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.< PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 21. This being the day find foe the Meeting of Pare ' litment, several Peers assembled about two o'clock., Soon after that hour the LORD CHANCELtOR, the „Atehbishop of CANTILDRURY, the Duke of Wettino- Tos, the Earl WESTMORLAND, and the Earl of S U AFTESDORY, took their seats in front of thelZhrone, - as Commissioners. The Loan Cieott-nt.tos directed the Deputy Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to proceed to the Connors, and sum mon that llouse re'ttzend at their Lordships' bar forthwith. Mr. Quanoir.,-the Deputy Usher, proceeded accordingly to the House of Commons, and soon after returned, accompanied by the Clerks of that House, and a considerable number of the Meniliers, among whom were the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the four Iterresentatives of the City of London in their robes. The I,O I ID CII A NCELLOR stated, that his. Majesty had been pleased to order Letters-Patent to be issued for the ap pointment of certain !Ards therein named to open the Parlia ment, which Letters-Patent the Lords and Gentlemen present would now bar read.—The Commission being read, The LORD CHANCELLOR mid, that, in obedience to his Majesty'S commands, he had to inform the Lords and Gentle men then in atlte , dance, that as soon as a sufficient number of Members of body Ilooses should be sworn, his Majesty would declare the causes for the assembling of this Parliament. In the meantime, it was his Majesty's pleasure that the Gentlemen of the nous:: of Commons ,h-old return to the place where thed usually hold their Sittings, and there proceed to choosy a Et and proper person to be their Speaker, and that they should present the person so chosen at the bar of that House to-morrow, at two o'clock, for his Majesty's approbation. The Commons then withdrew, and their Lordships went to prayers. After prayers, the oaths were taken in the usual form by the Lords present. The Lord Chancellor and the Duke of Clarence were first sworn separately.. Afterwards the following Peers took the oaths. viz.—The Dukes of Wellington and Athol; Mar quisses Camden, Cholmondeley, Anglesea, and Wiuchilsea ; Earls of Liverpool, Westmorland, Shaftesbury, Nellie, Orford, Nelson, Aberdeen, Abergavenny, Mulgrave, Caledon, St. Ger main's, Darnley, &c. Lords Napier, Beauchamp, Colville, Sydney, Keith, Kenyon, Howard of E ffingham, Lake, &c. the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of Norwich, Salisbury, Worcesta, St. David's, Exeter, St. Asapb, &c.—At Four o'Clotk the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. CHOICE OF A SPEAKER. At half-past two, the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod sum moned the House to the Peers, to hear the Royal Comn ission read. :air. Dyson accordingly led the way, followed by all the Members present. On their return, in about ten minutes, Gen tlemen havit:t taken their places, Sir ‘VILLIAM SCOTT rose, for the purpose of submitting a motion to supply the vacancy in the honintrable office of Speaker. He had never claimed the attention of the House with more unmixed satis faction, from a conviction that the opinion he enter tained upon this subject was- universal among the Honourable Gentlemen whom be was addressing— ( Hear !)—Although the distinguished individual who had presided over the deliberations of the House dazing the two last Parliaments had, perhaps, the most indisputable title again to fill the same office, he could not but be aware that he was speaking in the presence of many who, cis any other occasion, both from public and private considerations, would be equally deserving of the s utmost confidence of the House. It could not be denied that, composed as this House was of Gentlemen selected from the vari ous component parts of society in the United King dom, many were to be found in it whose talents, ac quirements, and general meri . s, would afford a fair prospect of a successful discharge of the arduous duties of Speaker. Here, however, it was fortu nately not necessary to hazard any speculation, how ever promising : past services, and tried and demon strable abilities—abilities not confined to the mere discharge of what might be termed the dry duties of t to office—had commanded not merely the approba tion, but the admiration of every Member who had witnessed their employment. Thus all experiment, was rendered needless, and perhaps he should justly merit censure if he were to attempt any description of the duties of the individual who was appointed to preside over the discussions of the House: he should better discharge this part of the task he had under taken, by referring to the mode in which his Right Honourable Friend had fulfilled those duties--(Hear, hear !)