The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-04 00:00:00

OPENING

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OP LORDS—This Day.
Parliament was opened this day by Royal Com-

mission.

The LOW) CHANCELLOR read
HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH,
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
We are commanded to assure you that her Majesty
has great satisfaction in recurring again to the
advice and assistance of her Parliament.
Her Majesty is confident that you will share her
feeling of gratitude to Almighty God on account
of the Princess of Wales having given birth to a
son ; an event which has called forth from he)
faithful people renewed demonstrations of devoted
loyalty and attachment to her person and family.
The state of 'Affairs on the Continent of Europe
has been the cause of great anxiety to her Majesty.
The death of the late King of Denmark brought
into immediate application the stipulations of the
Treaty of May, 1852, concluded by her Majesty,
the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French,
the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Russia, the
King of Sweden, and afterwards acceded to by the
King of Hanover, the King of Saxony, the King of
Wurtemburg, the King of the Belgians, the King
of the Netherlands, the Queen of Spain, the King
of Portugal, and the King of Italy.
That treaty declared that it is conducive to the
PTG"rVati" of the balance of power, and of the
peace of Europe, that the integrity of the Danish
monarchy should be maintained, and that the
several territories which have hitherto been under
the sway of the King of Denmark should continue
so to remain ; and for this purpose it was agreed
that upon the death of the late King and of his uncle
Prince Frederick without issue, his present Majesty
King Christian IX. should be acknowledged as suc-
ceeding to all the dominions then united under the
sceptre of his Majesty the King of Denmark.
Her Majesty, actuated by the same desire to
preserve the peace of Europe which was one of the
declared objects of all the Powers who were parties
to that Treaty, has been unremitting in her endea-
vours to bring about a peaceful settlement of the
differences which on this matter has arisen
between Germany and Denmark, and to ward off the
dangers which might follow from a beginning of
warfare in, the North of Europe; and her Ma-
jesty will continue her efforts in the interest of
peace.
The barbarous murders and cruel assaults com-
mitted in Japan upon subjects of her Majesty ren-
dered it necessary that demands should be made
upon the Japanese Government, and upon the
Daimio by whose retainers some of those outrages
were committed.
The Government of the Tycoon complied with
the demand made upon them by her Majesty's Go-
vernment, and full satisfaction having been made,
the friendly relations between the two Govern-
ments have continued unbroken. But the Daimio
Prince of Satzuma refused to comply with the just
and moderate demands which were made upon him.
His refusal rendered measures of coercion neces-
sary, and her Majesty regrets that while those
measures have brought this Daimio to an agree-
ment for compliance, they led incidentally to the
destruction of a considerable :i.sortion of the town of
Kagosima.

Papers on the subject will be laid before you.
The insurrection which broke out last year among
some portion of the native inhabitants of New
.Zsaland still unfortunately continues, but there is
reason to hope that it will, before long, be put
down.

Her Majesty commands us to inform you that
she has concluded a Treaty with the Emperor of
Austria, the Emperor of the French, the King of
Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia, by which her
Majesty consents to give up the Protectorate of the
lonian Islands, and also agrees to the annexation
of those Islands to the Kingdom of Greece.
This Treaty shall .be laid before you. Her
Majesty is also negotiating a Treaty with
the King of the Hellenes for regulating
the arrangements connected with the union of the
lonian Islands with the kingdom of Greece.
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
Her Majesty has desired the Estimates for the
ensuing year to be laid before you. They have
been prepared with every attention to economy, and
with a due regard to the efficiency of the public

service.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

Her Majesty commands us to inform you that
the condition of the country is, on the whole, satis-
factory. The revenue has fully realised its expected
amount ; the commerce of the United Kingdom is
increasing; and while the distress in the manufac-
turing districts has been in some degree lessened,
there is reason to look forward to an increased
supply of cotton from various countries which have
hitherto but scantily furnished our manufacturers
with this material for their industry.
Her Majesty has directed that a Commission
shall be issued for the purpose of revising the
various forms of subscription and declaration re-
quired to be made by the clergy of the Established
Church. A copy of that Commission will be laid

before you.
Various measures of public usefulness will be sub-
mitted for your consideration.
Her Majesty commits, with confidence, the great
interests of the country to your wisdom and care ;
and she fervently prays that the blessing of
Almighty God may attend your deliberations and
prosper your Councils for the advancement of the
welfare and happiness of her loyal and faithful
people.

