Parliament was
opened yesterday by the Queen in person. The military parade, turnout of royal
equipages, and assemblage of Peers, Peeresses, Bishops, and Judges, were
unusually imposing. The speech was fuller and clearer than common. The
paragraph devoted to the United States was uttered as if really felt, though I
certainly did not do what some of the newspapers allege,—nod my head with an
expression of misgiving as to a “satisfactory adjustment."
"Serious
differences have arisen among the States of the North American Union. It is
impossible for me not to look with great concern upon any events which can
affect the happiness and welfare of a people nearly allied to my subjects by
descent, and closely connected with them by the most intimate and friendly
relations. My heartfelt wish is that these differences may be susceptible of a
satisfactory adjustment.
"The interest
which I take in the well-being of the people of the United States cannot but be
increased by the kind and cordial reception given by them to the Prince of
Wales during his recent visit to the continent of America."
Went to the Commons
at eight o'clock, and witnessed the first scene of what I cannot but regard,
for the existing government, as an inauspicious breach, on reform, between Lord
John Russell and Mr. Bright. The motion was to amend the reply to the speech by
a clause as to the omission of that topic. Forty-six, in a thin house, voted
for it.
SOURCE: George
Mifflin Dallas, Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, While United States
Minister to Russia 1837 to 1839, and to England 1856 to 1861, Volume 3, p.
433-4
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