The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-16 00:00:00

CLOSING OF THE SWEDISH DIET.

The Diet of the Kingdom of Sweden was closed
on the Bth inst. at Stockholm, when the King ad-
dressed the members as follows :
t; Gentlemen,—Your task is accomplished. In
considering the importance and the multiplicity of
the subjects which have been submitted to your
deliberations, the long space of time which you
have devoted to your task cannot be considered as
too considerable. Few sessions have resulted in a
solution of so many important questions, and there
are few which have prepared decisions of more
general interest.
"In conformity 'with the prescriptions of thecon-
stitution you have remitted to the nest sitting of
the Diet the decision on the
which I have made
project for the reform
of the national representation
seed it, the enlightened
if that, after having
I known to you. I flatter nIY
calmly and deliberately weigh
siunbjteheet.faadamental law, it
ill assure the adoption of
the
case changes
opinion of the country will
" As a consequence of one of intro-
any proposition on this
the King
duced during the,i, decreed that, in
has been faa/
himself prevented from personally hold-
should find
jut, of Government, a plan will be adopted
hold-
ing the re session
respond better to the -
which will
stitutional monarchy than the interim regency
hitherto in force.
a Another change of major importance has as-
sured the right of representation in the order of
peasants to funded proprietors
belonging to other
classes of society.

"The law on synods opens a new era to the
Swedish Church.
making known The liberty accorded to it of
its wishes and of proceeding, b)
means of separate deliberations, to the settlement of
its most important affairs, with the aid of the
Almighty, must deyelope its action and strengthen
its position.

" You have adopted some projects of a new penal
code, of a new maritime code, and of a new law on
the right of hunting, in conformity to the principles
on which the propositions I have made to you on
these matters were founded. You have appro"ebd
with a firm step the great chject of general liberty
to trgde ; and the deliberate attention yo" ve,
corded to the laws on credit as well as to forest laws
will bear its fruit. You have also suother es banchbmitted to me
projects for the improvement of rnanY
of legislatic,n. I shall make it a duty to thr vote to
them a conscientious examination.
" The conformity of views between the Govern-
ment and the representation which has generally
marked this Diet has not been equally complete so
far as the customhouse legislation is concerned.
Amongst the number of resolutions submitted to
Lae by you on this subject is one which announces
the intention either to ofCa a protection to certain

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means of increased taxes, which fall necessarily to -
the charge of the others, I have pursued the sama
course as during the past, in the conviction that the
general welfare of commerce—the common aim of
our united efforts—is more surely and more equit-
ably attained by the reduction or the successive sup-
pression of surtaxes, of which the different branches
of trade mutually complain, than by sacrifices which
they must reciprocally impose on thornselves.
" The generous grants which you have voted in
favour of public instruction, railways, and other
works of general utility, are proofs of 3-our solici-
tude for the intellectual and material progress of
the country. You have cheerfully granted for the
national defence the amount I submitted to you in
excess of the ordinary grant, in consideration of the
political situation of the time.
"The cairn which reigned in our hemisphere wl '-en
the Diet was opened hos bE,eu disturbed during t, he
session; and although we have not been direct' v.
menaced, we, however, have interests intimatel3 -
connected with the maintenance of peace and of the
public law of Europe. We can only take a still
moTe oincere part in the grave cares which engender
the Janoers by which the King and the people of
Denma:tk are assailed, with whom we equally par-
take the vrief which we feel at the loss of a well
beloved Sov,9reign, who was my faithful friend as
well as that of .Bs,-eden.
"In the council
of the Powers I
that the voice of the united
endeavour to act so
Alan always
We should not be required
kingdoms may be found in
alsothe to
oalpalnacuee
ourof justice.vi,orc
there before having considered if the desireal end
may be attained by means at our disposal. MY
constant efforts for all which can opntribute to the
maintenance of peace have induced me to accert
...
the invitation to a general Congress addressed by
the Emperor of the French to the European
Powers.

" In invoking on Sweden and her people the VT 0"
tection of Divine Providence, I declare the present
Diet terminated, and I renew to you, gentlemen, to
all in general, and to each in particular, the as
ranee of all my royal favour."

The House of Commons Fifty Years ago.

