The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-03 00:00:00

THE OPENIN

PARLIAMENT.

HER MAJESTY'S
SPEECH.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

The period has arrived when, according to
usage, I can again avail myself of your advice
and assistance in the preparation and adoption of
measures which the welfare of the country may

require.

I continue to maintain the most friendly relations

with Foreign Powers.

The complicated affairs of the Duchies of Hol-
stein and Slesvig have continued to engage my
attention. I have every reason to expect that the

treaty between Germany and Denmark, which was
concluded at Berlin in the year before last,
will, in a short time, be fully and completely exe-
cuted.

I regret that the war which unfortunately
broke out on the eastern frontier of the Cape
of Good Hope, more than a year ago,
still continues. Papers will be laid before
you containing full information as to the
progress of the war, and the measures which have
been taken for bringing it to a termination.

While I have observed with sincere satisfaction
the tranquillity which has prevailed throughout the
greater portion of Ireland, it is with much regret
that I have to inform you, that certain parts of the

counties of Armagh, Monaghan, and Loutb,
have been marked by the commission
of outrages of the most serious descrip-
tion. The powers of the existing law have
been promptly exerted for the detection of the
offenders, and for the repression of a system of crime
and violence fatal to the best interests of the
country. My attention will continue to b 3 directed
to this important object

GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

I have ordered estimates of the expenses of the
current year to be laid before you.

I rely with confidence on your loyalty and zeal
:o make adequate provision for the public service.

Where any increase has been made in the esti-
mates of the present over the past year, such expla-
nations will be given, as will, I trust, satisfy you that
such increase is consistent with a steady adherence
to a pacific policy, and with the dictates of a wise
economy.
MY LORDS ♦ND GENTLEMEN,

The improvement of the Administration of
Justice in its various departments, has continued to
receive my anxious attention, and in furtherance of
that object, I have directed Bills to be prepared,
founded upon the reports made to me by the respec-
tive Commissioners appointed to inquire into the
practice and proceedings of the superior Courts of
Law and Equity.
As nothing tends more to the peace, prosperity
and contentment of a country than the speedy and
impartial administration of justice, I earnestly re-
commend these measures to your deliberate attention.
The Act of 1848, for suspending the operation
of a previous Act conferring representative institu-
tions on New Zealand, will expire early in the next
year. lam happy to believe that there is no neces-
sity for its renewal, and that no obstacle any longer
exists to the enjoyment of representative insti-
tutions by New Zealand. The form of these
institutions will, however, require your con-
sideration, and the additional information which bss
been obtained since the passing of the Acts in
question, will, I trust, enable you to arrive at a de-
cision beneficial to that important Colony.
It gives me great satisfaction to be able to
state to you that the large reductions of taxes which
have taken place of late years, have not been attended
with a proportionate diminution of the national
income. The Revenue of the past year has been
fully adequate to the demands of the public service,
while the reduction of taxation has tended greatlY
to the relief and comfort of my subjects.
I acknowledge with thankfulness to Almighty
God, that tranquillity, good order, and willing obe-
dience to the laws continue to prevail general',
throughout the country.
It appears to me that this is a fitting time for
calmly considering whether it may not be advisable
to make such amendments in the Act of the late reign
relating to the representation of the Commons in
Parliament, as may be deemed calculated to carry
into more complete effect the principles upon which
that law is founded.
I have the fullest confidence that in any Mob
consideration you will firmly adhere to the acknow-
ledged principles of the Constitution, by which the
prerogatives of the Crown, the authonrdit
Yliboefrtiebsotohf
Houses of Parliament, and the rights a
he people, are equally secured.

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SOUTH-EAsTBIIN RAILWAY.—The half-yearly
traffic receipts of this company are made up to January 31st
July 31st in each year. me receipts for the half-year
and
ending the 31st of January, 1852, amounted to 400,2481., and
for the corresponding period ending the 31st of January,
1851, to 343,4111., showing an increase of 56,837/., rather
more than 161 h per cent.
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20th inst., to be held at the same place. Tavern, but,
RAPID PASSAGES.—The clipper packet ship Bacer
Steele commander, aGrrrieveend
crulinppfreorm.
pewLiYucloar,k of
only
14 days, nautical time. ,later
clipper-ship
accounts from Pernambuco,She lef
that port on the 2d of arrived on Tuesday. 24 day
The Refuge, Wilsonarrived coin •
January, and made the run in A
rrive
commander of Liverpool, that a
at this purl T the 2d
having on uesday from ti A. ew Orleans, sailed on
..,,0,
of January, crossed commander,in t h
eers eyw onuh Mie2n ddasyydr,s afterrtao
hiae
the bar on the 4th of January, at 4 o
in the Mersey on the above day, at 2, r.g.,
performed the passage in 22 days and 16 hours.
This is the shortest passage on record between the two porta•
The Crisis, Gibson commander, a ship that carries nearly
double the quantity of cargo to her registered burden, arrived
on Wednesday in the short space of 109 days from Shanghai
having sailed thence on the Dth of October.— Liverpoli
Albion..
FATAL RESULT OF DIORMON FANATICISM.—DUriII
several successive days a number of men have been engaged
in searching the Trent between Nottingham and Beeston fol
the purpose of finding the body of a young man Jam
William Barnes, recently a resident in the last
cedenamd place'
Barnes having latterly distinguished himself as loub
artn among the Mormouites, who unhappily are be-
comingcin rather numerous in and around the county of Not.
tingham, had been elevated to the rank of a priest or
prophet. In this capacity he was about to receive a couPle
of converts into the bosom of " the church" on Wer
nesday night, at ten o'clock. The " priest," ,11.
candidates, and a number of " brethren " aPProacael
the left bank of the Trent at the time nalnet"
as
the spot selected being in a place known 131
,
the Rye-fields, near Beeston. The converts, both 9
fe 01
women, hesitated about going into the water, being 31111""
of danger, but Barnes bravely led the way, assuring them
that no harm could befal the taithtul. He bad scarcello
uttered some expression to this effect, and was stepping into
the stream, which was unusually high and the current itui
strong, when in a moment he was carried off his legs tort
sank uirectly. One of the " brethren" with him, who cello
swim well, plunged after the unfortunate man, but v
unable to reach him, and his body has never been seen si_
l?_C°',.
The enthusiasm of these wretched fanatics is astoiaisbi%
They are constantly engaged in making proselytes, r,.,
many families have talready been induced by their age?.`";•,7,
to leave this neighbourhood for the Mormon settlement ."
California.
On Tuesday morning, about nine o'clock', tlio
schooner in the roads of Scarborough signalled for a plincL
bring her into the harbour, when a coble, belong' g_i-d
George Douglas, manned with six fishermen, proc.ec_,B7.,
towards the schooner, and when within a come aid
short distance of the pier end, a sea struck the cobrf
~,
upset her, throwing all the men into the sea. Three
but
ow;
they sea came and washed themand, melancholy t '
late, all the poor fellows were drowned. • been
Thu Highland road to Inverness, after baviDg s,,
rendered impassable for upwards of a fortnight, in f,the,
quence of the lievere snowstorm, is again ope,sir
mails are performing their journeys as u.sual.--r
Advertiser.
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