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London, England, 1858-08-07 00:00:00

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PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS—MONDAY.
Their lordships met at a quarter before two o'clock
conclude the business of the session. At that hour
not more than a dozen. peers were present. The Lord
and
"han
ocnellorthe Min occupieistderial his übenchessual seat
were on the woolsack,
the Earl of
Derby, Lord Colchester, the Earl of Carnarvon, the
Earl cf Donoughmore, Lora Lyndhurst, and Lord
St. Leopards. The Opposition was represented by
three peers, of whom Earl Granville was one ; but
the 'oenches on that side of the house ere grace
by the presence of a considerable number of nobled
ladies.
The commissioners for signifying the royal assent
to various bills and proroguing the two Houses of
Parliament were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Beaufort, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of
Hardwicke, and Earl De La V. arr. They took their
seats at the foot of the throne at two o'clock, and
immediately afterwards Sir Augustus Clifford, Usher
of the Black Rod, proceeded to the other house and
desired the attendance of her Majesty's "faithful
Commons" in the House of Lords. This summons
was at once obeyed, and the Speaker presented him-
self at the bar, attended by the Sergeant-at-Arms,
and accompanied by many members of the Lower
House, among whom were Mr. Disraeli, Sir E. B.
Lytton, Lord Naas, the Solicitor-General, and Lord
Palmerston. The commission having been read by
the clerk, the royal tissent was given in the usual
form to a large number of bills.
The Loan CHANCELLOR then proceeded to read
her Majesty's Message, which was as follows:—
My Lords and Gentlemen, •

We are commanded by her Majesty to express her satis-
faction at being enabled to release you from the dirties of a
session which, though interrupted, has, by your unremitting
assiduity, been productive of many important measures.
Her Majesty is happy to believe that her relations with
foreign Powers are such as to enable her Majesty to look
with confidence to the preservation of general peace.
Her Majesty trusts that the labours of the Plenipo-
tentiaries now sitting in conference at Paris may lead to a
satisfactory solution of the various questions which have
been referred to them.
Tile efforts, the gallantry, and devotedness displayed in
India by her Majesty's forces and those of the East India
•;ompany have been above all praise; and her Msjesty
hopes that those efforts have already been so far crowned
with success that the formidable revolt which has raged
throughout a large portion of her Indian possessions may
cow, under the blessing of Almighty God, be speedily sup-
pressed, and peace be restored to those important pro-
winces.

In this hope her Majesty has given her willing assent to
the act which .ou have passed for t ransferring to her direct
authority the government of her Indian dominions; and
her Majesty hopes to be enabled so to discharge the high
functions which she has assumed as, by a just and impar-
tial administration of the law, to secure its advantages
alike to her subjects of every race and creed ; and, by pro-
moting their welfare, to establish and strengthen her empire
in India.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

Her Majesty commands us to thank you for the judicious
liberality with which you have made provision for the
exigencies of the public service.
The present state of the revenue authorizes her Majesty
to entertain a confident hope that the supplies which you
have granted will be found fully adequate to the demands
upon them.
My Lords and Gentlemen,

The sanitary oondition of the metropolis must always be
a subject of deep interest to her Majesty, and her Majesty
has readily sanctioned the act which you have passed for
the purification of that noble river, the present state of
which is little creditable to a great country, and seriously
srejolicial to the health and comfort of the inhabitants of
the metropolis.
Her Majesty has also willingly assented to an act
whereby greater facilities are given for the acquisition by
towns and districts of such powers as may be requisite for
promoting works of local improvement, end thus extending
more widely the advantages of municipal self government.
Her Majesty trusts that the act which you have passed
for the future government of the Scotch Universities will
be found highly advantageous to those venerable institu-
tions, and will greatly promote and extend a system of
sound moral and religious education in Scotland.
The Transfer of Land Bill, which extends the powers
hitherto exercised by the Encumbered Estates Commis-
sioners, and facilitates the acquisition of an indefeasible
title by purchasers of land in Ireland, cannot fail to be
highly beneficial to the landed proprietors, and to advance
the Prosperity of that part of her Majesty's dominions.
The act to which her Majesty has assented for the
establishment of the colony of British Columbia was
urgently required in consequence of the recent discoveries
of gold in that district ; but her Majesty hopes that this
new colony on the Pacific may be but one step in the
career of steady progress by which her Majesty's
dominions in North America may ultimately be peopled,
? lan unbroken chain, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by
nval and industrious population of subjects of the British
Crown,