The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-15 00:00:00

DIPERIAL PARLI AMEN T.

HOUSE OF LORDS-{YESTERDAY.)

Parliament was this day prorogued by commission.
Shortly after two o'clock the Lord Chancellor, the
Earl of Granville, the Earl of Harrowby, the Duke
of -Argyll, amt Lord Stanley of Alderley entered the
house robed AS her Majesty's Commissioners, and the
House of Commons having been summoned,
The following bills received the Royal Assent by Com-
mission :—Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) ; Exche-
quer Bills (7,000,0001.) ; Customs' Tariff Acts Amend-
ment and Consolidation ; Customs' Laws Conso-
lidation ; Excise Duties ; Turkish Loan ; Office
"of Speaker ; Trinity College, Dublin.; Dwelling
Houses (Scotland) ; Religious Worship ,• Slave
Trade (Sherbro) • Youthful Offenders (No. 2) ;
Crown Suits ; Merchant Shipping Act Amendment ;
Turnpike Acts Continuance (Ireland) ; Militia Officers
Qualification; Fisheries' (British Islands and Fraesec);s
Downing-street Public Offices Extension ; Turnpike Acts
Continuance (No. 2); Sale of Spirits (Ireland) ; Turnpike
Trusts Arrangements ;;
Lunatic Asylums and Regula-
tion Acts Amendment ; Militia Ballot Suspension ;
Island of Tobago Loan ; Coal Mines Continuance Inspection ;
Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Act
Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Advances ; Navigation;
Works (Ireland) ; Court of Judication (Prince of Wales
Island) ; Bills of Lading (No. 2) ; Sale of
. , B. Metropo-
litan ;. Ord-
nance Board ; Passengers Act Amendment
Local Management ; Nuisances Removal and
Diseases- Prevention Acts Consolidation and Amend-
ment • Huddersfield Burial Ground Act Amend-
ment ; Ledbury Prebend ; London and South-
Western Railway ; Dundalk Harbour and Port ;
Glasgow Dumbarton, and Helensburgh Railway ;
Great VVestern and Brantford Railway; Stokes Bay
Railway and Pier ; Westminster Improvements ; Der-
byshire, Staffordshire, 1 and Worcestershire Railway
(No. 2) ; Royal Conical Flour Mill Company ; West-
minster Land Company ; New River Company, and
Trustees of the River Lea (No. 2) ; Western Ter-
minus Railway (Clapham to Norwood) ; Chinese
Passenger Ships ; Metropolitan Buildings ; Despatch
of Business (Court of Chancery) ; Charitable
Trusts ; , Inverness Bridge ; Criminal Justice ; Public
Houses (Ireland); Public Health (1854) Continuance and
Amendment ; Diseases Prevention ; Militia Pay ; School
Grants, Security for Application ; Public Health (No.
2) ; Dwellings for Labouring Classes; Burials; Limited
Liability ; Union of Contiguous Benefices ; St. John's
College (Oxford) Estate ; Harvist's Estate ; Morton
College Estate ; Halford's Estate ; Handcock's Estate ;
Lord Clermont's Estate ; Marshall's Charity ; Ewing's
Divorce; Wyndham's Divorce ; Jones's Divorce; Sum-
ner's Divorce ; Hadow's Divorce.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then read her Most
Gracious Majesty'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 the warm acknowledg-
ments of her Majesty for the zeal and assiduity
With which you have applied yourselves to the
discharge of your public duties during a long and
laborious session.
Her Majesty has seen with great satisfaction
that, while you have occupied yourselves in pro-
vidingmeans for the vigorous prosecution of the
war, you haie given your attention to many
measures of great public utility.
Her Majesty is convinced that you will share
her 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 alli-
ance founded on a sense of the general interests of
Europe, and consolidated by good faith, will long
.survive the events which have given rise to it, and
will contribute to the permanent well-being and
presperity of the two great nations whom it has
linked in the bonds of honourable friendship.
The accession of the King of Sardinia to the
treaty' between her Majesty, the Emperor of the
French, and the Sultan has given additional im-
portance and strength to that alliance, and
the efficient force which his Sardinian Ma-
jesty 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 distinguished.
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 reinforcing her
' brave army in the Crimea by an enlistment of vo-
lunteers 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 which are necessary to enable him to main-
tain in efficiency the Turkish army, which has so
gallantly withstood the assaults of its enemies.
Her Majesty, in giving her assent to the bill
which you presented to her for the local manage-
ment of the metropolis, trusts that the arrange-
ments 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 information among the
poorer classes of her Majesty's subjects.
The principle of limited liability which you have
