3rd.—Continuance of the sugar duties moved by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. He contended that though the tax was little in separate
pounds of moist it amounted to a great deal in the lump.
4th.—Proclamation issued on the subject of certain sovereigns discovered
to be light. The new regulation not to affect India, where the natives
princes are all of a dark complexion.
13th.—The Queen made her first trip by railway, and the Court expected
to adopt the fashion of trains.
23rd.—A question put to Sir R. Peel on the subject of the Nelson
Monument, the base of which had not been proceeded with for want of the
capital.
Several attempts made to retard the public business by incessantly
moving the adjournment of the House, and bring the Premier to a stand by
perpetual motion.