The Duke of WELLINGTON took his place on the first Lord TENTERDEN's various Bills, the Judgment and Execu- Mandamus Bill, the Arbitration Bill, and the Witness Ex- Petitions presented. Against Colonial Slavery, from the the Marquis of CLEVELAND, the Earl of CARLISLE, the BURY, from Wisbeach and Holsworth. MINISTERIAL DECLARATIONS.] The Marquis of Lansdown, in presenting a Petition from Glasgow, praying for Parliamentary Reform, was understood to state that he was anxious to say a few words to their Lordships. He had been intrusted with several petitions, which he was acci dentally prevented from presenting on a former evening, by the speech of the noble and learned Lord then on the WoolSack, respecting the introduction of the Regency Bill; and he trusted that even now, after having been raised to office, he might stand excused in presenting petitions, which expressed an anxiety more or THE POOR LAws.] The Marquis of Salisbury having in the early part of the afternoon postponed his motion for the appointment of a Committee on the Poor-less strong for Parliamentary Reform, if laws, as soon as the usual hour (five o'clock) for transacting public business arrived, he stated the terms on which he would have previously promoted this measure. There was no noble Lord then present who could be more desirous than he was to preserve our settled institutions; but with respect to these petitions, he was bound to state, that so far he agreed with the sentiments they professed, as to be of opinion that some amendment was neces Lord Suffield, after observing that it was not usual in that House to transact public business before five o'clock, declared his acquiescence in the postponement of the motion of the noble Marquis. He thought that nothing could be more improper or more indecorous than to hamper a 'Minis-sary in the representation of the people of try, so lately formed, by the immediate introduction of any subject surrounded with so many difficulties as was that of his noble friend; but as, at the same time, it happened to be a motion of such importance that all others sank into insignificance beside it, he trusted the noble Marquis would pledge himself, in all cases, and under all circumstances, to bring forward his motion for the Committee on Monday next. The Marquis of Salisbury apologised for having given the notice of postponement so early. He stated, it was his firm intention to bring forward his motion on the day he had named, (Monday next) and he added, that he hoped for the assistance and support of the Govern Solicitor General for Ditto this country; and he trusted that when they were called to the consideration of this most important and anxious subject, they would take care that no supposed amendment should be made for the sake of change, but that the change made should be, in fact, a substantial improvement. He felt that in stating that some amendment in the representation was necessary, he was borne out by the present condition of the constituency of the country. When he looked to the great interests-commercial and manufacturing, consisting as they did of large bodies of well-informed and enlightened persons, which had been called into existence by the prosperity of the country, by the increased diffusion of wealth, and by the progress of science and discovery-when Viscount Anson Mr. Francis Jeffery. Lord Maryborough Sir A. Hart New Treasury Board.-Charles, Earl Grey; the Right Hon. John Chas. Spencer (commonly called Viscount Althotp); the Right Hon. George, Baron Nugent; Robert Vernon Smith, Esq.; Francis Thornhill Baring, Esq.; and the Hon. George Ponsonby, New Admiralty Board.-The Right Hon. Sir James Robert George Graham, Bart.; Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Bart., K.C.B., Rear-Admiral of the White Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet; the Hon. George Heneage Lawrence Dundas, C.B., Rear-Admiral of the Blue Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet; Sir Samuel John Brooke Pechell, Bart., C.B., Captain in the Royal Navy; and the Hon. George Barrington, Captain in the Royal Navy. | IAL D he recollected that those great and useful which I hope will not be unbecoming in Lansdo bodies were without direct connexion with me, the principles upon which I, in Glasgow, the Legislature (on which direct con- obedience to his Majesty's commands, m, was un XIOUS to 8.3 He bal itions, Ca ted from the intr lamentar moted t Lord tha estrous t nexion, for all classes of the people, he believed the safety-nay, even the existence of the Constitution depended,) he could not bring himself to think Reform unnecessary, and the more especially when he considered that there were parts of the country which had not a share amounting to the shadow of a shade in the representation. He was, therefore, a friend to amendment in the representative system; but, with all his feelings in favour of improvement, he was prepared, for one, to say, that there was no Reform in Parliament which did not leave to the property and knowledge of the country those two great elements of