The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-15 00:00:00

LORD BROUGHAM AND THIS BURNS CENTENARY;
The following extract from • letter received yesterday from
Lard Brougham will be read with much regret do SO-
RT* you most unfeignedly that it giver me very great pain
to Sad myself after all in the utter itoponnhility of being in
anything like time to assist at the meeting of the 26th.
Even should the reports which have reached us of parlia-
ment meeting before the usual time prove well-founded, 1
Abell be wholly unable to leave this part of the country in
time to attend. The very eeriest moment I can pomibly be
in London is the beginning of neat month. I always, se
you may remember, considered my return as meet doubtful ;
but accidental circumstance., which I could not foresee, have
rendered it impomible. It is Deedless to add how great a
diaappiintmear this is to me, and I can only hope that ft
rosy not have proved inconvenienti to those who strange the
LECTURES AT THE ROYAL. INSTITUTION. —The
probable Friday evening arrangements for lectures et the
Royal Institution en this side of Easter comprise :—Jan. 28,
W. R. Grove, bleq., "On the Electrical Diorite/to, and its
Stratified Appearing", in Rarefied Meths ;" Fob. 4, Professor
R. 011•014 On the Gorilla;' Feb. 11, E. B. D4.66W1. Esl..
.• On some Architectaral Questions;" Feb. 18. S. 8 Alison,
M.D., "On certain Auditory Phenomena.," Feb. 25, I'm •
fewer Foraday, on e sulkier, lot yet named ; March 4, Pro-
/mew Tywdell. On the Veined Structure of Gleciets;"
Mandl 11, W. Oiling, Erg , "On the Metals obtained from
Luna and 111thommia, and their congeners;" March IS, Rev.
W. Mitchell, "On • New Method of rendering visible to the
eye mew of the more Abstruse Problems of Crystallography
hitherto considered only I. Mathematical Abstractions;
Match 26, R. A. Smith, Ph. D., "Ou the Retittietion of
Organic Matter In the Atmosphere;' April 1, N. 8. Maths-
lyne. Ern ,"On the Insight hitherto obtained into the Nature
of the Crystal Molecule by the Inetrumentelity of Light;"
April if, James Paget, Eoq , "On theChronometry of Life;"
end April 15, Sir Charles Lyell, "On the Consolidation of
Lem on Steen Slopes, end on the Origin of the Conical Form
of Volcanos."
LAST ORIGINAL CoN. BY VAN.—Why ought
Dramatic College Dodd to win the sent Derby P Because be
is the owner of the Prosticed Land—Ere.
MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF MADAME VEII-
Tise.—We understand that the monument shout to he
erected by Mr. Charles Mathewo, in Reneel•grreri Cemetery,
to the memory of the late /declares Yodels, and which hoe
been Po long delayed by his sbeence in America, is now near
completion. It is of quiet and unpretendiog character, con-
sisting of • plain [dab of white tnerble, surrounded by a
small scroll of vine leaves, and terries • simple Inscription
to mark her resting-piece. It is expected to be placed on the
ground in the clamed the nest two or three weeks.—lre,
THE CHILD-READER AND TIIR AUTHOR.—PrO-
armor Iwo!, Grimm relates the following anecdote:—" Not
Wig ago, s little girl of about eight yeses old, apparently be-
longing to s good family, rings et the door of Dr. Grimm,
and tells the servant that the wishes to speak to the ' Herr
Probes:lr: Thinking that the little one had to deliver a
merge, the servant shows hoe into the study of the pro-
fmmor, who receives her kindly, and asks after her emend.
The child look. at him with OSA lied eyes and says, Is it
then who beat written those tine March= (fairy tele.)—
. Yea. my dear; sewers Dr. Grimm, my brother and I have
written the Hew Marche.'—• Then thous had also written
the tele of the clever little taller, where It in rid eat the end,
who will not believe it most pay a dialer l'—' Yes I have
written that too:—. Well, then, Ido not believe it, so I
amp's,* I balm le pap • theist but es I have not so much
money now, I'll give thee a groethen on account, and pay
the reel brand-by.'" The savant, al rosy be tmnrined,
was not a little surprised and amused. He Inquired after
the nape of his cosecientions little reader, sad took can

that the resohed bar be.. safely.
CHURCH RATES AT Wooiwtcii.—ln consequence
of the recent refuel to grant a church rate et Woolwich, the
chor.lwardene hare Word hsudbills giving notice to the
parishioners that the vestry clerk will wait upon them, to
eolicit subscriptions towards rotating the requisite disburse-
seshis el the perish dm* for tbe law* pot.