REIGN OF WILLIAM IV. (_continued_).
The Remainder of the Session--The Coercion Bill carried--Rejection
of the Tithes Bill--University Tests--Prorogation of
Parliament--Brougham's Tour in Scotland--Burning of the Houses
of Parliament--Fall of Melbourne's Ministry--Wellington
sole Minister--Peel forms a Ministry--The Tamworth
Manifesto--Dissolution and General Election--Mr. Abercromby
elected Speaker--The Lichfield House Compact--Peel defeated
on the Address--Lord John Russell announces a Resolution on
Appropriation--Lord Chandos's Motion--Lord Londonderry's
Appointment--The Dissenters and London University--Hardinge's
Tithe Bill--The Appropriation Resolution--The Debate--Peel
resigns--Melbourne's second Ministry--Conservative Successes--Lord
Alvanley and O'Connell--The Duel between Alvanley and
Morgan O'Connell--O'Connell and Disraeli--Character of Lord
Melbourne--Municipal Reform--Report of the Commission--The
Municipal Corporations Act introduced--Its Progress in the
Commons--Lyndhurst's Amendments--It becomes Law--Irish
Corporations--Report of the Commission--The Bill is mutilated in
the Upper House, and abandoned--It becomes Law in 1840--Municipal
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