The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-01 00:00:00

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S SPEECH.
(From the Times.)
The event of last night, we venture to predict, will occupy
no ordinary place in political history. It was a resignation
of power in the moment of a great success, and with other.
circumstances pre-eminently calculated of themseves
. to win
favour and support to the Government. The Minister who
had gradually, and at last thoroughly and unreservedly,
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identified himself with a popular cause, had just procuniedonfoor
it that final triumph which nothing but such ansuhimself
forces could have effected. He had drawn towards d
no small portion of that homage and gratitude
conceded,
people had destined, and which he also cheerfully
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to ether names. With one
the palms
great exception,
r too near home
to be forgotten—with the exception of I elan
of peace and the laurels of was commercial Pmeegntyd and
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unexampled victories, a series of good-fortunes
power of man to secure or rjaeuneetoofextwpeenct,tyh. adHlvvieunitatfihvues
years' Government the sub
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sstorhortdilampep,earthes.
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ter suddenly retires.
is this ? Be what mylsntearimous law doesteahist countrys u mjusticehe andoose
its rulers which subjects them to so great
itself to so great a hurt ? Here, then, is the question
which imparts a peculiar interest to the present re-
signation as explained last night by Sir Robert
Peel. The Minister resigns not merely because he
is beaten on one partieular question, important as it
is, but because he has not the general confidence of a ma-
jorit7 in Parliament. Perhaps, seeing that no-confidence
mot:ons are the threat of the session and the gossip of the
day, this may seem no very strikhkr account of the matter.
A no-confidence vote, to be sure. is the natural death of a
Premier. He goes on till his pasty grows less and less, and
and they who dislike or distrast him become a majority.
His work is then dove, and he is strangled with a resolution
declaratory of his unfitness for the post. True. But
never, we say without hesitation, was there so pure, so
simple, so unembarrassed an example of a no-confidence
vote. We have usually seen Ministers slowly; inking
under incompetency and failure. Pledges unredeemed,
measures abortive or unsuccessful, an exhausted treasury,
reveries in war, new and oppressive imposts, general un-
popularity, are the calamities which one by one diminish
the number of Parliamentary supporters. The catastrophe
comes with many warnings. Old age is not more gradual
than the decline and fall of a Ministry. It becomes in-
capable, and ceases to do before it ceases to be. Now,
Sir Robert last night was able to proclaim a series of suc-
cesses which, be they his or any other man's, or only dame
Fortune's, yet impart at least a lustre to his period,
continually brightening to its very close. Unquestionably
with those whose favour is called popularity, he is more
popular just now than he has ever been. Notwithstanding
all this he falls. Nothing whatever destroys or impairs his
power but this want of confidence. He could carry some
measures, and he has the entire and almost servile confidence
of some men • but he has not a party—that is, a sufficient
one. He made it, and he has destroyed it. There are not
340 men in the House who will go along with Sir R. Peel,
and take him for their guide. As he explains himself, "It
is not for the public interest that a Government should re-
main in power unable to give practical effect co the measures
which they consider necessary for the public welfare." The
Premier may sometimes have occasion to ask a certain dic-
tatorial power—viz., to see that no harm comes to the com-
monwealth; and, without going to extreme eases, he is
always making demands upon the faith and goodwill of
the Legislature. For such purposes the Government must
enjoy absolute confidence. The want of this general
confidence, therefore, is fatal ; such is the fatality under
which Sir Robert has fallen. He is able to show
only demonstrate
claims to confidence. Grant them all. They
only demonstrate in this instance the general deficiency.
Sir Robert is trusted by many for many purposes, but not by
a majority generally. We say not this in order to re-open
any personal or moral inquiries. We only call attention to
a most conspicuous incident in our constitutional history.
No future De Lolme will consider his work complete witboat
a chapter on this crisis. Ile may have his own news of it.
He may laboriously mete out the honours and eishonours of
the fatid rupture; or he may forbear entirely fom the moral
question ; but he will certainly dwell at sorro length on the
fate of a man who rose to power by forming a party, and
fell from power by destroying it, and whq at the moment
when his own opinions had become emancipated, found him-
self entangled and finally overthrown br the obstinacy of
that party which he himself had made. Already, if we
mistake not, a fact so remarkable is impressing some useful
lessons. Are we to be always governed by parties ?
Hitherto we have been taught that an honest man must also
be a party man. They who stood
_apart were "wavering,"
"crotchetty," and " unpractical." We will not relate how
long, how often, and how much we have suffered for
venturing to think that Sir Robert might be wrong,
and that his party did not comprehend all truth; nor will
we now enumerate the points on which we have had tie
misfortune to differ from him. It is enough to gay that it
was always set as so much treason to the sacred cause o.
Conservatism. " The party" could tolerate no such sin-
gularity of opinion. " The party," as a whole, was right,
and, right or wrong, it was at least expedient to maintain
the theory of infallibility. Thus did the creed of Conservat-
ism grow into sanctity, and " the party" rise to power. Now
behold a strange reverse. The statesman eschews the errors
of his creed. His " party" remains unconverted. He attains
the utmost point of his ambition; he succeeds beyond his
hopes. There is one only drawback which countervails his
many achievements. " His party," his own creation, the
" Frankenstein" his own fingers had made, drags him to the
ground. The country was to be saved by the Conservative
