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LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1854.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.)

The anxiously-looked for opening of Parliament took
place this day, her Majesty the Queen inaugurating in
person what will, in all probability, be one a the most
important and deeply interesting sessions if corded in
the Parliamentary annals of this country.
The morning was exceedingly fine, the sun shining out
with a brilliancy rare at this period of the yla r. From
an early hour the streets leading towards Whitehall and
the Park were crowded with persons hurrying to obtain
a good place for viewing the Royal procession ; and long
before two o'clock the Mall in St. James's•park, White-
hall, and Parliament-street, were so thronged with
spectators that circulation would have'' been im-
possible but for the good arrangements enforced
by the police. Along Parliament-street a number of bal-
conies were erected, which were crowded with ladies.
With the well-known punctuality of the Queen, the
Royal procession left Buckingham Palace at a quarter
to two o'clock. Her Majesty was accompanied by
Princ3 Albert and the usual attendants. All along the
route the manifestations of popular respect for the Queen
were warm and frequent, the cheering at various points
being loud and enthusiastic, which her Majesty and the
Prince Consort acknowledged repeatedly.
The Chamber of the House of Peers was thrown open
soon after 12 o'clock, and from that hour pp till the
arrival of her Majesty the officials of the house were
occupied in fi Luling seats for those who had obtained tickets
of admission, or ushering Peeresses to their allotted
positions in the body of the house. Very many of the
Peeresses appeared in deep mourning, towplaiely indi-
cating that they had lost some relations in the terrible
struggle going on in the Crimea. All the galleries were
filled with ladies, while, as is usual on these occasions,
the bishops' benches to the right of the throne were ap-
propriated to the use of the Foreign A.mbiOadors. It
was observed that Mr. Buchanan, the repreientative of
America, a fine portly-looking man, was attired in the
simple evening dress of a gentleman. Although the some
of the openingof Parliament was associated with mourn-
ful recollections of the past yet it bad lost lane of its
former splendour, and the picture which the interior of
the house presented was truly superb. Several of the
judges, attired in their state robes, surrounddd the Lord
Chanbellor, and some half-dozen of the bishops were ILI
their places, including the Archbishop of Canterbury j
and the Bishop of London ; but the army was scarcely J
represented—indeed there seemed to be an utter
absence of military uniforms, excepting, of course,
those worn by the Ambassadors. The attend-
ance of Peers was exceedingly numerous on both
sides of the house. The Earl of Aberdeen, the Duke of
Newcastle, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Clarendon, and
other of the Ministers were present.

At a quarter past two o'clock the booming of cannon
announced the arrival of her Majesty, and a few
minutes afterwards her Majesty entered the
house, preceded by the Earl of Aberdeen bearing the
sword of State, the Marquis of Winchester carrying
the cap of maintenance, the Marquis of Lansdowne
carrying the crown, and the Lord Chancellor.
Her Majesty having ascended the throne, she was
graciously pleased to command her subjects to be seated.
The Usher of the Black Rod (Sir Augustus Clifford) was
then directed to summon the House of Commons to at-
tend at the bar, and immediately afterwards the Speaker,
attired in his State robes, and attended by the Serjeant-
at-Arms and a large body of members, appeared at the
bar accordingly.

HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.

The Lord Chancellor then handed her Majesty the
Speech, which she read in her usually clear and distinct
voice as follows :

" MY LORDS AND GENTLBMRN,

" I have called you together at this unusual period of the
year, in order that, by your assistance, I may take such mea-
sures as will enable me to , prosecute the great War in which
wo are engaged with the utmost vigour and effect.
This assistance I know will be readily given ; for I cannot
doubt that you share my conviction of the necessity of spar-
ing no effort to augment my forces now engaged in the
Crimea. The exertions they have made, and the victories
they have obtained, are not exceeded in the brightest pages
of our history, and have filled me with admiration ane grati-
tude.

" The hearty and efficient co-operation of the brave troops
of my ally the Emperor of the French, and the glory acquired
in common, cannot fail to cement still more closely the union
which happily subsists between the two nations.
" It is with satisfaction I inform you that, together with
the Emperor of tho Fr9uch, I have concluded a treaty of
alliance with the Empoeor of Austria, from which I antici-
pate important advantages to the common cause.
"I have also concluded a Treaty with the United States of
America, by which subjects of long and difficult discussion
have been equitably adjusted.
" These Treaties will be laid before you.

