The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-28 00:00:00

ROYAL ASSENTS.

810 n.

The LORD CHANCELLOR and the other Commissioners
having taken their seats, the Commons were summoned to
the bar, when the Royal assent was given to a number ot bills,
both public and private, amongst which were the Consoli-
dated Fund Appropriation—Pier and Harbour Orders Con -
firmation—Alteration in Judges' Circuits—Greenwich Hos-
pital (Provision for Widows) Metropolitan Main
Drainage Extension —Misappropriation by Servants
—Savings Banks Acts Amendment—Stipendiary Magi-
strates Removal of Irish Poor Growing Crops
Seizure (Ireland)—Land Drainage (Provisional Orders)—
Cl, rgymen (Colonies)—Marriages Registration (Ireland),
and the Colonial Acts Confirmation Bills—Vaccination
(Scotland)—Local Government Supplemental (No. 2)—
Volunteers' —Wayward, n's Contracts—lndia Stock and the
Sydney Naval Mint—Drainage and Improvement of Land
(Ireland)—Fortifications (Provisions for Expenses) and
the Nuisances Removal Act (1855) Amendment—
Harwich Harbour—Howth Harbour—Metropolitan Main
Drainage Extension—Port Erin Harbour (Isle of Man)—
Prisons (Ireland)—Alteration in Judges' Circuits—Green •
with Hospital (Provision for Widows)—Savings Banks
Act Amendment Clergymen (Colonial) London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Tooting Junc-
tion) London and North Western (additional
powers)—North Eastern Railway (Newcastle and Star-
beck Branches) Elgin and Nairnshire Roads
Waterford and Passage Railway and Ferry—Peterborough,
Wisbeach, and Sutton Railway—Northampton and Ban-
bury Junction Railway—Edinburgh, Dunfermline, and
Perth (North British) Railway—Haddington Roads—
Birmingham and Sutton Coalfield Railway—Hastings
Harbour—Wexford Free Bridge—London and North
Western Railway (new branches)—and Kettering and
Thrapetone Railway.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then read
HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

We are commanded by her Majesty to release
you from further attendance in Parliament, and at
the same time to convey to you her Majesty's ac-
knowledgments for the zeal and assiduity with which
you have applied yourselves to the performance of
your duties during the Session now brought to a
close.

Her Majesty has seen with deep regret the
present condition of Poland. Her Majesty has
been engaged, in concert' with the Emperor of the
French and the Emperor of Austria, in negotia
tions, the object of which has been to obtain the
fulfilment of the stipulations of the Treaty of
Vienna of 1815, in behalf of the Poles. Her Ma-
jesty trusts that those stipulations will be carried
into execution, and that thus a conflict distressing
to humanity and dangerous to the tranquillity of
Europe may be brought to a close.

The civil war between the Northern and South-
ern States of the North American Union still un-
fortunately continues, and is necessarily attended
with much evil not only to the contending parties,
but also to nations which have taken no part in the
contest. Her Majesty, however, has seen no reason
to depart from that strict neutrality which her
Majesty has observed from the beginning of the
contest.

The Greek nation having chosen Prince William
of Denmark for their King, her Majesty is taking
steps with a view to the union of the lonian Islands
to the Kingdom of Greece. For this purpose her
Majesty is in communication with the Powers who
were parties to the Treaty of 1815, by which those
islands were placed under the protection of the
British Crown ; and the wishes of the lonians on
the subject of such union will be duly ascertained.

Several barbarous outrages committed in Japan
upon British subjects have rendered it necessary
for her Majesty to demand reparation ; and her
Majesty hopes that her demands will be conceded
by the Japanese Government without its being ne-
cessary to resort to coercive measures to enforce
them.

The Emperor of Brazil has thought fit to break
off his diplomatic relations with her Majesty in
consequence of her Majesty not having complied
with demands which she did not deem it possible to
accede to. Htr Majesty has no wish that this
estrangement should continue, and would be glad
to see her relations with Brazil reestablished.