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London, England, 1852-12-20 00:00:00

TUB SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING-, DECEMBER 20, 1852.

The motion for the adjournment was then agreed to.
Some bills were then passed a stage, and their lord
ships adjourned.

Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from the West
Riding, praying for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge.
Sir DE LACY EVANS presented two petitions from
Westminster, praying the house to take steps for the
release of Edward Murray.
Mr. C. BRUCE presented a petition from a place in
Scotland, against the grant to Maynooth.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the
farmers of Cumberland, complaining of the conduct of
the magistracy of that county, in reference to their offi-
cial proceeding, and praying the house to pass measures
to prevent magistrates adjudicating in cases where they
are personally interested.
Several petitions were presented from literary and
scientific institutions, praying the house to make them
grants of Parliamentary papers.
Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from Manchester,
praying for the repeal of the Excise duty upon paper and
soap, when there shall be a sufficient surplus in the Ex-
chequer to admit of such a measure.
Several petitions were presented from various parts of
the country, against any alteration in the house tax.
RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN SPAIN.
Sir R. H. INGLIS wished to ask the Under-Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he had
seen a notice published by the Spanish Government,
in which it was stated that foreigners residing in, and
passing through, Spain, would be prohibited from prac-
tising or professing any other than that of the Roman
Catholic religion ? (A laugh.)
Lord STANLEY said, that the attention of the
Foreign-office had been directed to such a notice,
but the terms of the notice were of so ambiguous a cha-
racter, that Lord Howden, our Minister at Madrid,lhad
been requested to apply to the Spanish Government for
an explanation of them.
NOTICE OF MOTION.

Mr. MOORE gave notice that, immediately after the
recess, he should bring before the house a motion in re-
lation to the Irish Consolidated Annuities, and the re-
commendation contained in the report of the Lords'
Committee on that subject.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS gave notice that early after the
recess, he should move that probate and legacy duties
should be extended to real property.
MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

By a quarter past four there was a scanty gathering
of ex-Ministers on the Treasury Benches—among those
present, we observed Sir John Pakington and Mrt_Wal-
pole.

About twenty minutes past four, Mr. Gladstone hav-
ing entered a few minutes previously, hurried from his
usual post below the gangway, to the seat occupied by
Lord John Russell on the front bench of the Opposi-
tion, when the two eminent statesmen were very speedily
absorbed in conversation.
Sir James Graham was in his place by the side of the
noble lord the member for the city of London.
After the conversation already alluded to having taken
place between Mr. Gladstone and Lord John Russell,
the latter crossed over for a few moments, and, taking
his seat on the Treasury bench near Mr. Walpole, spoke
for an interval to the ex-Home Secretary. The noble
lord then talked for a minute or so to the Speaker.
The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer en-
tered the house at about half-past four o'clock, looking
better, we were glad to see, than he has appeared for
some time past, with a blooming red rose in his button-
hole.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose
and said : Mr. Speaker—After the vote to which the
House arrived on Thursday night, the Earl of Derby
and his colleagues thought it to be their duty to
tender the resignation of their offices to her Majesty, and
her Majesty has been most graciously pleased to accept
the same. It has reached me that the Earl of Aberdeen
has undertaken the office of forming a new Administra-
tion, and it therefore remains for me to say that we hold
our present offices only until our successors are ap-
pointed. I hope the house will not consider it presump-
tuous on my part if, under these circumstances, I venture
to offer them my grateful thanks for the indulgent, and, I
may even say, generous manner, in which, on both sides, I
have been supported, in attempting to conduct the busi-
ness of this house—(cheers)—and if, sir, in the course of
that 'unequal struggle in which we have been engaged,
one word has escaped my lips which has been calculated
to hurt the feelings of any gentleman in this house, I
deeply regret it—(cheers from the Opposition)—and I
hope that the impression on their part will be as transitory
as the sense of provocation was on my own. (Renewed
cheers.) The kind opinion of the members of this house,
whatever may be their political opinions, and wherever
I may sit, will always be to me a most precious posses-
sion, and one which I shall always most covet and most
appreciate. (Cheers.) I beg leave now to move, sir,
that this house, at its rising, do adjourn until Thursday
next. (Cheers.)
Lord J. RUSSELL—Sir, I rise for the purpose, in
the first place, of concurring in the motion which has
just been made ; and, in the next place, to say that I feel
quite certain that if, in the course of debate, any words
fell from the right hon. gentleman which were calculated
to hurt the feelings of any one, they are to be attributed
entirely to the circumstances in which the hon, gentle-
man was placed, and not to any wish or desire to offend.
(Cheers.) For my part, I have always admired the
ability and talent with which he has carried on
the business of this house, and I have still
more admired the manner in which, singly as
it were, he had to battle for the interests of his Govern-
ment. (Cheers.) It is impossible, sir, to hope that
those halcyon days will ever overtake us, when the
course of debate in this house shall be such as not to
give rise to some degree of angry feeling—(hear, hear)—
and if it should ever occur that any feeling of that kind
must arise, the sting, I hope, will be done away with by
hon. gentlemen imitating the course which the right hon.
gentleman has judiciously taken to-night. (Cheers.)
Sir J. GRAHAM—Sir, with respect to the future
I am altogether uninformed ; but with respect to the
past, after what has fallen from the right hon. gentle-
man opposite, I cannot refrain saying one word upon
this occasion. (Hear, hear.) It would be impossible
for me, Sir, not to feel with some degree of pain the
expressions which fell from the right hon. gentleman
the other night ; but, if I had thought that those ex-
pressions were intended purposely to wound my feelings,
it would have been of a far different kind, for I am not
conscious, Sir, of having said anything in the course
of debate which was in any way calculated to wound
or hurt the feelings of the right honourable gen

