The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-14 00:00:00

PROROGATION

OF PARLIAMENT.

THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)

Parliament was this day prorogued by Royal Commission.

The Royal CommissionUs, who were the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl Granville, Duke of Argyle, Earl of Harrowby,
and Lord Stanley of Alderley, haring taken their seats
on the woolsack at the foot of the throne, the Usher of
the Blur Rod wu directed to summon the Roue of Com-
mons to the bar.

In a few minutes the Speaker, attended by the Serpent-
at-Anne, Lord Palmerston, Sir George Grey, Sir Charles
Wood, and several other memben of the Roue, appeared
at the bar, when the Royal Commission was read by the
clerk at the table.

The Royal Assent was then given in pursuance of the
commission, to the following bills:—Turkish Loan Bill,
Exchequer Bills (7,000,000 L) Bill, Metropolis Local Manage-
ment Bill, Sale of Beer Bill, Limited Liability Bill, Ord-

nano. Board Bill, Customs Law Consolidation Bill, Customs
Tariff Acts Amendment and Consolidation Bill, Criminal
Janice Bill, Charitable Trusts Bill, Despatch of Business
Bill, Court of Chancery Bill, Crown Suits Bill, Court of Ju-
dicature (Prince of Wales Island) Bill, Schools Grants
Securities Application Bill, Dwellings for Labouring
Classes Bill, Office of Speaker Bill, Merchant Shipping
Bill, Fisheries Bill, Chinese Passengers' Ships Amendment
Bill, Passengers' Act Amendment Bill, Turnpike Acts Con-
tinuance (Ireland) Bill, Sale of SArits (Ireland) Bill, Na-
vigation Works (Ireland) Bill, Crime and Outrage (Ireland)
Bill, Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Advance Bill, Public
Houses (Ireland) Bill, Disessee Prevention Bill, Public
Health Act Bill, Metropolitan Buildings Bill, Militiaßallots
'Suspension Bill, Militia Pay Bill, Militia Officer.' Qualifi-
cation Bill, Lunatic Asylums Registration Act Amendment
Bill, Turnpike Trusts Arrangement Bill, Turnpike Acta
Continuance (No. 2) Bill, L.dbury Prebend Bill,
Dissenters' Marriages Bill, Haddenfield Band Ground
Act Amendment Bill, Coal Mines Inspection Bill,
Burials Bill, Inverness Bridge Bill, Westminster Land
Bill, Royal Conical Flour Mill Company Bill, New River
Company and Trustees of River Lea (No. 2) Bill, Westmin-
ster Terminus (Clapham to Norwood) Bill, and the Conso-
lidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill, Slave Trade (Sberbro')
Bill, Religious Worship Bill, Trinity College, Dublin, Bill,
Union of Contiguous Benefices Bill, Westminster Improve-
ment Bill, Island of Tobago Loan Bill, Youthful Offenders
(No. 2) Bill.

Th. LORD Cl
Speech as follows:

IR then read the Quean's

" MT LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

" We are commended b) her Majesty to release you from
fcrther attendance in Puliament, and, at the ramp time, to

express the warm acknowledgments of her Majesty for the
seal and assiduity with which you have applied yourselves
to the discharge of your public duties during a long and
laborious session.

•, Her Majesty has even with great satisfaction that, while
yon have occupied yourselves in providing means for
the vigorous prosecution of the war, you have
given your attention to many measures of great public
utility. Her Majesty is convinced that you will
share ter 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 alliance founded
on a sense of the geaeral interest, of Europe, and con•
solidated by good faith, will long survive the events which
have given rise to it, and will contribute to the permanent
wellbeing and prosperity of the two great nations whom
it has linked together in the bonds of honourable friendship.
" Toe 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 cistinguished.
" Her Majesty has commanded us to thank you for
having enabled her to avail herself, as far as has
been found to be required, of those patriotic offers of
extended service which she has received from the
militia of the United Kingdom, and for the means of rein-
forcing her brave army in the Crimea by an enlistment of
nitration from abroad.

" Her Majesty 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 necessary to enable him to
maintain in efficiency the Turkish army which has so gal-
lantly withstood the assaults of its enemies. Her Majesty,
in giving her assent to the bill which you 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 newspapers will tend to
diffuse useful inf orme lion among the poorer classes of her
Majesty's subjects.
" The principle of limited liability which you have judi-
ciously applied to joint-stock associations will afford ad-
ditional facilities for the employment 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 labossiing classes of the com-
munity. _ _

"Her Majesty traits that the measures to which she has
gives her assent for improving the constitutions of New
South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania, and for bestowing
as the important and flourishing ooknise of Australia
elteaded powers of self-government will assist the develop.
meat of their great natural reeourose, and will promote the
contentment and happiness of the inhabitants.
Her Majesty coutosaads as to say that she has been
deeply gratified by the seal for the success of her Majesty's
arms and by the sympathy for her soldiers and
sailors 'manifested throughout her Indian end Cola
alai Empire, and Her Majesty acknowledges with
gnat satisfaction the generous contributions which her
subjects is India, end the legislatures and inhabitants of
the colonies, have seat for the relief of the waterers by the
oasuelties of wet."

" OIXTLIKEN OF TEE 1101,81 OF COl[llo2ol,
" Her Majesty commands us to massy to you her email
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thanks for the readiness and seal with whickyou have pro-
vided _ the necessary supplies for carrying on the war in

which her Majesty Is engaged.
" Her Majesty laments the hartheas and samillees which
it has biome necessary to impose epos her faithful people ;
but she acknowledges the wisdom with which you have
alleviated the weight of those burthens by the mixed ar-
rangements which you have made for providing those
supplies.
I. MY LORDS AND GIXTLIKIW,

" Her Majesty has commanded us to say that she has seen
with sincere regret that t►e endeavours which, in conjunc-
tion with her ally the Emperor of the French, she
made at the recent conferences at Vienna to bring
the war to a conelusice. on conditions consis-
tent with the honour of the allies, and with the future
security of Barer, have proved ineffestaal. Bat those en-
deavours having failed, no ot►er souses is left to her Ma-

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jsety but the prosecution of the war with all possible ,1111011 T ;
and her Majesty, relying upon the support of Parliansat,
upon the manly spirit sad patriotism& of her people, upon the
raver-failing courage of her crap sad her navy, whose

patients under irufferhig, and whom power of endures's
hoe Majesty bee whammed with admiration, upon tb," stead-
fast fidelity of the Allies, and above all, upon the *sties)
of her cause, humbly puts her trust in the Almighty Die,
poesy of events for such an issue of the great
outset in which she is engaged as may secure to Europe
the blessings of a firm sad lasting peace.
"On your return to your several counties you will have
duties to perform little lees important than those belonging
to your attendance In Parliament.
" Her Majesty trade that your powerful influence will
be exerted for the welfare and happicess of her people, the
je..uotion of which is the object et her Majesty.
stint care and the soli:us desire of her heart."

The LORD CHANCELLOR then announced it to be
her Majesty's Royal will and pleasure that the Parliament
should be prorogued until the 23rd day of October, and in
the name of her Mejesty he declared it to stand adjourned
orieMdMily.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS DAY.)

The SPILLS' took the chair et haft-put 1 o'clock:

Amoog those present on the Ministerial ride of the house
were Lord Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
B. Hall, Mr. Vernon Smith, Sir B. Peel, Mr. F.
Peel, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Wilson, Sir J. Duke, Mr.
Williams, &a. There was also a full attendance on the Op-
position side.