THE DEMEANOUR OF ENGLAND. 281 his thousand cares with troubles of the same chap. kind as those which a savage litigation in- L_ flicts.(^i) After failing in the way we have seen to bind other victims for sacrifice, our Government, with nothing to shelter it, lay open to the coming attack. V. Upon the reassembling of Parliament on the Motion in. H0US6 of 23d of January 1855, the House of Commons commons "^ . , for a Com- quickly proved itself to be animated with the mitteeof anger of the country at large ; and Mr Eoebuck gave notice of motion for a Committee, to be charged with a task thus defined : ' To enquire ' into the condition of our army before Sebas- ' topol, and into the conduct of those Depart- ' ments of the Government whose duty it has
- been to minister to the wants of that army.'
Before the motion came on. Lord John Eussell resigned. On the 26th of January, Mr Eoebuck moved for his Committee. It chanced that, owing to illness, the speech he had intended to make ,was cut short in an early stage ; but the House was so eager, and already so full of the subject, that this incident did not mar the debate, and may even, perhaps, have helped to ensure the success of the motion. (^2) After lengthened discussion, the motion was Resignation • h? T T of Lord carried by a majority of 157. Thereupon Lord Aberdeen's Aberdeen's Government resigned. ment-