—With regard to the qualifications of a Speaker also, it might be said, in a word, that all and more had been displayed by the individual now offered to the choice of the House ; but, as many Gentlemen :night be now present who had not had an opportu nity of personally observirig their exercise, he would make a very few remarks upon them. The first qua lification undoubtedly was a warm affection for the happy Constitution of this country, including an in flexible regard for the rights and privileges of the House, anti for the just liberties of the People, or which liberties those rights and privileges were to be numbered among the principal securities—(Hear !). A great portion of health and streng th were neces • sury to undergo the severe labour, he had almost s; ,id the oppressive fatigue, of such a situation: the Journals only contained a numerous body of histori cal reading, and to a familiarity with them must be added an official acquaintance, not merely with forms, but with the pi incipics on which those forms originated, and upon which they were most wisely established. A facility of access, and a frankness of communication in all the intercourse of private busi 11eSS, were highly desirable; and an_attention ever awake to the exigencies of the moment in the per formance of more public functions, was indispensa ble. All who were Members of the last Parliament knew how eminently these requisites were united in his Right Honourable Friend ; and to them might be added one more amiable qualification equally con spicuous—an unaffected suavity of disposition and manners; a suavity that, without courting popular regard, universally attracts it. A liberal, a splendid hospitality, congenial with the habits of the country, and well becoming the dignity of the presiding Mem-, .her of a great deliberative Assembly, had ever been experienced at his table. If the present had been an occasion on which he ought to indulge his own feel ings, he could readily amplify upon the qualities ne cessary for a Speaker, because he had before him a perfect example of them ; but it behoved him to for bear the gratification of his own personal wishes, that he might no longer retard the declaration of that rmited sentiment which the House was impatient to display. Ile therefore would move, without further pit:face, " That the Right lion. Charles Manners Sutton do take the Chair of this House." Mr. 1101.11 E SUMNER seconded the motion.— Ile :,aid he had not sat so long in Parliament without having obtained some knowledge of the arduous na ture oi the duties of the Speaker : the great increase of public business had of late added much to the se vetity of the burden. In thus supporting thop:opo- sition of the Right Honourable mover, he was aware that he was placing himself in a situation to which he had no other claim than the length of time during which he had filled a seat in Parliament : his service as a Representative had taught him how much of the regularity and dignity of the proceedings were connected with the office of Speaker. If he had had to recommend a Gentleman who was unknown, it would have been fit to have entered at some length into the foundation of his claim ; but, as had been already remarked, the individual now proposed had proved himself, in every way, worthy of the confi dence and approbation of the House. As he had never known Mr. Sutton but in his public capacity, he could not propose hitn with the partiality of pri vate friendship; but the respect and regard he hasi excited in his public capacity were amply sufficient to establish his competence. When it was recol lected that the education of that Right Honourable Gentleman had been directed to the laws of his coun try, and to the principles of its inestimable Consti tution, that alone formed a high claim to the suf frages of the House ; but after it had been seen in how short a time after he had been first elevated to the situation of Speaker, three years ago, he had ap peared to have deeply studied the laws and rules, and investigated the principles by which the pro ceedings of the House were regulated—after the readiness he had displayed in the discharge of every point of duty, it would have been supposed, by those iin.icquainted with his previous history, that he had made the subject the diligent occupation of his life (Hear, hear).—To this knowledge was to be added a becoming deference for the opinion of the House, which, while it evinced a confidence in his own in formation, by the manner in which the rule was prescribed, did not diminish from the dignity of the station he was appointed to'occupy. He might ad vert, also, to the peculiar facility with which all Members obtained access, to the urbanity of his com • munications on all subjects of Parliamentary diffi culty ; but it was needless, as most of those who heard him had had frequent opportunities of expe riencing it. Otter the manner in which the motion had been made by a Right Honourable Gentleman so remarkable for his eloquence, and after the mode is which the distinguished individual proposed had been designated by him, were he (Mr. Sumner) to make any attempt of the same kind, he should only succeed in making conspicuous his own incompe tence to the undertaking ; he would therefore merely thank the House for the kindness with which it had already heard him, adding, in conclusion, that, since he had been honoured with a oat in Parliament, he had never voted with greater satisfaction than he should do on the present occasion, from a conviction that the individual in question combined, in his own person, claims of every kind ; and was not only most competent for his high office, but most accept able to the House : he therefore seconded the motion. Mr. C. M. SUTTON rose from his seat on the Treasury Bench, amid the cheers of the,House.