The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-22 00:00:00

1-he SPEAKER, in his State robes, accompanied by a
.;,,ge.l'a.aly of Members, 'scionaftqltipeared at the bar, when
the Right. Hon. Gentleman addressea his Majesty in nearly
the following words:—
" Most Gracious Sovereign—Your Majesty's faithful Com-
mons have, during the progress of the Session Which is now
about to be closed, taken into consideration many of the sub-
jects recommended to their attention in your Majesty's most
gracious speech from the throne at its commencement. The
Commons have passed a measure for the commutation of
tithes in England and Wales, after long and anxious deli-
beration. It is a question beset with many difficulties; but
your Majesty's Commons have grappled with them, and
have passed an Act in which the rights of property have been
carefully respected, and due caution has been taken to pro-
tect those rights with sufficient safeguards. It is a measure
calculated to remove all causes of dissension between pastors
and their flocks, and to give security and certainty to the in-
come of the clergy, as well as to afford free scope and encou-
ragement to agricultural skill and labour. Even if it shall here-
after be found that particular provisions in the act require re-
vision and alteration, still your Majesty's Commons entertain a
confident hope and belief that this measure is based on princi-
ples which will ultimately be found satisfactory and beneficial.
In entering on the examination of the reports of the Commis-
sioners appointed to inquire into the state of the Established
Church in England and Wales, your Majesty's Commons have
proceeded with that respect which was due to the high authority
from wliich those reports emanated, and with that cautious feel-
ing which was so necessary when changes and alterations were
about to be made in these ancient institutions which have so long
commanded the reverence and respect of a large portion of your
Majesty's subjects. The act which your Majesty's Commons
have passed with reference to this subject, by providing fora more
equal distribution of episcopal duties and revenues, is most
materially calculated to weaken, if it do not wholly remove,
the motives for the translation of bishops, and by recognizing
the principle and earnestly keeping in mind the due propor-
tion and balance between the amount of duties to be performed
and the extent of emolument to be received, your Majesty's
Commons believe that the measure will add to the efficiency
and usefulness of the Church, and will tend to strengthen its
hold on the affections of the people. While your Majesty's
Commons have been thus anxious to secure the interests of
the Established Church, they have been not less desirous to
consult the feelings and attend to the just claims of those who,
from conscientious opinions and motives, dissent from its dis-
cipline or doctrine. Your Majesty's Commons have accor-
dingly passed two acts—one which makes considerable alte-
ration with respect to the celebration of marriages ; while
the other provides for a more complete registration of births,
deaths, and marriages. All classes of your Majesty's sub-
jects must feel deeply interested in the successful operation of
these measures, which bear so strongly on the various rela-
tions of domestic life, and on the safe transmission of pro-
perty. The provisions of these acts have been framed in a
liberal spirit, with an ardent desire to remove just causes of
complaint, and with the hope of rendering the law generally
acceptable, by making it equal and impartial, an mani-
festing a becoming respect for the feelings and conscien.
tious opinions of those who dissent from the forms of the Este..
blishcd Church. It has been highly gratifying to your Ma-
jesty's Commons, that such is the prosperous and flourishing
state of the public revenue, that while they have provided
with liberality for the ordinary expenses of the public service,
and also for some extraordinary exigencies which circumstances
rendered necessary, in order to meet engagements formerly
contracted for the most generous and honourable purposes,
your Majesty's Commons have yet been able to make a con-
siderable remission of taxation. In the settlement of duties to
be regulated and taxes to be removed, your Majesty's Com-
mons have taken care that the relief should be so applied as to
give the greatest aid in cases where there was the most un-
equal pressure, or where the enforcement of the existing law
was found to be vexatious. By the equalization of the duties
on sugar, the benignant influence of an enlightened legislation
will be felt by some of the inhabitants of your Majesty's most
distant possessions. I have now only to present to your Ma-
jestyt thef4 two billsou toof fthe coiisupply—theconsolidated
teodne fundforo
applyingg the
sum o service
of the year 1836, the other for raising the sum of 14,007,9501.
,0
by Exchequer-bills for the service of the year 1836."
The Royal assent was then given to the following Bills :
0,00 lasto /.)
The Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Billl Exchequer
Bills (14,007,950/. Bill ; Prisoners Counsel Bill; Exchequer
Suits Bill ; Borough Funds Bill ; Borough Boundaries Bill ;
Borough Justice Administration Bill ; Lists of 'Voters Bill ;
County Elections Bill ; Copyright Bill ; Conviction Bill ;
Common Fields Inclosure Bill • Poor Law Loans Bill ; Stan-
naries Courts Bill ; Coal Trade Bill ; Church Temporalities
( Ireland) Bill ; Public Works ( Ireland) Bill ; Grand Jury
Presentments ( Ireland) Bill ; Corporate Property (Ireland)
Bill ; Kingstown Harbour Bill.