The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-01 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

OUSE OF LORDS, June 30.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
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passed in the present session than had boon
had been
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many previous years. He therefore thought the r p esent
Government were entitled to the
country,
gratefulthanks of the
Lord BEAUMONT denied that
ha Billsthe credit of • passing
referred to was mainly due t
Government. The credit should rather beo the present
moderation of the majority ofthe
other House, and to
the assistance afforde b
other House to the by the Opposition in that and the
get through the business Go vernment in enabling them to
that was brought forsard. He
thought that in consequence
some of the measures had of the haste with which
been passed they would be
found to be very imperfect
from
when put into operation.
After a few words Lord Brougham, Lord Beau-
mont, Lord Lyndhurst and Earl Grey,
the Noble and L DERBY expressed his grateful thanks to
he had earned Lord for the testimony which
borne
to the course of proceeding
adopted by the Government
sion. He should during the present ses-
sion.
Lordships , however, be exceedingly ungrateful to
and the other House if he accepted the
compliment
other m, , which had been paid to himself and the
members of the Government without admitting in
the frankest
for the sn and most unequivocal manner that,
ecess which had attended the determina-
tion to which they had thought it their duty to
come, they were in a great measure indebted to
that absence of party feeling, both in this and the
other
House, whichhadcharacterised the
discussions. eminently
n in the present session, and also to the fair-
ness with which their propositions had been re-
'eived. Had that not been so, the period of time
sold have rendered it exceedingly difficult
t
carry into effect those measures which they
Conceived to be of vital importance. If the
Government were entitled to any thanks, it was for hav-
ing resisted the importunity from various quarters with
which it . was urged upon them to dissolve Parliament at
a period which would not only have been inconvenient
Personally to themselves, but would have involved the
country in great inconvenience, and probably have led
to the postponement, if not.the lose, of many useful mea-
sures which they deemed it their absolute and bounden
duty to propose to Parliament. When he had the honour
of first addressing their Lordships after assuming office,
he specified certain measures which the Government
deemed of paramount importance, and which they con-
sidered it was absolutely necessary should be passed be-
fore an appeal should be made to the country. First
and foremost among these was the Militia Bill, for in-
creasing the national defences of the country. Next
came the measures for legal reform, which were no
doubt recommended by the Commission that was ap-
pointed by their predecessors, but the machinery of
Which was mainly owing to the zeal and knowledge
which was brought to bear on the subject by
the present Lord Chancellor. In addition to
these, they thought it important no longer to delay
carrying into effect a measure for giving
representative institutions to New Zealand. They wore
also anxious to contribute to the health of the metropolis
by promoting a system of extramural interment, and
improving and increasing the supply of water. If, there-
fore, they deserved credit for anything, it was for
having justly estimated the degree of public spirit which
they believed prevailed in this and the other House.
This public spirit had permitted them to act on the
principle of abandoning all measures which might lead
to controversy, and had obtained for them their
support, regardless of all party considerations,
for carrying these measures which were im-
peratively required for the good of the country.—(Hear.)
It was a source of great gratification to hear that that short
session had been marked with as great an advance of
public business as had ever been effected in a longer
session, or with a stronger Government at the head of
affairs. He confessed that the opposition which had
been offered to her Majesty's Government had not
been carried beyond the fair limits, and he be-
lieved that there was no proof that with re-
gard to those great measures which had been intro-
duced . and carried by her Majesty's Ministers, they
had been in a minority in this or the other House of
Parliament. Upon one question, certainly, his colleagues
in the other House had been left in a minority, but
the reasons which led to it were not so much
based on the nature of the measure itself,
as it being considered a departure from the understand-
ing which was laid down at the commencement of the
session, that no measure should be introduced which was
not of an absolutely necessary character. At the
same time, he gratefully acknowledged that while
the Government had acted on this understanding
to the best of their ability, they had not
been met with any factious opposition and had en-
countered none but perfectly fair and honest opposition.
To their Lordships he owed special thanks for the kind-
ness which they had shown him in carrying on the
necessary business of the Government in that
House. He thought if they had followed the
advice that ,had been recommended by some gen-
tleman, and dissolved the Parliament on first
taking office, and have summoned a new one, which
would probably have met about this time, he was per-
suaded that time would have been wanting for carrying
out those great sad important measures which
had lately passed through both Houses, and he
thought, too, that if they had been introduced at the
commencement of a new Parliament the public attention
would have been addressed to them less with a reference
to their intrinsic merits than to party feeling. He him-
aglf thought that they ought to be considered without any
reference to party feeling, he did not wish that party
feelings should pervade all their discussions. It was his
aim and that of the Government to reconcile the
different classes of the country, and to obtain
the confidence of the country at large by doing what
they believed to be for the benefit of all.
Earl GREY allowed that many important measures
bad been passed, but ho did not think the Government
were entitled to take as much credit for them as they
seemed to take. Their passing was rather to be attri-
buted to the political interregnum which had taken place,
and to the fact of the Government having adopted the
pee•evee of their predecessors—measures which they
had, in some instances, opposed when in opposition.
Lord BEAUMONT could not admit the correctness
of the Noble Lord's (Derby) statement, that he had
merely carried out his policy—he had
of the former Government.
The Royalassent was then '
given by Commission
the f 11
I e owing Bills:
_edustrial and Provident Societies.
Turnpike Trusts Arrangements.
Soutch pia, (Ireland) Mills.
Burgh. (Scotland).
e neral Board of Health.
Disabilities Repeal.
„._ers, Representative Peers (Scotland) Act Amendment.
nesene
5 Act Amendment.
Poor-law Commission Continuance (Ireland).
Differential Dues.
Militia.
Trustees,___,.Act Extension.
Ifllnold Enfranchisement.
e: rreperty of
Lunatics.
School Sites Act Extension.
Bishopric of Quebec.
Colonial Bishops.
County
Navy pay.
Courts Further Extension.
Ilan' ray.
Appointment
of Overseers.
Hereditar
Canal Revenues in the Colonies.
Corrupt raetices at Elections.
Protestant
Dissenters. Pharmacy.
New
Zealand Government.
Turnpike Acts
Poo 1r- ale Beard
Continuance.
Inland Revenu Continuance.
Savings Banksee'
Excise (lreland).
Woods F
, °rests
Summary Proceeding 3.
and Lands
Metropolitan S'
Valuation
(Ireland
Metro reland).
Friendly Soder 21.
Crime and iee (No. 2.)
Incumbered Outrage
(Ireland).
Distressed Unions (Ireland).
Common Law ing (Ireland).
race -
Secretary of Bank dure Amendment.
minden Ballots Sus rupts Office Abolition.
Militia Pay. pension.
Nisi Prius Officers
General Board of ior
County Rata. —ealth (No. 2).
Commons Enclosu
Master in Chime re Acts Extension.
Huddersfield EurrY Aoliton.
Sank Island Hoedesi Ground.
Thames Embankment
Holloway House ee '
Correction.
Pimlico Improvement,orrection.
Leeds, Bradford,
Blackburn and and Halifax Junction Railway.
rreaton sad ,_•rreston Road and Bridge.
waratingitoad.