For the second time in his as yet brief reign, King Edward has opened his Parliament in person; and we may hope, therefore, that in the coming years this regal ceremony is to be the rule, rather than the exception. The gorgeous, closed, gilt coach was again brought into requisition, drawn. by the eight cream-coloured Flemish horses; and the crowds that gathered along the Mall and Whitehall were rewarded with a striking pageant. That gilt state coach, by the way, will next. be used on the occasion of the Coronation; but for the great procession through London on the preceding day an open carriage of no less imposing design is in course of construction.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.