Just ready, 75., cloth gilt, " Debrett's Peerage and Baro-
netage for 1861," illustrated with armorial bearings and
heraldic charges. Under the revision and correction of the
nobility. Bosworth and Harrison, booksellers to H.R.H.
the Prince of Wales, Regent-street. Dean, Ludgate-hill.
CICERO'S DEATH.—It was in the sixty-fourth
year of his age. in the grounds of his own villa of
Formiss, near Gaeta, says a London Reviewer, that Cicero
was murdered by a band of soldiers, headed by the military
tribune Popilius Lamas—a man whom he had once be-
friended in a criminal trial. The head of Cicero was cut off
and brought to Mark Antony, who,received it with inhuman
delight. It was exposed, with every mark of insult and
derision, upon the rostrum where his matchless eloquence
had often been heard.

THE YELVERTON CASE.—On Tuesday Major the
Hon. William Charles Yelvorton presented a peti-
tion, through his agents, Messrs. Tippetts and Son, to the
House of Lords, and which was served the same day on
the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton's agent, stating that on the 10th
of February, 1863, he submitted a petition of appeal to
their lordships' house, complaining of an interlocutor
pronounced by the first division of the Court of
Session in Scotland on the 19th December, 1862, in con-
joined actions of declarator of marriage at the respondent's
instance against the appellant, of putting to silence at the
instance of the appellant against her. That the respon-
dent duly entered an appearance on the above petition of
appeal, and lodged her answer on the 29th of June, 1863.
The petitioner on the said 29th day of June, 1863, lodged
his printed case with the clerk of the parliaments, and the
said petition of appeal was on the 30th of June, 1863, set
down for hearing before the House of Lords. The peti-
tioner goes on to state that the only question for the consi-
deration of their lordships upon this appeal was whether
the respondent was the lawful wife of the appellant. The
petitioner concludes by asking that their lordships
will
be pleased to fix an early day for the hearing of the said
appeal.

hurt eirolYfr
HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, l'eb'
The Queen. accompanied by Prince Leop 010,
walked and drove yester day .
Sir Charles Wood arrived, and had the hon°llf
of dining with her Majesty and royal faroili•
which
The Queen held a Council this afternoon,
was attended by Earl Granville, the Rig
it ht ,1,1°:
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the ltigl
Edward Cardwell, and Sir ()wales Wood
ncil) at.
.
Mr. A. Helps (the Clerk of the Cou
to d nde.
At the Council the Sheriffs for 1864 were

appointed.
Earl Granville had an audience of her Alajes,t7i9
After the Council the Aliniaters returoeu

London.

