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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1866.

There is not generally much to be learned from
the text of a Royal speech at the close of a session.

At the beginning of the year there is some signifi-
cance in the stiff and stately phrases, and men read
it eagerly if only to discover what is left out from

the programme of the session to come, and to what
the powers that be think it necessary to pledge
themselves. At the close of the session even this
excitement has evaporated, and it sometimes hap-

/son., no ;t hnc Anno nn this nccasion, that the moss

conspicuous features of the session have to be
omitted or slurred over. The chief incidents of

the Parliamentary campaign have been connected
with the Reform Bill. The great object of political
speculation at the present moment is the Continen-
tal War, yet an uninitiated spectator would hardly
gather as much from the Royal Speech. The first
paragraph, indeed, after informing the Houses that
Her MAJESTY'S relations with foreign Powers are
on the mcst friendly footing, goes on to say that
Her MAJESTY has watched the progress of the war
with anxious interest, but that she has not deemed
it expedient to take part in the contest. The ear-
nest hope that the negotiations now in pro-
gress between the belligerents may lead to a
secure and lasting peace does not, in view of
the recent demands of France upon Prussia, appear
very likely to be speedily realised.
The Reform Bill having failed to assume a sub-
stantive form is not, of course, alluded to ; and it
will probably have to make its appearance in an-
other Speech, notwithstanding its many former ap-
pearances.

The troubled state of affairs just now is indicated
by the character of the Speech before us. It begins,
as we have said, with a reference to the Continen-
tal War ; it passes on to a couple of paragraphs re-
specting the Fenian conspiracy, and the consequent
suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in the sister
country. After the reference to the Fenians, and to
the exceptional legislation rendered necessary by
their machinations, another unusual proceeding on
the part of the Government has to be alluded to—
the suspension of the Bank Charter Act, which the
financial panic made indispensable. The QUEEN'S
Speech expresses her MAJESTY'S satisfaction that
" although the monetary pressure is not yet sen-

sibly mitigated alarm is subsiding, the state of trade

being sound, and the condition of the people gene-
rally prosperous, and her MAJESTY entertains a san-
guine hope that confidence will soon be restored."
No one could expect such a wide subject as the cur-
rency laws to be opened up in the closing Speech
of a session, but if we are to avcid a recurrence of
those disastrous panics and prolonged periods of de-
pression we must have something more than tem-

porary measures or sanguine generalities.
After all these troubled topics there yet remains

two matters of anxious domestic interest ; one o:

these is happily becoming less engrossing in its
nature, for the weekly returns of the cattle plague
give 1•15 grounds for concurring in the belief
that its destructive effects have been in a great
measure checked, and that there is reason to
hope for its entire extinction at no distant period."
Its decrease is undoubtedly partly owing to
causes beyond our control, but it has certainly been
marked since the passing of the Cattle Plague Bill
at the commencement of the session. Had more
vigorous measures been adopted at the very outset
the disease might never have got to such a height.
Whatever may be thought of other epidemics,
this plague was undoubtedly contagious, and therefore
to allow cattle fairs and markets to be held, at which
large herds of cattle were stationed and driven
about together, whether healthy or diseased, was
highly imprudent. The traffic of cattle on railways
was another piece of rashness, and as there will
always be found plenty of men who from ignorance,
recklessness, or from a spirit of speculation, will
avail themselves of the ordinary means of traffic,
and barter so long as they exist, there was no hope
of arresting the progress of the disease. We hope
that due precautions will be observed before things
go back to their old footing, and, as a general rule,
the less beasts are driven about the better, so that a
good many clauses of the bill might be entertained
Perpetuite. More serious • and more threatening