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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 1220: CHAPTER LV.
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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 LV.

VICTORIA. 1844-1845

Meeting of Parliament..... Motion of the Stoppage of Supplies..... Affairs of India..... Irish Affairs: Irish Municipal Franchise, The Irish Church Question, Irish Charitable Trusts Bill, Roman Catholic Penal Acts Repeal Bill..... Restrictions on Labour in Factories, &c..... The Corn Laws and Free Trade Question..... Financial Statements..... Sugar Duties Bill, &c...... Bank Charter and Banking Regulations..... Dissenters’ Chapels Bill..... Sees of Bangor and St. Asapli..... Miscellaneous Measures of the Session..... Prorogation of Parliament..... The State of India..... Proceedings against Mr. O’Connell..... Continental Affairs.