5 SEPTEMBER 1931, Page 12

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 3RD, 1831.

THE KING AND ass COURT.

Next week will break in upon the sober routine of peaceful enjoyment which their Majesties have indulged in for some weeks past. The Coronation over, they will quit town for the season. The summer of the capital trenches for the most part on autumn, but this year it bids fair to encroach on winter. So much for the pertinacity of the Commons ; from which, as in many other acts of human error, the authors are, after all, likely to suffer least. When the Reform Bill has gone to the Upper House, the members of the Lower will doubtless hasten to join their master ; but as for the Lords—Lord knows when they'll get away