The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-01 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LOB DS, Jan. 31.

The erentrul session of 1850 ,was opened to-day, rot
by her Majesty in persou, but ! of her Royal Commission.
Long before the hour appointe for opening the Com-
mission the House of Lords Intl the strangers' gallery
was partly filled with ladies and Ivisitors anxious to witness
the ceremony of the opening of the Great Council of the
nation. The assembla.;e thus Brawn together formed a
pleasing group, though its app karance faded into almost
insignificance., when put in con 4:Jarison with the splendid
tout ensemble of the House of L to rds when her Majesty is
present, and when the beauty, the noble, and wealtby of
the land vie with each other ;in their endeavours to
show their loyalty to their Sovereign, by
being present when she at •pears in the upper
branch of the Legislature t) c ipe n or prorogue her Par-
liareeut. Among the Peers pt ,ousent we noticed the Earl
of Sheffield, Viscount Strangf od, Lord Culburne, Lard
Campbell, Earl Mountcashel, ;Lord Lucan, the Marquis
f Salisbury, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop of
Hereford, Lord Say and Selo, :Lord Monteagle, the Duke
of Wellington, the Duke of N gfulk, and Viscount Ha-
dinge. . _ .

Shortly after two o'clock rthe Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, tl Is Marquis of Bread-
albane, Earl Minto, and the Bishop cf London,
robed as the Lords Commissic hers for opening the Par-
liament, entered the House ar u I took their seats below
the throne. Having donee. ek, their Lordships com-
manded Mr. Fulmar, the Ye ctnan Usher of the Black
Rod (who officiated in the u *Avoidable absence of Sir
Augustus Clifford), to summon;-the Commons to the bar,
to hear the Royal Commie lion read her Majesty's
most gracious Speech to bottlL Houses on opening the
present sessior.
Af.er the lapse of a few mi n'stes, the Spatter of the
House cf Commons, attend( by a great numbor of
,lembers, appeared at the 1 otr. Among the members
present we notiud Mr. Brotl .carton, Mr. Locke, Colonel
Thompson, Mr. F. O'Connor, Air, Spooner, Lord Dudley
Stuart, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Elli idt, and several others.
On the Speaker apreariug s.,t the bar the Commission
for opening the Parliament v ras read by Mr. Edmunds,
after
The LORD CHANCELLQR read, in a clear End
distinct voice her Majesty's, most gracious Speech,
as follows:

".IMY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
" We are commanded by her Majesty to assure
you that her Majesty has great satisfaction in again
having recourse to the avice and assistance of
her Parliament.

" The decease of her Majesty Queen
Adelaide has caused her Majesty deep
affliction. The extensive, charity and exem-
plary virtues of her late Majjerity will always render
her memory dear to the nation.
" Her Majesty happily continues in peace end
amity with Foreign Powers-
" In the course of the autumn, differences of a
serious character arose between the Governments
of Austria and Russia on the one hand, and the
Sublime Porte on the :other, in regard to the treat-
ment of a considerable number of persons who, after
the termination of the civil war in Hungary, had
taken refuge in the Turkish Territory.
" Explanations which took place between the
Turkish and Imperial Goverranents have fortunately
removed any danger to the ?nee of Europe which
might have arisen out of these differences.
" Her Majesty having been appealed to on
this". pccasion by the Sultan, united her efforts
with those of the Government of France, to which
a similar appeal had been made, in order to assist
by the employment of her good offices in effecting
an amicable settlement of those differences, in a
manner consistent with the dignity and indepen-
dence of the Porte.
"Her Majesty has been enosged in communica-
tions with Foreign States, upon the measures which
might be rendered necessary by the relaxation of the
restrictions formerly imposed by the navigation laws
of this country.

"The Governments of the United States of
America and of Sweden have promptly Wien steps
4-1 secure to Brithh ships in the ports of their re-
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