Rumours are multiplied in various shapes, that Sir Robert Peel
means to resign—sometimes that he has resigned. They so abound in Liberal clubs, that people begin to heed them as little as boiler-explosions in the United States. At a late hour on Thursday night, the neighbourhood of Belgrave Square was vocal with the announcement of the fact by those gentlemen who alternate startling political news with narratives of " shocking murders" and Catnacb's ballads. Perhaps they had an eye to pushing the sale of their despatches down the area of Lord John Rus- sell's mansion, among the delighted servants, who already fancy that " we are in." The foundation of the rumour seems generally to be, that, not only do matters go ill out of doors, but Lord Stanley, instead of being so docile as he speaks himself in the House of Commons, is such a remarkably bad boy that Sir Robert Peel can no longer brook his love of turbulence.
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