The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen went in State yesterday to the House of Lords
to open the Session of Parliament with a Speech from the
Throne. The Royal Procession was formed at half-past one
o'clock in the following order. A carriage drawn by six bays,
conveying Captain Green and two other Gentlemen Ushers,
Captain William Bellairs, Exon of the Yeomen of the Guard,
and a Page of Honour. A carriage drawn by a set of bays con-
veying the Groom of the Robes, Captain F. Hugh Seymour,
the Silver Stick-in-Waiting; Colonel Reid, the Groom-in-
Waiting
to the Prince; Captain Francis Seymour, the Equerry
to the Prince ; Colonel Wylde, and the Page of Honour, Mr.
Wilson. A carriage drawn by six bays, conveying the Comp-
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the Viscountess. Jocelyn ; the Lord Steward, the Earl of Liver-
pool ; the Gold. Stick in. Waiting, Viscount Combermere,
G. C. 8., and the Lerd in Waiting, the Earl of Morton.
The Queen and Prince Albert quitted the State Rooms,
and descended the Grand Staircase at twenty minutes
before two o'clock, preceded by the Vice-Chamberlain and
other Officers of the Household, and conducted by the Lord
Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, and the Groom of the Stole
to the Prince. Her Majesty wore her Splendid Diamond Cir-
clet, and her State Robe was borne by the Pages of Honour in
Waiting. His Royal Highness Prince Albert appeared in a
Field-Marshal's uniform, and wore the Collars and other En-
signs of different Orders of Knighthood. Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness entered the State Coach, and opposite sat
the Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess of Buccleuch, and the
Master of the Horse, the Earl of Jersey, G. C.H. The State
Coach was drawn by eight cream-coloured horses, and was pre-
ceded by the Queen's Marshalmen, two and two, the Royal
Footmen in State Liveries, and a
party of the Yeomen of the
Guard in their Coronation costume. A, party of the Life
Guards formed theescort from the Palace to the House of Lords.
A short time previous to the departure of the Royal cortege,
their Serene Highnesses Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg and
Prince Augustus and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, left the
Palace for the House of Peers to witness the ceremony of her
Majesty opening Parliament. Their Serene Highnesses were
followed by his Majesty the Kingof Prussia and his suite, who
left the Palace at twenty-five minutes
past one o'(,lock, escorted
by a party of the Life Guards, in three of the Royal carriages,
that of the King attended by four of the Queen's footmen, in
state liveries. His Majesty wore the same military uniform
(the first Regiment of Prussian Horse Guards) as at the Royal
Christening, decorated with the Collar of the Most Noble
Order of the Garter and other insignia of Knighthood. His
Majesty was attended by the Earl of Hardwick. (wearing his
Peer's robes) and Captain Meynell, and also by several Noble-
men and Gentlemen of his suite. The band of the First, or
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, composing the Queen's
guard on the Palaee Lawn, receiving his Majesty on his ap.
pearance with a Prussian march, and playing " God save the
Queen" on his departure.
The Crown was conveyed to the House of Lords by Sir Wil-
liam Martins, Gentleman Usher is Waiting.
His Majesty returned at ten minutes before three o'clock,
attended by his Suite, and escorted by a party of the Life
Guards. His Majesty was received by the Lord Chamberlain
and the Vice-Chamberlain, at the entrance to the Grand Hall,
who conducted the King to his apartments.
The Queen and Prince Albert returned to the Palace soon,
after three o'clock, and were also received by the Lord Cham-
berlain and Vice-Chamberlain.
The Queen's Guard and the Band of the Grenadier Guards
received both his Prussian Majesty
usual honours. and the Queen with the

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On the'return of the King from the House of Lords, a De-
putation from the General Body of Protestant Dissenting Mi-