The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. FRIDAY EVENINO,

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BENSON, J. W., by Special Appointment to
EMI. the Prism of Wale&

BENSON'S SILVER and ELECPRO-PLLTE•
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BENSON'S GOLD JEWELLE KY, Novel
sod Artistic.

BENSON, Old Bond-street and Weatbourne-
grove. Steam rectory, Ludgate-MIL

WPM BRol'ailltB.—Established A.D. 1810.

CHESTS of 81LLVKRPLATE for the OOLONIES,

CUTLERY md SILVER PLATE for

MAPPIN BROTHERS, LONDON-BRIDGE.

.51APPIN BROTHERS, 222, REGENT-
STRUT.

Jand G. SAMPSON, Tailors and Outfitters,
. sad k Prioces-street, Ledeenterequare, W., keep as
ea.onsoas Stock of BOYS CLOTHING ready made.
Boys Knickerbocker &Ike
Moe and Dress Salts sls. to 40s.
Swum" Ovweoets les. to Ila.
Suitable for all times

GO AND SEE THE SHOW
11-111 of 12e. Ed TROUSEIL9 In the eEop window, and select
tberatrom,mursors, sad Oultittara
1 and I, Prima Watt, Leloastor-aquaro, W.

LOCH, MOOR and MOUNTAIN
rITIWT sad Tir..AvEugi!(.o sum.

num ii•Witaurtas.
The Eta Lunt Over Costa In all oolourn ready for immediate use.
ALFRED WEED MILES, 7s, Brook-West, Ranovernquare ;
only address. Establiabed

DENT'S CHRONOMETERS,
WATCHES and CLOCKS. .
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Y. F. DENT, Watch, Clock, and-eltronooteter Maker by
ViliAppointment to her Majesty the Queen. and to the rein-
Courte of Europe
. F. DENT, XS and SC 00CICSPURZTRXIIT, CHARING-
MAXI% LONDON.

NOSOTTIE
LOOKING GLASS and DECORATIVE MANITFACTORT
is worthy of • visit. Fur pure taste and novelties it stands un-
rivalled. Looking-glessei. frames, cornices, and gilt decorative
articles of every possible description. Parisian papers and
decorations for houses of • new character. Decorative up-
holstery, fareiture, and novel materials for window carted= of
all kinds. Experienced artists and workmen to all part&
398, SW, Vies, Oxiord-street. Fatabilshed
BROWN and GREEN'S KITCHEN RANGES
(PR= MEDALS LONDON and DUBLIN),
Care Smoky Chimneys, awe fuel, and roast in frost The
New Patent, "a Close Range with an Open Chimney," avoids
all close heat and smedl Prospectuses free.—Landom, 72,
Bishopegate.

RAGGETT'S. —The NEW DINING and
LUNCHEON ROOMS are now OPEN, with the hest of
everything at moderate charges &ripe, Osh, entries, and feints,
from 1 te T.—MCNUTT (late Jlockey), 80, Jermynotreet, Bt.
James's. Establithed a century.

AFTER WHAT I—After Mellon's Promenade
Concerts, WANT to ow). We shall meet there.

ROYALPRINCEBB.B THEATRE.--Sole Lessee
sad Manager, Mr. VININti.—SUMMER SEASON.—
Doom at half-past 7 ; performances commence at 8 o'clock
proeleely. EVERY EVENING during the week, a new and
original Drank. in Three Acta, by Watts Phillips, Eq., entitled
THE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN. Principal characters :—Mra Stir-
ling, Miss Neilson, Miss Auriga Thompson, Mr. Gnome Hoar)and Mr. Vining. Grand &Meted Bohemians, in which Malheur.
Flageolet, Cbdoche. Cocotte, and Normand. will appear: New
Scenery by Mr. P. Lloyds.

Irk' erpreoo.

Tan Eirmmre, THE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN. Marrs. 91aIng,
and 0. Homy: MUM Neilson, Augusts Thontsco, and Yrs.
lithihdr,—And QUIET LoDGINGS.

