The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-11 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P ARLIAMENT,

(By British awl Leigh LJaynetic Telegrap h.]

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TIIESDAY.

The Lotd Chancellor took his seat at five o'clock.

The Duke of Argyll presented petitions from various
places in Scotland, praying for the repeal or alteration
of the Forbes Mackenzie Act, also several other petitions
against the Maynooth endowment.

MINUTED AND .7 ,URNALS GF THE HOUSE.

Earl Stanhope called the attention of the house to the
report of the select committee on the Minutes and
Journals of the House, and moved that the resoltithn of
the committee be agreed to, and be made standing orders ;
and that the standing order No. 25, directing that upon
divisions in the house the '• contents" go below the bar,
and the " non-contents " stay within the house, be re-
scinded.

The Earl of Eglinton suggested that if the galleries
were not to be cleared before a division, as proposed in
the resolutions of the noble earl, some such means as
those employed in the other house should he adopted, in
order to give time to peers in the lobbies of the house to
enter, the clearing of th galleries at present giving time
for that purpose. He also suggested that in publishing

the names of peers, the titles by which they were corn.
monly known should go first, and those by which they

held seats in that house shJuld follow, instead of the
reverse, as proposed by the noble earl.
Lord Redesdale recommended that their lordships
should still retain the power of clearing the galleries
should it be thought advisable, and, therefore, he moved
that the words of the first resolution should run thus :=

" On every division the house to be cleared of strangers,
except the galleries and the space near the thrune,
unless the house should think it desirable to clear the

galleries."
Earl Granville was understood to concur with the
view taken by the noble mover.
The Lord Chancellor said that the suggestion made
by the noble earl (Lord Eglinton) was, in his opinion, a
good one. The clearing of the galleries was now a guide
to him as to when he should put the question, and this
being abolished, it would be necessary to have some de•
finite plan adopted, so as to determine the exact tin.*
when the question should be put.
Lord Dungannon moved for a return of a copy of the
memorials addressed by the members of the Dublin Pro-
testant Association to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
relative to the conduct of Edmund Smethwick and
Thomas Hart, Justices of the Peace for Kilkenny, in a
case of alleged assault, in which Michael Carben and
Matthew Spellucy, two persons in the employ of the
Society for Irish Church Missions, were plaintiffs, and
J. Regan, defendant, at the Petty Sessions held in the
city of Kilkenny on Monday, 191 January, 1857.
The motion was agreed to.
Lord Stanhope brought up the report of the standing
order committee, containing recommendations with a
view to shorten divisions.

After some discussion the resolutions were agreed to,
and their lordships arose at half past six.

HOUSE OF COMNIONS—TIIESDXY.
The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock.

BELFAST IMPROVEMENT BILL.

On the order for the second reading of thin bill,
Colonel Shafto Adair moved, as an amendment, that it
should be read a second time that day six months.
Mr. Davidson supported the bill, and sir. Fitzroy urged
upon Colonel Adair the desirability of withdrawing his
amendment ; and this recommendation was acceded to.
The bill was then read a second time.

I%lAli N 00TH.

Mr. Spooner gave notice that in the event of his having a
seat in the Lev, parliament, he should take the very earliest
opportunity of asking parliament to repeal the grant to
Maynooth. (Loud laughter.)

THE VICT iRIA CROSS.

Capt. L. Vernon asked the Under Secretary for War
whether the list published of the names of the recipients of
the Victoria Cross was final, and whether it contained all
the Crimean recommendations deemed worthy of decoration,
and whether, in such case, there would be any objection to
publishing the names of the officers and private; who had
been recommended and rejected, with the details of the
services for which they were recommended.

Mr. Peel said it was final, as far as the regiments at home
were concerned. There would be a great objection to publish
the names of the officers rejected.

THE ARMY ESTIMATES.

Mr. Peel gave notice that he would move the army
estimates in committee of supply on Thursday next.

TOTE OF THANKS TO THE SPEAKER.

Lord Palmerston rose shortly after five o'clock, in a very
full house, to move a vote of thanks to the Speaker on
his approaching retirement. He said it was his
duty yesterday to be the organ of this house to
express their concern that in the next Parliament they
were not to have the benefit of his assistance in
conducting their deliberations. To-day he had to propose
to return, by their unanimous vote, their thanks for the
services which, during eiOteen years, be hail rendered it.
That man must have been a superficial observer of the
proceedings of Parliament who had not observed how much
of the action of Parliament depended upon the person who
occupied that chair. Amongst so many members, brought
from all parts of the country, unless the person who pre-
sided displayed temper, forbearance, and equanimity,
the proceedings of Parliament might sustain great in
jury. He need not say how much the present Speaker
had exhibited those great qualities—promptitude of
decision, justness of judgment, firmness of purpose, and
all these combined with the most conciliatory conduct,
the greatest simplicity of mind, and a total absence of
artificial affectation. (Loud cheers.) To every private
member the Speaker had displayed the greatest coartesy,
and no member who had consulted him had gone away
disappointed. There was another point on which the
Speaker deserved the thanks of the house, namely, in
simplifying and improving their forms and proceedings.
The noble lord concluded by form Illy voting the thnnks of
the house to the Speaker for his exemplary conduct during
the 18 years he had filled the chair. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. Disraeli, in seconding the motion, entirely con-
curred in the remarks which the noble lord had made on
the conduct of the Speaker, whose services they were
about to lose. The 18 years during which the Speaker
had filled the chair ha/ been amongst the most memorable
in the history of Par.iament. Many of the most important
Acts ever passed, and many of the greatest men who had
ever lived, had been witnessed under the speikership of
the present Speaker, which would thus become a memorable
one in the history of the country. The unanimous feel
ing of the house would he that he should loog live to enjoy
that perfect satisfaction which he so well deserved.
(Loud cheers.)
Lord John Russell said that, although it was unnecessary
to add anything to the speech-s of the noble lord and the

right hon. gentleman, it might be allowed to him, for his
own gratification, to join in expressing his concurrence with
the resolution. The Speaker succeeded to one of the ablest
men who ever sat in that chair, but so )n showed that he
was a fit successor to that distinguished man, and it might
truly be said that he at once won the heart of the house.
He could only hope that whoever might have the honour of
succeeding to the chair, he would be able to display the
same excellent judgment and the same conciliatory
temper. (Loud cheers.)
The Speaker then put the question, which was received
with a most enthusiastic " Aye," followed by loud
cheers.

The Speaker said he could assure the house that during
the long period in which it had pleased God to allow him to