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PROROGATION

OF

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS DAY).

The ceremony of proroguing the Imperial Par-
liiment, by Royal Commission, took place to-day
with the usual formalities.

Shortly after two o'clock the Lord Chancellor
and the other peers named in the Commission
entered the house in their scarlet robes, and took
their seats in front of the throne.

The usual preliminaries having been gone
through,

The LORD CHANCELLOR then directed the
Usher of the Black Rod to summon the " faithful
Commons to the bar of their lordships' house to
hear the Royal assent given to certain bills, and
also her Majesty's most gracious speech proroguing
Parliament."

The Usher of the Black Rod then retired, and in
a few minutes the Speaker and a number of the
members of the House of Commons appeared at the
bar.

The Royal commission having again been read,
the Royal assent was then given to the following
bills :

Income Tax Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) ; Stamp
Duties; Military Savings Bank; Universities Incorpora-
tion Act Amendment; Queen's Remembrancer ; County
Cess (Ireland) Acts Continuance; Universities (Scotland);
Constabulary Force (Ireland) ; Manufactories (Ireland)
Acts Continuance; Cambridge University Commission
Continuance ; Law of,Property and Trustees Relief Amend-
ment; North-Western Territory (British America) Coinage;
Probate and Letters of Administration (Ireland) ; Turn.
pike Trusts Arrangement ; Railway Companies Arbitra-
tion ; Marriages (Lisbon) ; Imprisonment for Small Debts ;
Militia Law Amendment ; Bankruptcy and Insolvency
(Ireland) Act Amendment ; Customs (No. 2) ; East India
Loan ; Militia Pay ; Reserve Volunteer Force of Seamen ;
Government of India Amendment ; Inclosure Acts Amend-
ment; Stock-in-Trade Exemption; Ecclesiastical Juris•
diction Continuance; Episcopal and Capitular Estates
Act Continuance ; Corrupt
,Practices Prevention Act
(1854) Continuance ; Weights and Measures Act Amend-
ment ; Turnpike Act Continuance ; Dublin Police ; Chari-
table and Provident Societies ; Inclosure ; European Troops
(India) ; Divorce ; Sale of Gas ; Charitable Trusts Act
Continuance; Sessional Division; Law Ascertainment So-
ciety; Poor Law Board (Paymentof Debts); GalwayHarbour
and Port Amendment; Fishing Vessels passing the Nore ;
Chester and Holyhead Railway; Westminster New Bridge;
Newcastle-under-Lyme Burgess Land; Bombay, Baroda,
and Central India Railway ; Chichester Harbour Embank-
ment; Herne Bay and Faversham Railway (Margate Ext.) ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, and East Lancashire Railway
Companies; Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction;
Nuneaton and Hinckley Railway ; Victoria Station and
Pimlico Railway; Berks and Hants Extension Railway;
British and Canadian Telegraph Company; South Staf-
fordshire Railway; London and North-Western Railway
(Denton to Staleybridge) ; and several other bills.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then rose and read
HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.

C° My 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 session
of Parliament about to close.

" Various circumstances have occasioned inter-
ruptions, and prevented the completion of important mea-
sures which her Majesty pointed out to the attention of
her Parliament at the beginning of the present year, but
her Majesty trusts that these matters will be taken into
your consideration at an early period of the next session.
"The war which has broken out in Northern Italy hav-
ing been brought to a close by the peace of Villafranca'
overtures have been made to her Majesty with a view to
ascertain those held by the great Powers of Europe, for the
purpose of settling arrangements connected with the pre-
sent state and future condition of Italy, a plenipotentiary
would be sent by her Majesty to assist at such conference,
but her Majesty has not yet received the information ne-
cessary to enable her Majesty to decide whether her Ma-
jesty may think it fit to take part in any such negotiations.
" Her Majesty would rejoice to find herself able to con-
tribute to the establishment of arrangements calculated to
place the general peace on satisfactory and lasting founda-
tions.

"Her Majesty, in accordance with the stipulations of the
treaty of Tiensiag, has instructed her plenipotentiary in
China to-repair to the Imperial Court at Pekin; and her
Majesty trusts that such direct communication with the
Imperial Government will have a beneficial effect upon the
relations between the two countries.
" Her Majesty commands us to inform you that she
looks forward with confidence to the continued mainte-
nance of those friendly relations which so happily subsist
between her Majesty and all foreign Powers and States.
" Her Majesty is glad to be able to congratulate you,on
the complete restoration of tranquillity in her Indian do-
minions.

