The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-30 00:00:00

..:_

PROROGATION

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY.
Parliament was this day prorogued by royal commis-
-3ioll.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at one o'clock.

The House then adjourned during pleasure, and in a
few minutes afterwards resumed, when the Royal Com-
missioners, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl of HA.RROWBV
the Duke of ARGYLL, and Lord STANLEY Of ALDERLEY,
took their seats at the foot of the throne, attired in their
robes as peers of the parliament:
The Usher of the Black Rod was immediately directed
to summon the Commons to attend at the bar to hear
the commission for proroguing parliament read.
After a brief delay, the SPEAKER, attended by the
Serjeant-at-Arms, Lord Palmerston, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Mr. Brotherton, and several other
members, appeared in obedience to the summons
The Royal assent was given by commission to the
following bills :--viz., the Income and Land Taxes Bill,
the Stamp Duties Bill, the Racehorse Duty Bill, the
Coast Guard Service Bill, the Corrupt Practices Preven-
tion Bill, the General Board of Health Continuance
Bill, the Militia Pay Bill, the Cursitor Baron of the
Exchequer Bill, the Lunatic Asylum Act Amendment
Bill, Stoke Pogis Hospital Bill, Evidence in Foreign
Suits Bill, Bishops of London and Durham Retirement
Bill, Hay and Straw Trade Bill, Metropolis Local Act
Amendment (No. 2) Bill, Consolidated Fund (Appropria-
tion) Bill, Vice-President of the committee of Council on
Education Bill, Reformatory and Industrial Schoools
Bill, Brydges Estate Bill, Poor Law Amendment
(Ireland) Bill, Marriage and Registration
Amendment Bill, Criminal Justice Bill, Leases
and Sales of Settled Estates Bill, Hospitals
(Dublin) Bill. the Formation of Parishes Bill,
Court of Chancery (Ireland) Receiver's Bill, Charities
Bill, Mercantile Law Amendment Bill, Joint Stock
Banks Bill, Commissioners of Supply (Scotland) Bill,
Intestates' Personal Estates Bill, Smoke Nuisances
Abatement (Metropolis Act, 1853) Amendment Bill,
County Courts Act (Amendment) Bill, Commons Enclo-
sure (No. 2) Bill, Oxford Colleges Bill, Marriage
Law of Scotland Amending Bill, Lunatic Asylums
(Superannuation) Ireland Bill, Parochial Schools (Scot-
land) Bill, Talbot's Divorce Bill, and several other
Private bills.

The Royal commission for the prorogation of parlia-
ment was then read by the clerk at the table.
HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH,

The LORD CHANCELLOR then read the Queen's Speech,
As follows :

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,—
We are commanded by her Majesty to release
you. from further attendance in Parliament, and at
the same time to express to you her warm ac•
knowledgments for the zeal and assiduity with
which you have applied yourselves to the discharge
of your public duties during the session.
When her Majesty met you in Parliament at the
opening of the session, her Majesty was engaged
in co-operation with her Allies, the Emperor of
the French, the King of Sardinia, and
the Sultan, in an arduous war, having for
its object matters of high European im-
portance ; and Her Majesty appealed to your
loyalty and patriotism for the necessary means to
tarry on that war with the energy and vigour
essential to success.

You answered nobly the appeal then made to
You, and her Majesty was enabled to prepare for
the operations of the expected campaign, naval
and military, forces worthy of the power and
reputation of this country.
Happily, it became unnecessary to apply those
forces to the purposes for which they had been
destined. A treaty was concluded by which the
objects for which the war had been undertaken
were fully attained, and an honourable peace has
saved Europe from the calamities of continued
warfare.

Her Majesty trusts that the benefits resulting

from that peace will be extensive and permanent
and tha; while the friendships and alliandes which

Were cemented by common exertion during the con-

test will gain strength by mutual interests in peace,
those asperities which inherently belong to conflict
will give place to the confidence and good will
with which a faithful execution of engagements
will inspire those who have learnt to respect
each otlu

er as antagonists

Her Majesty commands us to thank you for your
support in the hour of trial, and to express to:;you
her Majesty's fervent hope that the prosperity of her
faithful people, which was not materially checked
by the pressure of war, may continue and be
increased by the good influence of peace.
Her Majesty is engaged in negociations on the
subject of questions in connection with the affairs
of Central America; and her Majesty hopes that
the differences which have arisen on those
matters between her Majesty's Government and
that of the United States may be sastifactorily
.adjusted.

We are commanded by her Majesty to inform
you that her Majesty desires to avail herself of
this oceztsion to express the pleasure which it
aiorded her to receive, during the war in which she
has been engaged, numerous and honourable
proofs of loyalty and public spirit from her
lqajesty's Indian territories, and from those Colo-
nial possessions which constitute so valuable and
important a part of the dominions of her Majesty's
Crown.

Her Majesil7 has given her cordial assent to the
act for rendering more effectual the police in
counties and boroughs in England and Wales.
This act will materially add to the security of
person and property, and will thus afford increased
encouragement to the exertions of honest in-
dustry.

Her Majesty rejoices to think that the Act for
the improvement of the internal arrangements of
the University of Cambridge, will give fresh powers
of usefulness to that ancient and renowned seat of
learning.

The Act for regulating Joint Stock Companies
Will afford additional facilities for the advantageous
loyment of capital, and will thus tend to pro-
the development of the resources of the
country ; while the acts passed relative to the Mer-
cantile Laws of England. and of Scotland will
diminish the inconvenience which the differences
of those laws occasion to her Majesty's subjects
'engaged in trade.

Mote t

n with satisfaction that
tier Alajesty has see
ati have given your attention to the arrange-
ruents connected with County Courts. It is
11" I‘4l-aiesty's anxious wish that justice should.
le 9taintible by
9 i all classes of her subjects with
nllch speed and with as little expo'
sistent with the due investi'
merits of causes to be tried

be eou

as may

ion of the

la.jcstY trusts that the act for placing tn"
A, under the direction of the B
',frorcl greater facilities for arrant/

Coast Gu

`lclllli r 3.

YU of

lents ft

ovichn,g, in time of peae-, --
irq defence, on the °court

applicable to na

"neaps

of any future emergency

CTENTLEAIEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,--
We are commanded by her Majesty to thank you