The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-13 00:00:00

oRDErt,4 OF THE DAY.

Trugeri of II t I:set;dbi
NOTICEN OF MOTIONS,
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Gerd R4.151:11T India 7TioVerntutott Loam —Address
for return of the ternrr., 11141 th :is regards interest and price, on
which all Moos rabid for the ',imposes of the Indian govennueut,
either In bliglanil or bolls. have been negotiated.
Mr. Iltsr —Lunatic. ,Isyltims—Return.
Mr. it81,1,,W —church Rate Bills—Return of the several MIL
Introduced into tide I se and the Moose of Innis. In relation
4. church Lite... during the last twenty years, together with the
names of the is•roins Introducing such lithe.
Mr. Fetavo.alb second ITIA4iiIIZ of Trusters of (nitrifies hill,
to move •• That It be read a second tone upon this day alt
months."

A letter from Berlin atatel that the Queen of I
Prumia, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Prussia,
will visit the (Seen of England in May.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has
been graciously pleased to present 100/. as a prize to be
shut for at the meeting of the Natioual Rate

The Earl and Collates,' of Laneiborough have
arrived at their resillroce in Great Stanliope.str,:et, from
:iwithluzsl MA Leicestershire.

The ka' irl of Dudley it entertaining a large party
at Wltley Court, near Worcester.

The Earl of Selkirk has arrived at the Burlington
Hotel, Cort-streat.

Lady Harry Vano Ilan arrived in town from
Battle Abbey. Ilia lordship comas to town on Saturday.
Baron and Baroness Lionel de nothechtld enter-
tained • select party at diaper last evening at Kiwi=
Houma.

Lady Molonworth entertainea at dinner last even-
ieg the Earl and Counter of Donoughmore, the Ferl of
Lovelace, the Countess of Kinooull, Viscount and Via.
countess Holden, Viaoount and Viscountess Torrington, the
Bishop of (hfurd, Lord and Lady Lyvedea, thu Right Hon.
Sir Hamilton Seymour, the MD. Captain Vivian, and Mr.

on Friday Mr. Liddell will ask whether the
government have prepared any measure fur encouraging
or assisting the construction of harbours of refuge on the
coasts of the United Kingdom ; and whether it is their
intention to bring the question before parliament during
the present session, in accordance with a statement to that
effect made by the First Lord of the Treasury on the 19th
of June last.

A parliamentary return issual this morning
shows that the total amount of registration fees paid by
the registrar of tlesigns to the consolidated fund during the
period of five years ending the 30th of June wan, for orna-
mental designs, 8, kW. 9e. ; fur useful or non-ornamental
designs, 5,7141. lfin.

A parliamentary returns issued this morning,
specifies the augmentations and reductions in the relative
strength of the army during the three yc.irs, from 1857.8 to
18.59-60. The general results show that the proportion of
['cruise to strength for the three years was 8316 per
cent., or 27.72 per cent. annum ; and the proportion of de-
crease to strength during the =MC period, 45.74 per cent.,
or 15.25 per cent. per annum.

The Bankruptcy and Insolvency Bill, which is
now printed, contains 2301 clauses, and occupies, with
schedules, 77 foolscap pars. It is proposed that the bill,
if passed, shall take effect from and after the 11th of (kW-
her nest.

We learn that Captain Boyd, R.N., who was so
unfortunately drowned at Kingstown, on Saturday last, is
the brother of the Rer. Archibald Boyd, M.A., incumbent
of the mother Oturch of Paddinzton.
Yesterlay the Loril Mayor received a numerous
deputation of the council and others of the Society for the
Encouragement of the Fine Arta, attended by their honorary
eacretary, to whom ho kindly granted the we of the
Eeptien•hall, in the Mansion-house, for one of the nun-

r•rsa:ioaes, accompanied by an exhibition of works of art,
to take place on the of May. His lordship also &c-
-c ited the invitation of the council to beconio one of the
vice-presidents of the society.

Leith JOHN Reuss:Lk—His lordship yesterday
honoured the London Stereoscopic Company with a sitting
et Chesharroplsee. and some very fine pictures of his lord-
ship were secure.' by the artists of the company.
Fonmex-omen, Fen. 12.—The Queen bus been
pleased to approve ell Mr. Johann Philipp Schneider as con-
sul at Calcutta for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. The
Queen has also been pleased to approve of M. Eduardo Gio.
vaned LeVIAOI2 as consul at Penang fur his Majesty the King
of Sardinia.

DEATH OT THE COEHTEME (Mast*) of HADDING-
TON. —We regret to announce the death. after • mity Wet
illness, of Maria Couetess of theldintoe,widow of Thomas,
ninth Eel of Haddington, formerly Lord•Lhuteeant of
Ireland, First Lord of the Admiralty, ke., who expired on
Monday night at her resklence in Rerkeleyxquare. The
late countarso, who waa only daughter of George Parker,
fourth Earl of Macclesfield, by Mary Frances, Second
daughter sod co-heir of the Rev. Thomas Drake, D.D.,
was burn 7.1eil of January, 1781, an that she had recently
mitered on her Slat year. Her late ladyship married, 13th
of November, 1402, the late Earl of Haddiogton, who died
ht of December, 18514 by whom she had no tam.