Runcorn and Widnes Examiner. — 1870-08-13 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.  MY Loans AND GENTLEMEN,—The state of the public business enables me to release you from your attendance in Parliament. I continue to receive from all foreign Powers assurances of goodwill and friendship, but I have witnessed with grief and pain, on domestic .as well. iii public grounds, the recent outbreak of war between two powerful nations, both of them allied with this country. illy best exertions have been used to avert this great calamity. I shall now direct a constant and an anxious attention to the strict observance of the duties and maintenance of the rights of neutrality. I have cheerfully assented to the measure matured by your wisdom to enlarge the power of the executive,. not for the discharge of international business, but for the preservation of acts which in ti ..es of war might be injurious to the interests of the country. I shall make every fitting endeavour to check the hperation of mules which might lead t awards enlarging the area of the present conflict, and to contribute, if ' opportunity shall be afforded Me, to the restoration of an early and honourable peace. I have tendered to the two belligerent powers treaties identical in form to give additional security to Belgium against the hazards of a war waged upon her. frontiers. This treaty has been signed by Count Bernstorff on the part of the North German Confederation, and the French Ambassador has signified that he has authority to sign the corresponding instrument. as soon as his f all powers arrive. Other powers " which were parties to the treaty of 1839 have been invited to accede if they should think fit to this engagement. The shocking murders . recently perpetrated in. Greece produced a painful iiiipresSion throughout Europe, and nave drawn attention to serious evils existing in that country. My unremitting efforts will be directed to securing the complete and searching character of the inquiry which has been instituted. GENTLENEN OF THE HOUSE OF Com Dio,i!rB,—l thank you for the liberal provision which was 'made by you for the ordinary service of the year, ancl, for the additional supplies of men and money which you have voted in view of the altered state of things on the continent of Europe. The condition of the revenue gives ground for the hope that it may be able to meet the new charge which has been created without reversing the proper balance of income and expenditure.  MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,—In regard to domestic legislation, I may fitly congratulate you on the close of a session marked by an assiduous devotion to labours of the utmost national importance. The- temporary Act for the repression of a;grarian crime, and the maintenance of order iu Ireland has, up to the present time, answered the purpose for which it was passed.. From the Act for regulating the occupation and ownership of land, I anticipate the gradual establishment of harmonious relations between, ourselves and occupiers of lands, and of general confidence in the provisions: and administration of the law, and in the just and benevolent intentions of the legislature. -"In consequence of theefforts whichhave been made in matters of capital moment to remove from the statute book whatever might seem equitable to Ireland, I trust that the discharge of the first duty of Government, iii providing .for the security of lives and property, will become more easy,- and I shall rely, with confidence; upon the loyalty, and devotion of my Irish subjects. It has given me plesXure to concur with you in the passage of the important law, providing for national education in England. I perceive in it a new guarantee for the moral and social well-being of the nation, and for its prosperity and power. ' The Naturalisation Act and the Act for tne extradition of criminals will tend-to confirm our friendly relations with foreign powers. file Act which regulates enlistments foz a shortened term of service in the army, will I trust tend to increase the efficiency of the force to promote the wellare.of the soldier, and to nrovide for the nation a reserve of men well trained to arms and ready in case of emergency to return to the Standards.  I bid you farewell for the recess with the earnest prayer twat when you, are again summoned to your duties 1 may be enabled to rejoice witn you in the re-estaolisnineut of beace on the Continent of Europe.  WA.R