The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-22 00:00:00

Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 5121.; ditto (Lecointe),
5071. ; ditto (Coiepsguie Meridionale). 503 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux
and cette (Mackenzie), 502 f. ; ditto (Espeleta), 507 f. 50c. ;
Caen, (Delamarre), 504 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 21.
Anglo-Belgian — Lyons aad Avignon....
Barbadoes
Boulogne and Amiens.. 1214 Madrid and Valencia— —
Bordeaux SeMediterran Mauritius
Bordeaux and Toulouse Namur and Liege —
Do. & Catte (Espeleta) North Jamaica ...
Do. (Mackenzie's) .. 2 Orleans and Vierzon
Calcutta and Diamond Orleans and Bordeaux
llarbour N p OverYssel
Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris &Lyons (Laffitte) 2A
cilia Coast
Central of Spain ..
Ceylon .
Demerara
Dendre Valley •• Paris and Roues —
Dutch Rhenish ... B', Paris and Strasburg
Dieppe & Paris Junct. (Ganneron's)
Dijon and Mulhouse ... Do. (Coinpe de L'Est)
East Indian .... l% Do. (Aymard's) —
Fampoux & Hazebrouk Paris and St. Quentin —
Grt Northern of France Rouen and Havre —
Constituted l4). Royal North of Spain.
Great Indian Peninsular 34 Sambre and Meuse .... 534
Great Paris and Lyons. 2% Strasburg and Bale ....
Great Western Bengal 1 Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Great Western Canada den, and Hasselt ...
Italian and Austrian
Jamaica S. Mid. Junction (Mackenzie's) —
Do. North Midland... 11/g Do. ( Lefebvre's)
Do. Extension
Jersey.
Louvain and Jemappe.. Webt Flanders 5%

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT

(THIS DAY.)

HER MAJESTY'S
SPEECH.

Mr LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
It gives me great satisfaction again to meet you
in Parliament, and to have the opportlmity of re.
curring to your assistance and advice.
I continue to receive from my allies, and from
other foreign Powers, the strongest assurances of the
desire to cultivate the most friendly relations with
this country.

I rejoice that, in concert with the Emperor of
Russia, and through the success of our joint media-
tion, I have been enabled to adjust the differences
which had long prevailed between the Ottoman Porte
and the King of Persia, and had seriously endan-
gered the tranquillity of the East.
For several years a desolating and sanguinary
warfare has afflicted the States of the Rio de la
Plata. The commerce of all nations has been in-
terrupted, and acts of barbarity have been
committed, unknown to the practice of a civilised
people. In conjunction with the King of the French,
I am endeavouring to effect the pacification of those
States.

The Convention concluded with France, in the
course of last year, for the more effectual sup-
pression cf the slave trade, is about to be carried
into immediate execution by the active co-operation of
the two Powers on the coast of Africa.
It is my desire that our present union, and the
good understanding which so happily exists between
us, may always be employed to promote the interests
of humanity and to secure the peace of the world.
I regret that the conflicting claims of Great
Britain and the United States in respect of the ter-
ritory on the North-Western Coast of America,
although they have been made the subject of re-
peated negotiation, still remain unsettled.
You may be assured that no effort consistent
with national honour shall be wanting on my part
to bring this question to an early and peaceful
termination.

GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
The Estimates for the year will be laid be-
fore you at an early period. Although I am
deeply sensible of the importance of enforcing
economy in all branches of the expenditure, yet 1
have been compelled, by a due regard to the exigen-
cies of the public service, and to the state of our
Naval and Military Establishments, to propose some
increase in the estimates which provide for their

efficiency.
Mr LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
I have observed with deep regret, the very frequent
instances in which the crime of deliberate assassina-
tion has been of late committed in Ireland.
It will be your duty to consider whether any
measures can be devised calculated to give increased
protection to life, and to bring to justice the perpe-
trators of so dreadful a crime.
I have to lament that, in consequence of a failure
of the potato crop in several parts of the United
Kingdom, there will be a deficient supply of an article
of food, which forms the chief subsistence of great
numbers of my people. The disease by which the
plant has been affected, has prevailed to the utmost
extent in Ireland.
I have adopted all such precautions as it was In
my power to adopt for the purpose of alleviating the
sufferings which may be caused by this calatnity ;
and I shall confidently rely on your co-operation in
devising such other means for effecting the same bene-
volent purpose as may require the sanction of the
Legislature.
I have had great satisfaction in giving my assent
to the measures which you have presented to me from
time to time, calculated to extend Commerce, and to
stimulate domestic skill and industry, by the repeal
of prohibitory, and the relaxation of protective,
duties.

The prosperous state of the Revenue, the in-
creased demand for labour, and the general im-
provement which has taken place in the internal
condition of the country, are strong testimonies in
favour of the course you have pursued.
I recommend you to take into your early consi-
deration whether the principles on which you have
acted may not with advantage be yet more exten-
sively applied, and whether it may not be in
your power, after a careful review of the existing
duties upon many article; the produie or manufac-
ture of other countries, to make such further reduc-
tions and remissions as may tend to insure the con-
tinuance of the great benefits to which I have ad-
verted, and, by enlarging our commercial intercoursel
to strengthen the bonds of amity with Foreign Powers.
Any measures which you may adopt for affect-
ing these great objects will, I am convinced, be accom-
panied by such precautions as shall prevent perma-
nent loss to the Revenue, or injurious results to any
of the great interests of the country.
I have full reliance on your just and dispassionate
consideration of matters so deeply affecting the
public welfare.

It is my earnest prayer that, with the blessing
of Divine Providence on your councils, you may be
enabled to promote friendly feelings between dif-
ferent classes of my subjects, provide additional
security for the continuance of peace, and to main-
tain contentment and happiness at home, by in-
creasing the comforts and bettering the condition of
the great body of my people.

THE Hzau WIND.—The wind has been blowing
in gusts all this morning, and occasionally with considerable
violence. A ludicrous accident was occasioned. by one of these
gusts about eleven o'clock. Three of those enormously
high perambulating advertising carriages which announce
to the world the fact that M. Jullien s concertsper-
forming are now per-
forming at Covent Garden, were being driven slowly over
Waterloo Bridge in procession, when a sudden gust
of wind upset them all at the same moment,
prostrating the horses and drivers in the mud. Fortunately
no injury occurred, but we hope that these narrow-wheeled,
high unballasted carriages will not be driven out again on a
windy day. had they blown over on any:vehicle Passing at
the time serious consequences might have resulted.
PAYING THE ENEMY IN THEIR OWN COIN.—In a
few days, the enemy's fleet being reported to be on the move
Captain Durham sent to Lord Nelson to remind his Lordship'
that there were 750,000 dollars on board the Defiance, which
he had brought out from England, and to inquire what was
to be done with them. Lord Nelson answered, "If the
Spaniards come out, fire the dollars at them, and
pay them
off in their own coin."—Naval Life and Services of Admiral
Durham.

DARING ROBBERY IN TM& VICE-CIIANCELLOR'S
CoveT.—About noon, on Saturday last, some daring thief
stole from the Court of the Vice-Chancellor, Lincoln's Inn, a
boxwood thermometer, which hung against the wall in a
most conspicuous part of the court.