party. If Sir Robert Peel is right in his great mea-
sure, as we believe him to be, by that same party
the country is now in the way to be ruined.
The statesman and the party are new both doing
what they think to be right. The misfortune is that
the head is grown wiser than the tail. The tail, if it has no
wisdom, has at least a sting, and the fable of the scorpion is
realised in the downfal of Sir Robert through the suicidal
attacks of his indignant party. All must feel what-an im-
mense quantity both of recantation and of oi cv would
have been saved if people had only been all,. to have an
opinion of their own ten or even live • • . How long
was it urged as a solemn obligation . evout Conserva-
tives to abhor the League, and ans. •. ' Cobden ? Po-
pular movements of all kinds were,. pounced as injurious to
good order. Good men were positively deterred from ex-
pressing the least concurrence with the views of the Covent-
garden orators. Nay, it was said that Royalty itself was
instructed to deprive of her countenance the very locality of
that abomination. How changed the scene! Now from
the lips of the Premier, we are told that the name of Richard
Cobden is associated with one of the greatest mea.eiees of
social reform known to modern times. If such is the rallibility
of party, surely it is time to check its sway.
(From the Chronicle.)
The public will gladly recognise, in Sir Robert Peel's
speech of last night, an earnest of the fulfilment of those
anticipations which we yesterday expressed, relative to the
Right Him. Baronet's course as a leader of the Parliamentary
OppositiOn. He gives the country to understand, in lan-
guage:of unusual force and explicitness, and which derives
peculiar emphasis from his own evident impression of the
" Solemnity" of the occasion, that that superiority to personal
and party considerations which has so signally characterised
the closing portion of his official career will continue to
manifest itself in his, ex-official acts and declarations. The
retiring Premier professes, it will be seen, in the strongest
terms, a steady and unwavering fidelity to those great prin-
ciples of commercial and Irish policy, of which a five years'
experience of Ministerial responsibility has irresistibly
taught him to feel the truth, and appreciate the importance.
He will heartily co-operate with his successors in every
measure tending to the relaxation or abolition of the yet re-
maining restrictions on trade and industry, and to the
more complete realisation of that commercial and in-
dustrial enfranchisement which events have enabled him
so happily to commence. And he will likewise assist,
to the utmost of his personal ability and Parliamentary in-
fluence, the efforts of a Liberal Administration to subdue that
hitherto undiminished difficulty which he has made so many
well-intended but unavailing attempts to reduce. Every
earnest and well-considered endeavour, either to improve the
social condition of the Irish people, by ameliorating the rela-
tions of the peasantry and farmers to the landed proprietary
class—or to heal their political and religious discontents, by
a system of government, legislative and executive, based on
the principle and conceived in the spirit of complete political
and religious equality between Catholic and Protestant, and
between Irishmen and Englishmen—will receive Sir Robert
Peel's disinterested and zealous support. Of his opposition,
as of, his successors' administration, the programme will be
free-trade and justice to Ireland. We feel the liveliest satis-
faction in recording declarations so creditable to Sir Robert
Peel individually, and so favourable to the best hopes of the
country. In tendering these pledges of fidelity to the respon-
sibilities of Opposition—as likewise in so handsomely acquit-
ting himself of the long-neglected debt of justice to Mr. Cob-
den—thetlate Premier has truly and wisely interpreted the de-
mands of public opinion and feeling.a After all that had hap-
pened, the country felt itself entitled to expect some definite
intimation as to the relations in which Sir Robert Peel con-
ceived himself to stand to his official successors, and to public
interests as administered by them ; and we rejoice that the
disclosures of last night are so well calculated to remove
those anxieties which had been more or less entertained by
many of the warmest admirers of his recent policy. As it is
impossible to entertain a doubt but that pledges given with
so emphatic a distinctness, and under circumstances implying
the utmost deliberateness of choice, will be honourably re-
deemed, not merely in the letter, but in the spirit, we gladly
accept the guarantee now given, that a Liberal Administra-
tion, charged with the onerous trust of completing the eman-
cipation of luau:Alan, era
contentment of Ire te-tommencing the pacification and
it, will encounter no other difficulties
than those necessarily Incident te law work itself
honourable to Sir Robert reel—as t meet be. hlt is
ine the
highest degree gratifying to the public—that
manifested this solicitudes" to, convince his Parliemenaa-
tary opponents, that he intends to deal by them
as they have uniformly dealt by him—and that the intrinsic
difficulties of the task which now awaits them will not be
needlessly aggravated by unfair or factious courses on the
Part of a statesman whose real convictions of public policy
and duty are, in the main, coincident with their own. To
ourselves, in particular, it is matter of agreeable reflection,
that the readiness "Aids we have evinced, throughout the
closing passages of Sir Robert Pees recent official career, to
put the most favourable construction in o power on a cha-
racter whose indications are so esestoentiprevoi- .vocal or con-
tradictory, is likely to be justified by the event: It is DI
sant to receive this early and authentic assuranc ea-
moral aspects of that new epoch of the • late premier'sethe
which is to explain or redeem everything, white such as to
place him finally right with his country. We sincerely trust
that it Will always be in our power to speak' of the Free-
trade Minister of 1846 as one would wish to speak of a states-
man who, whatever his former misdoing*, as been the in-
strument of a vast and enduring public good, and that the
recollection of that substantial debt of gratitude which he has
undoubtedly imposed, u.s by his services to our national
commerce and industry, may never be painfully qualified by
yet fresher reminiscences of offences against political mo-
rality.

