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

RESIGNATION OF LORD PLUNKET.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
That we should ever live to record the exercise of such a
virtue on the part of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland ! But
we live in strange times, and a more extraordinary exempli-
fication that such is the case can scarcely be imagined than
this—that Lord Plunket has resigned! If the matter were
to rest in the mere notification of the fact, men's minds
might well be filled with wonderment ; but when we add
that there is a job—a flagrant job—connected with the trans-
action, all cause of surprise will be removed.
Ministers—having failed in carrying their Administration
of Justice 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 Lord Plunket, 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 sensation
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.

Since the foregoing was in type, the follovrimg communica-
tion reached us—
Some short time since an application was made to his lord-
ship, stating that it was the anxious wish of the government
to provide a comfortable retirement for Sir John Campbell,
and requesting, unless he felt it extremely repuguast to his
feelings, to resign the seals, in order that Sir Johli should he
appointed his successor.
Lord Plunket (to his credit be it spoken) replied, that con-
sidering the eminence and character of the Irish bar, he
could not bring himself to offer it so great an insult, as to
place Sir John Campbell, nem:onion-law lawyer, at its head ;
that, moreover, he could not become a party to an act which
the public must consider a job ; and that, therefore, his re-
pugnance was such, that lie could not bring himself to give
his consent to the proposition.
This creditable reply produced a letter from Lord 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
'night demand from him in exchange.
This application has, of course, produced the desired ob-
ject. The Chancellor has resigned. He forwarded his
resignation last evening, feeling that he could not, without
disgrace, hold the seals after such an intimation.
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act, he has redeemed many of those errors which we have
felt it our duty from time to titue reprehend.

Tint PRESIDINT.—There were one hundred and thirty-
six persons on board the President.—Neu' iirk Herald.
Till REV. HUGE 11.1`NRILI ON Tilt CORN LAWS.-I'g
have read with the greatest pleasure a speech delivered by
the Rev. Hugh M'Neile at Liverpool, on the subject
poilliteht:
corn laws. The Protestant Assoeiatioa of Bolton hare
deemed it desirable to reprint it in the shape of a p.ra
which may be purchased for one penny, at the Chronicle-
office and other places. We cannot speak too highly of the
51)„,h. It abounds with strong argument, apt illustration,
and eloquent patriotism. We earnestly raeoamead elet
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