To the right of the Speaker, on the tninisterisl
bench there sit, Spencer Percival, Chancellor of
the Exchequer; Vicary Gibbs, Attorney-General;
Ryder, Home Secretary ; George Rose ; Palmerston;
Croker. Castlereagh is sitting high up above the
Treasury bench. Canning is on the cross-bench
below. To the left of the Speaker are Ponsonby,
Brougham, Burdett, Gratian, Horner, Romily,
Sheridan, Tierney, Whitbread. All these gone but
two, to whom it has been permitted to vindicate the
belief that it is the privilege of genius never to grow
old. I practise myself in reporting for aly own
amusement and instruction. In not writing oh ort-
hand, I have no inferiority to the experienced men
around me; for I observe that very few acquired, or
at any rate employ, that useful art. The debates of
1812 were not expected to be reported so fully as
in more recent times. Often members complained
that their sayings were misrepresented. Such.
complaints were generally met by a dispositlon 011
the part of the House to punish the off,nder, • • •
Thursday, the 27th of February, is to be a
reat
Field-day in the Commons. I must be there at nu.`"
o
to secure a seat in the gallery. There I sat look'
ing upon the empty House till the Speaker comeo
in. The prayers are read, and some uninterest-
ing orders of the day are disposed of. Strangers
are crowding in, and wo hold our places as well
as we can against the rush. There are apparently
two or three seats vacant on the front bench. A.
wicked gentleman of the press suggests to a de-
spairing provincial that there he may be accommo-
dated. He strides and pushes to the desired
haven, amidst a suppressed :Ater, and is horrorstruck
to find that there he can neither see nor hear. The
back of the great clock is his obstructing enemy.
This is the standing joke nightly repeated. It wan
as successful in producing a titter as the Time."
I)anaos below, when it was the fashion for your, g
e.nd even old members to air their musty Latin ill,
bald quotations, as some lady novelists interlard
their feeble English with hoarding-school French..

The routine business is over. The bottle is about t',
begin. Sir Thomas Turton is to bring on a motio a
on the st ite of the nation. He was a true, professo r
of the Whig creed—that the contest against a
French Emperor was hopeless—that the Spanisi 1
war would last as long the Peloponnesian,
witl L
little probability of success. He touched upon tb a
orders in Council ; bat was told by the clever Min's ,-
terial supportcr, Mr. Robinson, that such discussic IL
had better be reserved for the forthcoming debate,
upon the motion of which notice had been given
"by a learned gentleman of great talents and eatten-
sive information." In two years from the time wh en
he had made his maiden speech, Mr. Brough ,rn
had thus become an authority in the house. The
debate of- the 27th of February Was spirite d. It
appeared likely to close at an early hour, for the
gallery was being cleared for a division. But Mr.
Whitbread rose, and called upon Lord Castlereagh
to give some explanation of his views, especially
upon the Catholic question, now that he Was likely
to become a member of the Administration. The
Marquis Wellesley had resigned the seals a! the
Foreign Office a week before.
Catholic The most impor tent
declarations of the session were thus called forth.
Mr. Percival and Lord Castlereagh declared that
gthreayntianngd
thethe claims
Ministry were unanimous against
now. The debate
was dragging on till two o'clock. The reporters
had expected that, after
the speech of the Pri.me
Minister, the House Would divide, I was left by
the staff of the "British Press" to make a note if
anything should
occur. Up rose Mr. Canning.
Somewhat alarmed I began to write. I gained cow,-
fidence.
render gracefulr
them
difficult u
sentencesdi lhadt t 0
fallow.noin Hisvolvec
impressive l,
constructionnls to
elocution fixed his words in my memory..
Some matters I necessarily passed over ; but the
great point of his speech, that he was speedily
granting the Catholic claims with due safeguards,
was an important one for the journal which I was
suddenly called upon to represent, and I caught the
spirit, if not the full words, of the declaration in
which he stood opposed to the Minister, and to his
own ancient rival. I ran to the office (for young legs
were faster than hackney-coaches), wrote my report,
to the astonishment of the regular staff of reporters,l doubt
and went happy to bed at five o'clock.
whether any literary success of my
le aft
ler-1 i f! g
gait's
me as much pleasure as this feat.—Cares kin
Recollections,

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It is somewhat curious that
THE NEW PLANET.
re:1;
the planet (97), cilivs:tclowoen, iroenetotrhye
last by Mr. James_
also independently discovered by M.
at Ann-Arbor, ;fire',,
on the 3d and 4th of October. no
Temple of
discoverylklar to Herr Peters on the 13th of the
notified the
fi, d gave a rough calculation of its position.
and apparent ,
pIaNTING . 1
BY ELEGRAPII---.Scime
"'magnitude.
interesting
printing-inks have just been
same nion-1
• place at the printing-office of Miss Faithfull, tho
object being to test the utility of ordinary printing in tele-
graphing. An Italian gentleman has invented a process of
taking place
wlth
printing by telegraph, which appears ti, take less than half
the present time of transmitting a message. Every kind
of printing-inks have hadtheir
trial, some with very
good success. A specimen printed by that process, trans-
mitted from Liverpool to London, is beforo us, and appears
completely successful. The Lord's Prayer, composed and
printed at Miss Faitlifull's office, and Iw-warded to Liver-
Pool, is stated to have taken two and a half minutes only.
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