ENGLAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 324, 8 December 1855, Page 8

ENGLAND.

Parliament was prorogued on the 14th of August by a Royal Commission, consisting of the Lord Chancellor, tde Duke u| Argyll, the Earl of Harrowby, Ear! Granviile, and Lord .Stanley of AldeHey. The royal speech we hope to »ive in a future paper. Thk Quekn's Visif to Fuance.—At seven o'clock on Friday evening, Auj-ust 17th, her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Court, embarked on board the Victoria and Albert steamer, and started at daylight for Boulogne. The Emperor of the French arrived at Boulogne on the evening of Friday, August 17th' from Paris to receive and welcome the Queen of Fngiand on her arrival. His Imperial Majestj proceeded amidn the acclamations of the pw.ple, to the Imperial I avilion Hotel, and immediately presented hinisplf.aitended by Marshal Baraguay d'Hillier, on ihe balcony, and was greeted with vociferous cheers. The royal squadron of the British MHvy lying in the „(fi,,{,, fire( i a rova , sahue ()J) the hmperor's arrival, and U,e whole town is in a state of ihe most pleasurable excitement. A c-r-e^Mmdent of tl, e "Nonhern Daily limes writing undei dale of Aujrusi J3 says-_ llie Afonileur makes to-day the first official announcement of the visit of the Queen of Ungiainl. Her Mhj-mv, it appears, is to arrive "i lans abo,,t six o'clock in the evening of batnrday the 18th. Instead of s(oppi, lir llt " x \ ie I uileues, as it was at one time intended, she is

to proceed direct .from the railway staiiim to St. Cloud, taking the Bouveiards, the Rue Royal ihi' Place de !a Concord, the Champs Elysees' the Bois tie Boulogne, and the Bridge of s7. Cloud. You are mvare that troops and National" Guards me to line both sides of the roud this immense distance. The Constitniionnel s»"s thai the National Guards of the department and of the adjacent towns and villages for miles around Paris, are, in compliance with their request, to he allowed to take part with the National Gnaid and gvrrison of Paris in forming the lines. Municipalities and deputations of different public bodies, and the axps of workmen have also obtained permission to figure with their flags a»d banners in the proceedings of the day. At Paris subscriptions are being raised by the Bth National Guard for erecting triumphant arches, Ye. I have seen an official programme of the fetrs to be given to her Majesty ; it is printed, but not published. It says that (as I have already told you) Sunday is to be passed in repose, and the dinner to lie given on that day is entered as a repax defamilxe. That is with the Emperor and Empress, without ceremony. Perhaps in the evening there will be "a little music" un peu de musique. Ot^ Monday morning early, the Queen will visif? the exhibition of the Fine Arts, and will lunch" at the Elysee. The day of the feie for Versailles is not fixed. On the day of the Hall jit the Hotel de Ville the Queen is to dine at the Tuileries. Prince Albert is on one day to visit the Exhibition alone, in order to inspect it in a business like way. The programme terminates by announcing the departure of the Queen for Monday morning, the 27th. The Z-'Uaves of the Imperial Guard are to have the honour of guarding the palace of St. Cloud during her Majesty's stay. The salon of the Qieen in the Palace is an exact imitation of her favourite one at Windsor Castle, and after her departure it is to remain unchanged. You may judge of the manner in which St. Cloud is being fined up, from the fact that the expeuce of the Queen's private apartments alone will be (as I am as-sim-d) not less than £16,000. The obituary includes the names of General Sir "Richard Bourke, X.C.8., formerly Governor of New South Wales, the Duke of Somerset, General Pepe, Mr. Patrick Park, a well-known sculptor, and Mr. Selwvn, the father of the Bishop of New Zealand. The Home News says :— Mr. Selwtn.—This eminent lawyer died at rtmljriiljre Wells last" week, ajied 81. Ec was first chancellor medallist in St. John's Cambridge, in 1797 ; was called to the bar in 1807, and twenty years afterwards became a Queen's Counsel. His work, "Selwyn's Nisi Prius," it is needless to say, has been for years one of the standard legal authorities, and its laiesi edition is d.dicated to Prince Albert, who, shortly after becoming a resident of this country, read constitutional history with Mr. Selwyu". He was a member of the family <»r the celebrated George Selwvn the wit, He leaves two sons, one an eminent member of (he chancery bar, another the Bishop of New Zealand. '' *