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

SPEECH,

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MY LORDs AND GENTLE bIEN,
I am induced by con a iderations 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 )33 e, in this comparatively
short Session, to give ray 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 counts.: f ; and I entertain a confi-
dent hope that the ami. :able relations happily sub-
sisting between the prin, aipal European States may
be so firmly established a s, under Divine Providence, ,
to secure to the world a I avg continuance of the bles-
sings of Peace. To this great end my attention will
be unremittingly directed...
I rejoice that the final settlement of the affairs
of Holstein and Schleswig, by the general concur-
rence of the Powers chicly interested, has removed
one cause of recent differ€ nce and of future anxiety.
The amicable termination of the discussions
which have taken place between the Sublime Porte
and the Pacha of Eg3 rpt afford a guarantee for
the tranquillity of the Ea at, and an encouragement to
the extension of commerc enterprise.
The refusal on the lts.rt of the King of Ave, of
redress, justly demanded for insults and injuries offered
to my subjects at Rangoon, has necessarily led
to an interruption of frie]adly relations with that So-
gThe promptitue and vigour with which
Governor- General of India has taken the mea-
vtsheuer inreas d
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
naval and military forces, European and Indian, by
whose valour and discipline the important captures of
Rangoon and Martaban have been accomplished ;
and in the hope which 1 entertain that these signal
successes may lead to an a any :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
neighbouring 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
dominions.

GENTLEMEN OF THE 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. I have taken such steps as appeared to me
most urgently necessary for the mitigation of this
3eriuus evil. I 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-
liament on ray
accession to the Throne, may enable
them to meet their necessarily increased expenditure.
Mr LADS AND GENTLEMEN,

I have gladly assented to the important Bills
which you have passed for effecting reforms, long
and anxiously desired in the practice and proceedings of
the Superior Courts of Law and Equity, and
generally for improving the administration of justice.
Every measure which simplifies the forms, and dimi-
nishes the delay and expense of legal proceedings, with-
out introducing 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, and for improving the supply of water, may
be found effectual for the remedy of evils the ex-
istence of which has long been a reprcach to this
and may conduce to the health
nof popular rights and legislative
inhabitants.
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powers to
my subjects resident in the colonies, is
always to me an
object of deep interest; and I
trust that the representative institutions which, in
concert with you, I have sanctioned for New
Zealand, may promote the welfare and contentment
of the population of that distant but most in-
teresting colony, and confirm their loyalty and
attachlllmA t. my
Crown.
It is my intention, without delay, to dissolve
this present Parliament, and it is my earnest
prayer, that in the exercise of the high func-
tions which according to our free Constitution
will devolve upon the several constituencies,
they may be directed by an all-wise Providence to
the selection of representatives, whose wisdom and
patriotism may
aid me in my unceasing endeavours to
sustain the honour and dignity of my Crown, to
uphold 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 develops and encourage Industry, Art,
and Science; and to elevate the moral and social
condition, and thereby
promote the welfare and hap-
pinesof my people.

THE PARLIAMENTARY SESSION or 1852.—The sth
session of the 15th and 16th Victoria, whose career termi-
nates to-
longer thanday ,a thought
one p compe
reperiod
was opened by the Queen
onane,tiheaipsaetnedd.urept
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- 71,1 hours each. The number of
hours sat past midnight vias,,sl4. The Lords during the
same period have sat on only " 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,
anf.l five in the Lords. The phenomenon known in Parlia-
mentary language as a " nu 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 6th, 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
a motion of Mr. Anstey's relative to Colonel Outram ; and
again, June 15th, on a motion by the same Hon. Gentleman
relative to the expulsion o 1 British subjects from the Aus-
trian dominions. i

THE METROPOLITAN B ogouG In.—According to
the late census, as appear Parliamentary return just
houses, and the
printed, there are in thes from a
Tower Hamlets 75,710 inhabited
popui:tion is 539,111 ; in Marylebone,
, and the population 370,957; in
Finsbury, 9
154 inhabited houses, and the 37,427 inhabited houses, and the population
328;772 ; in Lambeth, 3
po-
pulation 251,345 in Westminster,lo,sl3 inhabited house
and the population 241 611; and in Southwark, 23,751 inha-
bited hotteoe, and the
;', 24,755 inhabited houses,
pOpulittion 172,863..