The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-10 00:00:00

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Iqe was fully occu-

pied, except the small spare below the bar reserved for
members of the Howe of Comm.‘ns The house pre-
sented altoeether, in its architecture, fittings and furni-
ture, fresco paintines, rich ornament., and the glittering
uniforms and superb robes of its oreupants, one of the
most magnificent spectacles ever witnessed.

2 o'clock a flourish of trumpets an-
nounced the arrival of her Majesty. who entered the new
Palace by the vast portal Of the Victoria Tower, ascended
the Grand Staircase, and passed on through the stately
Royal Gallery and the Plin,e's Chamber. The Queen,
led by the Prince Consort, and prt er ded by the Great
Officers of State, enter. d the house at 10 minutes past 2.
The assembly immediately rose, and remained standing
till her Majesty had taken her seat on the Throne. The
attendance of the House of Commons was then com-
manded ; and the Speaker, followed by a number of other
gentlemen, having presented themselves at the bar, her
Majesty. in a clear and distinct voice, proceeded to read

Immediately after

MY LORDS
The peric

again a

THE ROYAL SPEECH

AND GE

TLEMEN

f of yot

preparation and adoption o
of the country way require

rding to usage, I can
,nd assistance in the
s which the welfare

I continue to maintain the most friendly relations with
Foreign Powers. The complicated affairs of the Duchies
of Holstein and Schleswig have continued to engage my
attention. I have every reason to expect that the treaty
between Germany and Denmark, which was concluded at
Berlin in the year before last, will in a short time be fully
and completely executed.
I regret that the war which unfortunately broke out on
the Eastern Frontier of the Cape or Good Hope, more
than a year ago, still continues. Papers will be laid be-
fore you containing full information as to the progress of
the war, and the measures which have been taken for
bringing _
W' itto a termination.•
---.sitisfaction the tran-

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of Ireland. i

that certain parts
and Louth, have

outrages of the me

existing law

tem of crime and v
country. My atte

this important

I have ordered
current year to be

on your loyalty an

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the public service
the estimates of

explanations will b

such increase is c

pacific
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and imiaitial

vious Act, confer

the greater portion
lave to inform you,
counties of Armagh, Monaghan,
".1 b" 'he commission of
The powers of the
exerted for the

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important color

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representation c

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ion of a s

t interests of the
ion will continue to be directed to

estimates

laid before you

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the expenses of the I
I rely with confidence

adequate provision for
rease has been made in
r the past year, such
trust, satisfy you that
steady adherence to a

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its made to me I
to inquire into

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to the peace,
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.
TUESDAY, FEB. 3.—The members he2an to assem-
ble in the house shortly after 12 o'clock, and at two about
300 were present. Prayers were then

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Speaker, at 25 minutes past 2, quitted the house, accom-
panied by most of the members present, to hear the
Queen's Speech. The business of the house was then
suspended till 4 o'clock.

On resuming, the following new members came to the I
table and were sworn—viz., Sir J. E. Tennent, for Lis-
burn ; the Hon. Mr. Hardinge, for Dovvripatrick ; thy
Hon. A. Duncombe, for the East Rid' --
and Mr. R. Milligan, for Brcdtord.
New writs were ordered for East Retford, in the plac
of Mr. Duncombe ; for Perth, in the place of Mr. Fo.
Maule, appointed President of the Board of Control ; fo
Northampton. in the 'Aro,. vr_ _

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pointed Secretary at War ; v for K
Mr. Hawes ; for Greenwich, in
Dundas ; for East Kent, in the pla
Mr. HAYTEI then announced th

of Yorkshire

in the place o
place of AJmira

on Mond.

procedur

PM, the

the state of Ireland

tractions co

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k leave to in

.he Crown, and the dujt

J. Russell) had no
vas Prime Minister

:e, and he
f advising

had not. he was convinced,
. Lord John deprecated in
icism upon the conduct of

f OrIE

•eference to th
the Hungariai

uty to reef

He then

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house.
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had stated to the noble lord that he had merely

Minister,
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reply, he

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mbly that t

existence had

income an impossibility,
prevail, it would be better that it ba.
Lord John Russell had maintained that
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all, wh

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lig any opinion

...vu upon tne same subj.,
of the Cabinet. Lord Palmt.
If from the charge founded upon his

and so had
n.ston then

SPAIN.

despatch

Norman

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the afready
reat towns.