" Although the prosecution of the War will naturally en-
:ago your chiof attention, I trust that other matters of great
interest and importance to the general welfare will not bo
neglected.
"I rejoice to observe that the general prpsperity of my,
subjects remains uninterrupted. The state of the revenue
affords me entire satisfaction ; and I trust that by your wis-
dom and prudence you will continue to promote the progress
of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures.

" GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
" In the estimates which will be presented to you I trust
you will find that ample provision has been made for the
exigencies of the public service.
"111 y LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

" I rely with confidence on your patriotism and public
spirit. I feel assured that in the momentous contest
in which we are engaged you will exhibit to the world the
example of a united people. Thus shall we obtain the re-
spect of other nations, and may trust that by the blessing of
God we shall bring the war to a successful termination."

This closed the ceremony of opening- Parli.ament, and
her Majesty returned to Buckingham Palace in the same
order that she came.

Their lordships re-assembled at 5 o'clock.
The house at this period presented a very animated ap-
pearance. A considerable number of ladies were in the
Peeresses' galleries ; the space below the bar was filled
by members of the House of Commons and their friends,
whilst "the house," properly so called, exhibited a goodly
attendance of Peers.
Amongst the Ministers and other Peers earliest in attend-
ance were the Earl of Aberdeen, the Duke of Newcastle,
the Marquis of Lansdowne; the Duke of Argyll, Earl
Granville, and Lord Stanley, of Alderley.
At 20 minutes after 5 o'clock,

ThoLSi.oCHA.NCELLOR rose and read the Queen's
Speech from the Woolsack.
The Royal Speech having been again road by the Clerk
at the table,
The Duke of LEEDS then rose to move the Address.
Ho said he was sure both Parliament and the country
would gladly respond to her Majesty's appeal to the coun-
try for means of carrying on the war. (flear, hear.) With
respect to the treaty which her Majesty had announced as
concluded with the Government of the United States he was
sure the country would rejoice at it. As regarded that
other treaty between Austria and Fr me() and England,
which the Royal Speech also announced as concluded, it
must be regarded as a great step towards bringing about
an honourable and a lasting peace. Referring to that
portion of the Royal Speech which alluded to the gallantry
of our brave allies, the noble duke paid a high tribute to the
indomitable courage and bravery of our own troops and of our
allies at Balaklava. Never had the unanimous spirit of
the country shone forth more brilliantly than now, ani-
mated by the justice of our cause. The collections now
being made for the relief of the wives and widows and
children of our brave defenders exceeded anything of the
kind ever before known. Tho noble duke (who was very
imperfectly heard in the gallery) concluded by moving the
Address in the usual form.
Lord ASHBURTON (in the absence of the Earl of
Abingdon through illness) seconded the address. He
trusted the Emperor of Russia would not be so misled as
to imagine that this country would not carry on the war
because of stint of money or stint of men. (Hear.) This was
due both to our gallant allies the French, and to Austria,
who ran so great a risk in embarking in this contest.
It was duo also to our brave army and to the entire British
people, who had shown such a readiness to sacrifice life and
fortune in the cause. (Hear.)
The Earl of DERBY—My lords, if upon this momen-
tous occasion, on which her Majesty has, at an unusual
period, called us together, to deliberate upon subjects of
the highest and gravest importance, not merely to this
country, but to Europe and the world ; if, under such cir-
cumstances, it was my wish to raise any objections to, or
cavil at, theterms of the proposed address; or if it had been
my intention to propose any amendment, or to enter into
any controversy, I should have preferred that some of her
Majesty's Ministers should have had the opportunity of ex-
plaining their views, and answering for the conduct pur-
sued by the Government, in order that I might have, at
all events, the opportunity of replying to the statements
which I might have heard. But upon this occasion, and
even were the address in reply to the speechfrom the Throne
even more open to objection than I conceive it to be, I
should think it my duty to abstain from moving any,
amendment or adopting any step calculated to produce dis-
sensions among your lordships. (Cheers.) I have thought
that, honoured as I am by the confidence of a large num-
ber of the members of your lordships' house, I ought to
take the earliest opportunity of declaring, on the part of
the great Conservative body of this country, the views
whic they take, and the course which they are prepared
to pursue, in this momentous crisis of our history (Cheers.)
My noble friends who moved and seconded the address
have, so far as I and my friends are concerned, done us
scant justice in supposing that anything like hostile pro-
ceedings was contemplated upon such an occasion as the
present. (Cheers ) The present is no time for discussing
whether this war could have been avoided or not—it is no
time for considering whether a different course of proceed-
ing would have effected our objects without being involved
in all the dangers and calamities of war, in which as a na-
tion we are now embarked. In that war the whole nation,
as one man, sympathises with the Crown and. the Go-
vernment. (Loud cheers.) In the prosecution of that war,
the nation as one man are pressing forward with a unani-
mity of feeling and an abnegation of every selfish considera-
tion which is almost unparalleled in the history of our con-
try, and, as far as I can see, in the prosecution of this
war, it is not the Government which are pressing forward
the country, but if is the cowitry which is urging upon
the Government the necessity of carrying it on with vigour.
(Cheers.) I rejoice, my lords, to see the altered tone of
the present speech of her Majesty, as compared with that
prepared for her by her Ministers in the last session. I
rejoice that, at last, the gravity of the circumstances has
fermi, Ault upon the wind of the 6teverunt; that even