(From the Herald.)
The resignation of the Peel Ministry and the acceptance
f that resignation by the Queen were last night announced
i the House of Lords by the Duke of Wellington, and in the
louse of Commons by Sir Robert Peel. It was also stated
y the Noble Duke and by the Right Ron. Baronet that
le Queen, acting, of course, as before, under Sir Robert
eel's advise, had col-man:tea a Noble Lord (Lord John
ussell) to form an administration. So far all is plain
lough; but what if Lord John Russell should be driven to
+.clare in .June or July—as he was driven to declare in De-
tmber—that lie cannot form an Administration possessing
to elements of stability? The advanced age of the Duke of
Jellington—now in his seventy-eighth year—precludes the
ossibility that his Grace can again engage in. the toils of
ditical life; and Sir Robert Peel expressly declared that he
uld not continue to hold office. What, then, if Lord John
ussell shall be compelled to renounce the attempt to form
Administration upon those stringent conditions upon
bleb only, as Sir Robert Peel explained last night, a
inistry can be properly formed, or can properly ex-
,;--namely, the support of a powerful party, pre-
ired to support the Ministry upon all important
iestions? Sir Robert Peel has promised to support the
Russell Ministry in prosecuting his own free-
ade policy, and has hinted a disposition to support that
inistry in its Romanist measures for Ireland. But Sir R
eel has no personal party—he is now but one man, and if,
he says, he cannot repossess office, he must count upon

