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LONDON,

TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1835.

OPENING ( F PARLIAMENT

AND THE
K IN G'S SPEEC C.

This being the day appointed by his MAJESTY to

open the New Parliament in person, every preparation
was made in the House of Lords for the accommoda-
tion of the Peeresses and the few persons admitted by

special tickets from the LORD CH AmBE ItL AI N, in
Consequence. of the smallness of the new building.
The day was unusually fine, and the crowd of spec-

:ators was immense.

The KING, preceded by the Yeomen of the Guard,
the Master of the Horse; the different branches of the
Royal Family, and all the high Officers of State,
left St. James's Palace shortly after two o'clock,
escorted by a Guard of Honour of the Royal Horse
Guards and 2d Regiment of Life Guards, in their
State uniforms. The Royal cortege proceeded through
St. James's Park, the Horse Guards, and Parliament-
street, to the House of Lords, where his MAJESTY,
under a Royal salute, and the bands playing, was re-
ceived on alighting by the Duke of WELLINGTON in
his robes, bearing the Sword of State. After robing,
his MAJESTY entered the Hous:', all the Peers stand-
ing, &c.

His MAJESTY having taken his seat on the Throne,
the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod was ordered to
command the immediate attendance of the Commons.
Shortly after' the New SrEAKEn (Mr. ABER-

Gentlemen of the House of Com-
ic Bar.

the Throne, then delivered the

ROYAL. SPEECH :

!` My LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

" I avail myself of the earliest opportunity of meeting
you in Parliament, after having recurred to the sense of my
people.

" You will, I am confident, fully participate in the
regret which I feel at the destruction, by acci,
dental lire, of that part of the ancient Palace of West-
minster, which has been long appropriated to the use of
the two Houses of Parliament.

" Upon the occurrence of this calamity, I gave imme•
diate directions that the best provision of which
the circumstances of the case would admit, should
be made for your present meeting, and it AIL be
my wish to adopt such - '
accommodatk

pions for the permanent
of the two Houses of Parliament as shall
oe deemed, in your joint consideration, to be the most fit-

Ling and convenient.
I will give directions that there be laid before you
the report made to me by the Privy Council, in refe-
rence to the origin of the fire, and the evidence upon which
it was founded.

" The assurances which I receive from my Allies, and,
generally, from all Foreign Princes and States, of their
earnest desire to cultivate the relations of amity and
to maintain with me the most friendly understanding, justify,
on my part, the confident expectation of the continuance of
the blessings of peace.
" The single .exception to the general tranquillity of
Europe, is the civil contest, which still prevails, in some of
the northern provinces of Spain.
" I will give directions that there be laid before you Arti-
cles which I have concluded with my Allies, the King
of the French, the Queen of Spain, and the Queen of Portu-
gal, which are supplementary to the treaty of April, 1834,
and are intended to facilitate the complete attainment of
the objects contemplated by that Treaty. .
" I have to repeat the expression of my regret
that the relations between Holland and Belgium
_still re-
main unsettled.

LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1835.

lours to the mast." The phrase admits of no misin-
terpretration. If they are to go down, down also (say
they) shall go King, Constitution, and national
order ; they have set their political life upon
the cast, and they are resolved to stand
the hataH of the die—if they are allowed,
Are these the men to engage the confidence of. the

people, m to be entrusted with the Government of the
country ? Are those who would arrest the daring
career of men, thus desperately acting in opposition to
every good principle, moral or plitical, to be branad
as factious, destructives ? Is not every effort to throw
off this lueAtis from the national breast thou thati
justified? Can any pledges from such TDPII be be-
lieved ? Ar(; they 'worth a straw ? Is it not mad-
ness to put the least faith in them ?

Au amendment to the Address is to be.. proposed
to-day ; the Reformers would have been traitors to
their own cause—to the cause of the people, had they
failed to do so. As his MAJESTY, by a political
fiction, . is supposed not yet to know the nation's
distrust of his Ministers, it has become neces-
sary to announce that distrust officially. To ima-
gine that there is anything disloyal, or insult-
ing, in such a course, is absurd : it is, in fact, the only
constitutional mode of doing so. The Commons may
hail with affection and respect the proposal of any
measures of the Monarch for the welfare and just liber-
ties of the people, declared, though they may be, through
a Tory medium ; but it pre-supposes nothing insolent
to make known to the SOVEREIGN that, though, ac-
cepting with gratitude the Royal intentions in this re-
spect, the present Government is odious to the
people, and that they implore his MAJESTY to dismiss
them from his councils. With such a manifestation of
public feeling before his eyes we have no fear of the.
rectitude of the KING'S judgment—no doubt that he
will spurn the Tories from him, colours, mast, and all.

