The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-16 00:00:00

PROROGATION

PARLIAMENT.
(YESTERDAY.)

PROGRESS OF HER MAJESTY
.ROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
Notwithstanding the unfavourable aspect of the
weather, the route from Buckingham Palace to the
Houses of Parliament was lined at an early hour by
crowds anxious to obtain a view of her Majesty on her
progress to prorogue Parliament. Shortly after eleven
o'clock a strong body of police took up their position
along the whole route, in order to keep the line clear,
in which duty they were assisted by a squadron of the Ist
_ Life Guards, posted at intervals. Along Parliament-street
and Whitehall the windows and balconies were crowded
with groups of well-dressed ladies. Stands also were
erected at various points, the balconies of the Horse-
guards were filled, and we observed that even the roof
of King Henry the Seventh's Chapel was covered with
anxious sight-seers. In the Park the crowd was very
great, though not so numerous as we have
seen it on former occasions, but consisting
chiefly of well-dressed and respectable people.
Round the Palace-gates the crowd assembled in great
lumbers. At a quarter before two o'clock her Majesty
• left the Palace. and the royal cortege took its way down
St. James's-walk, through the Horse Guards, and down
Whitehall and Parliament-street, to the Houses of Par- ,
liament. The cortege consisted of six royal carriages.
each drawn by six horses, containing the officers of
the Household and the Ladies in Waiting, and the
royal state carriage, drawn by eight horses, escorted
by the Gentlemen Pensioners, and by a squa-
dron of the 2d ,Life Guards. In the carriage with her
Majesty and Prince Albert were seated the Duchess of
Sutherland, Mistress of the Ribes, and the Duke of Nor-
folk, Master of the Horse. Her Majesty looked remark-
ably well. Her dress was of silver lace over white satin;
she wore a stomacher and a tiara of diamonds. The
Prince was dressed in the uniform of a Field-Marshal.
The cheering at various parts of the route was loud and
enthusiastic,. which her Majeaty and Prince Albert gra-
ciously acknowledged by repeatedly bowing, and both ap-
peared much gratified at those marks of loyalty and attach •
meat. At the Horse Guards the band ot the Ist Life Guards
was stationed, in their state uniforms, which, as the royal
carriage passed, struck up the National Anthem; the
guard presented arms ; and the cheering at this point
ruse to an enthusiastic pitch. Down Whitehall the'
crowd was immense, and her Majesty's reception
was: no less loyal. A salute of twenty-one guns an-
nounced her. arrival at the Houses of Parliament,
. where_ she was received by a guard of honour of the
Coldstream Guards, accompanied by their band. Her
Majesty alighted and entered the House by the Vic-
. toria Tower amid a flourish of trumpets and immediately
• proceeded to robe. . .
HOUSE.. OF LORDS.
The doors, of the House of Lords were thrown open to
the priblic a few minutes after twelve o'clock, when the
interior ot their Lordships' magnificent Chamber began
to fill rapidly with Peeresses, and the other Ladies who
had the privilege of the .entree beyond the bar. The.
• grand entrance-lobbies and approaches along which her
Majesty. passes to the robing-room, together with the
• strangers' gallery, were, also thronged with elegantly
dressed ladies, whose- gay attire and matchless beauty
added greatly to the splendour of the spectacle. The
brilliant variety of colours, too; which their costumes
preseated harmonised exquisitely with the tasty-aspect
of the building, and gave the whole scene a
. gay and
_animated appearance, which only the. pencil
. of a gifted artist, could Accurately describe. • The per-
fumes and odours which scented the 'atmosphere not a
- little in-creased the romance of the tieing ptcture, while
the gorgeous - uniforms and chaste flowing plumes
- • Which' adorned the majestic persons of the military
Jeep and foreign and oriental ambnssadorti recalled
• ap„ mind some eastern. scene of enchantment.
which one occasionally meets with in the impassioned
poetry of a Byron or a Moore. As the hour grew near'
when it. was expected her Majesty would reach West-
_ minster, the interior of the House was gorgeous and
dazzling.in ,the extreme. There
.was scarcely a seat
which was not occupied by a. lady or gentleman attired
in fanciful costume. The,Nepaalese Ambassador, his
two brothers, and suite, arrived shortly after one o'clock.
The Ambassador himself was conducted to a seat on the
- Bishops' benches, which were devoted tothecorpsdiplonia-
-6411e, while his two brothers and the rest of his suite
took up a position at the end of the side gallery on
the left of the throne. His Excellency the re-
preSentative of the American Republic at the
Court of St. James's
was early in attend ince.
The puke;. of Wellington, attired- in a Field Marshal's
, uniform, and attended by a couple of young ladies
dressed in deep mourning, entered the House about a
quarter-part one. His Grace, who ,was warmly greeted
by many of the Peers presenteseented to be in the en-
joyment of excellent health. He politely, and with almost
an air of youthful gallantry, conducted his •fair charges
to a seat on the front benches, and then retired to the'
foot of the throne, where he entered into conversation
with biome of
_the officers of the Guards who- were em
, duty in guarding the immediate entrances to the
chamber. His Grace shortly afterwards appeared
again in. the body of the House wearing his ducal
robes, and surrounded by Lords Mouteagle, Redesdale,
Talbot, Mountcashell, Devon, Overstone, and other peers,
wee wore the collars and insignias_of th., various orders
towhich they belong. His Grace, a few minutes after-
_ , wards. left his noble colleagues and walked leisurely
