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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-29 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.-WEDNESDAY

• The House of Lords met at one o'clock, and proceeded
to Buckingham Palace, to present to her Majesty the address
in answer to the Speech from the Throne.

HOUSE OFCOMMONS.-WEDNESDAY

Sir R. INGLis, on bringing up the report on the address,
took occasion to comment on the absence of allusion in the
Speech from the Throne to the recent repeal agitation in
Ireland.

Lord J. RUSSELL thought the opinions of the Government
were sufficiently well known upon the subject, and had been
sufficiently expressed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
He had also some doubts as to the policy of increasing the
importance of the. cry for repeal, by alluding to it in the
Queen's speech.
The report was then agreed to.
Mr. BROTHERTON again brought forward his oft-repeated
proposition, that no new business should be brought forward
after 12 o'clock at night, if objected to by live members.
Lord J. RUSSELL thought the only effect of any such mo-
tion would be to procrastinate the public business, and to
compel them to discuss matters of law in the absence of
lawyers, and matters of trade and commerce in the absence
of merchants.
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Mr. O'CoNNELL,said that the only merchants and lawyers
who derived adiantage from the present system were those
resident in London. He would suggest that the house should
meet at ten o'clock in the morning, and sit until six or seven
in the evening, devoting two days in each week to committees.
It was, in his opinion, a glaring absurdity to do business at
night.
Mr. HOME suggested that it would be well to have an un-
derstanding that no debate should be adjourned more than
once, in which case those gentlemen who intended to speak,
and were in the habit of delaying to do so until the last mo-
ment, would adopt a different practice.
On a division, Mr. Brotherton's motion was lost by a very
large majority. _
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IClr. Sergetint TALFOURD moved for leave to bring in a bill
for the amendment of the law of copyright; but Mr. War-
burton expressed himself as being taken by surprise, and,
after some conversation, it was agreed that the bill should be
postponed until Friday.
The house then adjourned.

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT,

(From the Morning Herald of Wednesday.)
PROCESSION TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS

From it being generally known that her Majesty would
open the session in person, the area in front of Buckingham
Palace, along the Mall in St. James's Park, and. the whole
line of the royal route, was crowded long before the time ap-
pointed for the Queen's departure for thellouse of Lords.
Shortly after twelve o'clock, the carriages of the nobility
and gentry, having orders from the Lord High Chamberlain,
began setting down company at the House of Lords.
The Lord Chancellor was among the early arrivals, and it
was after one before the foreign ambassadors and ministers
arrived, among whom we noticed the following members of
the corps diplomatique :—His Excellency Prince Esterhazy,
his Excellency Chekib Effendi, Turkish Ambassador, his
Excellency Baron Bulow, his Excellency Baron Brunow, his
Excellency the Swedish Minister and Countess Bjornstjerna,
his Excellency Count Kielmansegge, his Excellency Baron
Biome, his Excellency Count Pollon, his Excellency Count
Pollon, his Excellency the Dutch Minister, his Excellency
the Neapolitan Minister, Baron Borquency, the French
charge d'affaires, &c.

The peeresses and ladies of rank present included the
Duchess of Cleveland, Viscountess Palmerston and Lady
Fanny Cowper, Countess of Verulam, Countess of Jersey,
Countess Cadogan, Lady Stuart de Rothsay and Hon. Miss
L. Stuart, Lady Denman, Countess of Clarendon, &c. The
Ashantee Princes, in their characteristic costumes, were
among the distinguished foreigners, and attracted much
notice.

A detachment of the royal horse guards (blue), commanded
by the Hon. Cecil Forester, came early and formed the
" house party," who do duty within the House of Lords. A
troop of the royal horse guards kept the line of procession
from l3uckingham Palace to the houses of Parliament, and a
battalion of the foot guards was drawn up in front of the en-
trance with their fine band.

The Marquis of Normanby, in passing George-street, was
slightly hissed, but the Home Secretary was apparently not
generally recognised, and, consequently, escaped the discor-
dant sounds that might otherwise have reached him. Vis-
count Melbourne came, to all appearance, in a job chariot.
It was a wretched " turn out," without even the noble pre-
mier's coronet on it, and bis " gentleman" was equipped in
his morning out-of-livery suit.

The royal procession was formed at Buckingham Palace at
half-past one o'clock, and her Majesty and Prince Albert,
conducted by the Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Chamberlain, and
preceded by the Lord Steward and the Master of the Horse,
left the state rooms, and descended the grand staircase to
the state carriage, her Majesty's train being borne by the
pages of honour in waiting.
The state procession left the palace in the following order :
A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying Mr. Blackwood,
Mr. ilobhouse, and Col. Dingle, gentlemen ushers, and Mr.
Samuel Hancock, exon in waiting. A carriage, drawn by
six bays, conveying Lord Alfred Paget, equerry in waiting ;
Captain Seymour, groom of the robes ; Masters Wemyss,
Byng, and Wilson, pages of honour in waiting ; and the
silver stick in waiting. A. carriage, drawn by six bays, con-
veying Lord Kinnaird• master of the buck hounds ; the
Right Hon. George Stevens Byng, comptroller of the house-
hold ; Mr. Rich, groom in waiting ; and Col. Bouverie,
equerry to Prince Albert. A carriage, drawn by six bays,
conveying the Earl of Ilchester, captain of the yeoman
guard; Lord Hill, G.C.8., gold stick in waiting; Earl of
Surrey, treasurer of the household; and the Earl of Morley,
gentleman of the bedchamber to Prince Albert. A carriage,
drawn by six black horses, conveying the Marchioness of
Normanby, lady of the
,bedchamber; the Earl of Errol,
K.G., lord steward .of the household; Lord Robert Gros-
venor, groom of the stole to Prince Albert ; and the Earl of
Listowel, lord in waiting. The Queen's marshalmen, two
and two; the Queen's footmen, in state liveries, two and
two; a party of the yeoman of the guard, in their coronation
costume. The state coach, in which were the Queen and
Prince Albert (his royal highness wearing a field marshal's
uniform, with a collar and star of the most noble order of
the garter); Lady Portman, lady in waiting ; and the Earl of
Albemarle, G.C:H.,'master of the horse. -

