The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-09 00:00:00

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.

MessengersFrOm7ll4; /17)71111 ofCommons brought up •
great number of bills. During the progress of their being
brought up, one by ons.by tha Lord Chancellor,
Lord BROUGHAM, interrupting, said that on the ques-
tion that the messengers be called in, he wished once more
seriously to ask their lordships whether this nuisance was to
be put an end to or not ? They were about to occupy three
quarters of an hour in • useless ceremony, at a time when
every moment was of value, and when they had a great deal
to do before the end et the session. He was sorry he did
not persist in his motion for a committee on this subject,
and if his noble friend would grant him a committee to-night
they might get rid of this nuisance to-morrow morning. It
was no light matter when there was only a fortnight of the
session left.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE made some observation
which was totally inaudible.
Lord 13R01.715HAM then said that he should move as an
amendment to the question that the messengers be called,
that " messengers be not called in."
Lord REDESDALE said that the matter was already be-
fore a committee, with other matters relating to the standing
orders.

Lord BROUGHAM said that the subject did not relate to
the standing orders.
The subject then dropped, and the remaining bills were
brought up.
THE FINMARTS.

Lord BROUGHAITipostPoned-ii•i;esentation of • peti-
tion on this subject, of which he had given notice, till Tues-
day neat.
THE WELLINGTON STATUE.

Lord BROUGHAM mud he wished to all attention to a
subject of importance—he alluded to the papers and corre-
spondence relating to the Wellington statue. He should
preface a motion he should make with a statement of feet',
and not consider it as a matter of taste, but of
justice and right; and, if not of contract, of
quasi-contract. The noble lord then entered at
length into the history of the circumstances under which
the statue was subscribed for and erected on the arch, and
proceeded to say that his caw was, that the wavy had ham
wikimsalealis •a' 02prearvarpose of plactag the statue on
that arch, and had been spent on that condition. A clamour
had been raised by the public, and responded to in the other
house, against the continuance of the statue in its present
position ; but he was informed that that clamour was greatly
examerated, and that persons of taste had approved of its
position. The horse was not like those on the Elgin mar-
ble*, but it was more like a real hone than the ideal ones
such as sculptors said ought to be erected when they were to
make them. The statue was placed where all eyes could
see it, and there could not be for it a more commanding
position, or a more beneficial cxp'.sure. There was ano-
ther consideration which arose eat of a proposition of a noble
friend of his, that if the committee would take the
statue down they might place it on another pedes-
tal which would be furnished by the government.
But his noble friend forgot that the statue was not his ; it
did net belong to the government any more than the pic-
tures at Belvoir, but was the property of the committee and
the subscribers, and nobody had any right to take it down.
One reason why he wished the statue to remain where it
now stood was, that it was in the neighbourhood of the
mansion of the illustrious duke ; and he would have it rest
there, so that while that noble duke was enjoying that repose
—to which who had 90 good a right as be who gave repose to
hikoountry and the wend ?—lie might be enabled to rest that
eye which had gained fights, and pacified the world, on a
monument erected, not to his fame, to perpetuate which all
works of brass or marble would utterly fail and be super
fiuous, which was so unrivalled and so unparalleled as to bid
defiance to all rivalry and all time, but a monument which he
would be gratified and soothed in his latter days to con-
template, which a grateful country had erected to re-
deem the charge of their not being sufficiently grateful
for services which even their gratitude eould never repay.
The noble lord concluded by moving for the papers and
correspondence alluded to.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE declined to follow the
noble lord in his observations upon the subject, which had
been referred to those who were most competent, from their
acknowledged skill and experience, to pronounce upon it.
He had no objection to the production of the papers moved for.
Lord BROUGHAM said that whea they were produced
he labould explain the course he intended to pursue in
reference to than.