The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-04 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON

TOGETHER WITH

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it that no ordinary emotions were excited by the

arcly but cordial meeting between such a conatitu-

he bad indeed, if not superior to " the precious bud-
get," or the " brick-dust budget," or, indeed, any
which Sir CHABLE3 WOOD ever brought forward.

We may look for earnest debates on, and a new settle-
ment of, the Property and Income-tax, on a sounder
basis than at present. This is indispensable, and on
the course adopted the fate of the government will
in a great degree depend. The Budget will probably
be carried. Our only hope is that it may be worth
carrying. Certain Government measures will ad
vance, in the interim, through some of their respective
stages, and a tithe, perhaps, of the bills of which
notice had been given by independent Members,
may also "drag their slow length along." By
and bye will come the Estimates, and the Money
Votes, the latter, as usual, subjected to strict, but

ency and such a representative.
Naturally enough, ou first addressing the electors
of Edinburgh, after so bag a separation, Mr MA-
CAULAY reverted,;in a rather solemn and pensive strain,
to the changes which bad occurred since he last ap-
peared before them in the character of their repre-
sentative alluding in a more especial mannar
to the more remarkable losses by death which
within that interval the nation at large has experi-
enced. After lamenting the sorrows of a somewhat
more private, because more local, character, incurred
by himself and his constituents by reason of the suc-
cessive demise of GinsoN CRAIG and FRANCIS JEF-
FREY, the orator pointed with a turn of impressive
pathos to the more conspicuously vacant places left by
the passage of time in the ranks of the former Parlia-
ment. In the House of Commons, said he, "I shall
look in vain for virtues which I loved, and abilities I
admired." Amongst others, he exclaimed, " I shall
remember with regret how much eloquence and wit,
bow much acuteness and knowledge, how many en-
gaging qualities, how many fair hopes, are buried in
the grave of poor CHARLES BULLER." Scarcely less
earnest were his commemorative panegyrics upon the
services performed to their country by two other il-
lustrious personages, whom he had left at the
height of power, but who have, nevertheless, both
of them disappeared the one of civil, the
other of military, celebrity—the one the oracle
of the House of Commons, the other the oracle of the
House of Lords—the DUKE of WELLINGTON, whose
victories had guarded the country from the chances of
invasion—and Sir ROBERT PEEL, whose services had
saved it from the, if possible, yet more fearful perils
of revolution. Within the past five years, moreover,
Mr. MACAULAY reminded his hearers, that death bad
not been the only innovator. " Never," said he,
" since the origin of the race have there been five
years more fertile of great events—five years which
have left behind them a more awful lesson." In re-
calling to memory the long agony of those trouble-
ous years of disaster, the orator showed how nation
had waged war against nation, and class against class,
and how even he—the sanguine believer in the in-
destructability of civilization—stood aghast in the
presence of so many calamities. He acknow-
ledged, of course, that he still bore in
recollection the assertion of ADAM SMITH and of
EDWARD GIBBON, that the world could never again,
as in the ancient times, be ravaged by the terrors of
a barbaric inundation. He remembered that they
argued, and argued too with sufficient reason, whence
were to come the Huns and the Vandals that should
again destroy civilization ? But he saw that while
the civilized portions of the earth preponderated
over the savage, that there would still grow
- up under the shadow of our palaces, in the
hearts of our capitals, in the midst of our
political pomps and our social luxuries, " a race of
Iluns fiercer than those who marched under ATILLA,
and Vandals more bent on destruction than those who
followed GENSERIC,"--has he not already described
them in one of the last pages of the second volume of
his magnificent history—" Heathens in the midst of
Christianity, and savages in the midst of civilization!"
Grandly did Mr. Macaunsx liken the tranquillity
of England during these convulsions of the rest of
Christendom to the land of Goshen with all

unsuccessful scrutiny from Mr. JIuME, and a few
congenial associates, and (as usual also) passed

in thin houses, and at late hours. Once the
the money is voted, the actual business of the Session

is ended, and visions of the white-bait dinner at

Greenwich dawn on the Ministerial mind, together

with the more agreeable prospect of the absence of
the Parliamentary " baiting" to which they have been

For many mouths diurnally subjected.

The actual time given to real practical work during
this period, will be small—the balance of it will Le
expended in discussions on "things in general," and
a few crochets in particular. COBDEN and BRIGHT
will dilate on the unparalleled advantages of Free
Trade. The Irish Brigade will, of course, get up
some ultra montane debates. The veteran Member
for Montrose will endeavour to collect the dis-
jecta ?umbra, the scattered elements of Liberalism,
into something practical and tangible. The Church
party will have their palaver, and HENRY of EXETER,
will once more obtain the notoriety so dear to his
heart—being abused and praised, as if he were at
once the worst and best of sinners and of saints. The
Caffre war will be fought over again ; the East India
Charter will call forth the eloquence of the nabobs,
rejoicing heartily at the absence of GEORGE Tnomr-
SON. Mr. ROEBUCK will, as a matter of course, fling
about some of the agreeable acidities with which he is
wont to correct the crudities of debate. The war
with Burmah will be on the lapis. National Educa-

the plagues raging around it " everywhere
else thunder, fire running along the ground,
a very grievous storm—such as there was none like
it since man was on the earth !" Truthfully did he
attribute the happy condition of these islands, during
that most perilous emergency, under the blessing of
ALmmaTr GoD, ito our majestic and venerable
Constitution. Nobly and patriotically did he ex-
claim thereupon,—" Let U 3 prize our Constitution ;
let us purify it ; let us amend it ; but let us not
destroy it." To this recommendation, the advice of

