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

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Is than 13,000 hours. (Choers Of laughter)
tc,sito.tion in saying that the Right Hon,
tad compressed into hie period of service,
Ind more successful energy than any one
asors. Hs most cordially supported the

Hon. C. SHAW LEFEVRE claimed tin
indulgence of the House before the motion was put,
while ho made one or two observationy. (Hear, hear.)
It was quite unnecessary for him to assure his Honour-
able Friend the Member for Berkshire, and his Nobic,

r Friend the Member for Middlesex, that ho highly value4.l
their friendship, while ho felt deeply sensible of
the complimentary manner in which they had done
him the honour to introduce his name to the House,
(Hear, hear.) He hoped it was equally unnecessary for
him to assure the House, that ho had not only listened

to the speeches of his Honourable Friend with sincere
pleasure, but he was also most sensible of the flittetiag
reception which the House had been pleased to give to
the proposition of his Honourable Friend, and he begged
leave to assure the Hquse, that ho witnessed that recep-
tion with feelings of unfeigned gratitude. (Cheers.) Au
experience of more than thirteen years had confirmed
the opinion which he held soon after he had tilt,
honour of a seat in Parliament, of the value and
importance of those privileges which were enjoyed by
the House, and which his Hon. Friend the Member for
Berkshire had justly observed were vested in the Hoir..:l

for the benefit of the community at large. (Hear, heat.)
The orders and regulations which governed the proceed-
ings of the House had been framed with much wisdom,
and they were well adapted to the principles fur which
they were intended, namely, the dispatch of public busi-
ness ; but salutary as, those orders and rules were, hi,
experience had also taught him the enormous amount
of responsibility that attached to an individual in whoet
was vested the guardianship of those privileges, and tis,
power of enforcing those rules and orders of the Hons,e
(Hear, hear.) His Hon. Friend the Member for the ,
University who, from his long standing in the House,
was well qualified to speak upon the point, and whot
opinion ought therefore to be highly respected, haa'
ventured to give the House some ides of the onerous and
laborious nature of the duties that devolved upon the
office of Speaker ; now, even with that experience whiol
he had referred to, ho should almost have hesitatedbin
again undertaking those duties, but he felt that ho was
under a debt of gratitude to the House for its unvarying
kindness during the period that he had served in the
chair, and that he had no alternative but to accept the
office again. (Cheers.) He entertained a strong con-
viction that an honest determination on his part faith-
fully and impartially to discharge the duties imposed
upon him, would not only meet with the indulgence, but
also the cordial support and co-operation of the Home.
(Cheers.) With these few observations, ho begged onca
more to express his gratitude to the House for the man-
ner in which they had received his name, and to
assure them, that whatever might be their decision upon
the motion before them, he should most cheerfully bow
to it. (Cheers.)
The motion was then put by the Chief Clerk, and
carried by acclamation—after which the Right Hon.
Gentleman was conducted to the chair by the mover anii
seconder of the motion, amidst loud and long-continued
cheering.
The SPEAKER having ascended the steps of the
chair, said: Before taking his seat he must be allowed
once more to thank the House for the compliment they
had paid him, and to assure them that the renewed mark
of their confidence would, if possible, cause him to re-
double his anxiety to discharge faithfully and impar-
tially the duties which belonged to the office of Speaker.
(Cheers.)
Tho CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
must now be allowed to congratulate the Speaker upon
having received to-day the highest honour which Eng-
lish gentlemen could confer upon any one who possessed
their confidence and esteem. (Cheers.) Those who
had preceded him had specified the great and eminent
qualities necessary to be possessed by him who fills the
seat which the Speaker now occupies, and he was there-
fore not called upon to dwell upon that branch
of his subject. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") But ho
remembered that during four Parliaments of the Queen
the Speaker had occupied the same post that ho now
filled ; and during that time, those who were old Mem-
bers of the House had frequent opportunities of witnes-
sing the courage with which the Right Hon. Gentleman
vindicated the privileges of the House, and the firmnest•
with which ho maintained order in their debates, and
supported that impartiality which should always regulate
their conduct. (Cheers.) He might perhaps without
presumption, having had the honour of a seat
in the House when the Right Honourable Gentleman
was first elected to the chair, and having been a member
of the House during the interval, be allowed to notice
one trait in the conduct of the Right Hon. Gentleman
which he had often observed. sad which he thought would
have alone entitled the Right Hon. Gentleman to their
increased confidence. (Hear, hear.) It was this—be
had often observed that in those conflicts which occa-
sionally occur where mere routine could not guide the
individual filling the chair—when he was, as it were,
taxed upon a moment, the Right Hon. Gentleman's re-
sources have never failed him. lie had always been, in
such u crisis, sustained by his ow❑ knowledge and zeal,
as well as by the high respect which the House enter-
tained for him. (Cheers.) There was one other reason
why he thought it was a subject of great congratulation
that the House had elected the Right Hon. Gentleman,
cud that was, that he could not but remember that in
this new Parliament the individual on whom would de-
volve, in the first instance, the disposition and control of
public business, had hardly had sufficient experience to
make him fully conversant with the forms and regula
lions of the House. (Hear, hear.) So far, however, as
he himself was concerned, he felt he should never
appeal i❑ vain either to the Right Hon. Gentleman
himself, or to independent members on either side of the
House, and under these circumstances he felt that the
selection which the House had this day made would be
alike satisfactory to all parties. (Cheers.)
Lord J. RUSSELL felt that it was a matter of the
greatest importance, and one of the greatest good fortune
that at this particular period, when there were so many
Members of the House without experience, they should
have to preside over them a gentleman who had
already shown the highest qualifications for the
eminent post of Speaker, and who, whenever it
was necessary to enforce the orders and rules
of the House did it with so much firmness and cour-

