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THE RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS.

Lord PALMERSTON, who was received with a faint
cheer by his supporters, then rose aid said :

I wish, air, ti make a short statement to the house with
respect to the course which her Majesty's Government
have thought it their duty to pursue in consequence of the
vote to which this house came on Friday night. I think
it can scarcely be necessary for me to say that that vote
led her Majesty's Government to feel that there was only
one course which they could pursue with a due regard to
their own honour) and with a due respect to this house.
W. therefore on Saturday humbly tendered to her Majesty
the resignation of our offices, which her Majesty was
grteiously pleased to accept, and consequently we now
hold our offices only for the purpose of carrying on the
business of the country until our successors are appointed.
Under these circumstances I am sure the house will feel
that it would be inconvenient that we should continue to
meet, and therefore, as is usual on such occasions, I
venture to propose that this house should adjourn for a
few days. I have ascertained by private communication

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from a noble lord, who, I believe I may venture to say, is
at present engaged in constructing a Government, that it
will be convenient that the adjournment should be until
Friday next. I therefore propose that the h3use at its
rising should adjourn till that day.

The motion was agreed to, and it was further
resolved that all committees should have leave to sit
notwithstanding the adjournment of the house.

EAST INDIA LOAN BILL.
On the order for going into committee on this bill,
a conversation arose, in the course of which
Sir H. WlLLountiey pressed for some explanation
respecting the condition of the Indian revenue, which,
he contended, could not stand additional charges or
be materially increased ; how the interest of the
loan was to be met, and whether the English Ex-
chequer was secured against being called upon to
pay any part of the debt.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be would
give the required explanation in the committee.
After some remarks by Mr. AYRTON and Mr.
Wm.ror.,E, the house went into committee upon the
bill ; when
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the bill
merely enabled the East India Company to raise
money, either by debentures or by bonds ; that it
involved no new principle, and it was doubtful
whether the Company now needed any parlia-
mentary authority for this purpose. He stated the
estimated deficit of the Indian Exchequer at the end
of the financial year 1839.9 at 7,500,0001., and that
the Company had exhausted their powers of borrow-
ing in the Indian money market. He then prc-
ceeded to argue from the gross amount of the
Indian revenue, the amount of the Indian and hon e
debt, and the charge upon the revenue, that there
was no reason to doubt that when the revolt was
quelled, and the country had been restored to its
ordinary state, the Indian Government would be
able to defray all the expenses of its own goven
meat. There was nothing in this measure, he said,
to bring any prospective charge upon the British
Exchequer.
The clauses of the bill were agreed to after much
discussion, the amount of the loan being limited to
8,000,0001.
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The house, after some further business, adjourned
at half•past eight o'clock till Friday.

CONSPIRACY TO MURDER BILL.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 19.
CoNseraAcr TO MURDER BlLL.—Order for second reading
6, read ; motion made, and question proposed:—" That
the bill be now read a second time." Amendment pro-
posed, to leave oat from the word " that " to the end
of the question, in order to add the words " this house
hears with much concern that it is alleged that recent
attempts upon the life of the Emperor of the French
have been devised in England, and expresses its detes-
tation of such guilty enterprises ; that this house is
ready at all times to assist in remedying any defects in
the criminal law which, after due investigation, are
proved to exist, yet it cannot but regret that her Majesty's
Government, previously to inviting the house to amend
the Law of Conspiracy by the second reading of this
bill at the present time, has not felt it to be their
duty to make some reply to the important despatch re-
ceived from the French Government, dated Paris,
January 20, 1858, and which has been laid before Paths-
ment,"—( Mr. Milner Gibson)—instead thereof:—
Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out
stand part of the question :"—The house divided; ayes,
215, noes, 234.

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Adams, W. H. Forestcr,llt.ElnCol Montgommy,Sir G.
Adderley, C. B. Forster, Charles Morgan' Gamins
Akroyd, Edward Forster, Sir George Naas, Lord
Alcock, Thoinu Fos, W. J. Napier, ltt. Hon. J.
Annesley, Hon. H. Fraser, Sir W. A. Napier, Sir Charles
Archdall,Captain M Galway, Viscount Newdegate, C. N.
Ayrton, A. S. Gard, it. S. Newport, Viscount
H. J. Garnett, W. T. Nicoll, Donald

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Ball, Edward Gaskell, J. M. Noel, Hon. U. J;
Baring, Thomas Gilpin, Charles North, Colonel
Bernanl, T. T. Gladstone, Rt. Hn. Packe, C. W.
Bass, M. T. Graham, Rt. Hn. J. Pakington,SirJohn
Baxter, W. E. Greenall, Gilbert Palk, Lawrence
Beach, W. W. B. Greene, John Palmer, Robert

Beale, Samuel Grenfell, C. W. Paull, Henry
Bective, Earl of Griffith, C. D. Peahen, Sir G. B.
Bennet, Philip Grogan, Edward Peel, Sir Robert
Berkeley, Hn. H. F. Hadfield, George Pevensev, Viscount
Blackburn, Peter Hamilton, Lord C. Philips, .R. N.
Bolder°, Colonel Hamilton, G. A. Pigott, Francis
Bovill, William Hamilton, J. H. Pilkington, James
Brumley-Moore, J. Hamilton, Captain Powell. E. S.
Bridges, Sir B. W. Hardcastle, J. A. Price, W. P.
Bruce, Major C. Hardy, Gatborne Ricardo, J. L.
Buchanan, Walter Headlam, T. E. Robertson, P. F.
Buller, Sir J. Y. Heatbcote, Sir Wm. Roebuck, J. A.

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Bunbury,W.B.3l`C. Henley, Et. Hn. J. Roupell, William
Bury, Viscount Herber., Bt. II n. S. Russell, Lord John
Itlyng, Hon. George Hodgson, Win. N. Scliolebeld, Wm.
Caird, James Holfurd, R. S Sclater•Booth. G.
Cairns, H. M.C. Hope, A. J. B. B. Scott, Hn. Francis
Carden, Sir It. W. I lopwood, J. T. Seymer, H. K.
Cardwell,Rt.HonE. Hursman,Rt.Hn.E. Shelley, SirJ. V.
Carnac, SirJ. R. MAIM, Lord Sheridan, H. B.
Cecil, Lord Robert Hume, W. W. F. Sibthorp, Majur
Cheetham, John Hunt, G. W, Smith, J. B.