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'Alan to state particular grounds of approbation where
all had proved so satisfactory. He should not,
therefore, enter into a detail of the manner in which
the duties of the chair had been discharged. All must be
aware of that urbanity uniformly displayed towards every
Member of the House, and by which their dig-
nity had been maintained on occasions of the most trying
nature. He hid not the least doubt that hereafter, when
any individual reviewed the last fifteen years of the pro-
ceedings of Parliament—if he looked upon them as an im-
partial historian, he doubted not t bat he would record
them as forming a period of our history, when the right,
of the House of Commons were best upheld with the
least pretensions. The Right Hon. Gentleman was not
only entitled to official consideration, but every Member
of that House was bound to him by the ties of affection.—
(Cheers.) He would not detain the House further than
by adding the expression of his regret—a regret which
must be common to all who heard him—that the period
had now arrived when they must of necessity be deprived
of services so valuable. He must he permitted to say,
that whether it pleated the Right Hon. Gentleman to re•
tire into the walks of private life, or continue to take an
interest, or a part, in the great concerns of the nation—
(Hear, hear)—whichever of these alternatives he might
adopt, that House and the country would retain a crateful
recollection of his services, which throughout the empire
had awakened one crncurrent voice of approbation.
Mr. LITTiLtTOI‘; alluded to the constant attention
which, through six successive Parliaments, the Went
Hon. Gentleman had paid to the purification of the pro-
needings concerning private Bills, and to that urbanity and
disregard of personal leisure and convenience which had
characterized his intercourse with Meinb,rs in reference to
those proceedings.—(Cheers.) On this subject it might
be sufficient to cite the fact, that in the first Parliament
in which the Right. Hon. Gentleman had presided, a ero•
portion of one out of five of the private Bills was informal,
while in the last Parliament the proportion was dimi-
nished to not more than one in seventeen. Thus the
public gained by the additional security afforded to pro-
perty through the vigilance of their Chairman, while,
owing to the same cause, the House was likewise a gainer
in economizing its time. Having seconded the nomina-
tion of the Right Hon. Gentleman, he could not let the
present opportunity pass without this expression of his
sentiments.
Sir F. BURDETT having had the honour of voting in
favour of the nomination of the Chairman, could not feel
satisfied with himself if he did not bear testimony to his
conduct during the time he had presided in that House.—
(Hear.) He would only say, that if one thing more than
another imparted weight to the situation occupied by the
Right Hon. Gentleman, independent of its intrinsic im-
portance, he (Sir F. Burdett) would attach great value to
that characteristic which, in the discharge of his duties, he
had invariably displayed, and which he should designate
the name of gentlemanly deportment.—(Cheers.) Ile
would not assert that persons might not came after the
Right Hon- Gentleman who would equal him in the mode
in which he had filled the situation te which he had been
called, but he would say that it was impossible for any man
to prove his superior.—(Cheers.) Not only had this per-
suasive influence been effectively exercised by the Right
Hon. Gentleman, but having filled the Chair of that
House for 16 years, he believed that he had never been a
single day absent, with the exception of one melancholy
occasion.—( Hear.)
Sir G. 'MURRAY heartily concurred in supporting the
Noble Lord's motion. He could bear testimony to the
effective mode in which the Right Hon. Gentleman had
presided in that House, and must express his regret that
on the assembling the new Parliament they should he de-
prived of the benefit of his experience.
Lord J. RUSSELL could not reconcile it to his feel-
ings to omit the opportunity of declaring his deep sense of
the value of the assistance which the House and the coun-
try had derived from the Right Hon. Gentleman's admira-
ble performance of the duties of his office. If at the pe-
riod of his nomination there appeared any differences of
opinion as to the claims of the two candidates, there was
among the parties, to his recollection, but one sentiment—.
namely, that they rendered thereby the best service to the
Members of that House.—(Hear.) If Members promptly
seconded the endeavours of the Right Hon. Gentleman to
enforce the orders of the House, much of this was owing
to the gentlemanly feeling, which made an individual not
only responsible for the violation of a point of duty in
transgressing an order, but also left him something to an-
swer for as a private person in resisting rules enforced in
such an equal temper and conciliatory spirit.—(Cheers.)
Another equally intimate with the laws and usages of I'ar_
Hament, yet not possessed of the same happy disposition,
might have failed in accomplishing what the Right Hon.
