The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-09 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Sept. 8.
ROYAL ASSENT.

The Royal Assent was given this afternoon, shortly
before four o'clock, by Commission, to the Earl of Scar-
borough's Indemnity Bill.
The Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, the
Duke of Wellington, and Lord Wharnclitfe.
Immediately after the Commission their Lordships ad-
journed to Monday, the 20th instant.

ROUSE OF GOMMONS, Sept. 8.
The SPEAKER entered the House at a Quarter before
Four o'Clock, and shortly afterwards Mr. Putman, Yeo-
man Usher of the Black Rod, came to the table and
purnmoned the House to the House of Peers to hear the
Royal Assent given by Commission to an Act passed
since the meeting of Parliament.
The SPEAKER, attended by several Members, imme-
diately quitted the House, and on his return acquainted
the House thathe had been to the House of Peers, where
the Royal assent had been given by commission to the
Veal Scarborough's Indemnity Bill.
Messengers from the Lords brought down the Admi-
nistration of Justice Bill, and the Foreign Consecrations
to the office of Bishops' Act Amendment Bill.
The SIstEAKER had to acquaint the House that he
had received a letter from Mr. Daniel O'Connell,
dated " Merrion-square, 4th September, 1841, which
with the permission of the House he should read :—" Sir
--Having been returned to serve in Parliament for the
e.otuatf of Meath as well as the county of Cork, I beg to
stele, for the information of the House, that it is my
intention to elect, and I do elect to serve, for the
county of Cork, and should there be any other act
which it is necessary for me to do in order that a new
writ may be immediately issued for the county of Meath,
I shall be ready to do it."
The SPEAKER said the letter of the Hon. Gentle-
man had evidently been written under the impression
that no petition had been presented against the return
for the county of Cork, brit as a petition had been pre-
sented, he could not, according to the rules of that House,
snake his election to sit for whatever place he thought
proper.
The Foreign Consecrations to the office of Bishops'
Ak:t Amendment Bill was, on the motion of Lord
A.StILEY, read a first time, and ordered to be printed.

On the motion of Sir THOMAS FREMATLE, a
writ was ordered

For the Borough of Tamworth, in the room of the
Right lion. Sir Robert Peel, Baronet, who had accepted
the office of First Lord of the Treasury.
Also, on the motion of the same Hon. Member, new
writs were ordered

For the University of Cambridge, in the room of the
Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, who had accepted the office
of Chancellor of the Exchequer.
_ . _

For the North Riding oeLancashire, in the room of
Lord Stanley, who had accepted the office of her _Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.

- For the Borough of Dorchester, in the room of Sir
James Graham, *rt., who had accepted the office of her
31ajesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment.
For the Eastern Division of the County of Kent, in
the room of the Right Hon. Sir Edward Knatchbull,
Bart., who had accepted the office of her Majesty's Pay-
malter-General.
For the Borough of Launceston, in the room of Sir
Henry Hardinge, who had accepted the office of her Ma-
jesty's Secretary at War.
For the Southern Division of the county of Notting-
ham, in the room of Lord Lincoln, who had accepted the
office of Chief Cammissioner of Woods and Forests.

For the County of Monmouth, in the room of Lord
Granville Somerset, who had accepted the office of Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer for the Duchy of Lancaster.

For the County of Westmorland, in the room of Lord
Lowther, now called to the House of Peers, as Baron
Lowther.

For the Borough of Cardiff, in the room of John
Nicholls, Esq., who had accepted the office of her Ma-
jesty's Judge Advocate-General.
For the Eastern Division of the County of Cornwall,
in the room of Lord Eliot, who had accepted the office
of Principal Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ire-
land.

For the Borough of Bury St. Edmund's, in the room
of Earl Jermyn, who had accepted the office of Trea-
urer of her Mstjeity's Household.
For the Borough of Marlborough, in the room of
Lord Ernest Bruce, who had accepted the office of Vice-
ChsAuberlain of her Majesty's Household.
For the Borough of Newark, in the room of the Right
Hon. WilliamlEwart Gladstone, who had accepted the
(ace of Vice-President of the Board of Trade and
➢[aster of the Mint.

For the City of Huntingdon, in the room of Sir Fred.
Pollock, who had accepted the office of her Majesty's
Attorney-General.
For the, City of Exeter, in the room of Sir William
;Follett, who had accepted the office of her Majesty's
Solicitor-General.

For the Shire of Bute, in the room of Sir W. Rae, who
hit l accepted the office of Lord Advocate of Scotland.
Per the Borong,l3. of Wenlock, in the room of J. W.
Gaskill, Beq., who had accepted the office of one of the
Lords of the Treasury.
For the Borough of Marlborough, in the room of the
Right Hon. H. Bingham Baring, who had accepted the
office of one of the Lords of the Treasury.
For the county of Sligo, in the room of Colonel
Alexander Percival, who had accepted the office of one
of the Lords of the Treasury.
For the Shire of Selkirk, in the room of A. Pringle,
Es 4., who had accepted the office of one of the Lords of
of the Treasury.
For the Shire of Aberdeen, in the room of the Hen.
W. cldrdon, who had accepted the office of one of the
Lords of Oat) Admiralty.

