The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-07 00:00:00

THE REFORM BILL.

PROT FAT.

The following protest has been made by Lord
Ellenborough
"To the third reading of the Representation of the
People Bill dissentient :
"1. Because the bill, creating in almost every city and
borough in England a new constituency more numerous
than that which exists, impairs, where it does not de-
stroy, the power of the present electors, and substitutes
for it that of a new body interior to them in property and
education.

" 2. Bemuse the confidence justly placed in constituen-
cies of approved worth cannot reasonably be transferred to
such men now first intrusted with electoral power; and
it is to be fei red that when labour makes laws for capital
—poverty for property—legislation, no longer directed by
educated intelligence, will impair the individual freedom
of action and the security of possession which have been
the foundations of our prosperity and wealth.
" 3. Because it more nearly concerns the public welfare
that representatives should be well chosen than that con-
stituencies should be numerous ; and the larger consti-
tuencies have rarely been fortunate in the choice of their
representatives, or persistent iu retaining them when they
proved worthy of support.
"4. Because a seat in the House of Commons, more
difficult in attainment than heretofore, less secure in pos-
session, and not exempt from humiliation while occupied,
will cease to be an object of the same ambition to that high
elan of gentlemen by whose patriotic spirit and states-
manlike wisdom the liberties of the people were secured
and the greatness of the country has been achieved.
"5. Because the House of Commons, composed of in-
ferior men, dependent upon the fickle feelings of the
masses they represent, will not afford to any ministers a
fair and consistent support ; and successive Governments,
permanently weak, limited in the choice of men to fill the
great offices of State to the few who may have the best
hopes of re-election, compelled to feel their way by
measures of a tentative character, not fully approved even
by themselves, will exist from day to day by concession,
lose all respect for themselves, but not before they have
lost that of others, and at length retire with the convic-
tion that the theoretical perfection of constituencies is in-
compatible with the successful conduct of the affairs of
the country in parliament."

the Court.

OSBORNE, Aucurr 6.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of
Leiningen, drove out yesterday afternoon; mid her Ma-
jesty and Prince= Louise rode on ponies in the grounds
this morning.
The Royal Family walked in the grounds yesterday
afternoon.

Today is the birthday of the Duke of Edinburgh.

The Rev. George and Mrs. I'rothero had the honour of
dining with the Queen and the Royal Family yesterday.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Ellis, left
Marlborough house yesterday afternoon for Osborne, on •
visit to the Queen.
A deputation from the Fisheries Preservation Associa-
tion, consisting of Lord de Maguire (president), Lord
Northwick, Mr. Bohn, Mr. H. Cholmondeley Pennell,
Peter Hood, M.D., Mr. H. A. Glass (hon. secretary
Salmon Fishery Congress), Mr. Frank Storr (secretary to
the 'hue Waltoniau Society), Mr. T. Smith, Mr. John
Candlish, M.P., and Colonel Sykes, had an inter-
view with the Right Hon. Outhorne Hardy at the Home-
office yesterday, on the subject of the pollution of rivers.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Rose (chairman of the
Vale of Aylesbury Cattle Plague Association), Mr. J. K.
Fowler, Mr. John Riggs, and Mr. John Dcuchfield (Roy►l
and Central Ducks Agricultural Association), Mr. George
Fell (secretary to the above associations) Mr. J. Odame
(Hertfordshire), and Mr. T. Pitta (Plymouth) had an inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-
street, yesterday, to urge the adoption of Mr. Corrance's
amendment to the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Bill.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial•ofce
from the Governor of Malta.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, it is expected, will leave Marlborough-house
about the Lath, and pay a visit to Wiesbaden. The Prince
and Princess will probably remain on the continent for
about two months, and then return to London.

The Duke and Duchene of Sutherland have left
Stafford Rouse, St. James's, for Lilleahall, Shropshire.
The Marquis of Bath has arrived at the Hotel
Westminster, Paris, frow Vienna, on his way to London.
Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley have left
town for a tour in Germany.

A marriage will shortly take place between Mr.
Reginald Chohnondsley, of Condover Hall, Shropshire, and
the Hon. Alice Egerton, second daughter of Lord and Lady
Egerton of rattan.

The Archduke Regnier of Austria, and the
Archduchesa, with the Archduke Charles, uncle of the
Emperor, who have been for some time on a visit to Lord
Cart!mese, at Killarney, left Kingstown, on Monday
evening for England, on their return to Germany. Lord
Castleroaee accompanied them.
M. Anspach, the Burgomaster of Brussels, has
forwarded thromh Colonel Lloyd Lindsay the sum of
4261. 9s. 6d., as a donation to the Anglo-Belgian Societe
de Bienfaisarme in London. This sum is given by the
members of the Belgian Garde Civique, who took part in
the recent expedition to England, in token of their appre-
ciation of the cordial welcome they received in this
country._

THE BELGIAN VOLUNTEER* AND Mles BURDETT
Corrrs.—We read in the Primmer of Antwerp, of the
4th :—"The general meeting of the London excursionists

of the Antwerp Civic Guards was a very large one. It took
place yesterday evening at the lietel de Ville, Major Be:
in the chair. The first resolution was that an album—a
genuine work of art—shosld be offered to Miss Burdett
Coutte, containing portraits of all the Antwerp Civic
Guards whom she so graciously received at her residence.
A commission of nine members was appointed, and the
execution of this album I. entrusted to M. Bogaerta, the
author of the magnificent se“st.,ir left in London by our
citizen soldiers."