The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

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bout six feet without including the tail, Whicl

gether with the lbng hair by
full four more. It ran very slowly, owing to the pecu.
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;e and doubled up when it
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proper, or rather the principal It

claws is, to assist in obtaining the white ant, ti
which it lives. The large clay nests of these
very common in these upland Campos ; and when
bear wants a meal, he attacks one of these hillocks wi
his fore claws, tears out a portion of the side, and push,
in his long slender tongue, which is covered with a vise
saliva, to which myriads of the ants adhere, and openii
hi —4-'l,l mouth he draws it in ; now shutting his lips, 1
P time, retaining the ants in 1
ith till the tongue has been completely exerted. whi

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OPENING OF PARLJ

lEN7

THE

H 0 U

SE OF LORDS.
Parliament vas opened on Tuesday by her Majesty, i
person, with the usual forms.

Long. before 12 o'clock, the hour at which the door
...-.. opened, vast crowds had assembled around th
exterior of the house to witness the arrival of peers an
peeresses who were to be present on the occasion, and
very soon after the doors were opened, the Royal galler
was filled. The peeresses, and those ladies who ha,
tickets, continued to
_arrive in rapid succession up t,

were to I

within a short time before her Male

reached the Ho-use

ry available place, both in the body of. tilt
_,,galleries, was occupied before her Majesty art,
Among the first peers who arrived were the Earl a
Zetland, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Charleville,
the Marquis of Camden, Earl Fitzwilliam, and the Ear
of Cardigan.

e Ministers present were the Marq

uis of Lansi

:an of Clerendon,

of Clanri

carde, and the Earl of Auckland

The extreme darkn

Dned by the fogginess a

the weather, rendered it neCE

so that a much more brilliant effe,
ever usual by daylight, and the je
shone resplendently.

y to light up the house
I than i

was prod
els worn I

a flourish of trumpet

rival, and in a few mi

Royal Highnes4 ii

duke of Cam

red the

His Royal 'H

ook hands and conversed with several peers ; among the
st with the bishops, and Lord Campbell. The Lord
iancellor, too, who had arrived a few moments before,
;o talked with his Royal Highness. The Dille of Wel-
gton arrived about five minutes after the Duke of Cam-
Edge, who greeted his Grace with, " Why, Duke, you

Precisely at 2-o'clock the
nounced the approach of her Aajest,
nutes after, the prolonged note of the•tri._
through the Royal gallery apprised those
sembled in the House of Pe.
arrived. • Immediately afterwarc,..
Officers of the Household and otl
Maje"'

guns were heard which an-

hat h€

;sion of

who attend her

aajesty. on these occasions entered the house by the side
door leading from the Royal gallery. The Earl of Zetland
bore the Cap of Maintenance, the Duke of Wellington the
Sword of State' the Marquis of Lansdowne the Crown.
Her Majesty followed, accompanied by Prince Albert.
The whole assembly rose as her Majesty entered. Her
Majesty bowed most graciously repeatedly, and the Prince
then conducted her up to the throne. His Royal High-
ness occupied the smaller throne on the left ; that on the
right, for'the Prince of Wales, being left vacant. The
Duchess of Sutherland stood on the right of the throne,
close to her Majesty, and the Marchioness of Douro, as
lady-in-waiting, stood, near the duchess. The Duke of
Wellington stood immediately to the left of her Majesty,
holding the Sword of State. The Marquis of Lansdowne
stood to the right of the throne, on the floor of the house,
bearing the Crown, on a silver velvet cushion.
Her Majesty, having seated herself, desired the lord:
to be seated. The Commons were the, •vordins,, tc
custom, summoned to appear at th'

bar to hear the

jesty, who proceeded to re
and emphasis.
referring to Irish distress were delivered by

