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

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

PASSIAMENT was prorogued by Royal Commission on Tues-
day. The commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Argyll, the Earl of Harrowby, 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:—ConsolidatedT and (Appropriation)Exehequer
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. Slave Trade
(Sherbro), Youthful Offenders (Ni. 2), Crown Suits, Merchant
Shipping Act Amendment, Turnpike Acts Continuance (Ire-
land), Militia Officer Qualificationp, Fisheries (Britishdsland
and France), Downing-street Public' Offices Extension -Turn--
pike Acts Continuance (No. 2), Sale of Spirits (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 (Ireltud)
Advances, Navigation• Works (Ireland)', Court of Judica-
ture (Prince of Wales- Island), Bills of Lading (No. 2),
Sale of Beer, Ordnance Board, Passengers Act Amendment,
Metropolis Local Management, Nuisances- Removal and Dis-
eases Prevention, Huddersfield Burial-ground Act Amendment,
liedbury Prebend, London and South-Western Railway, Dun-
dalk Harbour and Port, Glasgow, Dumbarton, andllelensburgh
Railway, Great-Western and Brentford Railway, Stokes-bay
Railway and Pier, Westminster Improvements, Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire 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-(lreland), Public Health (1854)
Continuation, and Amendment,. Diseases Prevention, Militia
Pay, School-grounds (Security for Application),Publie Health
(IsTe.'2), Dwellings for Labouring Classes, Burials, Limited
Liability, Union- of Contiguouo Benefices, St. John's •College
(Oxford) Estates, Harvest's Estates, Morton College Estate,
Halford's Estate, Handcock's Estate, Claremont's Estate,
Marshall's, Charity Estates, Ewiue's Divorce; Wynsiham's
Divorce, Jones's -Divorce, Summer's Divorce, and Hadow's
Divorce.

The LORD CARCELLOR thole. proceeded to rea,.l
THE QUEEN'S-SPEECH.

MY -LOUD& GENTLEMX2Ti
We are commanded by Her Majesty to release you from
farther attendance in Parliament, and at the same time to
express the warm acknowledgments of Her Majesty for the
zeal• and assidcdty with which nit-applied yourselves, to, the
acharge of your public duties. during a long andiaborious
session.

Her Majesty has seen with, great= satisfaction that, while
you, have occupied yourselves itt- providing means for the
vigorous prosecution. of the war, you have given your attention
toenany measures of ggreat public utility. Her Majesty is eon-
v..nieed that you will_share her satafaction 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 Trench ;
and, Her Majesty trusts that an alliance founded on a sense of
the general interests of Europe, and consolidated by good
faith, will long survive the events, which have given rise- toit,
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 addiacial importance and:strength to that alliance,
and the efficient force which his-Sandiuian 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 found 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 army in the. Crimea by an
enlistment of volunteers from-abroad.
Her Majestf acknowledges with satisfaction the measure
which you have adopted for giving 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 assault& of its enemies..
Her Majesty, in giving, her assent to the Bill which you
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presented to her for the Local Management of the Metropolis,
trusts that the arrangements provided by that measure will
lead to many improvements conducive to .the convenience and
health of this great city.. The Abolition. of.the Duty on News-
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
st It Associations, will afford additional facilities for the em-
ployment of capital, and the improvements which you
have made in the laws which regulate Friendly Societies will
encourage habits of industry and thrift among the labouring
classes of the community.
Her Majesty trusts that the measures to which she has gkien
her assent for improving the constitutions of New South
Wales, Victoria, v.,nd 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.
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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
throughouther Indian and.colonial empire ; and, Her Majesty
um 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 OP THE HOUSE OP COMXO'4IS,
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 laments 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 LORDS 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 win 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-
ceedings of the session terminated.