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The Prince and Princess of Wales. the
Yesterday morning his Royal Iliglitles-0.,
Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teo&lese' so
the equerry in waiting, left Frogmore vase,
hunted with the harriers. ~ oleg,
Her Royal Highness the Princess of
nor,
Fr°g
attended by the Hon. Mrs. E. Coke, left
of
House, about noon, in a close carriage,
hour's for
drive in the grounds and park. •ii 10
It is expected that the Prince of Wales Wi.'order
Frogmore House this morning for Lond
to on'
ID
attend the opening of Parliament.
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PARLIAMENTARY BAN.QtrTS. tig 1
at
tEarl Granville gave a full dress Parliamentar9b6gl3;Boets
iool his residence in Bruton-street last evening. lbeDiol9/
uded H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, tile"triat,
the Sutherland, Duke of St. Albans, the Duke of Argyll, tile .'"... ode;
Cheiricoago,
of Ailesbury, Lansdowne, Sligo, Bristol, 5001
the Earls Russell, Cork, Cowper, Granard, St- Gfrb. ster,
Clarendon, Caiihness, Dude, Somers, De GreY,Gne tela
Albemarle, Essex, Beesborough, Fitzwillime, 9Tlio'rrei'l:g;
Lichfield ; the Viscounts Sydney, Evers]. Y 1
g e bduseblio' iv e,
Stratford de Redcliffe ; and LordsCanloye:
ley, Taunton, Cremorne, Llanover, Strafford, We fAhler
Cranworth,Harris, De Tabley, Lyvecien, Stall/el O
ley, Abercromby, Menteagle, and Dufferin.
b nee"t
Cambridge
-house
Parliamentarl eiddier ,
quis of Hartington, Lord A. Page., Lo CaVmi
Lord P''''; cote
Lord Castlerosse, Lord Clarence'Paget,
Probyn, the Right Hon. the Speaker of the gle '91100.1
eLgouredsts;:ero:
vorevslofrjr,
mLonE.., the Right Hon. W. Cowper, the Itigi't 9.„St 0.:
Lowe the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the, 171,t1P'a:
W.si Hutt, the Right Hon. Thos. Headlare, tile II:goo.
C.
E. Peel, the Right Hon. F. Peel, the
the
Wood, the Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, the P.,fepcb`
E. Cardwell, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of %ooly
quer,th the Right Hon. C. Villiers, the Attorper veld'
icitor-General, the Attorney. General Or Probst,
the"elsi Hon. H. Brand, the Hon. E. Ashley, Sir .Cirl' ill, Ili'
Sir K. Hugessen, Mr. Gescheni 111 r. C• ,Gligoritle'
Layard, Mr. Stansfield, Col. Kingcourt, DD.' ',.,,1 1d
Mr. Baring, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Barrington, and v-.oideht -
On Tuesday evening Earl Granville Prd riehOrlittc;
the Council) gave a dinner party at his resideec-otoo, ' i
street. The guests present were Lord °Allir(ll'i°;:,,
DukeA of Argyll, the Duke of Somerset, the
sit ei3°-of
ilesbury, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Milner Gibs°l4 steilef a.
Grey, Viscount Sydney, Earl de Orel, 14°,1‘nci, 1011
Alderley, the Earl of St. Germans, gr. Oe'r '8 'l%'' d
r 'Oilier 'or 0-
mund Harrison, Mr. Cardwell Mr
for the Preeellt Y
_do
meeting the roll of sheriffs' .
arranged. ,„, 'lO ro•
The Earl of Derby, as leader of the Censer.i tiefbii.4.sl.
in the House of Lords, entertained a large eire:'oe fo '
litical friends at dinner last evenin, at his ,nlii.,t- lief P-,:e
James's• square. There were present—the v,LentrOglif•
fort, the Duke of Buckingham, the Duke of It"," the ',, of
Duke of Manchester, the Duke of Marlboretl9o(lll'o,
quis of Salisbury, the Marquis of Bath, tbeto gat P° to
Exeter, the Marquis of Waterford, the 393.4te, Car
shire, the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Earl of Carl Earl ol oil
Earl of Fowls, the Earl of Ha'rdwicke, th: ,o, Oleg,
narvon, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of 1.1'11;1010f -ci
of Malmesbury, the Earl of Stradbroke, the iatoteveyt
wich, Lord Redesdale, Lord Colville, lOrd Ccal IVO i'd OA
