The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-12 00:00:00

COURT ciIiCULAR.

The Queen went in state yesterday to the House of
Lords to open the Session of Parliament with a speech
from the Throne.
The Queen and Prince Albert returned to Bucking-
ham Palace at 35 minutes past four o'clock.
Her Majesty and his
Brabant, the Comte de Flandres, and
Royal,
Princea d pAr
ilnbceersts,
accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of
Raul,Ypai HighnessAlfred,rince
n
the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, and their Serene
Highnessess the Prince and Princess of Hohenlohe Lan-
genburg, Princess Adelaide tnd Prince Hermann, of
Alice, the
ththeepPu PrincessoindTßs i
Hohenlohe, left Buckingham Palace at three minutes
before five o'clock, for Windsor Castle. The Ladies and
Gentlemen in waiting were the Viscountess Canning,
Lady Caroline Barrington, the Earl of Verulam. Sir
Edward Bowater, Colonel the Honourable C. Grey,
Major General Buckley, L
euteatt-Colonel the Honour-
able A. Gordon, the Master if the Household, Mr.
Gibbs, Colonel do Moerkerke. aki Comte de Briey.
THE DUKE OF WELLIN
T°VB FllNEulL.—Yester-
day, her Majesty proceeded,fur
o'clock,
Prince Albert and
the royal children, at. to view the lying in
state of the body of his Grace the ,ate Duke of Welling-
ton. Her Majesty was acconipaaad by the principal
officers of her household, and was ,eceived by the chief
officials of the Hospital, the Y
-"lama of the Guard, a
detachment of the Life Guards, aut
also of the Duke's
Regiment.
The Queen and the Royal party *ant to the Padding-
ton terminus and travelled to Windar by y special train,
on the Great Western Railway.
Captain Stopford Claremont has
, been appointed by
tho Government to attend upon tne reign officers who
have come over for the late ri
--rke of Wellington's
funeral.
The Right Hon. 13. Disraeli, - eh-sbeellor of the Ex-
chequer, gave a full dress dinner on Wednesday
evening, at his residence, G_losvenor-ate.
; to members
of the House of Commons. The emptily consisted of
the Right Hon. the Speaker. Lnr d
,-.4,. 'd —..Lovaine, Mr. E.
%d
Egerton, the Marquis of ean
_os, v
secant Galway,
Viscount Mandeville, Viscount Newpo.,
'', Lord Claude
Hamilton, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, I
lord John Man-
ners, Lord Naas, Lord Stanley, Right 11(A.
Spencer Wal-
pole, Right Hon. Sir John Pakingtoi Right Hon.
George Bankes, Right lion. W. P_!resfefoi, Right Hon.
R. A. Christopher, Colonel the I.ttght 't
-on. Cecil Fo-
rester, the Right Hon. J. C. lierpe Riga -gkt Hon. J. W.
John Henley, Right Hon. J. Napier, Sir ,,
•rellope, Hon.
W. S. Cotton, Captain lion. A. Duneerats Bon. W . S.
Knox, Sir Frederick Thesiger, Sir Fitz 4 Kell .y,
Sir
George Berkeley, Sir Thomas Herbert,gir William
Jolliffe, Colonel Dunne, Mr. James Wliteside, Mr.
Henry J. Baillie, Mr. Thomas Bateson,
Mr,e. L. Cum-
ming Bruce, Mr. George A. Hamilton, M, W. Forbes
Mackenzie, Mr. Augustus Stafford, and Mr. T. B.
Courtney.

'ommittee
hven notice
Nuence of a
next, the
HOLIDAY ON THE 18TH INSTANT.—The
'eral of the
ge sill also be
for managing the affairs of Lloyd's have, in con
requisition numerously signed by the members,
necessary
that the establishment will be closed en Thursday
18th instant, the da aointed for the public fu
late Duke of Wellington. The Stock Exchange
for that
closed, but the committee have not yet given tht
official notice. They, however, meet to-morro‘
on
purpose. The Bank of England, the private barkers and
the joint-stock banks, will, as far as possible, be closed
this occasion, and it is intended that only one or two clerks
shall be in attendance at each establishment, for the purpose
of paying bills due that day, and cheques that mat be pre-
sented. The Custom-house, the Excise, the docks, and all
other Government or public places appointed for thetracsae.,
tion of business, will also be closed, and the mercantie com-
munity will, it is anticipated, adopt, wherever practicable,
a similar course.
THE Qusen's SPEPIIIII.—On the opening cc Par-
liament, yesterday afternoon, her Majesty's Speech as for-
warded to the continent, by Messrs. Willmer and Smith
news and electric telegraph agents, by whom the first copy
of that important document was delivered at the officeof the
Submarine and European Telegraph Company in Comhill.
The Royal Speech was not read by her Majesty in the ijouse
of Lords until a quarter-past two, and not a copy was issued
from the Treasury previous to that hour; yet so rapidly was
it transmitted by the wires of the Submarine Telegraph—
being at the rate of forty words a minute— that its releipt
was acknowledged by a return message from France at five
minutes past three, and a summary of it was posted at OA
liorsen Halle Exchange Rooms in Hamburg early ill the
afternoon.

GREAT FIRE AT ROMFC)RD.—Yes!erday morning a
fire broke out at Ronatorcl, which, before its extinctiou, ef-
fected the destruction of a very considerable amount of
property.