsELL'S elaborate historic essay
on the dignity and functions of the SPEAKER, Mr.
BRIGHT'S suggestion as to the clothes which
honourable members should be allowed to
wear at Mr. Demotes official dinner parties and
louden produced the shock of a sudden mental drop,
and was marked by that incongruity in which, ao-
cording to some mental philosophers, the essence
of humour resides.

In the exercise of that moderation which the
member of Birmingham has lately cultivated with
a success which has gratified as much as it has
surprised those of his friends, who are not
his indiscriminate flatterers, Mr. BRIGHT does
not push his clothes philosophy to the extreme
of the celebrated Herr TEIYFELEDROECK, from whom
be has, perhaps, derived it. He does not desire
to "see a naked Duke of Windlestrew addressing
" a naked House of Lords," nor demand that "as
" every soul, or rather every body, of these guar-
" diens of our liberties was naked or nearly so last
" night--' • forked radish, with a head fantasti-
" cally carved ;' so he should be allowed to
" walk out to St. Stephens' as well as into bed
" in that no fashion, and there with other similar
" radishes hold a bed of justice." In some quar-
ters, it is by no mean, improbable that he will be
charged with advocating this return to primitive
simplicity of costume, or, at any rate, with laying
down principles which inevitably conduct thither.
His hatred of the aristocracy, it will be said, makes
him desire to see them stripped of their raiment
as well as of their land. But these assertions do
him an injustice. Mr. Hamar would reform
within the limits of the constitution on the clothes
question as well as on the suffrage question.
Of course he may expect the strongest resistant*
on the part of the tailors. Their honourable craft,
which is second in antiquity to that of garden-
ing only, has, for some reason or other, been
held always in slight social consideration, and
clings the more strongly to its pecuniary solaces for
the indignity. Queen ELIZABETH had the cruelty to
address a deputation of eighteen members of the
profession as " gentlemen both ;" and the sight
of a silver bodkin, and allusion to the thread and
shears of the furies, threw Sir Pizzas SHAPTON,
conscious of an ancestor who had wielded
these instruments, into convulsions of rage
and fear. A living novelist has made the
conflict between the spirit of • gentleman and
the trade of a tailor the subject of serio-oomic
psychological romance. The acknowledgment
that " the tailor makes the mans is, however,
some partial compensation for the cruel and unjust
imputation of being only the ninth part of one.
He not only makes the man, but on certain oc-
saaiona he makes, in a way, the member of Par-
liament ; and be may naturally object to the cur-
tailment at once of his dignity and of his profits.
These last must be considerable, for Mr. Banton
mentions a colonel in the army who, being also a
member of Parliament, "complained with a certain
" seriousness of manner" that it would cost him fifty
guineas to "put himself inside" a suitable dress in
which to appear at the Srs•xsa's table.
Putting aside the claims of vested interests
in peculiar vestments on the one side, and of
economy on the other, we are inclined to think
VW Mr. Bstour has reason and good saws in
remonstrance. Exception may perhaps be