Young people's history of England . e away their members fromsixty rotten boroughs (as the small boroughs controlledby the nobility and great land-owners were called) ; toreduce the number of members representing forty-sevenother boroughs from two to one ; to give London eightmore members than it before had; and to transfer theThe reform niembcrs taken from the boroughs to certainfeiii- large towns, which had hitherto been wholly unrepresented in Parliament. The bill, besides, addedsixty-four members to the quota previously allowed tothe counties. This bill, after a long and bitter debate,pass
Young people's history of England . e away their members fromsixty rotten boroughs (as the small boroughs controlledby the nobility and great land-owners were called) ; toreduce the number of members representing forty-sevenother boroughs from two to one ; to give London eightmore members than it before had; and to transfer theThe reform niembcrs taken from the boroughs to certainfeiii- large towns, which had hitherto been wholly unrepresented in Parliament. The bill, besides, addedsixty-four members to the quota previously allowed tothe counties. This bill, after a long and bitter debate,passed its second reading in the House of Commons byone majority. But shortly after, a vote really hostile toit was carried by a majority of eight. L^pon this. EarlGrey dissolved Parliament, and a new election was or-Triumph of dcrcd. Thc agitation which ensued throughoutthe Whigs, ^j-^g country was intense. The people were nowfully aroused to the necessity of the reform, and weredetermined that it should be achieved. The elections re-. TUMULT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.— Page 34S. GEORGE THE FOURTH. 349 suited in a large majority in its favor; and no sooner didthe new House meet than a fresh reform bill was promptlyintroduced. Once more the struggle over the bill was protractedand acrimonious. Its opponents used every resource andartifice to prevent its passage. But when the Housefinally voted, the bill was carried by a majority of one hun-dred and six. It went up to the House of Lords, where itwas thrown out by a majority of forty-one. The indigna-tion aroused by this action of the Lords threatened toresult in a revolution. Riots took place in differentparts of the country. The house of the Duke of Welling-ton in London was assailed by an angry mob. Lordswere attacked in the streets, and bishops were collisionburned in effi^v- The Whig: cabinet persisted between o- ^ ^ Lords and in its purpose, and introduced a third bill, which commons,passed the House of Commons by a larger majori
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