—He hoped that neither the Right Hon. Gentleman who had moved his nomination in a manner so flatteriog, nor the Honourable Gentleman who had so hand somely seconded it, nor the House, which had received the proposition with such proud marks of approba tion, would measure the strength of his feelings of gratitude on this occasion by the feeble manner in which he should express them. He fully concurred in all that had been said of the high duties and weighty labours of the office of Speaker, not only as it was immediately connected with the House itself, but as it respected the Public at large. At all times the most embarrassing subject was that where the in dividual addressing the House was personally con e( raed : no man who spoke honestly was too ready to undervalue himself; and when the difficulties that surrounded the situation of Speaker were considered —when it was recollected how much, as the Honour able Member for Surrey had observed, the public business had increased, being of late years almost double—and when were added to that the new em barrassmeats arising out of the times in which we live—that man must be a bold one who dared to presume that he was adequate to such an office.— His Right Hon. Friend, whose kindness in public and private he had experienced on many occasions, but never more than on the present, had been plea sed to refer with approbation to his previous conduct in the Chair ; he could only say, that if he bad the good fortune so give satisfaction, he had already obtained his first and highest remuneration—( Hear, hear). — As to any services, the performance of which was within his reach, he would honestly state, that be at tributed their succesi, not to any exertions he was capable of making, but to that for which he was at all periods most thankful—the constant and cordial co-operation of the House—(Hear, hear). Its indul gent assistance had been always ready, and it had ever :hewn a forbearing disinclination to notice acci dental mistakes, or to mark involuntary lapses, and a friendly determination to be satisfied with such ex- 4 ertioris as its Speaker was competent to make. The House would pardon him, if, in his anxiety to relieve them from the painful task of listening longer to a subject embarrassing, inasmuch as it was personal, he contented himself with adding, that he had no reliance whatever on any pretensions of his own he would not deny that to secure the approbation of the House had been the highest object of his ambition ; and if it were again its pleasure to place him in the dignified station of Speaker, the most he could say, and the most he could do, was to assure it, that his anxious and constant exertions should be employed in its service —(Cheers). The Right Hon. Gentleman was then conducted to the Chair, between the Mover and Seconder.— Having taken his seat, he again rose and observed, that it was quite impossible for him to convey to the House the deep sense he entertained of the honour just conferred upon him. After what had already fallen from him, it would ill become him to attempt to mislead the House by any assurance that he could discharge the duties of the office in which he was placed with the abilities they required ; he must now, as heretofore, implore the constant assistance and kind indulgence of the House. He might, however, without too much presumption, ask credit for this assurance—that he would discharge his duties ho nestly, with the utmost zeal, and with the strictest impartiality—( Confirmed cheers). Lord CASILEREAGH said, that in the situation in which the House now found itself, the only ques tion that remained was that of Adjournment; but he hoped he might be permitted, in the name of tho House, as well as for himself, to offer congratulation' on the choice that had just been.made. From the I i manner in which the proposition of his Right Hon. Friend had been received, it was obvious that the House was anxious to bestow onAhe individual now appointed to preside over its disCussions the highest j mark of its approbation and confidence ; and there cbuld be no such mark in this free country more dis tinguished than that of being rendered The first Com moner of the Empire. It was undoubtedly a matter of proud satisfaction,. that at the period when the Speaker was placed in the Chair, all opinions were united in his favour—( Chi ers frog, all ides). :le was sure that the House would feel what had been already observed, that, without touching upon the peculiar importance of the times in which we live, and certainly that man must take a very superficial view of the condition cf affairs who should consider them but ordinary times, the office of Speaker in cluded many important duties connected with the jarring interests of this mighty empire, while Parlia ment was devoting its attention to promote