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1'852,

ride six or seven miles, and to ramble over beautiful

grounds, amid flowers, and shrubs, and trees, tind

water- works and statuary. Now, we fully concede to
these parties the right to think as they do, and to
carry out their own thoughts themselves. We will
pass over the pleasant walks some of them enjoy on
the Sunday, in their own lawns and gardens, or in
the suburban parks around which they dwell. Their

right to gaze each Sunday on the pictures or sta-
tues with which they can afford to decorate their own

mansions or houses ; their right to converse on all
imaginable topics as well as religion, on the Sunday;

and the other innumerable ways in which these
parties show the impossibility of carrying out them-
selves what they would exact as law for the million—
we pass by all this, and maintain that they have to

OPENING OF TH E EW

PARLIAM ENT.

right to make their religious views of the Sabbath
binding by penaßy on those who do not hold them.
They are as free in this country as they can wish to

The opening of the new Parliament, wh:ch has
been 'coked forward to with so much interest during
the last six weeks, took place to-day. The weather
was exceedingly fine, and Palace-yard was conse-
quently very much crowded. Westminster Hall, too,
which is now the temporary entrance to both the
house of Lords and the House of Commons, was
completely filled with strangers, and altogether the
neighbourhood of the new Houses of Parliament pre-
sented a scene of unusual bustle and excitement.

promulgate their views, and to convert their neigh-
bours by argument. We can respect them in so
doing. They can circulate the "Pearl of Days," and
Sabbatarian tracts by thousands and ten thousands,
no man forbidding ; but to make men Sabbatarians by

penalty, this is what we deny them the right to do.
They cannot deny that they regard the withholding of
the charter as a penalty, for they think it is so severe

a one as to be almost sure of attaining their end,
though here we think they will find themselves mis-
taken. It is a heavy penalty, indeed, to a commercial

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The new Parliament was opened in the house of
Lords by Royal Commission. 'The Lords Commis-
sioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Nor-
thumberland the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of
Lonsdale, and the Duke of Montrose.
The Lords Commissioners took their seats at the
foot of the Throne shortly after two o'clock, when
The LORD CHANCELLOR, advancing to the 'Wool-
sack, directed Sir A. Clifford, the Usher of the Black
Rod to summon the members of the House of Com-
mons to give their immediate attendance at the bar.
The Usher of the Black Rod accordingly retired and
in a few minutes afterwards he returned to the House,
accompanied by Sir Denis Le Marchant, the Chief
Clerk of the house of Commons, and a large body of
the new Members. The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Mr. Secretary Walpole, Sir John Pakington, and
other members of the Cabinet being among the fore-
most.

, The Chief Clerk of the House of Lords then read
the Royal Commission for the opening of Parliament;
after which

The LORD CHANCELLOR, in the name of her MA-
JESTY and by virtue of the Commission which had
just been read, directed the gentlemen of the House
of Commons to retire to their own chamber and
choose a Speaker. The Members of the House of
Commons accordingly withdrew.
Their lordshipe then adjourned, prayers having
finished, the swearing in of the Peers was proceeded
with.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The Reporters' Gallery was thrown open at half-
past one o'clock. During the recess the interior of
the House has undergone some slight alterations.
The large chandeliers which last Session proved so
offensive to the eye-sight, have been removed, and the
shaded lights in
.the ceiling of the House consider-
ably improved. In all other respects, the House
remains in the same state as formerly, with the ex-
ception that some slight upholstery work has been
added to the gallery, for the convenience and comfort
of the reporters.
On entering the House, we found a large cluster
of members already assembled on the floor, chatting
noisily together in knots, or warmly shaking hands
and welcoming each other's return to the House,
Shortly before two o'clock, Captai❑ Gossett, the
Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms, appeared upon the floor,
bearing the Mace, which he laid at the foot of the
table. At this pericd the House was beginning to
get very full ; amongst the old faces present, we
recognised those of the following gentlemen :
Mr. Masterman, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Bernal Osborne,
Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Christopher,
Mr. Hindley, Mr. George Hudson, Sir F. Thesiger,
Mr. Ewart, Mr. Carter, Mr. Baron Rothschild, Mr.
Duncan, Mr. R. Palmer, Sir F. Kelly, Sir Jas. Duke,
Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. W. Williams, Sir
J. Trollope, Mr. Hildyard, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. La.
Lennox, Mr. Sandars, Mr. Scott, Mr.Thorneley, Mr.T.
Baines, SirF.Baring,Mr.Sergeant Shee,Capt.Bateson,
the Marquis of Chandos, Mr. Secretary Walpole, Mr.
G. A. Hamilton, Sir Shaw Lefevre (late Speaker),
Mr. M. Chambers, Mr. Hume, Mr. Henley (Secre-
tary of Board of Trade), Sir R. H. Inglis, Colonel
Dunne, Mr. B. D'lsraeli (the Chancellor of the
Exchequer), Mr. T. Duncombe, Sir J. W. Hogg,
Sir J. Pakington (Colonial Secretary), Mr. Herries
(President of the India Board), Mr. J. Wilson, Mr.
Geach, &c. &c.