The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-21 00:00:00

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT

PkBLIAMENT was proragued by Royal Commission on Tues-
day. The commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Argyll, the Earl of Harrawby,. Earl Granville, and Lord
Stanley of Alderley.

The Speaker, attended by the Commons, having appeared
at the bar, the royal assent was given by commission to the
following bills :—Consolidated Fund (Appropriation)Exchequer
Bills' (£'7,000;000), Customs Tariff Acts Amendment and
Consolidation, Customs Laws Consolidation, Excise Duties,
Turkish Loan, Office of Speaker, Trinity College; Dublin,
Dwelling-house' (Scotland), Religious Worship, Shirve Trade
(Sherbro), Youthful Offenders (No: 2), Crown Suits, Merchant
Shipping Act Amendment, Turnpike Acts Continuance (Ire-
land), Militia Officer Qualifications; .Fisheries (British Island
and France), Downing-street Public- Offices Extension,-Turn-
pike Ads Continuance (No. 2), Sale of SpiritA (Ireland), Turn-
pike Trusts Arrangement, Lunatic Asylums and Regula-
tion Acts Amendment, Militia Ballot Suspension, Island of
Tobago Loan, Coal Mines Inspection, Crime and Outrage
(Ireland) Act Continuance, Lunatic Asylums (Ireland)
Advances, Navigation. Works (Ireland), Court of Judica-
ture (Prince of Wales Island), Bills of Lading (No. 2),
Sale of Beer, Ordnance Board, Passengers Aet Amendment,
Metropolis Local .Management, Nuisances, Removal and Dis-
eases Prevention, Huddersfield Burial-ground Aet Amendment,
Ledbury Prebend; London and South-Western Railway, Dun-
dalk Harbour and Port, Glasgow, Dumbartonfand Helensburgh•
Railway, Great-Western-and Brentford Railway, Stokes-bay-
Railway and Pier, Westminster Improvements, Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcesershire Railway (No. 20), Royal
Conical Flour-mill- Company, Westminster Lead Company,
New River Company and-Trustees of the River Lea (N 0.2),
Western Terminus Railway (Clapham to Norwood), Chinese
Passenger Ships, Metropolitan Building, Despatch of Business
(Court of Chancery), Charitable Trust, Inverness-bridge, Cri-
minal Justice, Public Houses (Ireland), Public Health (1854)
Continuation and Amendment, Diseases Prevention Militia
Pay, School-grounds (Security for Application), Public Health
(No. 2), Dwellings for Labouring Classes, Burials, Limited
Liability, Union of Contiguous Benefices, St. John's College
(Oxford) Estates, Harvest's Estates, Morton College Estate,
Halford's Estate, Handeock's Estate, Claremont's Estate,
Marshall's- Charity Estates; Ewine's Divorce, Virrudham's
Divorce, Jones's Divorce,-Summer's Divorce, awl .Hadow's
Divorce.

The Lost.. CHANCELLOS then proceeded to read
THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.

MY L01CD5.".4.1.1D GENT,LEAUN,

We are-commanded by Her Majesty to release you from
further attendance in Parliaments and at the same time to
express the= warm acknowledgments of Her Majestysfor the
zeal and assiduity with which you applied yourselves to the
discharge of your public duties- draing a long and laborious
session.

Her Majesty has seen with-great satisfaction that,. while
you have occupied yourselves -in providing means, for the
vigorous prosecution of the war, yonhave given your attention
to many measures of great public utility. Her Majest.y is eon-
vinced that'you will share her satisfaction at finding that, the
progress of events has tended to cement more firmly that
union which has so happily been established between her
Government and that of her ally the Emperor of the French ;
and Her Majesty trusts that an-nlliance founded on a souse of
the general- interests of Europe, and consolidated by good.
faith, will long survive the events- which have given rise to it,
and will contribute to the permanent well-being and prospe-
rity of the two great nations whom it has linked in the bonds
of honourable friendship.
The accession of the King of Sardinia to the treaty-between
Her Majesty, .the Emperor of the French, and the Sultan,
has given additional importance and strength to that alliance,
and the efficient force which his• Sardinian Majesty has sent
to the seat of war to co-operate with the allied armies-will not
fail to maintain the high reputation by which the, army of
Sardinia has- ever been distinguished.
Her Majesty has commanded us to thank you for having
enabled her to avail herself, :as far as has been founct to be re-
quired, of those patriotic offers of extended service which she
has received. from the militia of the united kingdom, and for
the means of reinforcing her brave array in the Crimea by an
enlistment of volunteers from abroad.
Her Majesty acknowledges with satisfaction the measure
which you. have adopted for giying effect to the convention by
which, in conjunction with her ally, the Emperor of the
French,. she has made arrangements for assisting the Sultan
to provide the means which. are necessary to enable him to
maintain in efficiency the Turkish army, which has so gal-
lantly withstood the assaults of its enemies.

