Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1908 — The King's Speech. [ARTICLE]

The King's Speech.

A Lord Chancellor has been known to deliver the King’s speech much more effectively than hte sovereign could have done. On the other hand, George 111, on one occasion, told Lord Chancellor Eldon that he (the King) had made something out of nothing by the way he spoke it The speech that made the most noise, perhaps, was that provided for the 23d of June, 1831. The House of Lords was so full that the then Marquis of- Larsdowne “was afraid your Majesty won’t be able to see the Commons.” “Never mind,” the King of that day said, “they shall hear me, anyhow.” And he “thundered out the speech so that not a word of It was lost” The scramble from the Commons to the Lords to hear- the Royal -speech has become an established feature of the opening. So great was the crush on the occasion when Queen Victoria opened Parliament that Joseph Hume neither saw her Majesty nor heard her voice, although he was within touch of tat speaker. “I was knocked against a corner,” he said, “my, head being knocked against a post, and I might have been much injured if a stout member had not come to my assistance.” Dickens, who was present on a similar occasion a few years later, sadd that the speaker answered the .Royal summons like a schoolmaster with a mob of unmannerly boys at his heels; “He is propelled to the bar of the' House with the frantic fear of being knocked down and trampled upon by the rush of M. P.’s.”—Pall Mall Gazette.