remaining but one man, and that one one of the smallest
men in the empire. He will not bring with him to support
a Russell Ministry any of the wretched 112—the larger and
less culpable division of whom followed him merely in order
to keep out a Russell Ministry. Still less can he hand over
to his free-trade and pro-Romanist successor the noble Coun-
try, ;arty, numbering 250. It is, therefore, not at all im-
possible, though we admit it to be unlikely, that Lord John
Russell may decline to execute the commission imposed upon
him. His Lordship's declining it, however, or his attempt-
ing to execute it, cannot change the relative strength of
parties in Parliament and through the country. The Conn-
try party of 250—sure to be greatly augmented by a general
election—will remain; the 112, too, will remain (no longer
urged by the scourge of an official " whipper -in") to follow
their original bias ; and Lord John must prepare to
confront a great majority in the House of Com-
mons, probably a greater majority in the House of
Lords. What, then, are Lord John Russell's prospects ?
He, Whig as he is, may carry on the Government upon the
principles of the " Country party," but he can carry on the
Government upon no other principles. As far as the " Coun-
try party" is concerned Lord John will have no difficulty in
this respect. They have already " generously" supported
Sir Robert Peel (the word " generously" is his own, and it
is well chosen) for five years, while he lavished upon the
opponents of their principles whatever of public patronage
he did not find it necessary to give to his own relations and
personal dependents. Lord John Russell may, therefore, be
quite at ease upon this head. The Country party will not
quarrel about patronage; but let Lord John bethink him in
time of the danger of touching the British and Protestant
principles of this great nation. Let him carry on the Go-
vernment of the country upon the principles of " the Coun-
try party," and he may remain Minister as long as it shall
please him; but if not—Sir Robert Peel is his example. The
present is not the time to discuss the reasoning of Sir Ro-
bert Peel's farewell speech, or to express our opinion of the
good or bad taste of his eulogium upon Mr. Richard Cobden,
whose whole merit, even as we can extract it from the
panegyric of the Conservative ! Premier, is a successful
imitation of Mr. Daniel O'Connell's seditious conspiracy
(lately prosecuted by the same Premier) as it exists in Ire-
land. The present is not, we say, the time for such cri-
ticisms, but we think that whoever reads Sir Robert Peel's
speech of last night, must with *us rejoice in knowing that
he is never after the present week to open his lips as a
Minister of the Crown. His offence is an offence not merely
against party but against morals, and the interests of mo-
rality would be compromised should it be visited with any
less penalty than a perpetual disqualification. As to Lord
John Russell's prospects, we have already hinted at them ;
but we must add that he takes office with some advantage
as the successor of him whopronounced the Cobden toadying
speech, to which we must refer. To read such disgusting
things is really enough to make one quarrel with his
species, at least to blush for a party and a country so long
cheated as our country and party have been. ,Lord Pal-
merston spoke his mind rather freely, and we honour his
Lordship for it • and Mr. Joseph Hume put his seal upon
Sir Robert Peel's character by eulogising it. There was no
going beyond that. .

(From the Pest.)
It is, we think, not likely that those who sympathise with
our views of public men, or public affairs, will find anything
satisfactory in the speech of Sir Robert Peel of yesterday
evening, beyond the announcement that he ceases to be Mi-
nister. That, indeed, is a satisfactory statement. No man,
we believe, loves power more than he does, and the loss of it
is no doubt to him a punishment. That punishment he most
richly deserves. The most remarkable passage of this dis-
honest politician's statement is that in which he acknow-
ledges that the merit (?) of the corn-law repeal measure
rests with Igr. Richard Cobden. This had been frequently
said before in different terms. We ourselves, no further off
than yesterday iWorning, adverted to the fact that Cobden it
was who bad frightened Sir Robert Peel into the adoption of
the com-law repeal measure. The novelty is in such a man
as l'eel acknowledging that to be true which really is true.
This, probably,. would not have happened, but for the com-
plimentary speech of Cobden regarding Peel on Thursday
night. To the tradesmanlike mind ofPeel it had probably oc-
curred that some payment was due for this, and before he abso-
lutely ceased to be Minister he thought it decent to settle the
ba /ince of his account with his friend and ally Cobden. It
ii ruethat not very long ago he described the said Richard
G) i,(7112 tp-the House of Commons as something not ex-
trentAy emir from an assassin, but in these days such
" changes of opinion ' are so common as to have ceased to
excite any violent emotion of surprise. As might have been
expected, the coolest impudence, and the extremest folly of
the speech of the Right Hon. Betrayer of his party are to be
found in his allusions to free trade. His jargon about fo-
reign nations buying in the dearest markets, while we buy
in the cheapest, is nothing better than a juggle of words. If
foreign nations bought in the dearest foreign markets, rather
than in the cheapest foreign markets, his remarks might
have some reason in them. As it is, such remarks are at
once foolish and deceptive. Foreign nations pay dearer to
their own producers than they need pay to the producers of
other nations. This is merely a contribution from the owners
of capital in foreign nations to the support of the industry
of their own people. It is a very proper price for the
owners of capital to pay for the privileges they enjoy—for
the safety of their possessions, and for the ease and tranquil-
lity of which they are in the enjoyment, while others labour
for them. It is the policy of such men as Sir Robert Peel to
secure every advantage they can for the owners of capital,
while the producers at their own country are to be subjected
to every disadvantage, and more especially to that of com-
petition with foreign producers, whose taxation is compara-
tively light, and who do not live in the neighbourhood of
enormously rich people, that insult poverty by their ostenta-
tious contempt of its helplessness. We rind in the speech of
Sir Robert Peel very little—we may almost say nothing—.
worthy of an eminent statesman. It appears to us to
be rather the farewell address of a cold-hearted, in-
sincere, and baffled intriguer. We may, perhaps, err,
and judge with less charity than we ought, but
we certainly cannot but hold the opinion that one of
the most disappointed men this morning in. the Queen's do-
minions is Sir Robert reel, and, for the sake of public jus-
tice, we are glad that he is a disappointed,. and a punished,
man. We believe that he calculated on something very
different; vps, are well pleased that his calculation has been
erroneope. It is for the honour of England that he should
be di.nonoured. Waiving the question of the national effects
of his policy, we hold that his cold deceithis treachery to
those who trusted him—is far too palpable to be denied by
any honest and observing man ; and this offence, now com-
mitted for the second time, deserves every public reproach
and public disgrace that can befal him. His position in
history, if he hold any position at all, ought, in our judg-
ment, to be among the infamous. If yesterday evening he
had made anything like a fitting apology, we might have
thought it our duty to refraiq from language so, harsh as
this; but as it is, we see no reason why we should not say
as we think, that the conduct of Sir Robert Peel is the
greatest disgrace to England which has occurred in the nine-
teenth century.

