The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-20 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY.

It will be seen that in the House of LORDS on Saturday
Viscount MELBOURNE announced his appointment to the
Premiership, adding that the principles on which he and
his colleagues intended to conduct the Government were
the principles on which his former Government were based.
Lord ALVANLEY inquired if Mr. O'CoNNELL had any ap-
pointment in the, New Ministry, which called up
Lord BROUG,HAM, who animadverted on the irregularity
and impropriety of such a question. He advised
his Noble Friend to give no answer to it. Lord MEL-
BOURNE, however, did answer, emphatically declaring that
he had used no means to secure the assistance of Mr.
O'CONNELL. In reference to the Irish Church question
he said that he considered himself bound to the resolution
which had been recently carried in the Commons for ap-
propriating the surplus revenue.—The House adjourned to
the 30th instant. No public business, however, will be
,brought forward till the 12th of May.
In the Commons, the Report of the Cork Election was
brought up, declaring that Dr. BALDWIN and DANIEL CAL-
LAGHAN ought to have been returned, and that the Sitting
Members were unduly elected. Mr. ROBINSON presented
a petition for comperisation from certain officers late in the
Maritime service of the East India Company. New
writs were moved for those places which had been
represented by the Ministers before they accepted office.
It was arranged that the House should meet this day, and
then adjourn till the 12th of May.

‘ KENSINGTON PARISH.

This morning a strong contest took place between the Con-
servative and Liberal parties of this parish, for the appoint-
ment of Churchwarden.

At the early hour of nine o'clock the vestry-room was
crowded with the rate-payers, when an adjournment took place
to the parish school-room.
The Archdeacon POTT, as vicar of the parish, took the
chair, when he proposed Mr. Chesterton as his Church-
warden.

Mr. STARK then rose, and on the part of the Liberals pro-
posed Mr. Moss, as a gentleman well qualified for the duties
of the office, and was quite independent in principle, for the
other Churchwarden.

Mr. FARLAR seconded the proposition, and fully concurred
in the opinion of Mr. Stark, that Mr. Moss was highly quali-
fied as a well known and active reformer of parish abuses.
Mr. HUTCHINS, the Churchwarden, said, on an occasion
like the present, it was essentially necessary that the pa-
rishioners should elect a gentleman, not only qualified for the
office by education and practical knowledge, but one that
would act independent of party. He should therefore name
Mr. Judkins. That gentleman, though a Conservative, was
one that would not mix politics with parochial affairs.—
(Cheers.)
Mr. HOLT, the Barrister, seconded this nomination. The
Learned Gentleman addressed the Meeting at considerable
length upon many subjects connected with parochial affairs,
during which period he was repeatedly interrupted by the
opposite party. • He would sit down by proposing that the
election should take place under the new. Vestry Act, which
empowered them to keep open the poll.—(Cheers, and cries
of No, no.)

Mr: FARLAR moved as an amendment, that it should close
with the polling of the present meeting. Here considerable
contention arose, which ended in an appeal to the Vestry
Clerk, who said, that the Act of 58 Geo. 111., declared that
the polling must end with the present meeting. The confu-
sion now was greater than before. As soon as it subsided, the
poll commenced. From the appearance of parties, the seven
hundred persons present will not, it is conjectured, have re-
corded their votes by five o'clock. Scrutineers were appointed,
and numerous objections raised, especially on the ground of
non-payment of rates.