109
Greville, Memoirs (March 9, 1832), ii., 267.
110
The Croker Papers, ii., 198.
111
Mahon to Peel (Jan, 8, 1833), Parker, Sir Robert Peel, ii., 209.
112
Jan. 3, 1833, Parker, Sir Robert Peel, ii., 213.
113
Peel to Croker (Sept. 28, 1833), ibid., p. 224.
114
Russell, Recollections and Suggestions, p. 113.
115
Parker, Sir Robert Peel, ii., 212-16.
116
Greville, Memoirs, ii., 364, 365.
117
If all the bishops present had not merely abstained, but actually voted in favour of the measure, it would have been carried by one vote.
118
Sir George Nicholls, History of the English Poor Law, vol. ii., see especially pp. 242, 243.
119
Peel to Goulburn (May 25, 1834), Parker, Sir Robert Peel, ii., 244.
120
Hatherton, Memoir; Creevey, Memoirs, ii., 285-88.
121
See Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, viii., 446-57.
122
Compare Walpole, History of England, iii., 478.
123
Lord Melbourne's Papers, p. 220.
124
Ibid., pp. 222, 223.
125
Stockmar, Memoirs (English translation), i., 330.
126
Parker, Sir Robert Peel, ii., 235.
127
Stanley to Peel (Dec. 11, 1834), Peel's Memoirs, ii., 39, 40.
128
Croker to Mrs. Croker, Croker Papers, ii., 219.
129
Peel, Memoirs, ii., 58-67.
130
The king to Peel (Feb. 22, 1835), Parker, Sir Robert Peel, ii., 287-89.
131
See Melbourne's letters to Brougham, Melbourne Papers, pp. 257-64.
132
The abuses in the Scottish municipalities had, however, been already removed by an act conferring the municipal franchise on £10 householders. Not the least important result of this act was the increased strength which it gave to the "evangelical" party in the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, which was partly elected by the municipalities.
133
Campbell, Lives of the Chancellors, viii., 470.