The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-29 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

SUN-OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

IM PERIALPARLIA MEW

'I HIS EVENING.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The House resumed after a short time, when the Lord
Chancellor and the other Commissioners took the oath,,
which were also administered to the Duke of Argyll.
the Marquises of Salisbury, Thomond, and Ailsa ; Earla
Fife, Tankerville, Albemarle, Eldon, Vero lam, Rnsslyn,
arid Cloncurry ; Viscounts Clifden and Strangford ; Lords
Teynham, Stuart de Rothray, and Cowley; and the Bishops
of Chichester, Heref rd, Llanclaff, and London.

At 4 o'clock their Lordships adjourned till Thursday a
2 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

This being the day appointed for the return of the w, its
of the first Reformed Parliament, this House, at an early
hour, was opened for the reception of the Members. Al.
though it was generally understood that the Lord Chan-
cellor would not open the Commission before 2 o'clock,
long before that period numbers of Members had made their
gopearance, and taken their seats, by putting their names
im slips of paper on the back of them. Several rumours
were afloat in the lobbies as to the operation of the new ar-
rangement with respect to the swearing in of the Members,
it having been arranged that instead of swearing in a sufficient
number of Members to form a House before the Lord High
Steward the Members should attend the Cummissif,n, and
then swear in themselves a sufficient number to constitute a
House. Shortly before two o'clock the Ministerial side of the
House showed a complete phalanx of Members, while the
opposition exhibited but a scanty appearance. Among
the Members, we noticed Mr. Cobbett who sat next to
the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Francis Burdett
and Lord Morpeth, the mover and seconder of the ►at_
Speaker were most enthusiastically greeted on enter-
ing the House. The Honourable Gentlemen took
their seats at the back of the Treasury Bench. Mr.
Manners Sutton sat on the Treasury Bench, by the
side of Lord John Russell. Mr. O'Connell, with several
of his sons, was in the House at an early hour. The
Honourable Gentlemen did not appear, on coming down
to the House, to be recognized by the mob. At 25 minutes
past
.o'clock, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod all.
peered at the Bar, and summoned the House to the Lords, to
hear the Commission read. A great number of Members
from the Ministerial side of the House immediately pro-
ceeded to the House of Lords, but not a single Member
from the Opposition. Mr. Cohbett resumed his seat on
the Treasury Bench when the Members returned.

Mr. HUMS rose. Before proceeding. to the business
of the day, he wished to ask the Noble Lord opposite
(Althorp) whether it was the intention of Ministe rs to
bring in a Bill, or introduce any other measure, relative
to the annuity to the late Speaker?
Lord ALTHORP rose to order. He believed the
House had no right to enter into any discussion at the
present moment, except as far as regarded the election of
a Speaker.

