. England in the nineteenth century;. Crown or the House of Peers ; and the question is,Whether greater danger is not to be apprehended from itsencroachments than from any other evil which may be thesubject of speculation ; and whether it is not from this sourcethat the mixed form of government in this country has to dreadannihilation ? There was a strong court party opposed to the passage ofthe bill, to Lord Grey, and to his ministry. The excitementthrough the country (and I well remember it) was intense ;there was mob violence all over England, and in Londonand at Ascot personal insults were
. England in the nineteenth century;. Crown or the House of Peers ; and the question is,Whether greater danger is not to be apprehended from itsencroachments than from any other evil which may be thesubject of speculation ; and whether it is not from this sourcethat the mixed form of government in this country has to dreadannihilation ? There was a strong court party opposed to the passage ofthe bill, to Lord Grey, and to his ministry. The excitementthrough the country (and I well remember it) was intense ;there was mob violence all over England, and in Londonand at Ascot personal insults were offered, not only to theKing, but to Queen Adelaide, who was popularly supposedto use all her influence to persuade the King to obstructthe bill. with oranges. Ladies had then to occupy a little space wide as apew, and, sitting on a seat as high and narrow as a mantelpiece, lookthrough the ventilators. It is against the law for strangers, evenreporters, to be present, and therefore, by a fiction, members aresupposed not to see KING WILLIAM IV. THE REFORM BILL. IO3 The new Parliament assembled June 14, 1831. In Sep-tember the bill passed its third reading in the House, andwas sent up to the Lords. They rejected it by a vote ofone hundred and ninety-nine to one hundred and Grey and his ministry resigned. The Duke of Wel-lington and his friends were called to take their place; butthe Duke could not form a cabinet. Lord Grey resumedoffice. Again a Reform Bill, slightly altered, passed theHouse of Commons, twenty-three new Whig Peers werecreated, — the first time such a step had been resortedto by any ministry, — and, to help the passage of the bill,about a hundred Tory Lords, unwilling to vote for it,absented themselves from the House of Peers. The billthen passed both Houses, and received the Kings reluctantsignature on June 7, 1832. Duruig several months thevacillations of King William IV. had caused much trouble. He was a thoroughly honest, kind-hear
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