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who, on public principle, deeply regret the severance
of party men—who deeply regret that severance, not
from any interested or personal motives—(Hear, hear)—
hut because they believe that the existence of a great
party is necessary to the maintenance of &powerful and
influential Government in this country.—(Hear, hear.)
I shall certainly retire severely censured by many ho-
nourable men, who, from no interested motives, have ad-
hered to the principle of protection, as important to the
welfare and interests of the country. (Hear.) I shall

leave a name execrated by every monopolist who, from
less honourable motives maintains protection for his
own individual ends—but it may be that I shall leave a
name sometimes remembered with expressions of good-
will in those dwellings which are the abodes of men
whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily
bread by the sweat of their brows ; that is, a name re-
membered with expressions of good will when they shall
recruit their strength with abundant and untaxed food—
(Cheers)—the sweeter, because it is no longer leavened
by a sense of injustice.—(The Right Hon. Baronet then
sat down amidst immense cheering which lasted for
several minims,) The cheering havineaubsided,
Sir R. PEEL again rose, and said that he had re-
ceived a communication from the Noble Lord who was
charged with the formation of her Majesty's Govern-
ment, and he hoped the House would unanimously agree
with the earnest wish expressed by that Noble Lord,
that the House at its rising do adjourn until Friday next.
Lord PALMERSTON rose, but from thoebnseurmvabtierosf
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were but indistinctly heard. He said—Sir, I
will abstain from entering upon any discus-
sion bearing on party differences, or referring
to party disputes ; but still I must be allowed to say,
that, therefore, it is not to be understood:that I subscribe
to everything the Right Hon. Baronet has stated in
the course of his address.—(Hear.) The Right Hon.
Baronet must not be led away by the feeling
which has been manifested by this House to-night, or
by the assistance he has received in the carrying of the
measures he has recently submitted, that we agree with
the policy his Government has previously pursued.—
(Hear, hear.) A different opportunity will be afforded
to the present one, when I will enter upon that dis-
cussion. For the present, I wish to state to the House
that if I abstain from following the Right Hon. Baronet
into the consideration of all the topics connected with his
five years' administration, I must not be understood as
agreeing with him in the policy he has pursued.—(Hear,
hear.) There are many parts of the policy of the Go-
vernment with which I cannot agree, though I acquiesce
with the general recommendation of the House that the
discussion of them should be postponed.—(Hear, hear.)
But there is one thing in which I do agree. I agree
that the Right Hon. Baronet has shown a proper and be-
coming deference to constitutional principles.—(Cheers.)
I think the Right Hon. Baronet is right in his opinion,
that the present would not have been the proper occa-
sion to have advised her Majesty to exercise her prero-
gative in dissolving the House. I quite agree with
him, that where a Government stands so divided in
its party, that it rests only on a small majority
in Parliament, and when there is no rational probability
that a dissolution er general election would give a majo-
rity, I say I quite agree with him in the opinion that it
is more fitting to pursue the course which her Majesty's
Government have pursued. Sir, there are some parts
of the Right Hon. Baronet's speech which gave
me the greatest pleasure. I was glad to hear
from him those principles which he announced as those
by which the government of Ireland should be con-
ducted. I was indeed glad to hear from the Right lion.
Baronet that equal rights, political, civil, and municipal,
should be awarded to Ireland, in the same proportion as
they were bestowed on England ; and I was glad
to hear from him that differences of religious
opinion should not debar the employment of men in
political situations, for which they are otherwise duly
and properly qualified. Were I disposed to treat the
speech of the Right Hon. Baronet in a different manner,
I might make a few passing remarks, or express my
regret that these opinions and sentiments had not been
acted on by him in his administration of the affairs of
Ireland. Upon the reasons I have stated, I shall not go
into the question of the policy of the Government of the
Right Hon. Baronet with reference to the Indian em-
pire, and whether it has, or has not, received the unequi-
vocal approbation, in all its parts, of Parliament. I will
not touch upon another topic alluded to in the speech of
the Right Hon. Baronet, but I must be allowed to say
that I think the Right Hon. Gentleman did not quite
execute the purpose which he announced at the outset
of his speech, and that he did not altogether so shape all
he had to say as not to afford any ground for difference
of opinion. I should have been sorry indeed to have
allowed one of the latter topics of the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet's speech to pass unnoticed without an expression
of cordial approbation on my part. The announcement
he then made will be received with satisfaction, not only
by all Honourable Members of this House, but even in
the remotest corners of the empire. I refer to the an-
nouncement that those unfortunate differences which
have sprung up between this country and the United
States have been brought to an amicable adjustment.
