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London, England, 1831-04-23 00:00:00

HO USE OF COMMONS,
.Arnii 22.

The SPEAKER, in full State Robes, entered the House
this afternoon shortly after Two o'clock, at which time
there must have been between four and five hundred
Members present. The body of the House was, in
fact, crammed, and there were a great many Members
in the side galleries. The Speaker took the Chair pre-
cisely at Twenty Minutes past Two o'clock, and called on
Mr. Hodges. . . _

Mr. HODGES—Sir, I have to present a petition from
:he county of Kent in favour of Reform.—(Hear.)

Sir 11..STYVYAN rose amid tremendous confusion, which
although the Hon. Baronet spoke in a most impas-
sioned strain, rendered him for some time almost inaudible.
We understood him to deprecate in strong tt ruts the dis-
solution which he understood was about to take place. It
is folly, said the Hon. Baronet, in the loudest tone,
to disguise from ourselves, that we are on the eve of a
revolution.—(Loud cries of hear," from all parts.)
Ministers, it appears, have determined to advise his Ma.
jesty to dissolve Parliament. They appear to have
no reason to assign for such a cause, but acci-
dent. Ministers came into office, saying they would
not rule by patronage.—(Loud cheers.) No, they
will not. An lion. and Learned Civilian said last night,
that I had attempted to raise the cry of " No Popery !"
again ; that I had tried to raise religious agitation.
I boldly avow that that is my feeling and my object--
(Loud cries and shouts of "hear, hear")—for, Sir, it can-
not be denied that w e have lost the balance of power
between the English and Irish Members.—(Hear, hear.)
I do not, Sir, blame the Roman Catholic priests for the
part they have taken in returning Members to this House,
I only censure those measures which give them the power.
—(llear, hear.) We were told, Sir, the other night
that Mr. O'Connell would be brought up for judgment.
This must be merely rumour. I will ask, Sir, dare the
Administration of this country, contend against the in.
fluence of the Hon. Member for Waterford. if they
have not made a compact—(Hear)—the repeal of the
Union must soon take place, for either Earl Grey or the
Right Hon. Member for Waterford must give up the
contest.—(Hear, ar, hear.) And can it, Sir,
supposed that the Hon. Member for Waterford will give
tip the fight, when he is nearly, I was going to say, the sole
Governor of Irelard ?—(Hear, and no, no.) If that
Honourable Member were now in his place, I would
most humbly pray him not to exert his great influ-
ence in the present agitated state of Ireland. I would
pray him, Sir, to be merciful in these days of agi-
tation, and 1 would pray him, Sir, moreover, to
have mercy on the present Whig Adnainiviration.
(Tremendous shouting, and cries of " Hear !" from all
quarters.) I remember what a Learned Civilian said last
night, and it put me in mind of a little circum•
stance that occurred since I have been Member for
Cornwall. It so occurred that I had to present a
petition from three persons who were confined in gaol
by a Noble Marquis for some ten or twenty pounds rent.
This was in consequence of their voting contrary to the
Noble Marquis. He would not mention names,
but it was a Whig Lord who now voted for Re-
form.—(Hear, hear, hear.) For two centuries the
constitution of Parliament had remained the same as it
was now. A change, however, was about to take
place, and, strange to say, the Funds were rising.--
(Hear, bear, hear.) Little, Sir, do the fundholders
know of the effects of a Reformed Parliament.--
(Tremendous shouts of hear, hear.) They ought to know
that no new Government had much regard for the debts
of an old one —( Hear.) Let, Sir, the freeholders not de-
' ceive themselves. Let them not lay the flattering unction to
their souls, that their property was safe, or that the funds
would not be touched. __(Hear.) Why, Sir, the very men
now in power, those who have advised the King to dissolve,
in order to keep their places, those very men have
always contended that the money that was to carry on an
unnecessary and useless war.—(Loud cries of " Question.")
—Sir, the question before the House is, whether we are
to he dissolved or not.—(Cries of " no, no, that is no
longer a question ;" and laughter.) Well then the ques-
tion is, are we to be dissolved because we have voted the
numbers of the English Members should not be reduced ?
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT here rose to order. He

