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On Tuesday the King opened Parliament in State.

His Speech was short, for the Government have had (if we may borrow from Punch's amusing cartoon of last week) to throw overboard some important Jonahs. Of these we chiefly regret the Factories Bill, for which we have long been waiting. - A Parliamentary and Local Franchise Bill is promised, a Bill to carry out recommenda- tions of the Royal Commission on National -Health Assurance and another for Agricultural Credits. The Speech also referred to the new Arbitration Treaty with the United States. The movers and seconders of the address acquitted themselves well. They said what there is to be said for the extension of the female Register. Lord Cranworth in the Upper House drew a most dismal picture of East Anglian agriculture.

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