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London, England, 1846-06-29 00:00:00

LEICESTER RAILWAY.

This Bill was read a third time and passed.
WEXFORD, CARLOW, AND DUBLIN JUNCTION

RAILWAY.
This Bill was also read a third time and passed.
SUGAR DUTIES.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, it
would probably meet the convenience of the House, if
the order of the day for the third reading of the Sugar
Duties Bill were then moved.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.

RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS

The private business having been disposed of, the

greatest expectation was manifested for the appearance
of S r Robert Peel. The House never on any occasion
presented such a thronged and animated appearance,
and we observed that several ladies were in the
vicinity of the Speaker's gallery. At twenty-thret
minutes past five o'clock Sir Robert Pcel entered the
House with an anxious air, and after a few moments'
consultation with Sir James Graham, he rose and ad-
dressed the House as follows:

Sir ROBERT PEEL—Sir, I feel it to be my duty

to avail myself of the earliest opportunity of notify

ing to this House that, in consequence of the
position of her Majesty's Government, and especially in
consequence of that vote to which the House
came on the night of Thursday last, by which
the House refused to give to the Government
those powers which they deem necessary fur th(
repression of outrage and the protection of life in Ireland,
her Majesty's servants have felt it their duty to tender
their resignation to their most gracious Sovereign.

The resolution to tender that resignation was the unani-
mous resolution of her Majesty's servants, adopted with-
out hesitation. Sir, if I had any complaint to prefer

wits respect to the course pursued by the House, this is
not the occasion on which I should prefer it. It is im-
possible to feel that that occasion by which a great change
takes place in the councils of a great empire for weal or
for woe, the welfare of many millions of the Queen's
subjects in almost all parts of the habitable globe—it is
impossible to feel that it is not an important, and, I might
almost say, a solemn occasion, and that it is not such an
occasion, that one ought to avoid preferring any complaints,
Sir, such controversy would be ill-suited to the magni-
tude of the occasion. I must also say that a provocation
of any such controversy would be wholly at variance
with the feelings which influence me in addressing this
House.— (Hear, hear.) This feeling would rather
prompt me to acknowledge with gratitude the many
occasions on which, speaking of the great bodies in
general on this side of the House, at periods antecedent
to the present session, I and my colleagues have received
their generous and cordial support. This feeling, also.
would rather prompt me to acknowledge with gratitude

the occasion on which gentlemen opposite, in oblivion

of party differences, have accorded to her Ma-
jesty's Government for the measures of which
they approved, a cordial support ; and I trust, Sir,
that nothing will escape from me in explaining the
course which her Majesty's Government has thought
it their duty to pursue. which would run the risk of pro-
voking those controversies which I deprecate. Sir, her
Majesty has been pleased to accept that tender
of resignation, and her servants now only hold
office until their successors shall have been appointed•
Sir, I said that if I had complaints to prefer, this
would not be the occasion on which I would prefer
them, but I must also say that I did not propose those
measures connected with our commercial policy at the
commencement of this session, without foreseeing the
great probability, whether those measures succeeded or
failed, of the dissolution of the Government of this realm.
Sir, I rather rejoice that her Majesty's Government has
been relieved from any doubt, by the early decision of
this House, as to the course which it was their
duty to pursue, for I do not hesitate to say that
I would not, even if the late vote had been in our
favour—l would not, even then, have consented to hold
office by the sufferance or permission of any party—
(Loud cheers)—believing, as I do, that it is for the
public interest, that a Government remaining in power

think that, in a
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might have been
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exer-
cise its prerogative and to dissolve the present Parlia-
ment. We preferred the immediate tendering of our
resignations to the adoption of that course. Sir, I do
not hesitate to say, speaking with that frankness which
I am sure can offend no one, that if her Majesty's
Government bad failed in carrying through Parliament,
in all:their integrity, those measures of commercial policy,
which it was ray duty to recommend, I do not hesitate
to say that there was no exertion which I would
not have made—(Tremendous cheering)—in order, if