10 FEBRUARY 1866, page 1

In Her Speech The Queen Informed The Houses That She

had consented to the marriage of the Princess Helena with " Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg," and then repeated the usual formal statements about......

The Commons Devoted Themselves Still More Exclusively To...

subject. In the Lords, Jamaica had been mentioned, and Reform, but in the Commons member after member rose to de- nounce the apathy of Government as to cattle. The drift of all......

In The Lords, Where The Marquis Of Normanby Worked Pain-

fully through the Address, with a long and painful suspense of animation just as he got to the Cattle Plague, evidently fearing to take the bull by the horns, and the Earl of......

The Behaviour Of The Commons, When Summoned To Hear The

Speech, appears to have been even more indecorous than usual. It is the custom when the rush has begun to leave the Speaker and the leader of the House some little law, but this......

News Of Tie Week,

T HE QUEEN opened Parliament on Tuesday, and sat upon the State robe (which had been spread on the throne), but not in it, —the Princesses filially drawing a little of it round......