18 NOVEMBER 1837, Page 5

The swearing in of Members of the House of Commons

goes on rather slowly; only about four hundred have as yet taken the oaths. The official gentlemen are hugging themselves with the notion that there will be little business done before Christmas, and no dangerous divisions. If there is little business, the Queen was scarcely justified in summoning Parliament to meet on the 15th November, on the pretence that 1, divers urgent and important affairs" required "despatch."