. round the House, recognising many of the ladies
present, wits whom he appeared to be a uai•
Nersal favourite, and with many of whom he
shonk hands with untiring perseverance. • The Turkish
Ambassador, attended by e numerous corps of turbaned
attach 4, came in &beet one, followed by the Earl St.
Germans, the Eat of Zatland, and the Marquis of Clan-
, ricarde. A few minutes before two, o'clock the
Lord Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack,
when swayers sere read in an impressive
manner y the Bishop of Heroferd. The other
-Right Rev. Prelates present were—His Grace the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Salisbury, and the
„Bishep of. Oxford. At the conclusion of prayers, the
•• number of Peers in their mat* was augmented by the
arrival of Lord Foley, who was dressed in a milieiry
enoiforeo; the Marquis of Lansdowne, the new Lord;Chief
justice orthe Common Pleas. (Sir J. Jervis), the Lord
' •". Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, and. several other of
her MajestY's Judges. Lord John Russell, was also
• • present; and occupied a seat in the Usher of the Black
ROd's box.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid upon the table
of' the House by command of her Majesty papers re-
. lating•to the Irish Poor-law and other subjects.
• Lord EDDISBURY also laid papers on the table.
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• A few minutes after two o'clock, the booming of
. cannon, occasioned by the firing of a royal salute, an-
nounced the approach of her Majesty. The echoof the guns
.had scarcely died away in the distance before a alight
commotion near to the House and a flourish of trumpet*,
put everybody on the tiptoe of excitement and expects-
_ don, which was soon, however, destroyed by the ap-
' pearance of several of her Majesty's Body Guard, who
took up their position and mounted guard at the foot of
the Throne as a signal for the House to be in readiness
for' die arrival of her Majesty. At about a quarter
past two her Majesty, preceded by the officers of the
Household, the Duke of Wellington carrying the Sword of
State, the Marquis of Lansdowne the Crown and Cushion,
and the Earl ot Zetland the Cap of Maintenance, entered
the House on the right hand of the Throne, leaning on
the arm of his Royal Highness the Prince Albert. Her •
Mhjesty was attended by the Duchess of Sutherland, as
Mistress of the Robes, and Lady Jocelyn. As her Majesty
'entered' the House her subjects rose, and remained standing
till her Majesty commanded them to bo seated, after she
had ascended the throne. Her Majesty then com-
manded the Usher of the Black Rod to summon the
• House of Commons to appear at the bar of the House.
This was immediately done by that officer, and after the
lapse of a few minutes the Speaker, attended by the
:Usher of the Black Rod, the Sergeant-at-Arms, and a
numerous body of the Members of the House of
Commons, attended at the bar in obedience to
the commands of her Majesty.
The SPEAKER then proceeded to address her Ma-
jesty to the following effect:—" We, your Majesty's loyal
and faithful Commons, approach your Majesty with our
last Bill of Supply. In obedience to your Ma-
jesty's commands announced from the Throne by Royal
Commission at the commencement of the session, we
applied ourselves to the consideration of a for the
better government of your Majesty's Australian colo-
nies, and we have framed a government in a form which
we believe to be best adapted to the wants and feelings
of the colonists, and we confidently look forward to its
being the meaneof leading to the gradual development
of the vast resources of the colony itself, and of increas-
ing the attachment of the colonists to this country and
your Majesty's throne and person. We have made
considerable advances in sanitary improvements,
by prohibiting interments in large towns, and
we have sanctioned such laws and regulations
for the improvement of certain districts which past ex-
perience has proved to be necessary for the protection
.of human lif;. Aware of the growing competition
which the mercantile navy of the country had
to combat with in consequence of the recent
alteration •of the navigation-laws, we have dg-
voted much time and attention to that() peculiar mea-
sures which became necessary to give due and
proper effect to those changes, and• a Bill has lately
received your Majesty's assent by which *e have ,
endeavoured to alleviate the character of the imposts
which press upon our mercantile marine, and to improve -
the discipline and promote the general welfare and hap-
piness of the seamen. At the commencement of the
present session the Royal Commission announced
an extraordinary diminution in the number of Parlia-
mentary electors in Ireland, and the effect which that
diminution had had on the existing system of legisla-
tion in that country. That &eject has received from us,
as it deserved, our most favourable consideration,
and by the remedies which we have ap-
plied we hope to have secured to the
• people tf Ireland an increased body of efficient and in-
dependent electors, who will be faithful in the discharge
of their important privilege of returning representa-
tives to sit and legis:ate in the Commons House of Parlia-
ment. Theseare the mote im portaeit measures of the session.
It would be tedious to enumerate the other numerous
measures of importance which have been the subject of
our careful consideration, but we may men-
tion that it had been our pleasing duty to
reduce the amount of taxation whilst carefully
providing supplies for the exigencies of the public sex.,
vice, and supporting the honour and dignity of the
Crown ; and whilst we give expression to.
our feelings of loyalty and attachment to your
'Majesty, we may add, that it is our .