The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-07 00:00:00

GENTLEMEN OF TIIE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

Tier Majesty has directed the estimates for the
ensuing year to be laid before you.
They have been prepared with every attention to
economy and with due regard to the efficiency of
the public service.

_
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
Her Majesty commands us to inform you that
the general condition of the country is satisfactory,
and that the revenue realises its estimated amount.
The distress which prevailed in some of the manu-
facturing districts has greatly abated ; and the Act
passed for the encouragement of public works in
those districts has been attended with•useful results.
Ireland during the past year has had its share in
the advantage of a good harvest and trade, and
manufactures are gradually extending in that part
of the kingdom.
Various measures of
„public usefulness will be

submitted for your consideration.
Bills will be laid before you for the concentration
of all the Courts of Law and Equity, with their
attendant offices, in a convenient site ; a measure
which her Majesty trusts will promote economy and
despatch in the administration of justice.
The important work for the revision of the Statute
Law, already carried to a considerable extent by
recent Acts of Parliament, will be completed by a
bill that will be laid before you. Her Majesty
hopes that this work may be a step towards the
formation of the Digest of the Law.
Bills will also be submitted for your considera-
tion for the amendment of the laws relating to
patents for inventions, and for conferring on the
county courts an equitable jurisdiction in causes
of small amount.

Your assistance will also be invited to give effect
to certain recommendations 'made to the Home of
Commons, after inquiry directed by that house,
into the operation of the laws regulating the relief
of the poor.
A bill will be laid before you founded on the re-
port of the commission for inquiring into public
schools ; and her Majesty has directed that a com-
mission shall be issued to inquire into endowed and
other schools in England, which have not been in-
cluded in the recent inquiries relating to popular
education.

Her Majesty commits with confidence the great
interests of the country to your wisdom and care ;
and she fervently prays that the blessing of
Almighty God may attend your councils, and
may guide your deliberations (to the attainment
.of the object of her constant solicitude, the welfare
and happiness of her people.

MARKET S --This Day.

II AY MARKE TB.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 lOs ; clover
£5 10s to £6 10s ; and straw, £1 8s to .£1 14s per load,
Trade slow.

- CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 10s to £5 10s ; clover,
£5 10s to £6 103 ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 15s per load.
A slow demand.

WIIITECI3APEL.—Meadow hay, £4los to £5 lOs ; clover,
£6 lOs to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 88 to £1 14s per load.
Trade inactive.

COLONIAL.

TEA.—Business has been dull, the trade having been
engaged with:the samples of the large quantity to be offered
at public sale this day.
SUGAR.—The market has remained dull, and only good
grocery descriptions have sustained former prices. In the
refined market a fair amount of business has been entered
into at steady rates.

COFFEE.—There has been a moderate enquiry for colonial
descriptions, and late prices have been generally well sup-

ported.
RlCE.—East India descriptions have been in good demand
and have realised fully former rates.
T,►LLow.—Tho market has remained rather quiet, and
quotations for both present and forward delivery have
shown a downward tendency. P. Y. C. on the spot is
quoted 41s. 6d. ; April to JanuaLy, 425. ; and last three
months, 435. 3d. per cent.