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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Accession of George III. to the Twenty-Third Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria

Chapter 1107: CHAPTER XLIX.
By Edward Farr
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The volume traces British political, parliamentary, and military developments from the accession of George III through the early nineteenth century, chronicling changes of ministry and cabinet, debates over colonial taxation and the American conflict, parliamentary controversies involving figures such as Wilkes and Warren Hastings, questions of Catholic relief and slave-trade abolition, and responses to the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars, including major naval and continental campaigns, the union with Ireland, and domestic legislation on finance, civil liberties, and parliamentary reform.

CHAPTER XLIX.

VICTORIA. 1838—1839

Parliament reassembles: Debates on Canada; Address to the Throne moved by Lord John Russell; Bill for suspending; the Lower Canadian Constitution..... The Question of Election Committees..... Motion for the Ballot..... Parliamentary Qualification Bill..... Personal Attacks..... Revival of Anti-slavery Agitation..... Debates on the Irish Poor-law Bill: the Bill carried in the Commons..... Motion for the Repeal of the Appropriation Clause..... Ministerial Plan for settling the Tithe Question..... Committee of the House of Commons upon the Irish Municipal Bill; the Bill rejected..... The Coronation..... Debates in the House of Commons on the Irish Tithe Question..... The Irish Poor Law Bill carried in the Lords..... Projected Formation of a Colony in New Zealand..... Financial Statements..... Motion for Repeal of the Corn Laws..... Various Improvements in the Law..... A Select Committee to inquire into the Operation of the Poor Laws..... Combinations in England and Ireland..... Debates in Parliament on John Thorn, alias Sir William Courtenay..... Committee on Church Lands..... Act for abolishing Pluralities..... The Subject of Education discussed in both Houses..... The Question of Canada renewed..... Queen Prorogues Parliament..... Disaffection among the Working Classes..... Proposed Reduction of the Rates of Postage..... The State of Ireland..... The Affairs of Canada..... The State of the Continent.