The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1859.

IT will be seen, by the notice which we republish
from the Go:ette, that Parliament, after the various
prorogation, of the vacation, is summoned to meet
for the transaction of business on Thursday, the
3rd day of February next. Three weeks to-morrow,
then, will find us entering upon a Session which will
probably be the most exciting of any since the
parsing of the last Reform Bill. Ministers will pro-
bably not delay long the announcement of the pro-
visions of their Reform Bill, warned by the ex-
perience of last year of the dangers which attend post-
ponement of important measures until "after Easter."
In such a Session as we are likely to have, indepen-
dent members can hardly expect to gain for their
propositions seen the measure of time and attention
to which private legislation is generally stinted.
Nevertheless several hon. gentlemen give notice of
bills and resolutions directed to specific reforms.
Mr. THOM DUNCOXII will ask leave to introduce
• bill which, going to the root of the connexion of
Church and State, would transfer the freehold of the
parish church to the representatives of the
parish, in order to maks it available to rate-
payers generally. Sir ARTHUR HALLAM ELTON
will submit resolutions in exactly the oppo-
at. direction, prohibiting church rates, but
confiding the maintenance of the pariah church to
the local clergy and laity of the Church of England,
a spiritual corporation, and the property in it to
the incumbent and churchwardens. Mr. S %MULL
WA I: REM will bring forward a bill on &subject much
needing legislative intervention, the administration

of criminal justice in our courts of Quarter Sessions;
and Mr. Dlf.t.wrx another, to raise up a most
valuable clams of institutions—our endowed schools—
from their' present state of collapse. Mr. J %NIES
Wit.soc, late of the Treasury, is to move for a select
committee on the public debt, income sad expendi-
tare, " with the view of devising the best means of
" discharging, in tiros of peace, the obligations
" mistreated in time of war." The high re-
;rotation of Mr. Wit.eoc as a financier entitles
as to expect that we shall not find him the
advocate of ingenious schemes such as those by
which before now the nation has contrived to de-
ceive and impoverish itself. The sorest way to keep
dawn the burden of war debts is to keep clear of all
unnecessary war. Sir Di Less Er ors has under-
taken to draw attention to the neglected Report of
the Royal Commission on the sale and purchase of
commissions in the army, and will ask for a vote
condemning that system and calling for its abolition.
These, with a Reform Bill and the various topics of
foreign policy—the situation of Italy and the de-
signs of her neighbours, the recent coercion of
Portugal, the disturbed state of Servia and other'
porticos of the Turkish empire, our relations with
Naples, the mission of a Special Commissioner to

the lonian Islands—with others which are pretty
sure to arise as the Session advances, are signs of •
coming Session which will not fail to any of the
elements which can give interest to political Mi.
beration.

fix Court.

WINDSOR, Jks. 11.

The Earl of Carttarroa, Vircoout Era;ulay, Lord
sad Lady Leigh. and the Right Hoe. J. W. Hanley,
arrived at dr Castle yesterday, aad had the bosom of Malag
with bar Majesty I. the evening.
TiIS Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley had
ths honour of being invited.
The bend of the Grenadier Gannis sae in attendance sad
played during chaser the
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TIN Queen and Prince Consort milked be the How Pert
this morning, and visited the Duchess of Kant at Frogman,.
Her Mammy held a Priry Council at one o'clock this day;
present, the Prince Consort, the Earl of Derby, the Right
Hon. B. Dismal!, Mr. Fiserstery Walpole, Biz E. Balser
Lytton, Major-General Peel, Air J. Pakington, Lord John
Manner., the Marquis of Exeter, and Earl Delaware.
At the Comma Perlisinent was ordered to be further pro-
rogued from Thursday, 13th January, to Thursday, the 9rd
of February; and ■ proclamation wee Issued eummoning
Pullet:mem to meet on the wild 3rd of February for the
despatch of public business.
The Hon. Wm. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in
Welting.

The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, end
Sir John l'akingion bad anthem,ea of the Queen.
Th. Earl of Sheffield and Lieut.-General Sir F. Stovin
were Lord end Groom in Waiting.
The Earl of Derby remains on a visit.

PROROGATION OP P,

The following proclamation appears in a supple-
TOM 10 Ms Loved.. Gautts of yesterday
" VICTORIA R.—Whereas our Parliament stands proro-
good to Thursday, the 13th day of this Instant January.
We, with the advioe of our Privy Council, do hereby pub.
Batt mad declare, that the said Parliament shall be further
pranged, on the said 13th day of January instant, to
Thursday, the 3rd day of February next; end We have
given order to oar Chancellor of that part of our United
Kingdom called Great Britain, to prepare a commtrion for
proroguing the same accordingly ; and we do hereby farther,
with the advice aforesaid, declare oar royal will and pleasure,
that the meld partimesat gull, on the said Thursday the 3rd
day of February eat, assemble and be holden foe the
despatch of divers urgent and important affairs ; and the
lords afiribeal and temporal, and the knights, citirms, and '
bargemen and the commissioners for attires and burghs of
the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded
to give their attendance accordingly, at Westminster, on the
said Thursday, the 3rd day of February next.
" Given at oar Court, at Windsor, this 11th day of
January, in the yes of our Lord, one thousand eight
Lambed cad fifty-nine, and in the twenty-second year
of oar riga. GOD SATZ THE QUERN."

ROIdELEBS POOR.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

SWITZERLAND.

BERNE, JAN. 10.
The Federal Assembly opened to-day, in order to
continue the ordinary session, under the presidency
of M. Btehlin, of Bale, member of the National
Council, and M. Niggeler, of Berne, member of the
Council of States. -No speech was delivered.

ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER
OF MR. ELY.

GALWAY, Tr =DAY.

Great excitement was caused amongst the pas-
sengers of the Circassian previously to her departure
by the arrest of a young man, about twenty-live
years of age, on suspicion, it is said, of being con-
cerned in the murder of Mr. Ely. Three pistols,
two of which were loaded, and a bowie knife, were
found on him.