This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...but curiously enough, it was not over the Catholic question that the rupture occurred. In fact, on 8th May, after a three-days' debate, the House of Commons agreed by 272 to 260 to a resolution brought forward by Sir Francis Burdett to take the Catholic claims into consideration, and eleven days later the House of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...but curiously enough, it was not over the Catholic question that the rupture occurred. In fact, on 8th May, after a three-days' debate, the House of Commons agreed by 272 to 260 to a resolution brought forward by Sir Francis Burdett to take the Catholic claims into consideration, and eleven days later the House of Lords, on the motion of the Duke of Wellington, consented to appoint a committee to confer with the Commons on the subject. While the matter was still under consideration--in fact, on the very day that the Lords had agreed to Wellington's motion--the question of transferring the East Retford franchise to Birmingham came up for consideration before the House of Commons. Huskisson, who had pledged himself in favour of the proposal, but had been unable to carry the Cabinet with him, found himself placed in the disagreeable position either of having to break his public pledge or of voting against his colleagues. Unable to decide, he saw Peel and the rest vote against the motion without being able to leave his seat. The same evening he placed his resignation in the Prime Minister's hand, and was not a little surprised and mortified to find it accepted. His resignation was followed a few days later by that of Dudley, Grant, Palmerston, and Lamb. In the reconstruction of the administration that thereupon took place, Lord Francis Leveson Gower was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Vesey Fitzgerald President of the Board of Trade, with a seat in the Cabinet. Vesey Fitzgerald was M.P. for county Clare: his acceptance of office entailed an appeal to his constituents. The Association, as we have just seen, had entered a resolution on their minutes to oppose the election of anyone who should support an administration not making emancipation a Cabinet ...
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