...
We will put it to any one whether, if Lord George Bentinck had, as a
general (and had he continued in the army he might have been one),
caused the positive loss for ever of sixteen millions to this country,
in a campaign at the other end of the world, he would have been visited
with such a torrent of ridicule as that poured upon him on account of
his plan for laying out that sum at home, with an absolute certainty of
its return? No; his destruction of that amount of capital would have
been rewarded with a peerage and a pension for three
lives."--_Illustrated London News, May 8th, 1847._
[211] The majority was at first announced to be 204, but it was
afterwards found to be 214.
[212] The following were the votes of the Irish members on the occasion:
FOR THE BILL.
Colonel Acton, Sir H.W. Barron, T. Bateson, Viscount Bernard, M.J.
Blake, Sir A.B. Brooke, Colonel Bruen, W.M. Bunbury, P.J. Butler, Lord
J.L. Chichester, Hon. H.A. Cole, Colonel Conolly, E.A. Fitzgerald, H.
Grattan, W.H. Gregory, E. Grogan, J.H. Hamilton, G.A. Hamilton, Lord E.
Hill, J. Kelly, D.S. Kerr, P. Kirk, Hon. C. Lawless, A. Lefroy, C.P.
Leslie, Major M'Namara, A. M'Carthy, T.
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