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se her Majesty to accept our resigna

fit have been

without adopting that alternative which m _
adopted, namely, recommending in the Crown to exerci
its prerogative:4l4 to dissolve the present Parliamec

We prefeired the immediate tenderingof our resignations
to the adoption of that course Sir,.l do not hesitate to
say, speaking with that franl
offend no one, that if her M.
failed in carrying through Parliiin

which I am sure car
,ty's Government hat

any duty to recommend. I do not hesitate to say that there
was no exertion which J would not have made—(tremen-
rig)- if not to ensure their success,
, an opportunity of pro-
( awn upon them. In that case I
myself justified in advising !HT Ma-

e the country

nonncina

should 11 a v,e 14]

.
jesty to the extreme course of dissolving, the present Par-
liament ; but there was no necessity for such a course."
The tight hon. bart then proceeded to say that he did
not feel justified in adyising her Majesty to exercise CrL
prerogative for the purpose of enabling the government to
pass an inferior measure, for he felt utrongly that the
Crown should not resort to a dissolution unless there be
urgent reason. Be deprecated any argument being drawn
from the government having introduced the Coercion
Bill, that their opinions with reference to Ireland had un-
dergone any change; "speaking of myself," said he, "I

do not hesitate to say

;hat thereon

ht tc be established i

Ireland, complete equality (loud c'

at institutieng. (Cheers.) I say complete equa-
as far as it is practicable to carry it out, in the pre-
sent political .and religious aspect of the country. (H ear,
bear.) It may not be possible to carry out complete po-
litical and religious equality according to the letter of the
terms, but it may be do: .e according to the spirit. But I
speak of the spirit and not of the letter, in regard to the
franchise, in regard to the municipal rights, and in regard
to other great questions relating to Ireland. (Cheers.)
There is a strong desire In the minds of many that the
people of Ireland should be placed in possession of the
same political and religious rights as those of England
and Scotland, and I admit the correctness of this
principle. Not only do I admit the justice of this prin-
ciple. but I am of opinion that a complete assimilation
of Ireland to England and Scotland in political and religi-
ous priviliges, should not be defeated by any jealousy and
suspicion on oar part. With regard to any question
involving the rights and privileges of the people of Ire-
land, I say distinctly that there ought not to be a
different rule applied to Ireland to that which is'applied to
the people of this country. (Cheers.) It is impossible
for me to say that there should be submitted wih regard
to Ireland a different role of action to that which is ap-
plied to Englan-2. (Cheers.) Regarding the Executive
Administration in Ireland, I think the powers of the
Crown should not be exercised so as to occasion any real
ground of complaint in regard to religious distinctions. It
may be that we have given offence in some instances in
availing ourselves of the opportunity of appointing Roman
Catholics to office. It may be said that we should have
taken different means to carry out our policy ; but to that
I will answer, that I hold it to be the best and wisest po-
licy to carry on the affairs of Government without refe-
rence to any differences on religious questions, and that it
should make its appointments accordingly. (Cheers.)
With regard to the spirit in which legislation must be di-
rected, I must say, for one, I am prepared to co-operate
with those who feel that the present social condition of
the people of Ireland in respect to the tenure of land, and
the relations of landlord and tenant, and are anxious to
remedy the existing state of things. (Hear, hear.) It
may be impossible by legislative enactments to apply an
immediate remedy to the state of things which
now exists ; but even if the benefit to be derived
from legislation be extremely remote, yet if the
benefit be of a permanent character, then I shall
feel it to be my duty to support them. (Hear, hear.)
Sir, I have reason to believe the noble lord, the member
for the City of London, has been commanded by her Ma-
jesty to repair to her Majesty's presence for the purpose
of hearing her Majesty's commands upon the subject of
forming that government. (Hear, hear.) Sir, I presume
that the general principle upon which the government to
be formed by the noble lord, will—that is as far as its
commercial policy is concerned—be to continue the appli-
cation of those princieles, which tend to give us a clear
and unrestricted intercourse with other vaintries." The
right hon. baronet then adverted to our foreign relations,
which he said he was leaving in a most satisfactory state.
France and other countries were impressed with a feeling
of confidence towards this country, and it was only that
very morning that the cheering intelligence had arrived
from the United States that the efforts of the Earl of
Aberdeen to settle the Oregon question had been entirely
successful, and upon a basis which he thought would be
entirely approved of. The right hon. baronet then stated
the terms of the treaty agreed upon by Mr. Buchanan
and Mr. Pakenham (which are in substance the same as
those given in our American news), and triumphantly
stated that the convention dtawn up by the Earl of Aber-
deen had been agreed to by the American Government
and Senate without the alteration of a single letter.
Be could not help rejoicing that before he relinquished
power he should have had the satisfaction of making
this announcement. Before he sat down he would
say, in justice to an honourable member, whose pure
and disinterested motives and natural eloquence, aided
by an untiring perseverance, bad led to the adop-
tion of the late commercial measures, that the credit of
them was to be attributed to Richard Cobden' and not to
either the Whig or Conservative party in that house. He
had succeeded by appeals to the reason of the people,
which there was no resisting. He was aware that, in re-
tiring, he would leave a name censured by many, who
thought conscientiously that it was necessary to keep to.
gether a great party ; and he would be execrated by those
monopolists who maintained for their own interests the
principle of protection. He trusted, however, that-his
name would be remembered in the dwellings of the la-
bourer, while he recruited his exhausted frame with a
more abundant supply of food—all the sweeter because
no longer seasoned by injustice. The right tiononrable
baronet having finished his observations on the po-
licy which had been pursued by his government, in the
course of which he stated that it was the last time he
should address the house as a minister of the crown,
sat down amidst loud cheering. The right hon. baronet
immediately afterwards rose and said he had received a
communication from Lord John Russell, and he hoped
that, agreeing with the wishes of the noble lord, the house
would agree with the motion he was about to make, and
which was that the house, at its rising, do adjourn to

