Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-06-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RUMOURED RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTERS. (From the Morniny Star of Wednesday).  We believe there can be little doubt thatthe Govern. ment have tendered to the Queen their resignation of office. After the statement made by Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone last night it became clear that Ministers had resolved upon one of two courses—tendering their resignation or requesting authority to dissolve the Parliament and appeal to the country. The latter course is obviously the proper one, and would have the cordial approval of all true Liberils in and out of the House of Commons. It is strictly in accordance with usage that Ministers should give no hint of the nature of the advice they have tendered to her Majesty before it has reached her and been approved by her; and therefore it is not possible for the public to know with certainty what steps have been taken. But the geeeral impression seems to be that the Governinent have tendered their resignation. It is, at least, perfectly certain that they will not ccinsent to remain in office and proceed with the Reform Bill if the present Parliament is to continue. The course which the coon. ry ought to take is plain. Everywhere meetings ought to be organised to protest against the displacement of a Government which enjoys the confidence of the people, and to insist that the question at issue between the Cabinet and the House shall be submitted to the arbitration of the constituenties.  We come among yen as the toes of British rule in Ireland. Exiled from that native land of ours by the oppression of British aristocracy and legislation, our people hunted down to the emigrant ships, or worse, to that charnel of Govern. moot honitinlons, the poor-house; our countrymen torn from their families and friends and hurled in droves into the prison pens of England and I,land our country sub- ------- Paned to a fuMgn tyranny, which disfranchises the mass of The Times, in a leader on Wednesday,. In remarking upon the Irish people and makes poverty and misery the sal rule this momentous event, mahei the folios big observations:— el their condition, covering our fair land with paupers' graves Tie awl,len collapse of Parliamentary Reform, and and wretched hovels, elicitha !non the liberal mill. of sevrnd repittatiints, will be felt many SR EngiaPii benefit expressions ot shame for the Government and indignation for tbo peopl, We have taken np the sword a relief, by cotne no a disappointment. here can to strike dmo o e the oppressor's rod mm , to deliver lreld fro sc i arcely be magined, and certainly not remembered, the tyrynt, the despoiler, the role-ten We have registered a greater PrOllll/4e, or n larger ambition, so abruptly o. oaths upon the altar of our conntry M the 01l view of minated. The downfall is so great that we naturally Heaven, and sent u or vo to Hun w nn I ns pi red the Then, loon highoutp us foru thews emend', we find him herem. partliie to see what more is corning. Only fonr minithei here In our midst. where he Is inost vulnerable and con- h 4 a new Parliament wits opened by a now Admit'svenlett to our strength; and have sworn to stretch forth the tration. the fortunate heirs of one that had enjoyed armed hand of Ireland and grapple with Min The battle has niore than an average tenure of office, and had ami commenced, anti we pledge ourselves to all the sacred cumulated popularity and smeerus. memorhie in struggling liberty, to follow lt up at any cost to itut a great Government, at the head of a great either of two alternatives—the absolute political independence and liberty of Ireland or the demolition of our armies We party, has thetroyed itself as rapidly and gratoitously II ave no issue with the people of these provinces, and Wish 118 one of the City Banks was said to have done the  ether day. The only result of iininensalalsour is a suicide, of which no better account can be given than the eccentric reason for which poor creatures occasionally put an end to themselves. Why has the Liberal Government thrown itself over a precipice? Nil honest jury could possibly return any other verdict than that it has committed suicide to prove estimated rental a better test than rateable value. Such is the bri.,:ht martyrdom Mr. Gladstone has attained to. But what a time to do it in! If the better the day the better the deed, we presume the worse the day the worse the deed. Here are the nations of Europe generally declaring war against each other. Her Majesty, without whom nothing can be done, and who has both to accept resignations and fill the vacancies, is now discharging the functions of Royalty at Balmoral, near six hundred miles from Westminster. All that could be done last night WM to an. the general standstill, and promise more definite explanations in a few day, when letters and answers, if not Ministers, outgoing and incoming, shall have had time to traverse the island to am'. fro. Unless Her Majestyshould further shorten the vet}, short stay she intended to make in Scotland, two successive Cabinets will have to visit the Highlands within ten or twelve days, at what hiss and inconvenience to the public service it is frightful to think. Then come a few other questions. There is the Session to be wound up. There is business that must be done, and business that need not be done. There are also accidents that may happen even before we get a Government at ad. If the American Civil War gave us so much trouble, will a Germanic Civil War be quite harmless? We are boasting our immunity perhaps prema.urely. There is one comfortable reflection, only one, that occurs to us, and we owe it to Mr.l llailstone and his colleagues. They have not been overthrown by the Opposition. They have been slain for no principle and for no antagonist. There is neither cause nor foe. The blow such as it was, to which they have succumbed was dealt by one of their own party. If the chiefs of the Opposition come in now, it is heenme they are invoked as ma liatore, and called in to heal a party fend. The Government has subsided, and :wither takes its place by the laws of succe.-sion. Not a single item of retribution is due to the new Government, not a grudge; on the contrary, all possible co-operation. The Liberals are bound by the very terms of their own self-immolation to give the Conservatives a fair trial, and certainly not to exact from them a task which, with everything in their favour, they have found it impossible to bring to even a respectable end.