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LIVERPOOL, Jura 29

NEW STocE EXCHANOE.—A few sales have occurred in our Share
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THE COLOSSEIIM.—His Highness Ibrahim Pasha; and
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" let go" having been given, the majestic machine rose
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*distinctly visible Al it passed over London.

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,
identified himself with a popular cause, had just procured for
it that final triumph which nothing but such an union of
forces could have effected. He had drawn towards himself
no small portion of that homage and gratitude which the
people had destined, and which he also cheerfully conceded,
to other names. With one great exception, too near home
to be forgotten—with the exception of Ireland—the palms
of peace and the laurels of war, commercial prosperity and
unexampled victories, a series of good-fortunes beyond the
power of man to secure or even to expect, had given a five
years' Government the substance of twenty. Having thus
accomplished much and lived long in a short time, the Alinis-
ter suddenly retires. In a moment his star disappears. How
is this ? By-what mysterious law does this country choose
its rulers which subjects them to so great an injustice and
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-
jority in Parliament. Perhaps, seeing that no-confidence
motions are the threat of the session and the gossip of the
day, this may seem no very striking account of the matter.
A no-confidence vote, to be sure, is the natural death of a
Premier. He goes on till his party grows less and less, and
and they who dislike or distrust him become a majority.
His work is then done, and he is strangled with a resolution
declaratory of his unfitness for the post. True. But
never, ' we say without hestsasisn, wwa tlesie so pure, eo
simple, so unembarrassed au example of a no-confidence
vote. We have usually seen Ministers slowly s inking
under incompetency and failure. Pledges unredeemed,
measures abortive or unsuccessful, an exhausted treasury,
reverses 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 res
main in power unable to give practical effect to 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 cases, he is
always making demands upon the faith and goodwill pf
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
many special 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 without
a chapter on this crisis. He may have his own views of it.
He may laboriously mete out the honours and dishonours of
the fatal rupture; or he may forbear entirely from the moral
question; but he will certainly dwell at some length on the
fate of a man who rose to power by forming a party, and
fell from power by destroying it, and who, at the moment
when his own opinions had become emancipated, found him-
self entangled and finally overthrown by 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 the
misfortune to differ from him. It is enough to say that it
was always Bet as so much treason to the sacred cause cs
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 onlLd!'aivback which countervails Ilia
enstvitinftsiss-AtiVitrktikir-agfiirrili to ttlis3e"
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 now 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 obstinacy would
have been saved if people had only been allowed to have an
opinion of their own ten or even five years since. How long
was it urged as a solemn obligation on all devout Conserva-
tives to abhor the League, and anathematise Cobden? Po-
pular movements of all kinds were denounced 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 measures of
social reform known to modern times. If such is the fallibility
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 Hon. 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 eo 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—theilate Premier has truly and wisely interpreted the de-
mands of public opinion and feeling.. 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 industry, and re-commencing the pacification and
contentment of Ireland, will encounter no other difficulties
than those necessarily incident to the work itself. It is
honourable to Sir Robert Peel—as it must be in the
highest degree gratifying to the public—that he has
manifested this solicitudes to convince his Parliamen-
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 which we have evinced, throughout the
closing passages of Sir Robert Peel's recent official career, to
put the most favourable construction in our power on a cha-
racter whose indications are so frequently equivocal or con-
tradictory, is likely to be justified by the event. It is plea-
sant to receive this early and authentic assurance, that the
moral aspects of that new epoch of the late Premier's life
which is to explain or redeem everything, will be 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 miadoings, has 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 on us 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
of that resignation by the Queen were last night announced
in the House of Lords by the Duke of Wellington, and in the
House of Commons by Sir Robert Peel. It was also stated
by the Noble Duke and by the Right Hon. Baronet that
the Queen, acting, of course, as before, under Sir Robert
Peel's advise, had commanded a Noble Lord (Lord John
Russell) to form an administration. So far all is plain
enough; but what if Lord !John Russell should be driven to
declare in June or July—as he was driven to declare in De-
cember—that he cannot form an Administration possessing
the elements of stability? The advanced age of the Duke of
Wellington—now in his seventy-eighth years—precludes the
possibility that his Grace an again engage in the toils of