25 NOVEMBER 1865, Page 1
The Irish papers report that Sir Robert Peel on resigning
his office as Secretary for Ireland was offered the Dachy of Lancaster or a peerage, but declined both. Mr. Hutt, who makes way for Mr. Goschen, has, however, accepted a baronetcy, and retires into private life. We suppose it is all right, but the rule which makes success one of the qualifications for reward is a dangerous one to break. Sir Robert Peel has not conciliated Ireland, Mr. Hutt did not carry the Austrian treaty, and though the fault may in neither case be theirs, still that was the duty they were specially set to do. Acute men of business do not pay their shopmen for not selling their goods.