The speech was then handed by the Lord Chancellor to
_
sual ad-
ble that

mirable clearn. es

he passage

her Majesty in rather a subdued tone, and with an accent
of sympathy for the sufferings described; but when her
Majesty came to the passage relating to the Spanish mar
riage, and also that which refers to the subject of C
her tone became perceptibly changed ; and, beside, .
she spoke more loudly and emphatically, there was a
slight abruptness in the delivery. The aspect of the inte-
rior of the house during. the ceremony was more brilliant
even than usual, in consequence of the place being lit up.
At all times the scene is'splendid and imposing, from the
gay array of brilliant uniforms, the beauty of the ladies,
and the elegance of their costumes, and, above all, from
the presence of so many illustrious persons, distinguished
for high rank or for talent, who are seldom or never as-

racow,
that

semblea except on such an occasion. Her Majesty's
dress, particularly the stomacher and tiara, blazed with
diamonds, and the jewels of the Duchess of Sutherland
also shone with conspicuous splendour.
With the reading of the speech the ceremony of open-
ing Parliament was concluded. Her Majesty and the
Prince, preceded and attended as before, left the house on
their return to Buckingham Palace.

At 5 o'clock the hou-se re-assembled. There were some
changes in the position of the leading peers. The Minis-
ters, of course, occupied their usual seats. Lord Melbourne
lfas present, and occupied the seat he usually held among
his colleagues when he was a minister. On the Opposi-
tion bench there was a change. Lord Stanley occupied
the usual place of the leader of opposition.' By his side
was the Duke of Richmond, and the principal Protec-
tionist peers were seated near. The Duke of Buckingham
occupied the seat next Lord Brougham, below the gang-
way, and the Earl of Winchilsea sat next to him. The
Duke of Wellington arrived at a few minutes after five
o'clock, and immediately took his seat on the cross-
benches. The Earl of St. Germans and one or two other
members of the former Government sat below the gangway.

OrnEral 1t ttliaitp.

F Army and Navy Club_ are going to astonish London

Louse ever yet built

A servant girl is in custody for setting -fire to a barley
stack at Rodin, near Edinburgh.
The Committee of the County of Durham Relief So-
ciety have sent £4OO to different parts of Ireland and
Scotland.

Food riots have taken place in Cornwall, among the
distressed:miners, and the military had to be called out to
quell them _

ay a soldier was found frozen to death near
le had fallen into a pond, having, it is sup-
-

d his r

In the 0

;reet Court of Request

dy was ordered to refund

IMUIk piace on zunaay, at a house in Queen-street,
Glasgow, when property to the amount of upwards of
£BO,OOO was destroyed.

The subscription of the Society of Friends in this
country, for the relief of the suffering Irish, amounts to
£22;000, which averages £5 from each family, .rich and

In Dalmellington, Ayrshire, the cost of the gas con-
sumed in the street lamps is &frayed by an annual danc-
ing festival, called the Gas The, last one took

lice on New Year's Day

Three children narrowly escaped di

,ath at Nottingham

•om having eaten a green ornament from

The. colour was p-roduced by Scl

GUY FAWKES

On Tuesday

Sir At

igustus Clifford,

with a party of the yeomen of her Majesty's Body Guard,
made the usual search in the vaults beneath the House of
Lords, preparatory to the opening of parliament.
The sum of £2500 was collected in the
Brighton ou Sunday and the Sunday before, in behalf of
the destitution in Ireland and the Highlands and Islands
of Scotland.

The Grocers' Company have voted £lOOO for the relief
of the distress in Ireland and Scotland, and £lOO to the
Metropolitan Relief Society, in addition to £2OO voted to
the same society in 1844.

Hips and haws have been remarkably scarce during the
present season ; and many birds in different parts of the
country have perished of hunger, in consequence of the
want of their accustomed food.

In the course of the year 1846, the shipping
entered the port of London increased 186 ships, measur-
ing 30,403 tons, as compared with the returns for the
year 1845.
GLUT OF SPRATS.---A correspondent of the Times says
that myriads of sprats are now being caught in the Lower
Swin, off the Essex coast, and sold to the farmers for ma-
nure, at the rate of Bd. the bushel.
The Hereford Journal says that the oldest inhabitant
in the Forest of Dean cannot remember a time when the
coal trade was more brisk than it is at present. Sufficient
coal cannot be obtained to meet the demand, although
the men work night as well as day.

On Wednesday two young men, named Smart and
Smith, farm-servants at Rugby, before going to bed,
lighted a fire in their bed-room, in a charcoal pan. In
the morning they, were found apparelatlr asleep, but per-
,eetly lifeless.