The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, August 28.
PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
At a Quarter-past Two o'clock the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR entered the House, robed as one of the Lords
Commissioners, and, upon taking his seat on the Wool-
sack, stated that her Majesty had been pleased to grant
two comiaissions, one giving her royal assent to several
Bill 4. in the other prorogoino. Parliament.
The 1.. ir 1 Clianeellor, the Marquis of L:to - &wile, Earl
zip.nc,,.r, the Bail miato, and Lord Campbell then
wok their seats below the throne as Lords Commis-
sioners, and the Commons having been summoned by
Sir Augustus Clifford, the Usher of the Black Rod, to
the bar of the House, the Royal Assent was giren to the
following Bills :
Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill.
Customs Duties (No. 2.) Bill.
Small Debts Bill.
Contagious Diseases Prevention Bill.
Wreck and Salvage Bill.
British Possessions Bill.
New Z,,:aland Government Bill.
Waste Lands (Australia) Bill.
Ejectment:, 8c... (Ireland) Bill.
Leases (Ireland) Bill.
Mandamus (Ireland) Bill.
Fisheries (Ireland) Bill.
Public Works (Ireland—No. 4) Bill.
Constabulary Force (Ireland) Bill.
Pawnbrokers' Bill.
Steam Navigation Bill.
Drainage of Lands (Ireland) Bill.
Rails ay Commissioners' Bill.
Private Bills Bill.
Poor Employment (Ireland) Bill.
Public Works (Ireland.—No. 5) Bill.
Rateable Property (Ireland) Bill.
District Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Bill.
Cs'ierons' C,)a!brxbk Steam Coal and Swansea and
L>l: Rath., ay Bill.
Derun Itailway Amendment and Branches

(:\o.
After the royal assent had bean gi•eu to the abav,.,
Bill,
The LORD CHANCELLOR then in a clear voice
read the speech from her Majesty, as follows:
" Mx LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

" We are commanded by her Majesty to express to
you the warm acknowledgments of her Majesty for
public spirit you have evinced in the discharge of
your laborious duties during an anxious and pro-
tracted session.

" Her 'Majesty trusts that you mill be rewarded by
e vial re3ults of the measures which

:zing the I]

czi sanctioned by her Majesty for the present
.ion and ultimate repeal of protective duties ou

corn and sugar.
" her Majesty entertains a confident hope that the
more free admission of the produce of foreign coun-
tries into the home market will increase the comforts
and better the condition of the great body of the

people.
" Her Majesty feels the greatest satisfaction in re-
flecting that her Majesty's efforts to settle, in a mann(r
consistent with national honour, the conflicting
claims of Great Britain and the United States, with
respect to the territory on the North West Coast of
America, have been completely successful.
" Her Majesty continues to receive from all
Foreign Powers the strongest assurances of their
desire to cultivate friendly relations with this country.
" Her Majesty commands us to congratulate you
on the, victorious course and holey eflnclu.ion of the
'war in India, and her .Majesty I

n',.11 ;ratification
in announcing to you that perfect tranquillity pre-
vails throughout the whole of the British possessions
in that quarter of the world.
" GENTLEMEN OF TUE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

"her Majesty has observed with satisfaction the
care you have taken to prevent permanent loss to the
revenue, and to maintain the public faith.
"Her Majesty has commanded us to acknowledge
the zeal and unanimity with which you assented to
the increase in the naval and military estimates which
a regard to the exigencies of the public service induced
her Majesty to propose for your consideration.
" MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

" Her Majesty has to lament that the recurrence of
a failure in the potato crop, in an aggravated degree,
will cause a serious deficiency in the quantity of a
material article of food.
•

" Her Majesty has given her cordial assent to
by which this calamity may be mitigated in
that part of the United Kingdom where the cultica•
tion of the potato has hitherto afforded the chief
supply for the subsistence of the people.
" Her Majesty has seen with pleasure that a con-
siderable diminution of crime and outrage has taken
place in those counties of Ireland which had been
most disturbed.

