Chapter IX: REIGN OF WILLIAM IV. (continued)

The Coronation--Fears of Eminent Men--The Cholera--The
Waverers--Lord John Russell introduces the third Reform Bill--Its
Progress through the Commons--The Second Reading carried in the
Lords--Behind the Scenes--Feeling in the Country--Disfranchisement
Clauses postponed--Grey resigns--Ebrington's Resolution--Wellington
attempts to form a Ministry--Popular fury--The Run on the
Bank--Wellington abandons his post--Grey exacts the King's
Consent to the creation of Peers--The Opposition withdrawn--The
Bill becomes Law--The Irish Reform Bill--The Bill in the
Lords--The Scottish Reform Bill--Becomes Law--Result of the
Reform Bills--Mr. Stanley in Ireland--The Tithe-proctor--The
Church Cess--Tithe Legislation of 1831--Irish Education--Wyse's
Report--Stanley's Bill--Its Provisions for Religious
Instruction--General Election--New Parliament--The Coercion
Bill--The Church Temporalities Bill--The Poor Law Commission--Its
Report--Sketch of the Poor Law System--Provisions of the Poor
Law Amendment Act--History of the Emancipation Movement--Mr.
Stanley's Resolutions--Provisions of the Act of Emancipation--The
Dorsetshire Labourers--The Copenhagen Fields Meeting--Other
Meetings and Strikes--Sheil and Lord Althorp--O'Connell's Motion
on the Union--Baron Smith--Littleton's Tithe Bill--Mr. Ward's
Motion--Resignation of Mr. Stanley and his Friends--An Indiscreet
Speech of the King's--The Debate on Mr. Ward's Motion--Final
Collapse of the Cabinet--Retrospect of Lord Grey's Ministry 343