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DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1999.
VJEKTEDİRMEN
OPENING PARLIAMENT.
HISTORIO ASSEMBLY.
My lords, pray be seated," the King said, and there were moments of waiting for the House of Commons. Many must have remembered then other days ou 600 years and mare since the which they waited to hear
a King's Palace of Westminster Esst received a Speech on the matter of Ireland. Side by side on, the cross bonshes sat two Parliament. But when Edward 'sveterans of Irish politics, umquhile Chief estates of the Realm gathered together. in 1915 the Irish question was already old. In the mellow, dark walls of the modera chamber of the House of Lords
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Kings and Queens. For most of those in that long array the conflict and the bond between Great Britain and Ireland madh some of the hardest enigmas of sovereignty. Norman and Plantagenet. Tudor and Stuart, all in their turn atrove to make some order out of chaos in the relations between the Islands, to establish some system that would endure. If we think of those effigies bearing witness to what the statesmanship of their day achieved, we must recall efforts to build up feudal polity, appeals from Ireland for union with England and from Eng land for the treatment of Irrand as separate State, Ireland with her own legislature, Ireland, incorporated in United Kingdom, and a whole century of affort not always timely it may be. not always wise, to make the Ireland of the Union peaceful and prosperous. It is seventy years and more. Lords first met in their present chamber. in the history of their House inco" that time stand the records of many a great pitched battle fought over legislation for ireland. Church billa., land bills, Home Bule bills, each in its passing or rejection momentous for our politics.
Bince
the
Secretary and Lord Lieutenant, Viscount Not only they must have thought of" old Bryce and the Marquis of Aberdeen. unhappy far-off things and battles long gue," of many a speech from the throne of Parliament. But some, perhaps, re- membered most clearly speech from King Goargo himself a few months before the war broke out. It is my most goodwill and co-operation of men of SHANGHAI carnest wish, be said then, that the
Parties and creeds may heal dissension and lay the foundations of a lasting settlement.
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The Speaker stood at the bar, and behind him the Prime Minister and Mr. Cabinet and the House of Commons. Asquith and other members of the The King took a copy of his speech train the Lord Chanceller. His voice through the House. There was no mis- taking the emphasis, with which he spoke of his heartfelt joy" the agreement it may and theatrife of centuries." reached, and his garnest hope that spech only of four sentences bag there BANGKOK TIENTSIN
has been only one in our time with sa good message. that which told of vic
After seven years the tary and peace. King's wish of 1914 comes near to realisäs
The Th Cion
goodwill and co-operation of men all parties and creeds" for which he appealed has made the agreement of 1$21. To all its centuries our Parlia. ment has never heard a King speak this of Ireland and her future.
IN THE ROYAL GALLERY.
The King and Queen, ön arriving at the Victoria flower entrance, had been received by the Lord Great Chamberlain, and were escorted to the Royal Rohing Room. The seroke of twelve had passed when when the great doors as the hend of the apartment were thrown open. vole rang out "The King!" and a
Waiting there in the half-light for the opening of one more session of Parlin ment Yummoned to deal with the Irish question, no. mind could avoid such memories. The grave pomp of the Hous of Lords is indeed apt to stir reflection on the past, to suggest that our Parlia ment and our commonwealth are things of government. The Gothic apendour of of organic growth. not mere machinery the chamber may be the Gothic of yeste terday, but it has the spirit of reality in its it interprets the high seriousness of the ages in which our fashioned into a nation.
MASSESS OF SCARLET.
race wis
are of trumpets resounded through emalda fading, and after them came the Royal Gallery. Immediately the pro- began to move at slow pace, the members of the suite and efficials of the Royal Husehold. and Norray and Charenceux Kings of Arms. Mr. Cham berlain (the Lord Privy Seal) and Vis count Birkenhead (Lord Chancellor) were thy two Minister in the procession. It was always a picturesque sight to Garer King of Arms, alone, and other watch the assembly Of peers and +flicials preceded the Deputy Earl presses for the ceremonial of the Marshal (Viscount Fitz.Wlas), and the King's Proceeding to Parliament." The Great Chamberlain walking back! sombreness of the years of war, the gloom wards before their Majesties, in front of of Court mourning in the past, may have whom the Sword of State was carried made the eye mare keen for the glow of by the Earl of Crawford and Balears. colour. But surely it is long since the House of Lorda zaw 80 many robes of scarlet and ermine, so brave an array of ladies gowns and jewels. Long before the coming of the King, much earlier than custom was, many a plate on the red benches was taken. Noble lords and indies were never so zalons in their at tenance The er: 38.
