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Article PARLIAMENTARY ANALYSIS. ← Page 2 of 6 →
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Parliamentary Analysis.
The Irish Securities Bill went through a committee . —The LOUD CHANCELLOR presented a petition praying for the repeal of the stamps upon newspapers . 4 th . —The Duke of CUMBERLAND presented ten petitions in favour of the Established Church . —Civil Officers' Compensation Bill read a third time and passed . . 7 th Petitions presented in favour of the Established Church . —Earl
GREY , in reply to a remark of Lord Wicklow , censured the conduct of Cabinet Ministers disclosing what passed in the Cabinet . The Duke of RICHMOND said he had the King ' s permission to do so . —Earl Grey said as he had not the same permission , he could make no disclosures .
8 th . —Petitions were presented in favour of the Established Church , and against the admission of Dissenters to the Universities . —Earl Grey took objections to a direct allusion to language used by himself , as contrary to the usages of Parliament . —The Earl of Winchelsea maintained the right of animadverting upon the conduct of public men . — The Lord Chancellor reminded the noble earl that there was a wide
difference between commenting upon the public acts of the government and using the expressions of members of either house in petitions . 9 th . —On the order of the day being called for to bring up the report of the Irish Coercion Bill , Earl GREY rose to make his expected statement on the subject of the ministerial resignations . —His Lordship was so much affected on proceeding to announce the fact of his retirement , that he was obliged to sit downafter an unavailing struggle with his
, feelings . In a few moments , however he again rose , and after expressing his astonishment that dispatches , not of a public , but of a private and confidential nature , from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland should be required , he proceeded to observe , " I must say again that such a communication , so made , ought not to have been divulged ; but the minister being charged with a breach of faith , in addition to a charge of vacillation as respected the measure itself , and the discussion which took
p lace in the other House of Parliament on the subject , these things p laced us in different circumstances , and the consequence was that my noble friend ( the Chancellor of the Exchequer ) , feeling the ground thus slippingfrom under his feet—feeling the difficult situation in which he was p laced in the House of Commons—concluded that he could not , with satisfaction to himself and advantage to the country , continue in his present situation . The being deprived of the assistance of my noble friend , the leading minister in the House of Commons , in whom the
strength of ministers in that House lay as a leader , and in losing whom I lost my right arm , placed me in such a situation that I felt I could not continue longer in office with satisfaction to myself—with advantage to my sovereign and my country . Therefore , upon receiving the resignation of my noble friend , 1 felt an unavoidable necessity to tender my own resignation , and they have both been accepted ; and I have only to discharge the duty of my office till such time as his majesty shall be able to appoint a successor . " —The Duke of Wellington
admitted that the noble earl had explained with great clearness the cause of his own resignation , but he had not explained the cause of the resignations which had led to his own . "That part had been left short of any explanation , at which he was the more surprised , because , if ever there were a set of ministers who , more than all others that had ever gone before them , were placed under the strongest necessity of con-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Parliamentary Analysis.
The Irish Securities Bill went through a committee . —The LOUD CHANCELLOR presented a petition praying for the repeal of the stamps upon newspapers . 4 th . —The Duke of CUMBERLAND presented ten petitions in favour of the Established Church . —Civil Officers' Compensation Bill read a third time and passed . . 7 th Petitions presented in favour of the Established Church . —Earl
GREY , in reply to a remark of Lord Wicklow , censured the conduct of Cabinet Ministers disclosing what passed in the Cabinet . The Duke of RICHMOND said he had the King ' s permission to do so . —Earl Grey said as he had not the same permission , he could make no disclosures .
8 th . —Petitions were presented in favour of the Established Church , and against the admission of Dissenters to the Universities . —Earl Grey took objections to a direct allusion to language used by himself , as contrary to the usages of Parliament . —The Earl of Winchelsea maintained the right of animadverting upon the conduct of public men . — The Lord Chancellor reminded the noble earl that there was a wide
difference between commenting upon the public acts of the government and using the expressions of members of either house in petitions . 9 th . —On the order of the day being called for to bring up the report of the Irish Coercion Bill , Earl GREY rose to make his expected statement on the subject of the ministerial resignations . —His Lordship was so much affected on proceeding to announce the fact of his retirement , that he was obliged to sit downafter an unavailing struggle with his
, feelings . In a few moments , however he again rose , and after expressing his astonishment that dispatches , not of a public , but of a private and confidential nature , from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland should be required , he proceeded to observe , " I must say again that such a communication , so made , ought not to have been divulged ; but the minister being charged with a breach of faith , in addition to a charge of vacillation as respected the measure itself , and the discussion which took
p lace in the other House of Parliament on the subject , these things p laced us in different circumstances , and the consequence was that my noble friend ( the Chancellor of the Exchequer ) , feeling the ground thus slippingfrom under his feet—feeling the difficult situation in which he was p laced in the House of Commons—concluded that he could not , with satisfaction to himself and advantage to the country , continue in his present situation . The being deprived of the assistance of my noble friend , the leading minister in the House of Commons , in whom the
strength of ministers in that House lay as a leader , and in losing whom I lost my right arm , placed me in such a situation that I felt I could not continue longer in office with satisfaction to myself—with advantage to my sovereign and my country . Therefore , upon receiving the resignation of my noble friend , 1 felt an unavoidable necessity to tender my own resignation , and they have both been accepted ; and I have only to discharge the duty of my office till such time as his majesty shall be able to appoint a successor . " —The Duke of Wellington
admitted that the noble earl had explained with great clearness the cause of his own resignation , but he had not explained the cause of the resignations which had led to his own . "That part had been left short of any explanation , at which he was the more surprised , because , if ever there were a set of ministers who , more than all others that had ever gone before them , were placed under the strongest necessity of con-