The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-24 00:00:00

THE ADJOURNMENT.

Mr. P. Bantam, in moving the adjournment of the house,
said he was sorry to find the gallant colonel start any objection
to it. If he thought that the same objection was entertained
generally on the other side of the house, he should, without in-
troducing any topics that could occasion a debate, feel it right
to say that the time proposed for the adjournment was only such
as was absolutely necessary for the making the returns to the
writs he hail just moved. 1-le would take, for instance, the case
of his noble friend Lord Morpeth. In that case it was in the
power of the sheriff to make the writ not returnable till even
after the day to which it was proposed that the house should ad-
journ. Ile did not say it was probable it would be so, but as'
the thing might happen, it was but fair to give a sufficiently long
adjournment• to meet any case of the kind, if it should arise.
Besides, even if it should so occur that his noble friend, and his
other hon. friends who had accepted office, should after their
return have a day or two to themselves before meeting that
house, he did not think that hon. gentleman opposite, who knew
the extreme difficulty attendant upon the first entering into
office (loud cries of "hear, hear,".froin Colonel Sibthorp,) and
making the arrangements, and determining as to the mode of
carrying on the public business,—he did not think, he repeated,
that they would consider a delay of two or three days under such
circumstances a very great one. These would net, iu point of
fact, be the slightest real delay in carrying on the public busi-
sinessin consequence of the proposed adjournment. In grant-
ing a somewhat long adjournment under such circumstances,
the house would not be doing anything unusual. Its the case
of Mr. Canning, where a number of new writs had to be issued
in consequence of a dissolution somewhat like that of the late
government, an adjournment for about a similar period was
proposed and granted for the same purpose--that of making the
arrangements required by the accession of a new government
to office. He hoped, therefore, that no real objection would be
taken by the house to the motion with which he begged leave
to conclude—that the house on its rising do adjourn to-Tuesday,
the 12th of May.
Colonel SIBTIIOIII, said that he saw no reason in what had
been stated by the honourable gentleman why he should not
persist in entering his sincere and humble protest agsiust the
proposition just made. 'l'6e honourable gentleman had stated
truly that those gentlemen would require time for making their
arrangements; but he v. ould tell him that they would require,
not three weeks, but as many months, before they would be
what he (Colonel Sibthorp) called cotnfortable in their offihes,
(cheers and laughter,) and before they could enter and sit upon
their new and, as he trusted they would always be to them.
thorny seats. Many months would elapse before that could
take place, and he hoped in the meanwhile they would be
obliged to give way to men who would afford more satisfaction
to the country. When he looked at the gracious speech of his
majesty from the throne, which promised so much relief to the
agricultural interests,—(ironical cheers front the ministerial
benches,) when he looked also at the state of trade, which wess
never so bad, for you could not go into the city of London with-
out hearing continual complaints on the subject,—when he saw
agriculture without hope, and trade without support,—when he
looked forward to a renewal of the grand fructifying system of
the right honourable gentleman the President of the hoard of
Trade, (but who, he hoped, would not long occupy that office,)
—when he looked forward to the opening of the ports, and the
inundating of the country with foreign corn,—when he saw
those twenty-three gentlemen now going to enter the lists like
racing horses, but not like horses of true mettle, but like splin-
tered, spavined, broken-winded racers, (great laughter,) with
not a single sound one amongst them,—when he saw such a
state of things, when he saw the country in such a condition, he
thought it was a hopeless case, and his sense of duty to his con-
stituents and to the public induced him to_iirotest against a
motion in every respect so unjustifiable. Whenvtoo,-he read
the statements he did in the newspapers, he would not accuse
any man of telling an untruth; but this he would say, that he
never could, and that he never would, believe that the honour-
able and learned gentleman opposite (Mr. O'Connell) would
have held up his hat the other evening—would have put on
those happy smiles, and that pleasing countenance he then as-
sumed,;auti would have stepped forward to correct the honour-
able gentleman in moving one of the new writs; if he had not
been a prompter and adviser iu the things that had taken place..
(Hear, bear, from the opposition.) He (Colonel Sibthorp) had
another objection to the proposed adjournment, as it would
again oblige hint to put "fl' a motion that he frequently endea-
voured to bring in, for the appointment of a select committee in
reference to the ecclesiastical courts' bill. He was no party
man; he had never acted from party feelings; but he must say,
that he did not like the countenances of the gentlemen oppo-
site, (much laughter.) for he believed them to be the index of
their minds.' (COntinued laughter.) He should, tnerefore, upon
principle oppose them upon every point, being firmly convinced
that they could do nothing to satisfy the people, to benefit the
country, or to promote the dignity of the crown; and he would
only say, in conclusion, that he earnestly hoped that God would
grant them a speedy deliverance froth such a band. (Laughter.)
Mr. O'CoNNtist, said that he could not quarrel with the ob-
servations of the gallant colonel, they were delivered with so
much good humour, and were, like everything that fell !rum
him, couched in the language of gentlemanly politeness. But
in one point at least he must differ with the gallant colonel.
They who sat on that (the ministerial) side of the house. cer-
tainly had not such remarkable countenances as the gal'aut
colonerand his friends around hint on the opposite benches.
(Much laughter.) They had the advantage of him (Mr. O'Con-
nell) and his friends in that respect. He would not abate the
colonel a single hair (laughter) in point of good humour on that