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The splendour of the scene was com. pee when the crowned King appeared, the Queen. also growned at his side Hoth had assume their robes of State. hordered with ermine, the roles upheld by four Pages of Honour, one of whom was the young Earl of Erne His Majesty held the hand of his Consort Low" must bowing to, right and left. they passed the a ensiderable in: the peeresses ere.l
of the Royal Gallery. After cam were gathered on either side till even in Process Mary, walking aloue, ayuth- the half-light the air glittered with fal figure, and the centre of all interrat. jewels. But though diamonds be magni- but in the erasmatadees of a State cre- ficent, though the colour and fashion of monial vocal demonstrations of welcome frocks be rare, it is the robes of the peers had to be rigorously eschewed, and the. which must dominate the scene. There
their Majesties and the no contending with masses of scariat.
s necessarily restricted The very
splendours of foreign diplo-curtsic and bows. With stately step the mntists, however, exotic, are lost against procession, moved on, filling the length of the glow of red, and even the wigs and the Royal Gallery with a blaze of black and gold of the law or the sclero pleadant calour, its last figures wing simplicity of the American Ambassador's Caval and military officers of the Churt evening dress are hardly seen.
and Court officials.
to
Only a few minutes had passed when the head of the procession was seen re- turning, an indication to all who waited. that the King'a Speech bad been un- usually brief. In the order that they entered. the officers of State esented
It is the ritual that the lights must go down before the entry of the King's pro- cession. The sudden dwindling to twi- light make ranks of scarlet seem closer. Hardly an empty place is to be seen on all the beaches and it is whispered that never were more in the House for tuchtheir Majesties back to the Robing Room, ceremonial. The gentlemen of the Com and as they left the Palic of Westmins mon are also early, for at the bar and
er the booming of the saluting guns in in their gallery they mustered betimes, St. James's Park could be heard.Daily, though as House they are not present Telegraph. till summoned on the coming of the King. In the twilight the murmur of conversation rises londer, to be bushed on a sudden as the lights glow faintly orang red, the signal that the Royal
procession is near.
Through the doors on either side the Throne are seen the white plumed hel- mets of the Gentlemen-at-Arms.
slowly
WEATHER REPORT.
incrassat considerably from the Benius to January 31st at 11.29-Prosure has Vixdiv stock and slightly fom, Formes to Haiphong
The northern anticyclone is probably mov-
coloury move before them, and Gaying eastward, leavin; a separate multicyclone into the chamber conus the pursuivants over Chip
and heralds The tabards bend as they make obeisance to the Throne, and past by to the other side. Uniforms of scar- let and gold and dark bine follow. Then Mr. Austen Chamberlain is seen in the unfamiliar, guise of the Lord Privy Seni, he takes "of the
and with the Lord Chancellore, Ac
his stand to the right" the same moment through the door on the other side came a girlish figure in a simp' 'ght gown. I was Princes Mary, alone, and she stood by her chair na the Queen's left hand. When last the King me to the House of Lords the Prince of Wales, too, had his chair by the Throne. To-day the Duke of York sat among the peers.
SYMBOLS OF THE HEALS
J
the
monsoon may be expected 'ong cos't of Chica and fresh monsoon over the northern portion of the N. China Sea.
Total
uding at 10 am, today, -0.12 inch,
Hongkong Runfall for the 24 hours
since Jansky hit 206 inches, smart, an Lverage of 1.4 inches..
The forecast for the 24 hours, on fing, ab ason to ding is sa follows-
Dixon
Engkong to Gap Bock ..
FORECAST
N.E. Ang moderating some I drizzle or mist. The same as..
No 1
Formosa Channel Soulb coat of Chips between The same
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The following are comprised in the Company's Fleet :—
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TEN BY:OM BIDEID CONS Twenty steamera of about 9,100 tons deadweight exch Two steamers of about 6400 tons deadweight "sach ** (Belonging to the Kawinkt Doskyard: On, LPK)-
.HONGKONG TIDE TABLE
From let to 7th Febranry, 1921.
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It was a happy chance that the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland should walk in the King's procession. Not by right of that office, but as Deputy Earl-Marshal Vis- count Fitzalan took his place beside the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Marquis of Lincolnshire. The Sword of State wor çorried before the King by the Earl of Crawford, and the Cap of Maintenance by the Earl of Lytton, and when their Majesties were sented these two aucient emblerns of State were held on either side the Throne. The lights blared out with the coming of the King, flashing upon the historic jewels in his crown and Wel. 1 the broad ribbon of the Garter op the
Not mere treasures of Thur ylendour, those famous stones: not in- struments of pomp, but symbols of the Fri. life and deeds of the realm, for the phire of Edward the Confesor glows
Satur Eere, the ruby of Agineourt, the Indian
San. gem, the Kob-in-noor. a star of that great diamond which the Dominion of South Africa Ave to the Sovereign of the Empire. To write the names is to suggest the story of the making of Eng- land. and the growth of the English realm into a Commonwealth of nations
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