The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PAR LIA►MEN T,

HOUSE OF LORDS.--(YESTERDIV.)
Their lordships assembled at 5 o'clock,
Lord MIDESDALE, as deputy-speaker, occupied the
woolsack.
The house presented rather a singular appearance,
from the change of places occasioned by the members
and supporters of the late Ministry taking their seats on
the Opposition side of the house. The seat formerly
occupied by the Earl of Derby was this evenine-
fliled by Earl Granville, next to his lordship sat Lord
Cranworth and the other peers who held office in the
late ministry. The Ministerial side was rather thinly
attended • the front or Government bench was oceaplea
by. the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Lonsdale, Lord Col-
ville, and the Duke of Montrose.
THE CAGLIARI.
Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition on behalf
of the two persons arrested on board the Cagliari
steamer. It complained ot the treatment to which
they had be en subjected, by which the health of both
had been very greatly impaired.
THE. CASE OF AZZOPARDI.
Lord LYNDHURST said he wished to explain a state-
ment he bad -made respecting Azzopardi, who on Monday
last he had %toted was hanged. He had since received a
letter whicla stated that the sentence of death had been
commuted to transportation, and that he had been sent
to Norforik Island in 1843.
CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA.
The L'lu.lse of MARLBOROUGH presented a petition
f:eortiEeat Suffolk, praying that the bible might be intro-
(weed into the Government schools in India, and that
the.-e be no further connection with the Hindoos in the
csove element of India,
LAW OF LIBEL BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL said the second reading of this
bill stoosi for Monday next, but in consequence of cer-
tain cirossmstancee he thought it would be better that
the second reading should be postponed until a future
dayL.
ord LT:s.TDHURSr asked the noble lord whether
the provisions of the bill might not be made ,mcre
extensive.
Lord CAMPBELL said ho had gone as far as
iend
he
thought he could do with safety, but if his noble fr
would take the bill on his hands he should feel great
pleasure in committing it to his keeping.
Lord STANHOPE said the bill as it stood had the
advantage of being the recommendation of a select com-
mittee. If the bill was made more extensive in its
effects, a fresh measure would have to be introduced
which would not have that recommendation.
After a short conversation the second reading of the
bill was postponed.
THE NEW MINISTRY.
The Marquis of SALISBURY said his noble friend at
the heed of the Government had thought it would be more
respectful to the house if he abstained from making the
'aerial ministerial statement until Monday next, and he
accordingly moved the esijournment of the house il
that day.
Earl GRANVILLE said that when his noble friend
the Earl of Aberdeen asked for a similar adjournment,
the noble earl, not now in the house (Lord Derby) said
he thought that 24 hours, or three days at the utmost,
wan all that was required to complete his arrangements.
lie was not going to follow that course, because it was
of great public importance that a new Government
should have some opportunity of inspecting official do-
cuments in the public offices, of considering their policy,
aad also the manner in which they intended to bring that
policy before the public at large.
The motion was then agreed to, and their lordships
adjourned until Monday next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--(YESTERDAY.)
The SNIAKEit took the chair at 4 o'clock.
The attendance of members was very numerate. The
house presented a changed appearance, wed from the
Opposition having taken their places on the Ministerial
side of the house, it was with much difficulty the Govern-
ment members could be recognised. Sir J. Graham, Mr.
9, Herbert, Mr. Gladstone, Mr Drummond, Sir Da Lacy
Evans, and Sir C. Napier sat in their usual places en the
Ministerial side of the house, below the gangway. Mr.
Spooner took a seat immediately behind the Ministerial
bench. Mr. Whiteside and Mr. Fitzgerald occupied
seats on the present Ministerial bench, and appeared
highly delighted with their change of quarters. r.
Hayter, Mr. Lowe, Mr. J. Fitzgerald, Mr. Wilson, Sir
B. Hall, and some other members of the late Govern-
ment occupied seats on the front Opposition benches.
Mr. Roebuck, Mr. T. Duncombe, Mr, J. W. Fox,
Mr. Cardwell, Sir F. Baring, Mr. J. Bright, and Mr.
Gibson occupied corresponding seats on the Opposition
side of the house to those they did on the Ministerial
side before the resignation of Ministers. None of the
members of the old er new Ministry were present.
Many of the members on entering the house were
unable to recognise the change, and could with diffi-
culty realise their friends. The late Attorney-General,
on entering the house, walked up to the Ministerial
benches, where he appeared greatly surprised to find
Mr. Whiteside sitting at his ease. The hon, and learned
gentlemen shook hands, and it was only on the late I
Attorney-General calling to his assistance his eye-glass
that he discovered his mistake, and walked across to the
Opposition side of the house amidst roars of laughter in
which many of his late colleagues heartily joined. The
attendance of members on the Opposition side of the
house was far more numerous than those on the Minis•
terial side. Lord Palmerston arrived at 20 minutes
past 4 o'clock, amidst loud cheers. Ho entered the
house from behind the Speaker's chair. He took his
seat in the front opposition bench, immediately opposite
his usual seat on the ministerial side of the house.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
Several private bills ware read a second time.
NEW WR [TS.
On the motion of Sir W. JOLLIFFE, th 3 following
new writs were ordered :—For Buckinghamshire, in
the room of Mr, Disraeli, who has accepted the
office of Chancellor of the Exchequer ; for Kings
Lynn, in the room of Lord Stanley ; for the University
of Cambridge, in the room of Mr. Walpole—who have
been appointed Secretaries of State ; for Droitwich, in
the room of Sir J. Pakington, who has accepted the office
of First Lerd of the Admiralty ; for Huntingdon,
in the room of General Peel, appointed Secretary for
War ; for the county of Oxford, in the room of Mr.
Henley, appointed President of the Board of Trade ;
for the North Division of the county of Wilts, in
the room of Mr. Sotheron Esteourt, appointed Pre-
sident of the Poor-law Board ; for the Northern
Division of Stafford, in the room of Mr. Adderley, ap-
pointed "Vice-President of the Committee of Education ;
for Stamford, in the room of Sir F. Thesiger, ap-
pointed Lord Chancellor—(hear, hear)—for the
East-
ern Division of Suffolk, in the room of Sir Fitzroy
Kelly, appointed Attorney-General ; for Belfast,
in the room of Mr. Cairns, appointed Solicitor-General
—(hear, hear) ; for the northern division of Leicester,
in the room of Lord J. Manners, appointed First
Commissioner of Works ; for the southern divi-
sion of Salop, in the room of Viscount Newport,
• appointed Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty's House
hold ; for the County of Dublin, in the room of Cap-
tain T. E. Taylor, appointed one of the Lords of the
Treasury ; for Bridgenortii, in the room of Mr. Whit-
more, appointed one of the Lords of the Treasury ;
for Cockermouth, in the room of Lord Naa=, appointed
Chief Secretary for Ireland ; for the county of Tyrone,
en the room of Lord C. Hamilton, appointed Treasurer
of Her Majesty's Household ; in the room of Col. For-
rester, appointed Comptroller of Her Majestye House-
hold.