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 into the 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 in 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 th'eir presence in numbers,
had asserted their supremacy, the meeting appeared like a
cOncjave 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 harmony of colouring. The
peers entered shortly before one o'clock, 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 diplonzatique, 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 Hungarian 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 bearing the great seal, Lord
Melbourne holding the sword of state, the Duke of Somer-
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 rod, 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
Prince,s, an omission which struck us as rather strange—
" mail peut-etre non." Her Majesty did not in the robing-
room exchange her tiara of diamonds for the crown, but
continued to wear it throughout the ceremony.

RETURN OF 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 cort6ye, 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 for a 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 exceptiop oflhe Turkish ambas-
sador, Prince Esterhazy,, and Bax!cin Billow,. were not de-
serving of notice.
The Queen and Prince Albert b4th appeared in excellent
health and spirits, and while the band was performing the
national air on 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.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Three o'clock.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, Tits DAY

(From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Circular.)

In describing the state of the corn trade here from the
close of Tuesday's market until to-day, little more is re-
quired than to repeat the remarks contained in our last cir-
cular; casual sales of a limited nature only having charac-
terised the proceedings here during that period, and those at
prices differing in no essential degree from the general cur-
rency reported on the 26th instant.

Upon.all kinds of foreign and colonial produce, duties still
remain unaltered.

The arrivals fresh up for this day's market comprise a mo-
derate quantity of Wheat, chiefly duty-paid foreign from
London, and one cargo from Odessa, but of other sorts of
Grain the receipts are generally rather light : of Oatmeal,
however, we have to note a fair supply from Ireland, with
several parcels of Flour thence and coastwise as stated un-
derneath.

Influenced by the extreme languor reported to exist in
many of the leading markets of the kingdom, and the ab-
sence of any active business at our Corn Exchange to-day,
the sales of 'Wheat this morning, even upon a very limited
scale, were exceedingly difficult to effect, and although few
holders appeared disposed to submit to lower prices, yet all
descriptions of this Grain were easier to purchase, and evi-
dently the turn cheaper in value.

English, Irish, and foreign Flour, participating in a similar
degree of dullness, scarcely sustained our last quotations.

Barley, Malt, Beans, and Pease, also appeared to excite
very little notice, and hardly supported late prices.
Oats and Oatmeal, for which very few inquiries were
made, moved off very sparingly on the terms last noted ; and
speaking generally, we may remark that in no late instance
has the trade been more thoroughly inanimate.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 26th to the 28th January, 1841, inclusive

DXSCRIPTION

'
W•°..• , CANADA' r"- TOTAL
•°..• REIGN•

Wheat Q"s. 313 3457 ,
Barley Qrs. 12 1037,
Malt
Oats Qrs. 2570 736
Rye Qrs. 9
Beane Qrs. -
Pea,se
Shelled Barley
Indian Corn .. • Qrs. - •
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal ... . Loads 2353
Flour . ...... Sacks 2171 920
Ditto . Brls. 1000

2100 5870
1040
490
3400

562

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise, Wheat, 35 qrs. ; Beans,
722 qrs.; Oats, 100 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 2722 loads; Flour, 132 sacks.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Flour, S brls.—lreland. Wheat, 337 qrs.—
Coastwise, Wheat, 65 qrs. ; Barley, qrs. ; Beans, 8 qrs.
Oatmeal, 16 Ids. ; Flour, 340 sacks 269 barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Jan. 22, 1841.
Wheat.. 60s. gd. I Barley 325. i Id. l Oats.. 21s. 4d. I Rye.. 345. Id
Beans.. 395. 7d, I Pease .. 38s. 10d.

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat.. 60s. led. I Barley.. 325. Bd. I Oats.. 21s. sd. I Rye.. 335. 5d
Beans.. 40s. 3d. I Pease.. 40s. Id.

Duty on Foreign Grain, tke. this week.
Wheat 265.8 d. Barley 13s. 10d. Oats .... 15s. 3d. I Rye.. 19s. gd
Beans, gs. 6d. I Pease.. gs. 6d. I Ind. Cornl3s.lod. Flourl6s.oid
Liverpool Averages, week ending 26th January, 1841.
Wheat. I Barley. Oats. I Beans. Pease.
343 170 2924
545. Id. 38s. 6d. 2ls. Od.l I Os. Od. Os. Od.