The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-01 00:00:00

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OF

PARLIAMENT.

HER MAJESTY'S
SPEECH,

Parliament was this day prorogued by Commis-
sion. The following is her Majesty's Speech
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
We have it in command from her Majesty to
inform you that the state of public business enables
her to dipence with your attendance in Parliament,
and to close the present Session.
Her Majesty has directed us to express her
satisfaction with the zeal and assiduity with which
you have discharged the laborious and anxious
duties in the performance of which you have been
occupied.

Her Majesty has given her assent to the im-
portant measure you have passed to amend the
Navigation Laws, in full confidence that the enter-
prise, skill, and hardihood of her people will assure
to them a full share of the commerce of the world,
and maintain upon the seas the ancient renown of
this nation.

Her Majesty has commanded us to acquaint you
that the friendly character of her relations with
Foreign Powers affords her a just confidence in the
continuance of peace.
The preliminaries of peace between Prussia
and Denmark have been signed under the medi-
ation of her Majesty, and her Majesty trusts that
this convention may prove the forerunner of a
definitive and permanent treaty.
Her Majesty's efforts will continue to be di-
rected to promote the restoration of peace in those
parts of Europe in which it has been interrupted.
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
We are commanded by her Majesty to return
you her thanks for the provision which you have
made for the public service.

The public expenditure has undergone con-
siderable reductions within the present year, and
her Majesty will continue to apply a watchful
economy in every branch of the public service.
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
We are commanded by her Majesty to congra•
tulate you on the happy termination of the war in the
Punjaub. The exertions made by the Government
of India and the valour displayed by the army in the
field, demand her Majesty's warmest acknowledgments.
Her Majesty has observed with gratification
the spirit of obedience to the laws which has
been manifested by her subjects during the period
which has elapsed since her Majesty last addressed
her Parliament.

It is the characteristic of our Constitution that
it renders the maintenance of order compatible with
the fullest enjoyment of political and civil liberty.
The satisfaction with which her Majesty has

viewed the peaceful progress of her people in arts
and industry, has been greatly alloyed by the con-
tinuance of uevere distress in one part of the United

Kingdom.

Her Majesty has observed with pleasure your
liberal exertions to mitigate the pressure of this
calamity, and her Majesty commands us to
thank you for your unremitting attention to
measures calculated to improve the general
condition of Ireland. It is her Majesty's
fervent hope that it may please the Almighty Disposer
of events to favour the operation of those laws which
have been sanctioned by Parliament, and to grant to
her Irish people, as the reward of that patience and
resignation with which they have borne their pro-
tracted suffe rings, the blessings of an abundant harvest
and of internal peace.