The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-12 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS-(THIS DAY.)

Shortly after one o'clock the members of the House
of Commons began to assemble, and before the half-hour
there was a very tolerable number upon the Ministerial
benches.
The Speaker arrived at 25 minutes to two, at which
time there were above 100 members present to receive
him. _ _

After prayers, some ballotting took place for prece-
dence to attend the Speaker to the House of Lords.
After that the house began to fill very rapidly, and at
ono time there were between two and three hundred
members present. At ten minutes to two Lord John
Russell entered the house, and having taken his accus-
tomed seat at once entered into earliest conversation
with the Speaker and Clerks. His lordship looked re-
markably well.
At half-past two Sir Augustus Clifford appeared at the
table with the usual summons for the house to attend at
the bar of the House of Lords, to he;tx the Speech from
the Throne.
The Speaker then left the house, followed by the mem-
bers in the order in which they had been balloted ; and
upon his return, at twenty-five minutes to three, the
house adjourned until a quarter to four.

The House resumed at a quarter to four o'clock.
NEW MEMBERS.
The following new members took the oaths and their
meats, viz. :—Viscount Duncan, Sir B. Hall, Sir William
Somerville, Mr. Watson, Q.C., Mr. F. Adair, Mr. G. W.
M. Peacocke, Mr. W. D. Seymour, Mr. J. B. Moore, Sir
Joseph Paxton, and Captain Stuart.
NEW WRITS.
On the motion of Mr. ELA.YTER, new writs were ordered
for Marylebono, in the room of Lord Dudley Stuart, de-
ceased ; for Limerick, in the room of Wyndham Goold,
deceased ; for tho county of Ayr, in the room of Colonel
Blair, deceased ; for Antrim, in the room of Lieut.-
Colonel Pakenlaam, deceased ; for Tremannagh, in the
room of Sir A. Brook, deceased ; and for East Gloucester-
shire, in the room of Sir M. Beach, deceased.

SESSIONAL ORDERS.
The usual sessional orders were considered and agreed to.

THE PUBLIC EXCHEQUER.
On the motion of Mr. WILSON, a return was ordered
of the income and expenditure for the year ending 10th of

October, 1854.
BA.RNSTAIPLE ELECTION.

The SPEAKERIaid upon the table certain papers contain-
ing information of informalities at the late Barnstaple
election
Sir W. JOLLIFFE moved that the papers be printed
and taken into consideration to-morrow.
THE MILITIA. _ .

Mr. HAYTER, upon behalf of the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, g:tvo notice of the intention of
the Government to bring in a bill to enable her Majesty to
accept offer of service from militia out of this kingdom.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
Major BERESFORD gave notice that upon Tuesday
week he should ask leave to bring in a bill to exempt the
estates and survivors of our soldiers and officers who fell
in the Crimea and elsewhere from paying the succession

duties.
Mr. C. BERKELEY gave notice that to-morrow he
should move for a copy of the proceedings taken upon the
trial by court-martial of Lieutenant Perry.
Sir W. JOLLIFFE gave notice that to-morrow he
should ask a question relative to the appointment of Mr.
Abel Hayward to an office under the Poor-law Board.
VOTE OF THANKS TO THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Lord J. RUSSELL rose and said—Sir, I rise to give
notice that on Friday next I shall propose a vote of thanks
of this house to oar army and navy for the operations that
have taken place in the Black Sea. (Cheers.) I shall also
propose a vote of thanks to the forces of our ally, his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of the French. (Renewed cheering.)
THE ADDRESS.
At half-past four o'clock the mover and seconder of the
Address entered the house together, one attired in the
uniform of a lord-lieutenant, and the other that of a de-
puty-lieutenant. At this time the house was tolerably
full, but by no means so full as we have seen it on the
first night of many former sessions. All the Ministers
were in their seats, while the front Opposition bench was
crowded with the leading members of the Opposition, in-
cluding Mr. Disraeli, Sir John Pakington, and Lord Stan-

