The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-22 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.-rATPAT.

The Militia Pay Bill went tkrougk committee.
The Metropolis Improvement Expenses Bill was lead a
third time and passed.
The Marquis of NORAIANDT sleeved that tko Punishment
of Death Bill should pass.
The Earl of Wiwcinunis moved die omission of the
clause which *Wished tie punishment of death in cases of
violation.
After some discussion the kintrs divided, and tke lumbers
were—For retaining the clause..
For its omission

Majority

The bill was then passed.
Some bills were forwarded a stage, and their lariahips
adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—fainAT.

Lord J. RussuLL, in reply to a gametic; fiOniSir F. Bur-
dett, said, that it was the intention of the government to
erect three monuments—one to Lord i smooth, another to
Lerd de Sonnies's, and the third to Sir Syiney Smith.
The house, at its rising, adjourned until Monday

ItESIGNATION OT LORD ?UTMOST.

(Prowl the Dublin Evening Mail.)
That we should ever live to record the exercise of such s
virtue on the part of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland! ljut
we live in strange times, and a more extraordinary exempli-
fication that such is the sass can scarcely be imagined than
this—that Lord I'lunket has resigned! if the matter were
to rest in the mere notification of the fact, men's mrnds
might well be filled with wonderment ; but when we add
that there is a job—a flagrant j•b—cowneeted with the trans-
action, all cause of surprise will be removed.
Ministers—having failed in carrying *heir Administration
ofJusties Bills at the tail of the session. and thereby lost the
opportunity of quartering their Attorney-General, Sir John
Campbell, upon the country, and being well aware that after
the first week of the meeting of the new Parliament in
August, all power and patronage will be taken from their
hands—entered into a negotiation with Lard Plutket, the
result of which is the resignation of his Lordship, and the
appointment of Sir John Campbell to the Irish seals, merely
with a view of entitling the latter to a pension for life of
£4,000 a year as a retired Irish Chancellor. The Eensatioo
produced in the Hall of the Courts, and in the law and equity
offices, amongst the members of the profession, and through-
out the city, by this announcement, is excessive.

Sines the foregoing was in type, the following eolniouniea.
ion reached un—

Sores short time since art aprlieation was made to his lord-
ship, stating that it was the anxious wish of the government
to provide a comfortable retirement for Sir Joh* Campbell,
and requesting, unless he felt it extremely repuganct to his
feelings, to resign the seals, in order that Sir Jehn shauld be
appointed leis successor.
Lord Plunket (to his eredit be it spoken) replied, that con-
sidering the eminence sad character of the Irish bar, he
could not bring himself to offer it so great an insult, as to
place Sir John Campbell, neon-anon-law lawyer, at its head •,
that, moreover, he could not become a party to el act which
the public mast consider a job ; and that, therefore, his re-
pugnance was such, that he could not tiring himself to give
his consent to the proposition.
This creditable reply produced a letter from Lard Ebring-
ton to the Chancellor, requesting, as a personal favour to
himself, that his lordship should resign, and in no ambiguous
terms hinting that his lordship had received such favours
from the government as rendered it impossible for hint to
refuse his assent to any accommodation the government
might demand from hien in exchange.
This application has, of coarse, produced the desired olti;
ject. The Chancellor has resigned. We forwarde9knt
resignation lest evening, feeling that he imolai not, with.
disgrace, hold the seals after such an intimation.
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