Lord Chelmsford. The Duke of Riehra°ll,4oo, sllltetti
owing Marquis of Abercorn and the Earl of ponetle •
, ao
indisposition. , / P 0,
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli received Yeeter',7o( 1/16,/
hneerrs,
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Lord Burghley, Lord John Manners, Lod ipbess, go
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Stanley, Lord Lovaine, Lord Curzon, L°r,:. ftigh. (101
the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, tv.ifoljoe' si'
Spencer Walpole, the Right Hon. Sir Jo Boni One. Sifisol:„
the Right Hon. Jonathan Peel, the Rigbt
Tellitre' s;fter
ward Lytton, the Right Hon Sir Williae3 '' sir IA
Palk, ford
Northcote, Sir William lieathcote,
and Colonel Taylor. f Clitr
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Their Royal Highnesses the Dae-estrehOli, to•
bridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenbarrge
.ve,iiiices
the Princess Mary will leave Cambridge Cttaijeksh 00'
day, for the royal duchess's residence at St• "' toll Jot,
t The Duke of Buckingham arrived iiiroliatile 00
erday from Stowe, Bucks, for the meeting °f tilid 601
gbe 00 '
The Duke and Duchess of ft°l3lll:`..eadclil
Marquis of Bowmont have arrived at tile c''.- le
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from Broxmouth Park. jet) JO
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from Strawberry Hill, Tenham. •We ii° .
Viscount and Viscountess Castleroass ooteit
in town from their seat, E.illaruey, irel6rja inits4o .
Viscount Hill has arrived at Tb°'"-
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Berkeley-square, from Hawkeston, SllO-$l3 OS
Lord Proby has arrived at 14, 1-15—/
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Lord and Lady Wenlock have aretli, vrit. Vl'
Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Escrick V""'"Gorjed.noroet;
Lady Francis Gordon and Miss coot, ,Yteces
arrived in Wilton-crescent from Fraraptol.l.
100 00
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THE BURNS OF WALEs.---- Ivfe Wale- /,3' 3- #
set on foot in the principalitiff ,4, o°'°
raising of a Testimonial .to the live; coutit"Boo
haiarn, commonly known atac3g; Arsoatsi' of l't3
as the " Barns offirales.'' This le.tbe fortaa
01/,
completed, is to resolve itself ilit?sattriblit'3 ijtatec
annuity. The reason for them ovement. li. koopred"..,o 1.,
to the fact of the Bard's health hving? Ji, 0000 e, 700 fi,
and the Testimonial is now beiog raiisediitueotore. ile Olio.
plea of his eminent services to Wre.°l_, °there. tgetiol), of.
motors of the enterprise include, ae)74;rit of . 1301) olid
ing :Lord Mostyn, tho Lord de'l'l Tnr the 13,1°1. ftiri,re;
shire ; the Earl of Yowls, Lord DYnet - Ay., o'o,ol ,1
David's, Sir Watkin W., Wynn, 13a't ',. of Carl elie"!,..t;
Bulkeley, Bart., DIY., Lord Lieutentoirn„Lico, OJg ; iy,t,poo
Sir Hugh Williams; Mr. Ilowel S.
(14.:.r Chdriliev, bit:100
Merionetb.shire; the Hon. T. V. 1-10ra ; 010 .pent ls.J.
Mr. Hugh Owen of the Poor.law
v rry ; tve°l,l ,101.0tle;
Williams ; Captain T. L. Joao ' Li; Goralia); t !col Ca ,00
harpist, Mr. John Thomas (Vencieriorts peacir;r. slra`oo
Roberts (Ysceifiog) ; Mr. D.
T,IAT'n ol 11313,4;„ tlleliifli(ricis
Mr, G. Osborne Morgan, --,1 °Zoe, -./.000 • Dlt'
Williams, Temple; Mr- D. Av • ~ 1ND..." obigo,,,itte,
Thomas Oldfield (Eryr Moel_f_rre!,'tobtoi, Pd.,
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Alaw); Mr, S. :.:• Edwards, lA liti Air. orirdet; 000 '
Joseph Edwards, the sculptor, 4134 (wire 10
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the musician. Mr. Willi°l jr°L'es % 01,114 S 4406
aerated to act as treasurer.
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