(From the Daily News. )
There is a singular combination of the circumstances which
ennoble a political fall, in the event which Sir Robert Peel
last night announced to the House of Commons. The sacri-
fice of life or power for a great end ; that sacrifice made, more-
over, in the plenitude of life and power, and made with strong
foresight and firm will ;—all these ennoble. They leave no
room for party, none for contempt. They silence hatred, and
redeem many faults. We do not say that Sir Robert Peel's
political character has been perfect, or that consistency and
an undeviating coarse is not a most desirable and lofty virtue.
But as Liberals, we have little right to dwell upon and exag-
gerate the one defect, by which, besides, we profit, whilst
we know, toe, that this one fault would be damnatory, were
it not redeemedi by evidently high-minded and disinterested
aims, by wisdom, by boldness, by sympathy for popular
rights and wants, and by that knowledge, which alone is
power, and can fulfil its convictions. The expression of opi-
nion, the development of principle, with which Sir Robert
Peel accompanied the announcement of his resignation, evince
that he has no reason to regret the course whichhe has
taken. He evidently is not inclined to crave pardon for his
liberal leanings; to excuse the boldness of his financial and
economical innovations ; or to lure back to his standard those
who have deserted him, by whispering that his aberration
bas been but temporary. On the contrary, Sir Robert
glories, like the dying hero, is his prowess. He has caught
the wide applause, the far and distant sDunds of universal
approbation, which have hailed his measures. He has
found such applause and such support, more inspiriting than
the cheers of mere Parliamentary partizans. And the Mi-
nisterathough uttering the words of resignation, addresses
himself to the country as well as to the House, with the
tone, not of a dismissed servant, but of a very authoritative
though parting friend. For our part, we could scarcely be-
lieve our ears when we heard the Tory chief not merely
glory in the hopes of the great measure which immor •
talises the session, but proclaim the doctrine of assi-
milation and equality to be applied to Ireland. " A
complete assimilation of Ireland to England and Scotland in
political and religious privileges should not be defeated by
jealousy or suspicion on our part." Ominous words, these.
Bold words, and true. The mere utterance of them is a feat ;
the acting up to them would be the utmost that the warmest
Liberal could desire. And we cannot but mark with the
loudest applause so striking and so powerful a valediction.
We will not, for the present, undertake to follow Sir Robert
through the review of his five years' administration. On so
multiplied a subject there is much to say; and though the
Premier may be a very admirable Crichton in 1846, this
picture of him might become distorted and changed, if we
extended it to a representation of him during five years.
Let him sit for his portrait now, his hand upon the Corn Bill,
whilst, in lieu of that very stupid, untoward, and prepense
Coercion Bill, let him have limned his declaration of last
night, as to tow Ireland should be governed.
But, though there was nothing of the taunting,
offensive, or invidious, in the Ministerial valediction, it yet
is one not calculated to render the government of the coun-
try more easy for his successors. To outbid Sir Robert Peel
in practical Liberalism will be difficult. The things to be
done are of minor importance. And now that the Corn Bill
has passed the country will probably fall into a calm, very
favourable to an old established Government, but affording
few chances for those who must achieve something. And yet
Sir Robert Peel shows no inclination to monopolise glory to
himself, or to deny it to ethers. Nothing could be more
generous, more full, and more striking, than his acknow-
ledgment that the carrying of the most vital part of free-
trade was not owing to the efforts of any chiefs of any of the
old constitutional parties, but to the disinterested energies
and eloquence of Richard Cobden. Earl Grey, in the House
of Lords, had anticipated this tribute, which, even from him,
et in the House—Of Lords, was thotight bold. Coming from
Bir Robert Peel; the unstinted tribute did as muchhonour to
the giver as to its object.
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JIB LATE MR. HAYDON.

