CHAPTER LIII.
VICTORIA 1842—1843
Meeting of Parliament..... Debate on the Corn-Laws:
Proposition of Ministers on the subject of the Corn-
Laws..... Financial Measures; Income-Tax Bill, &c—New
Tariff..... Mr. Villiers’s Motion on the Corn Laws..... The
Great Chartist Petition..... Bill for Restraining the
Employment of Women and Children in Mines and
Collieries..... Bribery at Elections..... Law Reforms.....
Bill for the Protection of the Royal Person..... Copyright
Act..... Poor Law Amendment Bill..... Prorogation of
Parliament..... East India Affairs, &c.