The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-06 00:00:00

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Wr,,Jlit, LORD DYNDREARY MARRIED AND mixt;
FOR. Mr. 4.4lwin.—And JENNY LINO AT LAST. Mai Burke.

PRINCIDIWS.

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J. G. Shore; Miss Katherine Rodgers.—And sIIADOW TREE
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Mellon, and Cathcart; Misses Montagu, Edmonds, and Rodger&

LiCXUAI.

Tro. rricrotio, TOE TWO PoLTri. Mr. Wlddlcomb.—And
BOl'ut: ET NOIR. Messrs. Pechter, Emery, rowper, Moreland,
Yltzpatrick. Dslton, Reynolds, Lomas, Andrews, Price, &r.
Mrs. L. Murray, and Misses Renrade, Cretan, and C. Leclerrq.

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TWKEU'i.

HOLBORN.

Tniq ETVerno, MY TURN NEXT. IMr. Relmore: Misses
Foote and Lennox.—And FLYING SCUD. timers. Neville, Bel-
more, Wake, Vollaire, fie.: Mesdames V. Joseph', C. Saunders,
Bessie Foote: Yiddes, Lennox, Raymond, etc.

BRITANNIA.

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—And THE W I 110N1 'S II RESIDE.

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LONDON, WEONESDAY, FEBRUARY 6.

TIIE Speech from the Throne is restored this
session to the consequence it had before Lord
Patmziesroa's last administration, and once more
contains an announcement of the most important
measures to be proposed by tho Government.
This is more respectful to the Crown than the
practice of putting a tissue of empty and
unmeaning sentence% into the QuEEN's mouth,
and leaving the course of legislation to be an-
nounced in the House of Commons by the
Heads of Departments. The number of sub-
jects set down for legislative treatment this
year is unusually large : they are Parliamentary
Reform ; the Confederation of Canada, Nova
Scotia, and New Brunswick ; the Law of Bank-
ruptcy ; Metropolitan Poor-law Relief ; tho Irish
Law of Landlord and Tenant ; Extension of the
Factory Acts ; the Mercantile Marine ; Local'
Charges on Shipping ; Embarrassments of Railway
Companies ; and the Consolidation and Improve-
ment of various Courts of Law. It would not be
fair to ask whether Ministers expect to carry
bills on everyone of these subjects. \Ve like to see
our Governments approach their work in a cheer-
ful and hopeful spirit, although experience may
tell us too surely that many a Bill brought in
with spirit in February is destined, after wearing
out the patience of its authors, t•, disappear
suddenly in July. Still, we must ask that
some proportion shall be maintained between
the Ministerial programme and the circum-
stances in which it is to take effect. In in-
scribing Parliamentary Reform at the head
of its list of proposals, the Government has
committed itself to a task which, if pursued
with vigour and perseverance, must oc-
cupy, together with the Budget and the Esti-
mates, nearly the whole available time of the
House of Commons. Canada has been brought
into such a condition by the discordance and
mutual jealousies of the English and French-
speaking populations, and the want of public
spirit among its leading politicians, that some
legislation respecting its affairs is probably ne-
cessary, if only to raise the hopes of the colonists
and give a new starting point and a new impulse
to their affairs, and if so the House must find time
for it. Again, one or two of the minor mea-
sures named in the QUEEN'S Speech may pass just
because they are not calculated to provoke differ-
ences of opinion. There are, however, other ques-
tions which never come before Parliament without
causing long debates. Such questions are the
Bankruptcy Law and the relations between Land-
lord and Tenant in Ireland. If there were any
chance of dealing successfully with these in a
session the chief business of which is the Reform
of Parliament, everybody would welcome a well-
considered effort for that purpose. But it is
tolerably certain that if the Government sets
about the work of Reform in earnest, the satisfac-
tory treatment of Bankruptcy and Tenant Right
will be found impossible ; while if that work be not
so done, the Government and its Bills will vanish
together. If Lord DERRY and Mr. DISRAELI have
simply set down the dozen of subjects named in
the QUEEN'S Speech as so many topics as to which
they desire to be understood as in possession
of a policy ; if, having been long kept out
of office, they desire to record their readiness to
assume the responsibilities of active legislation,
well and good. But it must be clearly understood
that, whatever postponements may be re-
quisite for that purpose, it is before all
things necessary that the question which has
for so many years stood in the path of practical
legislation shall this year be disposed of, so as no
longer to remain an obstruction. Whatever con-
tributes to that result, so far advances all subordi-
nate and particular reforms. If we get a good
Reform Bill passed this year, the Bankruptcy Law
and the relations of Landlord and Tenant are sure
to be successfully dealt with at an early date ;
if we do imt, practical reforms of all kinds will
suffer further anal indefinite delay.

Mr. Thomas Hughes has, it is said, been ap-
pointed on the eommispion to inquire into the organisa-
tion of tracks' unions and other associations of employers
and workmen.

Dr. Kiemn, the new Roman catholic primate,
was consecrated at Dundalk on Sunday. Cardinal Cullen,
and some other prelates were present, and about seventy
priests. Among the crowd of laity who witnessed the
ceremony were Lord Louth, Lady Louth, the Hon. Miss
Plunkett, Lord Fingal!. Viscount Valenti*, Sir John
Robinson, Tristram Kennedy, ; Myles O'Reilly,
M.P. ; Sir George Bowyer, M.P. ; Captain Chaine, Cap-
tain Farrell, Mr. P. J. Byrne, Crown Solicitor, and Mrs.
Byrne. The new Lord Primate had been parish priest of
Dundalk, and was the one elected by his brethren as di yni.w.