civilized society—a share, and he would even say, a preponderating share, in the representation; there was no such Reform which, as an honest man, he could recommend or support. But, for the reasons he had stated, the subject would be one of anxious deliberation to Parliament; and perhaps he might be allowed to take that opportunity of declaring, that however flattered and honoured he might have felt himself by the gracious kindness of his Majesty, in raising him to a place in his councils, yet he could not, in justice to himself, have availed himself of his Majesty's confidence and condescension, if he had not had reason to confide both in the inclination and the means of his noble friend now at the head of the Government-if he had not reason to place entire confidence in the assurance that he would turn his powerful mind, not only to the question of Parliamentary Reform, but to many other considerations which now pressed upon the attention of the Administration, at a time of great emergency. Having now stated what his feelings were, and the confidence he had in the intentions of his noble friend, he had only to add, that he would turn his mind to this subject, and endeavour, as far as in him lay, to do justice to the people, and preserve the institutions of the country. The noble Marquis concluded by presenting the petition. have accepted the high office to which, in the most kind and gracious manner, he has been pleased to call me, and in which my best services are due. My Lords, on the very important subject to which the petition refers, it cannot be necessary for me to say much: My opinions on this question have been long made known to your Lordships, and have been explained, both to your Lordships and the country, on more than one occasion. It is not long since I felt called on, indeed, again to explain them at some length to your Lordships in the debate which took place on the first day of this Session. I then stated, and I now repeat my conviction that it is necessary that the Government (by whom alone the question can be satisfactorily taken up and settled) should take into immediate consideration the state of the representation, with a view to the correction of those defects which have been occasioned in it by the operation of time, and with a view to the re-establishment of that confidence upon the part of the people, which I am afraid Parliament does not at present enjoy to the full extent that is essential for the welfare and safety of the country and the preservation of the Government. I said, too, my Lords, at the same time, and I now repeat it, that I will not support any of those fanciful and extensive plans which are supported by persons out of doors, and which would lead, not to reform, but to confusion. I do not support-I never have supported universal suffrage and annual Parliaments, nor any other of those very extensive changes which have been, I regret to say, too much promulgated in this country, and promulgated by gentlemen from whom better things might have been expected. I wish to stand upon the true principles of the Constitution, but some Reform being necessary-the principle on which I wish to regulate it, and I am sure your Lordships cannot fail to see, that to fix that principle is a task of no slight difficultythe principle, my Lords, which I should lay down to regulate Reform, will be to do as much as may be necessary to secure to the people their due influence in the great council in which they are more particularly represented, and by that means to restore satisfaction and confidence in the decision of the Legislature, without, which the Earl Grey then spoke to the following effect:-My Lords, I have heard, with much satisfaction, what has been just said by my noble friend; and, my Lords, I feel inclined to take the occasion of what has fallen from him, to state very shortly, Government cannot proceed in comfort | My Lords, there are one or two othe and safety. Reform to this extent my subjects on which I conceive it will b Lords, and if it be not carried to this ex- becoming in me to say a few words We tent,it will be inefficient-I wish to see effect- have succeeded to the administration of ed, but effected with due and fitting regard to affairs in a season of unparalleled diffthe settled institutions of the country. The culty. All I can say is, that to the su earnest desire to embark in sudden change, ject of the motion for Monday next, which must inevitably produce disturbance, which I am first naturally attracted by I do not share-on the contrary, I reject the observations of the noble Baron, all Î it utterly. My Lords, I do not know that can say is, that I look to it with the utmos it is necessary for me to say any more on anxiety, from the reference it bears to the the subject. These observations are un-labouring classes, and the whole situation doubtedly of a very general nature, but it of the country. It is only within the last is obviously impossible for me now to lay three hours that my colleagues and I have before your Lordships the details of any been