have made for the exigencies of the public service. The
expenditure which you have authorised shall be applied
with a due regard to their economy and efficiency.

"The recent discoveries of extensive gold fields have
produced, in the Australian colonies, a temporary
disturbance of society, requiring prompt attention. I
have taken such steps as appeared to me most urgently
necessary for the mitigation of this serious evil. I shall
continue anxiously to watch the important results which
must follow from these discoveries. I have willingly
concurred with you in an Act, which, by rendering
available to the service of those colonies the portion
arising within them of the hereditary revenue placed at
the disposal of Parliament on my accession to the
Throne, may enable them to meet their necessarily
increased expenditure.

"MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN.

"I have gladly assented to the important Bills which
you have passed for effecting Reforms long and anxiously
desired, in the practice and proceedings of the Superior
Courts of Law and Equity, and generally for improving
the Administration of Justice. Every measure which
simplifies the forms, and diminishes the delay and
expense of legal proceedings, without introducing
uncertainty of decision, impairing the authority of the Courts,
or lowering the high standard of the Judicial Bench, is
a valuable boon conferred upon the community at large.

"I hope that the measures which you have adopted for
promoting Extramural Interment of the Dead, and for
improving the Supply of Water, may he found effectual
for the remedy of evils, the existence of which has long
been a reproach to this great metropolis, and may
conduce to the health and comfort of its inhabitants.

"The extension of popular rights and legislative
powers to my subjects resident in the colonies, is always
to me an object of deep interest; and I trust that the
representative institutions which, in concert with you,
I have sanctioned for New Zealand, may promote the
welfare and contentment of the population of that distant,
but most interesting colony, and confirm their loyalty
and attachment to my crown.

"It is my intention without delay to dissolve this
present parliament; and it is my earnest prayer that,
in the exercise of the high functions which, according
to our free constitution, will devolve upon the several
constituencies, they may be directed by an all-wise
Providence to the selection of representatives whose
wisdom and patriotism may aid me in my unceasing
endeavours to sustain the honour and dignity of my
Crown; to uphold the Protestant institutions of the
country, and the civil and religious liberty which is
their natural result; to extend and improve the national
education; to develop and encourage industry, art,
and science; and to elevate the moral and social condition,
and thereby promote the welfare and happiness of
my people."

The Lord Chancellor then, by Her Majesty's
command, prorogued Parliament till Friday the 20th day
of August.

A proclamation of the same date appeared in the
London Gazette, whereby Her Majesty Dissolved the
Parliament, and ordered writs to be issued for calling a
new Parliament of the United Kingdom; which writs
are to be returnable on Friday the 20th day of August
next.

IN the HOUSE OF COMMONS on Tuesday, June 29,
the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that the
government had received from Sir Henry Bulwer an
announcement that the Misunderstanding between this
Country and Tuscany arising from Mr. Mather's case
had been entirely removed. There had been a most
ample acknowledgment of regret on the part of the
Tuscan government, and the very best sentiments now
subsisted between her Majesty's government and the
Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Sir H. VERNEY, in the absence of Mr. Anstey, moved
a resolution to the effect that, in the case of the Rev.
Messrs. Wingate, Smith, and Edward, arbitrarily
expelled from the Austrian dominions, under circumstances
involving much sacrifice of property, the rights
of British subjects resident in foreign countries, who
were entitled to her Majesty's protection, were violated,
and, no redress having been hitherto obtained, the case
called for prompt and earnest measures on the part of
her Majesty's government.—The CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER defended the present government. When
they came into office, they found that, in a despatch
from Lord Granville, in February last, the Earl of
Westmoreland, our minister at Vienna, was instructed
to leave it to the good feeling of the Austrian government
to decide whether compensation should be afforded
to Messrs. Wingate and Smith for their bodily sufferings
and losses. In March Lord Malmesbury had done no
more, and could do no more, than repeat the representation
very properly made hy Lord Granville. The case
of Mr. Edward was, that he had been expelled from
Lemberg with great harshness and cruelty. His case
had been represented as the most tyrannical of all. But
Count Buol had stated to Lord Westmoreland that,
although Mr. Edward had (owing to some indiscretions)
been ordered to quit Lemberg on the 17th of December,
the order had been rescinded on the 23rd; and it
appeared that he left Lemberg of his own accord, and
went to Vienna, where he saw Lord Westmoreland, who
represented his case to Prince Schwartzenberg; that he
returned to Lemberg, being recommended to remain
quiet until there was a decision upon his case, which
was decided in February; but long before that Mr.
Edward had voluntarily left Lemberg for Breslau, and
up to this hour he had received no order to quit the
Austrian dominions. With respect to the sacrifice of
property suffered by Messrs. Wingate and Smith, the
demand made by them in the time of Lord Granville for
compensation for the losses incurred in their expulsion
from Pesth amounted to 472l.; but an investigation
made into this demand had shown that it was exaggerated,
and that it was doubtful whether there was any
ground of claim whatever. Lord Stanley, by direction
of Lord Malmesbury, had communicated the facts to
Messrs. Wingate and Smith, with a request that they
would state what they had to say in answer to them;
and to this communication no reply had been received.
Lord PALMERSTON said it was evident, from the papers
before the house, that the discussions to which they
related were not yet completely brought to a close. It
did not appear, in the first place, what was the amount
of loss sustained by Messrs. Wingate and Smith. Then
Count Buol had offered to pay the expense incurred by
the return of the mission, and to that offer no reply had
been received. The house, therefore, could not agree
to a resolution which would affirm what it was not in a
condition to affirm, and he recommended that the
resolution should be withdrawn, as, on the other hand,
the house could not negative assertions contained in it
which were indisputably true. He did not regret that
this subject had been brought before the house, because
it was of the utmost importance that foreign governments
should know that, if they acted arbitrarily or
unjustly towards British subjects, there existed in that
house a determination to discuss the matter, and to call
upon the government of the day, if necessary, to
demand redress. He lamented the whole course which
had been pursued by the government in this case, though
he did not blame the present ministers, who had found
the matter launched in a wrong groove. Public benefit
arose from the public discussion of these subjects, and
the papers showed that the government had become
more energetic in proportion as the case of these
unfortunate men had been the subject of discussion in this
country. He thought Messrs. Wingate and Smith had
been most cruelly and tyrannically treated, having been
ordered to quit the country at the shortest notice, and
at the most inclement season of the year, without any
cause assigned. It had been since alleged that they had
violated an Austrian law; but the papers did not state
what that law was, and the British government had a
right to have a distinct statement of what that law was,
and how it had been infringed. He regretted to see the
despatch of Lord Granville of the 17th February, which,
under the circumstances (Lord Palmerston significantly
remarked), must be regarded as the despatch, not of the
Secretary of State, but of the cabinet. A despatch more
abject in its terms and substance, he added, it had never