the noble earl at the head of the Government, le utedicin
malgre lui—(a laugh)—appears now to see that there is no
other course to be taken but that which is the safest, the
most direct, and the most honourable, because the most
consistent with the principles of justice. (Cheers.) At the
opening of the last session of her Parliament, it was with
surprise that I hoard, in the speech which her Majesty
was advised to deliver, how little the Government appeared
to anticipate the probebility—nay, the almost certainty—of
the war which was then impending over it, and with what
calmness it spoke of various measures of internal improve-
ment and innovation about to be introduced and carried
through both Houses of Parliament. I remember then
that the noble lord now the President of the Council, iu
bringing forward a measure for reforming the constitution
of Parliament, stated that a war with Russia need not be
considered a matter of so much importance as to interfere
with the ordinary deliberations of Parliament—nay, more,
he thought that the time upon which we were entering—
that of war with Russia—was one which of all others was
the best to select for tho amendment of the constitution of
Parliament, and thought it Vould be a splendid moral
spectacle to Europe and the world to see that we con-
sidered it as a matter of such trifling importance and con-
cern that we could manage it with a side-glance, while our
main attention was directed to the arrangement of our in-
ternal affairs, and, among other matters, the revision of
our Parliamentary constitution. • (Laughter.) Various
other measures suggested in the speech from the Throne
were brought forward, while the Government was
all the time drifting helplessly to a state of war.
Even when the war was declared, there was no end
of the extravagant anticipations held out of the marvel-
lous Successes to be achieved by a harelfUl of men. Of
all the great measures proposed last session, few indeed of
them were carried into effect, in consequence of its being
found that the feeling on the subject of a war with Russia
was ono which the hearts, minds, and feelings of the whole
country were set intently upon, and to the exclusion of all
other questions. There is now, lam happy to see, a very
different tone in the speech from the Throne. It recognises
the present as a great and important occasion—as a "great
war"—calling for the united efforts of the whole country,
and taxing its energies to the utmost. Nearly the whole
of ale speldvia devoted to that single and all-absorbing
topic, and expressing a confident hope that the asseistance
which Parliament will gr'ant will enable her Majesty vigor-
ously, and God grant successfully, to prosecute the war to
its close. It is of course a matter of congratulation to be
informed, upon the authority of a speech from the Throne,
that the state of the revenue is highly satisfactory, and the I
country in a prosperous condition. Undoubtedly, so far
as the agricultural interest he concerned, the blessing of
Providence, which has given us a bountiful and abundant
harvest, combined, by a curious and unprecedented coinci-
dence, with a range of prices higher than under such cir-
cumstances ever was kiown, have added greatly to the
means of those directly interested in the laud, awl have
placed them in a situation of greatly increased prosperity.
I hope the case is the same in other branches of industry.
I learn with satisfaction that it is. so front her .Majesty's
speech, because, unless I am greatly mistaken, the present
prosperity of some of the manufacturing districts is not
such as could justly bo made the subject of congratulation
in a speech from the Throne. Ido not mean that there is
not a fair amount of business doing, and a fair amount of
profits realised, but I know that in Manchester and some
of the surrounding manufacturing towns a large number
of the mills are working short time, and others are com-
pletely closed, and, almost for the first time, facilities exist
in Manchester for recruiting in aid of her Majesty's forces.
This may be owing partly to the feeling on the sub-
ject of the war, but it is also due to the fact that a
large number of persons are unemployed. Her Majesty
has also informed us that she has concluded a
treaty with the United Status, "by which subjects of
long and difficult discussion have been equitably ad-
justed." It must, of course, be a matter of satisfac-
tion to know this; any subjects of difference, still more of