" It will be her earnest endeavour to promote their in-
ternal improvement and to obliterate the traces of those con-
flicts which her Majesty witnessed with such deep concern.
" The financial arrangements of that portion of her Ma-
jesty's empire will continue to engage her Majesty's serious
consideration.

" Her Majesty has had much satisfaction in giving her
assent to the bill which you presented to her for the forma-
tion of a naval and military reserve force. A complete and
permanent system of national defence must at all times be
an object of paramount importance.
" Gentlemen of the House of Commons,—

" Her Majesty commands us to conveyto you her cordial
thanks for the readiness and zeal with which you have
provided the necessary supplies for the year.
My Lords and Gentlemen,—
_

Her Majesty commands us to expess to you her heartfelt
gratification at witnessing the general wellbeing and con-
tentment which prevail throughout her dominions. The
happiness of her people is the object dearest to her heart.
At the termination of the reading of the Royal
Speech,
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The LORD CHANCELLOR said—By virtue of
the commission which has jnst been read, I declare,
in the name of her Majesty the Queen, that this Par-
liament is prorogued until Thursday, the 27th day
of October.

During the proceedings few visitors were pre-
sent.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(Tms DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past twelve o'clock.
NEW WRIT
On the motion of Mr. BRAND, new writs were ordered
for Liskeard, in the room of Mr. Ralph William Grey, who
has accepted the office of Steward of the Hundred of North-
stead ; for Hertford, in the room of Mr. Cowper, who has
accepted the office of President of the Board of Trade ; and
for Berwick-on-Tweed, in the room of Mr. Erle, who has
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
PONTEFRACT ELECTION.
Mr. W. P. WESTHEAD drew the attention of the
house to the contents of the report of the Pontefract elec-
tion committee, and proposed to make a motion with re-
spect to privilege.
Mr. MALINS rose to order. He had a motion on the
paper on the subject which should have precedence of that
of the hon. member.
The SPEAKER—The hon. member (Mr. Westhead)
said that he proposed to make a motion on the question of
privilege, and in doing so was strictly in order.
Mr. W. WESTHEAD said he wished to notice particu-
larly the three last paragraphs of the report. [The hon.
member read paragraphs 17,18, and 19.] The 18th paragraph
proposed to replace Mr. Childers in the position which he occu-
pied previous to the withdrawal of the petition, but he con •
tended that the house had no such power. Under the cir-
cumstances and considering the favourable view of the
committee with regard to Mr. Childers, he wished to know
whether the hon. member for Pontefract would not feel
called upon to resign.
Mr. MALINS rose again to order, which he considered
the honourable member was infringing, by asking an hon.
member such guestion..

The SPEAKER said that at present the hon. member
was in order.

Mr. WESTHEAD said that it was found by the com-
mittee that Mr. Childers and his agents were not guilty of
any corruption from the commencement of the proceedings
in connection with the arbitration :and the withdrawal of
the petition, repeated that it was quite impossible for the
House of Commons to restore the election petition in this
case to its original position. He concluded by moving the
production of the report.
Mr. SELWYN said, as a member of the committee, he
had proposed the 18th paragraph, on the ground that the
memorandum as to the reference did not contain a clear
agreement, and therefore that it was only fair to Mr.
Childers to restore him to the position he occupied before
the petition was withdrawn. The hon. and learned member
referred to the case of a petition against the return of a
member for Cork, where a mistake was committed, the
petition being withdrawn instead of that for Limerick, and
when the house restored the member to his original posi
tion. He also alluded to another case, that of the borough
of Norwich, where a similar course was adopted in
consequence of a petition being withdrawn without the full
authority of the principal. He suggested the same conm,
should be pursued in the present instance. H@ would,
therefore, move as an amendment that the order for re-
ference be declared null and void, Etna he suggested that
the original petition should be placed at the bottom of the

list.
Sir G. GREY denied that the house had any such
power.
After some further discussion,
Mr. OVEREND proposed that the whole question
should be referred to the right hon. baronet the Chancellor