the house of commons are deeply sensible
of the importance of those considerations to which I directed their
attention in reference to the commerce and revenue of the country, and
the laws which regulate the trade in corn; and that, in deciding on the
course which it may be desirable to pursue, it will be their earnest
desire to consult the welfare of all classes of my subjects. Ever
anxious to listen to the advice of my parliament, I will take immediate
measures for the formation of a new administration." The division on Mr.
J. S. Wortley's amendment had so emphatically declared the sense of the
new house of commons upon the continuance of the Whig government,
that no other course remained to them but retirement from office.
Accordingly, on the 30th of August, Viscount Melbourne in the lords,
and Lord John Russell in the commons, intimated that they and their
colleagues had resigned, and that they only continued to hold their
respective offices till their successors were appointed. The task of
forming a new government was assigned by the queen to Sir Robert Peel,
and this time he was successful; the change embracing the queen's
household. The following were the principal members of the new
administration:--the Duke of Wellington was leader in the lords; Sir
Robert Peel himself was first lord of the treasury; Lord Lyndhurst
became lord-chancellor; the honourable H. Goulburn, chancellor of the
exchequer; Lord Wharncliffe, president of the council; the Duke of
Buckingham, privy-seal; Sir James Graham, home-secretary; Earl of
Aberdeen, foreign secretary; Lord Stanley, colonial secretary; Earl of
Haddington, first lord of the admiralty; Lord Ellenborough, president
of the board of control; Earl of Ripon, president of the board of trade;
Sir H. Hardinge, secretary-at-war; Sir E. Knatchbull, treasurer of the
navy and paymaster of the forces; and Lord Lowther, postmaster-general.
After the new government was formed, writs were moved for in the commons
for various places, in consequence of the acceptance of office of those
members who belonged to that house; and the house afterwards adjourned
until the 16th of September.

STATEMENT OF SIR ROBERT PEEL AS TO HIS INTENDED COURSE OF PROCEEDING,
ETC.

The re-election of the members of government took place without the loss
of a seat, and the house of commons reassembled on the day appointed.
Business was commenced by Sir Robert Peel moving _pro forma_ for a copy
of the lett