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"On the conclusion of this speech cheers burst forth on all sides ...
The House adjourned to the 3rd of July. Sir Robert Peel went out resting
on the arm of his friend, Sir George Clerk, the member for Stamford. A
great crowd thronged the approaches, on seeing him all took off their
hats, opened their ranks to let him pass, and accompanied him in silence
to the door of his house."--_Memoirs of Sir Robert Peel, by M. Guizot_
[100] See Baines' History of the Cotton Manufacture.
[101] Benjamin D'Israeli.
CHAPTER V.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL Prime Minister--He confers important offices on
some Irish Catholics--His address to the electors of London--Its
vagueness--Addresses of some of the other new Ministers--The Irish
difficulty greater than ever--Young and Old Ireland--The _Times_ on
O'Connell and English rule in Ireland--Overtures of the Whig
Government--O'Connell listens to them--The eleven measures--Views of
the advanced Repealers--Lord Miltown's letter to
O'Connell--Dissensions in the Repeal Association--The "Peace
Resolutions"--O'Connell's letters--He censures the _Nation_
newspaper--Debate in the Repeal Association--Thomas Francis
Meagher's "Sword Speech"--The Young Ireland party leave Conciliation
Hall in a body--Description of the scene (_note_)--Reflections--Sir
Robert Peel's Speech after his resignation--Lord John Russell's
speech at Glasgow--His speech on the Irish Coercion Bill--His speech
after becoming Prime Minister--The Potato Blight
re-appears--Accounts from the Provinces--Father Mathew's
letter--Value of the Potato Crop of 1846--Various remedies, theories
and speculations--State of the weather--Mr.
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