submitted that there was ilo question before the Hottqc.
An Hon. Member bad presented a petition in favour of Re-
form, a measure which had his perfect concurrence, and—
(Loud cries of " Order," from all parts of the House.)
The SPEAKER i4.id qtestion before the House was
oh a I;..tetitlo'n praying for Reform. What the Hon. Baronet
had been speaking about was a dissolution of Parliament,
which, in his humble opinion, was not at all, or in any
way, applicable to the question of Reform.—(Hear, hear.)
Several Hon. Members rose at the same moment.
The SPEAKER—If Hon. Members appeal to me they
must take the la* as f lay it doWn.=-(Heal., hear.)
At this moment theft! Were loud tries for Sir R. l'yvyan
to proceed..,,
Mr. T.ENNICSOfC Coe amidst loud cries of " Order"
from tl;e r. pposiLion benches, which continued so long
enat it was impossible for any Hon. Member to proceed.
At length
Sir R. VYVYAN was heard to say, that when
he was railed to order by the Speaker the tenor of his
speech had reference to the matter of the petition, and—
Mr. TENNYSON interrutilted.-,--(He a'gaili attempted
to c'itaqi a hearing, but was totally unable from the loud
erieh Ltf " Order, order," " Chair, chair.")

Mr. TENNYSON—I gay this conduct is disordrrly.—
(Chair, chair! order, order.)

Mr. TENNYSON—I must be heard, there is no
statement in the petition that involves a question relating
to the dissolution of Parliament;

The crier of " near, 'near ! order, order ! chair, ch:iir"—
dened all attempta at description, never was such a scene
witnessed in the memory of the oldest inhabitant in the
walls of St. Stephen's. Order having been somewhat
restored,

Sir B. VIVYAN said, Mr. Speaker, I am sorry to say
the law you have laid down should be gainsaid.—(Hear.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose. We heard hint make
use of the words the Hon. Baronet is inistaken,but
what followed afterward•, from the confusion that pre-
vailed, it was impossible to crch.—(Loud cries for Sir
Richard Vyvyan to go on.)