regarded it as

REY, with

those who

unfair re

therein giver

that he had

ns to the Ambassador ; and
aated defence of his foreien
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or reve

policy, in
all its aspects, during periods of difficulty,
whilst he had held the seals of office, which had contri-
buted to the maintenance of general peace, without sully-
ing the honour or dignity of England.—Mr. BAILLIE
could come to no other conclusion than that the late
Foreign Secretary had been offered up as a sacrifice for
the sins of the whole Administration, whose foreign policy
they now discovered to he a failure,—Mr, M. MILNES

pired that there was sO;l:e:threiun:tgucebheeathn itgareod mh
the
I
Lord J. Russell; that

went of

ment of th

Secretar

for Fo-

whose gaministration had been misunderstood and mis-
represented, had been therefore summarily dismissed.—
Lord D. STUART considered the change in the composi-
tion of the Ministry, by the removal of a colleague

instances

of the ben

ae most paltry pretenc

Ince. As to the
,tary effort, which
tyl was carried on

_ _ _ ..... . --......LaU1t7 onu.
—Mr. B. OSBORNE regarded Lord ratmerston's removal
as a national loss.—Mr. ROEBUCK said that, in the dis.
missal of the Foreign Secretary, the right arm of the Mi.
nistry had been cut off, and what was left ? Deficiencies
were patent in various departments of the State, espe.

riticipation

in a manner most

security to life

and property there must be established. The noble earl cially the Admiralty and the Colonial-office, which had
RLIAMENT• apologised for his colonial policy in N Zealand. He created discontent in the colonies ; and with respect to the
vindicated, also, the financial relaxations of recent years ; law, there had been mischievous peddling changes, but
and with reference to the contemplated n caqure on there- there was a want of a presiding mind.—Mr. DISRAELI
O presentation, he assured the house that 'he existing ha- treated the reasons assigned for the removal of Lord Pal-
-18 lance of political power among classes ould not he dis- merston as unsatisfactory. He had never severed the po-
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turbed.—Lord BROUGHAM entirely agra al with the Earl licy of that nob!, lord, which he thought a pernicious one,
ast, by her Majesty of Derby and Earl Grey as to the tone o the press of this from that of the Cabinet. Was it their present policy ?
fine, anti an country in discussing the internal affai sof France arid If so, he would rather it should be administered by the
',pints where it was the character and conduct of the Prince President. The late Secretary, whom all recognised as an able man, than
noble lord denounced hi strong terms th ,utrages against by any other person. He complained of the frequent, un-
rig pageant. the security of human life now taking 3,,ace in the north necessary, and unusual introduction of her Majesty's name
ny, which began to of Ireland, which he said must be put (I,;'.vn at all hazards. into the explanation of Lord J. Russell, whereby he re-
unusually brilliant. —The Earl of HARROWBY stated his ire ession that the lieved himself of a responsibility which he should have
larger number of Fo-
public press had faithfully expressed ti,e opinion of the been the first to adopt. He criticised the manner in
country with reference to French affair,, and as an indi. which the projected amendment of the Reform Act was
es,iit at a similar scene vidual peer he could not omit that opp rtunity of saving Announced in the Royal Speech ; and noticed a strange
es were also present in that the newspapers had a perfect right discuss openly omission in it. Last year the country had been agitated
lareer attendance of and fearlessly the political and social c, ,orlition of their by the aggression of the Pope and the letter of Lord J.
nearest neighbours, as they did the state Austria, Ras- Russell, who had denounced it as a part of an organised
iid in the galleries,
sia, or any other continental power Ihe Earl of conspiracy against the Protestant liberties of Europe.
.irp.con was among the MALMESBURY closed the debate by a 'owing the same What had been the fate of the bill which the noble lord
.ollow,d by the Archbishop views on that subject as had been ex res dby the E of had introduced to repel that aggression ? It had been
H ref, d. and the Marquis of Derby.—The Address was then agreed and the house treated with contumely. The country had a right to
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o'clock every seat adjourned at 9 o'clock. know what were the intentions or present opinions of the
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THURSDAY.—LAW REFORM —TI,, LORD CHAN- Goverenuent with respect to it. There was another omis-
CELLOR, in reply to Lord Lyndhurst, sttr-al that one of a stun in the speech—the difficulties of the cultivators of
series of bills founded on the recomo ..ridations of the the soil, which, if not sympathised with, ought at least to
Commission on Law Reform would be b..iught forward in jbe noticed. Upon this topic Mr. Disraeli dilated, appeal-
the Lower House the following evening ing to a very recent admission of Mr. M'Culloch, that the
The Marquis of WESTMEATH corni- unicated to the peculiar burdens upon land entitled that class to counter-
house her Majesty's reply to the Addres-. veiling duties as a compensation, and depicting in dark co-
THE CAFFRE WAR. heirs the sufferings and the perils which he ascribed to
The Duke of WELLINGTON took that opnortnnity to our past commercial legislation.—Lord J. RUSSELL made
express his approval of Sir Harry Smite's conduct w ile some explanatory remarks upon particular passages of the
in command at the Cape. The only e •ror in the opera- debate.—The motion was then agreed to, and the house
tions against the Caffres was, in his °pin the omission adjourned at half-past 12 o'clock.
on the part of the General to open cads through the WEDNESDAY.—HOURS OF BUSINESS.—Upon read-
woods which formed the fastnesses of the harharian enemy. ing the sessional orders, Mr. FIUME moved that no supply
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. be ranted after 12 o'clock at night ; upon which question
The Loßn CHANCELLOR laid on the t .hle the Common theg house divided, when the motion was negatived by 146
Law Procedure Amendment Bill, which he described as a against 64.
measure which would dispense with o, simplify all the
forms and steps used at present, and shorten the
proceedings, and prevent the delays arisi,e from the tech-
nicalities of the law.—Lord CAMPBELL t, ,ped that provi-
sion was made in the bill for the dirnin,:tion of the fees.
—The LORD CHANCELLOR rep ied th ,t the hill would
lead in a great measure to the dirninutio of fees.—Atter
some further discussion, the bill was rea,; a first time.
Their Lordships then adjourned, after ,le,patehing some
other business.
FRIDAY. —THE CAFFRE WAR.—Earl GREY, in reply
to Lord Malmesbury, stated that mt, tires had been
recently taken to prevent the importatfoa of arms and
ammunition into Caffraria.
SIR HARRY SMITH.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY eXpr. -sed his s,tisfac-
tion at the handsome way in which the Duke of Wiling-
ton had spoken of Sir Harry Smith, and wished to know
if General Cathcart had been appointed •n suce-d him by
the Commander-in-Chief, or by the Colonial- effiee
Earl GREY deprecated any irregular Iseitssiert on so
painful a subject ; but the successor of Sir H. Smith had
not been appointed before the Governmt of had consulted
the highest military authority.
Lord BROUGHAM moved for certain returns relating to
Scotch appeals to the Privy Council, and a desultory I. gal
discussion arose among the law lords, ,fter which their
lordships adjourned.