Iler-Xaiesty, in giving her. assent to the Bill which yot,
presented to her for the Local Management of the,Metropolis,
trusts, hat the arrangements provided by that measure will
lead,to many improvements con.ducive to the.convenience and
health of this great city. The Abolition of the Duty on Nw.vs-
papers will tend to diffuse useful information among the
poorer classes of Her Majesty's subjects. The principle of
Limited Liability, which you have judiciously applied to Joint-
stock Associations, will afford additional facilities for the em-
ployment of capital, and the improvements which you
have made in tha laws which regulate Friendly Societies will
encourage habits of industry and thrift among the labouring
classes of the community, _

Her Majesty trusts that the measuresto which she has given
her assent for improving the constitutions of New South
Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania, and for bestowing on the im-
portant and-flourishing colonies of Australia extended powers
of self-government, will assist the development of their great
natural resources, and will promote the contentment and.
happiness.of their inhabitants.

Her Majesty commands us to say that she has been deeply
gratified. by the zeal for the success of Her Majesty's arms,
and by the sympathy for her soldiers and sailors, manifested
throughout her Indian and colonial empire; and Her Majesty
acknowledges with great satisfaction the generous contri-
butions which her subjects in India, and the Legislatures and
inhabitants of the colonies, have sent for the relief of the
sufferers by the casualties of war.

GENTLEMEN OF TUE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
Her Majesty commands us to convey to you her cordial
thanks for the readiness and zeal with which you have pro-
vided the necessary supplies for carrying on the war in which
Her Majesty is engaged. _

Her Majesty laM'ents the burdens and sacrifices which it
has become necessary to impose upon her faithful people;
but she acknowledges the wisdom with which you have
alleviated the weight of those burdens by the mixed arrange-
ments which you have made for providing those supplies.
MY LOIWS AND GENTLEMEN,
Her Majesty has commanded us to say, that she has seen
with sincere regret that the endeavours which, in conjunction
with her ally, the Emperor of the French, she made at the
recent conferences at Vienna, to bring the war to a conclusion
on conditions consistent with the honour of the allies and
with the future security of Europe, have proved ineffectual.
But, those endeavours having failed, no other course is left
to Her Majesty but to prosecute the war with all possible
vigour • and Her Majesty, relying upon the support of her
Parliament, upon the manly spirit and patriotism of her
people, upon the never-failing courage of her army and her
navy, whose patience under suffering and whose power of
endurance Her Majesty has witnessed with admiration, upon
the steadfast fidelity of her allies, and above all, upon the
justice of her cause, humbly puts her trust in the Almighty
Disposer of Events for such an issue of the great contest
in which she is engaged as may secure to Europe the blessings
of a firm and lasting peace.
On your return to your several counties you will have
duties to perform little less important than those which belong
to your attendance in Parliament. Her Majesty trusts that
your powerful influence will be exerted for the welfare and
happiness of her people, the promotion of which is the object
of Her Majesty's constant care, and the anxious desire of her
heart.

Then a commission for proroguing the parliament was read,
After which, the LORD CHANCELLOR said,
My LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

By virtue of Her Majesty's commission, under the great
seal, to us and other lords directed, and now read, we do, in
Her Majesty's name, and in obedience to Her commands,
prorogue this Parliament to Tuesday, the 23rd day of October
next, to be then here holden ; and this Parliament is accord-
ingly prorogued to Tuesday, the 23rd day of October next.
The Royal Commissioners then left the house, and the pro•
eeedings of the session terminated.