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TO THE EDITOR. Of THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
Sir,—The lamentable death of the late B. R. Haydon, and
the painful embarrassments in which the family are placed,
seem to have awakened deep sympathy in the public mind,
and a desire to manifest the same in any way that would be
agreeable to the feelingslof the family, and a means of extri-
cating them from their present difficulties.
I would suggest as a means of effecting this object, that
the gratuitous use of one of the picture galleries be sought
(perhaps the Royal Academy would embrace the opportunity
of acting upon the principle of " forget and forgive," by
arantit.g the use of their rooms at the close of the season), and the owners of the works of the late eminent artist be
solicited for the loan of the same for a public exhibition, the
proceeds to be for the benefit of the widow and family. Some
such plan, I think, would be well supported.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
Oxford-street, June 29, 184 G. J. H. B.

HAIL STORM.—On Thursday afternoon the country
between Mailing and Rochester was visited by a severe
thunder storm, during which there was a heavy fall of hail,
which did considerable damage to the crops and vegetation
generally in the neighbourhood; in many instances strip-
ping the trees of their leaves; the corn, hops, and fruit
plantations having all received damage, more or less, froen
this awful visitation.
SCARCITY OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.—The
cutting of the grass has, in many instances, been impeded
by the difficulty of obtaining mowers. Although the price
of labour has been advanced, still men could not be obtained.
We have heard of a case where mowers have refused
ss. Gd. per acre for cutting grass, which is a great in-
crease of wages over those paid at other seasons,--Aidesbury
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TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 27, 1846.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities
of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland unto the Right Honourable Lord
Francis Egerton, and the heirs male of his body law-
fully begotten, by the names, styles, and titles of Vis-
count Brackley, of Brackley, in the county of North-
ampton, and Earl of Ellesmere, of Ellesmere, in the
county of Salop. _ _ _

The Queen lies also been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity
of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland to the following gentlemen, and the re-
spective heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten,
viz. :—The Right Hon. Thomas Frankland Lewis, of
Harpton-court, in the county of Radnor ; John Somer-
set Pakington, of Westwood-park in the county
Worcester, Esq. ; John Gladstone, of Fasque and
Balfour, in the county of Kincardine, Esq. ;
James Weir Hogg, of Upper Grosvenor-street, in the
county of Middlesex, Esq. ; William Feilden, of Fenis-
cowles, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Esq.; Wil-
liam Verner, of Verner's-i)ridge, in the county of Ar-
Magh, and of Inismagh, in the county of Tyrone, Esq. ;
and Sir Moses Montefiore, of East Cliff-lodge, in the
Isle of Thanet, and county of Kent, Knight.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 27.
The Queen has been pleased to grant unto William
Alexander Anthony Archibald Hamilton Douglas, Esq.
(commonly called Marquis of Douglas and Clydesdale),
the office of Knight Marishall of Scotland, in the room
of William George Earl of Erroll, deceased.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 27.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John
Brownrigge Collision, 8.A., to the vicarage of Saint
Michael, in the city of Coventry and diocese of Wor-
cester, void by the death of the Rev. Robert Simson.
The Queen has been pleased to 'present the Reverend
Duncan Campbell to the church' and parish of North
Knapdale, in the presbytery of Inverary and county of
Argyll, vacant by the death of the Reverend Donald
M`Lachlan, late minister thereof.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev.
John M`lvor to the church and parish of Small Isles,
in the presbytery of Skye and country of Inverness,
vacant by the transportation of the Rev. Henry Beat-
son, late minister thereof, to the church and pariah of
Barra.

DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 27.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major-Gen.
Sir Patrick Ross, K.G.C. St. M. and St. G., to be Go•
vernor of St. Helena.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint William
Thomas Denison, Esq., Captain in the Corps of Royal
Engineers, to be Lieutenant-Governor of Van Dieman's
Land.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint the Hon.
F. W. A. Bruce to be Lieut.-Governor of Newfoundland.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Murrell
Robinson Robinson, Esq., to be Second Assistant Sur-
veyor for the colouy of the Cape of Good Hope.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Daniel
H. 0. Gordon, Esq., to be Chief Justice for the Virgin
Islands.

Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Sin-
clair Bryan, Esq., to be Treasurer for the said Islands.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the following
officers, in her Majesty's service, and in the service of the
East India Company, to be Companions of the Most lion.
Military Order of the Bath :
Lieut.-Col. H. S. Phillips, 53d Foot.
Lieut.-Col. T. H. Franks, 10th Foot.
Lieut. -Col. G. L. Davis, 9th Foot ; and
Lieut.-Col. J. It. Smyth, 16th Lancers.
Lieut. -Col. C. Godby, 36th Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. C. D. Wilkinson, 63d Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. R. A. Stedman, Ist Bengal Cavalry.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. N. Penny, 69th Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. J. A. Thompson, 59th Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. H. J. Wood, Bengal Artillery.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. Alexander, Bengal Artillery.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. Nash, 43d Bengal Light Infantry.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. I'. Lane, Bengal Artillery.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. H. M. Lawrence, Bengal Artillery.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. F. Abbott, Bengal Engineers.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. G. S. Laurenson, Bengal Artillery ; and
Major H. Forster, Commanding the Shekawattee Brigade.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 26.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Pedro
Degola y Ravara, as Consul at Malta for her Majesty the
Queen of Spain.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 26.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain and Brevet-Major
A. W. Hope to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sandilands, re-
tired on full pay ; Second Captain W. B. Young to be Cap-
tain, vice Hope ; First Lieut. E. W. Rodwell, to be Second
Captain, vice Young ; Second Lieut. J. L. Bolton to be First
Lieutenant, vice Rodwell, June 23
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 26.

Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel E. Matson,
to be Assistant Adjutant- General, June 15.
Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners—Brevet Major J.
Lynn, Royal Engineers, to be Adjutant, vice Whitmore, pro-
moted, June 18.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 27.

Corps of Royal Engineers—First-Lieutenant R. M. Laffan
to be Second-Captain, vice Ford, deceased ; Second-Lieu-
tenant J. H. Smith to be First-Lieutenant, vice Laffan,
May 1.
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OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 29.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Brevet Colonel W. G. Power
to be Colonel, vice Trelawney, deceased, May 4; Brevet
Major J. L. Smith to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Power;
Brevet Major W. H. Askwith to be Captain, vice Smith ;
First Lieutenant S. D. Broughton to be Second Captain, vice
Askwith ; Second Lieutenant J. R. Lugg to be First
Lieutenant, vice Broughton, June 23.
The dates of promotion of the under-mentioned Officers
have been altered as follows, viz. :

Lieut.-Colonel A. W. Hope, May 4, 1846 ; Captain W. B.
Young, blay 4, 1846 ; Second Captain W. Swinton, May 4,
1846 ; Lieut. W, N. Hardy, May 4, 1846 ; Second' Captain
E. W. Rodwell, May 26, 1846 ; Lieut. J. L. Bolton, May 26,
1846.

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 23.
Corps of Royal Marines—Sergeant-Major W. Ruston to be
Quartermaster.

Commission by the Lord
_Lieutenant of the West Riding of

Yorkshire.

