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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

speech read

The speech was then handed by the Lord Chancellor to
her Majesty, who proceeded to read it with her usual ad,
mirable clearness and emphasis. It was observable that
the passages referring to Irish distress were delivered by
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 Cracow,
her tone became perceptibly changed ; and, besides that
she spoke more loudly and emphatically, there was r
slight abruptness in the delivery. j'he aspect of the int,
-1 the

nor of _ —.ruse during the ceremony was more brilhanl
even than usual, in consequence of the place being lit up.
At all times the scene is splendid and imposing, from the

and the elegance of their costumes, and, alive all, from
the presence of so many illustrious persons, distinguished
for high rank or for talent, who are seldom or never as-
sembled 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, lett the house on
their return to Buckingham Palace.

At 5 o'clock the house re-assembled. There were some
changes in the position of the leading peers. The Minis-
ters, of course, occupied their usual seats. Lord Melbourne
was 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

and immediately took

The Earl of St. Germans and one or two other
members of the former Government sat below the gangway.

Criitral ;filtszrilanp.

The Army and Navy Club are going to astonish London
with the most magnificent clubhouse ever yet built.
A servant girl is in custody for setting fire to a barley

The Committee of the Comity of Duilam Relief So-
ciety have sent £4OO to different parts of Ireland and
Scotland.

Food riots have taken place in Cornwall, among the

tary had

quell thein

-On Thursday a soldier was found frozen to death near
Chatham. He had fallen into a pond, having, it is
posed, missed his road.
In the Osborne-street Court of Requests, London, on
Tuesday, the notorious Joseph Ady was ordered to refund

£1 paid to him for worth!
A fire took place on Sunday, at a house in Queen-street
Glasgow, when property to the amount of upwards• of
£BO,OOO was destroyed.

inforination

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 defrayed by an annual danc-
ing festival, called the " Gas Ball." The last one took
place on New Year's Day.

- Three children narrowly escaped death at Nottingham
on Thursday, from having eaten a green ornament from
a twelfth cake. The colour was produced by Scheele's
green, which is a deadly poison.
GUY FAWKES.—On Tuesday, Sir Augustus 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 chapels of
Brighton on Sunday and the Sunday before, in behalf of
the destitution in Ireland and the Highlands and Islands
of Scotland,