The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-07 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.---TuEsDAy.

The business was mostly of a routine character.
Mr. HUME once more brought the case of the Rajah of Sat-
tare under consideration, but while the discussion was still
proceeding, the house was counted out. •

HOUSE OF LORDS.—WEDNESDAY.
The Parliament was prorogued by Royal commission until
the 9th of October. Her Majesty's Speech, of which the fol-
lowing is a copy, was read by the Lord President :
" My Lords and Gentlemen,
" We have it in command from her Majesty to inform you
that the state of public business enables her to dispense with
your attendance in Parliament and to close the present session.
" Her Majesty has directed us to express her satisfaction
with the zeal and assiduity with which you have discharged
the laborious and anxious duties in the performance of which
you have been occupied.
" Her Majesty has given her assent to the important mea-
sure you have passed to amend the Navigation Laws, in full
confidence that the enterprise, skill, and hardihood of her
people will assure to them a full share of the commerce of the
world, and maintain upon the seas the ancient renown of this
nation.

Her Majesty has commanded us to acquaint you that the
friendly character of her relations with foreign Powers affords
hes• a just confidence in the continuance of peace.
"The preliminaries of peace between Prussia and Denmark
have been signed under the mediation of her Majesty, and her
Majesty trusts that this convention may prove the forerunner
of a definitive and permanent treaty.
" Her Majesty's efforts will continue to be directed to pro-
mote the restoration of peace in those parts of Europe in which
it has been interrupted
" Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
"We are commanded by her Majesty to return you her
thanks for the provision which you have made for the public
service.

" The public expenditure has undergone considerable reduc-
tions with►n the present year, and her Majesty will continue to
apply a watchful economy in every branch of the public ser-
vice. _ _ _ •

" My Lords and Gentlemen,
"We are commanded by her Majesty to congratulate you on
the happy termination of the war in the Punjaub. The exer-
tions made by the Government of India, and the valour dis-
played by the army in the field, demand her Majesty's warmest
acknowledgments.
" Her Majesty has observed with gratification the spirit of
obedience to the laws which has been manifested by her sub-
jects clarity, the period which has elapsed since her Majesty
last addressed her Parliament.
" It is the characteristic of our constitution that it renders
the maintenance of order compatible with the fullest enjoyment
of political and civil liberty.
" The satisfaction with which her Majesty has viewed the
peaceful progress of her people in arts and industry, has been
greatly alloyed by the continuance of severe distress in one
part of the United Kingdom.
" Her Majesty has observed with pleasz:re your liberal exer-
tions to mitigate the pressure of this calamity, and her Ma-
jesty commands us to thank you for your unremitting atten-
tion to measures calculated to improve the general condition
of Ireland. It is her Majesty's fervent hope that it may please
the Almighty Disposer of Events to favour the operation of
those laws which have been sanctioned by Parliament, and to
grant to her Irish people, as the reward of that patience and
resignation with which they have borne their protracted suf-
ferings, the blessings of an abundant harvest and of internal
peace."