ense of the sterling and amiable qualities of the departed monarch.
Lord Melbourne lamented the loss of a most gracious master, and
said that the world had lost a man of the best intentions, the most
uncompromising honour, and the strictest integrity. After adverting
to the naval education of the late king, to the part which he had
occasionally taken in the debates of that house, Lord Melbourne moved
an address of condolence to her majesty upon the death of the late king,
and of congratulation upon her accession to the throne. This was carried
unanimously. Another proposition also was carried with unanimity, to the
effect that an address of condolence be sent to her majesty the
queen dowager, assuring her majesty of the sympathy which the house
entertained for her loss. Lord John Russell brought the same message to
the commons, moving a similar address in reply.

BILL FOR PROVIDING THE SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN.

A bill for providing for the contingency of another demise of the crown
was brought into the upper house by the lord chancellor on the 3rd
of July. Its object was to make provision for the carrying on of the
executive government, in such an event, during the possible absence of
the heir presumptive from the country. The bill provided that certain
great officers of state, namely, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
lord-chancellor, the lord-treasurer, the president of the council, the
lord privy seal, the lord high admiral, and the chief-justice of
the Queen's Bench at the time being respectively, should act as
lords-justices, to exercise all the powers and authorities of the
successor of the crown, as a king would exercise them at present, until
his arrival in the kingdom, or until he should otherwise order. The bill
also provided that the heir presumptive to the throne might at any time
deposit a list--which list was revocable at pleasure--of such persons as
he might appoint to act with such justices, and to be considered as part
of them; and the persons named in that list were to exercise, in common
with the lords already named, the functions of royalty, until the
successor to the throne should otherwise determine. By another provision
in the bill, however, the powers of the lords-justices were restricted
to those only which were necessary to carry on the government of the
country. They were not to have the power of dissolving parliament; nor
of creating peers; nor of giving the royal assent to any bill alt