OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.-THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3094, 17 January 1879, Page 2

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.

Mt Lobds and Osmtxehbn,— I regret that I hare been obliged to call for your attendance at an unusual and, probably, to most of yon, an inoonrenient season. The hostility toward* my Indian Gorernment manifested by the, Ameer of \ Afghanistan, and the manaerin which he repulsed my friendly Mission left me no alternative bnt to make a peremptory demand for redress. , ->■ - This demand haying been disregarded, I hare directed an expedition to be sent - into his territory, and I hare taken the ' earliest opportunity of calling you together, and making to you the oommßuioa* , ■ tion required by lair. , , ', I hare directed that papers on the sub* jeot shall be laid before you. ' " ' I receire from all foreign Powers ,aMy aurance of their feelings,, and I har» erery reason to beliere that the arrange* ments for the pacifications of, Europe--, made by the Treaty of Berlin will M successfully carried into effeot. ; < < - ( Gentlemen of, thjs Hottsk'of Comcows, .' The Estimates for the ensuing year are" < in course of preparation, and wijj in due ' time be submitted to you. ' . t ' My Lobds ahd Gbvtlembh,— ' vI propose that after full deliberation' upon the 7 matters which hare led me to ' anticipate your usual time of meeting,"' and after a suitable recess, you-should'' proceed to the consideration of rarious < measures for the public benefit which will then be laid before you. . , I confidently commit to your wisdom the great interests of my Empire, and I pray that the blessing of, Almighty G»d may attend your counsels.