long standing difference, have been equitably adjusted
between ourselves and a cominnuity so closely connected
with us by ties of language, polity, and iu a great mea-
sure of laws, and whose good feeling towards us at the
present moment is of particular importance. With re-
spect to the other subject,' which are to occupy' the atten-
tion of Parliament during the course of the present session,
the sort of et ceteras which are now substituted for those
more magniloquent promises of the last session, they are
included in tile very modest paragraph— " I trust that
other matters of great interest and importance to the gene-
ral welfare will not be neglected." What these impending
measures may be Ido not know. They are, perhaps, in
the secret knowlealge of the Cabinet., or, for aught we know,
they may be hidden from the discrimination and knowledge
of the Cabinet itself. Upon this topic we may therefore
safely express our most cordial concurrent s with her Ma-
jesty's speech, for I am confident that whenever any." mat-
ters of great interest and importance" are introduced to us
by her Majesty's Government they will receive due con-
sideration. (A laugh.) I proceed now to that all-engros-
sing topic which occupies the greater portion of the speech.
I must be permitted to express my most cordial concur-
rence in the approving words from the Throne of the
hearty and efficient co-operation of the brave troops of
our ally the Emperor of the French, and in the expres-
sion of the hope that common dangers, common perils,
common glories, and common victories may cement snore
strongly than ever the alliance which at present subsists
between the two countries. And if anetitine could Add
to my satisfectioa on the subject it would be seeing that
its importance is recognised by Ministers who a very
little time since entertained totally different opinions en
the subject. I doubt not that the opinions and wish so
ardently expressed by her Majesty have been fully Cost-
currocl in by the Right Honourable the First Lord of the
Admiralty and the Right Honourable the President of
the Board of Control. (A. laugh.) I rejoice also that the
noble earl at the head of the Government can feel and
can understand that there are great and important advan-
tages to be derived from an intimate alliance between
this country and France, although its destinies are
not swayed by one of the old dynasties. The harmony
which prevails between the troops of the two countries is
also a source of great gratification. It is impossible to con-
ceive a more pleasing state of things than that the two na-
tions, which have for many years been accustomed to
regard one another with feelings of enmity, have not only
laid aside altogether those feelings of enmity, but aro now
our rivals in glory and brothers in arms in fields of a de-
scription such as those in which they had formerly encoun-
tered each other as foes, breast to breast, and hand to
hand ; and upon those occasions, as former occasions would
have led to conclude, to respect the valour of each other,
just as the present experience leads them to regard each
other as brothers in arms, and as friends having interests,
ambition, and rivalry
if you will, but rivalry without jea-
lousy, but having
one common object—recognising the
merit, bravery, and good conduct of each other, and cheer-
fully striving together in the teeth of victory as brothers
in arms, and feeling no other sense but that of as common
one of glory. (Cheers.) Words would fail me, as they
would any member of your lordships' house, to express the
debt of gratitude which we owe to these gallant and de-
voted men. (Loud cheering.) But in order to carry com-
fort and satisfaction to these gallant hearts some testimony
is duo from the asseuabled Parliament which would express
our admiration and gratitude for their services. When I
remember that of that numerically small force sent from
this country not many months ago—when I remember that
probably not one in one hundred of the private soldiers,
and not one in ten of the officers, had ever before heard a
hostile shot fired—when I remember that they went forth
at the first outset of the campaign to pine away in inaction,
and while disease was thinning their ranks and depressing..
their spirits—if, indeed, aught could depress their in-
domitable courage—when I remember that so raised and
commanded, that snob forces, so unusually small, so
weakened, and so dispirited, they were led to invade
