to
the Palace. In fact, it was, for a considerable time, a scene of
indescribable confusion. Arrangements had been made, by orders of the
Earl Marshal, for the places at which the carriages of those who had to
take part in the procession were to set down and take up; but, owing to
the immense number of the carriages, the ignorance of many of the
coachmen as to the prescribed regulations, and the obstinacy of others,
the rules very soon became a dead letter, and every man seemed disposed
to take his own way. This, as might be expected, caused such confusion
that it was long past midnight before anything like order was restored.
There were smashed panels and broken windows in abundance, but no serious
accidents were recorded.

The Queen soon had plenty of business on her hands, and on 30th June she
gave her assent to forty Bills, one of which (a remarkably short one),
the 7 Gul., iv. and i. Vic., c. 23, enacted: "That from and after the
passing of this Act, Judgment shall not be given and awarded against any
Person or Persons convicted of any Offence that such Person or Persons do
stand in, or upon the Pillory." Owing to the recent change in
Sovereigns, there were a few slips in "Her Majesty," and "La Reine le
veult." On the 13th July the Queen and her mother left Kensington Palace
and took up their residence in Buckingham Palace. On the 17th, the Queen
dissolved Parliament in person, dressed in white satin, decorated with
gold and jewels, wearing the Order of the Garter and a rich diadem and
necklace of diamonds. She bore the function remarkably well, although
one evening paper said that "Her emotion was plainly discernible in the
rapid heaving of her bosom, and the brilliancy of her diamond stomacher,
which sparkled out occasionally from the dark recess in which the throne
was placed, like the sun on the swell of the smooth ocean, as the billows
rise and fall"! On the 19th July she held her first levee, and on the
20th her first drawing room.

Having dutifully chronicled the doings of Royalty, let us do the same by
meaner folk. On 24th June, Mr. Moses Montefiore, the celebrated Jewish
philanthropist, who lived over one hundred years, was elected Sheriff of
London, and, on the 9th Nov. following, he received the honour of
Knighthood. He was the first Jew who ever served the office of Sheriff,
or who had been made a Knight, in England.

Of course, there were no Board Schools in those days, and education was
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