The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-20
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% The fhOHOGATiON OF PAIil-lAMESI- -
The commissioners for signifyns the Royal assent TO
various bills and proroguing the two houses of Paa-
ment the Lord Chancellor and three other lords
The commission having been read the Royal assent
given in the usual form to number Of bills. The Lord
Chancellor then proceeded to read her Maesys message
which was as follows ~ rs ff
MY LORDS GENTLEMEN We are commanded by her
Majesty TO express her satisfaction at being enabled to
lease you from the duties Of session which, though in
terpted has by your unceasng assduity been produc
tive OF many important measures Her Majesty is hap
py to believe that her relations with foreign powers
such to enable her Majesty to look with confidence to
a preservation OF general peace Her Majesty trusts
that the labors of the penpotentiares sitting in
conference at Paris may lead to satisfactory solution of
the various questions which have been referred to them
The efforts the gaantry the devotedness displayed In
India W her Majesty forces and those of the East India
Company, have been above all praise; and her Majesty
hopes that those efforts have already been far crowned
with success that the formidable revolt which has ragged
throughout large portion of her Indian possessions may
now, under the blessing Of Almighty God be speedily
suppressed and peace he restored to those important pro-
vinces In this hope her Majesty has given her willing
assent to the act which you have passed for transferring
to her direct authority the of her Indian do
minons and her Majesty hopes to be enabled to dis
charge the high functions which she has assumed a. by
just and impartial administration of the law to
its advantages alike to her subjects of every and crecd
and by promoting their welfare establish and strength
en- her empire in India.
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE or CosloSs Her Majesty
commands us to thank you for the udcious berality
with which you have made provision for the exigencies
of the public service The present state of the
authorizes her Majesty to entertain confident hope that
the supplies which you have granted will be fully ade
quate to the demands upon them.
My LoRDs AND GENTIEsfEN The sanitary condition of
the metropolis must always be subject of deep interest
to her Majesty and her Majesty has readily sanctioned
the act which you have passed for the publication of
that noble river the present state of which is little cred
table to great country and seriously prejudcal to the
health Of he m
Her Majesty has also willingly asentcd to act where
by greater facilities given for the acquisition by
towns and districts, OF such powers may be requisite
for promoting works of local Improvement and thus
tending more widely the advantages of municipal self
government Her Majesty trusts that the act which you
have passed for the future government of the Scotch Uni
veses will be found highly advantageous to those ven
cradle institutions. and will greatly promote and extend
system of sound, moral and religious education in
Scotland The transfer of land BILL which extends the
powers hitherto exercised by the encountered estates
missoncrs and facilitates the acquisition of ndefeasibe
title by purchasers land in Ireland cannot fail be high
y beneficial to the landed propetors and to advance the
prosperity of that part of her Maesys domnions The
act to which her Majesty has assened for the establish
ment of the colony of British Columbia urgently
qured in consequence of the recent discoveries of gold
in that district but her Majesty hopes that this
colony the Pacific may be but step in the career
of steady progress by which her Maestys dominions
North America may ultimately be peopled, in un-
broken chan from the Atlantic to the Pacific by loyal
and industrious population of subjects of the British
crown. Her Majesty thankfully acknowledges the dill
gence and perseverance which have enabled you in
comparatively short tme to pass these and other
of inferior but not insignificant Importance Many
of in returning respective counties have
tensiye influence to exercise, and duties to perform
hardly less value to the community than those from the
labos of which you about to be released and hel
Majesty enertains confident that under the
guidance of Providence, that influence may be en-
poyed and those duties performed to rebound to
your own honor and to promote the general welfare and
the happiness of loyal end contented people.
The clerk at the table having next read the commits
sion of prorogation the Lord Chancellor in her Majesty
name formally declared Parliament to stand proroguet
to Tuesday, the 10th October next.