point the country at all cares about--is utterly
ignored by the Admiralty ; and their attempt to
ignore or elude it practically constitutes on their
part an admission of Mr. Sairra'a Mots. Is it wit
lamentable to find so muck trouble taken to
show up a trivial inaccuracy, and apparently
so little to investigate the real facto of the case,
in order that a remedy may be found against this
extraordinary fooling away of public money ?
What is it the nation wants to know f Is it
whether or not the boats repaired, costing as much
as rew, were 83 or 79 f or whether the cost of
repairs was so excessive as that new boats could
have been bought for the same money f And for
what purpose does it want to know this, save to
provide against such extravagance for the future f
However, the official objection had one effect. It
enabled Mr. SEILY to go into details, and to show
conclusively that he was perfectly correct in his
statement that it would have been better to burn
all the boats repaired at Portsmouth in 1864-65,
since they could have been bought new for the
same money. In fact, it would have been a cheap
bargain for the country if the Admiralty had
given some one 1,0001. to take to these 79 old
boat; ; for 79 old repaired boats must be worth
considerably less than 79 similar new boats. The
25-feet cutter repaired carting (U.—new, 301.—
why not have given it away f It would have been
a saving to the country to have given anybody 401.
for accepting it as a gift.
However, these instances, gross as they appear,
are but trifling in comparison with others men-
tioned by Mr. SEELY. The mere examples of
extravagance given amount, as was shown on
Saturday, to upwards of 1,000,0001. lost to the
nation. We think a list of some of these ex-
amples will not be uninstructive :

The excess coat of anchors bought above market
price was shown to be £170,000
Cold blast pig iron, laid down as paving, cost
over and above the very best paving
(And could be now sold to realise this.)
Achilles, built at Chatham Dockyard, cost more
than the Warrior, built by contract at
Mill-
wall, a ship of similar tonnage and horse-power 245,000
Excess coat of the Frederick William 147,238
Ditto of the Irresistible
Ditto of the Victoria 138,657

Repairs of the Niger, Righilyer,and Sparrowlsawk 60,000
(Cost more than new vessels.)
Being a total loss of

£1,005,589

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

CLOSING
or
PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.

Their lordships assembled at 1 o'clock. The
Royal Commissioners took their seats in front of the
throne ►ttired in their ermine and crimson robes. The

Commissioners were:—The Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Buckingham, the Earl of Malmeabury, Earl Cadogan, and
the Earl of Bradford.

There were not at any time half-a-dozen peers present,
the side galleries were empty, and the only indication of
the special character of the proceedings was the presence
in the strangers' gallery of a number of ladies.

The Duke of BUCKINGHAM laid on the table further oars
ipondence on the affairs of Jamaica.

The royal assent was given to the following bills :
Local Government Supplemental (No. 3) ; Railway
Companies Securities ; Extradition Treaties Act
Amendment; Railways (Temporary Advances); Ec-
clesiastical Commission; Cattle Diseases Prevention
Act Amendment (No. 2) ; Court of Sessions,
Scotland ; Turnpike Trusts Arrangements ; Poor-law
Amendment ; Aberdeen Provisional Order Confirmation ;
Turnpike Acta Continuance ; Local Government Supple-
mental (No. 4) ; Bills of Sales Act (1864) Amendment ;
Dockyard Extension ; Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) ;
Landed Rotated' Court (Ireland) ; New Zealand ; Pri-
sons ; Industrial Schools ; Reformatory Schools, Common
Law Fees and Salaries ; Babes' Corpus Suspension (I&
land) Continuance Act; Patriotic Fund ; Constabulary
Foroe(lrebuid) ; Straits Settlement; and a large number Of
private bills.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then read the Queen's
Speech as follows :

