The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS DAY).

Their Lordships met at two o'clock, when the
Lords Commissioners took their seats at the foot
of the Throne.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, then directed the Usher
of the Black Rod, Sir A. Clifford, to summon the
Members of the House of Commons to attend at the
bar.

In a few minutes afterwards, Mr. Shaw Lefevre,
accompanied by his mover and seconder—Mr. Robert
Palmer and Lord Robert Grosvenor—and surrounded
by a great number of new Members, appeared at the
bar.

Mr. SHAW LEFEVIIE then addressed their
Lordships to the following effect—My Lords, in obe-
dience to her Majesty's command, her Majesty's
most faithful Commons have proceeded in the exer-
cise of their undoubted right and privilege to elect
their Speaker, and I have to acquaint your Lord-
ships that, however unworthy of it, I am the object
of their choice ; and I, with all humility, have now
to ask her Majesty's most gracious approbation of
that choice.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, replied—Mr. Shaw
Lefevre, we have the command from her Majesty to
assure you that her Majesty is so fully sensible of
your zeal for the public good, and your ample suffi-
ciency to discharge the high and 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,—My Lords, with the most pro-
found gratitude and respect, I submit myself to her
Majesty's commands; and it now becomes my duty
in the name, and for, and on behalf, of the Commons
of England, to lay claim by humble petition to the
free exercise of all those ancient and undoubted
rights, immunities, and privileges more especially
those of freedom from arrest and molestation for
themselves and servants,—free access to her Majesty
when occasion may require, and that her Majesty
will be graciously pleased to put the most favourable
construction on all their proceedings and actions ; and
for myself, my Lord; I have to entreat, that if any
errors should be committed, they may be attributed
to me, and not to her Majesty's faithful Commons.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Mr. Speaker, we
have it further in command from her Majesty to as-
sure you, that her Majesty most readily confirms all
the right and privileges of her faithful Commons
which have ever been granted by her Majesty's royal
predecessors ; and with respect to yourself, Sir, al-
though her Majesty is sensible that you stand in
no need of such an assurance, her Majesty will
ever put the most favourable construction upon all
your words and actions.
The SPISAKER then bowed to the Lords Com-
missioners, and retired from the bar.
The Loans COMMISSIONERS then bowed to each
other, and retired.
The LORD CiIANCELLOR then divested himself of his
robes as a Lord Commissioner, shortly afterwards
re-entered the House, and took his seat on the Wool-
sack.

The swearing in of Peers was then proceeded with,
and continued till shortly before four o'clock, when
their Lordships adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-(THIS DAY).

The SPEAKER took the chair at the Clerk's table
shorty before two o'clock. The Right Hon. Gentle-
man lid not appear in his full-dress robes, but simply
wore a plain barrister's wig and a knight of the shire's
uniform.

De mace was to-day laid on the table, and not the
floor—the form observed yesterday.

There was a very numerous attendance of Mem-
bers, but the House was by no means so full
as yesterday. Mr. Thomas Babington Macaulay
came in early, and took his seat on the front row
of the opposition side. The Right Hon. Gentle-
man was warmly welcomed on his return to the
Homo by several Members who had sat with him
in former Parliaments.

Si! AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD entered the House shortly
before 3 o'clo:-,k, and, addressing the SPEAKER, said the
Loubs CommissloNzas desired the immediate at-
tendence of the House in the House of Peers.
The SPEAKER then proceeded to the House of
Lords, accowpsniedby nearly allthe Members present.
He nturned in ten minutes, and having taken thechair,
said—l have to state that I have been this day
to tie House of Peers, where I communicated to the
Pews forming her Majesty's Commission, that the
Bosse had proceeded to the election of a Speaker, and
that its choice had fallen upon me. My Lords Corn-
rnisioners, on behalf of her Mjesty, have confirmed
that choice, and also her Majesty's most gracious ap-
proval. I, therefore, on behalf of this House, laid
clam to the ancient and undoubted privileges hereto-
fore prescribed by this House ; especially the privi-
lege of freedom from arrest, for ourselves and our
servants—the freedom of debate—free access to her
Majesty at all reasonable times when we desire it, and
als, that her Majesty would put the most favourable
construction upon our words and actions, and my
Lcrds Commissioners were authorized by her Ma-
jesty to concede these privileges to the House. Hav-
ing made this communication to the House, I hope
the. Members allow me to take this op-
pothinity of again offering them my sincere
and grateful acknowledgments for the high
and honourable position in which they have placed
me..—(bear, hear, bear,)--I invite them to aid and
assist me by their council and support in maintaining
the authority of the chair—(Loud cheers) ; and I
miy, I believe, assure them that, so far as it is in
my power that authority shall be exercised with
the most pesfect impartiality, and in a manner which
shall be most conducive to the peace and honour of
de House. (Cheers.)

