commonly known by the name of the house and window duties, which has been so loudly and so justly demanded, will be laid before you. I regret, however, that from the position of our foreign relations, the unavoidable expense of our armed neutralities by sea and land, the additional subsidies due to the King of the Belgians, and the large grants made by the last Parliament for the restoration of freedom in the West Indies, the relief which you will be enabled to afford, will be more in the form of an efficient and energetic collection of this great source of revenue, than of a diminution of the burdens of the people.

The relief afforded to the agriculturist by the repeal of the duties on tiles, and which gave such universal satisfaction to all classes of my subjects, has been attended with such a diminution of the income of last year, that a new duty on isinglass, madder, and other articles of foreign growth, must be submitted for your consideration. The extensive and active use of vitriolic acid, as shewn by the criminal annals of the country, particularly in the manufacturing districts, and the importance of adhering to the approved principles of a general free trade, will, in all probability, make it advis able to propose the total exemption from duty of that important article of commerce.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

The permanent welfare, and immediate necessary alterations of the state of the United Church of England and Ireland, will occupy a large portion of your attention. Measures of a subversive nature perfectly compatible with the security of that establishment, will, with my fullest approbation, be proposed for your unqualified adoption.

With respect to the Church of Scotland, whose privileges, on my accession to the throne, it was my first act to confirm, by solemn oath, the universal dissatisfaction so loudly expressed, particularly by the dissenting population in that part of the kingdom, on account of their exclusion from all share

in the nomination of the clergy, renders it an imperative duty upon me, with the view of extinguishing that clamour, and the evil of patronage generally, to resume directly, as my advisers have lately done indirectly, the uncontrolled right which, as head of the church, I enjoy of appointing all the parochial ministers at pleasure.

In a firm reliance on your implicit adoption, as in last Parliament, of such measures generally as I shall direct to be laid before you, I recommend to you to continue energetically your arduous labours for the preservation of the rights of the Crown, the privileges of both Houses of Parliament as by law unalterably established, and the advancement of the public weal.*

In the Age Newspaper, February 2, 1834, occurs "a King's speech as it ought to be spoken."

Feb. A.D. 1834. "When, in the exercise of those powers which GOD and the Law had entrusted to me, I called you together in this place, I looked upon you as those to whom the hopes and happiness of the great people which I govern were directed and confided. I think it to be my duty to speak the truth with plainness, though it should sound unpleasantly in your ears. You have neither fulfilled those hopes nor consulted that happiness. And yet you have been fairly tried. had no hinderance from me in the performance of that work for which I called you together. You have suffered no impediment to useful councils from any disorderly impatience of my people. And yet, though you have been sitting for eight months, you have done little indeed, that I can hear of, for their benefit, and nothing for my honour. I will not trust myself to speak of your own.

You have

"Since the prorogation of your sitting, some amongst you, whom I had invested with offices of government, have aggravated the proofs of your and their own incapacity, by weak attempts at pirated exculpations.

"Indeed I have been rather hardly used. I was instructed that a new model of representation was necessary, that the voice of my people might be heard in your assembly. Even against the advice of some who had proved themselves, in arduous times, the faithful servants of this people, I consented to this change. Nor will I yet believe that I was in error. But the voice of my people is not for idle wranglings, wasteful debates, profligate expenses, dishonourable treaties, irreligious practices, and broken vows. Your own consciences will tell you,-and I see by your faces that they do tell you,-how grievously you have done amiss. I send you to My conscience is concerned not to suffer a repetition of this evil. the people for their sentence. I turn to them, for whose good alone I desire, or have the right to govern, to send men to Parliament better fitted by birth and

XXX.

THE KING'S SPEECH FROM THE AGE.

Having goven the King's speech, as promulgated in Scotland, it may be not out of place to give the English version, as contained in the Age Newspaper, 2 February 1834. Both fetions are excellent in their way.

On Tuesday next, the KING-GOD bless him!—or, in his name, certain Commissioners, on whom we shall not throw our blessing away, will make a speech to the Congregated Wisdom of Lords and Commons. The KING himself will have nothing to do with the composition of this piece of oratory, and therefore it is now an established rule that it may be dealt with as we please, without any fear of offending his MAJESTY.

We do not pretend to have a seat in the present Cabinet— we never did—and yet we have sometimes got hold of a Cabinet secret or two. We are too prudent to give a hint how we obtained our information—but it may be relied on. We feel it just, however, to say that it does not come to us through LORD BROUGHAM-he writes for another newspaper. Whoever our informant is, he has this time supplied us with

education than the greater part of you,-better fitted by energy of mind, and uprightness of purpose, to cause the great changes which have been made work together for the good of the nation, and the increasing prosperity of all my subjeets.

