The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, J•x. 14.

In to-day's sitting of the Upper Honee the bill
increasing the Chamber of Deputies by 80 members
was the subject of a long and animated debate.
The Minister of the Interior declared that the
government earnestly desired the continuance of
the old friendly understanding between it and the
Upper House, and that it would propose to the
King that the number of members belonging to
every rank in the Upper House should be in-
creased. The first paragraph of the bill was
adopted by 4 against 48 votes, and the amend-
ment introduced by Herr von Kruchen was re-
jected.

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.
111.7CHAREziT, JAN. 13.

The Hoapodar gave an audience to-day to the
members of the principal bodies of state, to receive
their congratulations upon the opening of the New
Year.

The president of the Chamber of Deputies deli-
vered an address expressing the greatest devotion
to the person of the Prince.
His Highness graciously received the address.

INDIA.
(B 1 DIRECT OVERLAND TELD:RAPIL)
BOMBAY, JAS. 2, 2.45 P.M.

Shirting and mule t orist unchanged. Cotton
firm, but little doing. Dhollerah, 280 r. Exchange
on London, Is. Hid.

CALCUTTA, Dr.c. 31.

B.llb. shirtings, Br. 4a. 40's mule twist, 7d.
Exchange on London, 1.. ma. Government se-
curities : Four per Cents., S 6 ; Five per Cents.,
104 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 1101.

We read in the Diritto of the 12th :—" Yester-
day the Duke of Argyll, Mr. Gladstone, and other English
statesmen were present at the sitting of the Chamber of
Deputies, and occupied plum in the tribune of the
diplomatic body."
A PERQUB.ITION IN ROME BY THE NATIONAL
COMMITTEE—The Rome correspondent of the DOW.,
writing on the Itth, says :—" The National Committee has
just effected* perquisition in the house of a person living
in the Via della Vita, who is well known for his legitimist
opinions. This perquisition was made by means of a plan
often employed and always successful. Three or four of
the trustworthy are disguised as Pontifical gendarmes and
cirri. They present themselves in the name of the
governmental police ; they carefully select the moment
when the muter of the house is absent. They declare that they
have a warrant ; they ask to be assisted in their search by
the servants, who eagerly obey ; they lay bands on papers,
which they make up into a sealed packet ; they draw up
a proses-verbal, which they make the persons present sign,
and when they leave they carry away the objects they
have seized. It appears that this time some important
documents have been carried off. Mention is made of the
programme of an association called the Catholic Party of
Action, with ramifications in France and elsewhere ; a list
of members of the society, and of the instructions which
are given to them ; and correspondence, among which arc
some letters of bishops. It is moreover announced that
the committee is preparing to publish the papers it has
found."

DEAN STANLEY AND THE DONscIENCE CLACSE.
—Dean Stanley preszhed a sermon on Sunday morning in
behalf of the only schools in England (so it is said) where
the conscience elature has been voluntarily adopted and in-
corporated in the trust deeds. They are in connexion
with Holy Trinity Church, Shepherdess-walk, Heaton.
Dr. Stanley took for his text Isaiah ass. 15, "In quiet-
ness and in confidence shall be your strength." After
dwelling at genie length on the peculiar characteristics of
the prophet Isaiah, the dean east the schools on behalf of
which he preached were an example of the success of the
principles which be had drawn from the teschinp of the
prophet. In the confidence that the principle of our
church, as handed down to ns, was to embrace as many
as possible within the circle of our sympathies, they were
carried on in the assurance that those who differed
from the church in creed need not differ from it in prac-
tice. Those were the schoolrooms in which children,
whether of the churchman or of the nonconformist, could
be taught the common principles of the Christian faith
and Christian duty. He might almost my of them as it
was said to Moses, " Put off thy shoes from off thy feet,
for the place on which thou standest is holy." At the
presence of those little children leave off thy shoes,
stained with the dust of the world's controversy, for the
place on which thou standest is consecrated, is holy, with
the presence of those little ones, whose spirits always
behold the face of " our Father which art in Heaven,"
whose simplicity was a rebuke to our worldly, carnal
differences about things which they cannot understand,
and from which they can derive no good. Those
schools were but a foretaste of brighter and happier days
to come.

THE MEMEERS FOR SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE AND
THEIR CORSTITVETTA.—Some dissatisfaction having arisen
. among the liberal electors of South Stafford with reference
to the votes of the members for that division, the Wed-
nesbury branch of the Reform League a short time ago
issued circulars inviting the electors to a conference to
consider the conduct of their representatives. The confer-
ence was held yesterday, in the Congregational School-
room, Wahowbury. when a large muster of delegates from
' reform, temperance, trade, and other societies assembled.
Letters were read tram Messrs. Feeler and Foley, the
county members, defending the course they had pursued
on the reform question last session. An animated dis-
cussion ensued upon the reading of these letters, and
eventually the following resolution was carried, :
" That this conference, taking into consideration the man-
ner in which Messrs. Foley and Foster voted on the late
reform bill, is of opinion that they have violated the spirit
of their former pledges, and have thereby forfeited the
confidence and support of the liberal electors of South
Staffordshire." A general committee was then appointed
to watch over the liberal interests, and take such steps as
may be deemed necessary for securing a proper representa-
tion of this division on the reform question at the next
election, and each town and village in the constituency
was recommended to appoint a sub-committee. The con-
ference was followed by an evening meeting of like purport.
Messrs. H. W. Inglis and T. Leathern, masters
R.N, have been appointed naval mail ',agents on the
Southampton station.