The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-24 00:00:00

mindful of the peneremt welfare of that Important part of
the United li.kodam. We have eneoureged the develop-
ment of its ven gembilitke, and the industry of its iahabi-
tants, ginerreery ponds stimulus to public and private
OS whither Mashed le the improvement et hied, or
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new sod ansr rriallsed. e.d conesedes by ties sinned
Wrest, the prepennesed naivete, oldie sail.
To these neneres kr She temperer, relief and for the
permanent ingespeemest of Ireland ear Mears have bees un-
remittingly AMMO • and nobly sing hem our
efforts been reepemiled te bran eagles yam 11t h sub-
exam wo, year Majesty's mains sod t
ple, from is the realer le the hembiest,
have made every whkd the mem of the ease de-
manded to alleviate sulimings unexampled is their intensity,
and borne with a fortitude and resignation equally unex-
ampled by that brave and loyalpeople.
" We now tender to your Majesty • bill for appropriating
the various sums voted out of tke Consolidated Fund for the
service of the year 1847, to which we humbly beg your
Majesty', royal assent,"
The sight hon. gentleman having concluded his speech,
the clerks at the table proceeded in the customary form to
signify the royal assent to the various bills that were await-
ing that final proems Having done this,
Her MAJESTY received the Royal Speech from the Lord
Chancellor, and proceeded to read ,t as follows, in • tone of
voice which it is no Battery, but the simplest truth, to state,
wai alike silvery and audible in the remotest etwc.er of the
vast chamber in which it was delivered.

"MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
" I have much satisfaction in being able to release you
from the duties of a laborious and anxious session. I cannot
take leave of you without expressing my grateful sense of
the assiduity and seal with which you have applied your-
selves to the consideration of the public interests.
" Your attention has been principally directed to the
measures of immediate relief which a great and unprece-
dented calamity rendered necessary.
"I have given my cheerful assent to those laws which, by
allowing the free admiteion of grain, and by affording facili-
ties
for the use of sugar in breweries and distilleries, tend to
increase the quantity of human food, and to promote com-
mercial intercourse.
" I rejoice to find that you have in no instance proposed
new restrictions, or interfered with the liberty of foreign or
internal trade, as a mode of relieving distress. I feel as-
sured that such mesaures ore generally ineffectual, and, in
some cues, aggravate the evils for the alleviation of which
they are adopteJ.
"I cordially approve of the acts of large and liberal
bounty by which you have assuaged the sufferings of my
Irish subjects. I have also readily given my sanction to a
law to make better provision for the permanent relief of the
destitute in Ireland. I have likewise given my assent to
various bills calculated to promote the agriculture and
develops the industry of that portion of the United King-
dom. My attention shall be directed to such further mea-
sure. as may be conducive to those salutary purposes.
" My relations with foreign powers continue to inspire me
with confidence in the maintenance of peace.
" It has afforded me great satisfaction to find that the
measures which, in concert with the King of the French, the
Queen of Spain, and the Queen of Portugal, I have taken
for the pacification of Portugal have keen attended with
success ; and that the civil war which for many months had
afflicted that country has at last been brought to a bloodless
termination.
. . . . . . .

"I indulge the hope that future differences between
political parties in that country may be settled without an
appeal to arm.

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"GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
" I thank you for your willingness in granting me the
necessary supplies; they shall be applied with due care and
eoosomy to the public service.
" I am happy to inform you that, notwithstanding the high
price of food, the revenue has up to the present time been
more productive than I had reason to anticipate. The
increased use of articles of general consumption has chiefly
contributed to this result. The revenue derived from sugar
especially has been greatly augmented by the removal of
the prohibitory duties on foreign sugar.
" The various grants which you have made for education in
the United Kingdom will, I trust, be conducive to the reli-
gious and moral improvement of my people.
" bllt LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
" I think proper to inform you that it is my intention im-
mediately to dissolve the present parliament.
" I rely with confidence on the loyalty to the throne,
and attachment to the free institutions of this coun-
try, which animate the great body of my people.
I join with them in supplications to Almighty
Gad, that the dearth by which we have been afflicted may,
by the Divine blessing, be converted into cheapness and
plenty."

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The LORD CHANCELLOR then made proclamation by
the Queen's command, that the parliament do stand pro-
rogued until Tuesday, the 21st day of September nest, then
to meet for the dispatch of business.
Her Majesty and the Prince, attended by the state officers
and suite, then retired in the same order as that in which
they entered.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY, IDLY 23.
The Britain' took the chair at one o'clock.
PALACE AT WESTMINSTER.
Lerd M. HILL, the comptroller of the household, ap-
at the bar in the Windsor uniform, and stated that
rear headd presented to her Majesty the address of the House of
Commons with respect to the completion of the new Palace
of Westminster, to which her Majesty had returned the
following most gracious answer :
" I have received the address of my faithful Commons,
and it is my anxious wish that no unneceseaty delay should
take place m the completion of the new House of Commons ;
and I will give every facility for the accomplishment of that
object."
WEST INDIES. .

Lord O. BENTINC IC said it wee his intention, at the earliest
period in the next parliament, to ask for a select committee to
inquiry into the state of the West Indies as regarded their
present power to compete with those countries which hays
still the advantage of breed labour. The noble lord went into
statistics to show that there had been a great falling off in the
produce of sugar and rum from our West India colonies
0.1209 the reduction of the duty on slavc-grown sugar. He
thought the differential duty should not be less than 60 per
cent., or 7s. per cwt ; and tie was of opinion that it would
be much better to appropriate a portion of the one million
sterling which was now being expended every year, with a
view to the suppression of the slave trade, in obtaining free
labourers for our Wed India colonies, so as to dilates Cuba
and Brasil of the profit which they obtained by tillltilikeuu
by furnishing free Lebow on lower terms to the Westlinelbst
and thus, by competition, beating down the profits of the
slave-holding states. He had bean informed, on very good
authority, that the value of slaves In Cabs had hit-Teased 26
per cent, within the last pear; 1001. ahead was sow gives
for every male slave as sees es he was hailed They win
forced to labour eighteen Imes oat of the twenty-four, sof
the number of suicides thstimemed was beyond all imeglar
tion whim the ammolW dalarm in Cuba wee not esti.
=mad to =dare beyond ith, and in Brasil
eZI six yews.
His obaut was, be walk the West India ter with hie
free Wiwi tothe sag=aurket at prise that
the davosamer, dm abolish this hams, leas la
bums belga The ruble hod esashoded by statism that la
iambi ham for a commithe es the subject in the next par.
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etatiamat to go forth to the country to be made use of at
the amiss elections; the public. however, would see that
the pansy of the goventatent was to Muse ail the tint
sessioslas al lib oat Ewa as wible, while Ow would
else* isihnlind the* the msYte of the amble bed was to
revive the old Isehlwe of peensilisa in favour of haw with
a view to hareem it prim The petition whist she noble
lord had presaged was-Ikm a shah parish its Jamaies, sad
its dams& la been earafally excluded Am es bra&
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per oat, whilst time palatine's reedsetly mind that they
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