" Her Majesty is confident that on your return to
your several counties, you will find a spirit of
loyalty generally prevalent. The extension of works of
improvement has increased the demand for lab Dur,
and the tranquillity of the country has favoured the
pursuits of industry in all its branches.
" lier Majesty trusts that by a combination of
prudence with enterprise, and of a willing obedience
to law with a desire for social progress, her people
will, through the Divine blessi4f enjoy the full ad-
vantages of peace."
The NOBLE and LEARNED LORD then, in her Majesty's
name, and by her Majesty's cOMinand, declared the
Parliament prorogued to Wednesdlly, the 4th of No-
vember.
It may not be amiss to state that during the present
session the Royal Assent has been given to no less than
570 Bills.
Several of the Foreign Ministers were present and the
ceremony was graced by many of the fair sex. Thus
has ended a session unparalleled in the extent of its ex-
istence, and only equalled in its importance by that
which passed the Reform Bill.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, August 28.

(Continued front oar Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Mr.
Philips, a proprietor of the Bellevue Lunatic Asylum,
praytt.7, for an alter:Akin of the law regulating lunatic
asylums.
The Hon. IVE:urcla also presented a petition from
Charles Watts, a private in the 71st company of
marines, complaining of having suffer yd corporal
puniihment unjustly, and praying tat the House would
order an inquiry to b” instituted into the conduct of the
commanding officer of that company.
Mr. AGT7IONDY gave notice that, next session, he
wOuld move for lefive it i:,ring in a Big to Eicilitate the
ineloyaro, of coromon nd to Frovid- tot all Wf:Sti'
coriiiDoi r;3lr`,',::t be made low .I.•t

nui—p...3t t 0 11i 11c 1r tcnorp o ht:.(l,.
I,LIPb p... petition fr..nt
r, p!.-4,34g for rerresentati V, for CI.
i 50roughs n that dis..riet.
POOR-LAWS.

Mr. B(IRTTIW f K wirOieri to ftsk the Noble Lorl at
the 11:r M.. 3 _sty's Governnvntt on what terms
tioqv- s,,parat.,l with regard to the questioa of the
ry,c,r-1,vv.... .110 given notice of two motions on the
•;11iejecr, bu, ii'td with :yawn them on the assurance that
tile subject would Ix). tak n iWo consideration next

session.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, said that he would not then
venture to s!.ate what. nl:asur:s her Abjeity's Govern-
inenf. would propose wLh trjakial• to the poor-law, but he
wvuld tiro Hon, G.en-tlfm,ati that todess he did
prcTo.,,.):ioMo inquiry 4.olaijßl2lothe steps tending to
\vtbc., peci)e,.sit v -..tri,).ruitury, the 111Jiion of the
:Loa. cienti,l;,,,. '..t Committee of the whole
11.uttbe won:: : to.
. iN THE POLICE-
4.ra ,vished to alk the Right lion.
11.4ronet; the Secretary for the Home Department,
whether the impression which had been created in the
public mind in consequence of some statements in the
public papers that the promotion of the police depended
upon the number of convictions they had obtained, was'
correct or not.

Sir G. GREY had received an assurance from the
Police Commissioners that there was no such rule
in existence, and that their rules were founded
upon totally different principles.
ANDOVER UNION.

VIAKII2I7 whiled to call the attention of the
Baronet to a letter which had appeared in
Coat morning from a person named Maker.
the :27;:;e.1.0f
stn.t.;i4 that the witnesies called before the Committee
of tiot • House for the purpcme of inquiring into
the ccmcluet of the cl the Ando-
ver Union had received no protection since
Irom the Eis,,ht Honourable Thrones, who was in
,ql'.et himself the head of the Poer-law Commission.
Tasker was a-man with a wife and three children, and
received an allowance of 3d. per week before the inquiry
of, the Committee,, but having been called as a witness
before that Committee, his relief had since been stopped,
~and he was left to starve. He (Mr. Wakley) thought
that some protection ought to be afforded to those
witnesses.

Sir GEORGE GREY said that he had had no time
that day to look at the letter in question, hut he woal
dirr3 his attention to it at a future opportunity. He
did Tilt;
however, know if he had any power to interfere
in the matter referred to.
The Usher of the Bllek Rod here made his appear-
ance to summon the House to hear the Royal Assent
,given to several Bills, and to hear her Majesty's most
gracious Sipeech upon the prorogation of Parliament.
On the Speaker's return he took his seat at the table,
and read her Majesty's speech, and the 119100 then
separated.