The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-02 00:00:00

PROROGATION

PARL4IAIVIENT.
(YESTERDAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Parliament was prorogued yesterday by Royal Com-
mission to Tuesday, the 9th of October.
The House of Lords met at a quarter past Two o'clock.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat on the
Woolsack.

SCOTCH MARRIAGES.
Lord CAMPBELL presented petitions from the
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the
University of Edinburgh, against any alteration of the
Law of Marriage Bill. The Noble Lord, in presenting
the petition, expressed his cordial concurrence in the
prayer of the petition, and hoped that the Bill that
had been introduced by the Right Hon. Gentleman
the Member for Bute in the present session would
be no snore heard of. If the Bill was 'ntroduced again
he would give it his most determined opposition, and
sooner than agree to it he would, if his opposition in-
volved the loss of the office he then held, rather resign
that office than abandon his opposition to such a measure.
ROYAL ASSENT.
At ten minutes before three o'clock the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of
Mieto, Earl St. Germans, and Lord Campbell, touk their
seats below the Throne, robed as Lords Commissioners,
for the purpose of giving the Royal assent to several
public and private Bills, and also for proroguing Parlia-
ment. On the Lords Commissioners taking their seats,
The LORD PRESIDENT commanded the Usher of
the Black Rod to summon the Commons to the bar to
hear the Commission for giving the Royal assent and
for the prorogation of Parliament read.
In a few minutes the Speaker, accompanied by Lord
John Russell, Lord Palmerston, and a great number of
Members of the House of Commons, appeared at the bar,
and, after the reading of the Commission, the Royal
assent was given in the usual form to the following e 7
private and public Bills:—
Consolidated Fund (Appropriation).
Cruelty to Animals Prevention.
Boroughs Relief.
New Forest and Waltham Forest.
Inclosures Act (Extension of Powers).
Municipal Corporations (Ireland).
Collection of Rates (Dublin).
Dublin Improvement.
Pilotage.
New Zealand Land Conveyance.
Admiralty Jurisdiction in the Colonies.
Leasehold Tenure of Lands (Ireland).
General Board of Health.
Metropolitan Sewers.
Slave Trade (Persian Gulf).
Treasury Instruments.
Customs.
Stamp, asc., Allowances.
Workhouse Loans (Ireland).
Turnpike Acts Continuance.
Small Debts Act Amendment.
Poor Relief (Ireland).
Joint Stock Companies Act (1848) Amendment.
Royal Pavilion (Brighton).
Chapels of Ease (Ireland).
Judgments (Ireland).
Petty Bag Office, &c., Amendment.
Bankruptcy (Ireland).
Poor-law Union Charges Act Amendment.
Bankrupt Law Consolidation.
Drainage of Lands.
Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention.
Defects in Leases Suspension.
Commercial Road (comprising the Cannon-street-
Road, the Commercial Road, the Horseferry Branch
of Road,. the East India Deck-road, and the Barking-
road).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Formation of Slip
Quay, and other Works at Granton ,• Extension of
Stations at Edinburgh; Regulation of Perth Stations;
and amendments of Acts).
Lancashire and Preston Junction Railway Acts Amend-
ment (Power to alter Tolls, and for the appointment of
Officers).
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan Railway, and
Ardrossan Harbour Acts Amendment.
Airdrie Police and Municipal.
Binbrooke St. Gabriel, and Binbroke St. Mary In-
closure.
Caledonian Railway (Lease and Purchase of the Glas-
gow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway).
Eastern Union, and Eastern Counties Railway Company
(Amendment of Acts, and Power to Lease, Sell, or
Amalgamate to or with the Eastern Counties Railway
Company).
General Land Drainage and Improvement Company
(Incorporation and Conferring of Powers).
Great Indian and Peninsula Railway.
Great Northern Railway (Amendment of Acts, Devia-
tion and Enlargement at and near Boston, Bentley,
Lincoln, and King's-cross).
Hospital for Consumption.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Con-
solidation and Amendment of Acts).
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Act Amendment
(Branches and Deviation).
Stirling and Dunfermline Railway (Deviation of Branch
to Allots Harbour, &c.)
East India Railway Company (for Making and Maintain-
ing one or more Railways in the East Indies) Incor-
poration.
Bowling Iron Company.
Louth Markets and Improvements.
London Corporation.
Norfolk Estuary (Amendment of Acts).
Trenchard's Estate.
Creswell's (or Bateman's) Estate.
Wilson's (St. Thomas's Church, Woolwich) Estate.
Grenville's Estate.
Osborne's Estate.
Sir B. Pigot's Estate.
Tempest's Estate.
Clive's Estate.
Hon. C. C. Cavendish's (Burlington House) Estate.
Cavendish Estate.
Tufton's Naturalization.
Cripps' Divorce.
Faussett's Divorce.
Hill's Divorce.
HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.
The LORD PRESIDENT then read her Majesty's
most gracious Speech, as follows:--
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
We have it in command from her Majesty to
inform you that the state of public business enables
her to dispence 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 hrs 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
Mewed the peaceful progress of her people in arts
and industry, has been greatly alloyed by the con-
tinuance of severe distress in one part of the United