The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-03 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET.-

Mr. Alderman SIDNEY presented a petition from the
butchers, numerously signed, praying for the continuance
of a central market.

The House then seemed to be waiting for the appear-
ance of Lord John Russell ; it was exceedingly full,
and there was an evident anxiety to hear the statement
made by the Prime Minister of the Crown.

MINISTERIAL CRISIS.
MINISTERS RECALLED.

On the motion for the second reading of the Assump-
tion of Ecclesiastical Titles Bill,

Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who had just previously
entered the House, and who had been received
with subdued cheering, rose and said, I have
now to inform the House what has occurred since
I last had the honour of addressing it.—(Hear, hear.)
Sinee I last addressed the House Lord Stanley has made
a statement in another place with respect to his at-
tempts to form a Government, and with respect to how
these attempts failed.—(Hear, hear.) It is not my in-
tention to make any comments upon that statement, but
I think it right to say, especially after the many rumours
that have been spread upon the subject, that it appears
now to be perfectly clear that Lord Stanley had full
power and full opportunity to form a Government, for
whatever request he thought it reasonable to make was
not denied to him.—(Hear, hear.) Sir, I stated when
last I addressed the House that her Majesty sent
for the Duke of Wellington in order to have
his opinion upon the present state of affairs in the
Government of the country.—(Hear, hear.) Her
Majesty saw the Duke of Wellington on Saturday, and
late yesterday evening her Majesty received a written
communication from the Duke of Wellington,
and I had the honour of an audience of her Majesty this
morning at twelve o'clock.—(Hear, hear.) Having re-
ceived the opinion of the Duke of Wellington that
the best course her Majesty could pursue was to
request her former Ministers to resume office,
her Majesty has been pleased to desire that her former
Ministers would resume their offices, and after what had
occurred, and considering the failure of the repeated
attempts that have been stated to the House
to form a Government by the Opposition, we
could not perform our duty to her Majesty and the public
otherwise than by accepting the offer which her
Msjesty was pleased to make to us.—(Cheers.) Sir, after
entering so fully the other evening into the sub-
ject-masters that have occasioned debates, and are likely
still to occasion much discussion, I will not now explain
further our views upon these topics.—(Hear, hear.) I
trust the House will allow us not to enter into
matters of public debate until Friday next—
(Hear, hear)—so that we may have an op-
portunity of considering the ♦arious plans and
measures which we shall have to propose with the view
to the conduct and progress of public business generally.
—(Hear, hear.) I should propose on that day
(Friday) to proceed with the Assumption of
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and my Right Honourable
Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department
will, in moving the second reading of that Bill, state
what amendments we shall be prepared to make in that
Bill.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") I should propose to
fix that Bill for the first thing on Friday,
and therefore if the House will permit me I
will name that Bill for the first order of tee day.—
(Hear, hear.) With respect to the other matters before
the House, before proceeding with the order of the day
on Friday, I will take an opportunity of stating
the course which the Government mean to follow,
so far as the public business of the country
is concerned.—(Hear, and cheers.) A question was
asked the other day, when I was not prepared to
answer it, namely, on what day did we propose to pro-
ceed with the Budget.—(Hear, hear.) I could not answer
that question when it was asked, but on Friday I shall
be prepared to state fully what we propose to do with
regard to the Budget, and the subsequent proceedings we
shall take for carrying on the public business of the
country.—(Hear, hear.) And, in the mean time, I
have only to move the House to postpone the orders of
the day till Friday.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE wished to know whether
the Noble Lord intended to introduce the same Budget?
Lord J. RUSSELL said he would state on Friday
next when he would bring on the Budget.—(Hear.) He
thought it would be extremely wrong of him in the pre-
sent state of public business to give a direct answer to
the Hon. Gentleman's question.—(Cheers.)
Mr. KEOGH asked whether it was reasonable, after
all which had taken place, that the Ecclesiastical Title■
Bill should be proceeded with on Friday next.—(Hear,
hear, hear.) He understood the 2d, 3d, and 4th
clauses would be materially modified, if not entirely
reconstructed, and he thought it was only right that the
people of Ireland should have an opportunity of consi-
dering these alterations or modifications before the Bill
was proceeded witb.—(Hear, hear.) What he would
suggest, therefore, was, that the Right Honourable
Gentleman the Secretary for the Home Department
should make a statement as to the object
and provisions of the new Bill, and then that further
proceedings in the Bill should be suspended for a week
or ten days.—(Hear.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said he was ready to make any
reasonable concessions, but be thought by the arrange-
ment he proposed ample time would be allowed for the
consideration of the measure.

Mr. M. GIBBON observed, that as the consideration
of the Bill would take up a considerable time it would
have the effect of postponing the financial statement to
a very remote period. Now, he would appeal to
the Noble Lord—not in any spirit of levity—
whether it was right that a measure of this
sort should have any undue precedence over the
general business of the country. The Bill was positively
objected to by all parties. Ho understood Lord Stanley
stated elsewhere that he was not prepared to legis-
late on the subject just now —(Cries of " Hear, hear")
—that he thought the country was ill-informed
upon it, and that it would be unwise to proceed to legis-
late without deliberate inquiry and consideration. He
(Mr. Gibson) thought there was a great deal of sound.
ness in that advice. There was no question more likely
to inflame the passions of the people, or to lead to
inconsiderate and hasty legislation.—(Hear.) He there-
fore hoped the Bill would not take precedence of the fi-
nancial statement of the Government.—(Hear.)
Lord JOHN MANNERS assured the Noble Lord that
no factious or unnecessary opposition would proceed from
his side of the House to the policy of the Government;
but while he said this, if the Government did not bring
forward any measure to deal with that agricultural dig-
tress which had been acknowledged by her Majesty,
they would feel it their duty to give their support to the
Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire when be brought
forward any motion on the subject.
hir, REYNOLDS hoped, when the state mob was