THE QUEEN'S SPEECHES IN PARLIAMENT. From Her Accession to the Present Time. A COMPENDIUM OF THE HISTORY OF HER MAJESTY'S REIGN EDITED AND COMPILED BY F. SIDNEY ENSOR, AUTHOR OF THROUGH NUBIA TO DARFOOR." W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE. S.W. THE QUEEN'S SPEECHES IN PARLIAMENT. PARLIAMENT I.-SESSION I. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT BY HER MAJESTY IN PERSON. Date.-November 20th, 1837. The Cabinet.-First Lord of the Treasury, Viscount Melbourne; Lord Chancellor, Lord Cottenham; President of the Council, Marquess of Lansdowne; First Lord of the Admiralty, Earl of Minto; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lord Holland; Lord of the Privy Seal and First Commissioner of Land Revenue, Viscount Duncannon; Home Secretary, Lord John Russell; Foreign Secretary, Viscount Palmerston ; Colonial Secretary, Lord Glenelg; President of the Board of Control, Sir John Cam Hobhouse; Secretary at War, Viscount Howick; President of the Board of Trade, Right Hon. Charles Poulett Thomson; Chancellor of the Exchequer, Right Hon. Spring Rice. The Queen's Speech. My Lords and Gentlemen, I have thought it right to assemble you for the transaction of public business at the earliest convenient period after the dissolution of the last Parliament. |