The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-24 00:00:00

PETITIONS.

Lord GEORGE MANNERS presented a petition
from a place in Leicestershire, signed by 700 owners and
occupiers of land, complaining of agricultural distress ;
also two petitions from the same county against the
Papal aggression.

Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL presented a number of pe-
titions from all parts of Ireland against the Ecclesiastical
Titles Bill.

Mr. P. HOWARD presented two petitions from places
in Northumberland to the same effwct.

Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from a place
in Oxfordshire against the admission of Jews into Par-
liament.

Mr. W. 0. STANLEY presented a petitiom from
Cheshire in favour of the establishment of county financial
boards.

Mr. W. WILLIAMS presented a petition from Fins-
bury praying for the repeal of the window-tax.
The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY presented a pe-
tition from Durham against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Colonel SIBTLIORP presented a petition from Lin-
coln complaining of agricultural distress.

Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from Finsbury
praying for the repeal of the window-tax.

Mr. 0. HIGGINS presented a petition from the town
of Westport against any interference with the doctrine,
discipline, or practice of the Roman Catholic Church;
also from the same place praying for the establishment
of religious equality in Ireland, by a more proper appli-
cation of the funds of the Established Church; also
from the Neale, Louisburgh, Bay erver, and various
other places in the county of Mayo, against the Eccle-
siastical Titles Bill.

Mr. REYNOLDS presented a petition from a parish
in Dublin to the same effect; also petitions with a simi-
lar prayer from the corporation of Drogheda, and other
places in Ireland; and a number: of petitions, praying
for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge.
Mr. R. M. lOX presented a petition from Longford
against the Papal Aggression Bill.
Lord DUNCAN presented several petitions praying
for the repeal of the window-tax.

Mr. MONSELL presented petitions from Limerick
against the Papal Aggression Bill.
Lord D. STUART presented a petition praying for
the total repeal of the window-tax, and against the sub-
stitution of the house-tax.

Mr. WYLD presented a petition against the paper
duties.

Mr. WILSON presented a petition against the win-
dow duties.

Mr. P. WOOD presented a petition against the paper
duty.

Mr. lIUME presented a petition praying for a modifi-
cation of the income-tax, and another against the Bible
monopoly.

APPEARANCE OF THE HOUSE AT HALF-
PAST FOUR O'CLOCK.

At half-past four o'clock both sides of the House wero
nearly filled, but the Opposition benches appeared to be
more closely packed. The Members' and strangers' gal-
leries were also crowded. The whole of the Ministers,
with the exception of Lord J. Russell, Lord Palruerston,
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had
by this time taken their seats on the Mi-
nisterial benches. The buzz arising from the
almost generally suppressed tone of conversation carried
on in all parts of the House prevented the reporters
catching distinctly the prayers of the different petitions
which were presented.

ELEVATION OF SIR J. C. HOBHOUSE TO
THE PEERAGE.

Mr. HAYTER, whose appearance at the table pro-
duced an almost instantaneous silence in the House,
said—Mr. Speaker, I have to move for a new writ for
the election of a Member for the borough of Harwich,
in the room of the Right Hon. Sir John Cam frobhouse,
who has accepted the office of steward of the Chiltern
Hue dreds.— (Loud laughter.)

Hon. Members having now finished presenting peti-
tions, the House remained for more than a quarter of an
hour without any business to occupy it. All the Ca-
binet Ministers had now arrived, with the excep-
tion of the First Lord of the Treasury, whose
usual seat by the side of Lord Palmerston re-
mained vacant, when some considerable amuse-
ment was excited in the House by Mr. Monckton
Milnes, who having just entered the House and per-
ceiving the vacant place unwittingly seated himself in it,
apparently for the purpose of conversing with Lord
Palmerston. This movement was received with loud
laughter on all sides, apparently as if saluting the Hon.
Member as the future Prime Minister, and clearing away
the mystery which has enveloped the political world
during the last day or two.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL entered the House at five
minutes to five, and was received with cheers from both
sides of the House.

