Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1862-01-29 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

BUSINESS OF TILE SESSION.  Wu" (Times) "tire not aware of any measure of first-rate import:nee which is likely to engross tie attention of P:-.)itiment during the coming Season. Of foreign policy there will, no doubt be a good deal to say. We may ea.pect more revelations from Mr. Kinglake, more motions in favour of South American States P•om Mr. Gregory, very llkely more littlu Reform Burs from Mr. Bo' tics rid Mr. Locke King. There is the Educat on Minute, which will, doubtless, be fiercely discussed, though the subject is probably not one on which many pro:Acted debates can be raised. The matte: is too technical, ond the question lies w itbi too nr-row a centpa-s. Sir Robert Peel and the Irish Members will also probably show some sport, but these must be regarded rather rit occasiomil amusenseutth i as the main business of 'lie Session. What then, if lie Gove..,inent renounces the duty of legislation, is to till up the time, profitably and to save us font the otherwise inevitable waste of rliamen a. ji hours on Brs brought in by a :ost of private menthe.° rnd destined either to fall sudlicitly at tho Wednesday meAsacre or to pine to death in the chocking at aosphere of Select Committees? Plenty remains to be done, and is not likely, perhaps, that we are fated this year to cue the final close of the Churchrate controversy, though such a result is by no means imposable should the Government address themselves N .gorously to the questi.on. But there is no want of less exciting topics. rite whole field of Law Reform lies before us, tied, look where we will, we ore sure to find ample work for the sinendiug hand. Is the Consolidation of ;the Law of Joint-Stock Companies, so often promised, never to be given to us? Is the great work of °let sing the Statute Book of 11l laws obsolete, repealed, or expired to advance no furrhea, and the consolidation of the law, so auspiciously begun lust Session by the formation of something like a Criminal Code, destined to stop sho t and to bear no other ? Then there is the substantive Law itself. Is that so absolutely perfect that we need go no furthe , and be content to dwell for ever in the edifice reared for us by the wisdom of a barbarous age? Everybody knows that the length of Conveyance., might be shortened if the system of costs were revised and solicitors were permitted to charge for the difficulty of the work done, instead of the number of folios in the deed. We have only touched on a few of the topics which must necessarily suggest themselves to the mind of every person conversant with the subject so soon as Law Reform is mentioned. There is the Law of Patents, one of the moat mischievous and anomalous laws of the day, which pe:petuates monopoly in the very bosom of free t.ade, and titles hivention in a country the ex:steno° of which depends on success in the race between increased means of prod action and the increase of population. There is the highway Bill of last Session. There is the unsolved problem of a Metropolitan Municipality. Surely Wall this there is something which may profitably occupy the time of Po liament--that is, if Government be wiling to lend itself to the support of any one or more of so many necessary reforms? ig tad  Captain Denman, the Commander of the Royal yacht has ju4 become a Roar-Admiral by the death of Admiral Sir E. D. king, and so vacates the cow nand of the 'loyal yacht. One a the brethren of the Charter-house i attempted to commit suicide on Tuesday, by cutting his throat with a razor. Do was formerly a sergeant. in the Guards. The cause of the act is believed to be mental aberration. The Emperor of the French has latterly taken to the fowling piece as well as the skates. lie goes out nearly every day, very early in the forenoon, on his shooting excursions, to the forests in the neighbourhood of Paris. The subject of the English prize _poem at Cambridgc thig yell., "Tbf• Poth 9f the Pricre:Consort."