The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1859.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty received a telegraph despatch from Sir Jas.
Clark on Tuesday night to announce that the Princess
Royal and the infant prince are progressing most satisfac-
toril y.

The Queen and the Prince Consort left Windsor Castle
for Buckingham Palace at half-past 12 o'clock yesterday,
accompanied by the Priacesses Alice and Helena, and at-
tended by the Countess of Desert, Lord Crofton, Major-
General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell,
Colonel F. H. Seymour, Lcent.-Colonel Ponsonby, and the
Master of the Household.

A guard of honour of the arenadier Guards received the
Queen at the Windsor station of the Great Western Rail-
way, and a special train conveyed the royal party to Pad-
dington. _ _ _

A detachment of Light Dragvons formed • the escort to
Buckingham Palace, where the Queen and Prince arrived
at 25 minutes past one o'clock, and were received by the
Marquis of Exeter, the Duke of :Beaufort, Viscount. New-
port, Lord George Lennox, Lieut.-General Wylde, and
Captain the Hon. D. de Ros.
The Queen held a Privy Council in the afternoon. It
was attended by the Prince Consort, the Lord President,
the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord
of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the' Home,
Foreign, Colonial, War, and India Departments, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty,
the President of the Board of Trade, the First Commis-
sioner of Public Works, the• Lord Steward, and the Master
of the Horse.

At the Council tbk Queen appointed the sheriffs for the
different counties of England and Wales for the present year.
The Queen's Speech for opening the Session of Parlia-
ment was submitted and agreed upon.

A proclamation was issued warning people from trading
with Japan until the ratification of the treaty.
Mr. John Inglis, the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, by
command of the Queen, was sworn of her Majesty's Most
-Honourable Privy Council,. and took his seat at the Board.
The Hon. Wm. Bathurst was Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.

Her Majesty held a Court. The Hon. Charles Augustus
Murray had an audience of the Queen, and delivered to her
Majesty a letter from the Shah of Persia. Mr. Murray was
presented by Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for India.
The Duke of Montrose, Chancallor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, had an audience of her Majesty.
Colonel Sir Henry Storks, K.C.8., was presented to the
Queen at an audience by Sir Edward B. Lytton, Secretary
of State for the Colonies, and kissed hands on appointment
as Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.
Mr. Joseph Arnould was presented to her Majesty at an
audience by Lord Stanley, and kissed hands on appointment
as Puisne Judge at Bombay.
The Earl of Derby, the Marquis of Salisbury, General
Peel, and Lord Stanley had audiences of the Queen.
Her Majesty was attended by the Treasurer of the House-
hold, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Comptroller of the House-
hold, Lord Crofton, Lord in Waiting, and Colonel the Hon.
A. Liddell, Groom in Waiting.
The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Princesses Alice and Helena, honoured the performance at
the Haymarket Theatre with their presence in the evening.
In attenda.o co were the Countes2 of D esart, Lord Crofton,
Colonel F. 11. Seymour, and Capt. the Hon. D. de Ros.
The Dudhess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard
and Miss "Victoria Wortley, dined with the Queen on
Tuesday.
The Duko of Newcastle and Lady Susan Pelham Clinton,
the Prussian illinister and Countess Bernstorff, and Colonel
the Hon. A. ant I Mrs. Gordon, left Windsor Castle yester-
day morning.

Captain the Hon. D. de Ros has relieved Lieut.-Colonel
Ponsonby iri his duties as Equerry in Waiting to the Prince

Consort.

OPENING

PARLIAMENT.

The opening of the session of Parliament today,
by her most gracious Majesty in person, was evi-
dently regarded by the metropolitan community as
something more than a State formality, and the
brilliancy of the weather tended in a great degree
to increase the ardour of the vast concourse of
people of every class who crowded the line of pro-
cession. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort were
received as they proceeded from Buckingham
Palace to Westminster with every demonstration
of loyalty and respect.
As the carriages of the different Ambassadors
drove by the inmates were received with more or
less cordiality.
There was a very large attendance of peers and
peeresses in the house, and of persons entitled by
rank- and privilege to be present at the ceremony.

