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FEINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK.

Hot-sx or LORDS. 71tesday, August 28. Royal Assent to the Consolidated Fund t Appropriation); Exchequer Bonds or Bilk (2,000,000/.); Refreshment-Houses and Wine Licenses (Ireland); Fortifications (Provision for Expenses); Customs (No. 2); Stamp Duties (No. 2); Excise Duties ; Spirits Duties ; Spirits ; Industrial Schools Act Amendment ; Crown Debts and Judgment; Defence of the Realm ; Weights and Measures (Ireland); County Coroners ; Industrial Museum (Scot- land); Local Goiernment Supplemental (No. 2); Militia Ballot ; Chancery Evi- dence Commission ; Coast of Africa, 8te., Act Amendment; Offences within her Majesty's Possessions Abroad ; Metropolitan Police Force (Dockyards); Endowed Charities ; Naval Discipline; Ecclesiastical Commission, &c. ; Gas Metropolis • Law and Equity ; Attorneys. Solicitors, Proctors, and Certificated Conveyancers ; Party Emblems (Ireland); Debtors and Creditors Act Amendment; Union:of Bene- fices ; Gunpowder, &c.; Poor Relief, Ace., (Ireland); Rifle Volunteer Corps; Court of Chancery; Savings Banks and Friendly Societies Investments ; Peace Preserva- tion (Ireland) Act (1836) Amendment; East India Loan; Roman Catholic Chari- ties; Militia Pay ; Church Temporalities (Ireland) Acts Amendment ; Divorce Court Bill ; Trusteer, Mortgages, Sic.; Tenure and Improvement of Land (Ireland); Mihes Regulation and Inspection ; Landlord and Tenant (Ireland); Titles to Land (Scotland) Act (1858) Amendment ; Tramways (Ireland); Sale of Gas Act Amend- ment—Parliament Prorogued by Commission.

The Session is at an end. After a short sitting on Saturday, followed

by an adjournment until Tuesday, to give time for the Queen ye of the Speech her Commissioners were to deliver, bo

ouses met and were prorogued by Commission until the 6th of Noyember. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor.,Ae Duke of Somerset, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord Sydney yr" lord Monteagle. The Commons having been 'mulched the L°r,f CHANCELLOR read the follow- ing speech- " My Lords and Gentlemen,—We thrfeommanded by her Majesty, to re- lease you from further attendance ip Parliament, and at the same time to convey to you her Majesin ackia„jeagments for the zeal and assiduity with which you nave apifireu 37.-;;Irselves to the performance of your import- ant duties during the long and laborious session of Parliament now about to close.

"Her Majesty commands us to inform you that her relations with foreign Powers are friendly and satisfactory ; and her Majesty trusts that there is no danger of any interruption of the general peace of Europe. Events of considerable importance are, indeed, taking place in Italy ; but if no foreign Powers interfere therein, and if the Italians are left to settle their Men af- fairs, the tranquillity of other States will remain undisturbed.

"The proposed Conferences on the subject of the cession of Savoy and of Nice to France have not yet been held. But her Majesty confidently trusts that, in any negotiations which may take place, full and adequate arrange- ments will be made for securing, in accordance with the spirit and letter of the Treaty of Vienna of 1815, the neutrality and independence of the Swiss Confederation. That neutrality and independence were an object to which all the Powers who were parties to the Treaties of Vienna attached great importance, and they are no less important now, than then, for the general interests of Europe.

"Her Majesty commands us to assure you that the atrocities which have been committed upon the Christian population in Syria have inspired her Majesty with the deepest grief and indignation. Her Majesty has cheerfully concurred with the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, the Prince Regent of Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia, in entering into an engagement with the Sultan, by which temporary military assistance has been afforded to the Sultan, for the purpose of reestablishing order in that part of his dominions. "We are commanded by her Majesty to inform you that her Majesty greatly regrets that the pacific overtures which, by her Majesty's directions, her Envoy in China made to the Imperial Government at Pekin, did not lead to any satisfactory result, and it has therefore been necessary that the combined naval and military forces which her Majesty and her ally the Em- weer of the French had sent to the China Seas, should advance towards the Northern Provinces of China, for the purpose of supporting the just de- mands of the Allied Powers.

"Her Majesty, desirous of giving all possible weight to her diplomatic action in this matter, has has sent to China, as special Ambassador for this ser ' - vice the Earl of Elgin, who negotiated the Treaty of Tien-sing., the full and faithful execution of which is demanded from the Emperor of China. "Gentlemse of the House of Commons,-Her Majesty commands us to convey to you her warm acknowledgments for the liberal supplies which you have granted for the service of the present year, and for the provision which you have made for those defences which arc essential for the security of her dockyards and arsenals.

ad th -xPrese to "My bards and gentlemen—Her Majesty, COMIllili4L 5s. e raped . the gratification and pride *tat which she has witeesiTILD1 "Iready cel in military effiriency which hat Volinitmer (cross have. 43: which is highly honourable to their quit and patriotiattaPiceafer areoh,. " liet %deity has givenlser comil. assent to the Act for T or goaen

her local hairopean force in India with her Threes engat:

service. ee air "Her Majesty trusts that the additional freedom which you halm; A, et to commerce will lead to fresh development of productive industry.

"Her Majesty has given her ready assent to several measures of great pub- lic usefulness.

"The Acts for regulating the relations between landlord and tenant in Ireland will, her Majesty trusts, remove some fertile causes of disagree- ment.

" The Act for amending the law which regulates the discipline of her Majesty's Navy has established salutary rules for the administration of jus- tice by courts-martial, and for maintaining good order in the naval service The Act bearing upon endowed charities will give means for a less expensiv. administration of the property of charities, and for the speedy and economi- cal settlement of disputes affecting such property ; while, by another Act, relief has been afforded to her Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects with re- gard to their charitable endowments. "Several other Acts have been passed for legal reform, which must lead to the more satisfactory administration of justice.

"Her Majesty has observed, with deep satisfaction, the spirit of loyalty, of order, and of obedience to the law, which prevails among her subjects, both in the United Kingdom and in her dominions beyond sea' and her Majesty has witnessed with heartfelt pleasure the warm and affectionate reception given to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales by her North American subjects.

"You will, on returning to your several counties, have duties to perform scarcely less important than those which have occupied you during the ses- sion of Parliament, and her Majesty fervently prays that the blessing of Almighty God may attend your efforts, and guide them to the attainment of the objects of her constant solicitude—the welfare and the happiness of her people."

Thus terminated the long Session of 1860. There were not more than fifty Members present in the House of Commons at its close. Of the Ministers there were Lord Palmerston, Sir Charles Wood, Sir George Lewis, Mr. Milner Gibson' the Attorney and Solicitor-General, Mr. Vil- liers and Mr. Chichester Forteseue. Mr. Walpole and Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald were the chief persons of the Opposition.