THE ADDRESS.
Sir RICHARD BULKELEY having brought up the
report upon the addre.s, Mr. HUME took occasion to
express his opinions on the state of the representation,
colonial reform. and the policy of non-intervention.—
Some observations were afterwards made on the ventila-
tion of the house, by Mr. Osborne, Mr. Fitzroy, and
Lir(' Sevmour.—The report was then agreed to, and the
house adjourned at halt-past six o'clock.

THURSDAY.—ScoTTtsti PUBLIC-HOUSES.—On the
motion of Mr. MACKENZIE, the house went into commit-
ter to consider the law respecting public-houses in Scot-
land, when the Chairman was ordered to move for leave to
bring in a bill fo,. the better regu'ation of those houses.—
L aye was given.

0,. the motion of Mr. FRESHFIELD, leave was also given
to bring in it bill to consolidate and amend the statutes re-
lating to county rates in England.—After some other Wl-
sir,sc, the house adjourned, at 5 o'clock.

FRIDAY.—SUPPLIES.—In a committee of the whole
house, after a sugzestion from Mr. HUME, that the esti.
mates should be laid on the table as speedily as possible,
and that no expense should be incurred on account of the
militia until the opinion of the house was taken upon the
subject, it was resolved that a supply be granted to her
Majesty.

CHANCERY REFORM.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL, in moving for leave to bring
in a bill for the relief of the suitors in the Court of Chan-
cery, stated that it was founded upon the report of a com-
mittee of that house, which had taken into consideration
the whole subject of fees in the courts of law, and had
been prepared under the direction of the Lord Chancellor.
By this bill the officers would be paid by salaries instead
of fees. It was proposed to transfer the charge of £28,000
a-year for the salaries of the Judges from the Suitors'
Fund to the Consolidated Fund, the salaries for the admin-
istrative purposes of the court to be charged upon the
former fund, a large amount of fees being at the same time
entirely remitted. The Solicitor-General explained a
variety of new arrangerm.nts contemplated by the bill, by
the abolition, fusion, and regulation of offices, whereby a
saving to a very considerable amount would be effected.
It was hoped that by another bill, among other improve-
ments of the system, the Masters'-office might be dispensed
altogether by the substitution of another mode of
.—Leave was given to bring in the bill.
SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE METROPOLIS.