The royal corte'ge was escorted from the palace by a party
of the royal regiment of horse guards. . •
On the Queen passing under the marble arch, the specta-
tors' faintly cheered her Majesty, and along the Mall the
cheering was far from being general, There was a slight de-
lay opposite the Duke of York's column, caused, we believe,
by a part of the harness of one of the horses coming un-
buckled. The royal procession on passing through the Horse
Guards, was more favourably greeted than at any other part
of the route, but the plaudits there did not go beyond com-
mon enthusiasm. Along Parliament-street, until the arrival
of her Majesty in Palace-yard, the applause of the assemblage
was but partial.
The procession arrived in Palace-yard a few minutes before
two o'clock, and on the state carriage drawing beneath the
porch of the House of Lords, the band struck up God save
the Queen, and a royal salute was tired on her Majesty's
alighting.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, accompanied
by Prince George, arrived shortly before the Queen, and were
received by the military with the usual honours. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex was not present.

THE GALLERY OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
It was about two o'clock, when the opening salute of the
very indifferent species of ordnance made use of on these
solemn occasions, announced that her Majesty had arrived
at the entrance of the House of Lords. The gallery and
painted chamber of the latter were occupied, at each side of
the passage for the royal cortege, with as many ranges of
spectators as could be therein accommodated, almost all of
whom had taken care, under the permit of the Lord Cham-
berlain's ticket, to secure their places even at as early an
hour as twelve. It is a great gratification to the fortunate
few, whom it may concern, to b allowed this near inspection
of so interesting a spectacle, and it is only to be regretted
that the favour should, be in no slight degree neutralised by
the unreasonable practice of enclosing the procession between
two living walls of dismounted horse-guards, whose bearskin
caps are familiar with the ceiling and sadly unaccommodating
to those who would glance either over or between them.
This is a most uncharitable pageant; During the two hours
that elapsed from the time when the spectators had attained
their seats and the arrival of " the blues," the former had
abundant matter to excite their attention, in noting the con-
stant and most graceful train of the peeresses proceeding to
their places within the house; the peers in their robes,
hastening, as they arrived, irregularly in the same direction,
and the many groups of ambassadors and attaches with their
suites in full feather, and the novelty of foreign costume also,
led forward, ever and anon, by the pursuivants of the herald-
at-arms.

Amongst these, an Asiatic Prince, with a dark, aqueline
visage, that would .do honour to the desert lineage of Ish-

mael, and costume of purple velvet, richly and elegantly em,
broidered in gold, was singularly conspicuous, and seemed
himself vividly affected by the influence of the scene around
him. On one of the seats in the gallery, or passage, were
the two Ashantt e Princes, whose dress, in the highest style
of our west.:end fancy, indicated young gentlemen of very
sufficient civilisation, but whose physiognomies presented,
both in regard to tint and turn of feature, as striking a con-
trast as could well be conceived to the characteristics of that
most fair and royal face upon which they too came to indulge

a curious gaze.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and Prince
George, the latter in his full uniform of the 13th, came im-
mediately heroic her Majesty.

When, at length, the signal of the royal approach was
given, the Premier, the Lord Chancellor, and other noble
lords of the Cabinet, proceeded with the heralds-at-arms to
meet her Majesty, whose arrival at the house was speedily
made known by the discharge of the ordnance alluded to ;
the rattle of the guards' carabines as they came to the 'ab-
rupt " present," and the shrill sonorous salute of four trum-
pets within the walls. The whole escort of gentlemen pen-
sioners, heralds, and officers of the household and cabinet
slowly advanced, in all their richest official costume, and in
the midst of them appeared her Majesty and his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert. The procession turned into the spacious
chamber to the left of the gallery at its entrance, and her
'Majesty having there assumed the crimson robe of state,
which was supported by her ladies of honour and pages, again
came forth and proceeded to the house, the crown being car-
ried on a velvet cushion by the Earl of Erroll, and Viscount
Melbourne bearing the sword of state.

Her Majesty, hnppily appeared in excellent health, per-
haps with a line more of fulness in her figure that when she
last trod in this scene of ceremony. Her Majesty's dress
presented a very gosainer of delicate lace over white satin,
and she wore her tiara and other ornaments of the finest
brilliants. His royal highness also looked exceedingly well,
had on his field-Marshals uniform, and wore the collars and
stars of the Garter and the Bath. His royal highness held
her Majesty's left hand, and thus they entered the house.