The noise of conversation which had previously filled
the House was now hushed, and, amidst deep silence tbo
SPEAKER called on the Clerk to read the Orders of the
Day.

the Improvement of Towns (Ireland) 13111 was or-
dered to be read a second time this day fortnight.
The announcement of the title of this Bill caused con.
siderable amusement.

The Metropolitan Buildings Bill was also ordered to
be read a sec'nd time this day fortnight.
MINISTERIAL CRISIS.
On the motion for going into Committee of Ways and
Means,

Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose amid deep silence, and
spoke as follows promised the House on
Friday night that I would on this day
state the reasons that induced me to propose the
adjournment of the Committee of Ways and Means until
the present time. I now rise to acquit myself of that
promise. The House will remember that imme-
diately after the commencement of the present session
a motion was mule by the Hon. Gentleman the Member
for Buckinghamshire, calling upon her Majesty's Mi-
nisters to take immediate measures for the relief of the
distress existing among the owners aad occupiers of
land. Every Member of the House, every person
in the country, must have considered that
that motion was a motion to take the conduct of the
Government out of the hands of the present Ministers.
The Hon. Gentleman the Member for Buckinghamshire'
took a perfectly Parliamentary course upon that subject,
and I do not in the slightest degree complain
of that course, I only state what must have
been the effect of that motion in the view
of every person if it had been successful. No less than
269 Members of this House voted for that motion, and
283 against it, and there was therefore a majority of
14 of those Ipersons who were present in the
House who voted with the Government upon
that occasion. Upon a question like that,
brought forward with hostility to the Government,
at the very commencement of the session, when the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had given notice of his
intention to bring forward his financial statement
two nights after, it was evident that a majority
of fourteen only must tend to weaken a Govern-
ment which was Icft in such a situation. It
appeared to me, however, that although that majority
was small, yet if there was a determination in all the
Members of it to maintain those principles of financial po-
licy which in fact was the real question attacked by the
motion of that day, that that union might have made up
for the smallness of the majority,!and the Government still
have conducted successfully the affairs of the country.
Had it not been for those circumtances
I did think that the position which the Ministry
held might make up for the evil effect of the smallness
of the majority, but
,I considered that the time at which
that majority was obtained, and the circumstances in
which it placed us would in all probability place
us in constant difficulty. It exhibited in the Go-
vernment a weakness with which a Government ought
not to be embarrassed. Close upon that came the divi-
sion of the other evening. It did rimer to me that the
lateness of the hour and the weakness of the House
might possibly justify the Ministers in carrying on the
Government at any other period; but in the circum-
stances in which we were placed by the minority on the
part of the Government I did. consider it my duty
to tender our resignations to her Llsjesty.—(hear.)
-ive might peasibly have been able to bring forward
other measures which would have neutralized the effect
of that majority; but with the threatened measure of the