Letters and Papers from Lisbon, via Falmouth, by
his Majesty's steamer Meteor, have been received by
express. The Meteor sailed from Lisbon on the 16th
inst., and arrived at Falmouth on Sunday, bringing
intelligence up to the hour of her departure from the
Portuguese capital. On the 14th Prince AUGUSTUS
of Portugal, husband of the young QUEEN, took his
seat in the Chamber of Peers, having first taken the

customary oaths as a Peer of the kingdom, and in the
course of the sitting, delivered his first speech, and gave
his first cote lit 4 favour of Ministers. The speech,
which was well received, will be found annexed ; and
we think, from the sentiments expressed in it, augurs
well for the character of his Highness. We learn that
the opposition were somewhat disappointed, as the
leaders of it had anticipated the countenance and
support of the PRINCE, but it appears that his wish is
to discountenance all intrigue—to take no part on any
question frOin factious motives—and to give his gene-
ral support to those men who, by their past conduct
under the regime of Don PEDRO, have proved the
sincerity of their devotion to the liberties of Portugal.
Even were the PRINCE'S sentiments different from
these, he could not with any show of decency give his
first vote against the QUEEN'S Government, on a
question of no vital importance to the country, after
the many- proofs he has received of the kindly feelings
of that Government towards himself, and his convic-
tion of its tenderness of the interests of his Royal
Consort, (luring the time which elapsed between the
death of her august father, and his own arrival in the

country.
The rumoured changes in the Ministry are without
foundation. The Government will be conducted for
some time longer by the Ministers at present in office.
M. CARVALIIO'S conduct, as Minister of Finance,
has given very general satisfaction to all parties ;
even the opposition admits that Portugal possesses few
men so capable of managing the financial affairs of the
kingdom.
The heart of Don PEDRO, in compliance with
his dying request, has been deposited with great state
in the church of N. S. da Lappa ; the sacred edifice
within whose walls the ex-Emperor held his Sabbath
parades during the siege of Oporto. The heart was
enclosed in a silver gilt urn, encased in a box, and
was delivered by Colonel PINMANTEL, with a letter
from the Empress to the municipality, granting an
hundred and sixty thousand refs to be distributed
among five hundred and fifty-five poor persons. The
ceremony of depositing the heart was very splendid,
and impressive, and was attended by all the great of-
ficers of the household. A monument has since been
erected in the church to the memory of the illustrious
deceased, surmounted by the arms of the Imperial
House of B; acanza
b. •
In the interior of Portugal everything goes on pros-
perously- The people, who are all devotedly attached
to the person of the QUEEN, are peaceable and con-
tented, and the devastations occasioned by the. late
war are beginning to disappear, in consequence of the
industrious habits of the working classes. The
QUEEN is already reported to be "as ladies wish to
be who love their lords"—a report which has diffused
a general joy among the people. Considering the
short time which has elapsed since the consummation
of her MAJESTY'S marriage, we hardly think it pos-
sible for the most experienced courtier to decide whe-
ther the QUEEN be, or be not, enciente. A short
time, however, will suffice for the solution of all doubts
on the subject.
The following is a _copy of Prince AUGUSTUS'S
maiden speech in the Chamber of Peers
From the Diario Governo, of Feb. 16.)
SPEECH or 1115 ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE AUGUSTUS OF POR-
qTGAL IN THE CHAMBER OF PEERS, ON THE 14TH INST.,
AFTER TAKING HIS OATH AS A PEER OF THE KINGDOM.
SCIIIIOrCS,—From the moment when our august Sovereign
the Queen honoured me by her choice, I became a Portuguese,
and made a voluntary compact with myself to fulfil the duties
imposed upon me under that name, to the latest period of my
existence. I come to-day to renew this promise before you all,
and I ratify it by my oath of fidelity to the Constitutional
Charter, which we owe to the noble spirit and exalted mind of
the Emperor Don Pedro of glorious memory. This oath
shall never be violated, and to that I pledge myself, as well
by the respect which I owe, and with which my heart is pene-
trated, both to the memory of my own father, and to that of
the father of the Queen. The son of a soldier, who (it will
be permitted to me to say) was all his life a model of honour
and loyalty, and who merited the distinctions which he trans-
mitted to his family by his prudence in council and his courage
in the field, I was pointed out to the choice of the Queen
and the confidence of the Portuguese nation, by a Prince
who never failed in his word, who was brave amongst the
brave, and who deprived, so to speak, entirely of all other as-
sistance but that which he derived from himself, confronted
all obstaele,3, privations, fatigues, and dangers, in order to
accomplish the generous design which he had formed,l of re-

