30 JANUARY 1841, Page 10

The Journal des Debats of Thursday is the only Paris

paper that contains our Queen's Speech on the opening of Parliament. The omis- sion of all mention of France is thus noticed- " In the paragraph of the Queen's Speech which concerns the relations of Great Britain with the Foreign Powers, there is no mention made of the name of France. This is a fact which we have not the slightest intention of dissi- mulating. We accept this silence without exaggeration, as also without di- minishing its signification. This kind of international courtesy ought to be entirely free: we have no right to claim it, and we have neither the right nor the temptation to complain of its omission."

The French Funds declined in consequence of the unfavourable im- pression produced by the Speech. The reports of the debates on it had not then reached Paris.