income-tax, and with this minority before us at this
time, I did not conceive that I could come to any other
conclusion than that even if we overcame the difficulties
by -which we were surrounded, it would be possibe fur
the Government to pass through the session successfully.
—(Hear, kear.) To attempt to do so would, in my con-
ception, have been equally disadvantageous to the
country and the House. This circumstance over-
weighed in my mind the consideration of the
smallness of the majority by which wo were supported
on the motion of the Hon. Member for Buckingham-
shire, though even that would have been a matter of
serious moment at any time. I thought, and stated it to
my colleagues, that it was my opinion that it was our
duty to tender our resignations to her Majesty. My
colleagues agreed with me, but at the time one of the
principal and most important members of the Govern-
ment was absent from London—the Marquis of
Lansdowne having left town on Thursday night,
for his seat at Bowood, Wiltshire. I communicated
with him, but he did not arrive in town until Satur-
day morning. That was the reason why 1 did not
earlier tender our resignations to her Majesty.
The Marquis of Lansdowne perfectly agreed
with me and our colleagues, and on obtaining his
opinion I immediately repaired to Buckingham Palace
and presented our resignations to her Majesty, which
her Majesty was most graciously pleased to receive,
and informed me that it was her intention to send for
Lord Stanley to form the Government. In thecourse of the
afternoon I received a message requiring my attendance
at Buckingham Palace. On arriving there her Majesty
informed me that Lord Stanley had stated to her that
he was unable to make a Cabinet, and her Majesty then
directed me to reconstruct a Government.—(hear.) 1
thought it my duty to state to her Majesty—although
I assured her that I would use my utmost endeavours to
accomplish that object—that she must be aware there
would be great difficulties in the completion of such a
task.—(Hear, hear.) There are great difficulties in that
task. I do not consider it my duty, after wt at
has taken place to enter into any discussion, or to say
anything further respecting what arrangements may be
made—(Loud cries of " Hear")—but I shall merely move
that the House do now adjourn till Friday next, when I
shall be prepared to state what steps I have taken for
the re-construction of the Cabinet.—(The Noble Lord
sat down amidst cheers from both sides of the House.)
Mr. DISRAELI said—Sir, it not my intention to
trouble the House with any lengthened remark after
the statement of the Noble Lord.—(Hear, hear.) It
is most true, indeed it is a matter of
public notoriety that Lord Stanley has had an audience
of her Majesty, and when Lord Stanley has received
the gracious permission of her Majesty to state
what transpired at the audience, he will do so in
a constitutional manner from his place in Parliament.—
(Hear, hear.) But, Sir, there is one observation in the
statement of the Noble Lord which I feel it my duty not
to let pass unnoticed on this occasion.—(Hear.) Sir,
when the Noble Lord states that Lord Stanley stated to
her Majesty that he was not prepared to form an Ad-
ministration.

Lord J. RUSSELL—Not then prepared to form an
Administration—

Mr. DISRAELI—The correction of the Noble Lord
does not at all affect the statement I am about to make
to the House. Now I have to express my conviction
that when the Noble Lord said that Lord Stanley
had stated to her Majesty that he was not prepared then
to form an Administration, the Noble Lord made a
statement to the House which, upon further reflection, I
think he will acknowledge is not founded upon what
really took place.—(Cheers from the Opposition.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said—Sir, after what the Hon.
Gentleman has stated I think it necessary to make
a single observation.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
The Honourable Gentleman is no doubt correct when he
states that Lord Stanley will, at the proper time, and
when he has obtained her Majesty's most gracious per-
mission to do so, give an explanation of what took place
at the interview between the Noble Lord and his Sove-
reign, and my opinion is that Lord Stanley's statement
will bear out what I have already said, namely, that he
was not then prepared to form an Administration.—
(Hear, hear, from the Treasury benches.)
Mr. ROEBUCK said—Sir, before the motion for ad-
journment is put, I am anxious to make one
single observation upon the extraordinary state of
affairs in which we are at present placed.—(Hear,
hear.) The Noble Lord has moved that we
should adjourn to Friday, and the Noble Lord is
about to construct a Cabinet without the House of Com-
mons having the slightest opportunity to express any
opinion of its own upon the subject. Her Majesty, we are
told, has been obliged, if I may so use the phrase, to
send for somebody to make an Administration, and that
atop has hitherto failed. Now, Sir, Ido hope that the
Noble Lord who has hitherto acted as the leader, not
simply of a great party in this House, but also
as being the representative of a great principle,
will not forget in all the proceedings about to take place
that that principle is now in his hand, and that in
a great measure whatever will hereafter take place with
respect to that great principle of financial arrangement
in this country, its existence will &pond upon the pro•
ceedings which he is to take, and upon him will
rest the responsibility if we are again called upon to
fight the battle of free trade.—(Great cheering.)
The motion for the adjournment to Friday was then
put and carried, and the House, which was full to over-
flowing, immediately adjourned.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING.
Six o'cLocii.