storing to the Portuguese the Constitution vrhich he had
granted them, and to his beloved daughter the throne of her
ancestors—a Prince, in fine, prematurely snatched from his
country and his family, who (without fear of being belied by
history), was able to say. with his latest breath, that he had
fulfilled to all the promises which he had made,—l present
myself to the Portuguese' under the protection of so high an
origin, of which I am too vain not to exert all my endeavours
and all my capabilities to render myself worthy.
" At this day, Senhores, thanks to the genius and the sword
of the titilse of Braganza, our country sees the end of the
events which have so long agitated it, and let us console our-
selves with thinking that the honourable Representatives of the
nation in the two Chambers can now apply themselves, without
any obstacle, and with the zeal which animates them, to conso
lidate the edifice raised by Don Pedro; to settle the national
Charter, by regulating first of all those laws which will per-
petually secure us those benefits, and afterwards all those
w'uch we may yet be in want of for the better and more equal
administration of justice to every citizen, the first necessity of
the people and the first duty of Kings; to offer to the youth of
Portugal—the hope of their country—the treasure of a sound
And uefttl course of instruction, and finally to inspire anew
the arts, the sciences, agriculture, industry, and commerce.
How happy, then, will the Legislators of Portugal be in see-
ing the rewals,..-' of their toils in the increased internal pros-
_the consideration which it already
perity of the State, Ana .;
-;es. For my own part,
enjoys in the eyes of foreign menu,. .
of
esteiem. and
Senhores, deeply penetrated by the marks
arrive, !ri this
kindness which I have received from all, on my
capital, I consider myself highly fortunate in being able
avail myself of this occasion to express mV gratitude in the
strongest manner possible, and to declare that my sole ambi-
tion will ever be to justify so flattering a reception.
" Placed as I am beside the Queen, I can ill supply the
counsel with which she might have been assisted by her illus-
trious Father; but that Prince honoured me (as you know)
with his friendship, confided to me his noble thoughts, and
often allowed me to read the bottom of his soul. It shall,
therefore, I promise you, be in the remembrance of the con-
versations which he held with me, that I shall seek for the
principles which are to guide my conduct, and in the acts of
his public life, that I shall find the rules for directing mine. A
certain maxim which I have often beard him repeat, and
which I shall never forget, was, that economy on the part of
a Prince is not only the best course for him to follow, but also
the best example which he can give. In one word, Senhores,
I!shall join my feeble strength to all your endeavours to se-
cure the happiness of the Queen and the nation. May Ibe
permitted, before I conclude, to express the wishes which I
have formed in my heart, which you will share with me, and
which were the last formed by Don Pedro, Let the remem-
brance of our unhappy dissensions and parties be extinguished.
Would to God that the designations which indicate them
might disappear from our language, which, perchance, may
else be one day renewed ; let us all unite, from this day for-
ward, both in sentiments and in doctrine ; let our first consi-
deration be the love of our country and of our young and be-
loved Queen. Be this, and respect to the religion of our
country, and to the Constitutional Charter, joined to obedience
to the laws, even to those which were left imperfect when they
were amended ermodified by the form prescribed in the Char-
ter. The prosperity of a state depends on the same condi-
tions as its liberty ; both are the children of order, and I
flatter myself that there are none in Portugal who will think
differently with me. The best, and, 14 the same time, the
only guarantee for order, consists in the religious respect of
all, whether governing or governed, to the institutions and
the laws."

