Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-01
Cable Dispatches,

LONDON, July 81. - The session of
Parliament was prorOgued to-day. The
Queen was not present and her speech was
made by royal commission, and read az
usual by Lord Chancellor. 1t speaks of
the foreign relations of Great Britain as the
most friendly and satisfactory, and says
there are no reasons to fear wars with
Europe. No reference was made to the
United States.
The Abyssinian expedition has vindi-
the honor of the crown.
The cessation of attempts at rebellion 10
ireland urges the further use Of the excep-
tional powers as granted by the two Houses
as needless. ..
The Queen thanked the House of Com
mons for the supplies voted, and con-
graduated them on the passage of
the---Irish and Scotch reform bills,
the public school bill, the bill for the pur-
chase Of the telegraph and others of a. less
important character.
The speech also announces that the dis
solution of Parliament will soon take place
in order that the people may reap the adj
yantages of the more extended system of
representation recently provided, confident
Of their fitness for their new duties, and
that their voices wf1l be for the perpetual
ton of that civil and religious freedom
which are secured TO them, and the insti-
tutions Of the nation and settlement Of the
realm in the commons previous to pForoga-
ton.
The speaker said he had received through
the United States Legation letter from
Hon. VIM. II. Seward, accompanying
which was a splendid copy of book en-
titled "a Tribute to the Memory of Abra-
ham Lincoln" present from the Congress
of the United States to the House of Com
mons. L
Lord Stanley moved that the thanks of
the House be sent to Congress through Mr..
Seward, and the book be placed in the
library of the House. The motion was
carried. ~
The Times, in to-day's editorial, says of
the session that time only will show If the
leaders shall retain their status in the
change from the old to the new body. Mr.
Bright will find the new House of Com
mons a more ,congenial audience than in
the days of Palmerston, or of Gladstone,
whose popularity may yet reach on to
House elected by one constituency and
doomed to satisfy the requirements Of an
other.
The House may be satisfied, in spite of
all short cOmings, with such work as the
abolition of church rates, the punishment
of election of corruption and the condemna-
ton of political and church ebuses.
The pending political troubles in Spain
have resulted in a ministerial crisis. Ii il
understood that the distinguished liberal
statesmen Esportero has been summoned
10 form a new Cabinet, and has gone TO
Madrid for that purpose. Discomfort con-
tinues to prevail in Spain, and threatens TO
break into armed insurrection at any mo-
LIent. DisahectiOn is also apparent among
the officers of the fleet.
PARIS, July 3l.-An Imperial decree is
for three months, from October
LIST, the collection of tonnage dues from all
vessels entering French ports with cereals.
SHANGHAI, July 4.-NeWs from Japan
say compromise was effected between the
of the North and South, which /
will probably lead to a speedy termination
Of hostilities between the Mikado and Ty-
coon.