NEWS OF TIIE WEEK
THE Session terminated on Tuesday with the usual Queen's Speech. Nothing having been accomplished this Session, there was very little to say, but Her Majesty "has seen with deep regret the present condition of Poland," and "trusts that the stipulations of 1815 will be carried into execution," regrets the civil war between "the Northern and Southern States of the North American Union," mentions that the Ionian Islands are to be ceded, hopes that the Japanese Government will do justice with- out coercion, has no wish that the estrangement between' Brazil and Great Britain should continue, and alludes to Lan- cashire distress as "that unfortunate state of things," to the slave trade as "that most disgraceful crime," and to India as " those extensive regions." Altogether, the Message is a little more slipshod than usual, and the only noteworthy fact about it is an omission. Her Majesty has not been advised to say that she is on good terms with all her allies.
