CHAPTER LVIII.
VICTORIA. 1846
Position of the Conservative Party on the Defection of Sir
Robert Peel, and the Parliamentary Success of his Free-
Trade Measures..... Formation of a Whig Cabinet..... The
Sugar Duties..... Dreadful Condition of Ireland.....
Decline of Mr. O’Connell..... The Young Ireland Leaders.....
Colonial Affairs..... War with the Sikhs..... Foreign
Affairs..... Coolness with France..... Spanish Marriages