or any other occasion. It was pleasant to have those things
discussed in good temper, and with the politeness which charac-
terized the gallant colonel. • Elsewhere they might be treated
in a different style, and with perfect impunity too. Elsewhere
men degraded by the resolution of that house as unfit to hold
office, might presume to talk of the Irish representatives in a
manner highly unbecoming any man, and exceedingly indecent
on the part of the member of an august assembly—an inde-
cency that would be insufferable if- it were not iidiculous.
(" Hear, hear," from several Irish members.) There was no
creature, half idiot, half maniac, it would seem, elsewhere, that
did not think himself entitled to use language there which he
knew he would not be allowed to use in other places. The
bloated buffoon too, who had talked of them as lie did, might
learn the distinction between independent men and those whose
votes were not worth purchasing, even if they were in the mar-
ket. He thanked the gallant colonel. for the good humour
with which he had introduced this matter, and if' they would not
have him as a friend, it was pleasant to have him as an enemy.
Mr. SINCLAIR said that he could not but regret that the good
humour which the hon. and learned member had commended
in the gallant colonel had not been evinced by himself in refer-
ence to individuals in another place. (" Hear, hear," irons the
opposition.) He had always admired the determination of the
hon. and learned gentleman to avoid a hostile collision with any
individual. He thought the hon. gentleman was right iu that
determination, hut he must add, that any one who had taken
such a resolution should be peculiarly circumspect in talking of
the characters of ethers. (Hear, 'hear.) Ile had refrained
from making any observations as to the structure of the minis-
terial edifice until they had the whole of it before them in all
the symmetry of its proportions. (A laugh.) Now that it was
completed, without going into its details, which he must say
neither promised stability nor evinced intelligence, he was ready
to acknowledge that consummate dexterity and admirable dis-
cretionbad been displayed, not certainly as regarded the choice,
but as regarded the exclusion of individual materials. It was a
subject df no small astonishment to many that they did nut sec
in the front of time edifice the colossal column of granite from
thest3iaat's Causeway. (Great laughter.). •
An hon. Member on the ministerial side rose (ooOrder7
did not see what the Giant's Causeway had to do with the sub;
ject before them. (Cries of Oh, oh ! " from both sides of the
house, and laughter.)
Mr. SINCLAIR (resuming) 'said that he thought, with regard
to the said column—(renewed laughter)—that if they could dig,
a trench deep enough to reach the foundation of the edifice,
they would find that the corner-stone of the whole building was
composed of that material, and that if it were remove the
whole fabric would fill to the ground. (" Hear, hear," and
laughter.) They had the ruins of the late government before
them, admirable as it was in its proportions, and crowned by a
splendid and towering head. Tile real friends of the country
deplored its destruction, amid amongst them he might reckon a
-noble viscount, who, though he had just accepted office, had on
one occasion told them that the dissolution of the late govern-
ment would be a misfortune. (Hear, hear.) • That noble
viscount mi ht now, like Marius amid the ruins of Carthage,
seat himself amid the broken urns and fallen columns of tile
late government, and vent his sorrows and deplore its dissolue
lion; unless, indeed, office and place might supply a soothing
anodyne to his pails. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) In what-
soever light the viewed him, be would assert that no man could
stand in. a higher situation, with a more unblemished character,
or a more established reputation. than did his right hon. friend
the late Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Hear, hear.) His
right hon. friend had displayed a zeal in the public service be-
yond all praise, an integrity never surpassed, a talent which no
difficulties could repress, and an eloquence which no exertions
mild extinguish. (Cheers.) lm offering this tribute of praise
to the late efforts of his right hon. friend, he was sure that he
only spoke the sentiments of nine-tenths of the community.
With regard to the present state of affairs, he must say that he
very much feared that the new government would find it diffi-
cult to steer its course between the radical reefs of Scylla on
the one hand, and the conservatise quicksands of Cliiirrbdis
on the other. (" Hear, hear," from the opposition, and laugh-
ter front the ministerial benches.) They would find it it
itifficult task to make their way through without being
stranded, for they were likely to do enough to alarm the con-
servatives, and too little to satisfy the radicals. ( Hear, hear.)
The consequence, therefore, as it appeared to him, would be,
that they were likely to witness on sonic future day—a day that
could alone be foretold in M,ore's Almanac—a conjunction
between the Wellington Mars and the O'Connell Jupiter, with
all his satellites (great laughter,) and that a motion that the
country had uo confidence in ministers would then he made in
that house .by Sir Edward Knatchbull. (" Order, order.") He
begged pardon—by the hon. baronet the member for Kent,
which motion would be seconded by Mr. O'Dwyer. the 'ex-
member for Drogheda, (a laugh,) and carried by 420 against
1118, thus giving a considerable majority for the question. With

regard to the present motion, he bait not the slightest objection
to the proposed adjournment to the 12th of May. Indeed, he
thought such an interval of repose from their past labours was
absolutely required to fit them for their future exertions.
Mr. C. 13u LLE a, not seeing any of the late law officers of the
crown present, begged to ask the right hon. gentleman opposite,
if it was the intention of the members of the late government to
go forward after the recess with an important bill they had
introduced-he meant the Ecclesiastical Courts' Bili?

Sir 11. Hs ithirias said, that the very reason which the hon.
member had r.,iveu for asking him the question—namely, the
absence of the late law officers of the crown—prevented him
(Sir H. Hardiuge) from being able to answer the question.
The motion for adjournment was then put, and carried.