ley.
The SPEAKER having read the Speech as it was delivered
from the Throne this afternoon,
Mr. HENRY HERBERT rose to move the address,
which was an echo of the speech. He said—Sir, in rising
to move an humble Address be presented to her Majesty
in answer to her most gracious Speech, he could not ask
for that indulgence which was generally accorded to gen-
tlemen who addressed that hon. house for the first time ;
yet, ho was sure no member ever stood in greater need of
that indulgence than himself. It was a source of the
greatest pleasure to hear that her Mrjesty had concluded
a treaty with Austria, and also one with our transatlantic
brethren. There was a topic in her Majesty's Speech—one
of the most solemn topics to every man, woman, and child,
he meant the war —at which the hoped they would permit
him to take a short glance. In making that retrospect ho
thought the country had ample cause to congratulate itself
upon the victory, the splendid victory—(loud cheers)—
which had been achieved. Ho did not underrate the losses
that hail attended the splendid successes of her Majesty's
arms, and. he trusted that the efforts that, would be made
to alleviate the sufferers by those successes would prove
that those sacrifices had. not been made in vain. (Cheers.)
The efforts made ,by the Turks at Oltenitza and eitate,
had. surprised every one, and proved that their courage
had not degenerated. Few could have expected
such splendid results with a foe so gigantic. Russia passed
the Danube. On the 22d of March, when they had ad-
vanced as far as Silistria, they suet with a blow from the
Turks, commanded by the gallant Butler, they least ex-
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the first object of the campaign was effected. de would now
if permitted by the house, take a glance at the naval ope-
rations. There were some in this country who felt disap-
pointed that no great battles had been won—no glorious
results had been added to the naval glories of this
great country. On former occasions wo had noble
foes to deal with, not those who skulked behind
stone walls and dared not show themselves. Persons were apt
to forget that long blockades had before led to the most
brilliant results. Was it nothing for our sailors to have
done to have swept those seas which, until then, had been
called Russian lakes? (Cheers.) Was it nothing that our
flag should be as safe now as if we were in a state of pro-
found peace ? Pleasure yachts could traverse the seas un-
armed;and unmolested by an enemy, and everywhere our
ships were on the alert. And here he might take
the opportunity of congratulating our gallant seamen
upon the noble spirit they had displayed through-
out the whole of the existing struggle. The house was
aware that on the 3d of September the Allied Forces
left Varna, and within eleven days they were landed
in the Crimea. (Hear, hear.) That movement and
the instructions which he issued on the occasion, were
sufficient to satisfy the country that in Lord Raglan we
had a military commander as able as any who had ever
borne arms in the service of England. (Hear, hear.) The
glorious battle of the Alma followed the lauding, and then
subsequently came the Battle of Balaklava, which was
fought on a day that would ever be mournful to us as the day
on which our cavalry was so terribly cut to pieces. (Hear.)
On the sth of November was fought the battle of Inker-
man, and on that day our troops well sustained the repu-
tation of that army which never knew when it was beaten.
(Cheers.) Since then we had been unable to carry on our
siege operations with the same vigour as before, and
though he was ready to admit that we had underrated
the power and ability of the enemy, he did not think our
mistakes could be urged as a reason for not prosecuting the
war with increased vigour. (Cheers.) The country was
unanimous almost to a man in favour of its being carried
forward until some effective result had been obtained. As
an Irishman, it gave him great satisfaction to find that the
Minister diCi not hesitate to withdraw troops from the
Sister Kingdom to send against the enemy. There was a
time when the Minister would have feared to leave Ire-
land as it were without troops, but thank God that day-
was past, and now all classes of her Majesty's subjects in Ire-
land wore uniting to assist the Allies in carrying on the war.
On the whole then he thought we had:g,ood reason for con-
gratulation. Notwithstanding that our losses had ;been
great, our troops had obtained a position that was impreg-
nable, the flag of the enemy had been swept from off the
waters where it was wont to be seen, and without wishing
to shut his eyes to the power of Russia, he felt
that the time had not yet come when we should give
way to a feeling of despondency. (Hear, hear.) Let the
house, then, be unanimous in voting the means necessary
for prosecuting the war with vigour and effect, and thus
show itself worthy of the country, who were anxious to
see it terminated only on terms honourable alike to our-
selves and our allies. (Cheers.)
Mr. E. F. L. GOWER seconded the address. Ho said
he felt gre at difficulty in performing that task, because he
had not the ability to do justice to the one leading topic
of her Majesty's Speech. Every man must lament
that he bad lived to hear a speech from the Throne
which referred to no other subject than war;
but at the same time it must be gratifying to all Englishmen
to find that the gallantry of our armies had been acknow-
ledged in suitabl, nay, noble torsos by her Majesty from
theithrone. (Cheers.) The gallantry of our own armies
WAS only to be equalled by that of our own Allies, and
he hoped now that the two greatest nations of Europe had
united in the battle-field, that when peace should be re-
stored they would display a similar declaration to further
the mutual interest of each other. (Hear.) Of course, his
seconding the Address indicated that he had confidence in
her Majesty's Government, and he did so because they had
not only united all classes at home in support of the War,
but they had secured the feeling of all Europe in our
favour. (Hear, hear.) Ho would not attempt to criticise
our military or naval operations, but he agreed with the
mover of the Address, that though there might have been
mistakes committed, yet on the whole many vast and
permanent results had been obtained. (Hear, hear.)
We had ,shut up the Baltic for the year ; we had
done the same for the Black Sea, while we had been
enabled to send out to the East an army of 50,000
men, and he put it to the house whether they would have
been credited had Ministers announced at the beginning of
the year that they meditated attempting those great
achievements. (Hear, hear.) Well, then, he hoped the
house would be unanimous in supporting them during the
remainder of the struggle, and thus satisfy Europe, the
British Parliament, as well as the British people, were
resolved that the aggressive power of Russia should be
destroyed. (Cheers.)
Sir J. PAKINGTON had no wish to criticise the spirit
of the speeches which had just been made, nor had
ho any intention to take any serious exception to
the terms of the address. (Loud cheers.) The appe,l
made in the first sentence of the speech would
be met by the whole house unanimously voting the sup-
plies that were asked for. To that sentence, therefore, he
could take no exception while ; with regard to the second
sentence, so far from refusing to increase the arsnoy,o
thought the house would be disposed to blame the G Item_
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