Sir R. VYVIAN—The Hon. Baronet recommenced
ui observing that he could have wished much, when leave
e.--a: obtained for him to go on, that some person had re-
minded him of the topic on which he was speaking.—
( Hear, and a laugh.) All that he had been saying came,
however, to this--that Ministers were about to incur a
fearful responsibility, and that the consequences must
be on their heads.—(Hear.) They had held out an invi-
tation to every class in the country to support the Reform
Bill, as the means of securing them peculiar advantages.
—(Loud cheers.) But no change could take place, in
this country, in favour of one class, which must not pro-
duce some injury to another. How was it possible, he
could ask, for a change to he made in the condition of
one class of the population without materially injuring the
other ? Did the farmer think that, by supporting the
Reform Bill, he would secure the integrity of the present
corn laws ?—(Cheers.) If they did so, they were woe-
fully mistaken.—(Hear.) He believed, however, they held
no such opinion. Did the Ministers think that by the dis-
solution of Parliament, they could command a majority in the
agricultural districts ? If they did, he was sure they would
find themselves grossly mistaken. It was but within the
last five or six months that the farmers of these districts
had their farms laid waste, and their property pillaged.
No means had been adopted to prevent the recurrence of
these events, and Parliament was about to he (Resolved.
A stronger feeling of excitement had not prevailed in the
country since the titre of the Administration of Sir Ro-
bert Walpole. The prevailing opinion sedulously fostered
to produce the concurrence of the people wag, that tithes
were to be repealed under the influence of a reformed Par-
liament. The history of every country in the world
showed, however, that when tithes were taken from the
clergy they were immediately seised by the State ; and in-
stead of being devoted to the support of religion, they
would become a most oppressive land-tax.—(Cheers.) He
made no apology to those whom he addressed for having
occupied so much of the time of the House ; he had spoken
his opinions on the subject of the course they were pursu-
ing, and he would conclude by avowing it as his decided con-
viction, that if they were permitted to carry their Bill, all
funded property would become unsafe. Tithes would be
devoted to confiscation—the House of Lords would be des
stroyed—and the Crown itself shaken from the head of
the Sovereign.—(Loud cheers.) In Ireland the bonds of
society would be loosened, and fathers, and mothers, and
children, rue the day that the Ministers, for their own pur-
poses, resolved to revive all party differences and raise ani-
mosities at elections. [The Hon. Member continued to
address the House for some time longer, but at the con-
clusion of this sentence the report of the first gun which
announced the arrival of his Majesty resounded through
the House. It drowned the conclusion of the Hon. Ba-
ronee's sentence; and the cheers, laughter, and cries of
"order ! " which followed the succeeding discharges, com-
pletely prevented our hearing the purport of the Hon. Ba.
ronet's observations. When the discharges of artillery
were almost concluded, the Hon. Baronet sat down, and
Sir R. PEEL, Lord ALTIIORP, and Sir Fnasicis Butt-
DETT rose at the same instant. The scene which followed
was the most extraordinary, and the least agreeable, and
the most degrading to the character of the House and a
great prop.trtion of its Members, that has probably taken
place for the last fifty years. Sir R. Peel was received
with loud shouts, groans, laughter, and cries of " Bar !"
from the Ministeral Benchee, responded to by cries of
" Order !" and 1° Chair !" from those of the Opposition.
All the endeavours of his friends, aided on his part by
the most vehement action and gesticulation, having failed
to obtain a hearing, or to induce Sir F. Burdett and
Lord Althorp, who on their part were not wanting in equal
supplicating gestures, to obtain a hearing,
The SPEAKER called order, and the whole of the
Members rose from their seats, when loud cries of
" Shame, shame !" resounded from all parts of the
House. After this confusion bad somewhat subsided,
The SPEAKER, in a somewhat animated tone, said—
This is the exact state in which we are now placed. I was
called upon to name what Honourable Member was to
proceed. I called upon Sir Robert Peel.- There were
loud cries for Sir F. Burdett. If, therefore, Sir F. Burdett
is to proceed, it must be by a regular motion to the
House, which if made I will put the question. But
(continued the Speaker, raising his voice) if Hon. Mem-
bers appeal to me on a point of law, when I decide they
must abide by my decision.—(Loud cries of " Year.")
Sir F. BURDETT and Lord ALTMORP gave way, and
Sir ROBERT PEEL rose. The Right Honourable
Baronet appeared to labour under unusual excitement.
As soon as we could collect the substance, we under-
stood him to say he did not complain of a dissolution,
but what he complained of was the manner in which
it was done. It was setting aside the honour of
that House.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He, however, was
not like his Hon. Friend, the Member for Cornwall. He
was not inclined to despair. For if the people united
in the great cause of supporting their liberties and
their Constitution he had the greatest confidence of the
most happy results. He would tell them what they were
about to establish by a Reformed Parliament.: If they
carried that Bill which the Ministers had proposed to them,
they would introduce the very xv.t,rst and vilest species
of despotism—the despotism of demagogues.—(Loud
cheers, and shouts. of order, order.) They would
introduce the despotism of Journalism—(Cheers)—that
despotism which had brought neighbouring countries, once
happy and flourishing, to the very brink of ruin and
despair. But, when he looked to Ireland ; when he saw
the state of society in the western counties of that kingdom,
when he was told that rebellion had almost hoisted its
standard ; and when it was known that landed proprietor!,
well affected to the State, were left without the slightest pro-
tection to their property, and were compelled to move
their families into the towns, for the protection of their
lives and properties from the marauders, who, in open
day, threatened them with pillage and destruction—he con-
fessed he could not call up words to express his astonish-
ment and regret at the course adopted by the Govern-
ment. Instead of coming to Parliament to ask for
new powers and new laws, to vindicate the outraged
authority of the Government, the King's Ministers, at
such a crisis, and under such a state of society in Ire-
land, had cone to a resolution to dissolve the Parlia-
ment, in order that they might protect themselves from
that loss of power with which they were threatened.
(Hear, hear.) If the Crown was to be so easily influenced,
if its independence was to be so far extinguished,
it was an unthankful office to own a high official situa-
tion, and yet the present Ministers dissolve for the purpose
of protecting their places. The present Adminstration,
during the short period they had been in power, had
shewn always the greatest incapacity for business--
(Hear, hear, hear)—they had shewn the greatest im-
becility of any Administration in the history of the
country. They had been in office for six months, and he
t-egged to ask what they had done ? They had tossed
upon the table certain Bills—Game Bills for instance—
Emigration Bills ; and then, after having established re
,petting them what they were pleased to denominate liberal
principles, they left them to their fate.
At this moment Sir Thomas Tyrwbitt, the Usher of
the Black Rod, appeared at the Bar of the House,
and said, " I am commanded by his Majesty to command
the immediate attendance of this Honourable House in the
House of Lords, to hear his Majesty's Royal Assent to se-
veral Bills ; and also his Majesty's Speech for the Proro-
gation of Parliament. "
M Twenty-five minutes to Four the Stumm returned

to the House, and intimated that having been summoned
to attend his Majesty in the other flouse, his Majesty yeas
pleased to pronounce from the Throne a gracious Speech,
declaring the present Parliament prorogued, with a view
to an immediate dissolution.