Finally, I do not desire to speak harshly even to you. Some consideration is due to your untoward situations. Many of you have been sent unawares to a task for which you were not fitted, there is, therefore, much excuse to be made why you have been found unable to perform it. Such may yet do well in a private sphere of life,-only beware of making engagements in future which you are unequal to perform. In mercy to yourselves and your poor families, I will not suffer you any longer to work your own ruin. In mercy to the nation, I tell you to depart. And now, in the hope that my people may henceforth be fully and fairly represented in Parliament, and that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us, and in humble reliance on the Divine blessing, I do dissolve this Parliament."

a draft of the Speech to be delivered on Tuesday next—and we lose no time in communicating it to our readers. It will run as follows:

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

Every thing, both at home and abroad, is in the most flourishing and prosperous condition. Greatly are we respected by the Foreign Powers; and our domestic state is such as to excite general envy and emulation. I am happy to inform you that the Grey family have divided among them fifteen new places since I last addressed you. It is a sign of the proud state of the kingdom, when we find merit such as theirs so acutely discerned, and so liberally rewarded.*

* In the subjoined brief abstract of the King's Speech for the preceding year, February 5, 1833, the reader will find a notice of the number of the Grey Family that had at that date been provided with places.

"The King's Speech will be delivered, perhaps, by his Majesty on Tuesday. "His Majesty will have to say, that the West Indies are in a state of anarchythat all the colonies are distracted-and that a dismemberment of Ireland from the empire is in immediate contemplation.

"His Majesty will have to say, that the finances do not meet the expenditure, and that bankruptcies are increasing in a tenfold ratio. He may congratulate his hearers on the fact that the funds are high, adding as a reason that there is no other way of employing capital.

"His Majesty may report for the amusement of the assembled Houses, that five or six murders a day take place in Ireland; and read over the evidence on the Factory Bill, as a picture of the state of the manufacturers of England. As Mr. John Marshall of Leeds-Mr. John Marshall, of Leeds, the factory-man-Mr. John Marshall of Leeds, who defeated Michael Sadler-is to second the address, he will have an opportunity of communicating to the House some interesting facts within his own cognizance relative to this part of the Speech.

"His Majesty will have to inform the Houses, that the King of the Belgians is on the best terms with the King of France-that Antwerp and all Belgium belong to the French-that Turkey is in the hands of Russia-and that Lord Palmerston has been humbugged by Talleyrand.

"His Majesty will congratulate the Parliament on containing eight O'Connells, one Cobbett, one Walter, one Gully, one Buckingham, one Whittle Harvey, and a fair proportion of blacklegs. He will regret the absence of Serjeant Wilde, Mr. Hunt, Dr. Bowring, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Wakely, Mr. Thos. Duncombe, Mr. Long Wellesley, and a few others, who would have been ornaments to the Senate, but who are now excluded, and some of whom are on board the Calais packet.

My august brother, King Louis Philippe, continues to be seated on that throne which he so worthily won by the aid of the newspaper scribes, whom he is now putting into jail by dozens—and of the respectable canaille, who are starving by thousands. His Most Christian Majesty has added no small quantity to his private wealth by the success of his new Houses in the Palais Royal, where the recreation and the population of his country are so carefully attended to—and by his judicious investments in the pawnbroking line. It is a happy thing for a nation to have a Monarch who directs his attention with so much assiduity to what is useful and what is agreeable.

The Queen of Spain is, personally, as well as can be expected; and if Zea Bermudez is turned off, Martinez de la Rosa reigns in his stead. Martinez is the author of a tragedy, in which circumstance he much resembles our esteemed Paymaster of the Forces, Lord John Russell,* and if the tragedy of the Spanish Minister has been performed with applause, while that of the First Father of Reform, and the Second Son of the Duke of Bedford, has been consigned to the care of the trunk-makers and pastry-cooks, it proves that our Minister is better pleased in promoting the useful trades of his country, than in contributing to its frivolous enjoyments. The present state of Spain is such as to give pleasure to all well-regulated minds; for there can be found every possible variety of political opinion in active operation; and it is an agreeable reflection for the friends of Constitutional Monarchies to make, that the party which espouses their cause is so nicely placed, that if it succeeds in overthrowing the Carlists, it must fall beneath the hands of the Jacobins ; and if it crushes the Jacobins, it must infallibly yield to the Carlists.

"His Majesty will felicitate the Greys on their having got twenty-seven of their family into placc—but his Majesty will not speak the two hours' speech written for him by Lord Brougham.

"Next Sunday we dissect the oration according to old custom."

His Lordship was the author of a prosaic stupid play on the subject of Don Carlos.