its wel fare and prosperity. It was no small satisfaction to have now placed in the Chair an individual by ge neral consent so capable of fulfilling the arduous task imposed upon him—so competent to guide the House in its deliberations—to preside over those discussions in which the best interests of the State were engaged, with manly fortitude, and to enforce with firmness and wisdom those rules and forms so essential to the privileges of Parliament, and to the maintenance of the real liberties of the subject. Of the qualifications of the Speaker the last Parliament had enjoyed the benefits, and his Lordship was most happy that they were to be continued to the preseat—(Hear, hear). He would now move an adjournment. Mr. BROUGHAM, in the absence of those more competent, and more worthy generally to express the feelings of those who sat on his side of the House, trusted that it would not be thought presumptuous if he added his testimony to that of the Honourable Gentlemen who had preceded him. Ile took the liberty, therefore, to congratulate first the Speaker, but most of all the House itself, and, not less than the House, the whole Commons of England, upon the free choice which bad now fallen, for the third time, upon the same individual. He was sure that he expressed only the general sentiment in the wish that the Speaker now elected might continue, with the enjoyment of health and long life, to fill a station equally necessary for the support of the privileges of the House, and for the preservation of the Liberties of the People at large ; and the duties of which, he grieved to say, by the common consent of all, were not likely to be lightened. It was a matter of most sincere congratulation to the House and to the coun try that it had again the inestimable benefit of hav ing the Chair filled by one who had shewn himself, in all the more important, as well as in the less ma terial parts of the functions of his situation, eminently gifted for their discharge ; who had upon every oc casion proved that he was indeed the depository of the truest dignity of the House, by wearing the ho nours conferred upon him both with firmness and meekness. It formed one of his highest and most essential titles to the office, that on all necessary oc casionlhe had evinced the courage as well as the capacity to protect the sacred privileges of the House from infraction, under whatever pretext, whether as saulted by lawless violence, or put to hazard by the more subtile attempts of gradual encroachment. The question of adjournment till to-morrow was then put from the Chair, and carried. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1820. THE FUNDS. • PRICK or STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 2 Bank Stock 222 1 h 3 per Cent. Reduced 69 per Cent. Consols 69% Ys 4 per Cent. 87% Vs 5 per Cent. Navy 105% 7 / 8 3 Bank Long Annuities 17 15-16 18 India Bonds 255. 265. pr. . Exchequer Bills (2d.) 4s. ss. pre. Consols for Acct. 69% 70. The first Parliament of the present KING was yesterday opened by Commission. The LORD CHAN CELLOR, in the name of the Commissioners, ac quainted the Gentlemen of the House of Commons, that as soon as the Members of both Houses shall have been sworn, the causes will be explained which induced his MAJESTY to summon this Parliament ; and that, in the meantime, it was his MAJESTY'S pleasure that they should proceed to the election of a SPEAKER. The Commons immediately retired to obey this injunction, when the unanimous choice fell on the SPEAKER of the late Parliament, the Right Hon. CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON. The' peculiar fitness of this Gentleman for the dignified and ar duous situation, the duties of which he is again called upon to discharge, was acknowledged is the most encomiastic terms by the leading Members on both sides of the House. At two o'clock this day the new SPEAKER, attended by a great number of the Members of the Commons, presented himself at the bar of the House of Lords, to receive his MAJESTY'S approbation, which was 1 very graciously conferred by the LORD CHANCELLOR. The SPEAKER, addressing the Lords Commissioners, then demanded, in the name of the Commons of the United kingdom, the undoubted rights and privi leges of freedom of debate—freedom from arrest— and free access to the Royal presence. A considerable number of Members of both Houses have been sworn in yesterday and to-'ay. Our accounts from the North are still very dis t-rosin. The Clothing trade in Yorkshire never was at a lower ebb ; and by a letter from Heckmoniiw•ike we learn that the Blanket and Carpet line, which are ithe principal branches c:t►ried on there, are in an ` I ••••••(.. equally depressed state. Sit more of the infatuated individuals, who lately excited so much alarm at Huddersfield and in that neighbourhood, have been apprehended and sent to York Castle. It is impos sible to praise too highly the zeal and diligence which have been shew•n by the Magistracy of Huddersfield, seconded by all the more respectable bthabitants of that place, in watching over the public peace, and tracing the agitators to their lot king places. Let us hope