The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-01 00:00:00

SPEECH.

MT LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
I am induced by considerations of public policy
to release you at an earlier period than usual from
your legislative duties.
The zeal and diligence, however, with which you
have applied yourselves to your Parliamentary
labours, have enabled me, in this comparatively
short Session, to give my assent to many measures
of high importance, and, I trust, of great and perma-
nent advantage,
I receive from all Foreign Powers assurances
that they are animated by the most friendly disposi-
tions towards this country ; and I entertain a confi-
dent hope that the amicable relations happily sub-
sisting between the principal Europeon States may
be so firmly established as, under Divine Providence,
to secure to the world a long continuance of the bles-
sings of Peace. To this great end my attention will
be unremittingly directed.
I rtjoice that the final settlement of the affairs
of Holstein and Schleswig, by the general concur-
rence of the Powers chiefly icterested, has removed
one came of recent difference and of future anxiety.
The amicable termination of the discussions
which have taken place between the Sublime Porte
and the Pacha of Egypt afford a guarantee for
the tranquillity of the East, and an encouragement to
the extension of commercial enterprise.
The refusal on the part of the King of Ave, of
redress, justly demanded for insults and injuries offered
to ray subjects at Rangoon, has necessarily led
to at interruption of friendly relations with that So-
vereign. The promptitude and vigour with which
the Governor- General of India has taken the mea-
sures thus rendered unavoidable, have merited
my entire approbation ; and I am confident
that you will participate in the satisfaction
with which I have observed the conduct of the
navel and military forces, European and Indian, by
whole valour and discipline the important captures of
Rangoon and Martaban have been accomplished ;
and in the hope which I entertain that these signal
successes may lead to an early :and honourable peace.
Treaties have been concluded by my naval com-
manders with the King of Dahomey and all the
African chiefs whose rule extends along the Bight
of Benin, for the total abolition of the Slave Trade,
which is at present wholly suppressed upon that
coast.

I have had great satisfaction in giving my assent
to the measure which you have wisely adopted for the
better organisation of the Militia ; a constitutional
force, which being limited to purposes of internal de-
fence, can afford no just ground of jealousy to
neigabouring Powers ; but which, in the event of
any sudden and unforeseen disturbance of my
foreign relations, would at all times contribute
essentially to the protection and security of my
domions.

GENTLEMEN OF THB House OF COMMONS,
I thank you for the liberal provision which you
have made for the exigencies of the public service.
The expenditure which you have authorised shall be
applied with a due regard to economy and efficiency.
The recent discoveries of extensive gold-fields
have produced, in the Austrian Colonies, a temporary
disturbance of society, requiring prompt atten-
tion. 1 have taken such steps as appeared to me
most urgently necessary for the mitigation of this
serious evil. 1 shall continue anxiously to watch the
important results which must follow from these dis•
coveries. I have willingly concurred with you in an
Act, which, by rendering available to the service of
those Colonies the portion arising within them, of the
Hereditary Revenue placed at the disposal of Par-
Heinen; on my accession to the Throne, may enable
them N meet their necessarily increased expenditure.
Mx lAMBS AND GENTLEMEN,
I Save gladly assented to the important Bills
which you have passed for effecting reforms, long
and anxiously desired in the practice and proceedings of
the Stperior Courts of Law and Equity, and
generaly for improving the administration of justice.
Every measure which simplifies the forms, and dimi-
nishes the delay and expense of legal proceedings, with-
out intoducing uncertainty of decision, impairing the
authority of the Courts, or lowering the high standard
of the Judicial Bench, is a valuable boon conferred
upon the community at large.
I hope that the measures which you have
adopted for promoting extramural interment of the
dead, I,nd for improving the supply of water, may
be fousd effectual for the remedy of evils the ex-
istence of which has long been a reproach to this
great metropolis, and may conduce to the health
and co!nfort of its inhabitants.

The extension of popular rights and legislative
to subjects resident in the colonies, is
to!
lime an object of deep interest; and I
trust that the representative institutions which, in
with you, I have sanctioned for New
zd
may promote the welfare and contentment
of the( population of that distant but most in-
terestiag colony, and confirm their loyalty and
attachinent to my Crown.
concertealan ,

If, is my intention, without delay, to dissolve
this present Parliament, and it is my earnest
prayed, that in the exercise of the high fuoo
tions which aceorcliokr to our free Constitution
will devolve upon the several constituencies,
be directed by an all-wise Providence to
they r Y•3'
tho selection of representatives, whose wisdom and
ioaid me in my unceasing endeavours to
sustainatristhehonour and dignity of my Crown, to
uphold
tm may
the Protestant institutions of the country,
and the civil and religious liberty, which is their
natural result ; to extend and improve the National
Education ; to develope and encourage Industry, Art,
and Science; and to elevate the moral and social
condition, and thereby promote tho welfare and hap.
piness of my people.

THE PARLIAMENTARY SESSION OF 1852.—The sth
session of the 15th and 16th Victoria, whose career termi-
nates to-day, though comparatively a brief one, has endured
longer than at one period could have been anticipated. It
was opened by the Queen in person on the 3d of February,
and has therefore lasted four calendar months and twenty-
eight days, being one month and six days shorter than its
predecessor of 1851. The House of Commons has sat during
that period on eighty days, their sittings occupying in all 580
hours, or an average of 714 hours each. The number of
hours sat past midnight was 5514. The Lords during the
same period have sat on only 69 days, and their sittings oc-
cupied 157 hours, being an average of 214 hours each. There
have been during the session 121 divisions in the Commons,
and five in the Lords. The phenomenon known in Parlia-
mentary language as a " no house" has occurred but once—
on the 18th of May. The " counts out" have been four in
number, two of the occasions for which were afforded by
Mr. Chisholm Anstey, the Member for Youghal. They
were as follows :—April ith, when the House was in Com-
mittee
upon the Suitors in Chancery Relief Bill (to which
the royal
assent was yesterday given) ; April 26th, of pure
exhaustion, at half-past one in the morning; April 27th, on
of Mr. Anstey's relative to Colonel Outram ; and
June
again,lsth, on a motion by the same Hon. Gentleman
relative
tothe expulsion of British subjects from the Aus-
trian di°ll ominions.

THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS.—According to
the late census, as appears from a Parliamentary return just
there are in the w
rower Hamlets 75,710 inhabited
and the population is 539,111 ; in l\larylebone,
40,513 inhabited houses, and the population 370,957; in
37,427 inhabited houses, and the population
houses, printed,
Finsbury,
323,772; in Lambeth, 39,154 inhabited houses, and the po-
pulation 251,345 ; in Westminster, 24,755 inhabited houses,
and the population 241,611; and in Southwark, 23,751 inha-
bited houses, and the population 172,863.