First Regiment of WeWYOTicifilitia—J. S. B. Maim-
cliffe to be Colonel Commandant, vice R. F. Wilson, who
retires, June 23.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Somersetsbire.
First Somerset Regiment of Militia—Adjutant W. S. Cook
to serve with the rank of Captain, June 18.
Second Somerset Regiment of Militia—Adjutant A. J.
Macpherson to serve with the rank of Captain, June 18.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire.
East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry--J. M. Balfour, Esq., to
be Captain Commandant ; J. W. Hunter, Esq., to be Captain ;
T. S. M. Innes, Gent., to be Lieutenant; W. Sandilands,
Gent., to be Lieutenant ; H. M.- Davidson, Gent., to ba
Cornet ; C. Balfour, Gent , to be Cornet.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 27.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Sweet, of the
city of Bristol, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the
High Court of Chancery.
DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
George Hornsby, builder, Lesbury, Northamptonshire.
BANKRUPTS.
Joseph Wood, plumber, Luton, Bedfordshire, to surrender
July 10, at half-past twelve, and Aug. 14, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane
Cornhill ; Taylor, Finsbury •circus, London.
William Molyneux, innkeeper, Sandwich, Kent, July 14
at three, and August 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old
Jewry ; Hall, Moarilyan, and Rowsell, Verulam-buildings,
Gray's Inn ; Lee and Tapley, Sandwich, Kent.
William Henry Hounsfield, draper, Cardiff, July 10, and
Aug. 18, at one, at the Bristol District Court. Acramen
official assignee, Bristol ; Bevan, liristol.
Thomas Dolphin Weaver, ship-broker, Liverpool, July 15,
and Aug. 11, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Wilkin, Furnival's Inn;
Brown, Liverpool.
Joseph Clerk, innkeeper, Plymouth, July 16 and August 6,
at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official as-
signee, Paul-street, Exeter; Elworthy, Plymouth; Surr and
Gribble, Lombard-street, London ; Stogdon, Exeter.
William Jane Geach, auctioneer, Cornwall, July 16 and
August 6, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hernamann,
official assignee, Exeter ; Commins and Son, Bodinin ;
Stogdon, Exeter; Smiths, Southampton-buildings, London.
James Waterhouse and Robert Sutton, calico printers,
Salford, Lancashire, July 14, and Aug. 5, at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Man-
chester; Claye, Thompson, and Welsh, Manchester; Gre-
gory, Faulkner, Gregory, and Skirrow, Bedford-row, London.
Robert M'Kim, merchant, Bombay, July 17, and August
6, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson,
official assignee, Manchester ; Abbott, Charlotte-street;
Saunders and Atkinson, Manchester.
Jane Wright, licensed victualler, Manchester, July 18 and
Aug. 6, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hob-
son, official assignee, Manchester ; Johnson, Son, and
Weatherall, Temple, London; Hitchcock, Buckley, and Tids-
well, Manchester.

Jonn Astley, fustian manufacturer, Manchester, July 15,
and 31, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hob-
son, official assignee, Manchester; Johnson, Son, and Wea-
therall, Temple, London; Dearden, Manchester.
George Bury, surgeon-dentist, Handsworth, Staffordshire,
July 9, and Aug. 8, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Motteram
and Knowles, Birmingham ; Smith and Co., Bedford-row,
London.
James Evans, cattle dealer, Ilaywood Lodge, Hereford-
shire, July 11 and August 5, at twelve, at the Birmingham
District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ;
Gwillim, Hereford ; Suckling, Birmingham.
Isaac Sansome, ribbon manufacturer, Coventry, July 9 and
Aug. 15, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court.
Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Troughton and
Lea, Coventry ; Austen and Co., Gray's Inn.
Trytle Joel, jeweller, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, July 7, at
half-past ten, and Aug. 25, at half-past one, at the New-
castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Crosby and Compton, Church-court,
Old Jewry; Hodge, Newcastle-upon -Tyne.
Thomas Melton, victualler, Lincoln, July 15, and Aug. 5,
at eleven, at the Guildhall, Kingston-upon-Hull. Kynaston,
official assignee, Hull ; Rushworths, Staple Inn, London ;
Sanderson, Leeds.

[ Dividends, &c., in our next.]

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT MESSRS. ACKERMANN'S,
STRAND.—APPREHENSION OF THE THIEF.—For a consider-
able time past serious robberies have been committed at
Messrs. Ackermaun's, and the individual supposed to be im-
plicated was taken at a late hour last night. lie has been in
the service of the firm about nine years, and last night, from
suspicion entertained, he was lockad in a back room of the
shop in the Strand till a police•oflicer could be called in. He,
however, managed to jump out of the window, and escaped,
but on arriving at his lodgings in Pentonville last night he
was taken into custody. Several valuable prints have been
found at his lodgings. The prisoner was conveyed to Bow-
street station-house.

JESUITS IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—Arch-
bishop Magee, the predecessor of the present Archbishop of
Dublin, made the following assertion to some clergymen of
his diocese, some time previous to his death :—" There are,
(said he) at this moment, many jesuits—concealed, of
course—but still acting as Church of England clergymen,
and in the possession of parishes, who are silently but surely
working its downfall.—Church and State Gazette.
FOLKESTONE, JUNE 27.—The South-Eastern and
Continental `team-packet Company's steam-vessel the Queen
of the Belgians rrrived here this day at forty minutes past
twelve o'clock, with sixty-six passengers and two carriages ;
and at twenty minutes past one o'clock left the harbour
again for Boulogne with 115 passengers, his Excellency Lord
Cowley and several persons of rank being on board.