rged with the execution of difficult orders under a treaty." Similar
exceptions were taken in the commons against the speech; but the usual
addresses to the throne were carried in both houses without a division.

DISCUSSIONS AND EXPLANATIONS CONCERNING THE DISSOLUTION OF THE GODERICH
MINISTRY, ETC.

As the dissolution of the late ministry had been unexpected, and little
had been said of the causes which produced it, and as the conduct
of those members who had passed into the new government appeared
suspicious, some explanation of these matters was looked for in both
houses of parliament. The disclosures began by Messrs. Hemes, Huskisson,
and others who had accepted office under the new government. They
commenced with Lord Goderich, on whom it was especially incumbent to
explain the civil dissensions which had broken in pieces a cabinet of
his own framing, and had induced him to throw up the government in a
manner neither understood by his older friends or more recent allies.
His statement in reply attributed the dissolution of the ministry to
an irreconcilable difference between Mr. Huskisson and Mr. Herries,
regarding the proposed chairman of the finance committee; and since that
difference had caused the resignation of the minister, it implied an
admission that his cabinet was so constructed that the removal of either
of these gentlemen naturally dissolved it. It remained for Messrs.
Huskisson and Herries to state the grounds, therefore, of an obstinacy
which had been so fatal to the cabinet; but both remained silent, until
Lord Normandy called directly upon them to explain their conduct in the
matter. Mr. Huskisson, in his version of the events which had led to the
dissolution of the ministry, agreed in general with the statement made
by Lord Goderich, simply supplying some deficiencies which his lordship
had been unable to fill up. On the contrary, Mr. Herries averred broadly
that the difference concerning the appointment of Lord Althorp as
chairman of the committee was not the cause of the dissolution of Lord
Goderich's administration. He remarked:--"There is no truth whatever in
the allegation that that difference caused the dissolution of the late
cabinet. In all the rumours which have been propagated about design, and
artifice, and stratagem, there is not one word of truth. I deny them all
most unequivocally. They are false and unfounded in every particular,
and have not even the slightest shadow of a foun