The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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ago, awl might lie in a fu .v short weeks aeain,iubitterhostilitytd'
each other. Then as to the question of the repeal of the union
with Ireland, were there-no differences of opinion on that point
which would prevent any lasting junction with the party by
which that question was advocated? The hon. and learned
gentleman (Mr. O'Connell) had stated on one occasion that no
consideration could induce him to accept office under any go-
vernment unless the question of repeal was to be brought under
its consideration. The hon. and learned gentleman must now
perceive that more than two-thirds of those who concurred with
him on many othei points were opposed to him on this. But
supposing a ministry to be formed whirl) was to exclude the
noble earl (Grey) and the noble lord (Stanley, we understood)
and some of their friends, was it to be expected that it would
have that share of public confidence which a government ought
to have ? But a government with the-noble earl or the noble
lord and their friends could not act cordially in unison with
those other parties to whom he had alluded. They could not
set those parties at open defiance and act. in open hostility
against them. They might. perhaps, prevail for a time by
physical force, but after a short period they themselves would
be the first victims to fall. Under these circumstances, he felt
it his first and paramount duty to stand by those trusts which
had been confided to him, and to call upon the house to wait
until it saw the measures which the government were about to
p ropose. (Loud cheers.) He offered to them measures of re-
form, ecclesiastical and civil. He offered to them the settle-
ment or the tithe question in Ireland—the commutation of
tithes in England and Wales. He offered them reform of all
proved abuses in the church. Ile offered them the redress of
grievances complained of by the dissenters, as far as related to
marriages and other important points. He offered them the
prospect of continued peace. (Cheers.) They might disre-
gard his offers if they pleased, and take those of others; but his
would have this advantage, that he would be more likely to be
successful than °duos, and he would act, he hoped successfully,
as the mediator and restorer of harmony between the two houses.
They might form other alliances, or they might connect them-
selves with different extremes of parties; but the time would
come when popular excitement would abate, and when they
would have nothing left but to lean for support on those who
had gone on calmly and quietly—when, in short, they would
have no alternative but to leave the government in their (the
conservatives') hands, or to resort to those measures of coer-
cive violence which would rend.'r reform inefficient and seal
the fate•of the British constitution. (Loud and long continued
chee,ring, followed the conclusion of the right hon. baronet's
addresi.) •
After a few words from Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. GISBORNE
asked whether the inns of court (as we understood) could not
give relief as far as they were concerned without the interven-
tion of parliament?
Sir It. PEEL was understood to answer in the affirmative.

The debate was then adjourned to Wednesday, and the house
adjourned at half-past one o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—WatacusnAr.
The House sat to-day at one o'clock for the purpose of going
up to Kis majesty With the address.
Alley prayers had been read by the Bishop of Bristol, the
Lord Chancellor in his state robes, Lord Gage, the seconder of
the address, the Earl of Shaftsbury, Lords Wha.rncliffe and
Bexley, 'with the Officers of the House, in full dress, formed a
procession, and went up to St. James's. The House ad-
journeyl till to-morrow.
It was remarked, as being rather singular, that neither the
Earl of Hardwicke, the proposer of the address, or any of the
State (Meets were present.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEnNESDAY.

The Speaker entered the House at half-past three o'clock, at
which Wile there were about two hundred members present.
Prayers were then read, and the House counted in the usual
form, after which most of the members left the House.
After some notices of motions had been given, and some rou-
tine business bad been disposed of, the adjourned debate on the
address to his majesty was resumed.
Mr. Robinson opened the debate and at the close of the re-
port was still left speaking in favour of the address.