The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-14

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LoSDoN, August / Il Parliament was
prorogued today by royal commission.
The following = ssssss s s tsnn Is the Queen
We are commanded by the Queen TO
dispense with yonr further attendance
in Parliament. Her Majesty announces
to you with pleasure that she continues
toreceive from foreign powers the strong
est assurances OF their friendly disposi-
tion, and that her confidence in the pre-
servation Of peace has been continued
and confirmed during the present year
Negotiations in which her Majesty was
engaged with the United States have, by
mutual consent, been suspended. Her
Majesty earnestly hopes this delny may
tend to maintain relations between the
two countries on q durable basis of
friendship. The Queen has lively salts
faction in acknowledging the untiring cal
and assiduity with which you have prose-
cuted your arduous labors of the year in
the Act for putting an end 10 the estab-
lishment of the Irish Church. You have
carefully kept in view sc 7eral considera-
tions which, at the opening of the ses-
sion, were, commended to your notice.
1t is the hope of the Queen that this i'm
portapt measure may hereafter be re-
membered as conclusive proof of the
paramount anxiety of Parliament to pay
reasonable regard, in legislnting for each
Of those kingdoms, to- the special cir
cumstances by which it may be distin-
ghished, and to deal on principles of
Impartial Justice with all interests and
all portions OF the nation.
The Queen firmly trusts that the Act
may promote the work of peace in Ire
land.s and help. teunite, all classes of its
people in fyaterlel concord with their
English and Scottish fellow-subjects,
which must ever, form the chief source
OF strength in her Maiesty's extended
empire. -.. '-.r :-s2
The Queen congratulates you on hav-
ing brought your pyetracted labors on
the subject of bankruptcy and imprison-
ment for debt, TO q legislative conclusion
which is regarded with just satisfaction
by the trading GLASSES and general public.
The law framed for the better govern
ment OF the endowed schools of Eng
land will render the resources of those
establishments more accessible to the
Community. and more efficient in their
important purpose.
In the removal of the duty on corn,
the Queen sees new evidence OF your de-
sire to extend industry and commerce,
and enlarge to the uttermost those sup
plies Of food which bur insular position
IN Q peculiar degree encourages and re-
quires. -,
"o9The Queen trusts that m easures for the
purchase and management of the tele-
graphs by the State, may be found to
facilitate the great commercial and 80
cial object of rapid, easy and certain
communication, and prove no unworthy
sequel to the system of cheap postage.
which has passed with such advantage
into so many countries in the civilized
world. ~.
We are commanded to state that the
Queen thanks you for the liberal supplies
which You have granted for the service
iof the year, and for measures by which
you have enabled her Majesty to liaui-
date the charges of the Abyssinian expe-
dition.
& LONDON, August 13.-James Milliken,
of Philadelphia, has obtained Lord
Clarendon's sanction for instructions to
be issned by the admiralty to the British
feet In the waters of China to cooperate
with the Asiatic squadron of the United
States In laying and protecting the tele-
graphic cable along the coast of China
'This is an American enterprise, in which
some English capitalists have also in
vested.
The Times. in an article on the aboli-
tion of the Irish church establishment,
says that "whatever its practical result
may be, the measure is the boldest and
the greatest of modern legislation. One
consequence of the measure has been
:, the withdrawal by the authorities of
Trinity College of the opposition to the
proposal for admitting Catholics and
non.conformists to fellowship.
"The Irish bishops have shown good
sense in agreeing that the laity as we'll
as the clergy shall concur in the election
of prelates in the new church body. Ex-
treme Protestants have subsidized, and the
Catholics accept their triumph with gra.
titude and moderation"
Washington News.
WASHINGTON. August 13-Warrants
of the Navy Department have transfer
red to the Treasury Department the
power to contract for the recovery of all
vessels, both Confederate and Federal
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