The doors of the magnificent chamber in which
the lords spiritual and temporal hold their councils
were opened at twelve o'clock, and shortly after
that hour those who were privileged to obtain seats
began to arrive. In the ante-chambers and corridors
through which the Royal procession was to pass
raised seats were provided, and a very large num-
ber of persons were enabled in this manner to
witness tho arrival and departure of her Majesty.
The attendance of the members of the corps
diplomatique was more than usually numerous, and
amongst the first arrivals were the Brazilian
Minister, the Haytian and Portuguese Ministers,
the Turkish Ambassador, the Russian Ambassador,
the French Ambassador, and the Sardinian Am-
bassador. The members of the embassy from Siam
were also present, and the brilliancy of their
costume gave an additional grandeur to this usually
glittering group.
A great number of the Judges attended, amongst
whom were the Lord Chief Justice of England,
Lord Campbell ; the Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas, Sir Alexander Cockburn ; the Lord
Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Sir Frederick Pol-
lock, &c.

The Episcopal bench, in front of those occupied
by the Foreign Ministers, was very fully attended.
Amongst the Peers connected with the Govern-
ment, in the house when her Majesty entered, were
the following :—Earl of Derby, First Lord of the
Treasury ; Lord Chelmsford, Lord High Chan-
cellor; Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President of the
Council ; Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Privy Seal ;
Lord Stanley, Secretary for India; Earl of
Malmesbury, Foreign Secretary; Earl of Carnar-
von, Under Secretary for the Colonies ; Lord W.
D'Eresby, Lord Great Chamberlain ; Marquis of
Exeter, Lord Steward ; Duke of Norfolk, Earl
Marshal ; Earl de la Warre, Lord Chamberlain ;
Lord Colchester, Postmaster-General ; Duke of
Montrose, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ;
Duke of Beaufort, Master of the Horse; his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Commander of
the Forces ; Earl of Donoughmore, Paymaster-
General of the Forces, &c. Several leading members
of the Opposition were also present.
The Lord Chancellor, attended by his principal
officers bearing the mace and purse, arrived shortly
before two o'clock, and proceeded to the ante-room
to await the arrival of the Queen.
The appearance of the house, just previous to the
entry of her Majesty, was gorgeous in the extreme,
as the sun was just then pouring in` a flood of golden
light through the magnificent stained windows of
the chamber.

A flourish of trumpets and the firing of a royal
salute announced that her Majesty had entered the
palace, and shortly afterwards the great officers of
State in procession entered the house, and her
Majesty, who leaned upon the arm of the Prince
Consort, was conducted to the Throne.

The Crown was carried on a velvet cushion
fringed with gold, by the Earl of Hardwicke ; the
Sword of State by the Marquis of Salisbury.
His Royal Highness, the Prince Consort, occu-
pied the chair on the left of the throne, and the
Marquis of Salisbury, holding the State Sword,
took his position between the Prince and her Ma-
jesty. The Lord Chancellor stood upon the foot-
step of the throne on the right of the Queen, and
the Duchess of Manchester, Mistress of the Robes,
occupied her position on the right of the noble and
learned lord, the Lord Privy Seal (the Earl of
Hardwicke), and the Lady in Waiting, formed the
remaining portion of the group round the throne.
Her Majesty, who looked extremely well, was
attired in a white brocaded silk robe, richly em-
broidered with gold. Her Majesty also wore a robe
and train of purple velvet, trimmed with ermine
and embroidered with gold flowers.
Her Majesty having intimated that the peers
and peeresses might resume their seats, the Speaker
and the members of the House of Commons were
summoned to the bar of their lordships' house to
hear the Royal Speech.
An interval of three or four minutes having
elapsed, the Commons, headed by the Speaker and
chief officers of the house, and accompanied by a
large number of members, made their appearance.
Amongst the persons near the Speaker were
the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer ; Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Colonial Secretary;
General Peel, Secretary for War Department; Sir
J. Pakington, First Lord of the Admiralty; Mr.
J. W. Henley, President of the Board of Trade ;
Lord J. Manners, Chief Commissioner of Works ;
Mr. G. Hardy and Mr. H. Waddington, Under
Secretaries for Home Department ; Mr. W. Fitz-
gerald, Under Secretary for Foreign Department ;
Sir F. Kelly, Attorney-General ; Sir H. Mc Cairns,
Solicitor-General; Lord Naas, Chief Secretary
for Ireland; Lord Palmerston, Lord J. Russell,
the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hon.
R. Vernon Smith, the Right Hon. Henry Labou-
chere, the Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, the Right
Hon. Sir B. Hall, the Right Hon. W. Cowper, Sir
Richard Bothell, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines,
Hon. Henry Brand, Hon. C. P. Bouverie, Hon. C.
P. Villiers, 'Sir Henry Keating, Mr. Wykenham
Martin, Mr. Akroyd, Mr. T. C. Baring, General
Buckley, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, Mr•. J. D. Fitz-
gerald, Mr. R. W. Grey, Mr. Massey, Mr. Bernal
Osborne, Mr. H. Danby Seymour, Mr. Henry Her-
bert, Mr. James Wilson, Hon. Gerald Ponsonby,
Mr. Charles Clifford, Mr. Barrington, &c., &c.