politic
lily,

Friday nest.
Lord PALMERS
policy of the views

rs expressed his grail

of the rig

n. baronet

ation at the
as respected

the legislation for Ireland,
?appy settlement of the qua

lative to the Oregon

Mr. HUMF

r with so
right hon.

much of the public sympathy

upon the country

n it was

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—_
On the motion of Mr. Tufnell, new writs were issued

for the election cof members to serve in the city of Lon-
don, for Tiverton), for Devonport; ,fcr Halifax, for the
West Riding of:Yorkshire, for Taunton, for the town of
Nottingham, for 'Edinburgh, for the city of Worcester,
for the borough-a€ Dungarcort, for the borough of Perth,
for Plymouth, forthe Leith District of Burghs, and for
Kirkcudbright; in the room of LordJ. Russell, appointed

First Lord of the Treasury ; of -Lord Palmerston, au-
pointed Secretary of State for Forekn Affairs ' • of Sir G.
Grey, appointed Secretary of State for the Home De-
' ; of • Mr. C. Wood, appointed Chief Commis-
toner of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests ; of M r. La-

partment

bouchere, who his accepted the aEce of Steward of the
Chiltern Hundreds; of Sir. J. Ci Hobhouse, appointed
'President of the Board of Control ; of Mr. Macaulay,
appointed Paymaster of the Forces; of Sir T. Wilde, ap-
pointed Attorney-General •, of Mr. Shell, appointed Mas-
ter of the Mint; of Mr. Fos Maule, appointed Secretary

at War; of. Lord Ebrington, appointed a Lord of the
Treasury ; of M.r. Rutherford, appointed Lord-Advocate:;
and of Mr. T. Maitland, appointed Solicitor-General for

Scotland

Several private bills were forwarded a ttage ; but no
public business vas transacted, and the house. on its
rising, was adjaeined to Monday.

FOREWN

AND COLONIAL.

DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF ST. -JOH'N'S,
NEWFOUNDLAND, BY FIRE.
The following appeared in a third edition, and we now
give a few additional particulars :
By the kindness of a passenger who arrived- this morn-
ing by the sehooner Rozelle. Capt.-Wilkinson, from St.
John's, we have information of the total destruction of
that town by fire. At about half-past 9in the forenoon
of the 9th instant. the fire broke out, from -what cause is
not precisely ascertained, and spread with great fury, not-
wit.hstanding the efforts made to arrest its progress.
The majority of the buildings being composed princi-
pally of timber,. course assisted the spread of .the con-
flagration. Some of the stores, however, of the leading
merchants are substantial stone erections ; and it was ex-
pected that these .rould withstand and check the fire.
They shared, however, the common fate. By six in the
evening the whole -town, with the exception of some
-suburban streets, was in ashes, only a chimney here and
'there raising its head above the common ruin.; and be-
tween seven and eight thousand human beings were left
without a shelter for their heads, or an item of property
to call their own. So universal has been the destruction
that not even . a newspaper-office was left with type
sufficient to tell the tale, the only printed account pub-
lished being a slip composed from a few handfuls of
type saved from the general wreck.
The loss, in money, is .said to be upwards of a million
sterling; but of course that must be taken as a rough
guess, and is probably below the mark. The number of
buildings destroyed .is frost 1.500 to 2,000. The loss of
life bat pity has been but small, only two persons being
known to have perished. One was an artillery-mart. who

was crushed severely in attempting to arrest the flames,
and afterwards died, and the other an inhabitant, who
rushed into the fire from desperation or to save some pro-

1---0 i course an appeal mast be made to the generosity of
Englishmen, for the inhabitants of what was so lately a

to the comforts and support of the British nation. The
Rozelle left St. John's on the Mb instant, and more
detailed intelligence will be received by the nest arrivals.

t is saic

fire firs

maker's shop; and that, atter communicating with other
buildings, (fish stores, &c.) containior, oils and other
highly combustible matter, it spread In four directions,
and the flakes were circulated by the wind in all direc-
tions. various parts of the town being thus ignited at once,
many of the inhabitajtts of which were ignorant that any
other than their own immediate locality was affected. In

some cases rnvitations•to home and shelter were given by
parties who, in a few kaurs, discovered that they bad no
homes themselves. We_may explain that the bulk of the
fish stores tire built of wood and upon piles, as maze fitted
for the business of fish curing than other kinds.of erec-
tions.

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