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to possess. And I beg also to assure the House that
I feel that I owe them a very large debt of gratitude
for the very favourable manner in which they have
been kind enough to receive the proposition of my
Noble Friend. I feel altogether unequal adequately
to express my thanks to them for this their additional
mark of confidence and approbation. In all that has
fallen from my Noble Friends upon either side of
the House, with respect to the importance of the duty
which attaches to the chair, I most fully concur. I
admit, with my Right Hon. Friend the Member for
the University of Oxford (Sir R. H. Inglis), that
those duties have of late years been rendered far
more arduous by the vast increase of the private
business of the House. The journals of the last two
or three sessions show an increase in the pri-
vate business of the House wholly without precedent•
The importance and vast magnitude of the private
business it would have been impossible to have fully
entered into had it not been for the great improve-
ments which have of late years been made in the
mode of conducting the private business of the House.
I cannot attach to myself much share of credit
in the suggestions which have been made with re-
spect to the mode of conducting this business,
but I have always been ready to communicate
with any Hon. Member in the introduction of those
measures which have been productive of such bene-
ficial results.—(lear, hear.) Experience has taught
me that the ordinary duties of the chair can always
be conducted by diligence and attention, combined
with the strictest impartiality.—(Cheers.) There
are other duties, however, of a far more delicate na
ture, arising out of new circumstances, which con-
stantly occur in the course of debate, which, al-
lowing no time for deliberation, might well
discourage a much more able man than
myself, and lead him almost to decline
the honour, were it not for the conviction, that if it
is the pleasure of the House again to re-elect me into
the chair, the same indulgence and effectual support
will be extended to me (Choerst)—which I have
hitherto received at all times, and from all sides of the
House.—(Cheers.) It is that conviction alone which
at the present time enables me with perfect confi-
dence to place myself entirely at the disposal of the
House.—(Loud cheers.)
The Right Hon. Gentleman was then led to the
chair by the mover and seconder of his election, amid
cheers from all parts of the House. Having taken
his seat,

The SPEAKER said—l beg to offer to the House
my sincere and grateful acknowledgments for the
honour they have again conferred upon me, and I
will endeavour, in the discharge of my duties, to prove
myself not altogether unworthy of their choice, by
pursuing strictly that line of conduct which has this
day, for the third time, received their sanction and
support.—(Cheers.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL—Sir, I now venture to
address the House for the purpose of congratulating
you, and, I must add, the House itself.—(Cheers.)
That you have maintained the honour of the House,
acted with strict impartiality, and rendered great
service to the public in the conducting of the private
business of the House, and that in maintaining order
in our debates you will so preserve that order as to
conciliate those whom it will be your duty
to reprove ; these are predictions which
are no longer matter of surmise, or subjects of expec-
tation, but of well-founded: confidence. (Loud
cheers.) Sir, your previous conduct in the chair
justifies the House, and justifies me in entertaining
that belief.—(Cheers.) It was your fortune to suc-
ceed in your office to a person of distinguished learn-
ing, of great knowledge of the Constitution, of great
experience in this House, and whose conduct in the
chair was marked by the cordial approba-
tion of this House.—(Loud cheers.) You, Sir,
have shown yourself placed in this position capable of
establishing a high character as Speaker of this
House, which is not matter of envy to any one, but
which is fully equal to that of any former Speaker,
and I trust that being long in the possession of that
honour which is now conferred upon you by the
House, your reputation may continue to increase,
and that you may leave as bright a name to
posterity as that of the greatest Speaker that ever
sat in that chair.—(Loud cheers.) I beg to move,
Sir, that this House do now adjourn.
The House then adjourned a few minutes before
Three o'clock.