For the County of Tyrone, in the room of the Right
Hon. Lord Corry, who had accepted the office of one of
the Lords of the Admiralty.
Ear the City of Huntingdon, in the room of Jona-
than Peel, 14sq., who had accepted the office of Sur-
yeyor General of the Ordnance.
Vor the Borough of Chippenham, in the room of Captain
Bokiero, who had accepted the office of Clerk of the
Ordnance.

Foe the Borough of Lisburn, in the room of B. Mey-
nell, Esq., who had accepted the office of one of her
Majesty's Lords in Waiting.
.tor Bridport, in the room of Henry Warburton, Esq.,
who, since his election, had accepted the office of
Steward of her mai esty'sChiltern Hundreds--(Laughter).
For the North Riding of Yorkshire, in the room of the
lion. Wm. Duncombe, now Lord Faversham.
For Bradford, in the TO3III. of E. Cunliffa Lister,
Esq., deceased.
For Sunderland, in the room of W. Thompson, Esq.,
wlior since his election, had accepted the office of Steward
ofier Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
On the motion of Mr. PONSONBY, a new writ was
also issued for the City of Lichfield, in the room of Sir
George'Anson, who, since his election, had accepted the
office of Steward of the manor of Poyning..

BREACH OF PRIVItEG.E.

Mr. ROEBUCK begged to call the attention of the
Npuse to a statement which had appeared in the Times
asawspa-per, and which he held in his hand, reflecting
on his character. He held that no man could be written
down but by himself, yet he considered the state-
ment he held in his hand so gross a breach of
privilege, that, though he meant to call on
the House to exercise its power, it was as requisite for
the interests of morality as for the ordinary business of
public life, that it should be understood he was individu-
ally responsible in bringing it before the House. He
leali that confidence in his own character that it would
stanl the test of any investigation ; and it behoved him
Aoineet any such attempt on his character as that which
ltie heldin his hand.—(Hear, hear.) He thought it his
duty on Lust Monday, as the representative of a very large
oonotituenck, unsolicited on his part, and what, perhaps,
/pity be considered mor4 remarkable in that House, un-
bought—representing such a constituency, be thought
it right to give a notiedwith respect to the Poor-law, the
aeetalt of which was a paragraph in the Times newspaper,
aft article to which he solicited the attention of the Me :n-
-of that House, as an attempt to frighten, aye, to
bully, them out of the execution of their duty on that
irestiors--he thought it right to give notice of
motion, to the effect that the powers now
eaxereised by the Poor-law Commissioners should
be transferred to the Secretary of State, and for
sw, doing/be was visited by virulent abuse—called a per-
son honourable only from being a Member of that House.
He had been long before the world, and he defied any
/nag paint out a single act of his life that could deprive
so
him of that appellation. Honourable Sir 1 Why not
honoprable ? It said that he was sprung from the hum-
bler classes of society. Supposeeffiitarl so, would that
been• discharging
be any interruption
IT his efficiently
e hadbefore a large
bits imblic duty ?
zuitintuency of his countrymen,_ and he repre-
seCted them in Parliament. Suppose he was not
descended from ancestors distinguished for literature and
science, was that a reason for his being made the mark
for iesiunations of that kind—that he was unfit to sug-
gest snail a proposition that e would ask the
OPOO inhabitants of Bath rather thanh
the anonymous
scribbrer of the Tirruw. What was the mode and manner
that accusation ? He would not then state the motion
'with which he Meant to conclude ; but he would remind
the House that aceording to its rules he was entitled to bring
the party responsible on his knees at the bar of that House.
Ho claimed it as a right he owed to himself and to the
constituencies of the country to answer that flagrant
arse of the liberty of the press as it ought to be
answered. Now, upon the establishment there was a
person as necessary to it as its editor, who was called its
responsible proprietor, and who VMS inistered as such
by the name of Lawson. He (Mr. Ropbuck)
took it, however, as probable, that the PersOn
it question, as the case stood, was not now
in the enjoyment of his personal liberty ; for so libellous
was the Times that any person who represented it might
be supposed to be imprisoned. That man bore this re-
sponsibility of the Times, first, as to any fines to which
it might be subject—next, as to the imprisonment to
which the proprietor of the paper might be sentenced
—and, thirdly, as to the cudgelling which it might
deserve. But why ? He bore all the responsibility. The
„niters of the Times were totally irresponsible—as
mush do as if they lived in South Australia, and
Member
Altair articles there. Did any flijuourable
Member think, that the writer of the article which
he (Mr. Roebuck) complained of would send in his name
to-night on his return home? No. He chose to pen
the ortieto in which it was stated he (Mr. Roebuck)
4 courtly unworthy of the name of an honourable
Awl, but -be dare not give his name. Let the House
tonecta the morality of that. He was not speak-
ing 'of himself—he was speaking of society at
loge, and as a Member of that House. He said it
'Wad a breach of the privileges of the House that any
man, ne matter how humble his position might
shoeld be so traduced, and that an attempt
sNould eomade to bully him, for he knew no other word
ha could use Du that occasion—iu order to prevent