tleman. (Cheers.) I cannot, therefore, believe that
the expressions which the right honourable gentleman
used were intentional ; but I am confident that he made
use of them in the heat of debate, and without any pre-
meditation. (Cheers.) No member of this house can
be more attached to the freedom of debate than myself ;
but, at the same time, I cordially concur in what has
fallen from my noble friend the member for the city of
London, as to the wisdom and policy of conducting our
discussions with temperance and decorum. (Hear, hear.)
I have only to add, sir, in conclusion, that I have never
failed to admire the talents of the right hon. gentleman
opposite, and also, I must say, the manner in which he
has conducted the business of this house. I hope the
house will pardon me for what I have said, but I felt that
expressions had been used which rendered it necessary
for me to say thus much, though I hope my conduct in
this house, at all times, will ensure me some portion of
its respect, which is all that I desire. (Cheers.)
Sir C. WOOD admitted that some expressions had
fallen from him in the heat of debate, which might have
justified the remarks of the right hon. gentleman opposite,
but after the unqualified acknowledgment of that right
hon. gentleman, he had no hesitation whatever in with-
drawing the terms he used, though at the same time he
could not help still feeling that the nature of the budget
justified the opposition which he gave to it. (Hear.)
Col. SIBTHORP had listened attentively to what had
fallen from the three right hon. gentlemen opposite
in reply to the observations of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and certainly the scene of this
evening reminded him very much of a well-
known saying he had heard, that we might knock a
man down in the street, and afterwards help him to a
plaster. (A laugh.) He did not subscribe to the
knocking down, nor had he much sympathy with the
sincerity of the individual who stopped after having
done that to give the plaster, and in that view he looked
upon the conduct of the right hon. gentleman opposite.
(Laughter.) He had heard that the noble earl at the
head of the Government had tendered his resignation,
ann he regretted it very much, because he could not
help feeling that the noble lord had succumbed to a
daring phalanx of conspirators, but those conspirators
were something like the dog and the cat, and he had
this belief to console himself with that they could not
long hold together. (Laughter.)

Mr. HUMS spoke in the highest and handsomest
manner of the facilities which, to his knowledge, had al-
ways been afforded for conveying information, upon all
subjects, by the late Government. He expressed a hope
that the new Cabinet would be constructedupon a broad
basis—saying that he should expect from them, that the
country would expect from them, the continuation of
law reforms, the extension of the free-trade principles,
and above all the purification and reorganisation of the
whole system of representation. The hon.gentleman I
said, in fine, that he was g
as brief as possible. sanguine the recess should be
Mr. CAYLEY, agreeing with much that was said by
themeber for Montros?,
.pronounced an earnest pane-
Chancellor uon the Derby Ministry, but especially upon the
of the Exchequer. but
said that the right
hon. gentleman entered
it
with a very brilliant repu-
tation, and that he left it with that reputation not only

noble Earl is not prepared on Thursday next, I
shall move the further adjournment of the house until
Monday next, and that no measures of any importance
will be brought forward in the interval.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock, when there
was a very full attendance of members.
PETITIONS.