The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-29 00:00:00

INTERIOR OF THE HOUSE

On the entry of her Majesty intalhe house, all the peers
and peeresses rose, and remained standing until her Majesty
desired them to be seated. Her Majesty having taken her
seat on the throne, Prince Albert occupied a chair of state
on her left hand. The attendance of the female noblesse was
unusually great, induced, doubtless, by the recent happy
event, which iu their minds threw around her Majesty and
her illustrious consort a halo of increased interest. The
benches in the body of the house were soon filled after the
opening of the doors, at twelve o'clock, and several inroads
were made upon the seats intended to be reserved for the
peers. The strangers' gallery was also entirely occupied by
ladies, and before the peers, by their presence in numbers,
had asserted their supremacy, the meeting appeared like a
conclave of " le beau sexe," at the ancient mysteries of
" bona Dea," shining brilliantly amid plumes and diamonds,
and silks and satins of every hue and texture. The floor was
a rich parterre, redolent of the hiirmony of colouring. The
peers entered shortly before one o'clbck; and on the arrival
of her Majesty there were about forty. Amcng them we no-
ticed the Duke of Cambridge, Prince George of Cambridge,
the Dukes of Somerset, Cleveland, Norfolk, and Beaufort;
the Marquis of Normanby ; the Earls of Redesdale, Devon,
Clarendon, Ripon, Cardigan, and Shaftesbury ; Viscounts
Melbourne and Beresford ; Lords Portman, Monteagle,
Langdale, Denman, &c.; the Archbishop of Canterbury, and
the Bishops of London, Durham, and Rochester. The judi-
cial seats were fully occupied by the judges. There was a
full attendance of the corps diplomatique, including the Aus-
trian, Turkish, Russian, French, Prussian, and Belgian am-
bassadors. Their excellencies wore the uniforms of their
several countries, and were decorated with various orders.
Prince Esterhazy, in the uniform of the Hungarians hussars,
made a very splendid appearance. In the gallery, on the
right of the throne, surrounded by ladies, sat Kurreen Khan,
a Persian grandee, who seemed to view the ceremony with
much interest. Prince George of Cambridge sat on the
woolsack, immediately facing the throne. Her Majesty
looked exceedingly well, with rather more enbonpoint than
when we last saw her, and appeared in the enjoyment of ex-
cellent health and spirits. The Queen being seated on the
throne, the Lord Chancellor hearing the great seal, Lord
Melbourne holding the sword of state, the Duke of Soin,..T-
set bearing the crown, the Earl of Shaftesbury having the
cap of maintenance, the Earl Marshal, the Lord Chamber-
lain, and the other great officers of state, arranged them-
selves around her Majesty. The usher of the black rud, Sir
Augustus Clifford. then, by command of her Majesty,
summoned the House of Commons to the bar. After the
lapse of a few minutes the Speaker appeared, accompanied
by several members of the House of Commons, or rather,
we should say, thrust in by them ; for the honourable mem-
bers, in their anxiety to obtain admission, were not very
particular in the order of their coming, and the elected head
of their assembly advanced to the bar with railway speed.
The noise caused by this rush having subsided, the Lord
Chancellor, on his knee, presented the royal speech to her
Majesty, who proceeded to read it in her usually clear and
collected manner, and in so loud a tone that each portion of
it must have been audible in every part of the• house, in the
deep silence that prevailed. The music of her Majesty's
voice has often been the theme of admiration, and its sweet-
ness was apparent in every sentence that she uttered. (The
speech will be found in our parliamentary report.) It will
be seen that no mention was made of the birth of the Royal
Princess, an omission which struck us as rather strange—
" Innis pent-etre non." Her Majesty did not in the robing-
room exchange her tiara of diarothuls for the crown, but
continued to wear it throughout the ceremony.

RETURN OP HER MAJESTY.
This great business of the day occupied about a quarter of
an hour in time. When it was over the doors of the house
were again thrown open, and the royal cortege, as it had
entered, retired. Her Majesty, as she passed through the
gallery, appeared to address his Royal Highness in very ani-
mated spirits, and thus, after having fora few moments again
visited the robing chamber, departed for the palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert entered the state carriage
at 25 minutes past two, the band playing the national anthem,
and the cannon firing a royal salute.
A great number of persons were disappointed at the ab-•
sence of the Duke of Wellington, who was not at the opening
of the Parliament.
The, equipages, with the exception of the Turkish ambas-
sador, Prince Esterhazy, and Baron Bulow, were not de-
aorwing.of notice. -, , • .
The Queen slid Prince ./kiberitotla- ex(iinent
health and spirits, and while the band was performing the
national air ou leaving the House of Lords, his Royal High-
ness seemed highly pleased, for he was beating time until the
procession began to move.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at Buck-
ingham Palace, on their return, by the Lord Chamberlain.
The yeomen of the guard were on duty at the grand hall,
and the Queen's guard of the grenadier regiment of foot
guards were on duty, with the band of the regiment, on the
palace lawn, and received her Majesty with the usual honours.