The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-30 00:00:00

THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

To-morrow the Queen will open Parliament in person,
and in the usual state. Her Majesty's speech on that
most eventful occasion will be in every respect worthy
of the free Parliament of a great nation. Whilst la-
menting the unhappy circumstances forced upon Euro-
pean attention in a manner so violent and so needless,
the Queen of this great country will utter no sentiment
unworthy of her subjects or of herself. She will an-
nounce no halting or unworthy policy to Parliament,
and she will appeal to her people—not unsuccessfully—
for their full and cordial sustainment, to surmount the
difficulties which her Government has not inaugurated,
but which, on the other hand, they have done everything
to avert, and which they are most fully prepared to meet
and to overcome. On the very first day of the session
the papers relating to the Eastern question will be laid
on the table of both houses of Parliament, and an
early discussion will be courted by the ministers them-
selves into the whole circumstances that have taken
place_ since the last session. The whole question will be
me£ in the fullest and frankest spirit on the ministerial
side of the house. Without being in the secrets of the
opposition, we believe we may state that no amendment
will be moved to the address in either house. An early
day, however, will be fixed by ministers themselves for
the fullest discussion.—Observer.

A. supplement to the Gazette of Friday night contains
the following :

Palace of Westminster, Lord Great Chamberlain's
office, Jan. 27, 1854.

All peeresses, on announcing their intention of being
present on the occasion of the opening of Parliament,
on Tuesday, the 31st instant, will have places reserved
for them in the House of Lords, if the announcement be
made at this office before five o'clock on Monday, the
30th inst.

• Peers' eldest sons will have tickets for the Peers'
eldest Sons' Box forwarded to them, upon a written or
personal application at the office.

No strangers can be admitted except by a ticket from
the Lord Great Chamberlain.
The doors will be opened at twelve o'clock.
WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY, G.C.

THE MOVERS AND SECONDERS OF THE
ADDRESS.
The Earl of Carnarvon, who is to move the address
in the House of Lords, has not long attained his majo-
rity, having been born in 1831. His father, who died in
1849, was a strong Protectionist, but never took a very
active part in public life, having been of a studious
character.

The Earl of Ducie, who seconds the address, is the son
of the well-known Free Trade Peer, the late Earl Ducie.
The present Earl, when Lord Moreton, sat in the House
of Commons some time as member for Stroud, which he
vacated last year on the death of his father, and his
elevation to the peerage.

Viscount Castlerosse, who will move the address in
the Commons, is the member for the county of Kerry.
Ile is the eldest son and heir apparent of the Earl of
Kenmore, who is the owner of large possessions in that
county.
Mr. Thomson Hankey, the seconder, is member for
Peterborough. lie is a partner in the well-known
banking house in the City, and has been an active mem-
ber of the Society for the Reform of the Customs De-
partment.

DEATH OF THE CITY COMPTROLLER. —The corpora-
tion of London have lost one of their officers, during the
present inquiry, by the death of Mr. Thomas Saunders,
the Comptroller of the Chamber, a gentleman well
known in the benevolent world. Besides controlling
the rents and revenues of the corporation, he was their
conveyancing solicitor, his department embracing all the
law business relating to the large property of the corpo-
ration, and the completion of the purchases for the new
otreets to St, Faurti And clorkowell.