There had arisen a
question in regard to revenue,--he need hardly tell them that it
was the question in reference to brewers' licences which the
honourable gentlemen opposite had alluded on the previous day,--as
to which unfortunately he was not in accord with his noble friend
the Prime Minister. Under the circumstances it was hardly possible
that they should at once proceed to business, and he therefore
moved that the House should stand adjourned till Tuesday next.
That was the whole statement.
Not very long afterwards the Prime Minister made another statement
in the House of Lords. As the Chancellor of the Exchequer had very
suddenly resigned and had thereby broken up the Ministry, he had
found himself compelled to place his resignation in the hands of
her Majesty. Then that House was also adjourned. On that
afternoon all the clubs were alive with admiration at the great
cleverness played by Sir Timothy in this transaction. It was not
only that he had succeeded in breaking up the Ministry, and that
he had done this without incurring violent disgrace; but he had
done it as to throw all the reproach upon his late unfortunate
colleague.
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