Advices from the Athens, now the capital of Greece,
to the date of the 24th of January, have been received.
The 6th inst. had been appointed for the opening of
the courts of law, and the regular performance of the
more important judicial and executive functions of
Government. The names of the Judges and Presi-
dents of the Courts had then been published, and
appeared to create much dissatisfaction among the
people. Many of the Judges are young men, who
have merely attained their majority ; and, therefore,.are
without either the gravity of deportment, or the expe-
rience necessary to the effective administration of the
laws among a half-civilized people. Again, their
salaries are wretched in the extreme,.varving from 861.
to 1301. per annum T.—a miserable pittance, which
lays them open to all kinds of bribery and corruption.
This is very unfortunate. The Greeks cannot fail to
despise the judicial authorities ; and what is still worse,
the code of laws which the judges are appointed to exe-
cute are unsuited to the genius of the people.
These evils are not counterbalanced by any respect
for, or confidence in, the Ministry. No body of men
could be regarded with more suspicion than are the
principal personages in the confidence of the KING,
and managing, or rather mis-managing, the affairs of
his Government. OTIIO himself is greatly venerated,
and would be still more so had be only the sagacity to
perceive the impolicy of preferring the services of his
Bavarian countrymen to his Greek subjects.. This is
the great rock on which his power will split at last,
unless some friendly intimation be given him of the
dangerous course he is now pursuing. This conduct
on the part of the KING is not simply impolitic,—it is
grossly unjust towards the people of Greece, who de-
serve not to be treated as aliens, unworthy of confi-
dence in their own country. In the meantime, the po-
pulace are highly exasperated at the- treatment received
by their ancient Chiefs, and those Chiefs have secret
overtures made them by Russia, to the effect that if they
have only spirit to resent their wrongs with sword in band,
they may depend upon the assistance of the Emperor.
This is the aspect which Greece presents at the com-
mencement of a new year ; and unfortunately there is
no great reason to expect a material change in it before
its termination.

M. Monteil, author of the " Histoire des Francais
des divers Etats," has lately discovered amongst some old p'-
pers, a manuscript volume in the handwriting of Louis XIV.
'This manuscript, as well as a great number of others, is an-
nounced for sale under the title of " Traite de Materiaux
Manuscrits de divers Genres d'Histoire."

The amount of money expended by Mr. Heber al-
most exceeds belief, yet that he was no very diligent reader is
very evident. At a late sale of a portion of his library, six
immense packages of foreign books (chiefly modern) were
opened, containing many thousand volumes, which had never
been cut.

The oldest ecclesiastic in all France died at Puy in
the early part of this month ; his name was Dom. Dupont, for-
merly a Carthusian. He was born on the 28th of August,
1734, and was, consequently, mo years and five months old.

A pamphlet of fifty pages, entitled " An Address
from a Constitutionalist to the Constitutionalists," has created
some sensation at Paris. The writer, who is said to be Louis
Philippe himself, paraphrases, and explains in a manner ex-
tremely favourable to the direct action of the King in state
affairs, the famous axiom—" The King reigns, and does not
govern." This publication is ascribed by sonic persons to
Count Rcederer, or M. Fain, the private Secretary of Louis
Philippe.

The centre part of the Ducal Palace at Brunswick,
the building of which proceeds rapidly, is now completed up to
the roof, and part of it will be ready for the Duke by autumn.
When the two wings are erected this will be one of the largest
and handsomest palaces in Germany. Duke William, who is a
great lover of the chase, has lately received a present of 45
hounds from the King of England.

We hear that two more of the Michigan Indians
have been taken very ill at their lodgings in the Waterloo-
road, whence they were removed to an hospital on Saturday.
It is not expected that either can survive. No doubt the
change of food, and probably the use of spirituous liquors,
have so altered their constitutional habits as to bring about
a fatal derangement.
TEIGNMOUTII.—WC regret' to see that such is the
decadence of Theatricals in this place, which, in former days,
with a fifth of its population, supported Fisher, and ushered
the great Kean into the Metropolis, that the beautiful
and splendid Circus and Theatre, erected by an individual gen-
tleman, for the benefit of the town, is to be sold, and the spot
let for building.—Exeter Gazette.

THE Wons'i.—Once on a time it happened that
a poor wight married a shrew, who led him a piteous life ;
she fell ill, the doctor was called in, and the anxious affec-
tionate husband inquired of him how his dear spouse was.
Galen shook his head, and told him to prepare for the worst,
" What !" said he, " is she likely to get over it ?"

A labouring man, on Friday the 6th instant, disco-
vered in a field near Blackawton village, in this county, the
body of a new born child, in a kettle, tied with a blue and
white cloth, which had been murdered by a blow on its fore-
head.—The author of this cruel act has not yet been detected.
—Western Times.

A JUVENILE FLATTERER.-011 the morning of
my birth-day I sent my son with his nurse, to call on the
Princess Paulino (Napoleon's sister.) He was a very fine
boy, and was a great favourite with the princess ; he was also
very fond of her, and used to call her his
.fentine princesse.
" Why do you love me, Napoleon ?" said she to him one day.
" Because you are pretty," replied the child, throwing his
little wnite arms around her neck. This naive reply pleased
the princess to the very heart ; and, in truth, her bee.r.ty must
have been of a captivating kind, to have made so strong an
impression on the child.—Mcmoirs of the Duchess d'Abrantes.

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