the country of a powerful enemy—when I remember
that they were led out with scanty equipments,
carrying nothing with them but what was algae-
lutely necessary for their march, and scarcely sufficient
for their equipment, and due provision and sustenance—
when such a body of men, under such circumstances, found
themselves in front of a body numerically superior, en-
trenched upon heights, fortified with all the skill and all
the power which the might and military genius of Russia
could supply—fortified upon ground, the natural diffical-
ties of which were such as to impede even an active and
unencumbered man unchecked by an enemy in his ascent
—but when those heights were bristling with batteries,
when front those batteries storms of shot and shell mowed
down their ranks as they ascended that blood-stained hill
of glory—when I remember, too, that in the face of num-
bers not inferior to their own, who against all the diffi-
culties of position, against the most powerful artillery,
weakened in numbers, and falling by scores, the gallant
survivors still pressed on with indomitable courage and
unconquerable valour; and who, under such circumstances,
hand by hand, that body of men, who had never before
heard a shot fired, repulsed a veteran army from the
heights so held and so fortified, as that it had been the
boast of Russia that no army could dislodge them in less
three weeks—when that grand charge—when that great
success was secured by such an army in three hours—
when, too, I see afterwards how these men, outnxmbered,
the positions being changed, when they were changed from
the besiegers into the besieged, assaulted by an enemy
seven times their number—(cheers), —having,u o doubt, some
advantage of position, attacked after successive and con-
stant labour in the trenches, suffering from cold, from pri-
vation, from hunger, in some cases from all but nakedness,
with, too, all the disadvantages of a surprise in the dark-
ness of a foggy morning, and when these men, who won
the heights of Alma in the course of three hours from a
veteran army, resisted the assaults of another army nume-
rically seven times stronger than themselves, and for
eight hours waged the unequal conflict, sometimes even
without ammunition, and yet maintained their position,
supported and reinforced by a portion of their gallant allies
ne
too,— Iw h e
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valry charge in which we suffered sa severely for our gal-
lantry—l say, my lords, no words can de justice to the
valour and the courage and the endurance of our army.
When we read the history of this campaign—
it not as politicians, but as men, and as Eno
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wee
say there cannot be a heart which does not throb with
honest and generous pride that these much enduring, all-
daring,
sub all-achieving men were our countrymen, were Bri-
tishjects like ourselves. I say there will be no eye in
which a tear does not spring unbidden when we reflect
that so many of these gallant men are numbered with the
dead. (Great cheering.) My lords, I will not dwell fur-
ther upon the subject, upon the glory which has been
achieved, upon the noble sacrifices which have been made.
Our country will know how to valise the services of those
who still survive. Whatever may be the honour, or what-
ever may be the mode in which this country may show its
gratitude to those who, under such unequal circumstances,
and placed in such difficulties, have sustained, upheld,
and increased the honour of the British flag, those rewards
and those honours will, I am satisfied, be granted with no
niggard hand, but with the universal approbation and cor-
dial approval of the country. (Loud cheers.) I know not
whether I may not be going almost beyond Parliamentary
license, if, while speaking of the honours to be conferred,
and justly conferred, upon our gallant officers and soldiers
—I know not whether, I say, I may not be trenching on
the prerogative of the Ceown, but this I know, that when
at the head of the army of our ally there has been a general
who has acted with ours in the most cordial and uninter-
rupted harmony, of whose advice we have had the benefit,
and by whose assistance we have largely profited—l know
not whether I am making a suggestion which 1 ought not to
make, when I say I am satisfied that nothing could be more
grateful to the feelings of the army and to the country, and
nothips could be more clue to the pantry and cordiality