It would, indeed, be the greatest calamity that could
befal the civilised world if two great nations, like Eng-
land and the United States, should be at enmity with
each other—two nations whose interests are identical,
and whose people stand in the relation of brothers. I
am therefore glad to avail myself of this opportunity
of stating the degree of satisfaction I experienced
when listening to that portion of the Right Hon.
Baronet's speech which touched upon the Oregon ques-
tion.—(Hear, hear.) Sir, the Right Hon. Baronet well
said, in conclusion, that the merits of the great com-
mercial measure which he has succeeded in carrying is
not so much due to gentlemen on this side of the House,
or to gentlemen who at present occupy the Treasury
benches, as to the talent, the ability, the perseverance,
the enterprise, and the untiring energy of my
Honourable Friend the Member for Stockport.—
(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Baronet has paid a just
and deserved compliment to Richard Cobden ; and I
think the House and the country will look on beyond
the point to which the Right Hon. Baronet has directed
attention, and see in Richard Cobden, not merely the
zealous and enlightened advocate of a great improve-
ment in our commercial code, but will see in him one of
the most distinguishedresults of that greatmeasure of Par-
liamentary reform carried by this side of the House, and
which, in truth, has been the means by which the Right
Hon. Baronet has been enabled to carry his own great
measure of commercial reform. I was particulary
anxious, to express my concurrence in the general senti-
ment of the Right Hon. Baronet, however I may differ
with him on some points, and to take this, the earliest
opportunity, of protesting against its being
supposed, by my silence, that I was opposed to the policy
which the Right Hon. Baronet bad latterly pursued.
Mr. lIUME said, as an humble Member of that House,
he could not allow that opportunity to pass withouotfstaL-
ing a word or two upon the policy and speech
Right Hon. Baronet, with whose opinions upon two
important points of policy he had long differed.
He thought the Right Hon. Baronet had accomplished
that which would redound for ever to his character. It
would be a source of great gratification to him, in his
retirement, to know that he found the country on his
coming to power in a state of war, and that he
left it in peace—with peace at home and abroad,
with the industry of the country freed from
commercial restrictions.—(Hear, hear.) He had done
as much—nay, he had done more than any of his pre-
decessors had been able to accomplish. He (Mr. Hume)
said, with the most unfeigned delight, that he had con-
ferred the greatest benefits on his country and on the
civilised world. It was on these grounds that he
expressed his most unfeigned regret that circum-
stances should compel him to leave the helm at
that hour. He was sure he would retire from power
with the regret of millions of his countrymen.—(Cheers
from both sides of the House.) He believed no Mi-
nister ever left office favoured with so much sympathy
on the part of the people ; and he would venture to pre-
dict that those Hon. Members who had consistently op.
posed the measures of the Right Hon. Baronet—who
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or should not adjourn till Friday next.—(Hear.)
He was of opinion that it would be very inconve-
nient to the private business of the House,
if such an adjournment took place, and therefore,
although no public business could be carried on before
the formation of the new Ministry, he saw no reason
why the private business before the House should be
interrupted. As Bills were before the House in which
universal interests were involved, and as to-morrow
was the day for receiving reports, he considered that
they might meet at twelve each day, that the private
business might be proceeded with without interruption.
Sir ROBERT PEEL said, he might be allowed to
say that he made the motion for the adjournment
of the House with the perfect concurrence of the
Noble Lord (John Russell), but the Noble Lord
stated, at the same time, that if it was necessary that
the House should sit for the termination of the
private business, he should not object to it. Since he
spoke he had received a note from the Noble Lord,
stating that he had no objection to the House sitting
until Friday.
Mr. LABOUCHERE considered that if private busi-
ness, in which parties, perhaps, had some direct interest,
were carried on by a thin House, the worst consequences
could not fail to ensue. If the Right Hon. Baronet