§ EARL RUSSELLMy Lords, on Tuesday last, in requesting that your Lordships should adjourn to to-day, I stated to the House that in consequence of what had occurred the previous night in the other House of Parliament, Her Majesty's Ministers had thought it necessary to make 651 a communication to Her Majesty. I have now to state that, in consequence of the vote at which the House of Commons arrived on Monday night, and which Her Majesty's Ministers considered as equivalent to a Vote of Want of Confidence, Her Majesty's Ministers tendered their resignations to Her Majesty. I have received an answer to that communication stating that Her Majesty hesitated to accept those resignations, and that, in the present state of affairs—upon the Continent especially—Her Majesty hoped they would not persist in tendering their resignations. I have since had further communication with Her Majesty; but it is necessary that Her Majesty's Ministers should personally have an audience of Her Majesty, and Her Majesty has fixed half past twelve or one o'clock to-morrow at Windsor Castle for the purpose. And, therefore, in the present state of affairs, I have only to ask your Lordships not to go into any public business until six o'clock to-morrow, when I shall be prepared to make a statement of the conclusion at which Her Majesty has arrived and of the grounds on which Her Majesty's Ministers have acted.