The SPEAKER then read the Royal Speech—(a
copy of which we have inerrted above)—and the Members
thereafter, without the slightest demonstration of feeling,
left the House.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.
Whitehall, April W,
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Warren henip-
thorne, of Sherborne, in the county of Dorset, Gentleman, to
be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

Lord Chamberlain's Office, April 21.
The Lord Chamberlain has appointed Charles Heneage, Esq.,
one of the Gentlemen Ushers of his Majesty's most Honourable
Privy Chamber in Ordinary.

War Otlice, April 22.
31q 11.elment of Foot;;--General Sir H. Warde, K.C.8., from
the 68th i.oot, to, he Colonel, vice General the Earl of Mulgrave,
deceased, April 31. .
6th Foot—Lieutenant-General Sir J. Keane, K.C.8., from the
94th Foot, to be Colonel, vice Sir 11. Warde, appointed to the
command of the 31st Foot, April 13.
94th Foot—Major-General Sir J. Campbell, K.C.8., to be Co,
lonel, vice Sir J. Keane, appointed td the command of the Goth
Foot, April 13.
General I.4ir George Don, G. C. B. to be GoVermlr of SCar.,
borough Castle, vice the Earl of Mulgrave, deceased. April 13.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Staff'ord.
The Right Hon. William Earl of Dartmouth to be Vice-Lieu-
tenant, Jan. 5 ; the Right Hon. Henry Manners Lord Water-
park to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; Bart:,
F, T. Boughey, Bart.,
to be ditto • Sir T. C. Sheppard, Bart, to be ditto ; Sir T. A. C.
Constable, hart., to be ditto; 0. Mosley, 13art. to be ditto; E.
Peel, Esq., to be ditto ; J. 11, H. Foley, Esq., to' be ditto; J. W.
Russell; Esq:,, tO lie ditto; J. Fiatemari, E4q., to be ditto; C.
Mainwaring, Esq,, to be ditto; J. Atkinson, Esq., to be ditto;
C. Arkwright, Esq., to be ditto; F. Eld, jun., Esq., to be ditto;
It. J. Harper, Esq., to be ditto; I'. IL Thane, Esq., to be ditto;
IL Adderley, Esq., to be ditto ; H. H. Williamson, Esq., to be
ditto; T. Hartshorn' Esq., to be ditto; It. Stone, Esq., to be
ditto; A. Hordern, Esq., to be ditto; H. Hordern, Esq., to be
ditto; E. Dixon, Esq., to be ditto; R. Fryer, Esq., to be ditto ;
J. 0. Oldham, Esq., to be ditto; S. Wightwick, Esq., to be ditto;
T. Powys, Esq., to be ditto ; S. S. Briscoe, Esq., to be ditto;
E. Amphbett, Esq., to be ditto ; C. S. Oreaves, Esq., to be ditto ;
J. Davenport, jun., Esq., to be ditto; W. I'. Inge, Req., to be
ditto; W. Inge, Esq., to be ditto; C. S. Forster,Esq., to be ditto ;
11. C. E. V. Graham, Esq., to be ditto; R. Crockett, Esq., to he
ditto; C. Wicksted, Esq., to be ditto; W. Leigh, .E 4.4., April
11), to be ditto,

Crown-office, April e 2

MEMBERS RETCRNED TI) SERVE IN THIS PRESENT MRLIAMENT.

QUEEN'S COUNTY.—Sir Henry Parnell, Bart, of Rathleague,
in said count•.
BOROUGH. OF Su.tFTOr, OTHERWISE SITA UTESTlURV.—Lieute-
nant-Colonel William Leader Moberly, in the room of William
Stratford Dugdale, Esq ,who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.