New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-08

bs' 81 plaoe IN tn ol House 81 L''dH a''I'!e
o"A~ go and il wa Only On rare o OCCASIONS i'a "a II
r...~rscd into that ancient apartment one OIL tne
lsH - Of London had h.; day has'uy ARISEN ana
F0'....od into the Peers Chamber making ul,~n IS
la,. Ia, A. the King took his seat Iheod \
h..deA the Speech from the Ihfone Do ipinu
sa.,;ljs in the gloom to distinguish one "ori rom
- lie called for lights Ike sensible man anu
snotna Commons had to wait some twenty m nutss
LfS o. ,.ere brought At lat the Sergeant at Arms
e". ~ ,.,b . psr of tallow candles in bed-chamber
~.,desticks and held them, while having first
,er,aees the King stumbled through the speech
P@.arun The scene was intensely ludcrous-quiie
"n - 9 the divinity that doth hedge King The
eA,. ,n,red /, over as best they could, but At was
H~,.d ON everywhere es very amusing natural AMI
,sairnifed affair.
t ,s Sovereign does not open or close the session IN
80 !. done BY commission, as on the recent occasion
", os.e the Speech is read by the Lord Chancellor
,.~,,blv Commissioner and it runs in the third
- ,lu,.l. instead Of the first person singular
81. however delivered is Immediately sent
-. he oountry by means Of the telegraph The Lon
s,s,I,o papers-Sun. Go6e and Sta~dard-receive
- comics Of il precisely at o'clock and the pubic
,.,d In these journals about the time the Queen
,,;.g home The curiosity to read the Speech Is sur
- II. purpot appears in the morning papers and
- ,,e knows that il viii give very little information
49, a. 10 The state Of public affair the plans and pro
80. n the Goyermenyet every one, year after year
80 turns to The Queens Speed" in search OF wha
.,,s,.pee night have told him the document would no
couisin -. AZ oo..:o, ,.ho,
"a Uo,ses Of Parliament assemble for the dispatch
W. ~. chancellor in the Lords and the Speaker in
a. c,,coo. reads the Speech aload for the ed6caon
o. us,nb,r, Why what has been only read should be
'.r.d 90 .oeeei" would puzzle even a Phiadclpha
kwyer
T. zach House after this is done, the custom has been to
- hot !. called an Address in which the Queen is
bunly thanked for Her Most Gracious Speech every
.sn,spce Of which is most literally echoed To secure
,,,,;mty-for amendments on the Address have some
times been carried by the Opposton-the speech mas az
Sx osgL as possible Framed the principle OF saying
a, little as can be- in a certain quantity OF sentences ana 10
rsssept the Invest imaginable points for objection IT has
sey happened of s:e years that an amendment TO the
Address has been carried Indeed any Administration
voud be considered hors de e0mba which had received
sueh blow at the very opening of the game
The movers and seconders Of the Addresses take the
speech for their text 1t has usually been communicated
m privately as has received the Queen pre-
vous sanction These gentlemen readily to DC noted IN
10Th Houses before they give tongue They always wear
ADOPTED. quainycut quakerke undress livery, with
A bag pinned behind rs make believe continuation of an
imaginary peruke and raper at the left side, continually
petipg between the legs Or civilian may wear the
Windsor uniform-which is blue coat with red collar and
cuffs Ike the dress Of twopenny postman If IN the
spy or navy the uniform OF either service is worn 1.-THE
mover or seconder be deputy lieutenant of county he
sports the blue and silver livery Of that rank The English
are remarkably fond Of military attire any dress convey
Ing the idea of being in the service OF the Crown
To obian patient hearing for the movers and se,onders
Of the Addresses the Minister usually selects them from out
Of bis youngest supporters from those who rarely speak
conventional act of courtesy when poor fellow, peer
or commoner is foundcrng through maiden speech
las is callcd not 10 laugh him down cough hun
down
The Addresses are curious Affairs IL thu speech should
vaguely mention that relations with foreign powers con
nue friendly the Addrcs grovey oongraulaes the Queen
On the cont nusnce of friendly relations with foreign powers
When the poech amenis the continuance of distress among
The hbne cassos the Address deploos that the lborag
essss uue to suffer distress 1.-THE speech dc lro the
hat hc se,ry of the penal laws must be increased or
may be tgeed the Address breathes sorrow for the
hanlnos or joy for the mldnoss thus held up 10 view
rsunly the motion that such Address be sont b.
til,r llo the leading politicians air their vocabulary
"a Lady Morgan said and the opposition complain it my
be Of the vogun Of the speech but seldom throw down
he gaun,i by moving amendments With n few erum-
bs both Addresses usually voted and presented 10 the
Queen who returns a most gracious answer by of
the officers OF her household TO the dutfu and loyal Ad
drss so ends the matter of the speech
The machinery of all this is curious and complicated
The drama is in Five Acts First the Minister taking his
precedent from former documents of that species cOncocts
. The Speech from the Throne Second the Queen is
obliged to adopt Speech not line of it being her
composition Third the Queen has TO read that Speech be
fore the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled
Fourth the Minister who has written the Speech also
writes the Addresses echong aud auding (which the
Lords and Commons adopt their own Fifth, the Queen
reurns answer to these Addrcssos which writ
len for bcr by the Minister who had previously composed
the Speech which she read and the Addresses which Para
nent voted Al this is curous-it is ludcrouS also. All
through it exhibits the Sovereign puppet in the
hands of the Misunderstanding to Parliament as her own
document which he had written receiving Addresses al
10 his composition, in reply TO that document returning an
which he had alo drawn up Great importance is
attached to all this in England If Peer or Commontr
should that Addresses in acknowledgment OF the
Queens Speech be sent he would be looked on at
Is dangerous revolutionary character.
An anccdo,e which is historical may to illus
irae the actual puppetsm liz wemay coin word in which
the British Sovereign is held by the Ministry Ii was tod
by Lord Brcugham of the dramais persona In 1881
when the Lords had summary destroyed the first Reform
hn presented to Parliament by Lord Grey Administration
much public discomfort arose, and the Cabinet determined
70 "hrow themselves on the country las it is term
ed by dissolution of the Parliament which had been
called together on King Williams accession, in 1880 A
general election it calculated would result so much
favor of the Reform Ministry that the Peers would no,
tse again to resist the popular determination obtain par
saen'ary reform AT that time the King very popu
A. on account of the presumed lberahy OF his opinions