POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
The coming session is felt to be of such importance that an unusual degree of internist attaches to the forms which precede the opening of Parliament on Thursday next. The Cabinet Councils, one of which was, held on Wednesday, and another is summoned for this day, are watched as if the simple announcement of the names could help the reader to guess at something of the momentous affairs that are discussed—possibly the Russian missive may be before them today. The full-dress Parlia- mentary dinners, given by Earl Granville and Lord Palmerston for their respective Houses on Wednesday next, are in like manner announced as if they meant something. The circular from Lord Palmerston, urging the attendance of Members, since "public business of great importance will be brought forward without delay after Parliament has met," is felt to be more real than usual, since the business will be important, and party will be waiting to snatch its opportunities. The address will be moved in the House of Lords by the Earl of Gosford, heir to a name in the public service, and seconded by the Earl of Abingdon, dim the Liberal Conservative Lord Norreys of the Commons. In the House of Commons, the address will be moved by the Honourable G. H. C. Byng, and seconded by Mr. W. E. Baxter, the Members for Tavistock and Montrose. The Liberal aris- tocracy and the manufacturing aristocracy are well represented ; although it is rather unusual to choose two borough Members for the occasion, in- stead of one Member from the counties and one from the boroughs. It ilaS been apparent that Ministers have for some time been anxious to get hold of Mr. Baxter, a rising young man of the practical order, who is in
no haste to commit future prospects to party. But most important of all, though still usual, the Queen has signified her intention of opening the Parliament in person.
We have reason to believe that, according to the precedents of 1814 and 1816, when Lord Castlereagh, who was then Foreign Secretary, as- sisted at the negotiations at Vienna and Paris, Lord Clarendon will re- resent Great Britain at the conferences, which will probably be held at Prankfort after the preliminaries of peace are signed. Baron Brunow, and Count Orloff, will, it is said, appear on the part of Russia.—Times, Jan. 26. The Paris correspondent ef ,the Times says-7" It is asserted that the French Goverentent had Pwiiptill Lon4Q4 al& the „scat of the Conferences, but that the English Cabinet prefikred they. should, he -held at Paris ; and that Russia has selected Baron Brunow as her plenipotentiary, hav- ing first ascertained that the aelection met with-no objection on the part of Prance and England."
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