Mr. HUME then begged to call the attention of the
llow•e to the very important duty for which they wero
met. In his opinion there was no duty so important,
considering the circumstances in which that Honour•
able House at present stood. He was well aware that
he had undertaken a duty, which, personally, was ex•
tremely unpleasant to him. But it was an act of public
duty which he was called on to perform, and in the per-
formance of it, no unpleasantness should have any weight
with him. In his opinion any person who might be
elected to the high hanour of the Chair of that
House, ought to enjoy, not only the good opinion of the
House, but of the public at large.—(Cheers.) He was
well aware that it had been customary to make arrange-
ments for the choice of the Speaker. There had been
generally certain parties in the House who had so arranged
the nomination, that, from their majority, they expected
to carry it. It would, doubtless, be considered, on his
part, presumptuous to offer any opinion on that mode of
electing a Speaker, and it would perhaps he considered
equally' so that lie should conclude his present address
by proposing an individual he thought fit to fill the
Chair of that House, instead of leaving it to those who
might have made arrangements for the purpose. The
excuse he had to offer for the course he was now to pur-
sue was, that the House had met under most peculiar
circumstances, and at a time when, if ever the public at-
tention was directed to their proceedings, it was at that
moment. The House was, therefore, called on to be pe-
culiarly careful in the selection they were about to
make of a person who should enjoy its confidence end
esteem—(Loud cheering)—one who would entertain
the sentiments and opinions of the majority of the House.
--(Hear.) It had been usual that a majority of the
House should nominate a person to the chair, whose po-
-1 tical opinions accorded with theirs.—(Cheers.) On no
occasion had the people taken so great an interest in the
proceedings of the House; and on no occasion bad they
had so great a nomination of Members as on the
present occasion ; and therefore en no occasion had the
House been placed in the situation it now stood, with re-
gard to the person it chose for its Speaker. The grounds
on which he now proceeded were not official ones ; he hail
no communication with any individual connected with the
Government, or any other party. He had, however, been
informed it was the intention of certain Members, by pre-
vious arrangement, and by previous consent,
he did not know how extensive, but so extensive
he understood that it was considered certain to propose the
Right Honourable Charles Manners Sutton, the late
Speaker of that House.—(Cheers.) There was no man
in that House who had more respect than himself to ex-
tend towards Mr. Sutton those feelings which one gentle-
man extended to another, for the kindness he had al-
ways extended to all the Members of the House. He
begged it therefore to be understood, that in any observations
lie might make, he only acted from a sense of duty, which
made it necessary to lay aside all private feeling. There
were circumstances at the present moment, which parti-
cularly in his (Mr. Hume's) view called upon the House
to consider, independent of what had been the practice on
former occasions, what was the course that House pur•
sued then. As the acts of that House were peculiarli
now open to the public, they should be prepared to state
why they were about to deviate from the unanimous prac-
tice of Parliament. He (Mr. Hume) could not, as a
Member who had always advocated Parliamentary Re-
form, not of great importance in itself, but as a means
towards most important changes—changes essentially ne-
cessary to the institutions of the country, for without
those changes Reform would fall to the ground, and the
people would not derive those advantages they were en-
titled to from their exertions—he, therefore, as a Mem-
ber advocating Reform more extensive than that which
had been given to the country, could not concur in the
opinion that this House could express its sentiments fully,
if they bad at their head a Speaker directly opposed to them
in principles. He could never bring himself to believe that
such a Spesker could enjoy the confidence of the House.
He would challenge any person to produce a single instance
where the majority of a body of men, assembled together
to elect an individual to regulate their proceedings, selected
an individual known to profess sentiments contrary to their
own.—(Cheers.) In saying this he meant to convey no
reeiection upon the Right Honourable Gentlemen who
had maintained those principles during a long politica:
life; but times might arise when men might be required
of no ordinary talents, who entertained opinions con-
sonant with the majority of the House. That time he
(Mr. Hume) had no hesitation in saying had now ar-
rived.—(Cheers.) Differences might arise between that
House and the House of Peers ; and he (Mr.
Hume) could not but think, if any such circum-
stances took place, and an individual professing con•
trary opinions to the majority of the House was
elected as its Speaker, that great danger would ori-e
lest those opinions should be compromised. He would
not say that such a thing would take place ; lie hoped it
would not, but in his opinion the House ought to guard
against the probability of such an occurrence. He was
anxious, therefore, to see if the House could not find
some other Member who agreed with the sentiments of a
majority of the House to be its Speaker, a man who
had been sent there as a Member of a great por-
tion of the community. He (Mr. flume) could
point several well qualified to till so important
a situation ; and he begged to inform the House that it
was his intention, before he sat down, to put in nomina-
tion one of the present Members for Staffordshire—
(Cheers)—ass in his opinion, a fit person for that high
station, though lie must confess that he did not come
up to what he (Mr. Hume) wished.—(Great laughter.)
His reference both rn public and private affairs would
highly quality him
to the appointment. It was only ne-
cessary to appeal to the manner in which day after day,
and session after session, he had discharged his duties in
that House to ascertain whether he was qualified or not.
He (Mr. Hume) did not think that the experience of any
Speaker during the four or five last past nomina-
tions could have entitled any of them to such confi-
dence and respect as that of the Hon. Gentleman
whom he now appeared to nominate. Upon a trial
he would be found to be a person most proper for a