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London, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1846.

THE NEW MINISTRY•

The following are said to be some of the new ap-

pointments :
President of the Board of
Control ... Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE.
Chief Secretary for Ireland Sir W. SOMERVILLE.
Judge-Advocate I .. Mr. CHARLES BULLER.
Vice-President of the Board
of Trade • • Mr. WARD.
Under-Secretary for Home
Department
Comptroller of the House-
hold
Secretary to the Treasury Mr. TUFNELL.
/Admiral DUNDAS,
Lords of the Admiralty ... Sir T. TROUBRIDGE,
Captain BERKELEY.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—Ms Lordship left his re-
sidence, in Chesham-place, at twelve o'clock this day,
for the Nine Elms terminus of the South-Western Rail-
way, to proceed to Osborne House, Isle of Wight, to have
an audience of her Majesty. The Noble Lord was
accompanied by his father-in-law, Lord Minto.

The resignation of the Ministry was last evening
notified to both Houses of Parliament. The Duke of

WELLINGTON announced it in the upper House, in
his usually terse manner, whilst Sir R. PEEL dis-
charged the same duty, at considerable length, in the
House of Commons. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has re-
ceived her MAJESTY'S commands to form an Adminis-
tration. The House of Lords will sit daily to pass
the Sugar Duties Bill (which was read a third time
last night in the Commons), continuing the present
duties for one month from the sth July next. The
House of Commons, at the request of Lord J. Rus••

SELL, conveyed through Sir R. PEEL, has adjourned
till Friday next. In the meanwhile, Committees will
sit for the furtherance of railway and other private

business.

The retiring address of Sir R. PEEL was moderate,
dignified, and interesting, in the highest degree. He
not only modestly reviewed the past, but, in a candid
and generous spirit, indicated, as far as he could, the
principles by which his policy, in his capacity of a
private Member of Parliament, would in future be
governed. Nothing was left unsaid which could

tend to diminish a sense of the difficulties that may
pervade Lord J. RUSSELL'S mind, in his renewed at-
tempt to govern the affairs of the empire. He has
encouraged his chief political opponent in every way to
brace his mind to fulfil the high trust which the
SOVEREIGN has summoned him to undertake. Lord
J. RUSSELL has gained great credit in the eyes of

the country by the honourable manner in which he
supported the late Government, and ministered to
the success of their comprehensive measures ; and his
Lordship must now feel that Sir R. PEEL is fer-
vently disposed to requite the obligation in the most
liberal manner.

The nation will ever retain a lively remembrance
of the inappreciable public benefits that have been
conferred upon it during the last five years by the
chief of the late Cabinet. It will not be forgotten by
the people that, for their sakes, he propounded his
magnificent schemes of commercial reform, though
fully aware they would lead to his expulsion from
power, and entail upon him the keenest sacrifices
that any man could make for his country's good.
The value of office to one of so princely an income as

Sir ROBERT PEEL is insignificant enough ; but the

loss of private friendship, the severance of many a
political tie, proudly cherished, and the disruption of
a powerful party, are marks of patriotic devotion
rarely witnessed. Yet all of these stand out in bold
relief in the character of Sir ROBERT PEEL. He will
gain the only reward he can be ambitious of—the
present gratitude of the nation, and the admiration of
posterity. The hopes so emphatically expressed in
his closing sentences of last night will be realised to
the full. These were his words :—" It may be that
I shall retire from office with a name some-
times 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 remembered with expressions of goodwill,
when they shall recruit their strength with abundant
and untaxed food, the sweeter, because it is no longer
leavened by a sense of inju-tice."

It is observable that Sir R. PEEL has strictly
acted up to the letter of the constitutional advice he
tendered, and the principle he laid down, when he
moved, in opposition, in 1841, that the Ministry were
no longer entitled to the confidence of the country.
He stated then, that a Government ought not to re-
main in office "upon sufferance," but particularly
when they were unable to carry measures which they
deemed to be essential to the welfare...of the nation.
lie explained last night that, being convinced he
could not continue to preside over the Government
without being reduced to a similar position, both he
and his colleagueshad unanimously and unhesitatingly
determined to resign.
It is the manifest intention of the ex-Minister to
give the protectionists a locus penitentice. Of the mo-
nopolists, par excellence, he disposed with withering
contempt—" I shall leave," said Sir ROBERT, " a
name execrated by every monopolist, who maintains
protection for his own individual ends." But of the
greater portion of the protectionists he seems to have
better hopes, believing that from no interested motives
they have upheld the principle of protection, and
believing also, that when, after a short interval, they
shall have discovered all the apprehensions, which
have scared them from their propriety, to have become
practically dissipated—that land has retained its
ordinary value, the revenue its vigour, and the
country its prosperity—they will do the amende
honorable, and return to the political ranks from
which they have so mutinously deserted.
The views which Sir ROBERT enunciated with
'respect to Ireland' will be hailed with universal
t delight. He is prepared to establish in Ireland
En „am
e political and religious equality enjoyed in
Scotland
, to effectuate a comp
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as
.is. practicable, between
the franchise;' Semblance;
municipal and other politi-
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This is the true spirit
and, under its zuiaa:
ce, we may
look to see Ireland rapidly regenerate
measures that had I,se&
Referring to the vast n passed
towards establishing a dc,
by his Government clear and
it
unrestricted commercial in tercou
timed thatoth his
countries, Sir ROBERT PEEL
ion to develope
successor would use every exert
assured him
the principles of free trade, and
of his most cordial support. We rejoice at this de-
claration, and shall be disappointed indeed if Lord
JOHN should not at once propose to rid our statute-
book of the differential duties upon sugar. The country
is, at this moment, seriously threatened, as evidenced by
the latest accounts from the West India islands, with
a scarcity of this necessary of life. Lord JOHN can-
not fairly plead that his recent accession to power
disables him from dealing immediately with this
question ; for the notice he recently gave of the reso-
lutions he intended to move in reference to sugar,
is conclusive as to his being already master of the
subject. It is one of pressing importance, and,
assured of the advantage of Sir R. PEEL'S powerful
aid, no time should be lost in recommending to Par-
liament the early extinction of these injurious duties.

At no moment of his important careen, at I 19 moment
of his greatest triumph, has the late Premier suc-
ceeded so thoroughly is obtaining for himself the