The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-14 00:00:00

fmpertal Tarliament.

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PROROGATION 01 PARLIAMENT.
Parliartent WSP prorogue on Friday, by Royal Com-
mission, when the follevrig " Queen • Speech" was
tend:—
My Lords and Gentle's''.
We are corumaiieled by Ile 11.je ty, in tile...ins you
from the hiledirs of a proloeteo 5.100. CIT,To•y to
too Ler lillejesty•• ack..,..tplceistent• for the seal a... 1
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j •.w I• isAch.l with antic I St flPe
t.:e se, w .0,1 lii. recent:y coovtihe•l a
cr. at aii n -f the oltis nt of P'iroio II or ii .3.
ceonor Isnot t'..•ri inifferent f.pectstor of eiew
which lidie art t•aisly otlrd,d the 1, aitiona of S dr.
mei Nisi,l with wl 11111 l In; is corioetted I y
tt.r cloms ties of relariossliip and fri.n Idtip; bat her
Majesty ban md deemed t expedient to tette per: to a
COlot,St iii which neitherthe honour of her erown nor
the lamest of her peopli demanded any active hiterven-
enin on her pelt. Herillajedy 040 only ear. as an
remelts hope that the negociations now in progress
bet aeen the belli;erert Powers may lead to such an
arrangement as may lar the fomolation of a secure stud
lasting pease.
A wale-spread treartanahle conspiracy, having for its
Mires the sub•crsior of her Maj sty'a swhority ill
Ireland, the o.'llBm:intim of property, anti the estahni.li-
ment of • republic, having its teat in Ireland, but
deriving its r•rilicipal support from naturabscel citizens
of • foreign arid frmmeiilly state, compelled her ilajeaty
at toe coinmencemett of the present session to assent to
inct,cre, recommend by her representative in Ireland,
for tne temporary suspeueion in that part of her
Majosiy's dominion, of She H•heas Corpus Act. That
measure, firmly but tempa•rately acted on by the Irish
executive, had tbe effret of repressing any onewsrd
man& stations of treasonable intentions, nod of eaut.ing
the withdrasral from Ireland if the greater 1400 (1014 of
(line foreign agents by whom the conspiracy was
mainly fostered.
The leaders, however, of this movement wire not
deterred from prosoeuting their criminal designs beyond
the limits of her Majesty's dominions. They even
attempted from the territories of the United States of
Amen', an inroad upon the peaceful aubjeets of her
Mai 'sty in her North Ameriesen Provinces. That
attempted inroad, however, only served to manifest in
the ttrongest manner the loyalty and devotion of her
Hiijt sly'a subjects in those provinces, whit, without
exe.tphou of creed or origin, united in defence of their
:Sovereign and their country. It served also to show the
good faith and scrupulous attention to international
rights displayed by the Government of the Chit. el
States, whoa, active interference, by checking cry
attempted hem saaior of • friendly State, mainly contri-
buted to protect her Majesty's donduions against the
evils of a predatory inroad.
Item Haje:ty would have been rejoiced at the (dose of
the present session to be enabled to put an end to the
eXeseptional legislation which she was eompelted to
sanction at its commencement; but the protection
which her Majesty ow. s to her loyal subjects leaves her
no altenistive but that of assenting to the advice of her
Parlisment to continue till their next mooting the Iwo-
vi•ions of the existing law. Her Majeety looks
anxiously forward to the time when she may be enabled
to revert to the ordinary provision' of the law.
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Gentlemen of the HOuse of Commons,
tier Idajesty eominands us to atonic you for the
liberal pruviaion whish you have made for the public
service. sod fur the naval and military defences a the
country.

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My fords and Gentlemen,
Her 31,j• sty has seen with great concern the monetary
pre, ere with, for a period of unprecedented duration,
has weigll"4 upon the interests of the country. The
ennsolo.nt einhal:asiment appeared at one moment to
be a,rgravakel by so generals feeling of distrust and of
alarm that her Msjesty, in order to restore c infideinie,
authori,ed her Ministers to reoommend to the directors
of the Bank of England a course of proceeding suited to
thr cowrie ney.
This, though justifiable under the circumstances,
miiiht have led to an infringement of the law, but her
Majesty has the satisfaction of being able to inform
you that no such infriegement has taken place, and
that, although the monetary pressure is not yet sensibly
mitigated, alarm is subsiding, and the state of trede
being sound, and the condition of the people generally
prosperous, her Majetsy entertains a sanguine hope that
confidence will soon be restored.
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."-irt-rsiia-jeTty" bas-o-bi-ie-re—ei-w-Tih satisfaction, and with
deep gratitude to Almighty God that He has so far
, favoured the memures which have been adopted for
ataying the fearful pestilence which has visited our
, herds arid flocks, that its destructive effects have been
in • great measure checked, and that there is reason to
hope for it. entire extinction at no distant period. In
the meantime her Majesty has given her willing assent
to. measure which has been introduced for the relief of
those districts which have suffered the most severely
from its visitation.
Her Majeaty regrets that this country has at length
been subjected to the fearful visitation of cholera which
has prevailed in other European countries, but from
which it has hitherto been happily exempt. Her
Ilajeaty has rain cm! that • form of prayer to Almighty
0.4, satiable to the present csigeni, should be offered
up in all the churches of this realm; and Her Majesty has
given her cordial approval to legislative measures
aanctiohinx the adopthin, by localauttnirities, of such
steps as science end experience have shown to be most
effectual for the check of this fearful malady.
Her Majesty hopes that those in whose hands so
large and bcnedeal an authority is left •ill not be slow
to execute the powers entrusted to them, and that they
will be secouded in their endeavours by all who have
at heart the safety and wellbeing of her people. In
connection with this subject her Majesty hopes that a
bill, to which she las given her readv at-sent, for
impmving the navigation of the river Thames, may
incidentally be minduoiae to the pubic health.
Her Majerty has great eatisfaction in congratulating
the country and the world at large on the successful
accomplishuient of the great design of connecting
Europe and America by the means of an electric tem.
graph. It is hardly possible to anticipate the full
extent of the benefits which may be conferred on the
human race by this signal triumph of scientific enter:
prom; and her Majesty has pleasure in expressing her
deep sense of what is due to the private energy which,
in spite of repeated failure and dueouragement, has at i
length, for the second time, succeeded n establishing
direct communieatioo between the two continent.. Her
Majesty trusts that no impediment may occur to inter-
rupt the success of this great undertaking, calculated, as
it undoubtedly ta, to cement yet closer the ties which
bind her Majesty's North American colonies to their
mother country, and to promote the unrestricted inter-
course and friendly feeling which it is moat desirable
should subsist between her Majesty's dominions and the
great Republic of the United States.
Her Majesty is aware that, in returning to your
respective homes, mane of you have duties to perform
hardly lest important than those which belong to you
in your legislative capacity. Her Majesty places full
reliance on the loyalty and devotion with which you
will discharge those duties ; and her Majesty earnestly
prays that your influeoce and efforts may. under the
blessing of Divine Providence, tend to the general wel-
fare, prosperity, and contentment of her people.