The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-07 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT

(THIS DAY).

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their lordship assembled to-day at two o'clock,
ROYAL COMMISSION.

The Lord Chancellor and the other Royal Com-
missioners having taken their seats before the
Throne, the Usher of the Black Rod was directed
to summon the Commons to the bar of their lord-
ships' house, to hear her Majesty's assent given to
several bills which had received the sanction of
Parliament. On the arrival of the Speaker and
several members of the House of Commons, the
Royal assent was given to a number of bills,
amongst which were the folloviing :
Union Relief Aid
Consolidated Fund (Appropriation)
Court of Common Pleas (Officer for Acknowledgment of
Deeds)

Bankruptcy Act (1861) Amendment
Burial Boards (Mortgage of Rates)
Fortifications (Provision for Expenses)
Thames Embankment
Highland
itia
Parochialßa
AIRI
osotsaesds
Suspensionßridges
Companies, &c.
Confirniation of Sales, &c.
Divorce Court
Queen's Prison Discontinuance
Excise Duties
Polling Places (New Shoreham, 'ecc.)
Savings Banks (Ireland)
Weights and Measures (Ireland) Act (1860) Amendment
County Surveyors (Ireland)
Poor Removal
Recovery of Poor Rates, &c.
Mersey, Irwell, &c., Protection
Police and Improvement (Scotland)
Charity Commissioners Jurisdiction
African Slave Trade Treaty (No. 2)
Moveable Property (Scotland)
Lunatics Law Amendment
Lunacy hegulation (H. L.)
Militia Pay
Charing-cross Railway (City Terminus Bridge)
Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Junction Railway
Kensington Station and North and South London Junc-
tion Railway
Aberdeen Police, Water, &c.
This part of the proceedings being terminated,
The LORD CHANCELLOR, on the occasion of the
prorogation of Parliament, then read

HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.

MY LOADS 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
acknowledgments for the zeal and assiduity with
which you have applied yourselves to the perfor-
mance of your duties during the session now
brought to a close.
Her Majesty commands us to inform you that
ber relations with foreign Powers are friendly and
satisfactory; and that her Majesty trusts there is
no danger of any disturbance of the peace of
Europe.

The civil war which has for some time been raging
among the States of the North American Union, has
unfortunately continued in unabated intensity; and
the evils with which it has been attended have not
been confined to the American continent. But her
Majesty having, from the outset, determined to
take no part in that contest, has seen no reason to
depart from the neutrality to which she has steadily
adhered.

Disturbances have taken place in some Frontier
Provinces of the Turkish Empire, and her Majesty
has instructed her Ambassador at Constantinople
to attend a Conference to be held in that city, by
the representatives of the Powers who were parties
to the Treaty of Paris in 1856. Her Majesty
trusts that the questions to be dealt with in that
Conference will be settled in a manner consistent
with the treaty engagements of the allies, and in
accordance with the just rights of the Sultan, and
the welfare of the Christian inhabitants of his
dominions.

Her Majesty's forces in China, together with
those of the Emperor of the French, have lately
been employed, in co-operation with those of the
Emperor of China, in protecting some of the chief
seats of British commerce in China from injury by
the civil war which is laying waste portions of that
vast empire.

Her Majesty commands us to inform you that she
has concluded a commercial treaty with the King
of the Belgians, by which the trade of her Ma-
jesty's subjects in Belgium will be placed, generally,
on the footing of the most favoured nation.
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
Her Majesty commands us to convey to you her
warm acknowledgements for the liberal supplies
which you have granted for the service of the pre-
sent year; and her Majesty thanks you for having
also made provision towards placing her Majesty's
dockyards and arsenals in a permanent state of
defence.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
Her Majesty commands us to express to you the
admiration with which she has witnessed the un-
diminished zeal and the patriotic spirit which con-
tinue to animate her Volunteer Forces, as well as
the military efficiency which they have attained.
Her Majesty has observed with satisfaction the
kindly intercourse which has subsisted between her
Majesty's subjects and the numerous foreigners
who have been attracted this year to the United
Kingdom, and her M,,jesty trusts that the inter-
change of mutual courtesies will strengthen the
foundations of international friendship and good-
will.

Her Majesty has given her ready assent to an
Act for carrying into effect the Treaty which her
Majesty has concluded with the President of the
United States for the suppression of the Siave
Trade; and her Majesty trusts that the co-opera-
tion of the United States navy with her own may
go far to extinguish the desolating crime against
which that treaty is directed.
Her Majesty earnestly hopes that the steps which
have been taken for rendering more effectual the
aid provided by Parliament for the extension of
education among the poorer classes of her subjects,
will tend to promote an object of great national
importance.
Her Majesty has given her willing assent to
many measures of public utility which you have
submitted to her during this session.
The severe distress which prevails in some of the
manufacturing districts has inspired her Majesty
with deep concern and warm sympathy, mingled
with admiration, of the manly bearing and exem-
plary fortitude with which the pressure has been
endured. Her Majesty trusts that the Act for
enabling boards of guardians to provide additional
means of relief will mitigate that distress.
The Act for rendering more easy the transfer of
land will add to the value of real property, will
make titles more simple and secure, and will dimi-
nish the expense attending purchases and sales.
The Act for the better regulation of parochial
assessments will tend to a more equal distribati
on
l
of local taxation ; while the Act for the better
majesty ad-
ministration of the highways will, her
trusts, improve the moans of communication
many parts of the country.
The Act for establishing uniformity of weights
un in I
and measures in Ireland willa
apply a remedy to in-
conveniences which have been much felt and com-
plained of as affecting the trading transactions in
that part of the United Kingdom ; and the Act for
amending the law relating to the poor will extend
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the poorer
means
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subjects inef
Ireland and medical
attendance.
The Act for the better regulation of merchant
shipping, her Majesty trusts, will prove advanta-
geous to the maritime commerce of the country.
In returning to your several counties you will still
have important duties to perform, and her Majesty
fervently prays that the blessing of Almighty God
may assist your efforts, and may direct them to
the attainment of the object of her Majesty's con-
stant solicitude, the lf we are and happiness of her
people.
Parliament was then prorogued till Friday, the
24th of October.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAi.E NT

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tms DAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter to two o'clock.
ECCLESIASTICAL REVENUES (DURHAM).
On the motion of Mr. INGHL&T, a return was ordered
of the amounts received from the ecclesiastical revenues of
Durham for the years 1859, 1860, and 1861.
THE ACT OF UNIFORMITY.
In reply to Mr. H. SErmotrit,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in the absence of the
Home Secretary, said that the injunction referred to was a
matter that rested entirely with the Bishop of Oxford,
who had taken on himself the whole responsibility with
reference to the same.
THE UNITED STATES VESSELS AT NASSAU.
In reply to Mr. S. FITZGERALD,
Lord PALM ERSTON said that there was no country
more interested than Great Britain in the protection of
belligerent rights, and he believed they had not been
infringed by the search which the United States vessels
had made under the impression that contraband
of war was being conveyed to the parties with whom they
were at hostilities. It appeared, however, that these belli.-
gerent powers had been exceeded, and the subject was now
under the consideration of Government.
PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

Colonel CLIFFORD, the Yeoman Usher of the Black
Rod, summoned the members to the Upper House to hear
her Majesty's speech delivered by commission proroguing
Parliament.

The SPEAKER, accompanied by several hon. members
then prcceeded to the House of Lords, and after about
three-quarters of an hour's absence returned.
The SPEAKER then read the Royal Speech, for which
see Lords' report, after which the members present shook
hands with the right hon. gentleman, which terminated the
session,