The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-08-14 00:00:00

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
Parliament was prorogued by Royal Commission on
Wednesday. The Lord Chancellor read her Sta3eBty's
meesage as follows :

'SIT LORDS AND GENTLEMSS,
"We are commanded by her Majesty to dispense with
your further attendance In Parliament.
" Her Majesty announces to you with pleasure that she con-
tinues to receive from all foreign Powers the strongest as-
miracles of their friendly disposition, and that her confidence
In tne preservation of peace has been continued and con-
firmed during the present year.
" The negotiations in which her Majesty was engaged with
the United States of North America have by mutual consent
been suspended ; and her Majesty earneAly hopes that this
delay may tend to maintain the relations between the two
couutties on a durable basis of friendship.
Iler Majesty has a lively satisfaction in acknowledging
the untiring real and assiduity with which you have prose-
cuted the arduous labours of the year.
" In the Azt for putting an end to the Establishment of
the Irish Church, you ruefully kept louisa the several con-
siderations which, at the opening of the session, were Com-
mended to your notice.
" It is the hope of her Majesty that this Important measure
may hereafter he remembered as a conclusive proof of the
paramount anxiety of Parliament to pay reasonable regard,
In legislating for each of the three kingdoms, to the special
circumstances by which it may be distinguished, and to east
on principles of impartial justice with all interests and all
portions of the nation.
" Her Majesty firmly trusts that the Act may promote the
work of peace In Ireland, and may help to unite all classes
of Its people in that fraternal concord with their English and
Scottish fellow-subjects, which nmst ever form the chief
source of strength to her extended empire.
"tier Majesty has observed with pleasure your general and
cordial readiness to unite in the removal, th gh the Asses-
sed Hates Act, of a practical grievance which was widely
felt.
" her Majesty congratulates you on having brought your
protracted labours on the subjects of bankruptcy and of im-
prisonment, for debt to a legislative conclusion, which is re-
garded with just satisfaction by the trading classes and by
the general public.
.• The law which pots have framed for the better govern-
ment of endowed sclumls in England will render the lin go
resources of those establishments more accessible to the
community, and more efficient for their important purpose.
"It may reasonably be expected that the Act for the super-
vision of habitual criminals will contribute further to the
security of life and property.
" rhe measure which has been passed with respect to the
Contagious Diseases of Animals will, as her• Majesty believes,
add confidence Slid safety to the important trades of breeding
and feeding cattle at home, without unneceuarily Impeding
the freedom of import froni abroad.
" By the repeal of the tax on fire insurance you have mete
lomtcherished wish of the community ; and in the removal
of the duty on corn, her Majesty sees new evidence of your
desire to extend industry and commerce, and to enlarge to
the uttermost those supplies of food which our Insular voli-
tion In a peculiar degree both encourages and requires.
" Her Majesty trusts that the measures for the purchase
and management of the electric telegraphs by the State may
be found to facilitate the great commercial and social object
of rapid, easy, and certain communlcAtion, and may prove
no unworthy sequel to that system of cheap postage which
has passed with much advantage into so many countries
of the civilised world."

GENTLEMEN OF THE IIoUSE OF COMMONS,
'We are commanded to state that Her Al Flinty thanks you
for the liberal supplies which you have granted for the service
of the year, and for the measures by which you have enabled
her at once to liquidate the charge of the Abyssinian expe-
dition."
" MY LoNTS ANI, GENTLEMEN,
. .

" tier Majesty reflects with pleasure that, in returning to
your several homes, you may contemplate with thankfulness
the fruit of your exertions in the passing of many import-
ant laws, a portion of which we have now had it in com-
mand to notice.
" During the recess you will continue to gather that prac-
tical knowledge and experience which form the solid basis of
legislative aptitude; and her Majesty invokes the blessing of
the Almighty alike upon your recent and your tuture labours
for the public weal."