The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—TiIIs EVENING.
ROYAL COMMISSION.
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The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the fo,
lowing bills:—Marriages (Lambourne), Prisons (Scot.
land) Act Amendment, Procurators' (Scotland), Partnership
Amendment, General Post-office (Additional,Site), Carriers'
Act Amendment, Sugar Duties and Drawbacks, County
Courts Equitable Jurisdiction, Record of Titles (Ireland),
Harbours Transfer of Land Debentures (Ireland), Small
Benefices (Ireland) Act (1860) Amendment, Smoke
Nuisances (Scotland) Act Amendment, Greenwich
Hospital, Turnpike Trusts Arrangement, Ayr Burghs
Election, Comptroller of the Exchequer and Public Audit,
Inland Revenue, Indemnity, Compound Spirits Ware-
housing, Admiralty, &c., Act Repeal, Salmon Fishery Act
(1861) Amendment, Clerical Subscription, Falmouth
Borough, Crown Suits, &c., Poor Law Board Continut
mice, Colonial Docks Loan, Turnpike Act Continuance,
Local Government Supplemental (No. 5), Locomotives
on Roads, Local Government Supplemental (No. 4), Navy
and Marines (Property of Deceased), Naval Discipline Act
Amendment, Foreign Jurisdiction Act Amendment,
Rochdale Vicarage, Peace Preservation (Ireland) Act
(1856) Amendment, Expiring Laws Continuance,
Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (Ski 2),
Harwich Harbour, Colonial Governors' Pensions, pton
and Wharfdale Railway, Tunbridge Wells Water, Ogmo.re
Valley and Ely Valley Extension Railway Companies
(Carlisle Citadel Station Branch), Haddon and Bentley
Road, Metropolitan Market, Mansfield and Worksop
Road, Midland. Great-Western Railway of Ireland,
Swansea and Aberystwith Junction Railway, Wigtonshire-
shire Roads, North British and Edinburgh and Glasgow
(Bridge of Forth) Railway, Blackpool and Layton with
Warbeck Improvement, Chesterfield, Newbold, and Dun-
stan Road, Great Northern Railway (Junction at Newark,
&c.), Edinburgh and Glasgow and Monkland Railway
Companies, Kidivelley and Llanelly Canal and Tramroad,
West Cornwall Railway, Busby Railway, Aberdeenshire
Roads, Belfast Central Railway, Dublin, Wicklow, and
Wexford Railway. Dingwall and Skye Railway, Isle of
Wight Railway, St. Clement Danes Improvement, Stour-
bridge Railway, Rochester Oyster Fishery, Lymington
River Improvement, &c., Burnley Market, Fergus River
Navigation, &c, West Cork Railway, Dnblin Trunk Con-
necting Railway, Healesowen and BrOrnsgrove Branch
Railways, Barry Railway, Newton Water, Hoylake Rail-
way, Sidmouth Railway and Harbour, Spilsby and Firsby
Railway, Swansea Vale and Neath, &c. Railway, Bodmin
and W adebridge Railway, Mid Wales Railway (Western Ex-
tensions) West London Wharves and Warhouses, Bishops-
Castle Railway, &c., Ulster Canal Transfer, Burton-upon-
Trent Connecting Railways, Burton-upon-Trent Railways,
East and West Yorkshire Union Railway, Glasgow and
South-Western Railway (Additional Powers), Glasgow
and South-Western Railway (Ayrshire, &c., Lines), Glas-
gow City Union Railway, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire Railway (Purchase, &c.), Mellis and Eyre Rail-
way, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement, North Eastern
Railway (Leeds Extension).
Several other railway and private bills, amounting to
over 200, also received the Royal Assent.
The Commissioners were Earl St. Germans, Lord Wens-
leydale, and Viscount Sydney.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
THE RESIGNATION OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
It being pretty generally known that Lord Westbury
would. this evening make a statement relative to the cir-
cumstances that led to his resignation of the office of Lord
Chancellor there was a very full attendance of peers. The
members of the House of Commons were present in very
considerable numbers, and the space before the throne was
very fully attended. In the upper galleries there were a
number of ladies and some of the leading members of the
corps diplomatic.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, at a quarter past fiv©, rose
from his seat, and said that he felt it to be his duty, out o.f
the respect which he owed to their lordships, to call their
attendance there to-day, that he might personally announce
to them that he tendered to her Majesty the resignation
of his office, and that -ter Majesty had been gr
ciously pleased to accept that resignation. The step
ho took yesterday ho should have taken some
weeks ago if he had followed the dictates of his own
conscience. (Hear, hear.) But he felt that he could not
take such a step without receiving the sanction of the
members of the Government, of which he was ono. As
far as he was personally concerned, possessing, as ho did,
the personal acquaintance of the noble lord at the head
of the Government, he felt his honour was perfectly