The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-11 00:00:00

Imperial earlintent.
OPENING OF THE SESSION.

11017 SE OF LOILDS.

The Fourth Session of the Sixth Parliament of Queen
Victoria was opened on Thursday, at 2 o'clock, by coin-
mission, the Hoye' Speech having been read by the Lord
Chancellor. The ceremony excited no public interest,
in consequence of the abseoce of Her Majesty. The at-
tendance of peers, it is said, was unnspalty limited, the
only representatives-of the Ministerial and Opposition
parties having been the Earl of Leitrim for the former,
and • few others for the latter. The Speed *ell was
as follows:

THE QUEEN'S MPFJ!?.'CIL,

MT LONDS AND OZNTLINIZN,-

We are commanded by Her Msjes- ty to tuner* you
that Her Majesty is persuaded that you will deeply par-
ticipate in the affliction by which Her. illeivetY line been
overwhelmed, by the calamitous, untinwly, and irre-
parable loss of her beloved Consort, who isat-been bek
comfort and support.
It has been, however, soothing to Her, pity. while
searing most acutely under this awful ion of
Providence, to receive from all glasses,
•Apastilcts
the most ()cordial assuranee el their Winn*, WAll her
sorrow, as well as of their eppreei•tiots,ii the noble
character of him the greatness of whose loin ,tø Her
1 Majesty and to the nation is so justly asid so *nicer,
, sally felt and lamented. •We are eciinturinded,by.Hee
Majesty to assureyon thst she recurs with 09111144050 F
to your assistanal and advice. Bar Majesty's relations
with all the European Powers continue to .be friendly
-
and satisfactory, and Her Majesty trust. there is no
reason to apprehend any diaterbanee of the Pomo of
Europe.
A question of great important*, end which, might
have led to very serious oonaequences_ arose between
Her ffilestfit Governdeill and tbe Gilverlii2fiá . tithe
United Staten of Assents% wising Is the ,esiwurs and
forcible moment of Tons from on-beard a'
British mail packet by the mm der of • ship of war
of the United States; but, that quention, has been satin'
factorily settled by Vit restoration of the passengers to,
British protection, and, the disavow's" hy,,the,, 'WI.
States Government of the act of Wio4lllloo totem by
their naval officer, The friendly relations between Her
Majesty and the President of the United Stases have, ,
therefore, remained unimpaired. '
Her Majesty warmly appreciates the loyalty and patri-
otic spirit which has been manifested on this occasion by
her North American subjects.
The wrongs committed by various parties and by I
successive Governments in Mexico upon foreigners
resident within the Mexican territoey,_ and ftrr which
no satisfactory redress could be obteined, have led to
the conclusion of a convention beeneen Her Majesty,
the Emperor of the French, and ~the Queen of Spain,
for the purpose of regulating • combined operation on
the coast 01 Mexico, with a view Op cheats that redrew
which has hitherto been withheld. ,
That convention, and papers relating to that subject
will be laid before you.
The improvement which her taken place in the rela-
tions between Her Majesty's,Government and that of
the Emperor of China, and the good faith with which
the Chinese Government have continued to fulfil the
engagements of the treaty of Tien-tein; have enabled
Her Majesty to withdraw her_ troops from the city of
Clinton and to reduce the amount of her fosse, ma the
coast and in the seas of China.
Her Majesty, always anxious to exert hes influence
for the preservation of peace. haa concluded • egin/el2-
tion with the Sultan of Morocco, by means of which the
Sultan has been enabled to raise the amount necessary
for the fulfilment of certain treaty engegements which
he had contracted towards Spain and thus to avoid
the risk of a renewal of hostilities with that Power. ,
That convention, and papers connected with it, will be
laid before you.
GerrunueN OF Tar Houss or Coxxoss,—
Her Majesty oommands us to inform you that she has
directed the estimate, for the ensuing year to be laid
before you. They have been framed with a due regard
to prudent economy and to the efficiency of the public
service.

MT LORDS AND GINTLIMEN.—
Her Majesty commands WI to inform you that mea-
eures for the improvement of the law will be laid before
you, and among them will be • bill for rendering the
title to land more simple and its transfer more espy.
Other measures of public usefulness relating to Great
Britain and Ireland will be submitted for your consider-
ation.
Her Majesty regrets that in some parts of the United
Kingdom, and in certain branches of industry, tem-
porary causes have produced considerable pressure and
privation but Her Majesty has reason to believe that
the general condition of the country is sound and satis-
factory.
Her Majesty confidently commends tbe general in-
terests of the nation to your wisdom and your care,
and she fervently prays that the blaming of Almighty
Got may attend your deliberations, and may guide them
to the promotion of the welfare and happiness of leer
people.
On the HOWN3 of Lords re-assembling, and the Royal
Speech having been read, the address was moved by
Lord Dufierin, seconded by the Earl of Slielbournis,:
and, after the usual amount of 'peaking on such occa-
sions, agreed to.