The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . at once, and send it up to athird reading. The business in Committee was finished on the last day ofMay. On the 4th of June the Bill was passed by a majority of Commons next day agreed to the unimportant amendments proposed bythe Lords, and on the 7th of June the English Eeform Bill received the royalassent. The Beform Act for Scotland and the Reform Act for Ireland werealso quickly passed—the Scotch Bill on the 13th of July ; the Irish on the18th. After
The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . at once, and send it up to athird reading. The business in Committee was finished on the last day ofMay. On the 4th of June the Bill was passed by a majority of Commons next day agreed to the unimportant amendments proposed bythe Lords, and on the 7th of June the English Eeform Bill received the royalassent. The Beform Act for Scotland and the Reform Act for Ireland werealso quickly passed—the Scotch Bill on the 13th of July ; the Irish on the18th. After the experience of thirty years this measure has been describedby one perfectly well acquainted with the theory and practice of Parliament,as a measure at once bold, comprehensive, moderate and constitutional;popular but not democratic, it extended liberty without hazarding That it was theoretically complete, and left nothing for futurestatesmen to effect, its authors never affirmed; but it was a masterly eettle-ment of a perilous question.! * May, vol. i. p. 120. t May, CouBtitutiona,! Hist-^ry, p. CHAPTER XVII. Dissolution of Parliament—Proceedings for Elections under the Reform Act—Effect of Changesin the system of Representation—Condition of the Nomination Boroughs—Electoralchanges in close Corporations—The new Representation—Metropolitan Boroughs—Manufacturing Towns—Scotland—Ireland—Approaching meeting of the Reformed Par-liament—Fears of Anti-Reformers—Extension of Popular Literature during the Crisis. Paeliament, having been prorogued on the 16th of August, wasdissolved by proclamation on the 3rd of December. A new parliament wasthen summoned. During the autumn and early winter the entire populationhad been engaged in preparing for that reconstruction of the entire frame-work of the representative system with which, according to some, a new andmore glorious temple of liberty should be built up. According to others,this disjoint
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