Gentleman had so easily achieved. He would not allude
to his predecessors in office, bot he would say with re-
spect to those who might succeed him, that if they wished
to give dignity to the chair—if they wished to give effect
to the laws of Parliament (the best he believed that ever
were framed)—and if they desired to make the execution
of those laws pleasant and easy, he trusted they would look
up to the conduct of the Right Hon. Gentleman; and he
hoped that those present with him in that House would
endeavour to make up the loss they should sustain by his
retirement by imitating his example.—( Hear.)
Sir C. WETHERELL said, that the best test of the
Right Hon. Gentleman's merits was the coincidence of
opinion on all sides of the House.—(Hear.) It was mat-
ter of congratulation that, divided as they were upon
other subjects, they were agreed in their appreciation of their
Chairman's services and character. In the first legislative
assembly in Europe,—he would add, in an assembly of
the first gen lemon in Europe, that Right Hon. Gentle-
man bad, by his courteous deportment; realized and car-
ried into effect the orders of the House. While he was
gratified in uttering these sentiments, his emotions were
not unmixed with pain when learning that the chair was
to be so soon vacated.
The SPEAKER then put the resolution, which was
agreed to with an unanimous burst of affirmatives, followed
by loud cheers.
The SPEAKER expressed his most grateful .
and re-
spectful thanks for the vote to which the House had just
assented. He begged to assure the House,
with the ut-
most sincerity, that long as he had been in public life,
and frequently as it had been his duty to address them,
he had never felt so incompetent to give utterance to
his feelings as he did at that moment. After the
honour thus conferreed upon him, it would be hypo-
crisy to disclaim all merit on his own part. His merit
lay in the ambition anxiously and steadily to persevere in
the discharge of his duty so far as be was able, and from
the House had emanated the power, force, and strength, to
carry that intention into effect. To the House he owed
every thing, and it any kind of distinction were peculiarly
valuable to a public man, it was the public approval of
his services by those he hail the honour of serving.
Lord ALTHORP then moved the following resolu
tion,—" That the thanks of this House be given to Mr.
Speaker, for what he has said this day to the House, and
that the same be printed in the votes of this day, and en-
tered in the Journal of this House."—Agreed to nem. con.
Lord ALTHORP now rose for the purpose of perfect.
ing the duty which had devolved upon him, and, in doing
so, he was sure that he should have the concurrence of
every Gentleman present. Having expressed their feeling
of the mode in which the Right Hon. Gentleman had
discharged the duties of his office, it became them also to
indicate their approval of his conduct in another form.—
(Cheers.) It became them to state to their Sovereign
their sense of the manner in which he had filled the situa-
tion he had occupied, and humbly to pray that the ap-
proval of his conduct might be marked by a reward which,
though inadequate in itself, would at least constitute a per-
manent expression of the estimation in which his deserts
were held. The Noble Lord then moved—
" That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, that
he will be graciously pleased to confer some signal mark of
his royal favour upon the Right Hon. Charles Manners Sut-
ton, for his eminent services in the six Parliaments during
which he has discharged the duties of Speaker of this House,
with a zeal and ability alike honourable to himself and con-
ducive to the progress of public business, to commence and
take effect immediately upon his ceasing to hold the office of
Speaker of this House ; and to assure his Majesty that this
House will make good' whatever expense his Majesty may
think proper to be incurred on that account."
The motion being put, was unanimously adopted, and
t was agreed that an address in accordance with its terms
should be laid before his Majesty by such Members of the
House as were of his Majesty's Privy Council.
CIVIL LIST.
Lord ALTHORP moved that the House resolve itselt
into a Committee on the Civil List Act, and Civil Govern-
ment charges.
On the question being put, " That the Speaker do
leave the Chair,"
Mr. W. WARBURTON asked whether provisie-n
would be made for the performance of the judicial duties
in the Court of Review, during the long vacation.
Sir T. DENMAN expressed his belief that no long va
cation in this court was contemplated. He had looked to
the act of Parliament, and thought that it afforded mean,
for preventing. any inconvenience of the kind.
The SPEAKER then left the chair, and the House went
into committee.
Lord ALTHORP regretted extremely the delay which
had occurred in bringing on the business on which he wa,
about to enter before the House. Late, however, as it wa-
in the session, it.appeared to bum necessary that the House
should not separate without an adjustment of a question
for the settlement of Which they had given pledges to his

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