installed in our respective offices a plan. Suffice it, therefore, for me to say, Members of his Majesty's Government in general terms, that I acknowledge the and we have yet had no access to office necessity of a Reform in the Representa- documents, and have received no informetion, and that it is my anxious wish to tion respecting the measures which have regulate that Reform in such a manner as been pursued by our predecessors. Une to restore confidence and satisfaction these circumstances. I can only promis upon the part of the people without inter- that the state of the country shall be mate fering with anything that exists in con- the object of our immediate, our diger formity to the established principles of the and unceasing attention-of our first mi Constitution. 1 am not disposed to most amxions attention; for there s meddle with the settled institutions of the nothing my Lords which so imperatives country, and I am altogether averse to calls for the most unceasing and dige those fanciful alterations, which, if they attention on the part of the Governmen could be carried into effect, would produce as the present state of the labouring no result excerting that of occasioning a classes, in several of the agricultural de lamentable collision between the severe tricts. I have, therefore, my Los orders of the State, the firm rzion and summoned a council for this evening, il mutual interests of which it will ever be consider what may be done with greates my object to maintain. So much, my speed and effect. To relieve the c Lords with regard to this subject, al which now so unherady exists in diferen which it will be only necessary for me to parts of the coy, w be the first and gid, that before I endeavoured to pure most actions objets of our deliberations; all those, whom I considered most likely but I here deciace for mysECT EDO IN DONE to advance the interests of the counts, so. I also speak it is clergues myself, in his Majesty's Councis, I her declare that it is my deceived restoratio, his most gracious sanctiar ze de alowed, wherese DLCIDES WE perpetrated, or at a proper period, za submit & MERSUE cesses committed to scores then vil of this nature and with this ohnert, for the severe and vigour. Severry kn anore of his Majesty, she has a is ICE. IN MY WICH CHI thorised me at deciøre si & Draper remiač. de amiel a such istries vi spOCESS; that ze the veneile of such a measure he and which em quart aguns the ficure is not onesad: hot I am sure TAU Lordships wil, at anot, understand that norwichsmanding the most exteISTE DIS dusen mor our part, the cuestar is ne not lighty ze be caket un, being, its one recurring much, zime and considere 609 Ministerial Declarations. {Nov. 22} Ministerial Declarations. 610 I am desirous, my Lords, that that portion | maintain peace by all means consistent thus much without incurring the charge of influence, with no other wew than that e vanity or arrogance, as it arises from no their competency to the situations. merits of my own, but rather to accidental the friends with whom I am. Mr Lot circumstances, had I not found that if I my present task is done, the Adriaan. did not submit to the will of the Sovereigntion stands before you and the pubir such an Administration as I could support. You know the persons who compose in, you and as I thought necessary to the country have heard the principles on which it pre in its present circumstances could not be fesses to act; and for the maintenance d formed. My Lords, I remembered my them we throw ourselves upon the coedage and my limited capabilities, but I was; dence and support of our Soveriga, you aware that if I declined the task which! Lordships, and the country. had been allotted to me, there was reason The Earl of Rader was understood to fear the attempt to form a new Ad-to declare his conviction, that Parleministration might have falled altogether.mentary Reform was not merely ente Urged, therefore, my Lords, by consider- dient, but the coly measure which ent anions of pubúe day to anempt that to ensure the salvation of the country. He which I am not equal, the government of was certain that if the speech which the the country at this momentous crisis, my noble Marquis had just made on that subor y trust is in the support of this House ject, accompanied as it had been by the and of the public, and above all, in the commentary of the noble Earl, west forth gracious kindness and confidence of his to the colstry, it would create in ever Majesty, which alone can safe's caITY TE QUEDE consternation and dismay. The through the cfficulties with which I am nove East had expressed the sty sumolnded. With this surpret lam ready which he felt at what he called the for so attempt all things for the service of the L. and the extreme plans of reform which country--looking & ways to the princities were atrand. It was not the first time on which I have ocmanded tas support that he hat heard such expressions fill and claiming now that indigence which from the noble Ex. 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