Lord EYMOUR moved for leave to bring in a bill for the
better supply of water to the metropolis. Such a measure,
be observed, should provide for a supply of water of good
quality, in sufficient quantity, and at a reasonable price,
and with reference to each of these heads he stated briefly
the general principles of the bill, which was merely
intended to be controlling and permissive, reserving to
Government a power of inspection and supervision.—
Leave was given to bring in the bill.
WATER AND DRAINAGE IN LONDON.
Mr. MOWATT then moved for leave to bring in a bill for
vesting the water supply and drainage of the metropolis in
commissioners representing the inhabitants. This bill
proposed that the ratepayers should be theparties to deter-
mine the sources of supply, the drainage, and the mode in
which the services should be managed.—After a brief dis-
cussion, in which Lord EBRINGTON, Sir G. GREY, Mr.
SLANEY, and Sir J. JO I/ .T cyrosrza tools port, loarc Trap
given to bring in the bill.
VENTILATION OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. OSBORNE, after some introductory comments upon
the ventilation of the house, and the hot and cold blasts
which found their way into it in succession, moved that
Dr. Reid be called to the bar and questioned upon the
subject.—An amendment was moved by Mr. MOFFATT to
refer the matter to a select committee, but on a division
the original motion was carried by 55 against 24.—Dr.
Reid was thereupon called to the bar, and questioned as
to the means at his disposal for ventilating the new build-
-1 ings, the obstacles in his way, and the remedies he
proposed.—The witness having withdrawn, after much
discussion, it was resolved that Lord SEYMOUR should
reporton the subject on Wednesday.—The house adjourned
at nine o'clock.

FOREIGN NEWS.

_.._____

FRANCE.

The new Electoral Law has been published, and the
Electoral Colleges are convoked for the 29th of February.
The number of deputies will be 261 ; being at the rate of
one deputy for every 35,000 electors in each department,
and one more, where the number in excess shall be more
than 25,000. The suffrage is direct and universal, by
ballot. All Frenchmen of 21 years of age, in possession
of civil and political rights, are electors, and all electors
of 25 years old are eligible, but no public functionary can
sit in the legislative body, unless he first resigns his office.
Algeria and the colonies are excluded from the represen-
tation. The Prefects have been summoned to Paris. for
the purpose of being confidentially consulted by M. Per-
signy as to the candidates whose election the Government
intends to secure.

A. letter from the President to the new Minister of
lice, which is published in the Moniteur, declares that

rue function of this department of the state will be to
check the action of the other departments, and to report
thereon to the President ; to keep him informed whether
public opinion approves or disapproves his measures ;
that it is not intended to be " a ministry of provocation
and of persecution, seeking to unveil the secrets of fami-
lies, and exciting suspicion and alarm," but an institution
essentially protective, intimidating only the enemies of
society, and furnishing the Government with powerful
means of doing good.
The testamentary exe

_tutors of Louis Philippe have
addressed to the President a protest, which is published
in the Belgian paper the Inde'pendance, against the de-
of the 22nd ult., relative to the property of the
A •
- been addressed to the
resident in England,

teur declares, in a communicated note, that the
4 and vaults of Dreux were not comprised in the
es of Jan. 22, as it was never intended to deprive the
ns family of this " pious possession."
SUNDAY.

The Moniteur says, "The Prince President has re-
ceived from the Queen of Spain, the King of the Low
Countries, and the King of Bavaria, replies to the letters
of notification of the new powers conferred upon him by
the French nation. The letters were delivered by the
respective Ministers in Paris."
_ _

The Marquis de Turenne, ex-Peer of France, is named
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.

The Viscount Dalbif de Belbize is named Adjutant of
a Palace of the Luxembourg.

The President of the Republic has commuted the sen-
tence of transportation pronounced against M. Peyronni,
commandant of the National Guard, for taking part in
the insurrection in the Nievre.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE QUEEN.

despatch from Paris, received in London by sub-
marine telegraph, on Thursday, announced that the
)vernment had received the following telegraphic
—" Madrid, Feb. 2.—An attempt was made on
the life of Queen Isabella 11. At present the wound does
not seem dangerous." The 2d of February was the day
on which her Majesty was to have taken her first airing,
and to have cone to the church of Atocha, in order to be
churched. The Paris Pays, in referring to this attempt
on the life of the Queen of Spain, states that a man fired
a pistol at her Majesty, nearly at arm's length from her
person, and wounded her in the shoulder. He was on the
instant arrested, and held in safe custody.
A despatch by submarine telegraph from Paris states
that the wound received by her Majesty was not a dan-
gerous one, and that she passed the night after the attack
favourably. Our Paris correspondent, writing last even-
ing, says :—" Up to the time of my closing my letter, no
further details of the attempted assassination of the
Queen had transpired officially. it was stated, however,
in the diplomatic circles, that the wound was from a pistol
ball in the shoulder, and that it was not sufficiently severe
to create apprehension ; but that from the peculiar habit
of body of the Queen there was danger of erysipelas. It
is supposed here that the assassin was an instrument of the
progressive party, and that the object was to overthrow
Bravo Murillo, who is suspected of a design to get up a
coup d'e'tat against the constitution."—Globe.
The Spanish Heealdo announces that the English go-
vernment has refused to accept the resignation offered by
Lord Howden of the post of ambassador at Madrid, which
he sent when Lord Palmerston left the ministry.