Mr. Peel then submitted himself to the disposal of the
House, enlarging on the great need in which he should stand of support and forbearance ; and after being conducted by Sir J. Mowbray and Mr. Bright to the Chair, he thanked the House for his election, and promised to do his best to exercise that virtue of impartiality to which allusion had been made. He was then congratulated on his election by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Gladstone, in his very happy speech, seized the occasion to remark that any fresh augmenta- tion of the burdens on the Speaker would probably overweight him entirely, so great had recently been the addition to his responsibilities ; and to suggest that though Mr. Peel had not given full satisfaction to the Irish Nationalist Party, yet that the relations in which that party stood to the Chair were "strained relations,—relations in which it was hardly within the compass of human possibilitykthat-Terfect satisfaetioa should' be given to the individuals immediately concerned, and also perfect satisfaction given to the obligations of the Speaker." Mr. Glad- stone did not regard Mr. McCarthy's speech as indicating any disposition to relax the duties incumbent on him and his colleagues towards the Chair. Rather he hoped that it might indicate an acknowledgment of those duties, and initiate a period in which it would be easier instead of harder to show their respect for the Chair. The House then adjourned.
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