The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-28 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.

" Mr LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
" We are commanded by her Majesty to release you from
further attendance in Parliament, and at the same time to

convey to you her Majesty's acknowledgments for the zeal
and assiduity with which you have applied yourselves to
the performance of your important duties during the long
and laborious session of Parliament now about to close.

"Her Majesty commands us to inform you that her re-
lations with foreign Powers are friendly and satisfactory;
and her Majesty trusts that there is no danger of any in-
terruption of the general r eace of Europe. Events of con-
siderable importance are, indeed, taking place in Italy ;
but if no foreign Powers interfere therein, and if the Ita-
lians are left to settle their own affairs, the tranquillity of
other States will remain undisturbed.

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"The proposed Conferences on the subject of the cession
of Savoy and of Nice to France have not yet been held.
But her Majesty confidently trusts that, in any negotia-
tions which may take place, full and adequate arrangements
will be made for securing, in accordance with the spirit and
letter of the Treaty of Vienna of 1815, the neutrality and
independence of the Swiss Confederation. That neutrality
and independence were an object to which all the Powers
who were parties to the Treaties of Vienna attached great
importance, and they are no less important now, than then,
for the general interests of Europe.

"Her Majesty commands us to assure you that the
atrocities which have been committed upon the Christian
population in Syria have inspired her Majesty with the
aopest grief and indignation. Her Majesty has cheerfully
concurred with the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of
the French, the Prince Regent of Prussia, and the Empe-
ror of Russia, in entering into an engagement with the
Sultan, by which temporary military assistance has been
afforded to the Sultan, for the purpose of re-establishing
order in that part of his dominions.

" We are commanded by her Majesty to inform you that
her Majesty greatly regrets that the pacific overtures
which, by her Majesty's directions, her Envoy in China
made to the Imperial Government at Pekin did not lead to
any satisfactory result, and it' has, therefore, been neces-
sary that the combined naval and military forces which
her Majesty and her ally the Emperor of the French had
sent to the China Seas should advance towards the
Northern Provinces of China, for the purpose of supporting
the just demands of the Allied Powers.
" Her Majesty, desirous of giving all possible weight to
her diplomatic action in this matter, has sent to China, as
special Ambassador for this service, th© Earl of Elgin,
who negotiated the Treaty of Tien-sing, the full and faith-
ful execution of which is demanded from the Emperor of
, China.

" GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

" Her Majesty commands us to express to you the gral

" Her Majesty commands us to convey to you her warm
acknowledgments for the liberal supplies which you have
granted for the service of the present year, and for the
provision which you have made for those defences which
are essential for the security of her dockyards and arsenals.
31 " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

fication and pride with which she has witnessed the rapid
progress in military efficiency which her Volunteer Forces
have already made, and which is highly honourable to their
spirit and patriotism.
" Her Majesty has given her cordial assent to the act
for amalgamating her local European force in India with
her forces engaged for general service.
_ . _

Her Majesty trusts that the additional freedom which
you have given to Commerce will lead to fresh develop-
ment of productive industry.
"Her Majesty has given her ready assent to several
measures of great public usefulness.
" The Acts for regulating the Relations between Land-
lord and Tenant in Ireland will, her Majesty trusts, re-
move some fertile causes of disagreement.
" The Act for amending the Law which regulates the