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HOUSE OF' PEERS,

WEDNESISAY, FEB. 12.
•

The LORD CHANcELLokticame' down to the
House rather earlier than usual, and shortly alter,

Prayers were read.

It was expected judgement would have been
given relative to the. important Appeal Cause,
jolt NSON versus STOTTS—however, that proceeding,
after. some routine business had been transafted, was
deferred by then- Lordships till to-morrow.
The hearing of the Areal, STEWART versus
MILLER, was deferred till Monday.
The'. further. hearing of the Case, Sir William
Augustus Cunningham, Bart. versus Higgins and
Others, which was fixed for to-morrow, was post-
poned till Monday.
Their Lordships then, after waiting some time,
adjourned till to-morrow. •

_HOUSE OF COMMONS,

WEDNESDAY, Ftß. 10.

ELECTION OF A SPEAKER.
A great number of Members assembled at four
o'ci-eck, when,

The MASTER of the ROLLS rose and said,
that the event communicated to the House on the
preceding day, rendered it necessary they should
proceed to the election of a new Speaker. It was
impossible not to regret the loss they had experienced,
of the ability with which the duties of the Chair
had been exercised by the Right Hon. Gentleman
who had jut ',Flitted it. p.O ssessing, as that Right
Hon. Gentleman did, knowledge so comprehensive
and so useful, and information so extensive and so ac.
curate, he had filled the Chair with the utmost ability,
dignity, and impartiality, even difficult as his prerie-
cebsor had made it to shine in that situation. It was
some consolation; however, if the talents of his Right
Hon. Friend were lost to the House, that they were
about to be exercised in a situation for which he
was peculiarly fitted ; how well the duties of that
situatico would be exercised, it was needless for
him to say, for there was nothing in legal Science
which the comprehensive mind of his Right Hon.
Friend did not embrace; from the minutest,particu-
lar of forensic disquisition, to the most enlarged
system of National Jurisprudence. That House con-
tained, within itself, an abundance of knowledge and
ability, but it always happened, that a few Gentle-
men, from their situations, or the nature of their
vdies, were more peculiarly fitted for the exercise of
those duties which were
_attached to the Chair. Of
those .few, One might be generally pointed out as emi-
nently acquainted with Parliamentary knowledge, it
was not, at the same time, to be supposed, that one was
to be distinguished to the exclusion of all informa-
tion upon the subjet, in others—one only could be
chosen ; hut the choice of one did not imply the want
of sufficient information and ability in others.—
If, then, a great knowledge of Law, and of the
Constitution, if an intimate acquaintance, not.
only with Parliamentary History, but with those
Records on which the Proceedings of that House
were founded ; if an unwearied attention to busi-
ness, if a constant endeavour to direft the atten.
tion of the House to measures of acknowledged
public utility, and which were calculated for the
benefit of the Country; if unceasing exertions to
assist the House in carrying into effeCl those mea-
sures ; if these were qualifications which fitted for
the Chair, then he was convinced- the House
would agree with him, that the Gentleman whom
he.should have the honour to propose was peculiarly
fitted for that situation. He meant Mr. ABBOT.
The House had witnessed the measures that Right
Hon. Gentleman had brought forward, and they
must be convinced that his conduft had lies, one
continued scene of useful exertion. If such had
hiiherto been the condua of that Right H'on. Gen-
tleman, surely they might expeef, if they made
him the objet of their choice, a display of exer-
tion eminently calculated to contribute to the pub-
lic interest and the pubic welfare, to add to the
dignity of the House, and ensure the accuracy of
its proceedings, whilst, at the same time, those
exertions would be stimulated by the illustrious
exam:c of his predecessors. Convinced of his
distinguished ability for the office,. he proposed,
that the Right Hon. CHARLES ABBOT do take the
Chair of the House.

Mr. B AKER, in a few words, seconded the
Motion. The Hon. Gentleman had, he said, spoken
so ably upon the subjeci as to leave him little to say.
He perfectly agreed with the Hon. Gentleman, that
the ability and exertions of the Right Hon. Gentle-
-man who had been proposed, peculiarly qualified
him for the high and important Office which was
now vacant. He was convinced that the Right
Hon. Gentleman possessed pvery essential qualifica-
tion which could entitle him to that situation. Of
this all those must be persuaded, who had witnessed
the labour and exertions of that Right Hon. Gen-
tleman for four years in that House. There was
• one quality which he thought highly essential to
that situation, and that was the temper with which
.the Right lion. Gentleman, in the execution of the

various busines in which he had been engaged, had
net the difaulties which he- was compelled to en-
counter, and surmounted the obstacles that stood in
hip way:There was also another consideration—the
Right Hon. Gentleman was at a time of life when th,ey
might look forward to his long continuance in the
Chair, and to Isis thus becoming thoroughly intimate
aad fray acquainted with the bnsiness of that House.
There was an inconvenience in ehusing a Speaker,
who might soon be removed from them, and this
was the only inconvenience he had to complain of,
with respect to the Right Hon. Gentleman who last
filled that situation, about whose ability anti atten-
tion in the Chair, there could he no difference of
opinion. Under these circumstances, and con-
vinced that the choice of the Right Hon. Gentleman
who was propwzd, would be found highly satis-
fataory, he should content himself with seconding
the Motion.

Mr. SIII4IDAN saki, that when Abe Right
Hon. Ctntlecnah, who was flow cal* to a high