The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-29 00:00:00

PARLIAM ENT.

HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.

MY LOADS AND GENTLEMEN,

We are commanded by her Mejesty to release
you from further attendance in Parliament, and, at
the same time, to convey to you her Mrjesty's
acknowledgments for the zeal and assiduity with
which you have applied yourselves to the discharge
of your duties during the session of Parliament now
brought to a close.

Her Majesty commands us to inform you that she
greatly regrets that the endeavours which she
made in concert with the Emperor of the French,
the Emperor of Russia, the King of Sweden, to
bring about a reconciliation between the German
Powers and the King of Denmark, were not suc-
cessful, and that the hostilities which had been
suspended during the negotiations were again
resumed. Her Majesty trusts, however, that the
negotiations which have opened between the belli.
gerws may restore peace to the North of Europe.
Her Majesty having addressed herself to the
Powers who were contracting parties to the treaty
by which the lonian Republic was placed under the
protectorate of Great Britain, and having obtained

heir consent to the annexation of that Republic to

the K ingdom of Greece, and the States of the lonian
Republic having agreed thereto, the Republic of
the Seven Islands has been, formally united to the
Kingdom of Greece, and her Majesty trusts that the
union so made will conduce to the welfare and
prosperity of all the subjects of his Majesty the
King of the Hellenes.
Her Majesty's relations with the Emperor of
China continue to be friendly, and the commerce
of her subjects with the Chinese Empire is
increasing.

Her Majesty has been engaged, in concert. with
the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the
French, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of
Russia, in an endeavour to bring to effect an amicable
arrangement of differences which had arison be-
tween the Hospodar of Moldo•Wallachia and his
Suzerain the Sultan. Her Majesty has the satis-
faction to inform you that this endeavour has been
successful.

Her Majesty deeply laments that the civil war
in North America has not been brought to a close.
Her Majesty will continue to observe a strict neu-
trality between the belligerents, and would rejoice
at a friendly reconciliation between the contending
parties.

GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
Her Majesty commands us to convey to you her
warm acknowledgments for the liberal supplies
which you have granted for the service of the pre-
sent year, and towards the permanent defence of
her Majesty's dockyards and arsenals.
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
Her Majesty has observed with satisfaction that
the distress which the civil war in North America
has created in some of the manufacturing districts
has to a greet extent abated, and her Majesty
trusts that increased supplies of the raw material
of industry may be extracted from countries by
which it has hitherto been scantily furnished.
The revolt of certain tribes in New Zealand has
not yet been quelled, but it is satisfactory to her
Majesty to know that a large portion of the native
population of those islands have taken no part in
this revolt:

It Las been a source of much gratification to her
Majesty to observe the rapid development of the
resources of her East Indian possessions, and the
general contentment of the people inhabiting those

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

DENMARIC
THE DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.
COPENHAGEN, JULY 27.

RUMOURED ARMISTICE.

extensive regions.
Her Majesty has given her cordial assent to
many measures of public usefulness, the result of
your labours during the session now brought to a
close.

The Act for extending to women and children
employed in various trades the regulations applica-
ble to factories in general, will tend materially to
preserve the health and improve the education of
those on whose behalf it -vas framed.
The Act for authorising the grant of Government
Annuities will encourage habits of prudence among
the working classes, and will afford them the means
of securely investing the results of their industry.
The Act for Authorising a further advance for
public works in some of the manufacturing dis-
tricts will contribute to alleviate the distress in
these districts, and will afford the means of com-
pleting many works of marked importance for the
health of the population.
The Act for giving increased facilities for the
construction of railways will diminish the ex-
penses attendant upon the extension of those im-
portant channels of communication.
It has afforded to her Majesty the most heartfelt
satisfaction to observe the general well-being and
contentment which prevail throughout her domi-
nions, and to remark the progressive increase and
development of the national resources, and to find
that, after sufficiently providing for the public ser-
vice, you have been able to make a material diminu-
tion in the taxation of the country.
On returning to your respective counties you
will still have important duties to perform essen-
tially connected with the linking together of the
several classes of the community, and her Majesty
fervently prays that the blessing of Almighty God
may attend your exertions, and guide them to the
object of her Majesty's constant solicitude, the
welfare and happiness of her people.

DROUGHT IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES.--Very
general complaints ars made in the counties of Notts,
Daby, Lincoln, and Leicester cf the continued want of rain.
The Trent is lower than has been known for several years,
and the pasture lands are as bare, almost, as the high roads.
Allusion was made to the subject in numerous pulpits on
Sunday last. The wheat :Top looks well, but there is a
danger of the ears ripening too fast.
MURDER AMONG THE PROFESSORS.—The Cologne
Gazette speaks of a strange crime which has just
been committed in the town of Notherg, near Aix-la-Cha-
pelle. Prof. Kluzen had left his house when another pro-
fessor, M. Lang, rushed on him, and exclaiming, " We must
both die," fired a pistol at his face, wounding him most dan-
gerously. Then taking another pistol from his pocket M.
Lang blew out his own brains. Both had played at cards
together the night before, and parted on the most friendly
terms. Prof. Klexen lies in a desperate state.

COPENHAGEN, JULY 2S, 1,54 P.M.

TOLL• GATE AMENITIES.—" Sorry ! Lor' bless you,
sir, I shall be jolly glad when 12 o'clock comes,
and it's all over. You wouldn't believe the life the 'busmen
and the cabbies have been a leading me for a week past ; ah,
for a month temost. To-day it has been dreadful. And you
may be as good at chaff as you like, but you can't have an
atiswer ready for every one. Me and my boys have been
making up things to say all the morning, and we've given
it to a•few of them pretty hot, though, of course, some of
them had the best of us. There's a surly old fellow as gene-
rally goes round the crescent and evades the gate when he
can, but the other day he was obliged to come through.
Ah I' he says, ' there will be no gates after Friday." Oh,
yes, there will,' I says ; they're going to leave one on your
account.' Which gate is that ?' ho says, Why, Newgate
I says. You should have seen how he whipped into his
horse and made off double quick. Then, there's a saucy,
cheeky sort of a chap as drives a Hansom says to me,
Hullo, John I' he says, what are you going to do when
the gate's down? Start a baked tatur can, or go into the
catch-'em-alive-oh line?' No, neither,' I says, but I
don't mind telling you what I intend to be up to. I'm
going to do something to get put into the House of Cor-
rection, and when I come out with a ticket-of-leave I'll be
fully qualified to driyo a cab,' the Year 2? von?

PROROGATION LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

At the sitting of the "Folkething" yesterday,
the amendment of MM. Jagd and Liebe that " the
Folkething should pass to the order of the day to
avoid occasioning embarrassment to the Govern-
mcnt" was rejected.
The address was adopted by 60 votes to 21 ; seven
members, among whom was Bishop Aliourad,
stained from voting.

The l3erlingske Tinende of to-day states that the
news published by Faedrolandet announcing the
conclusion of a nine months' armistice between the
great German Powers of Denmark is premature.