The.Lotd Chancellor then advanced to her Ma-
jesty, and on bonded knee presented a copy of the
Royal Speech. Her Majesty, who remained sitting,
then read in a clear, firm voice, the following
speech :

QUEEN'S SPEECH.

" MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

" In recurring, at the usual season, to the advice
of my Parliament, I am happy to think that, in the
internal state of the country, there is nothing to
excite disquietude, and much to call for satisfaction
and thankfulness. Pauperism and crime have con-
siderably diminished during the past year; and a
spirit of general contentment prevails.
" The blessing of the Almighty on the valour
of my troops in India, and on the skill of their
Commanders, has enabled me to infict signal
chastisement upon those who are still in
arms against my authority, whenever they have
ventured to encounter my forces ; and I trust that,
at no distant period, I may be able to announce to
you the complete pacification of that great
Empire, and to devote my attention to the im-
provement of its condition, and to the obliteration
of all traces of the present unhappy conflict.
" On assuming, by your advice, the direct govern-
ment of that portion of my dominions, I deemed it
proper to make known by Proclamation the prin-
ciples by which it was my intention to be guided,
and the clemency which I was disposed to show
towards those who might have been seduced into
revolt, but who might be willing to return to their
allegiance. I have directedithat a copy of that
Proclamation should be laid before you.
" I receive from all Foreign Powers assurances
of their friendly feelings. To cultivate and con-
firm those feelings, to maintain inviolate the faith
of Public Treaties, and to contribute, as far as my
influence can extend, to the preservation of the

general peace, are the objects of my unceasing
solicitude.

" I have concluded, with the Sovereigns who
were parties to the Treaty of Paris of 1856, a Con-
vention relative to the organisation of the Princi-
palities of Moldavia and Wallachia. Those Rou-
man Provinces are now proceeding to establish,
under its provisions, their new form of Government.
" A Treaty of Commerce which I have concluded
with the Emperdi of Russia, and which will be
laid before you, is a satisfactory indication of the
complete reestablishment of those amicable rela-
tions which, until their unfortunate interruption,
had long subsisted between us, to the mutual
advantage of our respective dominions.
" The measures which, in concert with my ally
the Emperor of the French, I thought it necessary
to take upon the coast of China, have resulted in a
Treaty, by which further effusion of blood has been
prevented, and which holds out the prospect of
greatly-increased intercourse with that extensive
and densely-peopled Empire.
" Another Treaty, into which I have entered with
the Emperor of Japan, opens a fresh field for com-
mercial enterprise in a populous and highly
civilized country, which has hitherto been jealously
guarded against the intrusion of foreigners. As
soon as the ratifications of these Treaties shall
have been exchanged, they will be laid before you.
" I have great satisfaction in announcing to
you that the Emperor of the French has
abolished a system of negro emigration from
the East Coast of Africa, against which, as
unavoidably tending, however guarded, to the
encouragement of the slave trade, my Government
has never ceased to address to his Imperial Majesty
its most earnest, but friendly representations.
"This wise act on the part of his Imperial Majesty
induces me to hope that negotiations, now in
progress at Paris, may tend to the total abandon-
ment of the system, and to the substitution of a
duly regulated supply of substantially free labour.
" The state of the Republic of Mexico, distracted by
civil war, has induced me to carry forbearance to its
utmost limits, in regard to wrongs and indignities
to which British residents have been subjected, at
the hands of the two contending parties. They
have at length been carried to such an extent that
I have been compelled to give instructions to the
commander of my naval forces in those seas to
demand, and if necessary to enfcrce, due repara-
tion.