MY Loans awn Gewrzanzi.,
We are commanded by her Majesty, in releasing
you from the labours of a protracted session, to
convey to you her Majesty's acknowledgments for
the zeal and assiduity with which you have applied
yourselves to your parliamentary duties.
Her Majesty has much satisfaction in informing
you that her relations with all foreign powers are
on the most friendly footing.
Her Majesty has watched with anxious interest
the progress of the war which has reoently con-
vulsed a great portion of the continent of Europe.
Her Majesty cannot have been an indifferent spec-
tator of events which have seriously affected the
pozitions of sovereigns and princes with whom her
Majesty is connected by the closest ties of rela-
tionship and friendship ; but her Majesty has not
deemed it expedient to take part in a contest in
which neither the honour of her crown nor the
interest of her people demanded any active inter-
vention on her part. Her Majesty can only express
an earnest hope that negotiations now in progress
between the belligerent powers may lead to such
an arrangement as may lay the foundation of a
secure and lasting peace.
A wide-spread treasonable conspiracy, having for
its objects the subversion of her Majesty's autho-
rity in Ireland, the confiscation of property, and the
establishment of • republic, having its seat in Ire-
land, but deriving its principal support from natu-
ralised citizens of a foreign and friendly state, com-
pelled her Majesty at the commencement of the pre-
sent session to assent to s measure, recommended by
her representative in Ireland, for the temporary
suspension in that part of her Majesty's dominions
of the Habeas Corpus Act. That measure, firmly
but temperately acted on by the Irish Executive,
had the effect of repressing any outward mani-
festations of treasonable intentions, and of causing
the withdrawal from Ireland of the greater portion
of those foreign agents by whom the conspiracy
was mainly fostered.
The leaders, however, of this movement were not
deterred from prosecuting their criminal designs
beyond the limits of her Majesty's dominions.
They even attempted from the territories of the
United States of America an inroad upon the
peaceful subjects of her Majesty in her North
American Provinces. That attempted inroad,
however, only served to manifest in the strongest
manner the loyalty and devotion of her Majesty's
subjects in those provinces, who, without excep-
tion 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 United States, whose active inter:erence, by
checking any attempted invasion of a friendly State,
mainly contributed to protect her Majesty's domi-
nions against the evils of a predatory inroad.
Her Majesty would have been rejoiced at the
close of the present session to be enabled to put an
end to the exceptional legislation which she was
compelled to sanction at its commencement ; but the
protection which her Majesty owes to her loyal
subjects leaves her no alternative but that of
assenting to the advice of her parliament to con-
tinue till their next meeting the provisions of the
existing law. Her Majesty looks anxiously forward
to the time when she may be enabled to revert to
tho ordinary provisions of the law.
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOOB6 OF COMMONS,
Her Majesty commands us to thank you for the
liberal provision which you have made for the
public service, and for the naval and military de-
fences of the country.
MY LORDS ♦ND GENTLEMEN,
Her Majesty has seen with great concern the
monetary pressure which, for a period of unprece-
dented duration, has weighed upon the interests of
the country. The consequent embarrassment ap-
peared at one moment to be aggravated by so
general a feeling of distrust and of alarm that her
Majesty, in order to restore confidence, authorised
her ministers to recommend to the directors of the
Bank of England a course of proceeding suited to
the emergency.
This, though justifiable under the circumstances,
might have led to an infringement of the law, but
her Majesty has the satisfaction of being able to
inform you that no such infringement has taken
place, and that, although the monetary pressure is
not yet sensibly mitigated, alarm is subsiding, and
the state of trade being sound, and the condition
of the people generally prosperous, her Majesty
entertains a sanguine hope that confidence will
soon be restored.

Her Majesty has observed with satisfaction, and
with deep gratitude to Almighty God that He has so
far favoured the measures which have been adopted
for staying the fearful pestilence which has visited
our herds and flocks, that its destructive effects
have been in a great measure checked, and that
there is reason to hope for its 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 Majesty 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 Majesty has directed

that a Form d Prayer to Almighty Code; suitable
to the present exigency, should be offered up in
all the churches of this realm ; and her Majesty
has given her cordial approval to legislative mea-
sures sanctioning the adoption, by local authori-
ties, of such steps as science and 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 beneficial an authority is left will not be
slow to execute the powers entrusted to them, and
that they will be seconded in their endeavours by
all who have at heart the safety and well-being of
her people. In connection with this subject her
Majesty hopes that a bill, to which she has given
her ready assent, for improving the navigation o
the River Thames, may incidentally be conducive
to the public health. _ . .

Her Majesty has great satisfaction in congratu-
lating the country, and the world at large,
on the successful accomplishment of the great
design of connecting Europe and America
by the means of an electric telegraph. 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 enterprise ;
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 discourage-
ment, has at length, for the second time,
succeeded in establishing direct communica-
tion between the two continents. Her
Majesty trusts that no impediment may
occur to interrupt the success of this great under-
taking, calculated, as it undoubtedly is, to cement
yet closer the ties which bind her Majesty's North
American colonies to their mother country, and to
promote the unrestricted intercourse and friendly
feeling which it is most 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, many of you have duties to per-
form hardly less important than those which be-
long to you in your legislative capacity. Her Ma
jesty places full reliance on the loyalty and devo-
tion with which you will discharge those duties ;
and her Majesty earnestly prays that your influence
and efforts may, under the blessing of Divine Pro-
vidence, tend to the general welfare, prosperity,
and contentment of her people.

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ILLEL the Prilmog Wales. ignored by the Admiralty • and their attempt to C'LOSING to the present exigency,
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retie mow, ism part an admission of Mr. Sazies hots. Is it net N"
* has given her cordial ap
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end Artistic. show up a trivial inaccuracy, and apparently • ties, of such steps as ac
BENSON,
Grove.oll Bond-street- so
in olirdtteer ttatinavaireinery the real
may be ffacts
oundof the. this (THIS DAY.) shown to be most effect
fearful malady.
MIPPIN BROTHERS.—Established A.D.1810. extraordinary fooling away of public money ? • Her Majesty hopes ths
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