_
The Right Hon. Gentleman then took the usual
oaths, after which the iwear.ing in of Members was
proceeded with, which (coupled the House until four
row
o'clock,. when it adjourned till twelve o'clock tomor-
row.

THE PERSIAN EMBAT.—His Excellency Shafi
Khan, who has been some time resident here as Chargé
d'Affaires from the Schah of tersia, has lately been appointed
Minister Plenipotentiary frou that Court. The Schah has
also hononred Major Mirza braham Malcolm, first Attaché
and Interpreter, by raising hilt to the rank of " Khan."
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Melbourne, together with the 4eneral condition and accom-
modation of the ship, were received in detail. It is said that
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mander of her Majesty's steam-sloop Inflexible, Commander
Wooldridge, has had the experieice of being the mail agent
for more than a year in the General Screw Company's ships
to the Cape.
MIDDLESEX HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday the general
quarterly court of the governors of this institution was held
in the board-room, Mr. Michael Shith in the chair. From
the minutes it appeard that the amity had either received,
or had bequeathed to it, legacies to to amount of 1,80016 s sd.
The residuary property of the late Sr Joseph Le Fenn, esti-
mated ultimately to realize 0,000/., is, by order of the Master
of the Rolls, kept in court for the benefit of the hospital.
The collector reported that in new akd increased subscrip-
tions there accrued a gain of 261. 3s. The general balance
amounts to 1,1521. 12s. ld. and that oF the Samaritan fund,
135/. 17s. 10d. The sum Of 16s. 9d. .eas found in the poor-
boxes. There are at present 218 patients in the house. The
report:was adopted.
ACCIDENT ON THE DOVER RAmwAY.--Between
four and five o'clock on Tuesday momins, a South-Eastern
goods train of 14 or 15 carriages, laden with hops, from Maid-
stone, met with an accident near the Stoat's Nest station.
Owing, it is supposed, to a fracture of the txletree, one of the
middle trucks got off the line, and the coupling irons becoming
unhooked, the engine and tender, with the forward portion
of the train, proceeded, the driver being kneonscious for a
considerable time that he was drawing a burden shorn of its
fair proportions. The rear carriages of the hinder portion of
the train mounted those in advance, smashing and upsetting
and throwing them and their contents in all tirections. Both
lines were blocked by fragments of the carriages, intermixed
with pockets of hops.
THE FOUNDERED SCREW STEAMER OFF BEACHY
HEAD.—The recovery of the wreck of the splendid screw
steamer, Metropolitan, of London, which, it will be recollected
was run down off Beechy Head on the night of the 18th of
last month, by the barque Zollverein, appears now to be
abandoned, chiefly owing to the great depth of water where
it lay. The Metropolitan was
quite a new vessel, sister
steamer to the Cosmopolitan; she was greatly tdmired on
the Thames for her beautiful symmetry and "rakish" gait on
the water. Her loss with cargo amounts to nearly 30,0001.
buociaNci DEATH,—A; very shocking accident cc-
cured in Nottingham on Wednesday night at half-past
eight o'clock, by which a woman named Turner, re-
siding in Newcastle•street, met with her death. The
deceased and her husband are both upwards of 70 years
of age, and, as two workmen were passing the house door
at the time in cinestion,lthey observed a great quantity of
smoke issuing through the crevices. Thinking that all
was not right, one of them tried the door, but found it
fastened. They immediately gave an alarm, and suc-
ceeded in breaking it open, when a shocking spectacle
presented itself. A chair near to the fireplace was in a
blaze, on which sat the old woman, portions of her body
being burnt to a cinder. The flames were extinguished
as quickly as possible, and a surgeon sent tor, but life
had been for some time extinct. The husband of the
unfortunate woman ViliN returning home at the time of
the accident ; and, indeed, witnessed the appalling'
spectacle. It is conjectured that a burning cinder fell
upon ber clothes while she eat asleep near the &e,