tesy, that he always secured the willing obedience oven
of those who might seem disposed to question his deci-
sion. (Cheers.) With regard to the observation of the
Right lion. Gentleman opposite (the Chancellor of the
Exchequer), in which he alluded to his short experience
of the conduct of public business in the House,
he must be permitted to say that he felt persuaded
that any assistance which the House ors
the
Chair
could render him in facilitating progress of public
affairs would always be most cheertully given. (Cheers.)
And it was right that it should be so, for it was of the
utmost importance that they should continue to set that
example to Europe which they had done for the last few
years, of carrying on discussion with the utmost free-
dom, and yet at the same time with the utmost regard
for decorum and propriety, as well as for the difficult
situation in which the president of such an assembly as
this must sometimes find himself. (Cheers.)
Mr. HUME said, he had been requested to make a
representation to the Sneaker on behalf of several mem-
bers of the House. It was very desirable that the
Speaker should have better opportunities, than he bad
enjoyed during the last three Parliaments, of becoming
acquainted with Hon. Members, and he was most anxious
that Members should have more frequent opportunitie_
of paying their respects to the Speaker. (Cheers.) 11-
looked upon the Right Hon. Gentleman in the Chair e,
the first commoner in the land. Hon. Members bad ha.i
the opportunity of paying their respects to the Right
Hon. Gentleman's predecessor, but they were precludeti
from doing so to the present Speaker by a practie
which was not consistent with constitutional Ilek; ,
When the House went up witehndalineardmdraess to tl e
as he mightudop,aiyn hishis
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Throne, he (Mr. Flume) cbouutldheatt
ordinary dress (a laugh):
respects to the Speaker a
made
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was not able to in hi,
should not have 40 or 50, or even 150 Mem-
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Gentleman.uu (Hear.)
theirbthieele:ln bgeerds respectst o the
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He was ono of those who highly
Hon. Gentleman's conduct in J approved of the Right
more anxious to support the rolese chair. No man was
House, and he had, in his humble l and orders of the
assistance in his power to render capacity, given every
ing that upon those rules depended the regularity of the
deliberative assembl high_character of the House as
to detract from they. It was not that he was desirous
respect due to the Speaker's office,
but he was anxious to see the Right Hon. Gentleman s
levees attended by the numbers who would do honour
to him. The alteration he suggested would give greet
satisfaction. lt rested with the Speaker to make the
1 alteration, as it was a private matter, and be did hope
that Members would be admitted attired in the same
manner as when they accompanied an address to tb,
Crown. He asked noshing more than that the Rige's
Hon. Gentleman should revert to the practice of his pr::-
decessor. (A laugh.)
Mr. F. MACKENZIE, then moved that the lloueo
do now adjourn, which was put by the Speaker and
carried.
The House accordingly adjourned at 3 o'clock unC I
2 to-day. —............---.......

OF ONE OF SIR JOHN FRANK..
DEATH OF THE WIFE
LIN'S CREW. —Wednoday afternoon Mr W.Baker, the Coro-
ner, held an inquest at the Marquis of Wellington public
house, Upper Cornll.street, St. George's. in-the-East, ou
view of th
washedboy of Ann__Jnhnson, aged 46 years. The de-
ceased wife of William Johnson, a mariner, and one
of the crew of the Terror, in Sir John Franklin's expedition.
The deceased occupied apartments at No. 53,Upper Cornwall-
street, and was in the receipt of 21. Bs. monthly from th• Ad.
miralty. On Wednesday, the 2d ult., deceased, who had
been of weak health, came up to London from Hull on board
a steamer, since which time she had suffered severely from *
violent cold, which ultimately proved fatal. The jury re-
tamed a verdiqt 9f " Natural death 14 tile TAitati9u of God.''