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London, England, 1857-05-02 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS,-FulDAy.

Their lordships met at two o'clock. The Lords
Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Harrowby,
and Earl Spencer. _ .

The LORD CHANCELLOR then ordered Sir A. Clif-
ford, the Usher of the Black Rod, to summon the
members of the House of Commons to attend at the
bar.

In a few minutes afterwards Mr. John Evelyn
Denison, accompanied by his mover and seconder,
Lord H. Vane and Mr. Thornely, and surrounded by
a great number of new members, appealed at the
bar.

Mr. J. E. Dextsois then addressed their lordships,
saying that, in obedience to the commands of her
Majesty, the House of Commons had proceeded in
the exercise of their undoubted right and privilege,
and had elected their Speaker, and he had to
acquaint their lordships that ho was the object of
their choice, and with all humility he now asked for
her Majesty's most gracious approbation of the
choice.
The LORD CnaNcEr.r.on said :

Mr. John Evelyn Denison, we have the command from
her Al ajesty to assure you that her Majesty is so fully Ben•
Bible of your zeal for the publics good, and your sufficiency
to discharge the arduous duties to which you have been
elected by the members of the House of Commons, that
she fully approves and confirms you their Speaker.
The SPEAKER expressed his profound respect and
gratitude, and said he bowed to her Majesty's com-
mand. It now became his duty, in the name and
1:x the House of Commons of England, to lay claim,
by humble petition, to the free exercise of all those
ancient and undoubted rights and privileges—more
especially those of freedom from arrest and molesta-
tion for themselves and their servants—freedom of
speech in debate, free access to her Majesty when
occasion required it, and that her Majesty would be
most graciously pleased to put the most favourable
construction on all their proceedings and actions.
For himself, he entreated that if he committed any
errors, they might be attributed to him, and not to
her Majesty's most faithful Commons.
The LORD CHANCELLOR :

Mr. Speaker, we have it further in command from her
Majesty to assure you that her Majesty most readily
confirms all the rights and privileges of her faithful
Commons, which have ever been granted by her Majesty's
royal predecessors; and with respect to yourself, sir,

SATURDAY,

although her Majesty is sensible that you stand in need of
no assurance, her Majesty will ever put the most favourable
construction upon all your words and actions.
The Speaker then bowed to the Lords Commis•
sinners and retired from the bar.

The Lords Commissioners shortly afterwards left
the house. The Lord Chancellor, having divested
himself of his robe as a Lord Commissioner, re-
entered the house, and took his seat on the woolsack.
The swearing in of peers was then proceeded with,
and Viscount Eversley, the late Speaker of the House
of Commons, took the oaths and his seat as a peer
of the United Kingdom. The noble viscount was•
introduced by Viscount Combermere and Viscount
Torrington.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—FrunAr.

The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before two.
o'clock. The hon. gentleman did not wear his official
robe. He was habited in full court dress, with a
barrister's wig.
The mace was laid on the table, and not on the
floor, the form observed on Thursday.
_

Sir AUGUSTUS CLIFF ORD entered the house, and,.
addressing the Speaker, said the Lords Commis-
sioners desired the immediate attendance of the
house in the House of Peers.

The SPEAKER then proceeded to the House of
Lords, accompanied by nearly all the members pre-
sent. On his return, and having taken the chair,
he said he had to state that he bad that day been
to the House of Peers, where he communicated
to the Peers present that the house bad proceeded
to the election of a Speaker, and that its choice bad
fallen upon himself. The Lords Commissioners on
behalf of her Majesty confirmed the choice, and
also her Majesty's most gracious approval. He had,
on behalf of the house, laid claim to the ancient and.
undoubted privileges heretofore presented by the
house, especially the privilege from arrest, the free-
dom of debate, and free access to her Majesty at all
reasonable times when the house desired it, and that
her Majesty would put the most favourable construc-
tion upon the words and actions of the Commons,
and the Lords Commissioners had conceded the
privileges. Having made this communication to
the house, his next duty was to subscribe to the
oaths.

The SPEAKER then informed the house that the
members would besworn in in the alphabetical order
of the counties.
The Clerk then commenced the list with Bed-
ford county, and, having read about a dozen
names, the respective members advanced to the table
and took the oaths in the prescribed form.