LIVERPOOL SPRING CUP.
5 to 1 agst Panope
6 to 1 agst Doubt
6 to 1 agst Unity
8 to 1 agst Reversion
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
8 to 1 agst Sir John
9 to 1 agst Vain Hope—taken
10 to l agst Abd-el-Kader
10 to 1 agst Maria Day
10 to 1 agst Rat-trap—taken
25 to 1 agst Rescue

CHESTER CUP.
2 to 1 agst Rhesus
25 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn
28 to 1 asst Wallflower
30:to 1 ag.st Knight of Avenel
40 to 1 agst Strap
40 to 1 egst Seaman

DERBY.
6 to 1 agst Grecian
12 to 1 agst Mountain Sylph colt
20 to 1 agst Lamartine
25 to 1 agst Constellation •

PUBLIC WOOL SALES.
(THIS EVENING.)
The extreme rates to the close of Saturday's sale were:
—Australian sheep's clean, ls. to 18.11 d.; skin, Bd. to
Is. 2bi. • Port Philip sheep's clean, Is. Id. to Is. 7d. ;
scoured, is. 2d. to Is. I lid. ; and lamb's, ls. 41. to
Is. Bid. Van Dieman's Land sheep's clean, Is. 3d. to
Is. 7d.; scoured, Is. sd. to is. Bid.; and lamb's, h.*.
to Is. Hid. Cape sheep's clean, 4id. to Is. 50.; and
lambs, Is. to Is. 4d. East India sheep's clean, 64c1. to
7d. Merino, Ild. to Is. oid. Italian, Bid. to Is. 6d.;
and some German, ls. 4d.
The quantity of Wool that has been offered this even-
ing is 738 bales of Australian, 319 of Van Dieman's
Land, 91 of Port Philip and Portland Bay, 36 of
South Australian, 139 of Cape, 58 of German, and
86 of Goat's Wool. Australian Sheeps' clean has
realized Is. lid. to Is. 7id., scoured ls. 4d. to ls. 7id.,
super Is. Bd., and Lambs clean and scoured Is. id. to
Is. 7d., greasy 6id. to Wid. Van Dieman's Land
sheeps clean sold at is. Id. to ls. 6id, lambs at Is. 6d.
and Is. 7d., sliped at is. 241 to Is. 4d, Cape scoured
sold at Is. Id. to Is. 4d., and Lambs at ls. id. Port
Philip, Is.; scoured, Is. 6id. to Is. 9id., and Lambs,
Is. 4id. to Is. 7d. South Australian, scoured and
clean, Is. 2ip. to is. sd. German ls. Id. to Is. sd.
Turkey Goat's Wool Is. 7d. to Is. Bd.
To-morrow afternoon the series will be concluded, and
the country buyers have already made arrangements to
leave immediately afterwards by the different trains.
Some have already quitted London.

Irniax ARCHITECTURE.—The eastern world pre-
sents to the traveller nothing more extraordinary than the
ancient city of Annaradbapoora—its sacred character, its
great extent, and its wonderful ruins : for upwards of 1,300
years it was the seat of government, the capital of Ceylon ;
first known by that name 500 years before the Christian era,
and where ninety kings are said to have reigned. Its walls
were 64 Miles in extent, enclosing 256 square miles ; con-
taining wide and spacious streets (one of which extended
from the rocky mountain of Mehintelai, where 1,800 stone
steps lead to its temples), palaces, gardens, tanks, water-
courses, and paddy or rico fields. It has dwindled into a
poor village, containing a few native huts, a small bazaar,
the cottage of Mr. Tronchill, the district judge, and a court-
house. The surrounding country, which is generally flat, is
dense forest and jungle, where, in every direction, for miles
around, are temples, dagobahs, sculptured stones, and graceful
columns of granite, with elaborate sculptured capitals, ad-
mirably executed.—Builder.

LOCHI3IIOOIII HEnumns.—For three months back
we have been almost daily supplied with fresh herrings from
Lechbroom, which are retailed at from sixty to seventy for
6d. We regret, however, to learn that although the loch
continues full of fish, there is no demand for herrings for the
south, consequently few exportations thither have taken
place. It is fortunate for the natives that there is now such
an excellent line of road opened up between this district and
the low country, and that the steep and rugged Dixie Mor is
altogether avoided. So plentiful are the fish that they are
even taken in not more than two or three feet of water at
the top of the loch, near Inveilael.—lnyerness Courier.
Bramham-woor hdr., Wed. Spofforth; Fri. Marston;
Sat. Pool-101.