Letter from London

Parliament Enters the Last Lap

The politicians reassembled at Westminster with the date of the next election still quite uncertain; but nobody doubts that the present Parliament has entered the last lap. This knowledge added extra piquancy to the splendor of the occasion as the Queen, with a jingling escort of cavalry, rode in her coach to the Palace of Westminster, where she put on the heavy jewelled crown, took her seat on the throne and summoned her “faithful lords and commons” about her to hear “the most gracious Speech.”