The KING who succeeds to the Throne of the The KENG who succeeds to the Throne of the United Kingdom by the death of his revered and beloved mother was summoned yesterday, by the imperative call of duty, from the house of mourn- ing to meet his Council in the capital of his Empire. At 2 o'clock there assembled in St. James's Palace a large body of Privy Councillors-Ministers and ex-Ministers, and other distinguished persons, including, by an ex- ceptional arrangementusual on sueh occasions, the LORD MAYOR and Aldermen of the City of London. There the usual oaths and declarations securing the laws and customs of the realm were presented by the LORD CHANoFLonR and sworn to by the Monarch. The KING, who had been welcomed on his arrival by people of aU ranks with all the evidences of loyal devotion, chastened, how- ever, by the grief that hangs over the nation, bore himself, it need hardly be said, with aU the dignity that belongs to his high place. He showed his perception of the gravity of the task that lies before him as well as his sense of the loss of her who had so well discharged those arduous functions during two generations. What he said is not given in the official account of the proceedings, though it appears that it has been made ready for publication, bat there can be no doubt, from the concurrent authority of many present, as to its substance. In a few well- chosen and impressive sentences, the KING, after expressing his resolve to be guided by the noble example of his mother, declared that he intended to assume the style of KiNG EDWARD VII., so as not, in any way, to challenge comparison with the unique position of his illustrious father, who will be known in history as " ALBEnT the GOOD." We cannot doubt that this decision is wise and that it will be popular. Albert is a foreign name, and it has hardly been, even now, quite naturalized in these kingdoms, notwith- standing the universal recognition of the noble qualities of the PRINCE CONSORT and the universal sympathy with the reverent affection bestowed upon him by the gracious SOVEREIGN whom we have just lost. Edward is a good old English name, interwoven with our history for ten centuries, and the KrNG,in whose veins the blood of our,old Monarchs flows, has every right to use it. It was borne by his grandfather, the DuEx of KENT, but it belongs to the Royal Family by a much earlier title. A thousand years ago the first EDWARD who bore rule in England ascended the Throne, on the death, in 901, of his father, the great KrNG ArRnED. The name became still more memorable in the annals of the Saxon Monarchy when it was borne, at a later day, by the saintly King who was known as the CoNrEsson. Prom that source the name was brought into the great House of the Plantagenets, for the pious HENpr mI. was glad to bestow it upon his son, after- wards one of the greatest of our rulers, in memory of the founder of Westminster Abbey. EDwARD I., the " English JUSNIoAN," the "H Hammer of "the Scots," was as unlike the:CoNFEsson as could be imagined, and though the strain weakened in his unfortunate son, the flrst " PRINCE of WALES," it revived in EDWARD Im. and in EDWARD the Br}AE PBINCE, the idol of his countrymen and the paragon of chivalry. Again the name was illustrated in tbe reign of EDWARD TV., a ruler of singular capacity, who changed not only the dynasty, but the policy, of the kingdom by his strong will. His son died too young, the victim of treacherous ambition, to show even a promise .of Dower. .When the name ri:aDDeAred in the only son of HsENY VIII., the promise was 'visible, but it was blighted too early. Yet EDWARDVI., though he was not yet 17 when he died, left his mark on the history of his country during the Reformation, and the controversies in the Church of England during his short reign are still related with those of the present day. The name which the :ING has assumed thus takes us back step by step to the most critical periods in the development of the English nation, to the Reformation, to the Wars of the Roses, to the " Hundred Years' WVar " wvith France, to the ending of the Saxon Monarchy, and to the early confliets Nwth the Danes. Those who value the historical continuity of a nation will rejoice that KING EDWARD VII. will thus take a place in our annals wvhich will bring him into relation with the wlole stream of national development. It is well to be in sympathy with modern movements and, at the same time, to remember where the roots of those movements are implanted. The KING is a man of the world, of wide ex- perience and matured sagacity. His reign has, beyond doubt, begun auspiciously, so far as this can be said while a heavy clond of sorrow hangs over the Royal Family and the nation. The attitude of the people has been respectful and subdued, but it is clear that only the restraining forces of the melancholy situation have kept back an outburst of loyal affection for the KING. On his part, the KING has shown, as all accounts agree, the dignity and the graciousness that were expected from one who, as PnroCE of WALas, had won universal popularity by his genial manners, his kindliness of heart, and his sense of the duties of his position. At the Council his language was touched with the manly emotion of one who had suffered a heavy blow, but who felt that he had to set aside private grief and to take up the burden of sovereignty. Yet he did not forget, in receiving the homage of his councillors,to show that he recognized and valued the eminent men of all parties and sections who surround and uphold the T1RoNE. A few words thus spoken do much to lubricate the machinery of public life. The meeting of the Houses of Parliament yester- day was strictly for the purpose of administering the oath of allegiance to the members present. The process will be continued uninterruptedly to-day, but will be interrupted to-morrow at 4 o'cloek to receive a message from the KiNG announcing the death of Hn WMAJESTY QUEEN VICroR. and to pass a resolution of respectful condolence in reply. It is needless to say that, on the present occasion, there is hardly a possibility that any discordant note 'vill be struck. Parliament will not continue to sit after the formal resolutions have been passed, and no regular business will be entered upon till the begin- ningof the Session, which has been previously fixed for the 14th of February. Meanwhile, the public interest will be fastened on the Proclamation of the KiNG'S accession, which was settled at the Privy Council yesterday, and will be pub- lished at an early hour this morning. It is not expected that the KiNG will be present, as his mother was in 1837, when the ordeal of appearing to acknowledge the enthusiasm of the vast crowd that gathered to welcome their girl ruler almost broke down her nervous strength. But both in the West-end and in the City, we may be sure, there will be a throng of people eager to show, though the proclamation itself will convey no news to them, that, deeply as they feel the loss the nation has suffered, their loyalty has not been diminished in the smallest degree. The appearance of GAnTEna KING-or-Anms, with his attendants, will be an attraction to the multitude, for such displays are rarely witnessed in these times, but all pageantry will, of course, be toned down by the prevailing sorrow.