judiciously applied to joint-stock associations
will afford additional facilities for the employmen t
of capital, and the improvements which you have
made in thelaws which regulate:friendly societies will
encourage habits of industry and thrift among
the, labouring classes of the community.
Her Majesty. trusts that the measures to which
she has given her assent for improving
the Constitutions of New South Wales,
Victoria, and Tasmania, and for bestowing on
the important and flourishing colonies of Australia
extended powers of self-government, will assist in
the development of their great natural resources,
and will promote the contentment and happiness
of their inhabitants.
Her Majesty commands us to say that she
has been deeply gratified by the zeal for the
success of her Majesty's arms, and by the sym-
pathy for her soldiers and sailors manifested
throughout her Indian and Colonial Empire ; and
her Majesty acknowledges with great satisfaction
the _generous contributions which her subjects in
India, and the Legislatures and inhabitants of the
colonies have sent for the relief of the sufferers by
the casualties of var.
Gwriatss
r OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
Her Majesty commands us to convey to you her
cordial thanks for the readinessa
ta.nesdzea. with
which
you have provided the necessary supplies for cadrry-
ing on the war in which her m
Her Majesty laments the burdensy alsnedusgacagreifices
which it has become necessary to impose up on her
faithful people ; but she acknowledges the
wisdom
with which you have alleviated the weight of those
you
have by the mixed arrangements which
have made for providing those supplies.
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
Her Majesty commands us to say, that she has
seen with sincere regret that the endeavours which,
in conjunction with her Ally the Emperor of
the French, she made at the recent conferences
at Vienna to bring the war to a conclusion
on conditions consistent with the honour of the
Allies, and with the future security of Europe,
have proved ineffectual ; but those endeavours
havingo, failed, no other course is left to her Ma-
jesty but to prosecute the war with all possible
vigour, and her Majesty, relying upon the support
of her Parliament, upon the manly spirit
and patriotism of her people, upon the
never-failing courage of her army and her
whose patience under suffering and
whose power of endurance her Majesty has
witnessed with admiration, upon the steadfast
fidelity of her allies, and above all upon the
justice of her cause, humbly puts her trust'-in
the Almighty Disposer of events for such an issue
46" ,great contest in which she is engaged as
mayfsecure to Europe the blessings of a firm and
lasting peace.
atll Your return to your several counties you
will nave dntieato perform little less important than
those which belong to your attendance in Parlia
merit. Her Majesty trusts that your powerful
influence .„will be exerted for the welfare and
happiness of her People, the promotion of which is
the abject of her Majesty's constant care and the
anxious desire of her heart. ,
• •
EiplisE • OF COMMONS.---(YESTERDAY.)
The Sewall took the chair at half-pastione o'clock.
Sir AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD appeared at the bar and
summoned the house to the House of Lords to hear her
Majesty's most gracious speech proroguing.—
Parliament.
CONDUCT OF THE VAR.
Sis DE LACY EVANS took that opportunity for
Paying a few words Upon a subject which, be believed,
wouLd,be moat interesting to the house. The object
wlliehshe bad in' view was to elicit from the noble lord
at the.head.. of the
s. satin
overnment a declaration—which
wouldbe
!nos satisfactory to the house and to the
country at large,to have made—that in the long interval
of th" coulh2g.seeetis the .Government were determined
to prosecute the-war 'with. the greatest possible vigour.
He had na daubt but that, some gentlemen sitting be-
hind the Treasury bench might think the declaration
which, he askedriwasiquitessuperfluous, because the noble
lord bad repeatedly declared his intention to prosecute
the war. He however could not altogether forget that
in some instances—in one instance, he might say, espe-
cially-es-the •honse had found ministers advocating a
cigoegus prosecution.of the war in whose conduct there
was ultimately found to be a grevious shortcoming.
Another consideration induced him to rise on this occs-
sion_e4t was because he was old enough -to recollect the
last war, and in contrasting- our present exertions with
thpse which were then made he saw a great falling off.
Throughout the former war we had—counting. the troops
in Gibraltar-80,000 men in the held ; lye had 40,000.1