that the active measures which have been pur sued for the preservation of public peace and order will have their due effect, in overawing those by whom the public security has been put in such im minent danger. Lord Srnmourrt lras communicated to Lord HA RE WOOD 'lib MAJESTY's high approbation of the Min p tinrde and vigour of the Magistrates cf Yorkshire, who have taken so prominent a part in rreserving the public peace, and in endeavouring to bring to justice those persons by whom it has been endan gered. The letter also states, that his MAJESTY has derived the greatest satisfaction from the high proofs which have been afforded by the several corps of Yeomanry, whose services have been required on the late occasion, of their loyal and zealous alacrity in supporting and aid . hlg the exertions of the Magis tracy to enforce obedience to the laws, and to frus trate tle designs of the disaffected. We observe, with great satisfaction, that fifty of the hat. manufacturers of Manchester, Stodport, Denton, Ashton-under-Line, Oldham, and the places adjacent, feeling for the distresses of the labouring classes in their employment, owing to the very great depression of wages, and wishing to contribute all in their power to the relief of the sufferers, have pub lished a Notice, intimating, that they have unani mously resolved to raise the wages of their workmen, agreeably to a scale agreed on, being an advance of nearly one-third. • This is the true way to beat down Radicalism. Let the Masters, in all the other branches of our manufactures in the North, do the same thing, and an instant termination will be put to all the discontents that now agitate the Working classes, in the hlanufacturing Districts. No other method can give the country the prospect of sound and permanent internal tranquillity. The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrrived this forenoon. The Chamber of Deputies had, on Tuesday, a day's peaceable discussion on the endless subject of the Finances. An extraordinary Courier from Madrid, has brought intelligence that FERDINAND has advanced, by one month, the period for assembling of the Cones, which was fixed for the 9th of July—they are now convoked for the 9th of June. Some new nominations have taken place in the Spanish Ministry, calculated, we are assured, to make it more homogeneous and efficient. M. A. ARGUELLES, one of the most distinguished orators of the Cortes of Cadiz, has been appointed Minis ter of Grace and Justice, in the rocm of M. JOSEPZI GARCIA DE LA Ton RE, who has held the portfolio of that department since the 9th of March. M. JEAN JAVAT has been made Minister of the Marine, instead of M. LEWIS DE SALAZAR ; and M. GARCIA HERREROS has been charged with the Ministry cf the Interior, in the room of M. JACOB PARDA, who held the portfolio of that office for a few days, ad interim. A Royal Decree has been issued, confirming one passed by the Cones on the 19th July, 1813, which abolishes for ever all privileges and exclusive reve nues, public and private; which belonged to the Crown, under the tide of " Royal Patrimony." Another Decree ordains, that all the arrears of the said revenues, due on the 9th of last March, shall be exclusively bestowed on the children and parents of the perions who perished at Cadiz, on the 10th ult. Colonel RIECO has addressed a very interesting document, in the shape of a Manifesto, to the Kim% It is an exposition cf the motives on which this dis tinguished Chief, and the troops which he commands, acted on the memorable first of January ; and of the principles by which they shaped their past, and are determined to direct their future conduct. It is couched in terms highly respectful to the Sovereign, and, at the same time, full of devotion to the consti tutional system of Government. Its spirit is frank. ness, decision, moderation. We trust the Constitu tionalists will continue, as they have hitherto done, to preserve this tone of temperate resolution, until they shall have re-established immoveably the antient liberties of Spain, and invested the Throne with the majesty of the laws, to make the KING the object of rational obedience., and People powerful, enli,ght ened, and happy. Trench Fiveper Cents. Tuesday, '4f. 15c. - It 'appears from the following extnict of a letter, that the French soldiery ale not likely to be found ready to hew down their'unarmed fellow-citizens: 24,18 W. ExTRACT OF A LETTER FROM REN - sas, siescti Yesterday General Cottard, when presenting the colours to the 2d Legion of Ille and Vilain: in the public square, termi nated his speech, by cryir.g, ' Long live the King, and the Boar. bons for ever !' without saling a word about the (Marten Fey innately, however, this Orrission was very soon repaired, several of our yourg people assembled in numerous grour, threw pp their hats, aid cried, ' Vive la Charte r Thew el:- Tawas appeared to annoy the General, an 4 he walked towa:ds one of the groups, in order to make them keep silence. A yet warm conversatiun took place, at the end of which the General ordered the Colonel of the Gena d'Armeris to turn the peer!c bra to 1 • I ▪ NI the an wr of Hi at lip 'D